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Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey.
London: John Murray, 1868. [Architectural and Ecclesiastical History] FINELY BOUND, the Second Edition, revised. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lii; 632 [2]. With 22 illustrations including a frontispiece, as well as a title page vignette. Contemporary peach diced calf with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt crossed..... More
Westminster Abbey.
1896. Octavo. Bound in brown morocco with gilt panelling to front board, raised bands, extensive gilt decoration and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt and slightly gauffered to extremeties, additional gilt line to edges of boards and triple ruled gilt dentelles. A handsome copy. Gilt is bright, spine slightly..... More
In Darkest Africa, or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890-1891. [African Exploration] FIRST US EDITIONS. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 547; [1]; pp.xvi; 540; With two steel engravings, and one hundred and fifty illustrations and maps, pockets containing loose maps to the rear of each volume.Elegantly hand-bound in mid-green half calf..... More
Alexander's Path. From Caria to Cilicia.
London: John Murray, 1958. [Travel literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 283 [1]. With 21 black and white photographic plates, as well as vignette title page illustration by Reynolds Stone, in-text illustrations by the author, maps, and an index. Recent blue half morocco with raised bands..... More
The Coast of Incense.
London: John Murray, 1953. First Edition. Octavo, pp. xiii, 287. Yellow cloth with black tiles to spine, in striking green dustwrapper. Some light soiling to the edges, head and tail caps slightly bumped. Slight lean to the textblock. Dustwrapper shows brightly, some closed tears, slight tanning to the spine and..... More
Ionia: A Quest.
London: John Murray, 1954. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xxiv]; 263; [1] blank. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt to spine and upper board, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30s net, sketch map drawn by E.G. Morton, photographic plates and in-text drawings by the author. Spotting to endpapers, toned..... More
Ionia: A Quest.
London: John Murray, 1954. [Near-Eastern Travel] FIRST EDITION WITH SIGNED LETTER AND POSTCARD. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 263 [1]. With 17 black and white photographic plates, many double-sided, as well as a double-page spread sketch map by E.G. Morton. Publisher's turquoise cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper..... More
Perseus in The Wind.
London: John Murray, 1948. [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.x; 169; [1]. With wood engraved vignettes by Reynolds Stone to chapter headings. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket designed by F. Quilter. Sunning and spotting to top edge and adjacent boards. Losses..... More
Traveller's Prelude; Beyond the Euphrates; The Coast of Incense; Dust in the Lion's Paw. A Complete set of Freya Stark's four-volume Autobiography.
London: John Murray, 1950; 1951; 1953; 1961. [Travel writing] ALL FIRST EDITIONS. Octavo (23 x 16 x 14cm), pp.xii; 346; pp.xiii; 341; pp.xiii; 287; pp.xii; 297. Elegantly bound in half green calf, gilt-lettered with twin red morocco title labels, spine in six compartments with raised bands, matching cloth sides, top..... More
The Romish Horseleech: or, an Impartial Account of the Intolerable Charge of Popery to this Nation, In an Historical Remembrance of some of those Prodigious summs of money heretofore extorted from all degrees during the exercise of the Papal power here. To which is Annexed an Essay of the Supremacy of the King of England.
London: Printed by R.W. for Ralph Smith, 1674. [Anti-Catholic Propaganda] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[32]; 286; [4]. Later (likely late eighteenth-century) brown straight grained calf, with gilt titles to a black label, and gilt decorations to spine. Trimmed, with all edges and endpapers marbled. Some black ink scribbling..... More
Studies of a Biographer.
London: Duckworth and Co., 1898. [Meta-Biography] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 267; [1]; pp.[8]; 284. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spines. Top edges gilt; others untrimmed. Offsetting to endpapers; some spotting throughout. Cloth largely sunned and toned to brown; light rubbing. Very good. A...... More
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
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Studies in Strange Souls. [ROSSETTI] [SWINBURNE].
London: Charles J. Sawyer, 1929. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, AND ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY THE PUBLISHER. LIMITED PRINT. This is number 9 of just 100 copies. Octavo, pp.82. Bound in red publisher's cloth with title/author's name in gilt to front board and spine, top edge gilt, fore edge and tail edge..... 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
Byzantine Architecture; Illustrated by Examples of Edifices Erected in the East During the Earliest Ages of Christianity. With Historical & Archaeological Descriptions.
London: Day and Son, 1864. [Byzantine Architecture] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Folio (44 x 31cm), pp.xii, 218. Illustrated with 70 tinted lithographic plates (including 12 in colour), each with a tissue guard, and many woodcuts. Rebound with the original publisher's purple cloth boards, decorated liberally in gilt to upper and blind..... More
The Four Georges. Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court, and Town Life.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.226, 16 of adverts. Bound in publisher's blind stamped green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Bookseller's label of "Kerby and Son" of Oxford Street to front pastedown. Two plates and numerous in text illustrations. Catalogue at rear dated November 1861..... 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. Royal octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 914. With nineteen double-sided photographic plates divided into five suites. Signed by Baroness Thatcher to a tipped in blank between half-title and title page. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, blue endpapers, photographic dust-jacket..... More
George Washington: His Boyhood and Manhood.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1902. [Military Biography] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the fourteenth edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xx; 422 [2]. With a frontispiece engraving of Washington. Contemporary tan full calf by RELFE BROTHERS of London for Kingsbridge Grammar School, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and..... More
John Lennon. The Life.
London: Harper Collins, 2005. [Music biography] FIRST EDITION, with photographic plates. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.853; [1], blank. With two suites of black and white plates. Black cloth blocked in silver to spine, black endpapers, in glossy dust-jacket priced at £25. Absolutely fine/as new. A monumental, doorstop account of the..... More
Racing and Steeplechasing.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1886. [Horse Racing / Sport] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15 cm), pp.327. With illustrations by J. Sturgess, including frontispiece in colour. Bound in half dark blue calf with twin red and green title labels to spine, gilt racing motifs, raised bands, matching cloth sides..... More
Arabian Sands.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1959. [Arabian Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 326; [2]. Thoroughly illustrated with the author's photographs. Map of the "Empty Quarter" folded in pocket at rear. In publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. A very good copy..... More
History of the French Revolution. Translated by J. Dixon, Esq.
London: G. Vickers and others, 1845. [Literature / History] Two volumes, octavo (23 x 16cm). With engraved frontispiece. Tan half calf with twin red and green title labels, full gilt backs, marbled sides. Some minor spotting/toning, bindings nicely aged with some rubbing, gilt dulled/rubbed in places. Shows well. Statesman and..... More
Alan Sugar: The Amstrad Story.
London: Century, 1990. [Business Memoir] ASSOCIATION COPY, First Edition. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; 366. Inscribed in blue ink to half-title, from 'Adam' to Rodger Sandiford, founder of Tiny Computers and Former Director of Goodmans Electronics. In publisher's grey paper-covered boards with black titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket..... More