London: A. Strahan, 1796-7. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary calf, spines a little worn, red spine labels. More
Bombay: Gopal Narayen & Co., 1912. Second edition, large 8vo, (xii), 1047, (1), 4 advertisement pp. Original gilt titled moiré cloth, spine restored with new endpapers. Without any ownership markings but from the library of Ethel Mairet, so it presumably once belonged to her first husband, the philosopher and historian..... More
Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Limited edition, no. 77 of 750 copies signed by the author, 4to, xxxi, (i), 177, (11) pp. Coloured frontispiece and 115 plates, mostly in colour, patterned endpapers. Original cloth backed patterned boards, spine slightly dull, recently rebacked retaining the original backstrip. More
University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988. First edition. 8vo. viii, 312 pp. Publisher's black cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket, publisher's review slip loosely inserted. 60 pages of black and white photographic illustrations. Wear to the edges of the jacket, most conspicuously to the..... More
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1934. Second edition. Large 8vo. xiv, 405, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece featuring the London Stock Exchange War Memorial. A little wear and tear to the jacket edges with a few..... More
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
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
London: The Guild and School of Handicraft, Essex House, Mile End Road, 1894. First edition, 8vo, 165, (1) pp. Attractive vignettes and head and tail pieces throughout. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf to a Miss Ethel Moxon with a nine line poem below. Original light pink cloth..... More
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
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
Northwood, Middlesex: Published by the Author, 1935. First edition. Small 4to. (iv), 518 p. Publisher's black buckram, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board. Loosely inserted are two supplementary leaves (pp. 147a and 519/520), with an original photostat of the author's handwritten note concerning how they should be inserted..... More
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
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
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
[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
London: J. Johnson, W.J. and J. Richardson [et al], 1807. 12mo, (xvi), 216 pp. Portrait frontispiece and 7 plates, later bookplate to title verso, frontispiece a little foxed, marbled endpapers. Contemporary red morocco, double gilt rules and a gilt Greek key roll border to covers, gilt spine a little dull..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911. 8vo, xiv, 434 pp. 26 plates plus illustrations in the text, small ink stamped signature to fly leaf, patterned endpapers. Original decorated brown cloth, spine ends bumped otherwise a handsome copy. More
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
London: Stanley Paul and Co. Ltd., (1953). First edition. 8vo. 112 pp. Publisher's green cloth, black lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Frontispiece and 6 pages of black and white photographic illustrations. A little light wear to the jacket, very good overall. Born in Trinidad, Bailey ran the 100 metres..... More
London: Philip Allan & Co., (1926). First edition, 8vo, xi, (i), 275, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece. Stuck to the paste down is a one page als. from Baldwin on Downing Street stationery appealing for votes, with 5 contemporary election leaflets tipped in to the rear endpapers, signature of one R.B...... More
(Woodbridge): Antique Collectors Club, (2009). Fifth edition, 4to, 335, (1) pp. Numerous illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
Privately Printed, [n.d.]. Limited edition, no. 18 of 50 copies, 4to, (i), 2, (1), 3-4, 97 leaves, printed on rectos only and being reproduction of typescript. 9 full page maps. Green boards, an excellent copy. Originally composed in 1950, but published more recently. More
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
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
