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Naval Tactics and Trials of Sailing. Illustrated by Diagrams of the Several Evolutions. To which are added: The Established Plan of Lights for Steam Vessels, and Regulations to avoid Collision.
London: Charles Wilson, 1850. First Edition. Illustrated with a fronstispiece of H.M.S. St. Vincent, 4 plates of the Trials, tables, and numerous battle plans heightened in blue and red. With the original Protractor housed in a pocket to front paste down. Publisher's embossed green cloth with gilt titles to spine..... More
Qanoon-e-Islam, or the Customs of the Mussulmans of India; Comprising a Full and Exact Account of Their Various Rites and Ceremonies, from the Moment of Birth Till the Hour of Death.
Madras: J. Higginbotham, 1863. RARE SECOND EDITION. Octavo, pp.[2] xxiv, 296, cxliv [2]. With a total of 21 lithographic plates, two being portrait frontispieces and seven appearing consecutively at rear. In contemporary, possibly publisher's half tan cloth with navy leather-effect paper-covered boards. No external titles. Light even browning throughout; occasional..... More
Skelton's Engraved Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of Oxfordshire, from Original Drawings by F. Mackenzie. Accompanied with descriptive historical notices.
Oxford: J. Skelton, 1823. FIRST SUBSCRIBERS EDITION. Large Quarto, pp.[6] iv, 10; 8; 4; 12; 10; 22; 10; 10; 4; 2; 2; 8; 10; 26 [6]. With separate pagination for each Hundred region. 50 large steel engravings on india paper pasted to thick plates, including a frontispiece, as well as..... More
The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal: for Nov. 1814..... Feb. 1815.
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1815. CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS. Octavo, pp.[8], 560 [2]. In contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. All edges flecked blue / grey. Some light edge wear; a few marks to spine. Very good indeed. Works reviewed include Wordsworth's 'The..... More
Report on The Salvation Army Colonies In The United States and at Hadleigh, England. With Scheme of National Land Settlement by Commissioner H. Rider Haggard.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1905. First edition. Small Folio (approx 12 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches). 74pp. Publisher's blue paper wraps and linen spine, miraculously still present, some tape marks and repairs, with some tape offsetting to the title page. Normally seen without wraps or in throughly dilapidated..... More
A Memorial Service: Agatha Christie Mallowan 1890-1976.
Thursday 13th May 1976. ORIGINAL ORDER OF SERVICE. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), two leaves in paper covers, with two staples. A fine copy. More
The Stretton Street Affair.
London: Cassell and Co., 1924. [Spy fiction] ASSOCIATION COPY. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. Publisher's burgundy cloth titled and decorated in black to spine and front board. Gift inscription to title page: "To Enid Agabeg | from Uncle | William Le Queux ". Internally clean, very light spoting to page..... More
A Book Of Milliganimals.
London, Dennis Dobson. 1968. First edition, SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY. 8vo. 88pp. Fine in publisher's gilt titled blue cloth. Clad in a vibrant, elephant adorned purple dustwrapper showing only the slightest hint of wear, it's all very unfaded and lovely. To top it all off, it's inscribed by Mr.Milligan to the..... More
An Exact Abridgment of all the Irish Statutes, from the Fist Session of Parliament in the Third Year of the Reign of King Edward II to the End of the Eighth Year of His Present Majesty King George II. Together with an Abridgment of All the English Statutes, in Force in Ireland, from Magna Charta, to the End of the Eighth Year of His Present Majesty King George II.
Dublin: Printed by George Grierson... and sold by Philip Crampton, 1736. [Irish Law]. FIRST EDITION THUS. Quarto (27 x 22cm), pp.[4] 770; [102]; 26 [2]; 26 [2]; 20 [4]; 20 [4]; 25 [3]; 30 [2]; 22 [2]. With seven appendices. Contemporary brown calf with raised bands and gilt titles to..... More
The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories.
London: Heinemann, 1968. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies, illustrated by Ibrahim Salahi. SIGNED and INSCRIBED to the flyleaf by both Salih and Johnson-Davies. Octavo, pp.120. Publisher's original blue cloth binding in pictorial dustwrapper. Book is fine. Some toning to white areas of jacket; price-clipped. Near..... More
The Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain: Illustrated by Topographical, Historical, and Critical Notices; Combining every Interesting Object, Ancient and Modern. From an Elaborate Survey, and Original Designs Taken Upon the Spot. Kent.
London: George Virtue, no date [1829]. [Kent] PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[4]; ii; 130. Contemporary polished calf with gilt double rules, gilt titles to black leather square to spine, later plain brown endpapers. Profusely illustrated with a steel engraved frontispiece, and a vignette title, 126 fine steel engravings..... More
Social Security No. 438-10-1408.
