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London: Printed for R. Griffiths, 1755. [Book Reviews] CONTEMPORARY REVIEW OF Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.viii; 516 [10]. With an unpaginated index at rear. Contemporary speckled calf boards, re-backed in the nineteenth century in straight-grained red morocco with gilt titles. Not a happy marriage of binding styles..... More
London: Marlborough House, 1956. [Medal Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.143 [1]. Publisher's cream card wraps printed in brown to upper, stapled three times to spine. Light handling and bumping edges. Near fine. A catalogue of 199 Victoria Cross medals won between 1856 and the end of..... More
Kansas City: Franklin Hudson Publishing Company. 1906. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's blue clotht titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Lightly rubbed to extremities, bumped to spine ends and with some dulling of the spine panel. Tight and strong. Internally clean, light uniform toning due to cheap..... More
London: The Liberal Publication Department, 1912. [Liberal Party Speeches] RARE ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.24. Publisher plain paper covers with a single staple, priced at 1d. Heavily browned and very brittle, split along the spine with chips and some larger losses to edges. A remarkable survival. Very good..... More
London: Printed for the Grolier Society, no date [1904]. [Regal and Imperial Court Memoirs] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE SET, Edition De Luxe limited to 1000 copies. Complete in 20 volumes. Octavo (23 x 16 x 80cm). All text in English. Each volume with a title page and frontispiece printed on Japanese..... More
London: George Newnes, March to May 1917. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.50; 209-312; 51-58; pp.50; 313-416; 51-58; pp.40; 417-512; 41-48. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's blue paper covers, titled in red and navy, and priced at 7d. Presented in a navy..... More
London: the friends of T. E. Lawrence, no date [circa 1936]. ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Single page folded (19 x 11cm), with title to front cover and text inside. A couple of tiny marks to rear else fine. A pamphlet describing the actions required to ensure a memorial to Lawrence be erected..... More
London: [Hansard], ordered to be printed 13th July 1819. ORIGINAL REPORT. Large Folio (47 x 30cm), pp.[2]; 571; [5]. With 21 plates featuring facsimile reproductions of Irish charters, some coloured, as well as a number of large folding engraved illustrations of buildings in Dublin, all with tissue guards. In recent..... More
London: Lindsay Drummond, 1947. [Wartime Diaries] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 299 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by John Heartfield, priced at 10/6. Hinges split but holding firm. A little bumping to boards. Jacket toned, with rubbing to edges and..... More
London: George Virtue, no date [1829]. [Kent] PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[4]; ii; 130. Contemporary polished calf with gilt double rules, gilt titles to black leather square to spine, later plain brown endpapers. Profusely illustrated with a steel engraved frontispiece, and a vignette title, 126 fine steel engravings..... More
Maidstone: Walter Ruck. 1898. Octavo, pp. 22 of adverts, 146, 32 of adverts, folding map housed in pouch to rear. Red cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Published as part of the Homeland Association Handbook series. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Some spotting to prelims, joints just starting, map..... More
Kansas City: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co. 1908. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, a little scuffed and soiled. Titled in black to spine and front board. Very good. Portrait frontis. Internally clean. A clean tidy copy of a near contemporary account by an officer who served in the campaign. More
London: Ernest Benn, 1930. [True Crime] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.287; [1]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket priced at 10/6 net. Some spotting to edges, offsetting to half title. Dust-jacket shows well, some tape reinforcement to reverse, two ring marks to front panel..... More
London: John Major, 1825. First Major Edition. Octavo. Bound in contemporary black morocco, with blind panelling and corner motifs to boards, titles in gilt to spine; all edges gilt, interior gilt rulings, cream endpapers. Binding is rubbed to joints and extremities, with bumping to corners. Largely clean inside, with spotting..... More
London: Ingram, Cooke and Co., 1854. Second Cooke edition. Pp.309 with woodcut frontispiece, engraved general title and vignette title, facsimile title, and other illustrations within the text, followed by three numbered plates accompanied by explanatory text leaves. Original blind-stamped pale green cloth, with elaborate gilt tooling to spine, yellow coated..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; 303; [1]. Contemporary brown half calf recently re-backed, with the original marbled boards and the original spine laid over. Gilt titles and decoration to spine. Light occasional spotting. Heavy wear to boards and original..... More
London: Francis and John Rivington, 1853. [English Ecclesiastical History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 369 [3]. Publisher's blind-decorated cloth with paper title label to spine. A fine contemporary (and relevant) black ink inscription to recto of rear flyleaf. Typed bookseller's description pasted to rear pastedown. Heavy foxing to..... More
Boston: American Stationers' Company; Boston: Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf, and Hilliard, Gray, and Co.; Boston: Russell, Shattuck, and Williams, and Hilliard, Gray, and Co. 1834-1837. [American History]. First Sparks Edition, also The First Collected Edition, large paper copies. Twelve volumes,quarto (26 x 18 x 52cm). All first issues except volume..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1964. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 234. With five double-sided black and white plates, and a photographic frontispiece. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink. With the pink typographic dust-jacket, priced at 30s. Fine, but for some spotting to..... More
London: Secker and Warburg, 1939. [Futurology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.vi; 330. Publisher's grey cloth with titles in gilt and red to spine. Top edge red. With the blue illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Lightly browned and rubbed to edges. A little rubbing and toning to board edges..... More
London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1906. [Colonial Ethnography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 303 [1]. With 32 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding map at rear. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. Index unopened. Bookplate of..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1914. [Anthropology]. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 422; 2 of adverts. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. Some spotting to endpapers and to edges, slight rubbing to the head and tail of spine and to the corners. Glue residue at the top..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1961. [Literary Autobiography]. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.126; [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: "For | K. T. Williams | with best wishes | from | Dennis Wheatley". With five double-sided photographic plates of walls build by the author..... More
Edinburgh: Sold by White and Co., [etc.] no date [circa 1850]. [World Maps] HAND-COLOURED MAPS. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), including all 24 maps. Original black cloth boards with black leather corners, recently rebacked in plain black cloth, edges speckled red. Gilt titles and price of 7/6 to upper. Slight..... More
London: Murdoch and Co., 1898. FIRST EDITION in book-form. Pamphlet, pp.16, printed wrappers. Trivial toning. A fine copy, but for the rust-through from the single staple at fold. The text of Wilde's celebrated letter to the Daily Chronicle, appearing on 28th May 1897, which concerned the affair of Warder T...... More