History & Biography
Douglas Hurd the Public Servant. An Authorised Biography.
Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1998. [British Politics] EX LIBRIS LORD MOYNIHAN, First Edition. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.472; [8]. With eight doubled sided plates, in black and white and colour. Publisher's purple cloth with silver titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket priced at £20.00. Bookplate detailing provenance to flyleaf. A fine copy..... More
The State Policy of Modern Europe, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Present Time.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo, pp.xvi, 334; x, 392. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to front free end-paper, dedicated to Sir Edward Shepherd CREASY, author of 'Fifteen Decisive Battle of the World' (1851). In publisher's light tan embossed..... More
The Sub: The Autobiography of David Munro, Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917. FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo. pp. 356 [2]. With 5 b/w illustrated plates including frontispiece. In publisher's cyan cloth with darker blue titles to spine and upper board. Lacking jacket. Slight browning to poor quality paper, and slight sunning to spine; near-fine overall. An account of..... More
Heroes of the Middle Ages (Alaric to Columbus).
London: George G. Harrap, 1914. [History] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.252 [4]. With 22 full-page illustrations and many more vignettes throughout. Blue illustrative endpapers. Brown quarter morocco, green cloth over boards. Both upper and spine with gilt-stamped titles and decoration. Top edge gilt. Advertisements to rear. Interior bright..... More
The Four Georges. Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court, and Town Life.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861. [Court Satire] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 226 [18]. Catalogue at rear dated December 1861. With an engraved frontispiece, and occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's blind-decorated green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown, with ink and pencil ownerships..... More
The Downing Street Years.
London: Harper Collins, 1993. [Politics] SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY, FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 914. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in photographic dust-jacket. Signed by Baroness Thatcher in her characteristic blue pen to a tipped in blank after the half title page, from the library of Lord..... More
The Downing Street Years.
London: Harper Collins, 1993. [Politics] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Royal octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 914. With nineteen double-sided photographic plates divided into five suites. Signed by Baroness Thatcher in blue ink to a tipped-in blank between half-title and title page. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine..... More
Summer of Love. The Making of Sgt Pepper.
Guidford: Genesis Publications, 2007. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, number 239 of 350 DELUXE copies. Large quarto (35 x 28cm), pp.176. Elaborately bound in full pink leather with a photo of George Martin laid down to upper cover, housed in original silk-screen printed box with ribbon pull, the whole protected in a...... More
As It Was and World Without End.
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. [Romance] FIRST COMBINED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.183 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth, white titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 12s 6d to front flap. Internally bright and clean with toning to edges. Toning to dust-jacket, especially spine. Minimal wear to jacket..... More
This Time Next Week. The Autobiography of a Happy Orphan.
London: Constable, 1964. [Autobiography] INSCRIBED COPY, the second impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.200. With occasional vignette illustrations by Byfield. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf: 'To Dennis | from | Leslie Thomas.' Publisher's cream cloth, with silver titles to blue backing on spine. With the dust-jacket..... More
The Prime Ministers: From Robert Walpole to Margaret Thatcher.
London: Nationwide Book Service, 1980. [British Politics] Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.xxiv; 260; [4]. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Recent bookplate detailing provenance affixed to flyleaf. Dedicated in blue ink to Colin [Lord Moynihan] from his aunt Marjorie..... More
In Siberia.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1999. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.287. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with silver titles and publisher's imprint to spine, grey map endpapers, showing map of Siberia. Pictorial dustjacket shows snowfield, with titles in white to front cover and spine, rear cover displays quotations from prominent reviewers;..... More
The Goudhurst Coronation Book, A Record of Celebrations in Goudhurst and Kilndown (Kent) on May 12th, 1937.
