"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
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The Sanctuary Club [and] Hilda Wade [and] A Master of Craft [and] The Seven Dragons [and] The "Southern Cross" Antarctic Expedition [and] The Croxley Master [and] Whereyouwantogoto: or, The Bouncible Ball [and] Kind Little Edmund; or, The Caves and The Cockatrice [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 18, numbers 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, and 108.
London: George Newnes, July 1899 to December 1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six octavo magazines (28 x 19cm), pp.xl; 120; xli-xlviii; pp.xxxii; 121-240; xxxiii-xl; pp.xxxvi; 241-360; xxxvii-xliv; pp.xl; 361-480; xli-xlviii; pp.xlviii; 481-600; xlix-lvi; pp.lvi; 601-804; lvii-lxviii [8]. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled in dark blue..... More
An Antarctic Mystery.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [1901]. [Polar Adventure] FIRST UK CHEAP EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 336. With 64 engraved plates by Roux, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and blue, grey and white blocked decoration to spine and upper. Repairs to split..... More
The American Gun Club.
New York, NY: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1874. [Science Fiction] FIRST THUS, a partial reprint of 'From the Earth to the Moon.' Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] viii; 142 [4]. With 24 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Brown-coated endpapers. Some..... More
The Cruise of her Majesty's Ship "Bacchante" 1879-1882. Compiled from the Private Journals, Letters, and Note-Books of Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales, with Additions by John N. Dalton.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo, pp.xxviii, 675 [1]; pp.xii, 803 [1]. With numerous charts, maps, plans and steel engravings. With a folding map of the voyage to prelims of vol. I. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration stamped..... More
The Modern Malay.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1928. [Malaysian History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.300; [4]. Illustrated with eight photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth with dark brown titles to spine. With the brown dust-jacket illustrated in blue and brown to front cover, priced at 15s. Heavy spotting to edges and..... More
To Mars Via The Moon. An Astronomical Story.
London: Seeley and Co., 1911. [Science Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.328 [24]. With 16 black and white plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Black ownership to fly-leaf dated 1920. Upper hinge split, with a strip of paper..... More
The Epic Voyage of the Seven Little Sisters: A 6,700-Mile Voyage Alone Across the Pacific.
London: Hutchinson, 1956. [Pacific Exploration] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.244. With a colour frontispiece and 21 black and white photographic plates, plans and maps evenly spaced throughout. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt decoration to upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at..... More
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[ALPINE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM].
[Hand-made]. [c.1930]. HAND-MADE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM. Large Quarto, unpaginated. Twenty two thick leaves with b/w photographs pasted to both sides. Eight leaves blank to rear, with one loose photograph. Most images neatly labeled in black ink, from the late 1880's. Black ink inscription to verso of front free end-paper reads: 'Presented..... More