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— Oscar Wilde

London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1940. [Satire] REVISED EDITION. Slim Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.60. Publisher's printed paper covered boards, matching pictorial dust-jacket. Illustrated throughout by Mansbridge. Some offsetting to endpapers, discreet contemporary gift inscription to flyleaf. Boards slightly rubbed to spine ends. Price clipped dust-jacket shows very well, rubbed to..... More
Salisbury: Printed and Sold by J. Easton, 1826. [West-Country Topography] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET, the fourteenth edition, with views. Sexto (18 x 11cm), pp.82. With a frontispiece wood engraving of the stones, repeated occasionally within the text. Publisher's brown paper covers with titles to front. Lightly browned with some spotting. Some loss..... More
London: Macmillan, 1919. General Wavell's copy. First Edition. Royal Octavo, pp. xvi, 414, [2], advertisements (predominantly listing military titles). In publisher's blue buckram. Discreet ownership inscription, covers flecked white; spine lettering dulled. A very good copy, which bears the pictorial bookplate of [then Brigadier General] A.P. Wavell, showing a Private..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1909. [Antarctic Exploration] FIRST EDITION, in two volumes. Quarto, pp.xlviii; 372; pp.xvi; 419; [1]. Portrait of E. H. Shackleton as frontispiece to first volume, with portrait of the Northern Party at the South Magnetic Pole to second volume. Both are protected with captioned tissue guards. Generously illustrated..... More
London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Quarto, with 21 plates in colour and black and white, pp. [14], 91. Publisher's vellum spine with buckram boards, t.e.g. Fine. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Limited Edition of only 150 copies of which this is no.45. More
Dublin: Browne and Nolan Limited. 1956. First Edition. Octavo, pp. xx, 517. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, in striking pictorial dustjacket. With seventeen illustrations and two maps. Some spotting to the endpapers and to the edges, slight bumping to the head and tail caps. Dustwrapper..... More
Tokyo: Ribun Shuppan Co., no date [1994]. [Artefact Catalogue] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 22cm), pp.[2] 138 [2]. With a title page and summary of contents in English, a series of essays in Japanese at rear, and references given in both languages. With very fine colour photographic images of..... More
London: Macmillan and co., 1940. First Edition. Octavo. Bound in publisher's red cloth, with gilt titles to spine; plain endpapers. Dust wrapper with titles to spine and front cover in red, publisher's advertisements for further titles by Einzig in red to rear cover; unprice-clipped, originally priced at 7s 6d. Dust..... More
London: Jarrolds, 1934. [Nepal and the Himalayas] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[4] 297 [1]. With 39 double-sided black and white photographic plates and a frontispiece. In a secondary/library binding of blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Label removed from rear pastedown. Spotting throughout, with heavy toning to..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 2007. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 25cm), pp.192. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. SIGNED by the author in black ink to front free endpaper. Publisher's glossy paper-covered boards with light blue endpapers and matching dust-jacket. Some minor creasing to the top and..... More
London: Cassell and Company, 1909. [Church History] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xvi, 664 [2]. With a frontispiece lithographic portrait of the author. In contemporary red full calf with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine and armorial gilt device of the Mathematical School, Rochester, stamped..... More
London: Bloomsbury, 1991. [Art and Russia] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.191 [1]. With frequent black and white and occasional colour photographs. INSCRIBED by Gilbert & George to Michael Barnett in red ink to half-title. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper, and red..... More
Chichester: Phillimore and Co., 2003. [Kent Topography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xii; 484. With black and white illustrations, including a frontispiece map. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, being number 17 of 500 copies thus, hand numbered to a label on the verso..... More
London: John Murray, 1958. ADVANCE COPY. Octavo, pp.xiii [5], 320. With 24 plates featuring photographs by Joan Eyres Monsell and a map drawn by John Woodcock. Title page illustrations and dust-jacket designs by John Craxton. In original green paper wraps with title to front cover. Also with original illustrated dust-jacket..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.352, with pp.16 of photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth with 'golden eye' motif to the upper cover, red top-stain, pictorial dust-wrapper. Edges toned/thumbed, Christmas gift label to flyleaf, jacket worn at spine ends and corners. A very good..... More
London: Printed for Thomas Kelly, 1811. ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Folio, pp.cviii, 692 [4]. With 62 copper engravings on 31 plates, being two more than called for in the binder's instructions. Also with copper engraved frontispiece and title page. In recent mottled full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label..... More
London: Edition du Laurier, Carrefour, 1962. FIRST ONE VOLUME EDITION, third printing. Quarto, pp.411 [5]. With a handful of in-text lithographic illustrations. In publisher's cream card wraps, bound together with blue string. Titles to front cover. Some light external wear; very good overall. First printed in 1939, with subsequent impression..... More
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1889. FIRST THUS. In two volumes. Crown octavo, pp.xxiv, 220 [4]; pp.xii, 223 [1]. With a frontispiece copper engraving to each volume. In publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt strawberry plant device to upper boards. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Very light external..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1963. [Colonial Wars] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 210 [2]. With four double-sided black and white photographic plates, and three maps. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket designed by Brian Keogh, priced at 21s. Spotting to..... More