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On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in original jacket designed by Richard Chopping, priced at 16s. Inscribed by the author to his close friend John Hayward; "To John..... More
Six Modern One-Act Plays.
London: University of London Press, 1950. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, thus. Octavo, pp.160. Publisher's softcovers. SIGNED BY JOHN LENNON. An interesting school text-book borrowed by Lennon whilst a student at Quarry Bank School, Liverpool. Lennon has signed the lending stamp to the inside cover 'J[ohn] W[inston] Lennon, IVC', and dated this..... More
The Bombay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. [Set of writings / novels / poems including: The Jungle Book, Kim, Wee Willie Winkie, Just So Stories, Captain Courageous, Rewards and Fairies, Stalky and Co, Puck of Pook's Hill, Rewards and Fairies, etc.]
London: Macmillan and Company, 1913-1938. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by the author in volume I to half title. Complete in 31 volumes; large octavo (25 x 132cm). Finely bound in deep red half morocco, raised bands and gilt rules to spines, matching cloth sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Printed from..... More
Rogue Male [aka Man Hunt].
London: Chatto and Windus, 1939. [Classic man-hunt adventure] FIRST EDITION, PROOF COPY, with an original 4-page advert/order form. Octavo, pp.[vii]; 271; [1], imprint. Publisher's brown card softcovers, with printed label to upper, handwritten details to spine. Contents clean, some wrinkling and lean to spine, covers lightly handled. A very good..... More
Uncommon Danger.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937. [Intrigue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.314; [6], advertisements. Publisher's pale blue cloth lettered in black, mid-blue endpapers, pictorial jacket by Gibbs, priced 7/6. Trivial toning to edge of text block, jacket with very light rubbing/wear to extremities. Overall a lovely fine copy of..... More
Villare Cantianum: Or Kent Surveyed and Illustrated. Being an exact Description of all the Parishes, Burroughs, Villages, and other Respective Mannors Included in the County of Kent; and, the Original and Intermedial Possessors of them, even until these Times, Drawn out of Charters, Escheat-Rolls, Fines, and other Publick Evidences; But especially out of Gentlemens Private Deeds and Muniments.
London: William Godbid, 1659. [Kentish history] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 20cm), pp.[16]; 401; [1]. In contemporary brown full calf, recently rebacked with the original spine laid on, gilt titles on polished leather square to spine. Armorial bookplate of John Wells Esq. and booksellers ticket of C. Brown, High Street..... More
Scott's Last Expedition. Vol. I being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O., Vol. II being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. Arranged by Leonard Huxley. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. [Polar Exploration] FIRST COLONIAL EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 497; [11]; pp.x; 431; [1]. With eight photographic plates including a frontispiece to each volume, and a folding map at the rear of each volume. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles and..... More
Washington Square. The Pension Beaurepas. A Bundle of Letters.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. [Literature] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, Hybrid issue. Two volumes, Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.265; 271. With a 24-page catalogue at the rear of volume II, dated January 1881. Publisher's blue-green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, coated brown endpapers. Contents clean. A used set with some..... More
The Bear Fell Free.
London: Grayson and Grayson, 1935. [Modern Literature] PROOF COPY. Slim octavo (22 x 15cm), unpaginated. Bound in plain brown paper wraps, titled in ink to upper. Minor wear to spine, light handling; near fine. Published in an edition limited to 250 copies, yet only a handful of softcover proofs would..... More
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Containing the Antient [Ancient] and Present State of it, Civil and Ecclesiastical; Collected from public Records, and other the best Authorities, both Manuscript and Printed: and Illustrated with Maps, and Views of Antiquities, Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, etc.
Canterbury: Printed for the Author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-1799. [Kentish history] FIRST EDITION. In four volumes. Folio (41 x 26cm), pp.[4]; xii; clii; 580; 42; [2]; pp.[4]; 817; [1]; 72; pp.[4]; ii; 765; [1]; 51; [3]; pp.vi; 788; 46; [2]. Complete with all 167 copper engraved illustrations, including county..... More
Kennedy's Messages 1963. Edited, with a Foreword by Edwin Reischauer.
[Japan], 1963. [Politics] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.155. With three black and white photographic plates [JFK, 88th Congress and Ambassador Reischauer]. Text in English, followed by Japanese, each segment with separate title-page printed on green card. Bound in dark blue silk, blocked in silver-gilt to spine and upper..... More
War and Peace. [1] Before Tilsit. [2] The Invasion. [3] The French at Moscow.
