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Past Feelings Renovated; Or, Ideas Occasioned by the Perusal of Dr Hibbert's 'Philosophy of Apparitions', written with the View of Counteracting any Sentiments Approaching Materialism, which that work, however Unintentional on the Part of the Author, May have a Tendency to Produce.
London: George B. Whittaker, 1828. [Supernatural occurence / mysticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), ppxi; 323. Early two-tone cloth, manuscript label to spine. Contents clean, occasional fold to corners, vintage catalogue description affixed to pastedown, minor rubbing and soiling to covers. A very good copy. Relating to Samuel Hibbert-Ware..... More
Photograph of Winston Spencer Churchill while painting.
[no date] Circa 1950s. [Churchill and Politics] (9 x 14cm). Black and white photograph of Winston Churchill painting. Some light creasing to the photograph but the image remains crisp and clear. Near fine. Although Churchill may be best remembered for his politics, painting and art was also an important part..... More
[Photographs - Motorcyling / Motor Sport interest].
No place (UK), no date (1950s). A selection of Motorcycle trials and speedway event photographs, being mostly postcard size, black and white images, examples detailing a meeting or meetings held in the 1950 s. One image has competition details to the rear 'J.B. HUNT N v S [North versus South?]..... More
[Photographs of Barre Rangers Foot Ball Club, United States Football Association, 1913].
[Barre, VT]. 1913. [Mounted Photographs] EARLY AMERICAN SOCCER TEAM, winners of the Vermont League and the 5-A-Side Champions of Vermont in 1913. Four mounted black and white photographs. Three photographs of the fourteen team members, as well as trainer, secretary and mascot, each in different attire. One photo of the..... More
Pictorial Sport and Adventure, being a record of daring and marvellous escapes by field and flood, with an account of various countries of the world and their inhabitants: the whole forming a compendium of the world.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [1898]. [True Adventure and Hunting] EARLY EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.viii; 312. With a colour frontispiece and decorated title page, and numerous engravings through the text. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper board. Cracked-earth..... More
The Poll for the Knights of the Shire, to Represent the Western Division of the County of Kent in Parliament, including the Registered Electors who did not vote, also, a General Index, and an Abstract of the Number of Votes for each Parish. Candidates: Thomas Law Hodges, Esq.; Thomas Rider, Esq.; Sir William R.P. Geary, Bart.
Maidstone: J. Smith, 1835. [Kent Voting Register] RARE ORIGINAL PRINTING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] 192 [2]. In the original publisher's brown quarter leather grain-effect cloth with brown paper over boards and gilt titles to the original navy blue label on spine. Wear to board edges and head and tail..... More
Princes Theatre Christmas Season 1956: The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. [The Gondoliers].
London: Printed by G.J. Parris, 1956. [Theatre Programme] ORIGINAL PROGRAMME. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.[16]. A programme for Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Gondoliers', with a programme for a whole season of other G&S productions a the Princes Theatre. Publisher's red covers, stapled once with a 6d price label. A...... More
The Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army. Revised Army Regulations. Vol. II.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, January 1868. [Military Regulations] ORIGINAL HANDBOOK. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.viii; 395 [1]. Interleaved with blank leaves for notes, and with an errata slip. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind titles and decoration to upper. Advertisements to pink endpapers. Repairs to..... More
Recueil de Plans de Batailles, Sieges et Combats, Arrives dans les Expeditions Memorables de la Guerre de Sept Ans, pour Servir A L'Intelligence des Oeuvres Posthumes de Frederic II, Roi de Prusse.
Amsterdam: J. G. Treuttel, 1789. [Seven Years War] DUKE OF GRAFTON'S COPY. Folio (42 x 27cm), pp.[4] followed by 19 plates. Contemporary marbled boards, paper covered spine designed to look like speckled calf, printed paper label to spine. Introductory text in French, text to plates in either English or French..... More
Royal Tunbridge Wells: The Official Guide issued under the Auspices of the Mayor and Corporation and the Tunbridge Wells Advertising Association.
Cheltenham: J. Burrow and Co., no date [circa 1920s]. [Town Guide] FINE COPY. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.120. With frequent in-text black and white photographic illustrations, including many advertisements. Publisher's colour-illustrated card covers, not priced. A lovely clean, barely handled copy. Almost as-new. A general description of the Spa town..... More
Sam Sheridan: The Secret Service Special, or, the jamboree at "Early Bird" bar. The Aldine "Boys' First-Rate Pocket Library." No. 178.
London: Aldine Publishing Company, n.d. [1893]. ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo, pp.32. In original colour illustrated paper covers. Text browned and brittle. Some chips to leaf edges. Covers less brittle, also chipped in places. Spine reinforced with archival tape. Good considering paper stock. More
The Seasons of the Year. Or The Hand of God Manifested in His Works.
