History & Biography
The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation.
London: The Fabian Society and George Allen and Unwin, Limited, 1923. [Social History and Politics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 182; [6]. Publisher's blue cloth with green titles to spine, blind ruling to front board. Erratum slip to title page. Light browning to textblock top edge, spotting to..... More
Between The Woods and The Water. On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to The Iron Gates.
London: John Murray, 1986. [European Travel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, an advance or review copy with errata slip. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 248 [2]. With a map printed on turquoise paper. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. With a printed errata slip loose to preliminaries. Publisher's..... More
The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte; for a Conspiracy, in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814: With the Subsequent Proceedings in the Court of King's Bench: Taken in Short Hand by William Brodie Gurney, Short Hand Writer to Both Houses of Parliament.
London: J. Butterworth and Son, 1814. [Court Transcript] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] 604 [6]. Folded chart to page 184. Black calf to boards with gilt roll-tooled ruling to borders. Spine re-backed in brown calf with gilt titles, tooling, and raised bands. Inside gilt dentelles. Edges speckled. Toning..... More
Nation.
London: Doubleday, 2008. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[14]; 409; [8]. Publisher's blue cloth, silver titles to spine, blue 'starry sky' endpapers from John Sanford/Science Photo Library, illustrations internally. Pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Jonny Duddle, printed price of £16.99. Written by the Carnegie-medal winning author... More
[War Speeches 1938-1945]: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill.
London: Cassell and Company, 1941-6. [Speeches] FIRST EDITIONS, all first impressions ('Into Battle' is a first state). Seven volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 19cm). Includes several half-tone plates. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spines. All in original colour dust-jackets, vols 3 and 4 being price-clipped. First..... More
Complete Life of The Right Honourable Winston L. Spencer Churchill. Life-Stories of Success No.2 Soldier and Statesman.
London: The Self-Help Press, no date [circa 1910]. [Self-Help / Political Biography] RARE ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's paper covers illustrated with a photograph by Elliott and Fry, stapled twice and priced at 2d. Crumbling to dust as you read this; as brown as they come and..... 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 Second World War. The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-1954. [Military history] LEATHER BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Complete in six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Elegantly bound in red half morocco, with gilt lion tooling..... More
The Greatest Adventure: The Balloonists' own epic tale of their round-the-world voyage.
London: Headline, 1999. [Ballooning] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 308 [2]. With three suites of four double-sided colour photographic plates. INSCRIBED by Jones in blue ink to half-title: 'To Anne & John | with best wishes | Brian Jones.' Publisher's navy material over boards, with gilt titles..... More
The Holy Maid of Kent. The Life of Elizabeth Barton, 1506-1534.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971. [Tudor Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.390 [2]. With four double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge brown, with family trees to endpapers. With the yellow dust-jacket designed by Studio Stead, priced at £3.95..... More
The Ghost of '66. Martin Peters: The Autobiography.
London: Orion Books, 2006. [Football Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.viii; 312. With three suites of four double-sided photographic plates. SIGNED by Peters in black ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £18.99. A fine copy..... More
Dark Destroyer. My Story.
London: Blake Publishing Ltd, 1999. [Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 276. With three suites of four double-sided photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'To "Father Derek" | Enjoy the "read" | Nigel Benn'. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine..... More
Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself: Illustrated From His Letters, With Occasional Notes and Narrative by John Lord Sheffield. A New Edition, with Considerable Additions.
London: John Murray, 1814. [Literature] LEATHER-BOUND SET. Octavo (23 x 14 x 18cm). Complete in five volumes. With a frontispiece portrait and other engraved illustrated plates. Contemporary binding of deep purple/dark brown full morocco. Spines gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, gilt border to boards, and coated yellow endpapers..... More
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1782-88. [Late Antiquity] COMPLETE QUARTO EDITIONS. First volume 'New Edition', vols II-III 'Second Edition', final three volumes are First Editions. Complete in six volumes. Quarto (29 x 23 x 31cm), pp.xx; 704; pp.[12] 640; pp.[12] 640; pp.[4] xvi; 620; pp.[12] 684; pp.[14]..... More
News From Tartary. A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Travel Literature] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 384 [2]. With 32 photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a fold-out map. Recently re-bound in burgundy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge burgundy; lower edge..... More
My Life in Pieces. An Alternative Autobiography.
London: Nick Hern Books, 2010. [Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xii; 436. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'Hi, Hayley! | All the very best | Simon Callow'. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket designed by Ned..... More
The Road To Oxiana.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1937. [Travel literature] First Edition. Octavo, pp.341 [2]. publisher's light blue cloth (presumed second binding), with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Age toned to spine. Very good indeed. Byron, who died young in the Second World War, was one of the Brideshead..... More
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. [Indian Colonial History] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxxvi; 522 [18]. With three suites of eight double-sided colour-illustrated plates. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's cream cloth, with black titles to spine and red monogrammed endpapers. With the dust-jacket..... More
Post-War Speeches, 1945-1959. The Sinews of Peace; Europe Unite; In the Balance; Stemming the Tide; The Unwritten Alliance.
London: Cassell and Company, 1948-61. [Politics] FIRST EDITIONS. Five volumes, octavo (23 x 15 x 18cm). Publisher's cloth, gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jackets. Some light spotting/toning, jackets clean and fresh, all prices present. A very bright set. 'Tide' is the second state of the jacket. Smartly housed in a...... More
Living History.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2003. [American politics] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xi; [3]; 562. Publisher's black quarter cloth over black paper covered boards, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Jackie Seow, with printed price of U.S. $20.00 | Can $44.00. With two suites of..... More
The Downing Street Years.
London: Harper Collins, 1993. [Politics] SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY, FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 914. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in photographic dust-jacket. Signed by Baroness Thatcher in her characteristic blue pen to a tipped in blank after the half title page, from the library of Lord..... More
The Seasons of the Year. Or The Hand of God Manifested in His Works.
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1852. [Natural History] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[4] 416 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page by T. Brown. Contemporary dark brown full morocco, with gilt titles and decorations to spine, and decoration in gilt and blind to boards. All edges..... More
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce.
London: Viking, 2018. [Irish Literary Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 186. With occasional black and white illustrations. SIGNED by the author in black ink to 'Exclusive signed first edition' leaf tipped in ahead of the half-title. Publisher's black paper over boards, with white titles to spine..... More
James Joyce. Modern Writers and Playwrights Series, Edited by Thomas Moult.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1933. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.175 [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with blue titles to spine. With the grey dust-jacket titled in blue, priced at 4/6. Light spotting to edges and endpapers, as well as first and final few leaves. Very light handling indeed..... More
The City of the Red Plague. Soviet Rule in a Baltic Town.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1932. [Baltic History] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.343 [5]. With nine black and white photographic plates and maps, including a frontispiece. Publisher's black cloth with red titles to spine. Top edge red, others untrimmed. Armorial bookplate of Sir Reginald Wingate, Bt...... More