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The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Baltimore, MD and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1988-1991. [Biography] COMPLETE SET. Three volumes, octavo (25 x 17 x 12cm). Volumes II and III first editions, volume I a second printing. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jackets. All volumes bright and clean, with just some trivial edge... More about The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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 about Oscar Wilde. The Story of An Unhappy Friendship
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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 about The Life of Graham Greene: Volume One, 1904-1939 [together with] Volume Two, 1939-1955 [and]...
Sketches of the Irish Bar.
New York, NY: Redfield, 1854. FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Crown octavo, pp.[2], 388 [2]; pp.[2], 380 [2]. With a facsimile letter from MacKenzie as a frontispiece. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Bookplates of H. Scofield to front pastedown of each vol. Light spotting throughout. Light outer wear. Very good overall. More about Sketches of the Irish Bar
An Army Woman In The Philippines. Extracts from Letters of an Army Officer's Wife, Describing Her Personal Experiences in the Philippine Islands.
Kansas City, Missouri: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co. 1914. FIRST EDITION, dated 1914 only (some remaindered copies were over-stamped with the date 1916). Octavo, pp.183, with full-page photographic plates inserted. Handsomely bound in recent half red calf. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR [Fort Leavenworth, 1918] TO HER PUBLISHER, Captain Franklin Hudson, explaining... More about An Army Woman In The Philippines. Extracts from Letters of an Army Officer's Wife, Describing Her...
Qanoon-e-Islam, or the Customs of the Mussulmans of India; Comprising a Full and Exact Account of Their Various Rites and Ceremonies, from the Moment of Birth Till the Hour of Death.
Madras: J. Higginbotham, 1863. RARE SECOND EDITION. Octavo, pp.[2] xxiv, 296, cxliv [2]. With a total of 21 lithographic plates, two being portrait frontispieces and seven appearing consecutively at rear. In contemporary, possibly publisher's half tan cloth with navy leather-effect paper-covered boards. No external titles. Light even browning throughout; occasional... More about Qanoon-e-Islam, or the Customs of the Mussulmans of India; Comprising a Full and Exact Account of...
Slide Rule. The Autobiography of An Engineer.
London: Pan Books 1968. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.222; [2], advertisements. With four black and white photographic plates. Lightly handled; a crisp, fine copy. More about Slide Rule. The Autobiography of An Engineer
Indian States and the New Regime.
Sitamau: [Privately printed], 1937. [Indian history and politics] INSCRIBED ADVANCE COPY. First edition. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxvi; 469 [3]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'Presented to the | most Honourable the Marquess of | Zetland, P.C., G.C.S.I., | G.C.I.E., etc. | the Secretary of State... More about Indian States and the New Regime
Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe.
London: Henry G. Bohn. 1846. Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in light brown half calf over marbled boards, titled in gilt to spines. Minor edgewear, slight scuffing and rubbing to extremities, a little bumped here and there but solid, strong and durable. Edges speckled red, top edges dusty. Internally... More about Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe
Skelton's Engraved Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of Oxfordshire, from Original Drawings by F. Mackenzie. Accompanied with descriptive historical notices.
Oxford: J. Skelton, 1823. FIRST SUBSCRIBERS EDITION. Large Quarto, pp.[6] iv, 10; 8; 4; 12; 10; 22; 10; 10; 4; 2; 2; 8; 10; 26 [6]. With separate pagination for each Hundred region. 50 large steel engravings on india paper pasted to thick plates, including a frontispiece, as well as... More about Skelton's Engraved Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of Oxfordshire, from Original...
The Story Of The Life Of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer.
London: John Murray, 1860. Octavo. Bound in publisher's green cloth, embossed panelling to boards, gilt titles and gilt steam engine to spine. Includes portrait of Stephenson and illustrative woodcuts. With binder's ticket at rear. Tenth thousand. Binding is somewhat rubbed, frayed at spine ends, corners bumped, joints starting. Internally clean... More about The Story Of The Life Of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer
The Dictionary of National Biography, The Concise Dictionary From the Beginnings to 1930, Being and Epitome of the Main Work and its Supplement, to which is added and Epitome of the Twentieth Century Volumes covering 1901 - 1930.
