History & Biography
Liberty or Death. India's Journey to Independence and Division.
London: Harper Collins, 1997. [Indian history]. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xxiii; [1]; 467; [5]. Publisher's black cloth, tiles in silver to spine, photographic dust-jacket. Illustrated with two suites of black and white photographs. Signed and inscribed to the title page. Edges slightly toned. Near fine. More
Book of the Eskimos.
London: Arthur Barker, 1962. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp. 441. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth with silver titles to spine, endpapers feature maps, bookplate of Ronald Spicer to front flyleaf. In a bold, photographic dustjacket. Illustrated throughout, with an additional block of photographs to middle of textblock. Slight lean..... More
Bearders: My Life in Cricket.
London: Orion Books, 2006. [Cricket Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 322 [4]. With two suites of four double-sided photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink: 'For Jeff Hunt | All good wishes,' to title page. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With..... More
English Seamen In The Sixteenth Century. Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1915. [Naval history] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 309; [2]. Bound by Spottiswoode in navy polished calf, raised bands and gilt titles and tooling to spine, gilt borders to boards, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. First and last few pages spotted, otherwise internally clean..... More
The Right of the Child: A Chapter in Social History. With a Foreword by Countess Mountbatten of Burma and an Introduction by Captain L.H. Green.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1951. [Humanitarianism] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.159 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to V.H.A. (Violet Attlee) to fly-leaf. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. A new bookplate detailing provenance to front pastedown. Spine sunned with..... More
A History of the Weald of Kent. With an Outline of the Early History of the County. Also, a Sketch of the Physical Features of the District.
Ashford: Henry Igglesden, 1871-1874. [Kent Topography] FIRST EDITION, a presentation copy. Two volumes bound in three parts, as issued. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 462; pp.xii; 424; pp.iii; 425-935. With six folding maps. Publisher's handsome green cloth with gilt titles to spine, black tooling, and gilt motifs to the upper..... More
Abyssinian Patchwork. An Anthology.
London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1949. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 290; [2]. Publisher's navy cloth, gilt titles to spine. Illustrated with eight double sided plates in colour. Bookplate to pastedown, neat ownership to flyleaf, slight toning to edges. Cloth lightly rubbed, some negligible paint splashes..... More
Gandhi and the Viceroy. Extracts from the letters which led up to Gandhi's twenty-one day's fast in February, 1943.
London: Peace News Ltd., no date [1943]. [Indian independence] PAMPHLET. (22 x 14cm), pp.12. Three leaves folded once and stapled. Printed in black, priced at 1d. Some very slight spotting, staple rusted. An rare ephemeral survival, with only two copies found on Copac. Fine. A publication by Peace News, the..... More
From the Closet to the Screen, Women at the Gateways Club, 1945-85.
London: Pandora, 2003. Paperback octavo, pp.x, 278. Some slight and negligible shelf wear, a very good copy. More
Romance and Reality of the Puritan Coast.
Boston: Little Brown 1897. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Illustrated. Attractive Art-Nouveau style binding in full green morocco, gilt, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles. with gilt floral endpapers. Spine sunned else fine. Includes a chapter on Salem. More
Genealogical Tables Illustrative of Modern History.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1916. FIFTH EDITION. Inverted Foolscap Folio (25x41cm). pp. iii, 54. In quarter blue cloth with grey paper-covered boards. Titles hand-inscribed in black ink to upper board. Binding weak; gutting split, and one of three tapes missing. Mould staining to spine. Large damp mark to top..... More
English Guns and Rifles, Being an Account of the Development, Design and Usage of English Sporting Rifles and Shortguns - from their Introduction during the Fifteenth Century until the Advent of the Metallic Cartridges in the Nineteenth Century - together with Notes on Muskets, Service Rifles, Blunderbusses and Other Arms.
Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, 1947. [Firearms] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.x; 344; [2]. With twenty three black and white plates including a frontispiece, and occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to green squares on spine and upper board, dust-jacket priced at $7.50. Textblock clean..... More
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Handbook to British Malaya [1937].
London: The Malayan Information Agency, no date [1937]. [Malaysian History] LAST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.[6] 201 [7]. With frequent in-text photographic illustrations and two folding maps dated 1937, one loose to pouch at rear. Light spotting to endpapers. Rubbing to boards; upper with a vertical crease. Very good..... More
Plan for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor; for Enforcing and amending the Laws respecting Houses of Correction, and Vagrants; and for Improving the Police of this Country. Together with Bills intended to be offered to Parliament for those Purposes.
London: Printed for G. Wilkie, 1781. [English Law and Politics]. ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 139 [3]. Sewn but lacking original covers; loosely housed in brown paper-covered board with brown cloth hinge. Red pencil inscription to top left corner of title page; a little grubbiness to title page..... More
The Story of the Arab Legion.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1948. [Middle East / Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.371; [1]. Numerous sepia-plate illustrations and maps. Bound in recent red calf over publisher's sand-coloured cloth boards, titles and crest in gilt, raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Internally clean, a little marking..... More
History of Greece, Abridged, for the Use of Schools.
London: Printed for J. Brambles [etc.], 1807. NEW EDITION. Duodecimo, pp. viii, 269 [3]. With a frontispiece engraving of the death of Alexander the Great. In contemporary half brown calf with gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. Black ink ownership inscription to front free end-paper. Lightly browned throughout; wear..... More
Annabel: An Unconventional Life.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004. [Memoirs]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xi; [3]; 274. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket. Illustrated with three photographic suites. Signed by the author to the title page. Fine. More
Shall Our Children Live of Die? A Reply to Lord Vansittart on the German Problem.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1942. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.168 [4]. Publisher's blue cloth with darker blue titles to spine. With the distinctive yellow Gollancz dust-jacket, priced at 2/6. Moderately toned to low grade wartime paper. Jacket toned and marked, with some large chips to head..... More
The Fifth Army.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1931. [Military history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xiv; 355; [1]. Publisher's dark blue cloth, blocked in gilt, red and white to spine and upper. Frontispiece portrait, twenty sketch maps (nineteen folding). Spotting to edges and occasionally throughout the textblock, neat gift inscription to..... More
Interval in Indo-China.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1956. [Vietnam and Cambodia] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 164. With 16 double-sided black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece, as well as a folding map at rear. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'For Victoria Durham | with..... More
'twixt Sand and Sea: Sketches and Studies in North Africa.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., no date [1911]. [North African History and Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xii; 504. With 58 black and white plates, including a frontispiece, as well as a folding map. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Fore and lower..... More
Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis.
London: Cassell, 1964. [Biblical Traditions] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.311 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 36s. Small black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Some spotting to edges. Jacket somewhat creased and torn to edges, with a loss to lower..... More
Good-Bye to All That. An Autobiography.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. [Great War Memoirs] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.448. Including the Sassoon poem to pp.341-43, and no deletions to p.290. Sewn and bound with tapes, endpapers, and glue to spine, but no binding. Possibly a proof or advance copy, printed on thinner paper..... More
The White Goddess. A historical grammar of poetic myth.
London: Faber and Faber, 1948. [Folklore and Mythology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.430; [2]. Publisher's mid blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, maroon top edge, dust-jacket with printed price of 30s. net. Internally fine, top edge stain unfaded, some spotting to other edges, offset toning to endpapers. Wrapper..... More
The World of C.P. Snow. With a Bibliography by Bernard Stone.
Lowestoft: Scorpion Press, 1962. [Literary Biography and Bibliography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.64. With two double-sided photographic plates. Number 20 of just 50 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket..... More