History & Biography
Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown.
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2014. [Film Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.272. SIGNED by the author to a specially-printed bookplate captioned 'Sir Roger Moore KBE - Limited Edition UK Tour', which has been affixed to the free endpaper. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, sky blue..... More
Reports on Visits to American Automobile Body Plants during the Period of 16th April - 17th May 1946.
[Issued by the Press Steel Co., Ltd., Engineering Dept.], June 1946. Folio. This report is a British post war working draft, possibly for eventual printing, concentrating on all technical aspects of the car designs and construction in the USA with a view to develop and modernise the British car industry..... More
De La Politique et du Commerce des Peuples de L'Antiquité. Traduit de L'Allemand sur La Quatrième et Dernière Édition.
Paris: Libraire de Firmin Didot Frères, 1830-1844. [Ancient History] COMPLETE EDITION IN FRENCH. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 21cm), pp.[10] xxxii; 555 [5]; pp.[2] viii; 470 [2]; pp.[10] viii; 489 [3]; pp.[10] iv; 398 [4]; pp.[10] iv; 332 [2]; pp.[10] xii; 497 [3]; pp.[10] viii; 424..... More
Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran.
London: Constable, 1966. [Diaries] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xviii; 829 [3]. With 15 black and white photographic plates, some double-sided, including a frontispiece. Elegantly hand-bound in red half oasis morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt 'lion rampant' motif to spine, matching..... More
"The Lanox of Auld." An Epistolary Review of "The Lenox, by William Fraser."
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1880. [Scottish Family History] PRIVATELY PRINTED, the only edition. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[4] xii; 153 [1]. With a genealogical scheme, occasional small in-text illustrations, and three engraved plates showing charter seals. Publisher's brown pebble-grained cloth, with gilt titles to spine and gilt armorial devices stamped to..... More
Cape Colony (Cape Province): Its History, Commerce, Industries, and Resources.
London: The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co., 1910-1911. [South African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.792. Printed on clay paper with frequent photographic illustrations. Contemporary dark green full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. A large gilt motif showing four national..... More
Greater London. A Narrative of its History, its People, and its Places.
London: Cassell & Company, no date [1889-1890]. [London Topography] PUBLISHER'S CLOTH, later printings. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.xvi, 576; pp.xii, 560. Illustrated with numerous in-text engravings. With the large folding map loose to a pouch in volume II. Volume I coded 03.90 to advertisements at rear..... More
Prometheus Bound: Vatican Radio broadcast on the case of Ezra Pound.
Vatican City: Vatican Radio, 1954. [Radio Transcript] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 16cm), pp.12. Publisher's grey paper covers, stapled once. Light toning and handling. Near fine. An English transcript of a radio programme originally broadcast on 30th March 1954 on Vatican and Italian Radio. Portuguese poet Pina Martins..... More
The History of Surrey, by Edward Wedlake Brayley. Assisted by John Britton and E.W. Brayley, Junior. The Geological Section by Gideon Mantell.
Dorking: Robert Best Ede, 1841-48. FIRST EDITIONS. 5 volumes as 10 parts. Octavo (26 x 17 x 28cm). Publisher's original embossed purple cloth with gilt titles to evenly faded spines, yellow endpapers, edges untrimmed. Illustrated with 127 full page steel engraved plates by Thomas Allom, Thompson and others (some folding)..... More
Cobbett's Tour in Scotland; and in the Four Northern Counties of England: in the Autumn of the Year 1832.
London: Printed by Mills, Jowett, and Mills, 1833. [Scottish Topography] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (19 x 12cm), pp.[2] 264 [12]. Publisher's quarter green cloth and plain pasteboards, with printed paper title label to spine stating a price of 2/6. Advertisements bound in to front and rear. Top and fore edges untrimmed..... More
The Thirteenth Hussars in the Great War. With Maps and Illustrations.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1921. [Military history] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.xiii; [1]; 392. Publisher's dark blue cloth blocked in gilt and black and white to spine and upper, dust-jacket with printed price of 42/= net to spine. Illustrated throughout both in-text and with plates..... More
Pocahontas. Or, The Nonparell of Virginia.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1933. [Romantic legend] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.viii: 349: [1], blank. Elegantly bound in deep red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Includes a portrait of Pocahontas as a frontispiece with an attractive folded map inserted..... More
Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth.
London: Methuen and Co., Ltd. 1940. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.376. Folding map to rear. Publisher's red cloth with white titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Aldridge, priced at 8/6. Lightly handled only, with some minor toning to edges. Toned to jacket spine..... More
View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages.
