The Army List, for February, 1857. Rank, Honours and Rewards.
War Office, By Authority. Small 8vo, 217, (1), 6 advertisement pp, upper wrapper chipped with slight loss, sympathetically rebacked with a new lower wrapper. More
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Book of Toasts. From all sources. For all occasions.
London: Leopold B. Hill, [1916]. 24mo, 75, (5) pp. Original patterned paper endpapers and covers, a fine copy still held in the publisher's original paper envelope, this with some chipping and loss. Scarce. More
Cricket Highways and Byways.
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1927). First edition, 8vo, 288 pp. 8 plates, brief inscription to fly leaf. Original cloth, slight rubbing to the gilt on the spine ends, otherwise very good. More
Edward Mills Grace, Cricketer.
London: Chatto & Windus, (1916). First edition, 8vo, (xii), 240, (32 advertisement) pp. 6 plates, some foxing to preliminaries, owner's signature to fly leaf. Original cloth, a few light marks, a very good copy. More
Reference Library. Atlas. Gazetteer. English and French Dictionary.
London: Asprey & Co. Ltd., [c.1925]. Three volumes. 12mo. Fine contemporary brown morocco for Asprey, spines with gilt ruled lettered panels, marbled endpapers with a bookplate to the front pastedown of the first volume, all edges gilt, housed in original marbled paper slipcase. Colour maps to the atlas. Very slight..... More
Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions. Together with A Large Vindication of the Doctrine Contain'd in The Sermon preach'd at the Funeral of Mr. Thomas Bennet.
London: Printed by E.P. for James Bowyer, 1708. First edition, 8vo, (xxxvi), lxix, (iii), 144, *145-*149, (3), 145-456 pp. Some light browning, endpapers foxed, signature of Eliza Giffard, Flintshire, to the paste down, dated 1807, with loosely inserted a folded sheet containing extracts of poetry in another hand. Contemporary panelled..... More
History of the 17th (Northern) Division.
Glasgow: Printed for the Division by Robert Maclehose & Co. Ltd., the University Press, 1929. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 482 pp. Publisher's red buckram, gilt lettered to the spine, gilt ruled panels to the upper cover with two small sections of the cloth neatly excised. 35 maps, including a folding..... More
The Meditations, Soliloquia, and Manual, of the Glorious Doctor... Translated into English [by John Floyd].
London: Printed for Matthew Turner, 1686. 12mo, (xxiv), 432 pp. Mild browning to early leaves, rear free endpaper stained, new front free endpaper. Contemporary gilt ruled speckled calf, spine in compartments with a gilt tool to each, upper hinge and top of spine with subtle repair. Wing A4212A. A work..... More
Life in Ancient Britain. A Survey of the social and economic development of the people of England from earliest times to the Roman Conquest.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920. First edition, 8vo, (xiv), 260 pp. Patterned endpapers. Bound in a designer-style binding of full grey morocco, spine and edges sunned, upper cover with three skulls and a mammoth outlined in various colours, four vertical spears in onlaid brown morocco, the lower cover with..... More
Austro-Prussian War, 1866. Treaties, &c., Between Prussia, Austria, and German States. 1864-1867.
[N.p.]:, 1871. 8vo. (ii), iv, 124 pp. Contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, spine vertically gilt lettered direct. Some wear to the extremities, else very good. More
Economic Studies. Edited by... Richard Holt Hutton.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905. Sixth impression, 8vo, (viii), 280 pp. Marbled endpapers and edges, signature to paste down. Contemporary tree calf, double gilt rules, top of upper joint starting otherwise good. More
The Devil Finds Work.
London: Michael Joseph, 1976. First British edition. 8vo. (vi), 122 pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. Very good. The famous American novelist's essay "on American cinema and its interpretation of the black man's role" More
Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket. Being the Autobiography of...
Manchester: John Heywood, Ltd., [1908]. Second edition, 8vo, (viii), xi, (i), 255, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations plus numerous examples of players' autographs. Original gilt decorated cloth, spine sunned. More
A History of the English Corn Laws 1660-1846.
