London: Cassell and Company, 1943-50. Mixed editions. Nine volumes. 8vo. Seven volumes of the war speeches in publisher's blue cloth, the post-war volume in publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, three volumes with early inscriptions, dust jackets, early Singapore bookseller's stamp to the front free endpaper of "Victory".....

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London: Jill Norman, Robert Hale, (1984). First edition, 8vo, 318 pp. Black and white illustrations. A hand written card from David is loosely inserted, having originally been stuck to the paste down on top of a crossed through inscription. Cloth, d.w., very good. Dated November 21st, 1977, David writes from.....

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Richmond: Printed and Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1923. First English edition, 8vo, 35, (1, 1 advertisement, 1) pp. Signature to paste down of Stephen C. Morland. Original marbled boards with a paper label to the upper cover - Gallup's first state label, one of.....

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London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. Forty-first thousand. 8vo. (x), 192 pp. Contemporary red full calf by Bickers and Son, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered label, the other compartments gilt decorated, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, later owner's name neatly signed to the front flyleaf. Frontispiece and 41 illustrations by.....

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London: Published by J. Cary, (1804). First edition, later impression, 4to, 81 leaves printed on one side only, followed by 14 "General Directions" and 88 "List of Places" pp. Five leaves (title, dedication, general map, explanation and scale) bound in at the front as called for. Hand coloured outlining and.....

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London: Cassell & Co., 1948-54. First editions. Six volumes. 8vo. Recent russet half morocco over matching cloth boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and dated at the feet, lion rampant device in gilt to the other compartments, top edges gilt. Numerous maps, some folding. An.....

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London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1881. Limited edition, no. 24 of 200 India proofs signed by Crane, oblong folio, (1), 56 leaves. Limitation leaf with the lower half spotted and some other marks, otherwise a clean copy with only some occasional faint foxing. Unbound.

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London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 498, (2), 32 catalogue pp. Publisher's beige pictorial cloth with detailing in gilt, black and red, an early ownership inscription to the front flyleaf. 4 maps, of which 3 are folding, plus 4 plans in the text. Darkening to the.....

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London: John Murray, 1878. Sixth edition, twentieth thousand. 8vo. xxi, (i), 458 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt to the spine A folding plate. Neatly recased, free endpapers slightly worn to the edges, light spotting at the front and rear, else very good. Freeman, 403. The second issue of the definitive.....

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. First edition. 4to. (40) pp. Publisher's pictorial boards, the peace symbol of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) drawn in ink to the verso of the front free endpaper by the original owner along with the handwritten date "Christmas '82", plus signed and dated (2008) by.....

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London: Putnam, (1937). First edition, 8vo, (x), 416 pp. Recent red full morocco, a lovely copy. The true first edition, the book being written in English and only later translated into the author's native Danish. The American first edition appeared under her pen name, Isak Dinesen.

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London: H. Ingram & Co., [c.1857]. Map dimensions 51.5 x 76.5 cm. Attractive folding map of London and the surrounding area showing the extents from Hatfield down to Coulsdon and Hornchurch across to Maidenhead, original wash colour marking out the county boundaries, the map peppered with decorative vignette views of.....

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