London: Methuen, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 175pp, with several pages of photographs, and with map endpapers. de Watteville had a remarkably bold and adventurous life in her 20s. This book, her third concerning this period, recounts her adventures during her sojourn on an islet off the south coast of France..... 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
![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
![Ponsonby Remembers. [Association copy, inscribed by author, and with enclosure]. Col. Sir Charles...](/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
South Africa: Privately Printed in co-operation with the Swellendam Trust, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. x, 182, including a number of pedigrees, and illustrated with 24 photographs. Records the pedigrees of some of the families from the British Isles who settled in Swellendam more than a hundred years ago. Contents fresh..... More
London: Arthur Barker, 1967. First English edition. Hardcover. 318pp, illustrated with photographs. Contents clean and unmarked. In the original binding of black cloth, spine titled in gilt, clean, bright and firm, corners sharp, slight puckering to head of spine. Top edge red. In the protected unclipped yellow dust jacket: bright..... More
London: Harvill Press, 1998. First printing of UK paperback edition. Paperback. [viii], 296pp, illustrated with photos in the text. Complete number line. Unmarked. An apparently unread copy, with an inch of sunning to the foot of the spine. Fine and square, with french flaps. More
The Society of Old Framlinghamians, 1949. Softcover. xx, 461pp, including a 61-page index, and the last 6pp being advertisements. Contents in clean and fresh condition. Well-produced, and appears very thorough. 'This new edition of Framlingham College Register deals with the period between the opening of the College in April, 1865..... 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
London: The Society for Theatre Research, 1981. Limited edition. Softcover. [vi], 97pp, plus 8pp of photographs. #110 of 350 copies. Contents clean: a well-produced book printed by the Scolar Press. In the original printed green card covers, predominantly clean, with a couple of small marks, slightly faded to the spine..... More
![Arabian Days: The Memoirs of Two Trucial Oman Scouts. [Signed Copy]. Antony Cawston, Michael...](/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
![In all Time of our Tribulation: the Story of Piers Gavestone. [ie: Piers Gaveston]. Emily Sarah Holt](/pictures/thumb/18869031.jpg?v=1571962334)
London: John F. Shaw, n.d. [1886]. Presumed first edition. Hardcover. 383pp +16 adverts. Illustrated with a frontis, on the back of which is an 1886 gift inscription. Most pages very clean, others have a certain amount of smudgy foxing - particularly the title page, the frontis, and its loose guard..... 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
![The Hangman's Tale: Memoirs of a Public Executioner. [Signed by both authors]. Syd Dernley, David...](/pictures/thumb/19899050.jpg?v=1557884739)
London: Robert Hale, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 207pp. Contents very clean and unmarked. Title page signed by both authors with Best Wishes. In the original black cloth-textured binding titled in silver, clean, firm and bright, corners sharp, spine ends blunted. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, top edge slightly..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 284pp, illustrated. Contents fresh, clean and unmarked (private owner), with only signs of an erased price to the corner of the front fly. In the original quarter binding of brown cloth with black boards, spine titled gilt, bright and clean, spine..... 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
