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The Man From The Clouds.
New York, NY: George H. Doran, 1919. [War fiction] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[iv]; 292; [iv], blank. Bound by R.R. Donnelley and Sons in blue green half morocco over marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine, gilt top edge, blue endpapers. Tipped in explanatory note from the..... More
Saturdays with Bricks. (and other days under shell-fire).
London: Hutchinson, 1961. [Literary Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.126; [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: "For | K. T. Williams | with best wishes | from | Dennis Wheatley". With five double-sided photographic plates of walls build by the author..... More
The Small Bachelor.
New York, NY: George H. Doran Company, 1927. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.317; [3]. The true first with monogram printed to copyright page. Publisher's orange cloth with brown titles to spine and upper board. Contents fine; some moderate wear and bumping to binding, toning to..... More
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets.
New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1940. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8] 312. Publisher's green cloth with blue titles and illustration to spine. Top edge yellow, others untrimmed. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Endpapers browned. Some spotting to cloth. Jacket sunned and rubbed to spine..... More
Muhammad Ali. His Life and Times.
London: Robson Books, 1991. [Boxing Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.544. With 12 double-sided black and white photographic plates. INSCRIBED from the author to 'Malcolm' in black ink to half-title. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and white dust-jacket featuring a...... More
Die grosse feuersbrunst zu New-York, am 19. juli 1845. Vollständigste schilderung nach den berichten von augenzeugen und amerikan. blättern. Mit einer getreuen abbildung der explosion in Broad-street und dem namensverzeichnisse sämmtlicher abgebrannten und ihrer geschäfte.
Hamburg: Berendsohn, 1845. [History] Pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.28, original printed yellow covers. Frontispiece plate of the explosion at Crocker and Warren. Text in German. Short tear to upper, neat archival support to fold. Near fine. A remarkable survival. More
Road Rage. An Inspector Wexford Mystery.
London: Hutchinson, 1997. [Crime fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[viii]; 328. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, green endpapers, photographic dust-jacket priced at £16.99. Signed by the author in blue ink to the title page. A clean, fine copy. More
Six Centuries of Work and Wages. The History of English Labour.
London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1901. [Economic History] FINELY BOUND, sixth edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 591 [3]. Contemporary brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and grey cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Ex libris Sir Malcolm McEacharn, with his armorial bookplate to..... More
Travels In North-Western Arabia and Nejd.
Published for the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society by Edward Stanford, 1884. [Arabia] FIRST PUBLISHED APPEARANCE of Doughty's own account of his travels in Arabia, read at the evening meeting of the RGS, November 26th 1883. Pp.381-408, Extracted from the above Proceedings, with large fold-out map printed in colour..... More
Master Humphrey's Clock. To which are added Papers by Mr. Yellowplush.
Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1841. [Literature] CONTINENTAL EDITION. Two volumes, octavo (22 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 323; [iii], blank; pp.[viii]; 131; [ii], blank. Contemporary red quarter calf binding, title labels and decorative gilt to spine, raised bands, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers and boards. The continental edition, published a year after..... More
The Innocents Abroad. The Innocents abroad: a book of travel in pursuit of pleasure.
London: John Camden Hotten, 1870. [Travel literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[iv]; 256; [xxviii]. Publisher's green cloth, neatly rebacked with the original spine laid on, with some loss, blind stamped design to boards, brown coated endpapers. Advertisements at front pp.i-ii and rear pp.i-xxviii; 'Very Important New Books..... More
Nixon Head Catalog No 1.
Stockholm: Hu Vudbladet Press, 1972. [Art] FIRST EDITION. Slim octavo (21 x 15cm), unpaginated. Publisher's printed wraps. Lightly rubbed to extremities. Near fine. More
Grona Lund. Om Manniskor Pa Ett Nojesfalt.
Helsingborg: Fyra Forlaggare AB, 1973. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (29 x 22cm), unpaginated. Publisher's white paper covered boards, printed in black. Introductory text in Swedish, followed by black and white photography. Internally fine. Some slight toning to binding, more so to the spine, some light rubbing to extremities and..... More
Americans Abroad: An Anthology. With Autographed Photographs and Biographic Sketches of the Authors.
The Hague: The Servire Press, 1932. [Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xi; [1] blank; 475; [1] blank. Publisher's orange paper covered boards, grey cloth spine, titles in red to spine and upper, top edge dark blue, grey endpapers. Some spotting to preliminaries and endpapers, textblock a little shaken..... More
Et Dukkehjem [A Doll's House].
Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag (F. Hegel and Søn), 1879. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18cm x 12cm), pp.[2]; 180; [2]. Publisher's green cloth decorated in black and gilt. Coated white endpapers, all edges gilt. Pencil name to half-title, light wear to hinges which are nearly always split, minor rubbing to..... More
Death Is Forever [James Bond series].
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1992. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.248. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket with no price to front flap- copies without a printed price were intended for export. With presentation note to title page in black ink; "To..... More
Green Fields and Running Brooks.
Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1893. [American-Irish Poetry Interest] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 224 [2]. With a SIGNED presentation slip tipped in to preliminaries, addressed to the notable Irish Nationalist MP Hon. T.P. O'Connor, and dated Christmas 1892. Publisher's brown cloth with a maroon strip to top..... More
Doctor Copernicus.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1976. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10] 242 [4]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue just-jacket illustrated by Philip Mann. Spotting to edges. Jacket spine sunned with black New Fiction Society label to base. Very good. More
Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey.
London: John Murray, 1868. [Architectural and Ecclesiastical History] FINELY BOUND, the Second Edition, revised. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lii; 632 [2]. With 22 illustrations including a frontispiece, as well as a title page vignette. Contemporary peach diced calf with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt crossed..... More
The Vox Edition of the Works of Jane Austen.
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1933-4. [Classic Literature] FIRST VOX ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13 x 21cm), 7 volumes. With colour plates and in-text black and white illustrations by Maximilien Vox. Prefatory letter, in French by Maximilien Vox and an introduction by Emile Legouis. Publisher's patterned grey cloth..... More
Big Money.
New York, NY: George H. Doran Company, 1931. [Humour] FIRST US EDITION, early issue with 'Ganville' for 'Grenville' on copyright page, title appears to be a cancel, in 1932 [A.L. Burt] dust-wrapper. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[vi] 316. Publisher's orange cloth blocked in black, 'Doubleday Doran' imprint on spine, top..... More
The Romance of the Echoing Wood.
Newport: R.H. Johns, the "Directory" Press, 1937. [Welsh Fairy Tale] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[8] 43 [5]. Number 50 of just 220 copies, SIGNED by all the contributors, including the publisher, to the limitation page. With wide marginal illustrations and three full page plates all engraved..... More
Company of Spears.
London: Bantam Press, 2006. [Historical adventure] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.x; 373; [2], blank. Autograph of Allan Mallinson in brown ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth hardcovers lettered in gilt to the spine, illustrated cartographic endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £17.99. Signature obtained in person upon..... More
The Nizam's Daughters.
London: Bantam Press, 2000. [Historical adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 320; [1]; Historical Afternote; [1], blank. Publisher's green cloth hardcovers lettered in gilt to the spine, sage green endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £16.99. Minor shelfwear; near fine. The second installment of the much acclaimed adventures of..... More
Rumours of War.
London: Bantam Press, 2004. [Historical adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.viii; 405; [1], blank. Autograph of Allan Mallinson in brown ink to title page. Publisher's burgundy cloth hardcovers lettered in gilt to the spine, illustrated cartographic endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £16.99. Signature obtained in person upon release..... More