London: S.W. Partridge & Co, Ltd, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. 265pp, + advert page. With a portrait frontis of the author, and illustrated with monochrome photographs or drawings at every opening. Contents clean, with tanned endpapers and repaired tears to the edges of pp13/14 and 15/16. An unusually detailed account..... More

London: Faber and Faber, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 160pp. A very clean copy, with only a scrawled 1974 ownership name to the front free endpaper and slight toning to the closed edges. In the original binding of light brown cloth, spine titled gilt. Corners sharp, foot of spine faintly blunted..... More

Tealby, Lincoln: Fanthorpe Publishing, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. ix, 322pp, illustrated with hundreds of photographs, in colour and monochrome, with family trees, and a 32-page index of names. Errata slip tipped in at the front. Half title inscribed 'with love and very best wishes', signed by the authors. Well produced..... More

London: T. Allman, 1852. Presumed first edition. Hardcover. xi, [i], 436pp; with a frontis portrait, an engraved title page, and six plates. A whole page is dedicated to listing the Duke's titles. Text and plates are almost all bright and clean, a few pages and the title have a little..... More

London: Duckworth, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. x, 211pp, with illustrations in the text. Yellow endpapers, inscribed at the front 'To Edward Marsh / in gratitude & affection / from John / 12th September 1974'. [so, not the Edward Marsh who died in 1953]. The Gerald of the title was Gerald..... More

London: Printed by Luke Hansard for T. Cadell and W. Davies, and T. Payne, 1803. First edition. Hardcover. lxxvii, [4], 507, with the sixteen engravings called for, including that of Johnson's ghost appearing to Boswell. The contents are in very good clean condition, with some foxing, and offsetting from the..... More

Exeter: Privately printed for the Editor by William Pollard, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. vii, 230pp. Slight toning of endpapers. Contents clean. Lightly pencilled ownership name 'Geo Crabbe' to title page left in case of interest, ditto an old tipped-in bookseller's listing of the book, also at the title page. Quarto..... More

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. x, 403, +24 adverts; with two maps, one being foldout, the other has a few foxing spots. Contents clean and unmarked. With the armorial bookplate of Lord Battersea. In the original binding of fine navy cloth, ruled and titled in gilt..... More

Romany and Traveller Family History Society, 2000. First edition. Paperback. 61pp stapled booklet in printed pictorial card covers, 21x14.5cms. Nearly like new, with minimal signs of handling, and staples rusting slightly. Scarce. More

London: Bantam Press, Transworld Publishers, 2013. First edition (first printing). Hardcover. x, 494pp, (ii), [i]. Illustrated, some in colour. Contents very clean and fresh, unread copy. In the original blue cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, bright and firm, corners sharp, very slight blunting to spine ends. In the protected..... More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2010. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. (xii), 339pp, illustrated with photographs. Contents fresh and unmarked, appears unread. In the original purple cloth-textured binding titled in silver, clean, bright and firm, corners sharp, with very slight compression of the spine ends. In the spectacular protected unclipped pictorial..... More

London: Politico’s, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. xviii, (iv), 664pp. As new, in the original red cloth-textured binding lettered in gilt. In the protected dust jacket, equally fresh and sharp. Unblemished fine copy. [Heavy Item]. More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. xviii, 515, illustrated with diagrams and a portrait frontis. Very fresh and unmarked, inside and out, in as new condition. In the original black cloth-textured binding, spine titled in silver, in the protected pictorial dust jacket. Wonderful book. More