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Talking about Ken Russell.
Cambridge: Buffalo Books, 2015. LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp.xii; 542; [2]. With frequent colour and black an white illustrations. One of just 500 copies originally printed. In publisher's glossy orange paper-covered boards. A fine as-new copy. A scarce work on the cult British photogropher/director. 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 Letters of T.E. Lawrence.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.896. Illustrated with sixteen plates, and four maps, two folding. Usual corrected state of text. Publisher's brown buckram in original dust-wrapper. Illustrated with photos and drawings, complete with folding maps. Owner name to flyleaf, jacket a little dusty and..... More
Ross.
New York, NY: Random House and the Fireside Theatre Book Club, no date [1962]. [T.E. Lawrence] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[12]; 180. Beautifully bound for Asprey by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in red half morocco over red cloth boards, raised bands and gilt to spine, all edges gilt, marbled..... 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
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
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
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
The History of the Herculean Straits, Now Called the Straits of Gibraltar: Including those Ports of Spain and Barbary that Lie Contiguous Thereto.
London: Rivington, 1771. FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Quarto. pp. x, 379; ii, 414. With 13 folding and 4 single-page or in-text copper plate engravings, mainly being plans and maps. Some views of the rock of Gibraltar and reproductions of notable Moorish inscriptions. In recent full mottled brown calf with..... More
The Prime Ministers: From Robert Walpole to Margaret Thatcher.
London: Nationwide Book Service, 1980. [British Politics] Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.xxiv; 260; [4]. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Recent bookplate detailing provenance affixed to flyleaf. Dedicated in blue ink to Colin [Lord Moynihan] from his aunt Marjorie..... More
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Old and New London. A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. [Together with:] Greater London. A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings from the most Authentic Sources.
London: Cassell and Company, 1897-8. Eight volumes bound as four (six for the Popular Edition of Old and New London, two for Greater London), profusely illustrated with woodcuts. In contemporary black half morocco with gilt titles and gilt lines to spines, black cloth boards, speckled edges. End papers foxed; age..... More
Over-Population and its Remedy; or, An Enquiry into the extent and Causes of the Distress Prevailing Among the Labouring Classes of the british Islands, and into the Means of Remedying it.
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1846. First Edition. Large 8vo.; pp. 446 + 32 of publisher's catalogue dated October 1845. Publisher's embossed brown cloth with gilt titles to spine; yellow end papers. Cloth water stained in specks. Neat owner's name. A remarkably sound and internally clean first printing of..... More
Registrum Roffense: or, A collection of antient records, charters, and instruments of divers kinds, necessary for illustrating the ecclesiastical history and antiquities of the Diocese and Cathedral of Rochester.
London: John Thorpe, 1769. Folio. Bound in full brown calf, gilt ruling to boards, raised bands and red title label to spine; all edges red speckled. Illustrated with frontispiece, engraved title and two engraved head pieces. With bookplate. Rebacked to style. Boards are worn and scratched, corners bumped. Internally clean..... More
In Siberia.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1999. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.287. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with silver titles and publisher's imprint to spine, grey map endpapers, showing map of Siberia. Pictorial dustjacket shows snowfield, with titles in white to front cover and spine, rear cover displays quotations from prominent reviewers;..... More
The History and Antiquities of the Castle and Town of Arundel; Including the Biography of its Earls, from the Conquest to the Present Time.
London: G. and W. Nicol, 1834. FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Large octavo, pp.[4] xiv, 350 [2]; pp.[4], 351-772 [2]. With eight copper-engraved plates, a family tree to each volume (Fitzalan and Howard families), and 14 further wood-engraved vignettes. In later dark green half morocco with slightly-raised bands and gilt..... More
The Goudhurst Coronation Book, A Record of Celebrations in Goudhurst and Kilndown (Kent) on May 12th, 1937.
Tunbridge Wells: The Courier Printing and Publishing Company Limited., 1937. [Kentish history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.896. Publisher's mid blue cloth covers with gilt titles and decoration to front and spine. Numerous black and white illustrations within. Internally fine, some light spotting and damp marking to the edges..... More
Japan, The Amoor and The Pacific.
London; Smith, Elder and Co. 1861. First edition. Large 8vo. 405pp. Bound in publisher's embossed bottle green cloth, titled and decorated in gilt to spine. Blindtamped borders to boards. Mudie's Library label affixed to upper front board. Scuffed and bumped to extremities, with some fraying and parting of the cloth..... More
Realities of Irish Life.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868. [Irish Biography]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 407 [3]. With 30 etched plates including a frontispiece after drawings by Trench's son, and a very large folding coloured map of Ireland. In contemporary burgundy half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
My Experiences at Nan Shan and Port Arthur with the Fifth East Siberian Rifles.
London: Hugh Rees, 1911. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Medium Octavo, pp.[2] xvi, 312 [2]. with 32 photographic plates, including a frontispiece portrait of the author, two plans, and six large folding maps. In recent burgundy half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and original gilt-titled burgundy cloth pasted to..... More
Clergymen of the Church of England.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. First Edition. Octavo. Bound in red cloth with beveled edges, blind panelling to front and rear boards, and gilt titles to front board. Neatly respined with matching red cloth. Rubbed in places, with a dark mark on both front and rear boards. Gilt remains bright..... More
Britain's Air Peril: The Danger of Neglect, Together with Considerations on the Role of the Air Force.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1933. CLEMENT ATLEE'S COPY, First Edition with a letter from the Air League of the British Empire. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x, 132 [2], 28. With Atlee's distinctive Art-Deco monogram bookplate to front pastedown, and a typed letter on headed note paper signed by..... More