History & Biography
William Pitt the Younger.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2004. [Political Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.xxvi; 652 [10]. With three suites of four double-sided colour plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page; 'For Roger | with best wishes | William Hague.' Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine..... More
The Little Locksmith.
London: Faber and Faber, 1944. [Memoir] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.167 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink typographic dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Times Book Club stamp to rear pastedown. Light toning and marking to jacket, with minimal wear to edges. A...... More
Peeps at History: Ireland.
London: A. & C. Black, 1927. [Ireland] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.iv; 92. With eight colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and 20 in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the green dust-jacket titled and decorated in navy, not priced. Heavy..... 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
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
A History of New York, From the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty. Containing, among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disastrous projects of William the Testy, and the chivalric achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the three Dutch governers of New Amsterdam; being the only authentic history of the times that hath ever been published.
London: John Bumpus, 1825. [History] Duodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.xx; 340. Bound in pictorial paper boards, with titles to spine and publisher's advertisements to rear boards, edges uncut. Binding is rubbed and chipped, with a small split to front hinge. Text shows some spotting, particularly to front matter. Very good..... More
The Early Challenges of the America's Cup (1851-1937).
London: Columbus Books, 1986. [Yacht Racing] SIGNED SPECIAL EDITION. Oblong Quarto (24 x 34cm), pp.160. With fine colour illustrations by Anthony John, and SIGNED by him in black ink to title page. Half-title includes a label stating 'Special Edition in Commemoration of Sir Thomas Sopwith (1887-1989).' Publisher's cream cloth with..... More
Slings and Arrows: Sayings Chosen from the Speeches of the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, O.M., M.P.
London: Cassell and Company, 1929. [Political Quotations] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 324. With a photographic frontispiece of Lloyd George. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Black ink ownership to front pastedown. Flyleaf removed. A quotation from John Milton written heavily in blue ink..... More
Scottish Eccentrics.
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1936. [Scottish Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 320. Publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink. Light spotting to edges and preliminaries. A distinct tobacco scent. Spine sunned, with a little handling. Very good. Twelve short biographies of..... More
The Annals of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, Volume VI 1921-1943.
London: Leo Cooper, 1971. [Military History] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 398. With numerous maps, and eight double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by Roger Nixon in blue ink to flyleaf. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and regimental badge to upper. With the..... More
Discorsi del 1925. [Speeches of 1925].
Milano: Casa Editrice "Alpes," 1926. [Fascist Speeches] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.281 [7]. All text in Italian. Publisher's white paper covers, titled in black and red, with a gilt illustration to upper. All edges untrimmed; substantially unopened. Heavily browned throughout to low grade paper. Moderate rubbing to covers..... More
Paul Verlaine.
London: Constable, 1921. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.viii; 271 [1]. Publisher's navy cloth, gilt titles to upper and spine. Edges untrimmed. Interior bright and clean, toning to endpapers and edges. Some leaves still uncut. A few marks to boards, some gentle wear and fraying to extremities..... More
The Glory of the Medieval World.
London: Dennis Dobson, 1954. [Medieval History] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.266 [2]. With eight black and white photographic plates. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to purple backing on the spine. Top edge orange. With the dust-jacket, priced at 18s. A nice clean copy with some..... More
Scarne on Cards Tricks.
New York: Crown Publishers 1959. [Sleight of hand, cheating, gambling] Fourth printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.308. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial jacket. Owner label to rear pastedown. Worn wrapper with a some chips and tears, loss to rear corner, taped to rear, spine sunned. The follow-up to Scarne on..... More
Story of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shotakovich to Isaak Glikman 1941-1975. With a Commentary by Isaak Glikman.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. [Musical Correspondence] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xliv; 340. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's navy paper over boards, with cream titles to spine and green endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, not priced..... More
In Siberia.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1999. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.287. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with silver titles and publisher's imprint to spine, grey map endpapers, showing map of Siberia. Pictorial dustjacket shows snowfield, with titles in white to front cover and spine, rear cover displays quotations from prominent reviewers;..... More
Latin Poetry. Lectures Delivered in 1893 on the Percy Turnbull Memorial Foundation in the John Hopkins University.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. [Classical Lectures] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] xxiv; 323 [5]. Contemporary black full calf for Bedford School, with gilt titles to red label and further gilt decoration to spine, and the school crest stamped in gilt to upper. All edges and endpapers..... More
The Victoria Cross Centenary Exhibition, 15th June — 7th July 1956.
London: Marlborough House, 1956. [Medal Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.143 [1]. Publisher's cream card wraps printed in brown to upper, stapled three times to spine. Light handling and bumping edges. Near fine. A catalogue of 199 Victoria Cross medals won between 1856 and the end of..... More
A Little Learning. The First Volume of an Autobiography By Evelyn Waugh.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1964. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 234. With five double-sided black and white plates, and a photographic frontispiece. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink. With the pink typographic dust-jacket, priced at 30s. Fine, but for some spotting to..... 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
The Unexpurgated Beaton. The Cecil Beaton's Diaries as he Wrote Them. Introduced by Hugo Vickers.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002. [Photographer's Memoirs] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), ppxii; 418. With three suites of double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket. Some light marking to textblock edges. Jacket price-clipped. Some scuffing and edgewear to..... More
Thomas Hardy.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1941. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.ix; [1]; 286. Publisher's red cloth to boards, gilt titles to spine. Blind ruling to upper. Top edge purple, the rest untrimmed. Interior lightly toned, endpapers slightly spotted. Edges toned and foxed, a spot of splashing..... More
An Official Tribute and History of The Royal Observer Corps.
Leatherhead: Ashford, Buchan & Enright, 1993. [Military History] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 176. SIGNED by the author in black ink to fl-leaf. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Lightly handled; a fine copy. More
Andrew R. Buxton: The Rifle Brigade, A Memoir.
London: Robert Scott, 1918. [Great War Memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 294. With 16 black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's dark green gained cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Black ink inscription stating 'from Andrew Buxton's Sister | Rosamond Buxton | December..... More
[ECONOMICS] A Statistical View of the Population of Massachussetts, from 1765 to 1840.
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846. Small 4to. Publisher's grey paper wrappers with printed titles to spine and upper. Little nicks to head and tail of spine and to corners. Boston Library label to inner cover and small ink stamp to bottom of title page. Clean and strong..... More