History & Biography
The French Revolution: A History.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1889. [History and Philosophy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a later edition. Three volumes bound as one. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.iv, 252; pp.iv; 260; pp.iv; 300 [2]. Contemporary red full calf for Clapham Middle School, with raised bands, gilt titles to green label and further gilt decoration..... More
Three Greek Children: A Story of Home in Old Time.
London: Seeley and Co., 1908. [Ancient History] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 193 [3]. With nine illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and occasional in-text illustrations. Contemporary brown full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbling to all edges and endpapers..... More
The Cleghorn Papers. A Footnote to History Being the Diary, 1795-1796 of Hugh Cleghorn of Stravithie: Professor of Civil and Natural History, University of St. Andrews, 1773-1793 Employed on Secret Service of the Government, 1793-1797 First Colonial Secretary of Ceylon, 1798-1800.
London: A. and C. Black, 1927. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xx; 294 [1], folding map attached to rear leaf. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Frontispiece illustration and two other plates, one map. Ink ownership of J.E.S. Bodger to fly-leaf. Toning and spotting throughout, burn..... More
A City by an Order.
Valletta: Progress Press Co., 1986. [Maltese Architectural History] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.xii; 259 [1]. With two folding maps and a folding time-line at rear, as well as numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's brown leatherette with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. Some light handling..... More
Fighter. The True Story of the Battle of Britain.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. [Military history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.304. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers lettered in gilt to the spine, red endpapers, top edge red, dust-wrapper displays a Paul Nash painting, priced at £4.95. With many photographic plates. Near fine. Deighton's acclaimed account of Germany's first major..... More
Blood, Tears & Folly. In the Darkest Hour of the Second World War,
London: Jonathan Cape, 1993. [Military history] FIRST EDITION, association copy. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.653; [1]. Publisher's black cloth hardcovers lettered in gilt to the spine, cartographic endpapers, dust-wrapper priced at £20. With many photographic plates. A very good copy, slightly sunned to spine. From the library of Deighton's biographer..... 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
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
History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner.
Des Moines, IA: Iowa Printing Co., 1885 [1891]. [Americana] THIRD EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] iv; 316 [2]. With six black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown leather-effect cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper. All edges speckled red, with patterned endpapers. Neat ownership 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 Professor and the President: Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House.
Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2015. [American Politics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 172 [2]. With a contemporary book review loose to preliminaries. Publisher's black quarter cloth with silver titles to spine and blue cloth over boards. With the blue dust-jacket. Bookplates detailing provenance to endpapers. A fine..... 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
The Man Who Supercharged Bond.
Yeovil: Haynes Publishing, 2009. [Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.352. With two suites of sixteen photographic plates. With presentation note SIGNED by the author to half-title; To Chris // Hope you enjoy / the book / as much as Amherst's old Type 35! / Best wishes /..... More
The Man Who Supercharged Bond.
Yeovil: Haynes Publishing, 2009. [Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, inscribed 'with best wishes'. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.352. With two suites of sixteen photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title, together. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and grey endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced..... More
And Hell Followed... A European Ally interprets the War for Ordinary People like herself.
London: Constable and Company, 1942. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 296. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the explosive red and white dust-jacket. Blue ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, bookseller's ticket to pastedown. Edges lightly spotted and abraded. Very light..... More
Miscellanies. Reprinted Chiefly from 'Fraser's Magazine' and the 'North British Review.'
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859. [Essays] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] 407 [9]; pp.[4] 389 [3]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spines, and blind decoration to boards. Brown-coated endpapers; all edges untrimmed. Armorial bookplate of Horace Noble Pym to front pastedown..... More
Catalogue of Engraved Portraits, Views etc. connected with the name of Levis.
London: Printed for the author for private distribution only at the Chiswick Press, 1914. [Family History] LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.xx; 113 [3]. With 32 black and white plates, including a photogravure frontispiece. One of just 50 copies printed. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with black titles to..... 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
My Recollections of the Sepoy Revolt (1857-58).
London: John Long, 1911. [Indian Mutiny] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.266. With 17 black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding plan of Meerut Cantonment. Publisher's navy cloth with titles stamped to spine and red ruling to boards. All edges red. A manuscript letter in..... 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
The State, the Poor, and the Country, Including Suggestions on the Irish Question.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1870. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.ix, 100 [13]. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Brown end-papers. Library mark to verso of front free end-paper; library sticker to half-title; black ink library stamp (Dutch) to verso of title page. Very good overall. Intended as a sequel..... More
Fortress Colony: The Final Act 1945-1964. Vol. I 1945-1954.
Valletta: Studia Editions, 1987. [Maltese History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xx; 444. With occasional black and white in-text illustrations. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to the title page: 'To Graham | with very best wishes | Jos M. Pirotta.' Publisher's deep red leatherette, with gilt..... More
Scarne on Card Tricks.
London: Constable. 1953. [Sleight of hand, cheating, gambling] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), Pp. x; 138. Publisher's red cloth lettered in silver to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 8s. 6d. to front flap. Edges toned, jacket with some edge wear, rubbed to spine. Very good. The..... More
The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D., Sometime Head-Master of Rugby School, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. The Minerva Library of Famous Books.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891. [Pedagogy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the fourth edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 548 [2]. With nine illustrated plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Arnold. Contemporary red full calf for Beaconsfield School by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to green label and..... 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