London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1930. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 336 pp. Publisher's maroon buckram, dulled gilt lettering to the spine, dust jacket. The jacket with some wear to the edges with loss and some foxing, some pronounced foxing to the front and rear leaves, else a decent copy..... More
The Birth of Pandora, and the Division of Knowledge.
(Basingstoke): Macmillan, (1992). First edition, 8vo, xvii, (i), 263, (1) pp. Inscribed on the fly leaf, presumably from the author although this has not been verified. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
Vita Johannis Barwick, S.T.P. Ecclesiæ Christi & S. Mariæ Dunelmensis Primum, S. Pauli Postea Londinensis de Cani, Collegii Sancti Johannes Evangelistæ apud Cantabrigiensis aliquando Socii:...
London: Guilielmi [William] Bowyer, 1721. First edition. 8vo. (lxvi), 464, (44) pp. Contemporary panelled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label. Two frontispiece portraits, of the author and the subject, plus a folding table. A very good copy. More
Certamen Religiosum: or, A Conference Between the late King of England, and the Late Lo: Marquesse of Worcester, Concerning Religion. Together with a Vindication of the Protestant Cause, from the Pretences of the Marquesse his Last Papers; which the Necessity, of the King's Affaires Denyed Him the Opportunity to Answer...
London: W. Lee, at the Turks-Head in Fleet Street: and R. Roytson at the Angel in Ivie Lane, 1652. Second edition. 8vo. (xiv), 366, 84 pp. Recent full calf, gilt lettered to the spine. Wanting the frontispiece called for in some copies of this edition. Some marginal staining, though generally..... More
The Postal Service of Sierra Leone. Its History, Stamps and Stationery until 1961.
London: The Royal Philatelic Society, 1988. First edition, small folio, xii, 240 pp. Inscribed from the author on the title page, owner's signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., spine slightly sunned, near fine. More
An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism.
Edinburgh: Printed for A. Kincaid & J. Bell; And for E. & C. Dilly, London, 1771. Second edition, "corrected and enlarged". 8vo. (viii), 568 pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine flat with gilt rules, gilt lettered red label, discreet old bookseller's ticket of W. Cornish and Co. of..... More
Gallus, or Roman scenes in the time of Augustus. With notes and excursuses illustrative of the manners and customs of the Romans. Translated by Rev. Frederick Metcalfe.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898. 8vo, xxi, (i), 533, (1) pp. Light foxing to front and rear blanks, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Derby School. Bound by Relfe Brothers in contemporary red calf, gilt spine, borders and arms, a lovely copy. More
Observations on the Bedford Charity; In a Series of Letters that were signed Justus. Now first published entire, and recommended to the serious Consideration of the Mayor, Corporation... and Inhabitants of Bedford...
London, 1761. Small 4to, (viii), 36 pp. Some light damp staining and foxing, otherwise good, unopened and sewn as issued. An anonymous attack on corruption and bad practice in the running of Bedford grammar school. More
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Great Batsmen, Their Methods at a Glance. [with] Great Bowlers and Fielders...
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1905, 1906. Two volumes, both first editions. 8vo. xiv, 716; xvi, 547, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spines and with gilt vignettes to the upper boards, matching 1940s gift inscriptions to the front free endpapers. Colour portrait plates of W.G. Grace..... More
English Figure Skating. A Guide to the theory and practice of Skating in the English style.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 261, (1) pp. 20 plates, plus a set of 6 cards containing 11 sets of instructions in a pocket inside the lower cover, lower hinge slightly cracked but sound, contemporary signature to fly leaf verso. Original gilt decorated cloth, a...... More
Boy-Life. Its Trial, its Strength, its Fulness. Sundays in Wellington College, 1859-1873.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. 8vo, xvi, 379, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Bound by Mudie in contemporary half calf, some light marks, very good. More
Ingrid Bergman. My Story.
London: Michael Joseph, 1980. First edition. 8vo. 480 pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, inscribed by Bergman on the front free endpaper. Black and white photographic illustrations. Some minor creasing to the laminate on the jacket, minimal rubbing the extremities, an excellent copy overall... More