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Screencraft, or the Making of a Photoplay.
New York, NY: Chalmers Publishing Co., 1916. [Early Film-Making] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.151; [1]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Simple typographic dust-jacket with titles and testimonials from well-wishing readers. Fore-edge untrimmed. Toned and a little dusty to edges. Light wear to..... More
High Water.
London: Jarrolds, 1959. [Naval Fiction]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth with titles to spine. Pictorial dust-jacket priced at 15s. Some minor dustiness and handling; jacket a little edgeworn with one short tear to rear. A near fine copy of an elusive book. The..... More
A Prayer For the Ship.
London: Jarrolds, 1958. [Naval Fiction]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. Pictorial dust-jacket priced at 13s 6d. A near fine copy of the book, jacket with a few chips and tears plus two vintage tape mends to reverse side..... More
Dive in the Sun.
London: Jarrolds, 1961. [Submarine novel]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. 258; [2]. Publisher's dark blue cloth, titles in red and yellow to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Ing. Foyles booksellers ticket to pastedown. Slight crease along the spine, dust-jacket shows well with some chipping and nicking to extremities..... More
Papers on Current Finance.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1919. [Economics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xviii; 280. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Stamps of the Swedish Bankers' Association to endpapers, lightly toned to edges. slight wear to the top and bottom of the binding. Near fine. More
The Law of the Streets.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1957. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 192. Red cloth with black titles to spine, in suitably sinister pictorial dustwrapper. translated by Nigel Ryan. Neat inscription to front free endpaper, slight dustiness to the top edge. Some slight chipping to the corners, light rear panel shows..... More
The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To which are added, two brief dissertations: I. On Personal Identity. II. On the Nature of Virtue. Together with a Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham, at the Primary Visitation, in the Year M.DCC.LI.
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, G. Wilkie, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown [etc.], 1817. [Theology and Philosophy] CONTEMPORARY BINDING, a new edition. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.lxiv; 408. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to orange label on spine, and marbled paper over boards..... More
Handbook to the Tellurium.
Birmingham: Robert Hopper, no date [1879]. [Scientific Equipment] RARE HANDBOOK. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.30 [2]. With intext wood engraved diagrams. Publisher's purple cloth with a gilt illustration stamped to upper board. Light spotting and browning to preliminaries. Some neat black ink corrections to p.20 and p.24. Boards rubbed and..... More
Such is the Antarctic.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. [Polar Exploration] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, second state binding. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.265; [3]. With 45 photogravure illustrations including a frontispiece and maps and plans, some folding. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Spotting..... More
The Guardian.
London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1745. [Newspaper] JANE AUSTEN FAMILY ASSOCIATION. In two volumes. Small octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.362; [10]; pp.369; [15]. Contemporary full speckled calf with gilt volume numbers to spines. Armorial bookplates of Thomas Austen to pastedowns of both volumes. Black ink..... 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
Twentieth Century Impressions of Orange River Colony and Natal: their History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources.
Natal: Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company, 1906. [South African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.667; [1]. Printed on clay paper with frequent photographic illustrations. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Light sunning to spine, with..... More
Salmagundi. Or, The Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. and others.
London: Printed by T. Davison for Thomas Tegg, 1824. [Satire] SECOND UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.viii; 391; [1]. Contemporary brown quarter cloth with gilt titles to a dark red morocco label on the spine, and plain grey paper covered boards. Small label of R. Riviere, bookseller, to front..... More
The Outcry.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. [Classic Literature] First Edition, the UK and US editions being published simultaneously. Crown octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 261; [1]. Publisher's mid-brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Blue ink ownership to front pastedown, dated..... More
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testament, with the Apocrypha; explained with Short, Apt, and Instructive Notes, in a Method entirely different from all Modern Publications of the Sacred Book: and Cleared from that Variety of Opinions and Conjectures, many of which have no Support in the Scriptures; have been collected without Judgement; and serve more to disturb and confound, than to instruct, edify, and confirm the Reader in the Faith and Practice of a Christian.
London: W. Adlard and J. Browne, date misprinted [1770]. [Illustrated Bible] RARE IMPRINT. Folio, (42 x 28cm), unpaginated. Collation: A-13F2. Date misprinted as 2170 in Roman numerals. With a copper engraved frontispiece by Cole after Wale, as well as 33 further copper engraved plates by various artists. With an index..... More
Rural Sports.
London: Bunny and Gold, no date [1801-1813]. [Hunting] FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes, including the supplement. Quarto (27 x 22 x 17cm), pp.[10] 383 [5]; pp.[4] 520 [4]; pp.[16] 507 [25]. With 19 copper engravings and a lithographic frontispiece to volume I; 44 copper engravings and a lithographic frontispiece and decorated..... More
Electric Railways and Tramways, their Construction and Operation. A Practical Handbook, setting forth at length the modern application of Electricity as a Motive Power for Railways and Tramways; containing Complete Financial and Engineering Data as to Design, Construction, Equipment and Working; fully Illustrating all modern and accepted types of Machinery and Apparatus; and describing in detail the principal Installations of Europe and America.
London: Offices of "Engineering," 1897. [Engineering] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a revised and enlarged edition. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[20]; xxviii; 678; [22]. With frequent in-text engraved illustrations and tables. Contemporary burgundy half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and red cloth over boards with a UCL stamp in..... More
History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the Breaking Out of the War in 1792, to the Restoration of a General Peace in 1815; comprehending the Civil History of Great Britain and France, during that Period.
London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. [European History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Quarto (27 x 22 x 9cm), pp.[4]; 539; [1]; pp.[4]; 595; [1]. With a number of maps, some folding, and copper engraved portraits, including a frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary full..... More
The Case is Altered.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1932. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.341; [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the grey dust-jacket illustrated by John Banting, priced at 7/6. Spotting to edges and sporadically to the textblock. Jacket spine toned, with some chips to edges..... More
Nature [X-Rays]. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science. Volume LIII.
London: Macmillan and Co., November 1895 to April 1896. [Science Journal] FIRST APPEARANCE IN ENGLISH of Rontgen's discovery of X-Rays. Quarto (28 x 20cm), pp.[2]; xl; 624; [2]. Contemporary black half morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Leather-grain effect cloth over boards. Marbled endpapers; all edges flecked..... More
Necklace and Calabash. More Judge Dee Mysteries.
London: Heinemann, 1967. [Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.144. With eight illustrations drawn by the author in the Chinese style. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper. Scuff to border of endpaper design else fine, in rubbed and price-clipped jacket. More
An Expensive Place to Die.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. [Cold War spy thriller] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY in oversized PROOF-ONLY dust-wrapper. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.254;[2] blank. Publisher's lime-green softcovers in jacket, with traces of the bold printed word 'ENGLISH' to extreme front edge of the flap and 'PROOF ONLY' in bold to rear with provisional..... More
The Rover.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1923. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.317; [3]. With the textual error ' o' for 'go', p. 221, line 2. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge lightly tinted green. With the cream illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 7/6..... More
If I Were You.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1931. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. This edition preceding the UK publication. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 305; [I] blank. Publisher's orange cloth titled in brown to spine and upper board, pictorial dust-jacket drawn by Henrietta Starrett, with printed price of $2.00. Endpapers lightly..... More
The Autobiography of Arthur Machen.
London: The Richards Press, 1951. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION WITH ASSOCIATED LETTERS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.308. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to spine, top-edge red, photographic frontispiece of author, two further photographic plates. Loosely tipped in are three associated items; A letter from Morchand Bishop to News Chronicle journalist..... More