London: John Murray, 1853. [Mediaeval History] FINELY BOUND, the tenth edition. Three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xvi; 504 [2]; pp.viii; 427 [3]; pp.[2] iv; 517 [3]. Contemporary tan full polished calf with gilt titles to contrasting brown and green labels, and very elaborate gilt tooling, to spines. All..... More
A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation. Illustrated with Maps and Plans. Second Edition, greatly enlarged.
London: Printed For William Tait, Edinburgh, and others 1830. Second edition "Corrected and Greatly Enlarged", in the original cloth, untrimmed (a tall copy with generous margins). 8vo. pp. xii, 563. complete with half-title. Bound in original dark green pebble-grain cloth with paper title label to spine (mostly chipped). Joints are..... More
Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran.
London: Constable, 1966. [Diaries] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xviii; 829 [3]. With 15 black and white photographic plates, some double-sided, including a frontispiece. Recently re-bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge..... More
Farthest North. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram. About One Hundred and Twenty Full Page and Numerous Text Illustrations and Coloured Plate in Facsimile from Dr. Nansen's Own Sketches. Portrait and Maps.
London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. [Polar Travel] FIRST EDITIONS. 2 volumes. Quarto (25 x 18 x 12cm) Numerous illustrations and 4 folding maps, several in colour. Publisher's blue/green cloth with gilt illustration to upper. A used but presentable set; contents shaken within case, owner inscription to first volume, bindings..... More
Pat Nixon The Untold Story.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1986. [Politics] INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.484; [4], blank. Publisher's hardback cloth, printed dust-wrapper priced $19.95. Later printing. With warm presentation note to half-title; "For Sheila MacKellow | with every good wish from | Julie Nixon Eisenhower | July 1988"..... More
Memoirs of An Infantry Officer. With Illustrations by Barnett Freedman.
London: Faber and Faber, 1931. [Literature] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.312. With fifteen coloured plates, black & white illustrations within the text. In publisher's pictorial boards, colour-illustrated endpapers, top egde brown, others untrimmed. A near fine copy without jacket. More
The Downing Street Years.
London: Harper Collins, 1993. [Politics] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Royal octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 914. With nineteen double-sided photographic plates divided into five suites. Signed by Baroness Thatcher in blue ink to a tipped-in blank between half-title and title page. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine..... More
Fabulous Histories. Designed for the Instruction of Children, Respecting their Treatment of Animals.
London: T. Longman, 1791. [Natural History] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[6] 215 [5]. Recently rebound in dark brown full calf, with gilt titles on red label to spine, gilt embossed bands to spine, and gilt ruling to turn-ins. Placard marbled endpapers. Bound by Alan Winstanley of Salisbury, with..... More
Original Letters, from Richard Baxter, Matthew Prior, Lord Bolingbroke, Alexander Pope, Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Hartley, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Mrs. Montague, Rev. William Gilpin, Rev. John Newton, George Lord Lyttleton, Rev. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, etc. etc. With Biographical Illustrations.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; 303; [1]. Contemporary brown half calf recently re-backed, with the original marbled boards and the original spine laid over. Gilt titles and decoration to spine. Light occasional spotting. Heavy wear to boards and original..... More
A Graphical Illustration of the Metropolitan Church of Canterbury; Accompanied by a History and Description, collected from the most authentic documents, and drawn up from repeated surveys of that Venerable Fabric. With descriptions of its monumental structures, and an account of its chapels, altars, shrines, and chantries. Also comprising biographical sketches of the lives of the Archbishops, and Deans of Canterbury; and historical notices of the celebrated Covent of Christchurch; with lists, and interesting particulars of its Deans, Priors, and distinguished monks.
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, and J. Murray, 1816. [Ecclesiastical Architecture] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.[4] viii; 174 [4]. With 20 engraved plates by the author, after drawings by Hastings. Recently re-spined to-style with original full marbled calf boards with gilt decoration to margins. New spine with..... More
Peter Fleming. A Biography.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1974. [History/biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.419; [1], blank. Illustrated with black & white plates. Elegantly hand-bound in half deep red calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands, top edge coloured, original cloth spine bound in at rear..... More
Malaya Upside Down.
Singapore: Printed by Jitts and Co., April 1946. [South-East Asian History] SECOND EDITION, the seventh-thousand. Octavo, (23 x 16cm), pp.[8] 208 [14]. With an appendix including a map and glossary. Publisher's simple illustrated turquoise paper-covered boards, with titles to spine and upper. Blue stamp of the Commercial Trading Co. to..... More