London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. First thus. Hardcover. [x], 179pp. Contents clean: neat ownership name to f.e.p. Firm, in the original binding of russet cloth, spine titled gilt. Boards clean, slightly blunted, spine faded, ends puckered. A good copy. More

Woodbridge: Privately Published, 1975. Paperback. Paperback, 126pp, illustrated with photographs, including a frontis portrait of her husband, the Honourable Galbraith Cole. The author lived in Kenya on a cattle ranch from the time of her marriage in 1917 till at least 1975, including the period of the Mau Mau emergency..... More

Columbo: Printed at the City Press, 1951. First edition. Softcover. v, map, 224, ii (index). With photographs and tables in the text. Slight marks to title page, contents otherwise clean and fresh. 18.5x12.5cms, in printed blue card covers. Plain spine slightly toned, covers bright and clean with no creases, small..... More

London: Faber and Faber, 1956. New and Revised Edition. Hardcover. 302pp, pages very fresh, with crisp foldout maps at back. Free endpapers tanned. In the original binding of sharp green cloth, spine titled gilt: corners sharp, spine ends slightly compressed. In the protected unclipped yellow dust jacket: front panel bright..... More

London: Rex Collings, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. [xii], 858pp. Pages clean and unmarked, no ownership names etc. A major work, and a substantial volume, 23.5x15.5cms, in the original binding of black cloth, spine titled in silver. Clean and firm, some corners heavily knocked, and with small indentations to the upper..... More

Edinburgh and London: Mainstream Publishing, 2013. Second edition. Paperback. 271pp, plus 8 pages of photographs. Contents clean. Large format paperback, 23x15cms: in bright glossy pictorial covers with minimal signs of use. The first edition of 2002 had only 224pp. Fresh square copy of a richly informative work. More

Praha / Prague: Torst, 2008. First edition. Softcover. 296pp. Glossy production, stark full page and double page photographs and text, an extraordinary and powerful record of the Soviet Invasion of Dubcek's Czechoslovakia in 1968 as experienced and resisted by the people. 32x24.5cms, in the printed covers of heavy flexible card..... More

London: Printed by Biggs and Co., for C. Taylor et al, 1805. First edition. Hardcover. Part I: 480pp; Part II: [ii] title + [viii] Index to Vol I + (481-) 960, + 4 publishers' adverts. Contents clean and in good order. Near a thousand pages of thoroughly engaged articles and..... More

Bungay: C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, 1807. Reprint. Hardcover. Vol I: v, (i), 254, 827; Vol II: [ii], 695, (i), [28] (index). All plates and maps (some folding) present except the map of 'Turkey in Europe and Hungary', referred to in a Note at the end of the list of..... More

Paris: Editions Menges, Le Pays Cathare, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 166 magnificent photographs, one to a page, interspersed with captions, and preceded by an introduction and a map. Contents fresh and unmarked, like new. Landscape quarto, 22.5x33cms, in the original bright red cloth, sharp and square. In the pictorial..... More

London: Dean & Son, n.d. [c.1888]. New Edition, revised and extended: Tenth Thousand. Hardcover. Two-page map of Ireland by Clapp; +[iv], title page & list of works on the History of Ireland; +193pp, text, with 3 plates reproducing fine engraved scenes, and 3 other illustrations; +[5], Chronological Table and Index;..... More

London: Hutchinson, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 256, [16] adverts. Some foxing to fore-edge margins throughout, and to prelims. Ownership name to front pastedown. Vivid accounts. Structurally in good order, in the original blue cloth, spine title yellow: clean and firm, spine ends puckered, slight rubbing to edges and extremities. Scarce..... More

London: Cargate Press, n.d. [c.1935]. First edition. Hardcover. 96pp, illustrated with photographs and a map. Contents clean and unmarked, with faint tanning to endpapers. In the original binding of orange cloth, titled to the front in blue-grey. Boards firm and bright with some fading to edges from former damp. Spine..... More