History & Biography
General Gordon: The Christian Hero.
London and Felling-on-Tyne: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., no date [1908]. [African Colonial Wars] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 369 [3]. A stamp at rear suggests a printing date of April 1908. Contemporary red full calf by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles..... More
The Career of Columbus.
London: Cassell & company, 1892. [Colonial Exploration] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 307 [3]. With a folding frontispiece map of transatlantic currents. Contemporary navy full calf by Deighton Bell & Co. of Cambridge, for King's Lynn Grammar School, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration..... More
The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer. The Fourteenth Edition: To which is added an Appendix, including the Statures of the last Session of Parliament (20G.3.) and some adjudged Cases.
London: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall for T. Cadell, 1780. [English Legal Procedure] FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING, the fourteenth edition. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 19cm), pp.[2] xxviii; 540 [6]; pp.[2] 607 [1]; pp.[2] 581 [5]; pp.[4] 504 [170]. With an unpaginated table of statutes..... More
Venetian Studies.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1887 [1892]. [Venetian History] FIRST EDITION, a later issue (publisher's catalogue dated 1892). Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 433 [67]. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and boards. Green-coated endpapers. A crisp, clean copy with a slight reading lean..... More
As It Was and World Without End.
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. [Romance] FIRST COMBINED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.183 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth, white titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 12s 6d to front flap. Internally bright and clean with toning to edges. Toning to dust-jacket, especially spine. Minimal wear to jacket..... More
Graham Greene.
London: John Calder, 1957. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.240. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 21s. Light toning to edges and endpapers, and a little light wear to extremities. Jacket shows moderate wear and chipping to edges..... More
To the Farthest Ends of the Earth. 150 Years of World Exploration. Forewords by David Attenborough and John Hunt.
London: Macdonald, 1980. [Geographical History] FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY ATTENBOROUGH. Octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.288. Publisher's blue cloth, silver titles to spine, illustrations throughout including frontispiece and endpapers. In a pictorial dust-jacket designed by Anne Davison, price-clipped. INSCRIBED by David Attenborough in blue ink to title page, reading 'To Sarah..... More
Guerilla Warfare. Restricted.
London: Ministry of Defence, 1957. [Warfare] WRITTEN WITH ACCESS TO OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[x]; 201. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles on red label to spine, 'Restricted' in gilt to boards, with sixteen folding maps and diagrams, erratum slip for p.91. Internally clean. Wearing to boards, more so..... More
A Six Foot Three Nightingale. Norman Gale 1862-1942. A Biographical Essay and Check-List.
Privately Printed for the Eighteen Nineties Society, 1998. [Bibliography] ONE OF 75 COPIES. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 41; [5]. Publisher's green paper wraps, black titles on white label to upper. Copy number thirty-eight of seventy five. Occasional series number seven. Four illustrated plates. Internally clean and bright, minor creasing..... More
Golf: A Royal and Ancient Game.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1899. [Golf] CHEAP EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.[xxvii]; [3]; 304; [2]. Publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt titles to spine, black illustration to upper. Six plates including title page in red and black, and sixteen wood engravings including frontispiece. Untrimmed edges. Ex-libris bookplate to front pastedown, some..... More
The State In Its relations with The Church.
London: John Murray, 1838. [Political and religious works] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 324. Publisher's navy cloth, gilt titles to spine, blind embossed bands to spine, uncut pages. A first edition of the author's first book. Some light spotting to front and rear flyleaves, toning to textblock edges..... More
Anglo-Arab Relations and the Question of Palestine 1914-1921.
London: Luzac & Company, 1978. [Modern History of Israel and Palestine] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxviii; 523 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink typographic dust-jacket, priced at £15.00. A crisp, clean copy, sunned to jacket spine. Near fine. A critical, scholarly history..... More
Sumer is icumen in.