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1852. [Natural History] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[4] 416 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page by T. Brown. Contemporary dark brown full morocco, with gilt titles and decorations to spine, and decoration in gilt and blind to boards. All edges..... More
Tales of the Classics: A New Delineation of the Most Popular Fables, Legends, and Allegories commemorated in the works of Poets, Painters, and Sculptors. Selected and Written by a Lady, for the amusement and instruction of her own daughters.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. [Greek Mythology] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] xxiv; 302 [4]; pp.[4] iv; 302 [4]; pp.[4] iv; 370 [4]. Contemporary black half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy labels, further gilt decoration to spines..... More
Triumph workshop manual [for] unit construction 350 c.c. and 500 c.c. twins : T100, T90, 5TA, 3TA, including from engine no. H65573.
Coventry: Triumph Engineering Co., no date [1969]. [Motorcycle Manual] ORIGINAL MANUAL. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.3-178. Stapled twice, in a secondary plain paper cover with titles written by hand in black ink to front cover. Central bi-fold loose. Staples rusted, with significant grease stains and thumb prints throughout. A...... More
The Tryal and Condemnation of Arundel Coke Alias Cooke Esq; And of John Woodburne Labourer, For Felony, in Slitting the Nose of Edward Crispe Gent. Contrary to the 22 and 23 Car. II. Cap. I. Intitled, An Act to Prevent Malicious Maiming and Wounding; Who Were Found Guilty at the Assizes Held Before the Right Honourable Sir Peter King Knt. Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at Bury St. Edmonds, Tuesday the 13th of March 1721. And Received Sentence the Day Following.
London: Printed for John Darby in Bartholomew-Close, 1722. [Trial/Litigation] FIRST EDITION. Folio (33 x 20cm), pp.38. Perfectly collated. With an imprimatur leaf facing title page and an extra leaf marked D* between signatures D and E. Newly re-bound with brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. Interior toned and moderately spotted..... More
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Adapted from Grimm's Fairy Tales.
London and Glasgow: Collins, no date [circa 1940's]. [Children's Illustrated] VINTAGE COPY, a later printing. Small quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.80. With black and white, and occasional colour illustrations reproducing scenes from the famous Disney film of the same name. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with the blue cloth spine. Illustrated..... More
Who's Who & Where: The Illustrated Year Book of Tunbridge Wells & District. Complete Local and Official Information.
Brighton: The Robinson Printing Company, 1908. [Town Guide and Directory] FINE COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.18 [2]; xlvi; 19-168. With frequent in-text black and white photographic illustrations, including many advertisements. Publisher's red quarter cloth, with colour-illustrated card covers priced at 6d. Just a touch of toning and spotting to..... More
The Young Ones [Exhibitor's Campaign Brochure].
London: Warner-Pathe Distributors, no date [1961]. [Musical Film] ORIGINAL PUBLICITY SERVICES BROCHURE. Large oblong booklet (29 x 44cm), pp.[8]. Including specs for posters and lobby cards, and suggestions cinema owners for publicising the film and extracting maximum financial benefit from showing it at their venue. Also with a loose sheet..... More
Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, To Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, With a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves, the Whole Forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging Made Easy, the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snooking Kens Depicted, the Common Lodging-house Gallants, Lessons to Lovers of Dice, the Gaming Table, etc. Embellished With Humorous Illustrations by George Cruikshank.
London: J. Duncombe, 1848 [circa 1885]. [London] VINTAGE COPY, a later reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.131 [1]. With an advertisement for 'Annals of Fashionable Gallantry' (1885) at rear. With a folding colour frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text woodcuts, by Cruikshank. Publisher's crocodile skin-effect tan cloth with gilt titles..... More
Dinner with the Family.
London: Methuen & Co., 1958. [French Drama] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.98 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to cloth. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Harry More-Gordon, priced at 10/6. A lovely crisp copy, with some toning and chipping to jacket spine. Near fine. An..... More
How to Decorate a Cake.
Stourbridge: Taylor, Law & Co., 1954. [Baking / Cookery] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.32. With two colour-illustrated leaves, and black and white illustrations to almost every page. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, stapled twice. Light spotting and moderate handing to covers. Minimal oxidation to staples. Very good. A step-by-step..... More
The Talking Horse and Other Stories.
London: Smith, Elder, and co., 1893. Presentation Copy, "New Edition". Octavo. Bound in publisher's red cloth, with panelling embossed in black to boards, titles to front board, and titles in gilt to spine. Binding is rubbed, with noticable fading to spine; somewhat shaken, linen visible in joint at p.1, and..... More
Russian Ballet. Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony. With an Introduction by Arnold Haskell.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1939. [Ballet Photography] LEATHER-BOUND First Edition. Large Quarto (33 x 27cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated with 96 tipped-in black and white photographs of Russian ballet stars, including a frontispiece. Recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with gilt titles to twin red labels, four raised bands to spine, and matching..... More
José Antonio Primo de Rivera: Selected Writings.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1972. [Literature] FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. 270; [2]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at £3.50 to front flap. Previous owner has a gift message on flyleaf in blue ink, very light wearing to bottom..... More
The Macropulos Secret. A Comedy.
London: Robert Holden and co., 1927. [Drama] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 211 [1]. Publisher's grey quarter cloth with pictorial orange paper over boards. Paper label with titles to spine. Infrequent foxing, mostly to preliminaries. Toning to endpapers. Foxing and toning to edges, especially top. Gentle wear..... More