History & Biography
Momentum, the Struggle for Peace, Politics and the People.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2002. [Politics] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 398. INSCRIBED by the author "To Liz and Mike | hope you enjoy the | read. | All the best | love | Mo" in black ink to title page. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt..... More
Discorsi del 1925. [Speeches of 1925].
Milano: Casa Editrice "Alpes," 1926. [Fascist Speeches] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.281 [7]. All text in Italian. Publisher's white paper covers, titled in black and red, with a gilt illustration to upper. All edges untrimmed; substantially unopened. Heavily browned throughout to low grade paper. Moderate rubbing to covers..... More
My Recollections of the Sepoy Revolt (1857-58).
London: John Long, 1911. [Indian Mutiny] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.266. With 17 black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding plan of Meerut Cantonment. Publisher's navy cloth with titles stamped to spine and red ruling to boards. All edges red. A manuscript letter in..... More
Burgesses and Burgess Law in the Latin Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus (1099-1325).
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. [Crusader States Legal History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[12] 225 [3]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Lacks the jacket. Light handling only, essentially fine. More
Farthest North. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram. About One Hundred and Twenty Full Page and Numerous Text Illustrations and Coloured Plate in Facsimile from Dr. Nansen's Own Sketches. Portrait and Maps.
London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. [Polar Travel] FIRST EDITIONS. 2 volumes. Quarto (25 x 18 x 12cm) Numerous illustrations and 4 folding maps, several in colour. Publisher's blue/green cloth with gilt illustration to upper. A used but presentable set; contents shaken within case, owner inscription to first volume, bindings..... More
"The Lanox of Auld." An Epistolary Review of "The Lenox, by William Fraser."
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1880. [Scottish Family History] PRIVATELY PRINTED, the only edition. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[4] xii; 153 [1]. With a genealogical scheme, occasional small in-text illustrations, and three engraved plates showing charter seals. Publisher's brown pebble-grained cloth, with gilt titles to spine and gilt armorial devices stamped to..... More
The Court of Queen Elizabeth: Originally Written by Sir Robert Nauton, under the title "Fragmenta Regalia." With considerable Biographical Additions by James Caulfield.
London: Printed and Sold by G. Smeeton, and J. Caulfield, 1814. [Elizabethan Biographies] NEW REVISED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 20cm), pp.[4] 127 [1]. With 18 of the 21 engraved portraits, including a frontispiece of Elizabeth I, but lacking Sir Francis Walsingham, Sir Francis Knowles, and Lord Brooke. Publisher's blue /..... More
The Holy Maid of Kent. The Life of Elizabeth Barton, 1506-1534.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971. [Tudor Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.390 [2]. With four double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge brown, with family trees to endpapers. With the yellow dust-jacket designed by Studio Stead, priced at £3.95..... More
Fire in My Blood.
London: Elek Books, 1958. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.212. With a black and white photographic frontispiece of the author. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and white illustrated dust-jacket, titled in orange and priced at 16s. Possibly a later issue jacket. Light..... More
Military Studies by Marshal Ney; Written for the use of his officers. Translated from the Marshal's Original Manuscripts, by G.H. Caunter, Esq., with an Introduction and Diagrams, by Major A. James.
London: Bull and Churton, 1833. [French Military Drill and Tactics] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.116. With occasional diagrams by James. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles and a price of 6/6 to upper. Fly-leaf pasted onto front pastedown, with heavy abrasion and remains of a printed..... More
Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York: Wardrobe Accounts of Edward the Fourth. With a Memoir of Elizabeth of York, and Notes.
London: William Pickering, 1830. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[8] civ, 265 [3]. In near-contemporary navy half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label on spine and further gilt decoration to spine. Textured red cloth boards; endpapers marbled; top edge gilt. Two large armorial bookplates to front pastedown, one of..... More
Paul Verlaine.
London: Constable, 1921. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.viii; 271 [1]. Publisher's navy cloth, gilt titles to upper and spine. Edges untrimmed. Interior bright and clean, toning to endpapers and edges. Some leaves still uncut. A few marks to boards, some gentle wear and fraying to extremities..... More
Pat Nixon The Untold Story.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1986. [Politics] INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.484; [4], blank. Publisher's hardback cloth, printed dust-wrapper priced $19.95. Later printing. With warm presentation note to half-title; "For Sheila MacKellow | with every good wish from | Julie Nixon Eisenhower | July 1988"..... More
The Real War.
New York, NY: Warner Books, 1980. [Politics] FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.x; 341; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth with map endpapers, printed dust-wrapper. With warm presentation note to half-title; "To Sheila MacKellow | with best wishes | from | Richard Nixon | 1-8-81". Near..... More
Seize The Moment. America's Challenge In a One-Superpower World.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1992. [Politics] FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.322. In a leather-style binding blocked in gilt, likely by The Easton Press (although unspecified). With warm presentation note to half-title; "To Sheila MacKellow | with appreciation for her | loyal friendship..... More
Changing Trains: An Autobiography.
London: Hutchinson, 1996. [British Politics] EX LIBRIS LORD MOYNIHAN, First Edition, association copy. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xii; 273; [1]. With four double-sided black and white plates. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Recent bookplate detailing provenance affixed to flyleaf. Slightly bumped to..... More
The Normans in the South [and] The Kingdom in the Sun. [The Normans in Sicily].
London: Longmans, Green, 1967-1970. [Mediaeval History] FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xvi, 355; pp.xv, 426. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spines. Yellow / orange end-papers. Both with original pictorial dust-jackets, the first clipped and re-priced to £3.50, and the second priced at £3.50. A small..... More
Outwitting the Hun. My Escape From a German Prison Camp.
London: William Heinemann, 1918. [War memoir] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xii [2] 266 [6]. Publisher's red cloth, black titles to upper and spine. Small pictorial motif in black to upper, publisher's device to lower. Interior foxed throughout, edges toned. Cloth rubbed and dulled, toning to spine..... More
Drums Under the Windows.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1945. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.vi; 340 [2]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to red backing on spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Jack Matthew, priced at 15s. Spotting and toning to edges. Jacket toned..... More
Inishfallen Fare Thee Well.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1949. [Literary Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 307 [1]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to a green backing square on spine. With the green and grey illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 16s. Light spotting and toning..... More
Rose and Crown.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1952. [Literary Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 307 [5]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's light green cloth, with gilt titles to a red backing square on spine. With the green illustrated dust-jacket. Some toning to edges, and a little bumping..... More
Ticehurst: The Story of a Sussex Parish.
Tunbridge Wells: "Courier" Co., 1925. [Village History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.197 [3]. With 15 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to upper only. Black ink ownership to flyleaf, dated 1963. A nice clean copy, with light wear and bumping..... More
Malaya Upside Down.
Singapore: Printed by Jitts and Co., April 1946. [South-East Asian History] SECOND EDITION, the seventh-thousand. Octavo, (23 x 16cm), pp.[8] 208 [14]. With an appendix including a map and glossary. Publisher's simple illustrated turquoise paper-covered boards, with titles to spine and upper. Blue stamp of the Commercial Trading Co. to..... More
Diplomatic Correspondence Respecting The War Published by the Belgian Government. Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty. October 1914.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1914. Government publication, Miscellaneous No.12 (1914). Printed pamphlet, pp.viii; 76. Original price 4 1/2d. Slightly browned, simple later paper spine. Near fine. More
John Steinbeck: A Biography.
London: Heinemann, 1994. [Literary Biography] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 614. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, dated 29.3.94. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket..... More