Tunbridge Wells: The Courier Printing and Publishing Company Limited., 1937. [Kentish history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.896. Publisher's mid blue cloth covers with gilt titles and decoration to front and spine. Numerous black and white illustrations within. Internally fine, some light spotting and damp marking to the edges..... More
The Goudhurst Jubilee Book [and] The Goudhurst Coronation Book. A Record of Celebrations in Goudhurst and Kilndown (Kent) on May 6th, 1935 [and] May 12th, 1937. The Silver Jubilee of the Reigns of their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary 1910-1935 [and] The Coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Local Intelligence, Directories, Historical Notes, and Reminiscences.
Tunbridge Wells: The Courier Printing and Publishing Company Limited, 1935 and 1937. [Kent] FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.504 [4]; pp.896. Each volume illustrated with numerous photographic reproductions, and a folding map to the first volume. Publisher's purple and blue cloth respectively, with silver and gold titles..... More
Kings of the Highway.
London: Hutchinson, 1957. [English Bus History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.126 [2]. With four double-sided black and white plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 18s. Blind ownership stamp to fly-leaf, with some offsetting to endpapers. Jacket a little..... More
Dwin Bramall: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshall the Lord Bramall, KG, GCB, OBE, MC.
Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2005. [Military Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 272. With a suite of eight double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page, and also INSCRIBED by Lord Bramall to Sharon Taylor in blue ink to title..... More
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce.
London: Viking, 2018. [Irish Literary Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 186. With occasional black and white illustrations. SIGNED by the author in black ink to 'Exclusive signed first edition' leaf tipped in ahead of the half-title. Publisher's black paper over boards, with white titles to spine..... More
Realities of Irish Life.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868. [Irish Biography]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 407 [3]. With 30 etched plates including a frontispiece after drawings by Trench's son, and a very large folding coloured map of Ireland. In contemporary burgundy half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
Fabulous Histories. Designed for the Instruction of Children, Respecting their Treatment of Animals.
London: T. Longman, 1791. [Natural History] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[6] 215 [5]. Recently rebound in dark brown full calf, with gilt titles on red label to spine, gilt embossed bands to spine, and gilt ruling to turn-ins. Placard marbled endpapers. Bound by Alan Winstanley of Salisbury, with..... More
My Life: The Rise and Fall of a Dictator.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1930. [Communist Autobiography] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.512. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Fore edge untrimmed. Pencil ownership to fly-leaf, with some light toning and spotting to preliminaries. Cloth sunned to..... More
Britain's Air Peril: The Danger of Neglect, Together with Considerations on the Role of the Air Force.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1933. CLEMENT ATLEE'S COPY, First Edition with a letter from the Air League of the British Empire. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x, 132 [2], 28. With Atlee's distinctive Art-Deco monogram bookplate to front pastedown, and a typed letter on headed note paper signed by..... More
Nineteenth Century Architecture in Britain.
London: B.T. Batsford, 1950. [Architecture] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, with an autograph letter. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.x; 118. With numerous double-sided black and white plates, as well as a frontispiece and occasional in-text illustrations. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf: 'Antony and Yvonne— | With all best..... More
The Innocents Abroad. The Innocents abroad: a book of travel in pursuit of pleasure.
London: John Camden Hotten, 1870. [Travel literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[iv]; 256; [xxviii]. Publisher's green cloth, neatly rebacked with the original spine laid on, with some loss, blind stamped design to boards, brown coated endpapers. Advertisements at front pp.i-ii and rear pp.i-xxviii; 'Very Important New Books..... More
Hours of Exercise in the Alps.
New York, NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1871. [Alpine Climbing and Mountaineering] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 473 [9]. With seven engraved plates, including a frontispiece, and occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and black panelled decoration to boards. Lightly toned throughout..... More
Latin Poetry. Lectures Delivered in 1893 on the Percy Turnbull Memorial Foundation in the John Hopkins University.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. [Classical Lectures] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] xxiv; 323 [5]. Contemporary black full calf for Bedford School, with gilt titles to red label and further gilt decoration to spine, and the school crest stamped in gilt to upper. All edges and endpapers..... More