History & Biography
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
Our Rambles in Old London.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, No date [circa 1895]. [Topography] NEW AND CHEAPER ISSUE. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[8]; 170; [2]. With 19 illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth, black titles to spine and upper. Pictorial decoration in red and black to upper. Black endpapers. Internally clean and bright. Minor rubbing..... More
The Autobiography of Arthur Machen.
London: The Richards Press, 1951. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION WITH ASSOCIATED LETTERS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.308. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to spine, top-edge red, photographic frontispiece of author, two further photographic plates. Loosely tipped in are three associated items; A letter from Morchand Bishop to News Chronicle journalist..... More
Drawings by Peregrine Calvary.
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1942. [War] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.91; [6]. Publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine and upper board, dust-jacket with printed price 12s 6d to flap. 29 illustrations by Peregrine. Top edge red. A copy in a dust-jacket is scarce. Internally..... More
A Person From England. and other travellers to Turkestan.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.384. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket and matching endpapers, top edge tinted blue. Illustrated with a map and eight double sided two tone photographic plates. With signed inscription to half title: "Momo /..... More
Meet the U.S. Army. Prepared for the Board of Education by the Ministry of Information.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1943. [Second World War Propaganda] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 12cm), pp.24. With a suite of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's red paper covers, priced at 4d and stapled twice. Very light handling with just a few spots. Near fine. A...... More
Marilyn. A Biography.
New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., 1973. [Biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (30 x 26cm), pp.[2] 270 [2]. Heavily illustrated with both colour and black and white photographs by various artists. SIGNED by the author and the editor in blue ink to the limitation page. Publisher's white padded cloth..... More
Venice and Hospitaller Malta 1530-1798: Aspects of a Relationship.
Malta: Publishers Enterprises Group, 1992. [Maltese History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xxii; 366. With 14 illustrations, including occasional maps and four double-sided colour plates. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'To Mr Graham Archer | with compliments & all good | wishes |..... More
Helen Oxenbury: a life in illustration.
London: Walker Books, 2018. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.264 [24]. Illustrated throughout with a mixture of fine colour photographs and reproductions of Oxenbury's artwork. Publisher's photographic cloth with blue and maroon titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £30. Some..... More
The Elements of Hieroglyphics and Egyptian Antiquities. In a Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, London, and the University of Cambridge.
London: Printed for C.J.G. & F. Rivington, 1845. [Ancient Egypt] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xx; 493 [3]. Complete with a frontispiece and 10 folding plates at rear. Publisher's brown cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blind decoration to boards. Yellow-coated endpapers. Armorial Coulthart bookplate to..... More
A Guide to Taxila.
Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1921. [Pakistan Archaeology] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 132. With 30 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and several folding maps and plans. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Red endpapers. A nice clean copy, with some rubbing to..... More
The White Dacoit.
London: Collins, 1974. [Crime Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.384. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to distinctive bookplate on flyleaf: 'For Miss Eileen Cond | with the author's | gratitude and pride | in being included | in her formidable | collection of | contemporary..... More
The Life of Wellington. A New Edition, Revised, Condensed and Completed.
London: Bickers and Son, 1893. [Military Biography] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 387 [3]. With occasional in-text illustrations, and a frontispiece portrait of Wellington. Contemporary green polished calf, with gilt titles to a red label, and further gilt decoration to spine. All edges and endpapers..... More
Saints of Sind.
London: John Murray, 1956. [Religion and Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 200. With a black and white photographic frontispiece, and a sketch-map to preliminaries. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Wildsmith, priced at 18s. Heavy spotting to edges and preliminaries..... More
A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation. Illustrated with Maps and Plans. Second Edition, greatly enlarged.
London: Printed For William Tait, Edinburgh, and others 1830. Second edition "Corrected and Greatly Enlarged", in the original cloth, untrimmed (a tall copy with generous margins). 8vo. pp. xii, 563. complete with half-title. Bound in original dark green pebble-grain cloth with paper title label to spine (mostly chipped). Joints are..... More
Army Diary 1899-1926.
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1960. [Intelligence] FIRST EDITION. Royal octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 301; [3], blank. With 39 black and white plates and 25 maps printed in colour. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial jacket. Minor spotting to top edge, jacket a little edge worn, with none of the heavy..... More
Richard Meinertzhagen. Soldier, Scientist & Spy.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1989. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Royal octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 292. With a suite of black and white plates. Publisher's black cloth in photographic dust-jacket priced at £14.95 to front flap. Contents clean, edges toned, some offset to endpapers, jacket lightly used. Near fine. Colonel Richard..... More
History of the French Revolution. From 1789 to 1814.
London: David Bogue, 1846. [French Revolution] PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[xii]; 424; [2] blank. Dark green polished calf binding, with raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, gilt titles to red label on spine, gilt to boards, yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Forest Proprietary Grammar School crest to..... More
The Annals of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, Volume VI 1921-1943.
London: Leo Cooper, 1971. [Military History] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 398. With numerous maps, and eight double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by Roger Nixon in blue ink to flyleaf. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and regimental badge to upper. With the..... More
[Correspondence with the Duke of Marlborough concerning an affair between Edith Finch, Lady Aylesford, and George Spencer-Churchill, later the 8th Duke].
1876-1890. ORIGINAL LEDGER WITH COPIED MANUSCRIPT LETTERS FROM THE DUKE'S BIRMINGHAM SOLICITOR. Quarto (29 x 24cm), with letters written in black ink to a single side of 214 numbered leaves, out of a total of 1000. Delicate leaves akin to tracing paper. In original tan half calf with dark brown..... More
Prometheus Bound: Vatican Radio broadcast on the case of Ezra Pound.
Vatican City: Vatican Radio, 1954. [Radio Transcript] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 16cm), pp.12. Publisher's grey paper covers, stapled once. Light toning and handling. Near fine. An English transcript of a radio programme originally broadcast on 30th March 1954 on Vatican and Italian Radio. Portuguese poet Pina Martins..... More
A Century of Kate Greenaway.
London: Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd., 1946. [Children's Books] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.15 [1]. With a half-tone photographic frontispiece portrait of Greenaway, and two colour plates. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers; sewn. Covers rubbed to spine, with light handling otherwise, as well as some stains and browning to..... More