"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
History & Biography
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1948-1954. [Military history] LEATHER BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Complete in six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Elegantly bound in deep red half calf with, with..... More
The Liberal Magazine vol. 14. A Periodical for the Use of Liberal Speakers and Canvassers: Forming a Political Record for the Year 1906.
London: The Liberal Publication Department. 1907. Including Churchill's speeches on South Africa and Ireland. Octavo. pp. 764; 72. In navy blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Binding somewhat loose in places, but complete with index. Published following the landslide victory for the Liberal Party in the 1906 General Election..... More
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My African Journey and Sherlock Holmes [in] The Strand Magazine. Issue Number 208-215.
London: George Newnes, April-November 1908. [Literary Magazine / Colonial History] FIRST APPEARANCES. Eight magazine issues in their original light blue printed paper covers. Octavo (25 x 17cm). Presented in an elegant navy blue quarter morocco clamshell box, with gilt titles to spine, raised bands and a fleece lining. Fragile periodicals..... More
The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. With the Precedent Passages, and Actions, that contributed there unto, and the happy End and Conclusion thereof by the King's Blessed Restoration, and Return Upon the 29th of May, in the Year 1660.
Printed at the Theater, Oxford, 1732. [English Civil War history] FIRST ILLUSTRATED FOLIO EDITION. Folio (41 x 27cm), pp.viii; 737; [15], Index; [4], adverts; [2], blank. three volumes bound as one. Illustrated with copper plate engravings. Attractively bound in half recent calf leather, black label, marbled boards, raised bands with..... More
Cambridge.
London: Seeley and Co., 1907. [Topography and University History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 325 [3]. With 34 engravings and etchings, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green full calf for Croydon High School, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a gilt school crest..... More
The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament.
London: Printed by R. Taylor and Co., for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808. [Slavery] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] 572; pp.[2] 592. With two folding plates, including the famous cross-section of a loaded slave ship, and one further plates illustrating various manacles and and instruments..... More
The Problem of Industrial Relations and Other Lectures.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1929. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth in scarce original dustwrapper. The book is absolutely fine and appears unread; jacket shows some chipping to spine tips, and a little toning to extremities. An attractive copy. First edition in book form. Some of these essays had appeared..... More
The Tunbridge Wells Guide, or, an Account of the Ancient and Present State of that Place, with a Particular Description of all the Towns, Villages, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Ancient and Modern Seats, Founderies etc., within the Circumference of Sixteen Miles, with Accurate Views of the Principal Objects.
Tunbridge Wells: J. Clifford, 1829. [Town Guide] FIFTH EDITION. Small Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[6] viii; 188. With 22 engravings, including four folding plates, a vignette title page, and a frontispiece folding map. Not including an engraving of the Royal Kent Hotel, but with two engravings of Mereworth House. Contemporary..... More
Living History.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2003. [American politics] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xi; [3]; 562. Publisher's black quarter cloth over black paper covered boards, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Jackie Seow, with printed price of U.S. $20.00 | Can $44.00. With two suites of..... More
Noted on the Parishes of Fyfield, Kimpton, Penton Mewsey, Weyhill and Wherwell, in the County of Hampshire.
Salisbury: Bennett Brothers, 1898. [Hampshire]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 203; [blank]. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to upper board, black coated endpapers. Illustrated with eight plates, including a frontispiece portrait of the author. Neat ownership in pencil to verso of flyleaf, a few neat pencil annotations to..... More
Cobbett's Tour in Scotland; and in the Four Northern Counties of England: in the Autumn of the Year 1832.
London: Printed by Mills, Jowett, and Mills, 1833. [Scottish Topography] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (19 x 12cm), pp.[2] 264 [12]. Publisher's quarter green cloth and plain pasteboards, with printed paper title label to spine stating a price of 2/6. Advertisements bound in to front and rear. Top and fore edges untrimmed..... More
Punk. A Life Apart.
London: Cassell and Co., 2001. [Punk Music] MULTI-SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 30cm), pp.400. Lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, printed on clay paper. SIGNED by both authors, and by numerous relevant characters, including Paul Cook and Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols; their follower Helen..... More
The Medway River and Valley: The Story of the Medway; Aspects of Life on the Medway; Journeyings on the Medway.
