With the Anzacs in Cairo. The Tale of a Great Flight.
London: H.R. Allenson, [1917]. First edition, 8vo, 159, (1, 16 advertisement) pp. Original cloth, spine slightly darkened. More
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The History of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919.
Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1921. First edition, 8vo, (xii), 364 pp. 25 maps - all but one folding - and 18 plates, lacking the fly leaf and with signs of labels having been removed from both paste downs. Original cloth, some marks, foot of upper joint worn. More
Mike the Muckshufter or the Scruffy Boy that Made Good. Story and Illustrations by... Introduction by Peter Fleming.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1946. First edition. Oblong 8vo. (68) pp. Publisher's blue cloth backed illustrated boards, black lettered to the spine. Illustrated throughout with some colour. Some soiling and light marking to the boards, wear to the extremities, else a decent copy. More
Modern Iran.
London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1941. First edition. 8vo. xii, 234 pp. Publisher's green cloth, red lettered to the spine, contemporary ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, dust jacket. Frontispiece and 7 photographic plates plus 5 maps. Small losses to the ends of the jacket spine which is..... More
Snakewand & the Darker Strain.
London: Starfire Publishing Ltd., 2000. First edition. One of 945 copies from a total edition of 1,000. 8vo. (vi), 168, (2) pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Frontispiece. An attractive copy. More
Gamaliel. The Diary of a Vampire & Dance Doll, Dance!
London: Starfire Publishing Ltd., 2003. First edition. One of 919 copies from a total edition of 1,000. 8vo. (viii), 156, (2) pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Colour frontispiece. Some trivial wear to the jacket spine, an attractive copy. More
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Report of Observations of Injurious Insects, and Common Farm Pests during the year[s] 1891-93... Fifteenth - Seventeenth Report[s]. [bound with] Observations on Warble Fly or Ox Bot Fly. An Abstract of Information.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1892-94. Four works bound in one volume, 8vo, vi, 170, (viii), 167, (1), (viii), 152, 156 pp. The 16th and 17th reports with frontispieces, the final work with a folding table and two lithographed plates. Contemporary maroon half calf, gilt banded spine with..... More
The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine. From material compiled by Major A. Wilkie.
Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1922. First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 284 pp. 15 folding plans - one slightly worn along the fold crease - plus a large folding map inside the lower cover. Original cloth, spine slightly sunned. More
Recording Britain.
Oxford University Press, 1946-9. Four volumes, small 4to. 419 full page illustrations, 32 in colour. Buckram, d.w.'s with some mostly mild wear to edges, slight loss to the top of the spine of volume I. A collection of specially commissioned paintings, divided up by county, these 4 volumes covering England..... More
Bracebridge Hall. By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
London: John Murray, 1822. First edition, two volumes, 8vo, iv, 393, (1); iv, 404 pp. Amorial bookplates of Samuel James Capper, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary green half calf, gilt spines with black labels, extremities rubbed. More
The Poetical Works of...
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1888. 8vo, xliv, 628, (2) pp. Contemporary signature to fly leaf, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary dark green calf, gilt spine with a red label, gilt arms of Fettes College to the upper cover, some light scuffing. More
The Captain's Death Bed, and other Essays.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1950. First English edition, 8vo, 223, (1) pp. Cloth, spine slightly faded, d.w., not price clipped, with a design in yellow and black by Vanessa Bell, spine browned with very slight loss to the head. Kirkpatrick A30b. First published in New York a week earlier... More
Three Guineas.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1938. First edition, 8vo, 329, (1) pp. 5 photographic plates. Cloth, spine browned, d.w. designed by Vanessa Bell torn in two along the upper joint with repair to the reverse, spine browned, some loss and spotting. Kirkpatrick A23a. More
Piper's Places. John Piper in England & Wales.
London: Chatto & Windus, The Hogarth Press, (1983). First edition. 4to. 184 pp. Publisher's grey cloth, black lettered to spine, dust jacket, not price clipped, pictorial endpapers. 144 illustrations, mostly in colour. Sunning to the jacket spine, else very good. More
Floreat Howardia. The Story of the Howard Gardens School Cardiff 1885-1990. With an Epilogue by I.L. Myhre. Edited by A.M. Doe.
Cardiff: Friends of Howardian High School, 1990. First edition. Large 8vo. x, 957, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket. Black and white photographic illustrations. An excellent copy. More
The Earthly Paradise. A Poem.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902. Four volumes, volumes I and II eleventh impression, III and IV ninth impressions, 8vo. Brief inscription to three fly leaves. Original black cloth, paper spine labels with slight wear. More
Stories from the Arabian Nights. Retold by... with drawings by Edmund Dulac.
[London]: (Published by Hodder and Stoughton... for Boots Pure Drug Co.), [c.1923]. Large 8vo, 319, (1) pp. 20 coloured plates tipped in, light foxing at the beginning and end. Original gilt titled russet cloth, spine slightly rubbed. Hughey 16y. More
Epilogue. A Critical Summary. Volume I - Autumn 1935.
London: The Seizin Press, Deya Majorca & Constable & Co., 1935. First edition, 8vo, (vi), 245, (1) pp. 5 plates, faint ink stamp and what looks like a brief accession number to the front endpapers, but without any of the other usual treatments. Original printed boards, spine browned with some..... More
A B C of Reading.
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1934. First edition, 8vo, xii, 197, (1) pp. Original gilt titled red cloth, very good. First published 1934. More
The Poetical Works of... with notes of various authors, Principally from the Editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton. To which is prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton by Edward Hawkins.
Oxford: Printed by W. Baxter, for J. Parker and G.B. Whittaker, 1824. Four volumes, 8vo. Folding manuscript facsimile in volume I, later booklabel. Early 20th century half morocco, marbled sides and edges, some minor rubbing to extremities otherwise a very good set. More
October. The First Decade, 1976-1986.
Cambridge, Mass. & London: The MIT Press, (1988). Second printing, 8vo, (xii), 456 pp. Black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w., price clipped with a small closed tear to the top of the spine. More
(Best of Blandings). Summer Lightning. Heavy Weather. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Full Moon. Pigs have Wings. Service with a Smile. Introduction by Alan Titchmarsh. Illustrated by Paul Cox.
London: The Folio Society, 2004. First edition thus, six volumes. Black and white illustrations. Pictorial boards, spines browned, slipcase with some dampstaining to the reverse and part of the top - the books unaffected, though. More
A Short History of the Royal Sussex Regiment. (35th Foot - 107th Foot), 1701-1926. With brief particulars of the part taken in the Great War by the various Battalions of the Regiment.
Aldershot: Printed by Gale & Polden, 1927. First edition, small 8vo, (x), 111, (1) pp. 12 plates, 4 in colour. Original gilt titled cloth, spine and parts of the upper cover sunned, a few small marks. More
In Search of Lost Time. Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin. Revised by D.J. Enright. Introduced by Jean-Yves Tadie. Photographs by Eugene Atget.
London: The Folio Society, 2000. First edition thus. Six volumes. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, alternating dark and lighter blue, lettered and decorated to the spines and upper boards in the contrasting colours, two slipcases, each gilt lettered and with a portrait of the author to one side. Illustrations at intervals throughout..... More
Our Man in Havana. An Entertainment.
London: Heinemann, 1958. First edition. 8vo. (vi), 273, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. Slight darkening to the jacket spine with a small white speck towards the top, a few trivial rubs, an attractive copy. More