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No Innocent Abroad. Translated by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
London: Heinemann, 1937. FIRST UK EDITION. Crown octavo, pp.[viii]; 299; [i], blank. Hardback in dust-wrapper. Some foxing to edges and extremities, jacket toned, price-clipped with some chips and tears; very good. The author's debut novel and Patrick Leigh Fermor's first significant literary contribution. An important item, published under the more..... More
Group Of Copy Letters From The Woolwich Military Science Laboratory, 1790.
London: Woolwich Arsenal, 1790. Fourteen large folio pages, handwritten in neat script with one hand drawn illustration showing the profile of the building as it is to be equipped with a special chimney for the new sulphur refinery - "to carry off the dangerous effluvia". Minor chips and tears to..... More
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Bones [in] Tales From Many Sources.
New York, Dodd Mead and Co., 1885. First edition. Four volumes. Octavo. Publisher's dark blue cloth, titled and decorated in gilt to spines and uppers. All volumes clean and sharp with light wear to spine ends, pale spot to lower edge front board volume III. Volume I has some minor..... More
Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland, from the Arrival of the English: Also, a Particular Detail of that which Broke Out the XXIIId of May, MDCCXCVIII; with the History of the Conspiracy which Prededed it, and the Characters of the Principal Actors in it. To this Edition is Added, a Concise History of the Reformation in Ireland; and Considerations on the Means of Extending its Advantages Therein.
Dublin: Printed by Robert Marchbank, for John Milliken [etc.], 1801. SECOND EDITION. Quarto, pp.[2] x, 636; 210 [10]. With 10 folding maps and plans. Also with a large section of appedixes and an unpaginated index. In contemporary tan full calf, recently re-backed with the original boards, and the original spine..... More
Plane Tales from the Skies.
London: Cassell and Company, 1918. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.x; 182. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by G.H. Tavis. A collection of fact-based short stories about early aerial combat in WWI, mostly on the Western Front. Faint ghost of a stamp..... More
The Ceremonies in Honor of the Right Honorable Winston Spencer Churchill.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1943. Presentation Copy. Octavo. Bound in red cloth, with gilt titles and arms of the university to front board. Includes a signed compliment card. Rare in hardback issue. The binding is pristine, with no marks of wear or signs of fading. Internally clean, with slight residual..... More
A Lodge in the Wilderness.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906. FIRST EDITION, Presentation Copy. Octavo, pp.[8], 378 [32]. With a printed label to front pastedown stating 'Sent by desire of the Author'. In publisher's aquamarine cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Re-cased with neat repairs to hinges. Brown endpapers..... More
Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India. From Calcutta to Bombay, 1824 - 1825. (With Notes Upon Ceylon). An Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in India.
London: John Murray, 1828. Second Edition. 3 volumes; 8vo.; pp. lxvii, 450; vi, (1), 564; vi, (1), 525 + list of subscribers. Illustrated with 28 wood engravings. A remarkable set in publisher's original rose cloth with paper label to spines; edges untrimmed. Publisher's cloth a little rubbed, faded to spines..... More
Russia. Or, Miscellaneous Observations on the Past and Present State of that Country and its Inhabitants. Compiled from Notes made on the Spot, during Travels, at different times, in the service of the Bible Society, and a Residence of many Years in that Country.
London: Seeley and Sons, 1833. First Edition. 8vo; pp. (8), 486, (2). Complete with 8 hand-coloured lithographs. Publisher's original green cloth spine with black title label, grey paper covered boards. Title label chipped. Extremities bumped and rubbed, corners frayed, boards rubbed and marked, joints starting but strong. Bookplate to paste..... More
The Dynasts. An Epic Drama of the War with Napoleon.
London: Macmillan, 1926. INSCRIBED FROM STEPHEN SPENDER TO E.R. CURTIUS. Reprint edition. Octavo, pp.525; [1], blank; [2], adverts. With a gift note to the flyleaf; For E.R Curtius / With Best Wishes / From Stephen Spender. // Bonn-am-Rhein / December 1930 (underline). Blackwell's ticket to pastedown, some trivial marking to..... More
The Prince and the Pauper. With 192 illustrations.
Boston, MA: James R Osgood and Co., 1882. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE Square octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.411; [1] blank. Bound in recent full green morocco, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine, inner gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, black endpapers, original cloth bound in at rear. Illustrated..... More
Drums. With Pictures by N.C. Wyeth.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First Illustrated Edition by N.C. Wyeth. 4to. Superb in publisher's black cloth with titled illustration pasted down to upper, bright gilt titles to spine, pictorial end papers, ownership; in its near fine pictorial dust wrapper slightly frayed to the head of spine, a small..... More
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[Five Publishers' Sample Books]. 'Our Martyred President: The Life and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield'; 'The London Dickens'; 'The Klondike Gold Fields'; 'Canada Under the Administration of Lord Dufferin'; 'Earl Kitchener and the Great War'.
