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Preliminary Studies for H. M. Factory, Gretna, and, Study for an Installation of Phosgene Manufacture.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, no date [1920]. [Munitions Factory Plans] SIGNED BY KENNETH BINGHAM QUINAN, one of just 1000 copies. Large octavo (28 x 19cm), pp.xvi; 145 [1]. With 24 large folding plans and diagrams. SIGNED and dated 3rd November 1920 by Quinan in black ink to front pastedown..... More
And Hell Followed... A European Ally interprets the War for Ordinary People like herself.
London: Constable and Company, 1942. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 296. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the explosive red and white dust-jacket. Blue ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, bookseller's ticket to pastedown. Edges lightly spotted and abraded. Very light..... More
Mulliner Nights.
New York, NY: A. L. Burt Company, no date [1934]. [Humour / Satire] EARLY US EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[8] 312. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. Top edge orange. A few minor marks to preliminaries; light spotting to edges. Damp mark to lower..... More
The Sabre's Edge. for Mathew Hervey and the Light Dragoons.
London: Bantam Press, 2003. [Historical adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xii; 320; [3], reviews; [1], blank. Publisher's cloth, illustrated endpapers, pictorial dustwrapper. Trivial toning; near fine. 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
Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, comprising A Large Fund of Biography of Actual Residents, and an Interesting Historical Sketch of Thirteen Counties.
Nashville and Chicago: The Southern Publishing Company, 1890. [Louisiana Biographies] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 24cm), pp.703; [3]. With 14 lithographic portraits of notable residents. Publisher's deluxe red straight-grained morocco boards with gilt titles stamped to upper board and blind to lower, with further blind decoration. Recently re-backed and re-cornered..... More
[Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, reviewed in] The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal. By Several Hands. Vol, XII.
London: Printed for R. Griffiths, 1755. [Book Reviews] CONTEMPORARY REVIEW OF Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.viii; 516 [10]. With an unpaginated index at rear. Contemporary speckled calf boards, re-backed in the nineteenth century in straight-grained red morocco with gilt titles. Not a happy marriage of binding styles..... More
Don Quixote; Pamela; Peruvian Tales etc; Arabian Nights [Four bound volumes of The Novelist's Magazine].
London: Harrison and Co., Paternoster Row, 1782-6. [Literature] Four volumes, octavo (21 x 14 x 19). Vignette engraved illustrations to title pages. Engravings to Pamela (XIV plates) and Peruvian Tales (XV plates). Bound in simple red half English calf over marbled sides, five raised bands, simple gilt rule and titles..... More
The Poetical Works. Complete Copyright Edition.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse, 1901. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 878. Beautifully bound by in contemporary brown full morocco, raised bands and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of the author. Printed in double columns. Internally nice and clean..... More
Sword of Honour. The Trilogy which includes: Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unconditional Surrender.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1955-62. [Military saga] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, SIGNED by the author. 3 volumes. Octavo, pp. 314, 335, 311. Navy blue cloth hardcovers, titles in gilt to spine, top edges tinted blue, in original jackets designed by Val Biro. In the publisher's pictorial slipcase adverting the set for..... More
A Poet Hero. Or the Lyre and Sword.
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1870. [Nineteenth century literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vi; 401; [1]; [16 of publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's russet cloth on bevelled boards, titles in gilt to spine and upper board, blocked in black and gilt to same, coated dark blue endpapers. The author's second..... More
Masks Off at Midnight.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1934. [Modern Literature]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.312; [8]. Publisher's light blue cloth, black titles to spine and upper board, dark blue dust-jacket illustrated by Bip Pares. Slight reading lean. Small Australian bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Some sunning and marks to spine. Rubbing..... More
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold.
London: Macmillan, 1913. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[xii]; 510. Riviere binding of contemporary brown half morocco over purple cloth boards, with raised bands, gilt title and extra gilt to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Presentation note to "Miss D.M. Lapage", the commandant of the Kent 142..... More
Fabled Shore. From the Pyrenees to Portugal.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15), pp.[12]; 200. Bound in recent burgundy half morocco over cloth boards, raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Photographic frontispiece and fifteen double sided half tone plates. Original cartographic endpapers bound in at rear. A fine copy in a...... More
The Jonah.
London: New English Library, 1981. [Horror] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.253; [1]. Publisher's white boards, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by James Herbert priced at £6.50. Some light spotting to preliminaries and edges, textblock otherwise clean and bright. Cloth lightly rubbed to extremities, some marking to..... More
The Fish-Retailer and his Trade.
London: George G. Harrap and Company Ltd., 1933. [Food history]. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes, octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.224; pp.225-464; pp.465-683; [5]. Publisher's blue blind stamped cloth, gilt titles of black squares to spines, top edges tinted blue, blue endpapers. Profusely illustrated with half tone plates and a number of..... More
The Caine Mutiny. A Novel of World War II.
New York: Doubleday, 1952. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, also described as 'DELUXE EDITION' to front panel. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo (23 x 16cm), p.494. Colour illustrations by Lawrence Beal Smith. Publisher's hardcover in pictorial dust-wrapper. Book is fine, price-clipped jacket has a little toning and edgewear and one chip..... More
The Beats: From Kerouac to Kesey, an Illustrated Journey through the Beat Generation.
Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 2007. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 25cm), pp.192. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. SIGNED by the author in black ink to front free endpaper. Publisher's glossy paper-covered boards with light blue endpapers and matching dust-jacket. Some minor creasing to the top and..... More
The Caterpillar Cop.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1972. [Thriller]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket. Armorial bookplate to flyleaf, slight creasing to top edge of the dust-jacket. Fine. More
XPD.
London: Hutchinson, 1981. [Post-war spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 397; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth hardcover, red endpapers, in photographic dust-wrapper. Minor spotting to top edge else a fine copy in a fine unfaded wrapper. A popular read and certainly not a scarce book, but increasingly..... More
The Story of Loopy and Loo. Especially Written for Children of All Ages.
Tunbridge Wells: The Tunbridge Wells School of Art and Crafts, 1945. [Children's Illustrated]. PRIVATELY PRINTED PAMPHLET. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.[12]. Illustrated throughout with striking red, blue and green lino-cuts by Minnie Sutton. In original blue and red illustrated card covers, sewn. The very lightest of wear; near-fine. No copies..... More
Only When I Larf.
London: Penguin 1968 [1967]. A comic novel about three con-artists. FIRST TRADE EDITION, a paperback original. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.251; [5], advertisements. Publisher's photographic card covers showing some acceptable wear, spine a trifle sunned, expected toning to cheap paper. A very good copy. The true first edition following a...... More
A History of English Costume.
London: Methuen, 1937. [Historical Costume]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 227 [1]. With numerous in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's red cloth with blue titles to spine. With the white illustrated dust-jacket. Light spotting throughout. Slight reading lean. Chipping to jacket edges; light toning to jacket spine. Very..... More
Why Are We in Vietnam?
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. [Modern novel]. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.208. Publisher's dark grey cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Holmes/Kitley Associates. Sunday Times book review by Paul Theroux loosely inserted. Cloth slightly rubbed to extremities. Dust-jacket shows well, slight lifting of the..... More
The winter of the Birds.
London: Faber and Faber, 1975. [Children's fiction]. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.204. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Anthony Maitland. Signed and inscribed to flyleaf: "For Caroline | with very best | wishes | Helen Cresswell | Old Church Farm | 1978"..... More