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: 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: 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

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

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

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

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: 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

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: 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