History & Biography
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
The Annals of St. Helen's, Bishopgate, London.
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1876. [Church Architecture and History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 454 [2]. With 15 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Re-backed in burgundy cloth to match publisher's blind-decorated boards, with gilt titles to spine and yellow-coated endpapers. Blue ink ownership relating to the Pitt-Rivers Museum in..... More
Helen Oxenbury: a life in illustration.
London: Walker Books, 2018. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.264 [24]. Illustrated throughout with a mixture of fine colour photographs and reproductions of Oxenbury's artwork. Publisher's photographic cloth with blue and maroon titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £30. Some..... More
Momentum, the Struggle for Peace, Politics and the People.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2002. [Politics] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 398. INSCRIBED by the author "To Liz and Mike | hope you enjoy the | read. | All the best | love | Mo" in black ink to title page. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt..... More
At 12 Mr Byng was shot...
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962. [Naval Narrative History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 338; [2]. With eight double-sided black and white plates, and several other maps and illustrations in-text. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge light blue. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Francis Russell..... More
Baghdad Sketches.
London: John Murray, 1937. [Iraqi Travel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xiv; 269 [3]. With 25 double-sided black and white photographic plates, a photographic frontispiece, and the green folding sketch map. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt facsimile signature stamped to upper. Typographic bookplate..... More
Three Geishas.
London: Cassell, 1956. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo, pp. 187. With a colour frontispiece of 'The Geisha' by Moronobu, reproduced on the jacket. In publisher's cream cloth with red titles to spine. With original tan dust jacket. Slight reading lean; very minor chipping to head and tail of jacket spine. Very..... More
London. The Biography.
London: Chatto and Windus, 2000. [History] FIRST EDITION. Thick octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.822 [2]. With four suites of plates, illustrated endpapers. Hardcover in photographic dust-jacket priced at £25.00. One scratch to the fore-edge. Near fine. This acclaimed work by the multi award-winning author has been described by Ackroyd himself..... More
An Historical Account of Thomas Sutton Esq.; and of his Foundation in Charter-House.
London: Printed by E. Owen, and sold by F. Gyles in Holborn; W. Hinchliffe in Cornhill; Mess. J. and P. Knapton in Ludgate-Street. 1737. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 276. With an engraving by George Vertue between pages 160-161. Errata to page 276. Missing the folding plate..... More
The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture. With an explanation of technical terms, and a centenary of ancient terms.
London: David Bogue, 1846. [Gothic Architecture] VINTAGE EDITION, the eighth, with illustrations. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.xii; 330 [2]. With an eight-page publisher's catalogue tipped onto the flyleaf. With 228 in-text wood engravings. Publisher's blind-decorated green cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed; yellow-coated endpapers. Rear hinge split;..... 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
The Missing Diplomats.
London: The Queen Anne Press, 1952. [Espionage] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.50; [1], blank; [1], imprint. Bound in stiff white card covers with title label to upper, yellow dust-wrapper printed in red and black. Jacket a little toned to spine, panels spotted. Very good. Contemporary account of the..... More
A Pageant of the Spice Islands.
London: John Bale, Sons and Danielsson, 1936. First Edition. Octavo, pp. i, 131. With 5 b/w plates including frontispiece. In publisher's green cloth with yellow titles to spine. With original cream dust jacket, featuring black titles to spine and upper board. Corners slightly bumped, and some light wear to boards..... More
The Great Tone-Poets: Being Short Memoirs of the Greater Musical Composers.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1881. [Musical Biographies] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the fourth edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xvi; 373 [3]. With a very large Atlas Moth wing loose to preliminaries. Contemporary navy full calf by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to red label and further gilt..... More
Life Lines. Politics and Health 1986-1988.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1989. [Politics] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xii; 291; [1] blank. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, yellow endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Slatter-Anderson featuring a photograph by David Montgomery with printed price of £13.95. Illustrated with a suite of black and white plates..... More
Blake: General-at-Sea.
Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, the Wessex Press, 1934. [Naval History] FIRST EDITION WITH JACKET. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 200. With 20 lithographic maps, plans and illustrations, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With rare original light blue dust-jacket featuring an engraving..... More
A Memoir of the York Press, with notices of Authors, Printers, and Stationers, in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries.
London: Nichols and Sons, 1868. [Printing History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[2] vi; 397; [3]. Publisher's blind stamped maroon cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Armorial bookplate of Henry Peckitt to front pastedown. A few splits to weak binding; some gatherings starting to come loose. Head and tail..... More
Edward Thomas: A Biography and a Bibliography.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1937. [Literary Biography / Bibliography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 328. With 10 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to maroon backing on spine. Top edge green. A few spots, and a tear to..... More
With Gilbert & George in Moscow.
London: Bloomsbury, 1991. [Art and Russia] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.191 [1]. With frequent black and white and occasional colour photographs. INSCRIBED by Gilbert & George to Michael Barnett in red ink to half-title. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper, and red..... More
Agincourt: My Family, the Battle and the Fight for France.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014. [Mediaeval Military History and Genealogy] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; 326. With two suites of four double-sided colour photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'For Danielle | with thanks & best wishes | from | Ranulph..... More
The Life of Charles Dickens, as Revealed in his Writings.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1905. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xx; 309 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 322 [34]. With a frontispiece to each volume, and a facsimile letter to volume I. Advertisements dated November 1904. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spines and..... 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
Invasion 1940. An Account of the German Preperations and the British Counter-Measures.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.323; [1]. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographic plates and drawings within the text. Publisher's black cloth in photographic dust-wrapper. A lightly used copy with some dustiness/spotting, jacket spine moderately sunned, some minor rubs, price-clipped. Very good..... More
A School History of England.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1911. [British History] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 250 [4]. With 10 colour plates by Ford, as well as various maps and drawings. Contemporary navy full calf by RELFE BROS for Langport Grammar School, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration..... More
English Guns and Rifles, Being an Account of the Development, Design and Usage of English Sporting Rifles and Shortguns - from their Introduction during the Fifteenth Century until the Advent of the Metallic Cartridges in the Nineteenth Century - together with Notes on Muskets, Service Rifles, Blunderbusses and Other Arms.
Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, 1947. [Firearms] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.x; 344; [2]. With twenty three black and white plates including a frontispiece, and occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to green squares on spine and upper board, dust-jacket priced at $7.50. Textblock clean..... More