London: Vizetelly and Co., [1889]. [Literature] ISSUED AS VIZETELLY'S THIRD EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13 x 8 cm) pp.429; 360; 387. Publisher's original brown boards, decoratively blocked in red and black, with individual book titled printed on each cover, plain brown linen spines, coated yellow endpapers. Same ink ownership to..... More
The Story of a Puppet or the Adventures of Pinocchio. Translated from the Italian by M.A. Murray. Illustrated by C. Mazzanti.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. [Fairy tale] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[6]; 232. Publisher's white cloth with blue floral decoration, blue title to spine and upper. Edges and endpapers repeating the design of the cloth. Illustrated with a tissue protected frontispiece and numerous in-text illustrations by..... More
Concert For George.
UK: Genesis Publications, 2004. [Rock photo-documentary] DELUXE EDITION, signed by Olivia Harrison. Folio, pp.306 STRICTLY LIMITED; No 21 of 350 numbered copies, not to be confused with the 'Collector' edition which was numbered up to 2500. Deluxe copies were bound in half-terracotta goatskin over padded cloth sides with rose gold..... More
From Russia, With Love (a James Bond novel)
London: Jonathan Cape. 1957. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION, First Impression, Binding A, an ASSOCIATION COPY. Pp.253. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards in pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by Richard Chopping. This is the personal copy of John Alden, founder and chairman of The Alden Press (Oxford) Limited, the printer of this and many..... More
The History of Kent. In Five parts. Containing I. An exact topography or description of the county. II. The Civil History of Kent.... V. The Natural History of Kent.
London: Printed and Sold by D. Midwinter, 1719. [Kent Topography/Cartography] FIRST EDITION. Folio (40 x 29cm), pp.[2]; iv, Dedication; iv, Preface; ii, Ode to Kent; iv, List of Subscribers; 592; xl. Illustrated with 43 fine engravings, of which 39 are double-page and/or fold-out. Includes fine panoramas of Rochester and Tunbridge..... More
Decline and Fall.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1928. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.288. Octavo. Illustrated novelette. Publisher's snake skin-effect cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper correctly priced at 7/6. Both book and jacket are used; flyleaf has two small 'file' numbers, rear inner joint cracked, general handling and wear, jacket with..... More
Instructions to Young Sportsmen, with directions for the Choice, Care, and Management of Guns; Hints for the Preservation of Game; and Instructions For Shooting Wildfowl. To Which is added, A Concise Abridgment of The Principal Game Laws.
LonJohnson and Co, St Paul's Church-Yard, 1814. [Firearms reference] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.xvi; 150. Publisher's drab grey paper-covered boards, printed title label to spine, edges untrimmed. Contents clean, covers a little bumped and marked, joints worn, chipped to crown of spine. A very good example of a...... More
The Voyage of the Discovery.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1913. [Polar Exploration] RARE DUST-JACKETS, the first pocket edition. Two volumes. Duodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.478; [2]; pp.477; [3]. With eight photographic plates, including a frontispiece to each volume, and a folding map at the rear of volume I. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles..... More
Mania Days. The Beatles 1964 US Tour
UK: Genesis Publications, 2000. [Rock photo-documentary] DELUXE EDITION, signed by Stephen Gunther, curator of the Kurt Gunther archive. STRICTLY LIMITED; No 21 of 200 numbered copies, not to be confused with the 'Collector' edition which was numbered up to 2500. Deluxe copies were bound in full goatskin and include an..... More
Nature [X-Rays]. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science. Volume LIII.
London: Macmillan and Co., November 1895 to April 1896. [Science Journal] FIRST APPEARANCE IN ENGLISH of Rontgen's discovery of X-Rays. Quarto (28 x 20cm), pp.[2]; xl; 624; [2]. Contemporary black half morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Leather-grain effect cloth over boards. Marbled endpapers; all edges flecked..... 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
The Bear Fell Free.
London: Grayson and Grayson, 1935. [Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Slim octavo (22 x 15cm). One of the titles in "The Grayson Books" series, a collection of signed limited editions by notable authors. Publisher's gilt decorated green-brown cloth, illustrated endpapers, cream and blue dust-wrapper. Boards a little bowed, jacket with..... More
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade).
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. [Literature] FIRST UK EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, being novelist Sir Walter Besant's copy, a friend of the author and an early public champion of this book. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 438; [34]. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Pictorial red cloth boards, brown floral endpapers..... More
Sword of Honour. The Trilogy which includes: Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unconditional Surrender.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1955-62. [Military saga] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, SIGNED by the author. 3 volumes. Octavo, pp. 314, 335, 311. Navy blue cloth hardcovers, titles in gilt to spine, top edges tinted blue, in original jackets designed by Val Biro. In the publisher's pictorial slipcase adverting the set for..... More