"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

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
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
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
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
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
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
New York, NY: Aventine Press, 1931. [Cocktails] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 242 [6]. With occasional vignette illustrations. INSCRIBED by Oscar Tschirky (1866-1950), Head Waiter at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | Judge Byron K. Elliot | with best wishes | from Oscar..... More
London: John Bale, Sons and Danielsson, 1936. First Edition. Octavo, pp. i, 131. With 5 b/w plates including frontispiece. In publisher's green cloth with yellow titles to spine. With original cream dust jacket, featuring black titles to spine and upper board. Corners slightly bumped, and some light wear to boards..... More
London: Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1822. [Ancient Cameos] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xx; 52 [2]. With 21 etchings by Dagley, including a frontispiece, and an appendix at rear giving details of each gem. Contemporary tan half calf by BIRDSALL & SON of Northampton, with gilt titles..... More
Dublin: Printed by Thomas Hume, 1724 - 1725. FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Folio (32 x 21cm), pp.[16]; 260; [14]; 86; [10]. In recent brown speckled full panelled calf, with raised bands and gilt titles to red label on spine. Blue ink library stamp to title page and..... More
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1881. [Musical Biographies] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the fourth edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xvi; 373 [3]. With a very large Atlas Moth wing loose to preliminaries. Contemporary navy full calf by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to red label and further gilt..... More
New Delhi: S. Chand & Co., 1966. [Sikh History] FACSIMILE REPRINT. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.l; 402. Publisher's orange leatherette, titled in black to spine and upper. With the illustrated dust-jacket by Chadda. Some damp rippling to front endpapers. Pencil ownership of Roderick Cavaliero to front fly-leaf, and a postcard..... More
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1989. [Politics] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xii; 291; [1] blank. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, yellow endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Slatter-Anderson featuring a photograph by David Montgomery with printed price of £13.95. Illustrated with a suite of black and white plates..... More
London: Faber and Faber, no date [circa 1933]. [Indian Policing History] FIRST CHEAP EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.353 [1]. With a folding map at rear. Publisher's light blue cloth with yellow titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket priced at 5s. Spotting to edges and preliminaries. A browned newspaper..... More
Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, the Wessex Press, 1934. [Naval History] FIRST EDITION WITH JACKET. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 200. With 20 lithographic maps, plans and illustrations, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With rare original light blue dust-jacket featuring an engraving..... More
London: Virgin Books, 2008. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.xv [3], 364 [2]. With occasional in-text photographic illustrations, and two sections of colour plates (eight double-sided plates in total). SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title, and hand-numbered 582 of 1000 copies produced in this special edition. In publisher's..... More
Johannesburg: I. E. Joseph and Co., n.d. [circa 1917]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet, unpaginated. In white pictorial paper wraps. Some marking to wraps, staples slightly rusted. Fine. Humorous sketches by ex motorcycle dispatch rider, Charles Cutler, of his impression of the World War I campaign in German East Africa... More
London: John Murray, 1814. FIRST EDITION. In three volumes. Crown Octavo. pp. xv, 308; i, 316; i, 320. With a contents page and index to each vol. In publisher's original quarter oatmeal cloth with grey paper boards. Blue paper pasted over spines and hand-written titles to labels on each spine..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. FIRST EDITION, a nice association copy, WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR shortly after publication. Octavo, pp.160. Publisher's cloth in original dustwrapper, pictorial endpapers, numerous black and white photographs and sketches throughout. The first volume of Dahl's fascinating autobiography. Edges a little dusty, one neat production crease..... More
London: Editions Poetry London, 1945. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.151 [1]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece portrait of Woolf. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the red typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Gently toned to wartime economy paper. Bumping to corners..... More
London: William Darby, 1967. [Topography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.102 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to front free endpaper: 'To | the Estates Office Staff | with the author's compliments | William Darby | August 1967'. Illustrated with occasional black and white plates. Publisher's..... More
London: Quartet Books, 2010. [Literary Biography] INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, revised third edition. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[2] 534. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'For Edward | with best wishes | Michael Darlow | 1st August 2011. Publisher's soft covers priced at £22.50. Light wear..... More
London: William Collins, 1943. [Social history] FIRST EDITION. Slim octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.48. Publisher's blue and white paper covered boards with matching dust-jacket. With eight plates in colour and twenty illustrations in black and white. Ownership to flyleaf, some light spotting throughout. Binding lightly handled. Wrapper a little toned..... More
Librairie De Frederic Henry, Paris, 1864. 6mo., pp. 83 + 5 wood engraved plates. Publisher's paper covers, uncut. Extremities lightly frayed; general age toning. An early study on "... not only the possibility, but also the ease in piloting a balloon in flight." More
London: Heinemann, 1968. [Music biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.374. With four suites of four black and white photographic plates. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the laminated psychedelic jacket designed by Alan Aldridge, with printed price of 30s net. Heavy wear to jacket, with..... More