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
![Facta Non Verba (Facts not words). [Signed copy]. Fred Rath Carrick, L R. C. P., M. R. C. S.(Eng...](/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
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: 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: 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
![Brokie's Way: An Anthropologist's Story: Love and Work in Three Continents. [Inscribed copy]....](/pictures/thumb/20071112.jpg?v=1579236069)
Fish Hoek, South Africa: Amani Press, 2007. First edition. Paperback. x, 566pp, printed on glossy paper and illustrated in colour and monochrome. Half-title inscribed by author. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Fairly large format paperback (22 x 15 cms), with pictorial covers. There are small knocks at the ends of..... 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
[Oxford]. 1998. Softcover. A4, c.30pp, printed recto, with white card covers and in plastic spine binder. The scurrilous lowdown on about 120 teenagers, with photos of most of them, almost every entry actionable: but they look a happy lot. The 'Foreword' on the front cover reads: 'I wonder what you..... More
Apparently self-published, [c.1995]. Presumed only edition. Paperback. 237pp, plus a frontis portrait and 4 pages of photographs. Verso of the half-title inscribed by the author to his niece, appended 'A.W.O.L.' Author writing from memory of his infantry experiences in WW2. Pages clean, book slightly buckled. Paperback, 20.5x14.5cms: covers creased and..... More
![Four to Fourteen. [The diary of Alethea, a Victorian Child]. A Victorian Child, Alethea](/pictures/thumb/19393080.jpg?v=1542314858)
London: Robert Hale, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 157pp, illustrated with two photographs. Contents clean. Bottom edges of some pages untrimmed. Yellow endpapers. Neat ownership name to front fly. Pastedowns stained pink - apparently an effect of the glue. In the original binding of pale pink cloth, spine titled in blue..... More
London: William Hodge, 1937. Second edition. Hardcover. (viii), 305pp. Dedicated to all who are neither good nor great. Lieck wrote mostly on legal matters, but in this congenial book he admits all topics. Contents clean and unmarked. In the original binding of undressed grey and blue cloth. Slight browning to..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 305pp, with a coloured chart frontis. Pages very clean and unmarked. Neat small 1943 gift inscription to front endpaper. Firm and clean in the original binding of brown cloth. Upper corner bumped. Nice copy of a scarce title. [First-person account by a...... More
New York, etc: Fleming H. Revell Company, 'copyright 1914'. First or early edition. Hardcover. 144pp, with a guarded photo frontis. Contents fresh and clean. Ownership or gift inscription to the front pastedown accompanied by a coloured illustration of an old cottage pasted in. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. In..... More
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London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge / SPCK / S.P.C.K., nd [1885]. First or early edition. Hardcover. 80pp +8p adverts, plus a frontis. No sign of the title page. Contents clean. 1891 prize inscription to front free endpaper. Lacks rear endpaper: final page tanned. 17x12cm, in the original binding of..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Riviington, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. [vi], 352pp, with the six maps (one folding) and a frontis portrait photograph of General Roberts; [40], 274pp: the biographies preceded by 140 oval woodburytype portrait photographs mounted on 10 page-openings. Contents of both volumes very clean, a few..... More
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863. Eighth Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 365pp, +32 adverts (dated 1864), and with the guarded frontis portrait and the map of the North West Passage, outlined in colour. Contents very clean. Original brown endpapers with 1867 gift inscription to the ffep. In the original..... More
