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The Angry Red Planet.
Stafford and Co. Ltd, Nottingham and London [1956]. An original and scarce UK quad for the 1959 sci-fi horror 'The Angry Red Planet', an 'Invasion of Mars' film concerning the first manned flight to and exploration of planet Mars. Folded, condition B (fresh, corners clipped). Approx dimensions 40x30 inches, landscape..... More
The Honourable Jim
London; Hodder and Stoughton [1924]. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by the Author to title page: 'To William & Ada / de Jongh / With fondest love / from / Emmuska Orczy (flourish)'. 8vo.; pp.320. Publisher's red cloth lightly worn, edges spotted, first gathering foxed, occasional marking throughout. In its pictorial dust..... More
Signature to a Crime
London: Cassell 1938. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.281. Publisher's hardcover in striking original pictorial dust-wrapper. Clean and bright, with a little edgewear and some minor spotting to text block. A lovely fine copy of this Holywood mystery set in the the Golden Age of tinseltown. More
Les Interests Presens des Puissances de L'Europe, Fondez sur le Traitez conclus depuis la Paix d'Utrecht inclusivement, et sur les Preuves de leurs Pretensions particulieres.
La Haye: Adrien Moetjens, 1733. 2 volumes. Quarto. Bound in calf with blind decoration to board edges; raised bands, gilt titles and extra gilt to spine; all edges stained red, marbled endpapers. French language. Binding rubbed, corners and spine ends worn; minor worm damage to joints. Insides predominantly clean, with..... More
Over-Population and its Remedy; or, An Enquiry into the extent and Causes of the Distress Prevailing Among the Labouring Classes of the british Islands, and into the Means of Remedying it.
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1846. First Edition. Large 8vo.; pp. 446 + 32 of publisher's catalogue dated October 1845. Publisher's embossed brown cloth with gilt titles to spine; yellow end papers. Cloth water stained in specks. Neat owner's name. A remarkably sound and internally clean first printing of..... More
Japan, The Amoor and The Pacific.
London; Smith, Elder and Co. 1861. First edition. Large 8vo. 405pp. Bound in publisher's embossed bottle green cloth, titled and decorated in gilt to spine. Blindtamped borders to boards. Mudie's Library label affixed to upper front board. Scuffed and bumped to extremities, with some fraying and parting of the cloth..... More
Spanish Maine.
London; John Murray. 1935. First edition. 8vo. 320pp. Fine in publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. Bright and clean. In a fine, bright dustwrapper, unclipped and unfaded. A very handsome copy indeed. More
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Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books. [Aesop's Fables].
Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1764. [The celebrated fabulist] Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.lxxvii; 186; [28], index; [2], blank. Bound in full tan calf with red title label to spine, five raised bands with extra gilt, marbled endpapers. A few marks to..... More
The Life and Times of Dick Whittington: An Historical Romance.
London: Hugh Cunningham, 1841. First Edition. Octavo. Bound in original publishers cloth, rebacked; boards decorated with blind panelling, with gilt titles, and gilt portrait of Whittington and cat to spine; all edges uncut. With 22 illustrations. Binding is rubbed, gilt to spine somewhat faded. Text is clean, but illustrations show..... More
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The Free Fishers, in Chambers's Journal. [7 Parts, first appearance].
London: W. and R. Cahmbers. 1934. First magazine issue publication of Buchan's The Free Fishers, published in Chambers Journal between January and July 1934. Publisher's decorated orange paper wraps. Bright and clean, minor edgewear, very good indeed with some very minor chipping to spine ends and edges. A very bright..... More
Simla: Past and Present.
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, 1904. RARE FIRST EDITION. Large Octavo, pp.xiv, 270 [2]. With 51 b/w illustrated plates including frontispiece (actually facing p.1), and a folding map to prelims. In publisher's brown cloth (formerly green) with b/w stamped illustrations to upper board. Vestiges of stamping to spine. Decorative textured end-papers. Cloth..... More
A Screw Loose: My story so far.
London: B and T Publishers, 1977. Signed First Edition. Octavo. Bound in wine cloth with gilt titles to spine. Red dust wrapper bears titles in red and white to spine and front and rear covers. The binding is tight. The text is clean, and shows no signs of spotting. The..... More
Mysterious Air Ace.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1941. FIRST EDITION, PRE-PUBLICATION REVIEW COPY. Octavo, pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with titles in black to spine and upper board, in pictorial dust-jacket. With an 'advance review copy' slip pasted to the centre of the front panel. Endpapers tones, spotting to edges, slight lean to the textblock..... More
Mani. Travels in The Southern Peleponnese.
