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An Air Fighter's Scrap-Book.
London: Nicholson and Watson, 1938. [Airforce Memoir] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.332. With 14 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's black cloth titled in red to spine, with a facsimile signature in red to upper. With the blue photographic dust jacket, priced at..... More
Murder at Eight Bells.
London; Columbine Publishing Company. n.d. [1939]. First EDition. 8vo. Publisher's orange cloth faded to spine and extremities to an attractive poached salmon, possibly that's not a standard book colour.Tight, clean and sharp. Very good indeed (except for being sunned) in a very good, unclipped dustwrapper with corresponding fading to spine..... More
The Tunbridge Wells Guide; or an Account of the Ancient and Present State of that Place, to which is Added a Particular Description of the Towns and Villages, Remains of Antiquity, Gentlemens Seats, Founderies, etc. etc. within the Circumference of Sixteen Miles.
Tunbridge Wells: J. Sprange, 1801 [1797]. SEVENTEENTH ISSUE. Octavo, pp.xi, 336. With 13 engraved plates including frontispiece, and a folding table of inter-town distances to rear. Not including the 'List of Rare Plants'. In recent quarter grey card with black titles to white paper label on spine. Marbled boards. All..... More
Television for the Home. The Wonders of "Seeing by Wireless".
London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d. [1927]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xx, 106. Publisher's light brown cloth with black titles to upper board and spine, gilt crest of Waid Academy Anstuther to upper as well. Eight black and white photographic plates. Waid Academy prize bookplate dated 1930 to front free endpaper, some..... More
Paris and its Environs, Displayed in a Series of Two Hundred Picturesque Views, from Original Drawings, Taken Under the Direction of A. Pugin, Esq. the Engravings Executed Under the Superintendence of Mr. C. Heath. With Topographical and Historical Descriptions.
London: Jennings and Chaplin, 1831. [French Topography] FINE STEEL ENGRAVINGS. Two volumes bound as one. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[2] ii; 100; pp.[2] ii; 101-202. With 200 fine steel engravings after drawings by Pugin, and two steel engraved vignette title pages. Contemporary green half calf, green patterned cloth boards. Tidemark..... More
[ALPINE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM].
[Hand-made], [c.1930]. HAND-MADE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM. Large Quarto (38 x 28cm), unpaginated. Twenty two thick leaves with official tourist black and white photographs pasted to both sides. Eight leaves blank to rear, with one loose photograph showing vendor's stamp to reverse. Most images neatly labelled in black ink, from the late..... 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
The Blackbird's Nest. A Tale for Youth.
Philadelphia, PA: Johnson and Warner, 1812. [Children's Antiquarian]. EARLY EDITION. Vigesimo-quarto (13 x 9cm), pp.36. With occasional vignette wood engravings. Recently re-backed in matching grey card with original grey illustrated paper covers laid over. Remarkably crisp and clean, with some wear to original cover edges. Very good. A fine wholesome..... More
[Playbill for] The Exquisites.
London: Printed by W. Reynolds, Friday, June 17, 1831. [Musical Theatre] ORIGINAL PLAYBILL. A single sheet of paper (36 x 20cm), backed and mounted with cream card. Advertising a performance of the new Comedy by Telesforo de Trueba, featuring the brilliantly named Madame Pasta and Mademoiselle Taglioni. Lightly browned. A...... More
Adolf in Blunderland. A Political Parody of Lewis Carroll's Famous Story.
London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1940. [Satire] REVISED EDITION. Slim Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.60. Publisher's printed paper covered boards, matching pictorial dust-jacket. Illustrated throughout by Mansbridge. Some offsetting to endpapers, discreet contemporary gift inscription to flyleaf. Boards slightly rubbed to spine ends. Price clipped dust-jacket shows very well, rubbed to..... More
The High Adventure.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., no date [1926]. [Regency romance] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; [2]; 370; [4] advertisements. Publisher's red cloth, blocked in black, pictorial dust-jacket. Signed and inscribed to flyleaf: "To: | A. Richardson Esq. | with all good wishes | from | Jeffery..... More
Peregrine's Progress.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., no date [1922]. [Regency romance] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 461; [3] advertisements. Publisher's red cloth, blocked in black, pictorial dust-jacket designed by C.E. Brock. Signed and inscribed to flyleaf: "To: | A. Richardson Esq. | with all good wishes |..... More
The End of the Affair.
