History & Biography
A History of England in the Eighteenth Century. Cabinet Edition.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899-1901. [British History] FINELY BOUND SET, the Cabinet Edition, new impressions. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (18 x 13 x 23cm). In contemporary green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and lighter green cloth over boards. Top edges gilt, and..... More
This Sceptred Isle: 55 BC - 1901.
London: BBC Books and Penguin Books, 2000. [British History] INSCRIBED COPY, the fifth impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 616. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, priced at £20.00. Lightly handled. Fine... More
Hitler. Where is Germany Going?
New York, NY: Dial Press, 1932. [Modern European History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[viii]; 256; [8], blank. With photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to backstrip, striking pictorial jacket by Samuel Bernard Schaeffer priced at $3.00. Neat ink ownership dated 1932, jacket a little toned to..... More
Catalogue of Engraved Portraits, Views etc. connected with the name of Levis.
London: Printed for the author for private distribution only at the Chiswick Press, 1914. [Family History] LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.xx; 113 [3]. With 32 black and white plates, including a photogravure frontispiece. One of just 50 copies printed. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with black titles to..... More
Blasting and Bombardiering. The Autobiography (1914-1926) of Wyndham Lewis.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1937. [Literary memoirs] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 312. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price 15s on front flap. Minor toning to textblock edges, otherwise internally clean, spine slightly rolled. Some wear to dust-jacket top edge, a slight..... More
I Survived.
London: Evans Brothers, 1954. [WWII novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.224. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. With ten photographic halftone illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 12/6 to front flap. Interior lightly..... More
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Arthur Brooks Lapsley. With an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. Together with The Essay on Lincoln, by Carl Schurz; The Address on Lincoln, by Joseph H. Choate; and The Life of Lincoln, by Noah Brooks.
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. [History] Finely bound Constitutional Edition. Complete in eight volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 37cm). Frontispiece of the author with captioned tissue guard. Title page printed in red and black. Handsomely bound in recent dark blue half oasis morocco, spines gilt-lettered in six..... More
Extracts from Colonel Tempelhoffe's History of the Seven Years War: His Remarks on General Lloyd: On the Subsistence of Armies; and On the March of Convoys. Also a Treatise on Winter Posts. To which is added A Narrative of Events at St. Lucie and Gibraltar, and of John Duke of Marlborough's March to the Danube, with the Causes and Consequences of that Measure.
London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1793. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] clxiv; 214; [6]; pp.[2]; vi; 215-516; [4]. With three folding maps to volume II. Contemporary brown calf with gilt titles to spine and armorial device stamped to all boards. All edges yellow;..... More
I Left My Roots in China.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1953. [Far East Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.176. With eight black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth over boards with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at 16s. Very light spotting to edges and endpapers..... More
Slings and Arrows: Sayings Chosen from the Speeches of the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, O.M., M.P.
London: Cassell and Company, 1929. [Political Quotations] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 324. With a photographic frontispiece of Lloyd George. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Black ink ownership to front pastedown. Flyleaf removed. A quotation from John Milton written heavily in blue ink..... More
Life of Napoleon Buonaparte.
Edinburgh: W.P. Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell, N.d. [1885]. [History] FINE LEATHER BINDING, revised and abridged edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 316. With numerous monochrome plates, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece. Contemporary blue full calf, boards gilt-ruled. Spine with red label lettered in gilt, raised bands, and gilt-tooling. Gilt dentelles to..... More
Return to Malaya.
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1936. [South-East Asian travel] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[6] 376 [2]. Publisher's light green cloth with dark red titles to spine and upper board. Maps to endpapers. Top edge green; others untrimmed. With the red and green dust-jacket, priced at $3.00..... More
Walt Whitman and the Springs of Courage.
Santa Fe, NM: Writers' Editions, 1938. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[12] 144 [4]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and a small gilt stamp to upper. Grey endpapers. A nice clean copy with some toning to spine and a few small marks to boards..... More
F.G. Tait. A Record Being his Life, Letters, and Golfing Diary.
London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1901. [Golf] ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.304. With eighteen illustrations, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper, gilt decoration to upper. Loose ownership letter, newspaper article on the Tait Memorial Medal taped to rear endpaper. Ex-libris Bernard..... More
F.G. Tait. A Record. Being His Life, Letters, and Golfing Diary.
London: J. Nisbet and Co., n.d. IN VARIANT GREEN CLOTH, WITH AUTHOR'S CALLING CARD TIPPED IN. Octavo, pp.304. Comprising John L. Low's classic biographical account of F.G. Tait, a golfer celebrated for his unparralleled power, and aptitude for long hitting. Bound in publisher's variant green cloth with illustration of golf..... More
A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotical. Containing an Index to the first Twenty Volumes of the " Sussex Archaeological Collections."
Lewes: George P. Bacon, 1870. [Sussex History and Topography] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] xxx; 270 [2]; pp.[6] 278; xiv [2]. With the folding map to volume I, and EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with 78 additional topographical engravings, carefully trimmed and mounted to fit..... More
Conan Doyle. The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 2007. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 527; [1], blank. With three suites of photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth blocked in gilt to spine, beige endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £20 net. With author's signature to the title page..... 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
A History of Eton College (1440-1910).
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. FINELY BOUND, Fourth Edition. Large Octavo, pp.[4]; xxiv; 627; [5]. With 11 full-page plates, some colour, including a frontispiece. Also with 63 in-text woodcuts. In contemporary brown full morocco by SPOTTISWOODE, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. All edges and endpapers marbled. Black..... More
Fabled Shore. From the Pyrenees to Portugal.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15), pp.[12]; 200. Bound in recent burgundy half morocco over cloth boards, raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Photographic frontispiece and fifteen double sided half tone plates. Original cartographic endpapers bound in at rear. A fine copy in a...... More
The History of England. From the Accession of James the Second.
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1877. [English History] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxiv; 776 [2]; pp.xii; 820 [2]. Contemporary black full morocco for King's College London, with gilt titles and decoration to spines, and a large gilt college crest to upper of each volume..... More
The History of England. From the Accession of James the Second.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. [English History] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 776 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 820 [2]. Contemporary tan full calf for Hurstpierpoint College, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting brown and green labels, further gilt decoration to spines, and and..... More
Scottish Eccentrics.
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1936. [Scottish Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 320. Publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink. Light spotting to edges and preliminaries. A distinct tobacco scent. Spine sunned, with a little handling. Very good. Twelve short biographies of..... More
Scottish Eccentrics.
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1936. [Scottish Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, an association copy. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 320. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | Mr. & Mrs. F.G. Scott, | with love | from | Mr. & Mrs. "Hugh MacDiarmid," | Whalsay..... More
The New London Family Cook.
London: Albion Press, Printed for James Cundee, 1808. [Cookery]. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.634. Full tan diced calf, respined to style with a red title label, marbled endpapers. With a portrait frontispiece and ten further plates. Textblock is nice and clean with just occasional light spotting, embossed library stamps to..... More