History & Biography
The Life of Wellington. A New Edition, Revised, Condensed and Completed.
London: Bickers and Son, 1893. [Military Biography] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 387 [3]. With occasional in-text illustrations, and a frontispiece portrait of Wellington. Contemporary green polished calf, with gilt titles to a red label, and further gilt decoration to spine. All edges and endpapers..... More
Inside the Left: Thirty Years of Platform, Press, Prison and Parliament.
London: New Leader Ltd., George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1942. [Socialist Memoir] FIRST NEW LEADER EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.352. Publisher's green and brown paper-covered boards priced at 7/6 to spine. Some spotting to edge and endpapers. Light wear to boards; spine a little toned. Very good. A very..... More
Here I Stand.
London: Dennis Dobson, 1958. [Civil Rights Movement] INSCRIBED COPY, Second Impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.128. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'every good wish | to you | Paul Robeson | Nov. 1958.' Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and white..... More
A History of the Devil.
London: W.H. Allen, 1973. [Spirituality and Religion] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.251 [1]. With two suites of four double-sided black and white plates. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Richard Weaver. Heavy browning to front endpapers and preliminaries. Spine sunned to..... More
Ten Thousand Miles on Elephants.
London: Seeley Service and Co., 1961. [Indian Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.220 [4]. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to a green background to spine. Top edge red. With the photographic dust-jacket titled in red. Light spotting..... More
That Frozen Land. The story of a year in the Antarctic.
London: The Falcon Press, 1949. [Antarctic Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.204. With two folding maps and eight double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue and yellow dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. Bookseller's stamp to front pastedown and front..... More
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Mein Kampf [My Struggle]. Jubiläumsausgabe anläßlich der Vollendung des 50. Lebensjahres des Führers.
München: Centralverlag der NSDAP, 1939. [Fascism] JUBILEE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.705 [30]. With a photographic frontispiece, and a section of facsimile posters from the 1920's at rear. Publisher's deluxe navy full morocco, with two raised bands, gilt titles to red label, and further gilt decoration to spine. Gilt..... More
History of Western Philosophy, and its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1946. [Philosophy] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.916. Publisher's oatmeal cloth with yellow titles to a brown background on spine. With the brown dust-jacket designed by A.E. Barlow, printed on the back of a map of Poland and priced at 21s. Blue ink..... More
Spy Ring: The Full Story of the Naval Secrets Case.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1961. [Espionage] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.224. With four double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the orange dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Library stamps to title page and copyright page. Library shelf mark to base of..... 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
England Delineated.
London: Printed for Lackington, Allen and Co., 1804. [Topography] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[2] vi; 148; pp.[2] iv; 148. With 149 copper engraved plates including vignette title pages. Contemporary brown half calf with gilt titles and blind decoration to spines. Marbled paper over boards;..... More
Glasgow Streets and Places. Notes and Memoranda by the late James Muir, C.A. Edited, Arranged, and Supplemented, with a Memoir by Benjamin Taylor.
Glasgow and Edinburgh: William Hodge and Co., 1899. [Memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 19cm), pp.xxx; 126. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper, untrimmed fore and tail edge. Frontispiece portrait. Internally fine, largely unopened. Budapest booksellers ticket to pastedown, toning to endpapers. Some dustiness to edges. Cloth..... More
Great Travel Stories of All Nations.
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1932. [Travel Anthology] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.1030 [2]. In a fine contemporary prize binding by BICKERS & SON of London, being full tree calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to brown label on spine, further gilt decoration to..... More
In Our Time: Celebrating Twenty Years of Essential Conversation.
London: Simon and Schuster, 2018. [Broadcasting History] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.432. With colour illustrations throughout. SIGNED by both authors in black marker to title page. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gold decorated endpapers. With the dust-jacket, priced at £25. Two promotional stickers..... 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
Gibraltar.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. [European Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[2] xii; 139 [7]. With 12 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Top edge gilt; blue endpapers. Hinges split, but not loose at..... More
Henry Wellcome.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, a John Curtis Book, 1994. [Pharmaceutical Biography] FIRST EDITION, a presentation copy from the Chairman of the Wellcome Trust. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xx; 422 [6]. With a Wellcome Trust compliments slip from the Chairman, Sir Roger Gibbs, addressed in blue ink to 'Darling Jane... Much..... More
La Révolution Française (1789-1799), D'Apres les Temoignages Contemporains et les Historiens Modernes.
Paris: Alcide Picard et Kaan, no date [circa 1900]. [French History] FINELY BOUND, the fifth edition. Large octavo (28 x 20cm), pp.[2] xvi; 459 [7]. All text in French. With frequent wood engravings by various artists. Contemporary red quarter morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and..... 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
Stones of Aran: Labyrinth.
Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1995. [Irish Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 495 [7]. Publisher's grey cloth with silver titles to spine, and a silver device to upper. Black endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Ed Miliano. Spotting to top edge. Some light bumping to jacket edges. Very..... More
Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer.
New York, NY: Viking, 1987. [Espionage] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 392 [2]. With a suite of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's black quarter cloth with silver titles to spine and black paper over boards. With the dust-jacket designed by Neil Stuart, priced at..... More
Peru: Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1877. [South American Travel and Archaeology] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xx; 599 [5]. With frequent in-text engravings, an engraved frontispiece, and a folding map. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine, as well as decorations in gilt and black to spine and..... More
Observations on the Coasts of Hampshire, Sussex, and Kent, relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty: made in the summer of the year 1774.
London: Printed by A. Strahan, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. [Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 135 [3]. With six lithographic illustrations. Contemporary full speckled calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red and black labels, and further gilt decoration to spine. Armorial bookplate and..... More
The Indo-Sumerian Seals Deciphered. Discovering Sumerians of Indus Valley as Phoenicians, Barats, Goths and Famous Vedic Aryans 3100-2300 B.C.
London: Luzac and Co., 1925. [Archaeological Ethnography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxiv; 146 [2]. With occasional in-text illustrations, two maps, and a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain dust-jacket, priced at 10s to spine. Light spotting to edges. Jacket with some minor..... More
The Mirror. A Periodical Paper, Published at Edinburgh in the Years 1779, and 1780.
London: Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1782. [Essays] FINELY BOUND, the fourth edition. Three volumes. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.[4] viii; 271 [3]; pp.[4] viii; 319 [3]; pp.[4] viii; 320 [2]. Mid-twentieth century calf rebacked spines, with the original tree calf boards. Small black ink ownership to second..... More