London: William Heinemann, 1951. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 237 [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the white and grey dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Endpapers browned; some sunning to head and tail of spine. Jacket browned to spine, with losses to head..... More
The Cinque Ports. A Historical and Descriptive Record.
William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. [Kent]. Quarto (30 x 23cm), pp.xiv; 403; [1]. Publisher's beige cloth blocked in gilt, top edge gilt, red endpapers. Fourteen photogravure plates with tissue guards, nineteen in text and other illustrations. Small repaired marginal tear to page 43, discreet cancelled library stamp to flyleaf 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
Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. [School Story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii; 272; [2], advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in half red calf, gilt-printed patterned paper-covered sides, top edge gilt, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Light and occasional thumbing. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. Stewart..... More
The Poker Manual: A Practical Course of Instruction in the Game, with Illustrative Hands and Chapters on Bluffing, and Jack-Pots. Together with the International Code of Laws.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1901. [Gambling] VINTAGE EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2]; 119; [1] blank; [8] advertisements. With occasional illustrations in red and black. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board; coloured chips laid over. Orange patterned endpapers and all edges gilt. Lightly browned..... More
London Cries: with Six Charming Children, printed direct from stippled plates in the Bartolozzi style, and duplicated in red and brown, and about forty other illustrations, including ten of Rowlandson's humorous subjects in facsimile, and tinted; examples by George Cruikshank, Joseph Crawhill, etc., etc.
London: Field and Tuer, ye Leadenhalle Presse, no date [1883]. [Street Selling] FINE COLOUR PLATES. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[3] 48 [2]. Leaves printed only to recto. In recent red half morocco with gilt titles to spine and orange cloth over boards. Brown endpapers, with the original brown title label..... More
[Simla Accord] The Boundary Question between China and Tibet: A Valuable Record of the Tripartite Conference between China, Britain and Tibet in India, 1913-1914.
Peking, 1940. [Far East Diplomacy] GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[6] ii; 150 [2]. Publisher's plain paper covers with titles to spine and front cover. Quite heavily browned, as expected. Only mild spotting to covers, and very light edge wear. Near fine. Published while Beijing was occupied by Japanese..... 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
Wodehouse on Golf.
New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1940. [Golf Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.844 [4]. Publisher's green cloth with darker green titles to spine and green decoration to upper board. Top edge green, others untrimmed. With the green dust-jacket illustrated by Roese. Spine cloth toned with some..... More
Wheels and Butterflies. New Plays.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[x]; 181; [1], imprint; [2], blank. Publisher's gilt-embossed green cloth, edges untrimmed, in original printed dust-wrapper, priced at 6/- net. Page edges toned otherwise a fine copy of the book, in a very good wrapper, toned to spine..... More
[Golf scene]
[Golf] ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING ON COPPER. Original painting of a golfing scene, twentieth century, unsigned. Presented in a decorative gilt frame. Image size approximately 19 x 39cm, total frame size 30 x 50cm. Some slight wear to frame. Fine. More
Practical Observations on the Nature and Treatment of Marasmus, and of those Disorders allied to it, which may be strictly denominated Bilious.
London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1818. First Edition. Small 4to; pp. x, (2), 256. Publisher's blue paper covered boards, a little stained and rubbed; grey paper spine chipped and frayed; original paper title label chipped and rubbed; edges untrimmed. Internally sound and clean. A very good copy of..... More
An Introduction to Heraldry, Containing the Rudiments of the Science in General, and other Necessary Particulars Connected with the Subject.
London: Printed for T. Egerton, and White and Cochrane, 1810. FIRST EDITION, augmented with cuttings and a hand-painted illumination. Octavo, pp.[4]; 158; [2]. With 12 engraved plates, one chromolithographic plate, and one folding table of tinctures. Many heraldry-themed newspaper cuttings from the 1930s pasted and loose to all endpapers, and..... More