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Villes Anseatiques [Hanseatic Towns]: L'Univers, ou Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples, de Leurs Religions, Moeurs, Costumes, etc.
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1844. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.398. With 22 engraved plates to rear. Text in French. In contemporary quarter tan calf with gilt titles to black labels on spine. Marbled boards and end-papers. Black ink ownership inscription to title page. Gilt nearly all worn from labels. Spine head..... More
Across Europe In A Motor Boat.
New Yotk, NY: D Appleton and Co., 1908. First Edition. Octavo, pp.304. Bound in publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to front board and spine, boat and wake design stamped in dark green to front board; top edge gilt. Binding is a little shaken in its case, bumped, with some..... More
The Beasts, Birds, and Bees of Virgil. A Naturalist's Handbook to the Georgics.
Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1914. [Classics] ASSOCIATION COPY, First Edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xx; 107; [1]. Inscribed to Rev. A.R. Alsop from the Author's mother, 1914. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed. Some marking and rubbing to cloth, darkened to spine. Very good... More
Altered States: The Autobiography of Ken Russell.
New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1991. [Film Autobiography] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 337 [1]. With occasional in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with silver titles to spine and cream paper over boards. With the dust-jacket designed by Larry Lurin, priced at $22.50. Lightly..... More
Memories of an Army Surgeon.
London: Stanley Paul and Co., 1939. [Military, Medicine and Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.256. With four black and white photographic plates, one being a frontispiece, and the others double-sided. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Light offsetting to endpapers, with some spotting and browning to..... More
Letters of Samuel Rutherford. With Biographical Sketches of His Correspondents.
Edinburgh: William P. Kennedy, 1863. [Theological Correspondence] FIRST EDITION THUS, FINELY BOUND. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 464; pp.xiv; 452. Contemporary brown full morocco by R. Nelson, with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spines. All edges gilt, and marbled endpapers. Internally very clean, except for..... More
Carnaby Street.
Walton-on-Thames: Margaret and Jack Hobbs, 1970. [Pop culture] FIRST EDITION. Square quarto (21 x 21cm), pp.72. Publisher's bright pictorial card boards, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 25s net, in text illustrations by Malcolm English, pictorial endpapers showing map of Carnaby Street. Internally clean and bright, minor spotting to top edge, bumped..... More
Concise Cambridge History of English Literature.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1942. Reprint of the first edition; Octavo; fine binding by Morrell of London, half maroon calf-leather binding with gilt titles / tooling and red cloth; gilt top edge; marbled end papers; pp. xiv, 1094; slight split towards the top of the spine and weak top edge..... 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
Drawing Blood: Forty-Five Years of Scarfe Uncensored.
London: Little, Brown for Time Warner Books, 2005. [Political Cartoons]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.352. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. SIGNED by Scarfe in black ink to the half-title. Publisher's black cloth with red titles to spine and upper board. With the red illustrated..... More
The Collected Papers.
London: G. Bell and Sons. 1931. First edition. 8vo. 368pp. Fine in publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt to spine. In a fine unclipped example of the buff paper dustwrapper. Internally bright and clean, a splendid copy. A labour of love 20th century translation of the 18th century German work..... More
Scott's Last Expedition. Vol. I being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O., Vol. II being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. Arranged by Leonard Huxley. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1913. [Antarctic Exploration] FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Large octavo, pp.[2] xxvi, 633 [3]; pp.xvi, 534 [2]. With eight photogravure plates, including a frontispiece portrait for each volume, 18 coloured plates, and 260 photographic plates taken by members of the expedition. Handsomely bound in dark..... 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
Gems of Modern German Art, a Series of Carbon-Photographs from the Pictures of Eminent Modern Artists, with Remarks on the Works Selected, and an Essay on the Schools of Germany.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1873. [Art Catalogue] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 22cm), pp.[4]; 108; [2]. With sixteen illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full morocco by RAMAGE of London, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and gilt double-headed eagle motif stamped extensively to spine..... More
Edinburgh.
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1947. [Scotland] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 112. Illustrated with a frontispiece in colour and numerous black and white plates. Finely bound for the Times Book Club by Zaehnsdorf in blue half morocco over blue cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, top..... More
Battle for Egypt, The Summer of 1942. Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45.
Wellington, NZ: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1955. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 400 [4]. With many maps, including six folding, as well as two suites of eight double-sided black and white photographic plates, and a frontispiece. Publisher's red..... More
The Rajputs: A Fighting Race. A Short Account of the Rajput Race, its Warlike Past, its Early Connections with Great Britain, and its Gallant Services at the Present Moment at the Front.
London: East and West Ltd. 1915. First Edition. Quarto, pp. xvi, 164. With a foreword by General Sir O'Moore Creagh, ex commander-in-Chief, India. With 61 plates tipped in. In khaki cloth with gilt titles spine and upper board, gilt margins to upper board. Top edge gilt, all other edges untrimmed..... More
Lisa Fonssagrives: Three Decades of Classic Fashion Photography.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1996. [Fashion Photography History]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 25cm), pp.152. Illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photographs. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With black and white photographic dust-jacket. A fine as-new copy. More
My Sporting Holidays.
London: Edward Arnold, 1904. First Edition. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Very light rubbing to extremities; a few specks of foxing to page edges. With illustrations. Gilt bright, book sound: a near fine copy of this rare title. More
The Tragedies of Shakespeare.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912. [Shakespeare's plays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 1315; [1]. Oxford binding of quarter vellum over blue cloth boards, gilt decoration and titles to spine, top-edge gilt, housed in the original card slipcase. Frontispiece from a drawing by Sir George Scharf. Ownership..... More
A Tour to the West of England in 1788.
London: Printed for Robson and Clarke, 1789. [English Topography]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.viii, 602 [4]. In contemporary speckled tan calf boards, recently re-backed to-style with original green title label pasted to spine. Pencil ownership inscriptions of A. FitzAlan to pastedowns, dated 1899. Thumbing and chipping to edges..... More
Oscar Wilde. The Story of An Unhappy Friendship.
London: Privately Printed by the Hermes Press, 1902. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.278; [2]. With photogravure plates and two facsimile letters. Library binding of green cloth with gilt titles and shelfmark to spine. Yellow endpapers; all edges speckled red. Library bookplate and barcode to flyleaf..... More
The Speech of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq., in the House of Commons, (8th December 1802) on the Motion for the Army Establishment for the Ensuing Year.
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1802. [Commons Speech] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.22 [2]. Paper cover, priced at 6d, sewn. In an early twentieth-century brown cloth chemise case with the armorial bookplate of Viscount Esher (1852-1930). Gilt titles to spine. Heavy spotting to covers. Edges rough and dog-eared..... More
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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