[various publishers in North America], n.d. [c.1870's - 1910's]. [Book history] RARE PUBLISHERS' SAMPLES. Five volumes, octavo (largest volume 22 x 15cm). Each in publisher's cloth, all slim volumes lacking titles to spines. Each sample is unique, some containing lined paper at the back for the salesman to record subscribers..... More
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In The Original Chambers's Journal Parts; John Macnab [January to August 1925]. A Comedy for Poachers.
London: W.R. Chambers, 1925. 8 magazine issue in orange paper wraps, very good to very good indeed, minor edgewear, some very little chipping to spine ends, no significant loss or wear. Bright, sharp and handsome. All 8 installments of John Macnab in its first appearance. Also present in the Chambers..... More
The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. [American Travel]. SECOND EDITION, identical to the First. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 707. With 10 wood engraved plates including a frontispiece and two folding maps. Nine further illustrations in-text. In publisher's blue pebble grained cloth, re-backed during the twentieth century, with original..... More
The Private Correspondence 1613-1644.
London: S. and J. Bentley, Wilson, and Fley. 1842. Only Printing. Octavo, pp.l; 314. Bound in contemporary textured brown cloth with paper title square to spine. Very slight lean to the the text block, some spotting and dustiness to edges. Some bumping to extremities of the covers, some rubbing with..... More
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centenary 1859-1959.
London: John Murray, 1959. [Family history and retrospective]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (35 x 28cm), pp.[2] 136 [4]. Filled with reproductions of black and white photographs, letters and other clippings. In publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine and silver family crest to upper board. Textured cream endpapers. With original..... More
Narrative Of A Tour Through Hawaii or Owhyhee; with observations on the natural history of the Sandwich Islands, and remarks on the manners, customs, traditions, history, and language of their inhabitants.
London: H Fisher, Son, and P Jackson, 1828. Fourth Edition. Octavo. Bound in calf, with extensive gilt and blind panelling to boards, and decorative gilt to spine with red label and gilt titles. Includes frontispiece portrait of Ellis, two maps and eight plates, and bookplate. Maps in fine condition, bright..... More
Jungle Trails in Northern India.
London: Methuen and Company, 1938. RARE FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[10], 278. With 24 photographic plates including a frontispiece. In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With rare original dust-jacket. Maps printed to endpapers. Some damage to head of spine. Jacket spine sunned, with loss to head and tail..... More
The Mystery Queen.
New York, G.W. Dillingham. [1913]. US First Edition. 8vo. Fine in publisher's red cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Fresh, bright and crisp. In a fine dustwrapper, illustrated by J. Hodson Redman, possibly supplied from an institutional copy or somesuch, as the jacket is a...... More
The Collected Papers.
London: G. Bell and Sons. 1931. First edition. 8vo. 368pp. Fine in publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt to spine. In a fine unclipped example of the buff paper dustwrapper. Internally bright and clean, a splendid copy. A labour of love 20th century translation of the 18th century German work..... More
Prelude to Victory.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine; top edge stained red. Dust wrapper has titles in black to front cover and spine, rear cover blank. With an introduction by Winston Churchill, fold-out maps and photographic illustrations. Binding is lightly rubbed..... More
The Works of William Thackeray. Including: Vanity Fair, Pendennis, Barry Lyndon, etc.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1893. 13 volumes. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece to Vanity Fair and frontispiece illustration to a few other volumes. Contemporary green half calf with maroon and brown title labels, extra gilt to spines, marbled boards edges and endpapers. Very light rubbing to extremeties, spines pleasignly sunned. A...... More
Liebe in Saint Germain des Pres.
Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag, n.d. [1956]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 20cm), unpaginated. Black and white photographs printed on clay paper with occasional German text. In publisher's black cloth with white titles to spine. With original photographic dust-jacket. Some rubbing to jacket edges and corners. Very good. More
[On the Occasion of James Booth's Retirement from the Position of General Manager at the Co-operative Printing Society].
Manchester: The co-operative Printing Society, February 1923. [Manchester Printing and Binding History]. FINE ILLUMINATED DOCUMENT IN A FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Two sheets of vellum hand-illuminated in red, blue, green and gilt, announcing the retirement of the General Manager, James Booth. A token of the high esteem in which he was..... More