London: The C.W. Daniel Company, 1929. [Kent topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.239 [1]. With 47 half-tone plates, most double-sided, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, with a ship design to upper, dust-jacket printed in red and black, priced at 10/6..... More
A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis; containing a detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors By which Public and Private Property and Security are, at present, injured and endangered: and suggesting remedies for their prevention.
London: Printed by H. Fry for C. Dilly, 1797. [London Policing] FINELY BOUND FIFTH EDITION, revised and enlarged. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] xxxvi; 444; xxviii [6]. With the folding table of prisoners facing p.230. Recent full speckled and panelled calf, with raised bands and gilt titles to a red..... More
Darwin and the Naked Lady Discursive Essays on Biology and Art.
London, Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1961. FIRST EDITION: Publisher's boards with original dustwrapper. A fine copy in slightly faded to spine wrapper, with small closed tear verso. From the author of "The Joy of Sex" More
The Missing Diplomats.
London: The Queen Anne Press, 1952. [Espionage] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.50; [1], blank; [1], imprint. Bound in stiff white card covers with title label to upper, yellow dust-wrapper printed in red and black. Slightly dusty and toned jacket. Fine. Contemporary account of the 'Cambridge Spies', published by..... More
Alfred in the Chroniclers.
London: Elliot Stock, 1900. [Anglo-Saxon History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 235 [1]. Lacking the map; with the errata slip. Contemporary brown morocco by STOAKLEY of Cambridge for Perse School for Girls, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, green cloth over boards, and gilt armorial school crest..... More
The Point of Departure.
London: Simon and Schuster, 2003. [British Politics] EX-LIBRIS LORD MOYNIHAN, First Edition, association copy. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; 368 [6]. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Recent bookplate detailing provenance affixed to flyleaf. A fine copy. From the Library of Lord and..... More
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Topographical And Statistical Description Of The County Of Sussex [together with] Topographical And Statistical Description Of The County Of Surrey.
London: C Cooke, [c.1820]. Duodecimo. Two volumes in one. pp.180; 168. Bound in original red morocco-backed marbled boards, ruled in gilt to spine, later/replacement title labels. Illustrated with a map of the county to each title, and further including a table of information concerning the principal towns of the county..... More
Man-Eaters of Kumaon.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1946. [Tiger hunting] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xvii; [1]; 212; [2]. Publisher's orange cloth, gilt titles with a dark red drop shadow to spine, red top edge, map endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of 10s. 6d. net. Frontispiece portrait of the..... More
The Private Correspondence 1613-1644.
London: S. and J. Bentley, Wilson, and Fley. 1842. Only Printing. Octavo, pp.l; 314. Bound in contemporary textured brown cloth with paper title square to spine. Very slight lean to the the text block, some spotting and dustiness to edges. Some bumping to extremities of the covers, some rubbing with..... More
Madame de Sable. Etudes sur les femmes illustres et la societe du XVIIe siecle.
Paris: Didier, 1854. Signed presentation copy. Octavo. Bound in half brown calf over marbled paper, with raised bands highlighted with gilt, and brown and gilt label to spine. Signed by the author, and presented to Viscount Mahon, later Earl Stanhope, MP, prominent historian and biographer.Binding is rubbed, both leather and..... More
The Annals of St. Helen's, Bishopgate, London.
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1876. [Church Architecture and History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 454 [2]. With 15 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Re-backed in burgundy cloth to match publisher's blind-decorated boards, with gilt titles to spine and yellow-coated endpapers. Blue ink ownership relating to the Pitt-Rivers Museum in..... More
A Memoir Of Elizabeth Fry By Her Daughter.
London: Piper, Stephenson and Spence, 1856. Signed. Octavo. Abridged edition. Bound in contemporary red morocco, with triple ruled gilt panelling and decorative gilt tooling to boards, raised bands, gilt title and gilt decoration to spine; all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, pale yellow endpapers. With bookplate, and author's signature. Cresswell's initials..... More
Democracy Up-To-Date. Some Practical Suggestions for the Reorganization of the Political and Parliamentary System.
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1939. [Politics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.108. Publisher's yellow cloth, titles in black to spine and upper board, typographic dust-jacket, priced at 2s. net. Internally fine. Cloth slightly sunned to the very top of the spine, spine ends slightly pushed, one small..... More