"Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. "
— Bertolt Brecht
History & Biography
SIGNED Wartime Postcard of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, seen with his Daughter Mary.
[1940s]. Photographic postcard, taken from a full-length image 'Enemy overhead Winston Churchill and his daughter Mary scan the skies above southern England, July 1940', boldly signed by the subject near the top margin. Some minor creasing and handling, autograph faded in part. Very good, in common mount and elegant gilt-bevelled..... More
Thoughts and Adventures.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1932. [Political Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.320. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. With a black and white photographic portrait of the author at work on a painting, and a handful of in-text illustrations. Bookseller's ticket to pastedown, some..... More
War Speeches 1940-1945.
London: Cassell and Company, 1946. [History] FIRST EDITION. Collected speeches, a paperback original. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.x, 271. Bound in light blue paper wraps with integral flaps, half-tone frontispiece photo. Printed on war economy standard paper which has some inevitable tanning, spine rolled with one-inch loss at foot. A...... More
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The World Crisis 1911-1918. [Complete in six volumes].
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923-31. [Military history] SMARTLY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, a complete set. Six volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 29cm), pp.[8]; 536; pp.557; [3]; pp.292; pp.x; 293-589; [1]; pp.474; [2]; pp.368. With errata slips, illustrated with black and white plates and folding maps. Recent green half calf with raised..... 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
The Two Last Pleadings of Marcus Tullius Cicero against Caius Verres; Translated and Illustrated with Notes, by Charles Kelsall, Esq., author of a Letter from Athens. To which is added a Postscript, containing remarks on the state of Modern Sicily.
London: Printed by T. Bensley for White, Cochrane, and Co., 1812. [Classics in Translation] FIRST KELSALL EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii; 365; [3]. With four engraved plates, including one folding. Contemporary tan polished calf with raised bands, gilt titles to a red label on the spine, and further gilt..... 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
The Victorian Mountaineers.
London: B.T. Batsford, 1953. [Mountaineering] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.231; [1]. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, photographic dust-jacket, printed price of 18s net, top edge red. Photographic frontispiece and 44 other photographic plates. Internally clean. Cloth a little bumped to bottom corners and foot of..... More
The Mastery of the Air.
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., 1916. [Aviation] THIRD EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.256. Publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and titled in black to upper board, pictorial illustration to spine and upper board, gilt decoration reading 'The Edinburgh Angus Club' to lower board, pictorial frontispiece and 11..... 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 Hermits and Anchorites of England. The Antiquary's Books, General Editor: J. Charles Cox.
London: Methuen, 1914. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xx; 272; [32]. With 37 black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, as well as several further in-text illustrations. Extensive appendices and an index. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Spine quite heavily sunned to a pink..... More
A Genealogical History of the Noble and Illustrious Family of Courtenay. In Three Parts. The First giveth an Account, Of the Counts of Edessa, Of that Family. The Second, Of that Branch that is in France. The Third, Of that Branch that is in England.
Exon: Printed by Edw. Farley, 1735. Firs Edition. Folio; pp. viii, 307, 32. Contemporary dark brown calf boards, respined to style with burgundy title label. With 23 Coat of Arms said in a contemporary hand to paste down to be '... by this late W. Radclyffe of Heralds College' and..... 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
A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland; showing how that event has impoverished the main body of the people in those countries. In a Series of Letters addressed to all sensible and just Englishmen. Containing also, a List of the Abbeys, Priories, Nunneries, Hospitals, and other Religious Foundations in England and Wales, and in Ireland, confiscated, seized on, or alienated, by the Protestant "Reformation" Sovereigns and Parliaments.
London: Catholic Publishing and Bookselling Company, no date [circa 1850]. [Social History] FINELY BOUND, a stereotyped edition. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.[4]; 333; [1]; pp.[2]; xxxiv; 192; [2]. With occasional wood engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary black half calf with raised bands and gilt..... More
My Flight to the Cape and Back.
London: A. and C. Black, Ltd., 1926. [Aviation] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[6]; 70. Publisher's orange boards printed in black, matching dust-jacket priced at 1/6 net. Illustrated with forty five images from photographs and a map. Slight spotting to textblock and edges, boards lightly rubbed to extremities, some..... More
Darwin and the Naked Lady Discursive Essays on Biology and Art.
London, Routledge & 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 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
The Iron Ship. The History and Significance of Brunel's Great Britain.
Bradford-on-Avon: Moonraker Press, 1975. [Maritime History and Engineering] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.[6], 253; [1]. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, black and white photographs, and very occasional colour plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'To Jaqueline Iversen / with my thanks /..... 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
The Search for Gainsborough.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. [Art History]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.x; 278. SIGNED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf, dated 1985. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Endpapers decorated with image of a ledger. Some light handling; near-fine..... More
Of the Burning and Repair of the Church of Canterbury in the Year 1174. From the Latin of Gervase, a Monk of the Priory of Christ Church, Canterbury. The Pilgrim Players 1949, in Commemoration of the Festival Play 'The Zeal of Thy House' by Dorothy L. Sayers.
Canterbury: Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, 1938 [1949]. [English History]. SIGNED COMMEMORATIVE EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 15cm), pp.21 [3]. SIGNED by Dorothy Sayers lightly in pencil to front cover. With six plates in photogravure. Publisher's blue card covers with titles to front cover. Also with special cream dust-jacket celebrating the..... 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
Atlas to the Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough; Containing Armorial Bearings, Fac Similes, Maps, and Military Plans.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. FINE COPPER ENGRAVED MAPS. Quarto, unpaginated. Containing 22 large coats of arms, facsimile letters and folding maps, being a supplement to the Octavo edition of the 'Memoirs'. Some maps with coloured battle positions. In original pink leather-effect cloth boards, recently re-backed in..... More