London: John Murray, 1958. ADVANCE COPY. Octavo, pp.xiii [5], 320. With 24 plates featuring photographs by Joan Eyres Monsell and a map drawn by John Woodcock. Title page illustrations and dust-jacket designs by John Craxton. In original green paper wraps with title to front cover. Also with original illustrated dust-jacket..... More
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John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1926. Mystery novel. First Edition. 8vo.; pp.304 + 8 (adverts). Original red cloth, lettered to spine and upper cover in gilt. Occasional light spotting, joints a little rubbed, minor sunning to back-strip. An attractive example. A Hubin- listed crime title, and a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone..... More
The Farrier's New Guide: Containing First, the Anatomy of a Horse, being an exact and compendious Discription of all his parts; with their Actions and Uses: Illustrate Causes, and Method of Cure; wherein many Defects in the Farrier's Practice are now carefully supply'd, their Errors expos'd and amended, and the Aart greatly improv'd and advanc'd, according to the latest Discoveries. The Whole interspers'd with many curious and useful Observations concerning Feeding and Exercise, etc.
London: Printed for T. Longman, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row 1720. [Equestrian interest] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), two parts in one, each with its own pagination, with general title-page to first part and separate title for the second part: pp.xii; viii; 125; [1], blank; [1], title; [1], blank..... More
Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain. Vol. II part I, containing Cambridgeshire.
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808. [Topography] EX LIBRIS WILLIAM WADE PORTEOUS. Quarto (31 x 24cm), pp.[2]; 296; xxii; [2]. With twenty six copper engraved plates, including a hand-coloured county map and one further hand-coloured plate. Blue ink ownership inscriptions of Mr. Wade Porteous, a notable book..... More
Garnered.
London. Methuen. 1904. Short stories, some criminous. First Colonial Edition. 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth titled in gilt to spine, lightly worn to extremities with tape residue to rear panel. Essentially clean, strong and bright. A collection of Marsh stories including a couple of weird and fantastic ones; A Little..... More
The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
UK, Charles and Read, London. [1957]. FIRST PRINTING. An original UK quad for Rank Organisation's 1957 movie adaptation of Victor Hugo's famous novel, starring Gina Lollobrigida and Anthony Quinn. Folded, condition A (small Film board ink stamp to image otherwise fresh). Approx dimensions 40x30 inches, landscape format (will be despatched..... More
In Northern Mists. Arctic Exploration in Early Times.
London: William Heinemann, 1911. FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes. Quarto, pp.xi; 383. Quarto, pp.415. Publisher's decorated blue cloth, with artistic sunset motif in gilt adorning front board, with borders stamped in blind, gilt titles to spine. Tipped-in colour frontispiece with tissue guard at front of each volume, illustrated with several maps..... More
The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Publisher's light blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper, with the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Edges spotted. In beautiful pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed. A clean, bright, near fine copy. 1793; the darkest days of the French revolution, and little Charles-Leon is ill..... More
Rouge et Noir. The Academicians of 1823, or the Greeks of the Palais Royal and the Clubs of St. James's.
London: 1823. FIRST EDITION. pp.310; 439-456, with hand-coloured frontispiece entitled 'La Roulette'. Not including pages 311 to 438, which were redacted in some cases. Bound in original linen-backed grey boards with paper label to spine, edges untrimmed. Heraldic bookplate to pastedown, bound without flyleaves, minor wear to binding, label toned..... More
Dead Man Leading
London, Chatto and Windus, 1937. FIRST EDITION. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dustwrapper by T.Ritchie. Green embossing flaked from binding (as usual), light dampmark to board edges. Very good. Original wrapper with minor rubbing to extremities else fine. Author's second novel is a struggle for survival in the Amazon Jungle. Particularly..... More
Herb Ritts Calendar 1994.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. INSCRIBED TO MEMBER OF LED ZEPPELIN. Small Quarto, unpaginated. With 28 black and white photographic images, subjects including Dizzy Gillespie, Madonna, Mel Gibson and David Bowie. Warmly INSCRIBED TO JOHN PAUL JONES by the artist in gold ink/paint to front free endpaper: 'To..... More
Forever Ulysses.
New York: Viking 1938 [actually December 1937]. PRIVATE PRE-PUBLICATION EDITION, number 6 of just 65 copies. Octavo, pp.315; [3], blank. Near fine in original linen-backed silk boards featuring rather striking gold orange and yellow vertical stripes, in accompanying gold card slip-case (rubbed). Translated by Patrick Leigh Fermor. This rare edition..... More