London: Forster, Groom & Co., 1904. First edition, 8vo, xxii, 124 pp. 12 folding maps, one with a closed tear to a fold crease, endpapers browned, upper hinge cracked but sound. Original red cloth, marked and faded, slight loss to spine ends, top of lower joint worn. More about Story of the Campaign in Eastern Virginia, Including "Stonewall Jackson's" Operations...
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. Limited edition, no. 332 of 500 copies signed by the author, large 8vo, (ii), 285, (1) pp. Coloured portrait frontispiece plus black and white illustrations at the end. Original gilt titled white buckram, t.e.g., spine and edges browned, some soiling. More about The King's Grace. 1910-1935
New York: Association Press, 1927. First edition, 8vo, x, 140 pp. 18 black and white photographic portrait plates, newspaper clippings tipped to fly leaf and at two relevant places in the text, inscribed from the Author on the half title. Cloth, top of spine rubbed, d.w. with loss to the... More about In Spite of Handicaps. Brief Biographical Sketches with discussion outlines of outstanding...
Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1927. 8vo. x, 703, (1) pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt to the spine and upper board, an early ownership inscription "R.E. Erbentraut, 2026" to the front pastedown. Illustrations in the text throughout. Spine dulled, some general rubbing, else a decent copy. More about Landing-Force Manual United States Navy. Revised by the... In the Revision Assistance was...
London: Printed for J. Owen and F. and C. Rivington, 1796. First edition, sixth impression, 8vo, (iv), 80 pp. Some light browning and a few spots, large armorial bookplate. 20th century purple cloth, spine and top edges sunned. Todd 65f. More about A Letter from... to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks made upon him and his pension, in The House of...
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1790. Second edition, third impression, 8vo, iv, 356 pp. Contemporary signature to paste down, title and subsequent leaf, faint damp stain to the top corner of some early leaves. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, some restoration and a new label to the spine. Stung into... More about Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London...
London: Burke's Peerage Ltd., 1937. 95th edition, large 8vo, (cxciv), 3057, (7) pp. 9 black and white photographic portraits of the Royal Family, upper hinge tender. Original gilt titled red buckram, a little rubbed and marked. More about A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, and...
Esher: Penmiel Press, 1976. Limited edition, no. 23 of 125 copies, being one of the first 25 copies reserved for the author, signed by him and with his presentation inscription on the first preliminary leaf plus a typed letter signed from him on headed paper loosely inserted. 8vo. xii, 33... More about Full Point. A Typographer Remembers
London: The London Press Exchange, [c.1931]. Limited edition, one of 250 copies, 8vo, 37, (3) pp. 6 plates, compliments slip sent with the book loosely inserted. Original marbled cloth with some rubbing. More about At the Sign of the Bible & Anchor. Being a short history of St. Martin's Lane
Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid, 1885. 8vo, 113, (1) pp, a few leaves with some foxing, booklabel, original vellum wrappers, marked. A reprint of a work first published in 1749. More about A Genuine and True Journal of the Most Miraculous Escape of the Young Chevalier, From the Battle...
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. First edition, large 8vo, (xl), 299, (1) pp. 293 illustrations in the text, some light marginal browning. Original grey cloth, recently rebacked in maroon morocco with leather corners also, covers a little marked, crossed swords design to upper cover. A pleasantly restored copy of one... More about The Book of the Sword
New York: Privately Printed by the Panurge Press, [c.1935]. No. 458 of 2,010 copies, 8vo, 107 pp, original gilt titled purple cloth, slightly rubbed and sunned. Originally published in 1885. More about The Sotadic Zone
Bacup: Byrom Dyeing Co. Ltd., Flowers Mill, 1927. Folding colour sample chart, featuring 56 different coloured threads. Gilt titled blue boards, some mild marks otherwise excellent condition. The Byrom Dyeing Company went into liquidation in 1935. More about Fast Bleaching Colours 1927
London: Thomas Cooper & Co., [1869]. First edition, 8vo, 128, 11, (1) pp. Modern marbled boards, very good. Uncommon. Collecting the responses to an article by Harrier Beecher Stowe, published in the Atlantic Magazine in the US and Macmillan's Magazine in Britain, written as a result of her conversations with... More about The Stowe-Byron Controversy: a Complete Résumé of all that has been written and said upon the...
London Robert Hale & Company, 1976. First edition. 8vo. 176 pp. Publisher's black cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket, original bookseller's label to the foot of the front free endpaper. Illustrations of table positions set in the text throughout. Some fading to the jacket spine, else very good. More about Play the Evans Gambit. A Study in Depth
London: Ernest Nister. Small 8vo, (24) pp. Coloured illustrations throughout, contemporary inscription to front blank. Cloth backed paper boards, some light marking. A typical gift book of the period, including suitable quotes concerning friendship by various authors. More about From Friend to Friend. A Calendar for the Year 1911
Genevæ [Geneva]: Jacobum Stoer, 1637. 8vo. (24), 518, (67) ff. Contemporary full calf, rebacked to style, the original gilt lettered red spine label preserved, new endpapers. Some minor worming to the rear of the book, else very good. More about Institutio Christianæ Religionis
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1934. Thirteen volumes. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets with red printed text, top edges green. The spines of the jackets with uniform gentle tanning, a little general edge wear with occasional small losses plus a few small more central... More about The Cambridge Modern History. The Renaissance. The Reformation. The Thirty Years' War. The Age of...
4to, containing in all 24 issues of this periodical, the May Week issue for 1927 with its upper wrapper bound in, ex-Library copy with cancelled stamps on paste down and fly leaf, Library buckram, some light marks. More about The Cambridge Gownsman and Undergraduate. Vol. 10, no. 1 (16th October 1927) to Vol. 12, no. 8...
London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode... Published by Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, 1852. Sole edition, 8vo, xix, (i), xvi, 196 [ie 169], (3) pp. Engraved general title and 3 lithographic plates, including two in colour showing flags and uniforms. Original gilt titled red cloth, spine sunned, some... More about Historical Record of the Seventy-First Regiment, Highland Light Infantry: Containing an Account...
London: Methuen & Co., (1939). First edition, 8vo, (xii), 403, (1) pp. 16 plates, light foxing to endpapers and edges. Original blue cloth, very good. More about Round About the Palace Green
Chicago: Haymarket Books, (2011). Second printing, 8vo, xxi, (i), 193, (1) pp. Inscribed from Carlos on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More about The John Carlos Story. The Sports Moment That Changed the World
London: Hutchinson & Co., (1935). First edition, 8vo, 256, 40 advertisement pp. 12 plates. Cloth, d.w. with light wear to extremities. More about Cricket with the Lid Off. Preface by D.R. Jardine
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1895. First British edition. 8vo. (iii)-xvi, 275, (1) pp, with the half title having been neatly excised. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, early ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Fading to the spine, some rubbing to the extremities, else a decent copy. More about The Gospel of Buddha According to Old Records. Told by
Venetia [Venice]: nelle case de figlioli di Aldo [I Manuzio], 1545. Fourth Aldine printing. Small folio. (122) ff. Eighteenth century full pigskin, gilt lettering to the spine, all edges green, a single leaf in book three lacking but the text supplied in consummate manuscript, predating or contemporary with the binding... More about Il Libro del Cortegiano del Conte Baldessar Castiglione. Nuouamente Ristampato