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The Goudhurst Jubilee Book [and] The Goudhurst Coronation Book. A Record of Celebrations in Goudhurst and Kilndown (Kent) on May 6th, 1935 [and] May 12th, 1937. The Silver Jubilee of the Reigns of their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary 1910-1935 [and] The Coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Local Intelligence, Directories, Historical Notes, and Reminiscences.
Tunbridge Wells: The Courier Printing and Publishing Company Limited, 1935 and 1937. [Kent] FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.504 [4]; pp.896. Each volume illustrated with numerous photographic reproductions, and a folding map to the first volume. Publisher's purple and blue cloth respectively, with silver and gold titles..... More
Russian Ballet. Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony. With an Introduction by Arnold Haskell.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1939. [Ballet Photography] LEATHER-BOUND First Edition. Large Quarto (33 x 27cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated with 96 tipped-in black and white photographs of Russian ballet stars, including a frontispiece. Recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with gilt titles to twin red labels, four raised bands to spine, and matching..... More
The Empty Quarter. Being a description of the Great South Desert of Arabia known as Rub' al Khali.
London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1933. [Arabian Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxiv; 433 [3]. With a photographic frontispiece, and 32 further black and white plates, as well as three folding maps. Elegantly hand-bound in half mid-green oasis morocco over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments..... More
India and Its Native Princes. Travels in Central India and in the Presidencies of Bombay and Bengal. Carefully Revised and Edited by Lieut.-Col. Buckle.
London: Bickers and Son, 1878. [Indian Colonial Travel] NEW EDITION. Quarto (35 x 28cm), pp.[2] xviii; 579 [1]. With 317 engraved illustrations after photographs by Rousselet, including a frontispiece, and six maps. Recently re-backed using the original publisher's red cloth, heavily decorated and titled in gilt and black to spine..... More
Perseus in The Wind.
London: John Murray, 1948. [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.x 169 [1]. With wood engraved vignettes by Reynolds Stone to chapter headings. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and facsimile signature stamped in gilt to upper. With the dust-jacket designed by F. Quilter. A touch of..... More
Heroes and Kings: Stories from the Greek.
London: Seeley and Co. Ltd., 1905. [Greek Myths] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Sexto-Decimo (14 x 10cm), pp.[2] xii; 242 [2]. With 11 engraved plates. Contemporary tan full calf by RELFE BROS., with raised bands, gilt titles to a black label and further gilt to spine, a large gilt crest of Hazelhurst..... More
Tales of the Gods and Heroes.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co. Ltd., 1895. [Greek Myths] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a New Edition. Small octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] vi; 205 [3]. Contemporary red full straight-grained calf by RELFE BROS., with raised bands, gilt titles to a green label, further gilt decoration to spine, and a...... More
An Historical Relation of Ceylon, together with somewhat concerning Severall Remarkeable passages of my life that hath hapned since my Deliverance out of my Captivity.
Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1911. [Sri Lankan Ethnography] FIRST THUS, a presentation copy. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.lxviii; 460. With 23 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, a folding facsimile of the title page of the first edition, and a large folding map at rear. Publisher's red cloth with gilt..... More
Conan Doyle. The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 2007. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 527; [1], blank. With three suites of photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth blocked in gilt to spine, beige endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £20 net. With author's signature to the title page..... More
The Mahavamsa, or, The Great Chronicle of Ceylon. Pali Text Society.
London: Published for the Pali Text Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912. [Sri Lankan History] FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lxiv; 300 [4]. With a large introduction and two maps. Publisher's cream quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and upper, and orange cloth over boards. Black..... More
The Fifth Division in the Great War.
London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd., 1921. [Military History] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 278 [2]. With a colour frontispiece, 16 further black and white photographic plates, 16 maps through the text, and two folding maps at rear. Publisher's red cloth, with titles in gilt to spine..... More
Three Years in Tristan Da Cunha.
London: Skeffington & Son, 1910. [South Atlantic Islands] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii; 280. Complete with 37 black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a map. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and a black and white photographic image to..... More
The Annals of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, Volume IV, The 60th: The K.R.R.C. With Illustrations and Maps.
London: John Murray, 1929. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xl; 398. With four black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece, and 20 maps. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt regimental badge to upper. Black ink stamp of Regimental Headquarters, The Royal..... More
The Elements of Hieroglyphics and Egyptian Antiquities. In a Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, London, and the University of Cambridge.