New York, NY: A Milestone Book, Comet Press Books, 1958. [Psychological memoir]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 73 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page, dated 24th November 1959. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Green endpapers. With original cream..... More
A Sketch of some Late Arrangements, and a View of the Rising Resources, in Bengal.
London: John Stockdale, 1792. First Edition; 8vo. Uncut in original grey boards with a recent cloth spine, paper title label and end papers; edges untrimmed. Markings to boards, corners bumped and frayed. Red stamp to verso of title page. A clean and sound copy. More
The Americans.
New York, NY: Grossman Publishers / Aperture, 1969. 83 Photographs by Robert Frank with an introduction by Jack Kerouac. Revised and Enlarged Edition of Frank's classic, moving photo-portrait of American life, from drive-ins, diners and Angels through cowboys, casinos and cocktails. Oblong octavo, unpaginated. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt..... More
The Conquest of The Arctic.
London: Harrap, 1939. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 284. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth titled in pale silver to spine, in a pictorial dustjacket depicting modes of transport heading towards the North Pole. Cloth in excellent condition with limited signs of wear. Endcaps a little pushed, with superficial rubbing..... 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, 1808 [1809]. TWENTY-FIRST ISSUE. Octavo, pp.xi; 336. With 14 engraved plates, some folding, including frontispiece. Also with a folding table of inter-town distances to rear. In recent quarter vellum with hand-written titles in black ink to spine. Marbled paper-covered boards; top edge red. Housed in a...... More
Realities of Irish Life.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868. [Irish Biography]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 407 [3]. With 30 etched plates including a frontispiece after drawings by Trench's son, and a very large folding coloured map of Ireland. In contemporary burgundy half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
The Golliwogg At The Sea-Side. Pictured by Florence Upton.
London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1898. FIRST EDITION with 'Copyright 1898'. Oblong Quarto, pp. 63, illustrated in colour. Publisher's linen backed pictorial glazed boards. Neat ownership to flyleaf (dated '1898'). Corners worn; wear to extremities. Bright covers. Near fine. More
Hilda Wade.
London: Grant Richards, 1900. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. A used copy with some shelfwear,rubbed to extremities, gilt illustration rubbed to upper, discreet owner stamp to flyleaf, inside paper joint cracked. Very good. Illustrated throughout by Gordon Browne..... More
Time Exposure.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1946. INSCRIBED COPY. Second edition. Octavo, pp. viii, 136. A collection of photographs produced between 1923 and 1945. Association copy, inscribed by Beaton to actress Harriette Johns, who had starred in Alexander Korda's 1947 movie 'An Ideal Husband' for which beaton designed the costumes. Red..... More
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1896. [Poetry] LETTERS FROM THE AUTHOR. In two volumes. Octavo. Bound in publisher's green cloth, with gilt motif to front board and gilt titles to spine; top edge gilt. Portrait frontispieces to both volumes. Accompanied by Robert Browning's dried buttonhole decoration from June '86, preserved..... More
Rural Employments; or, a Peep into village concerns Designed to instruct the minds of children. Illustrated by numerous copper-plates
London: William Darton, 58 Holborn Hill 1820. 72pp. Twelvemo. Bound in original red morocco-backed marbled boards. Rather rubbed and worn, some inscriptions and juvenile drawings, spine with glue marks, lacking two of the eighteen plates; the plate at p.4 is misbound as the frontispiece. Apparently a scarce childrens' book covering..... More
'Thunderball' (A James Bond Spy Thriller) contained within 'Argosy' magazine for men. Volume 353, Number 6, December 1961.
Ohio and New York: Popular Publications, Incorporated. 1961. Magazine format in pictorial paper wraps. Original price: 50 cents. The novel 'Thunderball' is advertised on the front cover as an 'extra book bonus' and appears on pages 128–44, with a sepia-toned frontispiece illustration by Gil Cohen. Minor wear to spine and..... More
Hedda Gabler.
Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1890. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[4]; 236. In a contemporary binding of red half morocco over black textured boards, gilt titles and tooling to spine. Internally nice and clean with only very slight paper toning, binding slight rubbed to boards and extremities, a very good copy in..... More
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Golfer Story [Screenplay].
Paris: Jacques-Eric Strauss and Gerard Leclery, no date [circa 1970]. A draft pre-production screenplay. pp.50, mimeographed typescript, perfect-bound in simple yellow card covers with titles printed in black brown paper covers. A few minor marks else contents and covers near fine. An exceptionally rare script for an unrealised film project..... More