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: Cassell, 1948. First British edition. Hardcover. [vi], 266pp, including a map facing the first text page. Pages clean and unmarked: very faint toning to endpapers. Minimal foxing spots to closed fore-edge. In the original binding of pale green-brown cloth, with no damage, but some light generalised soiling, and with..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010, 2013, 2015. Vol 1 is a reprint, Vols 2 & 3 are First printings. Hardcover. Vol 1: xix, 736; Vol 2: xix, 733; Vol 3: xix, 747. Plus, each volume includes photographs. Big books, 10.25" x 7.25", forming a stack 7.5" high. All are..... 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
![Item #19611110 Facta Non Verba (Facts not words). [Signed copy]. Fred Rath Carrick, L R. C. P.,...](/pictures/thumb/19611110.jpg?v=1642039151)
Ilfracombe, Devon: A.H. Stockwell Ltd., 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 192pp, illustrated with photographs, including a frontis of the author. Signed by him to the half title, and dated 1961. Autobiography, written (or perhaps dictated?) in his retirement by a doctor who served in Burma, India, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, and Australia..... More
London: Robert Hale, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. 288pp, illustrated with 18 photographs, including a frontis portrait of the author. A lively and enthusiastic account of his life and work, which included his part in organizing the construction of the Indian railway network. Pages fresh and white. Former ownership names to..... 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: The Graphic, May 11th, 14th, & 24th, 1910. Hardcover. 1-64; 619-724, xvi, 12; 48. Printed in monochrome on glossy stock, with many photographs and artists' impressions, all in very clean condition, and including several foldouts, some with an extra fold, and including the artist's impression of the cortege, which..... 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: John Murray, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. xiv, [x] (maps), 432pp + several pages of photographs. Contents fresh, clean, and unmarked. Text block closed edges foxed heavily to top edge, and slightly to fore-edge, but not encroaching on to the page borders. In the original green cloth-textured binding titled in..... More
![Item #19741020 Conversations with Gerald. [Inscribed copy]. John Symonds: with, James Boswell](/pictures/thumb/19741020.jpg?v=1614974238)
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
![Item #19651020 Ponsonby Remembers. [Association copy, inscribed by author, and with enclosure]....](/pictures/thumb/19651020.jpg?v=1614974236)
Oxford: Alden Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 160pp, illustrated with a frontis portrait of Ponsonby, and with a portrait of his wife in the text. Four or five pages are marked with emphases or underlinings in pencil, presumably by its then owner, Nicolas John Mavrogordato. Ponsonby was said to be..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 226pp. Contents clean and unmarked. Neat 1944 ownership name to front fly. Endpapers and adjacent page tanned. The second volume of the very engaging memoirs of a conscientious doctor, covering the period from 1914 to 1939, and including his experiences at the front..... 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
London: James Nisbet, 1855. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 170pp. Lacks half title. Pages are soiled and stained and some have brown ink marginalia in an early hand. Anonymous account of the spiritual riches, devout Christian faith, and interminable physical suffering of one Mary G - . 17x10.5cms, in a late..... 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
![Item #20100010 Arabian Days: The Memoirs of Two Trucial Oman Scouts. [Signed Copy]. Antony...](/pictures/thumb/20100010.jpg?v=1580791631)
Michael Curtis, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. xii, 188pp, illustrated with many photographs, including many in colour. Signed by both authors to the title page. Contents entirely fresh, as new. In the original binding of red cloth, spine titled in gilt, clean, bright, firm and sharp. In the protected pictorial dust..... 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
London: Virgin, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. xx, 282, plus 8 pages of photographs. Contents clean and unmarked, like new. In the original blue cloth-textured binding, spine titled in silver: bright, corners sharp, spine ends slightly blunted. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket: bright and clean, front and spine very..... 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
Suffolk: The Leiston Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. iv, 100, +[3] index: a lovingly produced book, full of magnificent colour photographs of the area, and with a number of the author's monochrome photographs of Britten and Pears from his period as the Aldeburgh Festival's photographer from its early days. Landscape..... 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
Brussels, Oxford, etc: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2011. First English edition. Paperback. 642pp, [i]. Unread copy. Contents mint. 22x15cms, in black pictorial covers with faint handling marks when these catch the light, and small knocks to the tips of the corners. One of the founding fathers of the European Union. A...... 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: Ernie Books, 2005. Second edition. Hardcover. x, 284pp. Contents very clean and fresh, appears unread. In the original blue cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, firm and bright, corners sharp, spine ends slightly blunted. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, very bright and fresh. A very nice copy..... More
