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Crime in India, with an Introduction on Forensic Difficulties and Peculiarities.
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
The Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert, and Dr Robert Sanderson: To which are added the autographs of those eminent men, now first collected; an index, and illustrative notes.
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
The Complete Angler. New edition, edited by "Ephemera".
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
Original Letters, from Richard Baxter, Matthew Prior, Lord Bolingbroke, Alexander Pope, Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Hartley, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Mrs. Montague, Rev. William Gilpin, Rev. John Newton, George Lord Lyttleton, Rev. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, etc. etc. With Biographical Illustrations.
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
Appendicia et Pertinentiae; or, Parochial Fragments relating to the Parish of West Tarring, and the Chapelries of Heene and Durrington, in the County of Sussex; containing a Life of Thomas A Becket, an Historical and Descriptive Account of his (so called) Palace at West Tarring, and of the Figs he introduced; some Account of the Learned John Selden, and Selden's Cottage at Salvington, etc. etc. etc.
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
The Writings of George Washington. Being his Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and other Papers, Official and Private, selected and published from the Original Manuscripts. With A Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations by Jared Sparks.
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
Robbery Under Law: The Mexican Object-Lesson.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1939. [Politics/travel]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 286. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Edges slightly toned. Slight crease along spine, cloth a little rubbed at the titles, some bumping to endcaps and corners. Very good. More
The History of Chislehurst: Its Church, Manors, and Parish.
Buckingham: Baron Books for the Chislehurst Society, 1999. [Kent Topography] FACSIMILE CENTENARY EDITION. Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.xviii; 490. With many black and white illustrations and family trees. With the supplementary list of subscribers loose to preliminaries. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. A fine, as-new..... More
The Works of Daniel Webster.
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1851. 6 volumes; large 8vo. Publisher's burgundy embossed cloth with titles in gilt to very lightly faded spines. Engraved portrait frontispiece to a couple of volume with engraving of author's birth place. Very little foxing to first and last couple of pages mostly;..... More
The Fate Of Homo-Sapiens.
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
The New World Order. Whether it is attainable, how it can be attained, and what sort of world at peace will have to be.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1940. [Futurology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.191 [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket designed by William Kermode, priced at 6s. Light offsetting to endpapers, and a black ink ownership to flyleaf. Some marks and spots..... More
The Natives of British Central Africa.
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
Marriage Ceremonies in Morocco.
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
Saturdays with Bricks. (and other days under shell-fire).
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
A New School Atlas of Modern Geography; consisting of twenty-four maps, from the latest and best authorities.
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
Children In Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life.
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
The Castles of the Assassins.
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1963. [Middle-Eastern Travel and Archaeology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.328. With eight double-sided photographic plates, and 12 maps, including one large folding map. Publisher's deep purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at 30s. Light spotting to..... More
![Lives of the Rakes and Dandies]. Madame de Pompadour, Five Fair Sisters, The Fascinating Duc de...](/pictures/thumb/55152.jpg?v=1574181606)
[Lives of the Rakes and Dandies]. Madame de Pompadour, Five Fair Sisters, The Fascinating Duc de Richelieu, A Fair Conspirator, The Women Bonapartes, The Brood of False Lorraine, Rival Sultanas, The Pearl of Princesses, The Hand of Léonore, A Gallant of Lorraine, Unruly Daughters.
London and New York, NY: Harper and Brothers; London: Hutchinson and Co.; London: Methuen and Co., Ltd.; London: Eveleigh Nash Company; London: Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., 1904-1925. [Biography] FINELY BOUND COLLECTION. Eleven titles bound as fourteen volumes, octavo (22 x 15 x 62cm). Finely bound by Fox in red straight..... More
The Epic Voyage of the Seven Little Sisters: A 6,700-Mile Voyage Alone Across the Pacific.
London: Hutchinson, 1956. [Pacific Exploration] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.244. With a colour frontispiece and 21 black and white photographic plates, plans and maps evenly spaced throughout. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt decoration to upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at..... More
Charterhouse Old and New.
London: John C. Nimmo, 1895. FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xi; [3]; 295; [1]. Finely bound in contemporary dark green half morocco over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Four etchings by Cameron on Japanese paper, and a sketch plan to the..... More
Plane Tales from the Skies.
London: Cassell and Company, 1918. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.x; 182. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by G.H. Tavis. A collection of fact-based short stories about early aerial combat in WWI, mostly on the Western Front. Faint ghost of a stamp..... More
The Slaves of the Cool Mountains. The ancient social conditions and changes now in progress on the remote South-Western borders of China.
London: Lawrence and Wishart Ltd., 1959. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp. 223; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, dust-jacket has printed price of 25s to flap. Photographic frontispiece, illustrated. Internally bright and clean, minor toning to edges of textblock, a few bumped corners..... More
Bring on the Girls! The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy, with Pictures to Prove It.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1953. [Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[24] 278 [2]. With a section of black and white photographs preceding the main text. Inscribed "To Lawrence and Armina, | with fond greetings | from | Guy, | To which is added | a...... More
Genetic Prehistory in Selective Breeding: A Prelude to Mendel.
Oxford: OUP, 2001. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xvii, 323. Hardback. Bound in yellow and navy blue paper over card boards, with image of a sheep and titles in navy to front board, blurb to rear board. Inscribed "To Tom Avery / With thanks and best wishes / from Roger Wood"..... More
The Fish-Retailer and his Trade.
London: George G. Harrap and Company Ltd., 1933. [Food history]. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes, octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.224; pp.225-464; pp.465-683; [5]. Publisher's blue blind stamped cloth, gilt titles of black squares to spines, top edges tinted blue, blue endpapers. Profusely illustrated with half tone plates and a number of..... More