History & Biography
Pepita.
London: the Hogarth Press, 1937. [Biography] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.282 [6]. With 16 black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, illustrated with the sole of Pepita's shoe, priced at 10/6 to spine..... More
Saint Joan Of Arc.
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1936. [Biography] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xv; 436 [4]. With nine illustrations including frontispiece and four maps, one folding. Recently re-bound in burgundy half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. A little light spotting to preliminaries and..... More
The Royal Engineers in Egypt and the Sudan.
Chatham: The Institution of Royal Engineers, 1937. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xxxii; 571 [1]. With 52 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and 35 maps, including two large folding maps at rear. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt regimental badge..... More
The Nature and Evolution of the Political Relations between the Indian States and the British Imperial Government.
Joyce and Sone, Newport 1932. Historical essay on Britain's relationship with India. Publisher's softcovers, pp. 202, with loose errata slip present. A fine copy. This thesis was presented to the University of Geneva, and covers the rise of British Power in India up to the Post-Mutiny and Post-War era. The..... More
Memoirs of An Infantry Officer. With Illustrations by Barnett Freedman.
London: Faber and Faber, 1931. [Literature] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.312. With fifteen coloured plates, black & white illustrations within the text. In publisher's pictorial boards, colour-illustrated endpapers, top egde brown, others untrimmed. A near fine copy without jacket. More
Scarne on Card Tricks.
London: Constable. 1953. [Sleight of hand, cheating, gambling] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), Pp. x; 138. Publisher's red cloth lettered in silver to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 8s. 6d. to front flap. Edges toned, jacket with some edge wear, rubbed to spine. Very good. The..... More
Scarne on Cards Tricks.
New York: Crown Publishers 1959. [Sleight of hand, cheating, gambling] Fourth printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.308. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial jacket. Owner label to rear pastedown. Worn wrapper with a some chips and tears, loss to rear corner, taped to rear, spine sunned. The follow-up to Scarne on..... More
Scarne on Cards Tricks.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1950. [Sleight of hand, cheating, gambling] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, fourth printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.308. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial jacket. With author's signed presentation to free endpaper; Best Wishes / John Scarne / 10/18/50. A fine copy of the book; jacket sunned to spine..... More
Scarne on Cards.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1949. [Sleight of hand, cheating, gambling] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 406. With frontisportrait and 75 illustrations. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial jacket. With author's signed presentation to free endpaper; To my pal / Donald Borg / the old slicker / and confidence..... More
The Collected Papers.
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1931. [Chemistry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.368. Publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt to spine. With the buff paper dust-jacket, priced at 10s to spine. Internally bright and clean, showing just a touch of spotting and toning to edges and jacket spine. An..... More
Japan To-Day.
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1905. [Japanese History and Ethnology] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.323 [5]. With a colour frontispiece and 27 black and white photographic plates. Publisher's red pictorial cloth, with gilt titles to spine and white titles to upper. Top edge gilt. Illustrated bookplate to front..... More
Robert Kennedy and His Times.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. [American Political Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, Ex Libris William Averell Harriman, with his annotations. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xx; 1066 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in black marker to fly-leaf: 'For Averell and Pam | with love over | the years | Arthur.' Publisher's grey..... More
The Story of the Women's Institute Movement in England & Wales & Scotland.
Idbury, Kingham: The Village Press, 1925. [Women's Institute] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 290 [16]. With 22 black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Heavy spotting and toning to edges. Light occasional spotting to margins and preliminaries. Moderate and..... More
Shelley at Oxford. The Early Correspondence of P.B. Shelley with his Friend T.J. Hogg together with Letters of Mary Shelley and T.L. Peacock and a hitherto Unpublished Prose Fragment by Shelley. Edited by W.S. Scott.
The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Limited Edition to 500 numbered copies of which this is No. 279. Publisher's quarter brown morocco with gilt titles to spine, green cloth boards, top edge gilt others untrimmed. Binding slightly rubbed. A clean and tight copy. The third book of a trilogy, edited by..... More
Noah Webster: American Men of Letters.
Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881. [Literary Biography] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] vi; 302 [4]. With a frontispiece engraving of the subject. Contemporary blue half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards. Top edge gilt, others..... More
A Six Foot Three Nightingale. Norman Gale 1862-1942. A Biographical Essay and Check-List.
Privately Printed for the Eighteen Nineties Society, 1998. [Bibliography] ONE OF 75 COPIES. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 41; [5]. Publisher's green paper wraps, black titles on white label to upper. Copy number thirty-eight of seventy five. Occasional series number seven. Four illustrated plates. Internally clean and bright, minor creasing..... More
Two Lives.
London: Little, Brown, 2005. [Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 503 [1]. With three suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black ink to titles page. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine, a gilt device to upper, and..... More
My Sporting Holidays.
London: Edward Arnold, 1904. [Hunting and Fishing] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 367 [17]. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. A large black ink ownership dated Xmas 1904 to..... More
Bernard Shaw & Fascism.
London: The Favil Press, no date [1927]. [Fascism] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.44. Publisher's plain paper covers, stapled twice with titles to upper. A copy sold in America, priced at 10c and stamped 'printed in England'. One vertical fold. Covers toned and spotted, with some wear and a...... More
The Life of Graham Greene: Volume One, 1904-1939 [together with] Volume Two, 1939-1955 [and] Volume Three, 1955-1991.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1989, 1994, 2004. [Literary Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes, large octavo (24 x 16 x 16cm). With three suites of black and white photographs within each volume. Publisher's cloth hardcovers in jacket. Inscribed by the late Norman Sherry to title pages in blue ink 'For Edward..... More
Story of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shotakovich to Isaak Glikman 1941-1975. With a Commentary by Isaak Glikman.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. [Musical Correspondence] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xliv; 340. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's navy paper over boards, with cream titles to spine and green endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, not priced..... More
An Army Woman In The Philippines. Extracts from Letters of an Army Officer's Wife, Describing Her Personal Experiences in the Philippine Islands.
Kansas City, Missouri: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., 1914. [Military Letters] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, dated 1914 only (some remaindered copies were over-stamped with the date 1916). Octavo, pp.183, with full-page photographic plates inserted. Handsomely bound in recent half red calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over..... More
Slide Rule. The Autobiography of An Engineer.
London: Pan Books 1968. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.222; [2], advertisements. With four black and white photographic plates. Lightly handled; a crisp, fine copy. More
'Wizard' Smith.
Ultimo, NSW: Murray Book Distributors, 1977. [Land Speed Record] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.128. With numerous black and white photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth with white titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. A production fault to front endpapers. Some wear to extremities, otherwise a crisp..... More
100%. The Story of a Patriot.
Pasadena, California: Published by the Author, 1920. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.; [8]. Publisher's brown paper wraps, with black titles and double border ruling to covers. Natural browning, internally clean, minor creasing to spine. Near fine. The story of a labour spy: a book of fictional..... More