London: Printed for C.J.G. & F. Rivington, 1845. [Ancient Egypt] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xx; 493 [3]. Complete with a frontispiece and 10 folding plates at rear. Publisher's brown cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blind decoration to boards. Yellow-coated endpapers. Armorial Coulthart bookplate to..... More
Account of Mr. Pybus's Mission to the King of Kandy, in 1762. Printed from the Records of the Madras Government.
Colombo: W. Skeen, Government Printer, 1862. [Sri Lanka] FIRST PRINTED EDITION. Duodecimo booklet (17 x 11cm), pp.[8] 113 [3]. Publisher's light blue card, sewn, with titles to upper. Gently toned throughout. Light wear and spotting to covers. A rare survival, last seen at auction in 2008. Very good. An official..... More
Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown.
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2014. [Film Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.272. SIGNED by the author to a specially-printed bookplate captioned 'Sir Roger Moore KBE - Limited Edition UK Tour', which has been affixed to the free endpaper. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, sky blue..... More
The World Crisis 1911-1918. [Complete in six volumes, including: 1911-1914; 1915; 1916-1918 Part I; 1916-1918 Part II; The Aftermath; The Eastern Front].
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923-1931. [Military history] FIRST EDITIONS. 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. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt to spines. Crisp, clean copies showing some..... More
Ill Met By Moonlight. The Story of the Kidnapping of General Karl Kriepe, German Divisional Commander In Crete.
London: Harrap, 1950. [Intelligence / WWII Operation] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Illustrated with frontispiece and 14 plates, 2 maps within the text. Publisher's black cloth in illustrated jacket priced at 10/6. Contents clean, birthday inscription to f.e.p., jacket with some general wear, chips and tears, some rubbing..... More
Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown.
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2014. [Film Autobiography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.272. Number 2709 of 3000 copies, signed by the author to a tipped-in limitation page. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, sky blue endpapers, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, and a Hatchards' 'signed copy' wrap-around band and bookmark..... More
The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Volumes I, II, III, IV and V, 1915-1941.
New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977-1984. [Literary Diaries] COMPLETE FIRST US EDITIONS. Five volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 16cm), pp.xxviii; 356; pp.xii; 371 [1]; pp.xiv; 384 [2]; pp.xiv; 402; pp.xiv; 402. Sketch-maps to endpapers of all volumes except I. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spines and..... More
The Boke of Saint Albans. Containing Treatises on Hawking, Hunting, and Cote Armour: Printed at Saint Albans by the Schoolmaster-Printer in 1486, Reproduced in Facsimile. With an Introduction by William Blades.
London: Elliot Stock, 1881. [Hawking, Hunting and Heraldry] FACSIMILE EDITION, first impression. Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.34; [176]. Printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's full vellum, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blind decoration to boards. All edges untrimmed. Internally crisp and clean, with some offsetting to endpapers..... More
An Army Woman In The Philippines. Extracts from Letters of an Army Officer's Wife, Describing Her Personal Experiences in the Philippine Islands.
Kansas City, Missouri: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., 1914. [Military Letters] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, dated 1914 only (some remaindered copies were over-stamped with the date 1916). Octavo, pp.183, with full-page photographic plates inserted. Handsomely bound in recent half red calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over..... More
The Myths of Greece and Rome. Their Stories, Signification, and Origin.
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1909. [Greek and Roman Mythology] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 395 [3]. With 64 black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full calf by BUMPUS, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, further..... More
Bond Behind the Iron Curtain.
The Book Collector, 2021. [Literary history] FIRST EDITION, double SIGNED copy. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp.125; [2], advertisements; [1], blank. With sixteen illustrations, several in colour. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to backstrip, hammer and sickle device to front board, black endpapers, typographic dust-wrapper. Fine / as new. Fleming..... More
The Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova di Seingalt. Translated into English by Arthur Machen.
London: The Casanova Society, 1922. [Memoirs] LEATHER-BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Complete in 12 volumes. Quarto (26 x 21 x 36cm). Privately printed for subscribers only on fine hand-made paper, number 452 of 1000 sets thus. With a frontispiece to each volume, as well as 17 maps, and an index. Recently re-bound..... More