"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "
— Oscar Wilde
History & Biography
Adolf in Blunderland. A Political Parody of Lewis Carroll's Famous Story.
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
Conjectures on that Mysterious Monument of Ancient Art, Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain; Commencing its History by Jeffery of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, A.D.1130; And continued in chronological Order by the laborious Researches of the following Eminent Writers in their Attempts to remove the Cloud which veils in Obscurity the History of this Celebrated Temple: viz. Giraldus Cambrensis, Camden, Inigo Jones, Dr. Charlton, Gibbons, Speed, Gibson, Dr. Stukeley, Wood, Rowland, Dr. Smith, Wansey, Dr. Maton, King, and Sir R.C. Hoare. To which are added, a Valuable Fragment of Antiquity Relative to Old Sarum and Stonehenge, by Diodorus, in the Time of Julius Caesar; and a History of the Druids, the supposed Architects of Stonehenge.
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
Miss Eden's Letters.
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
The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. With an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill. An Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David.
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
Huntsmen Past and Present. Illustrated from contemporary prints and from original watercolour drawings by the Author.
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
The Great Famine; Studies in Irish History 1845-52.
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
Agraffes and Bronze Animals: Ancient Chinese Ornaments. The Symbols of the bronze cultures at ancient times on the Eurasian Continent. The dialogues between China and Greece via Scythians.
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
Economic Warfare.
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
The Last Strongholds.
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
The Beats: From Kerouac to Kesey, an Illustrated Journey through the Beat Generation.
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
The Early Days of Christianity.
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
With Gilbert & George in Moscow.
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
A History of Mount Sion, Tunbridge Wells.
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
Mani. Travels in The Southern Peleponnese.
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
The Life of Ian Fleming. Creator of James Bond.
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
The Book of Martyrs, or the Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church, Being a complete History of Martyrdom, from the Commencement of Christianity to the present Time. Revised and Improved.
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
The Michael Fraenkel and Henry Miller Correspondence, Called Hamlet. Volume I and Volume II.
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
Major Fraser's Manuscript, His Adventures in Scotland and England; His Mission to, and Travels in, France in Search of his Chief; His Services in the Rebellion (and his Quarrels) with Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat 1696-1737.
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
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
The Zulu War: Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift. Great Battles of History Series.
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