History & Biography
Drawings by Peregrine Calvary.
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1942. [War] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.91; [6]. Publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine and upper board, dust-jacket with printed price 12s 6d to flap. 29 illustrations by Peregrine. Top edge red. A copy in a dust-jacket is scarce. Internally..... More
The Life of Wellington. A New Edition, Revised, Condensed and Completed.
London: Bickers and Son, 1893. [Military Biography] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 387 [3]. With occasional in-text illustrations, and a frontispiece portrait of Wellington. Contemporary green polished calf, with gilt titles to a red label, and further gilt decoration to spine. All edges and endpapers..... More
Richard Meinertzhagen. Soldier, Scientist & Spy.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1989. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Royal octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 292. With a suite of black and white plates. Publisher's black cloth in photographic dust-jacket priced at £14.95 to front flap. Contents clean, edges toned, some offset to endpapers, jacket lightly used. Near fine. Colonel Richard..... More
Highlands and Backwoods: The Legend and the Hero. With a foreword by Chief Scout Lord Rowallan.
London: Christopher Johnson, 1957. [Pedagogy and Travel] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.183 [1]. With seven half-tone plates, including a frontispiece, as well as a few in-text maps and illustrations. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'with the author's | every..... More
Burgesses and Burgess Law in the Latin Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus (1099-1325).
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. [Crusader States Legal History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[12] 225 [3]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Lacks the jacket. Light handling only, essentially fine. More
The Court of Queen Elizabeth: Originally Written by Sir Robert Nauton, under the title "Fragmenta Regalia." With considerable Biographical Additions by James Caulfield.
London: Printed and Sold by G. Smeeton, and J. Caulfield, 1814. [Elizabethan Biographies] NEW REVISED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 20cm), pp.[4] 127 [1]. With 18 of the 21 engraved portraits, including a frontispiece of Elizabeth I, but lacking Sir Francis Walsingham, Sir Francis Knowles, and Lord Brooke. Publisher's blue /..... More
John Steinbeck: A Biography.
London: Heinemann, 1994. [Literary Biography] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 614. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, dated 29.3.94. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket..... More
The Otto Penzler Collection of Bibliomysteries. A Catalogue of First Editions of Mystery Fiction Set in the World of Books, 1849-2000.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, 2017. [Bookseller's Catalogue] SIGNED COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4] 147 [1]. With occasional in-text colour images. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at $10.00. A fine, as-new copy. A prime sale catalogue of book-related..... More
A City in Search of an Author: The Literary Identity of Trieste.
London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. [European Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.218 [6]. With occasional black and white illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. A crisp, fine copy. More
The Town Council Seals of Scotland: Historical, Legendary and Heraldic.
Edinburgh: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1906. [Scottish History, Topography and Heraldry] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.xii; 300. With an illustration of each seal. Publisher's dark grey cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device stamped to upper. All edges untrimmed. Illustrated bookplate of William Wade Porteous..... More
A Manual of Ancient History, From the Earliest Times, to the Fall of the Western Empire. Comprising the History of Chaldea, Assyria, Media, Babylonia, Lydia, Phoenicia, Syria, Judea, Egypt, Carthage, Persia, Greece, Macedonia, Rome, and Parthia.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1869. [Ancient History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 580 [2]. Brown full calf, boards gilt ruled. Gilt titles with black label to spine, raised bands, and further embellishment in blind. Blind dentelle to turn-ins. Marbled endpapers and matching marbed edges. Interior lightly toned..... More
Robbo: My Autobiography.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006. [Football Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; 310. With four suites of four double-sided colour and black and white photographic plates. INSCRIBED by Bryan Robson in black marker 'To Robbie' to the title page. Publisher's black cloth with blue metallic titles to..... More
Villes Anseatiques [Hanseatic Towns]: L'Univers, ou Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples, de Leurs Religions, Moeurs, Costumes, etc.
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1844. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.398. With 22 engraved plates to rear. Text in French. In contemporary quarter tan calf with gilt titles to black labels on spine. Marbled boards and end-papers. Black ink ownership inscription to title page. Gilt nearly all worn from labels. Spine head..... More
Noah Webster: American Men of Letters.
Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881. [Literary Biography] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] vi; 302 [4]. With a frontispiece engraving of the subject. Contemporary blue half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards. Top edge gilt, others..... More
The Dictionary of National Biography, The Concise Dictionary From the Beginnings to 1930, Being and Epitome of the Main Work and its Supplement, to which is added and Epitome of the Twentieth Century Volumes covering 1901 - 1930.
London: Humphrey Milford. c. 1939. Attractive single volume. Octavo. pp. viii, 1456; 184. Bound in half red morocco leather with raised bands and gilt titles and tooling to spine. Top edge gilt and marbled end papers. Light foxing to prelims and the beginnings of a split to upper joint. Otherwise..... More
The Coast of Incense. Autobiography 1933-1939.
London: John Murray, 1953. [Travel Autobiography] FIRST EDITION with VARIANT PUBLISHER'S BINDING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 287 [1]. With a green sketch-map by H.W. Hawes, and 20 double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's yellow cloth with black titles to spine, rather than the usual green cloth. With the..... More
Hours of Exercise in the Alps.
New York, NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1871. [Alpine Climbing and Mountaineering] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 473 [9]. With seven engraved plates, including a frontispiece, and occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and black panelled decoration to boards. Lightly toned throughout..... More
King Albert's Book: A Tribute to the Belgian King and People from Representative Men and Women Throughout the World.
London: The Daily Telegraph, in conjunction with The Daily Sketch, The Glasgow Herald, and Hodder and Stoughton, 1915. [Wartime Illustrated Miscellany] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.188. With 28 illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of King Albert, and numerous colour plates by artists including Rackham, Nielsen and Dulac. Contents..... More
Report of The Santiago Campaign, 1898.
Kansas City: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co. 1908. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, a little scuffed and soiled. Titled in black to spine and front board. Very good. Portrait frontis. Internally clean. A clean tidy copy of a near contemporary account by an officer who served in the campaign. More
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
A Nation's Praise. Malta: People, Places & Events.
Valletta: Progress Press Company, 1994. [Historical Vignettes] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.xvi; 232. With frequent in-text photographic images. SIGNED and dated by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's blue illustrated glossy boards, with the matching dust-jacket, not priced. Some light handling. Near fine... More
Stalingrad.
London: Viking, 1998. [Second World War] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 494. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and illustrated endpapers. With..... More
Barefoot Soldier: A Story of Extreme Valour.
London: Sphere, 2006. [Military Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 370 [4]. With two suites of four double-sided photographic plates. SIGNED by Johnson Beharry, VC, in black ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, and black endpapers. With the photographic..... More
The Debt We Owe: The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund 1919-1989.
Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing, 1989. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[8], 216. With a colour frontispiece portrait of Viscount Trenchard, and 12 double-sided black and white plates. INSCRIBED by the author to Guy Huntrods, a prominent Tunbridge Wells based veteran, for his 75th birthday, in bright blue ink to title page. Also..... More
China Under the Empress Dowager, Being the History of the Life and Times of Tzu Hsi. Compiled from State Papers and the Private Diary of the Comptroller of Her Household.
London: William Heinemann, 1911. [China] VINTAGE COPY, a later impression. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.xxviii; 525 [3]. With 26 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and a map of Peking. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and black titles and a red device to upper. Fore..... More