London: Novello and Company, 1914. [English Music] INSCRIBED SECOND EDITION. Quarto (27 x 19cm), pp.53 [3]. With a chromolithographic frontispiece facsimile of the original manuscript, and a transcript of the whole score in modern notation. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf: 'E. Board | with the author's..... More
The Octocentenary of Reading Abbey, A.D.1121—A.D.1921.
London: Elliot Stock, 1921. [Monastic History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 19cm), pp.x; 92 [2]. With 10 black and white illustrated plates, including a large folding frontispiece impression of the Abbey at its peak. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to half-title: 'E. Board Esq. | with the..... More
Supplement to The London Gazette. [Second World War Despatches]. Numbers 35305; 37573; 37594; 37609; 37655; 37685; 37695; 37703; 37711; 37719; 37729; 37779; 37786; 37838; 38005; 38011; 38017; 38023; 38031; 38086; 38098; 38111; 38149; 38183; 38196; 38204; 38205; 38214; 38215; 38216; 38225; 38228; 38229; 38266; 38269; 38273; 38274; 38281; 38287; 38293; 38296; 38300; 38308; 38331; 38342; 38346; 38349; 38377; 38404; 38423; 38426; 38432; 38437; 38937.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, Friday 17th October 1941 to Tuesday 6th June 1950. [Second World War] ORIGINAL SUPPLEMENTS. Folio (31 x 19cm), with intermittent pagination. 55 individual supplements to The London Gazette, including a duplication of the first number, all publishing despatches from various theatres of conflict during the..... More
Winston S. Churchill. 1874-1965.
London: William Heinemann, 1966-1988. [Political biography] FIRST EDITIONS. Illustrated with photographs throughout. The complete set of the Life. Eight volumes, octavos (24 x 17 x 51cm). In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spines, in original dust-jackets of various colours, red top edges. An attractive set showing some gentle..... More
Inishfallen Fare Thee Well.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1949. [Literary Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 307 [1]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to a green backing square on spine. With the green and grey illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 16s. Light spotting and toning..... More
Rose and Crown.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1952. [Literary Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 307 [5]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's light green cloth, with gilt titles to a red backing square on spine. With the green illustrated dust-jacket. Some toning to edges, and a little bumping..... More
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company, 1956-1958. [English History] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 416; pp.[2] xii; 344 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 332 [6]; pp.[2] xii; 322. With occasional in-text maps and plans. Handsomely bound in red half oasis morocco, with raised bands..... More
"The Lanox of Auld." An Epistolary Review of "The Lenox, by William Fraser."
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1880. [Scottish Family History] PRIVATELY PRINTED, the only edition. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[4] xii; 153 [1]. With a genealogical scheme, occasional small in-text illustrations, and three engraved plates showing charter seals. Publisher's brown pebble-grained cloth, with gilt titles to spine and gilt armorial devices stamped to..... More
Harris of Japan. The Story of Townsend Harris and his Amazing Adventures in Establishing Relations with the Far East.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1939. [Asian History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2]; 310; [2]. Publisher's red cloth with green titles to spine, blind ruling to front and rear boards, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price 12s 6d to flap. Frontispiece of Townsend Harris. Illustration plates in black and white throughout..... More
Roman Life in the Days of Cicero.
London: Seeley and Company, 1884. [Roman History] FINELY BOUND, the fourth printing thus. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2]; xii; 291; [3]. Twelve illustrations including frontispiece. Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles on green label to spine, gilt decorations to spine, raised bands, gilt decorative panelling to boards, gilt dentelle..... 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 100 of 500 copies thus, hand numbered to a label on the verso..... More
Edward Gibbon. Bicentenary essays. Studies on Voltaire and The Eighteenth Century. 355.
Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1997. [Essays] Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[14]; 429; [3]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Frontispiece of Gibbon. Edited with the assistance of John Burrow and John Pocock. Frontispiece slightly loose, else bright and clean. Fine. More
Letters from AE.
London: Abelard-Schuman, 1961. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[46]; 288. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Brian Paine with printed price 30s to flap. With erratum slip on page xviii. Internally clean and crisp. Slight fading to top edge of hardcover. Wear to..... More