London: Humphrey Milford. c. 1939. Attractive single volume. Octavo. pp. viii, 1456; 184. Bound in half red morocco leather with raised bands and gilt titles and tooling to spine. Top edge gilt and marbled end papers. Light foxing to prelims and the beginnings of a split to upper joint. Otherwise very good. More about The Dictionary of National Biography, The Concise Dictionary From the Beginnings to 1930, Being...
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles, Together with The True Travels, Adventures and Observations, and a Sea Grammar.
Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1907. [Americana] LIMITED EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxxvi; 396; pp.xix; [3]; 329; [3]. Number 5 of just 100 copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the publisher. Publisher's quarter vellum with gilt titles to spines and red cloth over boards with... More about The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles, Together with The True...
On Leopard Rock.
London: Zaffre Publishing, 2018. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.384; [4] advertisements. Publisher's black cloth blocked in blind, patterend red endpapers, photographic dust-wrapper priced at £20. Illustrated with colour photographs. Signed by the author to title page, who has added the salutation 'Best Wishes'. With Waterstones... More about On Leopard Rock
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956. An Experiment in Literary Investigation I-II.
London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1974. [Communism] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 660. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of £3.00 net. Slight toning to endpapers and edges. Wrapper shows well with no fading, some edge wear with a few... More about The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956. An Experiment in Literary Investigation I-II
Further Experiences of an Irish R.M.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1908. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii; 314; 3 [ads]. Bound in publisher's green cloth, with a white cloth band stretching over rear board, spine, and front board. Stylistic title blocked in black. Title to spine blocked in gilt. Three plates missing. Very clean internally excepting browning... More about Further Experiences of an Irish R.M
The Life of Nelson.
London: Bickers and Son, 1895. [Biography] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[xvi]; 351; [5]. Brown pebble grain morocco by Bumpus, raised bands and gilt titling to spine, gilt school crest to upper board, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece and twelve further plates by Westall. Light spotting... More about The Life of Nelson
Prelude to Victory.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine; top edge stained red. Dust wrapper has titles in black to front cover and spine, rear cover blank. With an introduction by Winston Churchill, fold-out maps and photographic illustrations. Binding is lightly rubbed... More about Prelude to Victory
An Essay Descriptive of the Abbey Church of Romsey, in Hampshire, Founded by King Edward the Elder: Compiled by from Various Voluminous Works and Ancient Manuscripts, in the British Museum and Elsewhere.
Romsey: C. L. Lordan, no date [circa 1845]. [Church architecture] SECOND EDITION. Duodecimo (20 x 12cm), pp.[8]; viii; 124. With a lithographic illustrated title page, and a chromolithographic frontispiece. Publisher's blind-decorated brown cloth with gilt titles to upper board. All edges untrimmed. Reading lean; some weakness to binding at the... More about An Essay Descriptive of the Abbey Church of Romsey, in Hampshire, Founded by King Edward the...
The Myths of the North American Indians.
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1919. [Americana] ILLUSTRATED. First edition, third impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 393; [1]. With 34 half-tone plates, some in colour, as well as a map. Publisher's green half morocco with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Tan cloth over boards; top edge gilt... More about The Myths of the North American Indians
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M.S. [The French Retreat from Moscow]. Original M.S. of the article published in the Quarterly Review October 1867.
[c.1867]. BOUND MANUSCRIPT. Small Quarto, pp.305. Page numbers in light pencil; writing in black ink. In a contemporary binding of full calf with raised bands, burgundy calf label with gilt titles to spine, marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Edward Stanhope to front pastedown. Large water or oil stain to top right... More about M.S. [The French Retreat from Moscow]. Original M.S. of the article published in the Quarterly...
Magdalen School: A History of Magdalen College School, Oxford.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1940. [School History] PRESENTATION COPY FOR CECIL DAY-LEWIS, first edition. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 252. With 16 black and white plates including a frontispiece, and a folding plan of the school. INSCRIBED from the author in black ink to Cecil Day-Lewis to flyleaf, dated 1952. Publisher's... More about Magdalen School: A History of Magdalen College School, Oxford
Sinai and Palestine, In connection with their history.
London: John Murray, 1889. [Holy Land Topography] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a new edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lviii; 560. With eleven maps, six printed in colour, and a colour frontispiece showing the elevation of the country. Contemporary burgundy polished calf for Leeds Grammar School, with raised bands, gilt titles to... More about Sinai and Palestine, In connection with their history
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 about Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey
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 about Westminster Abbey