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Longmans, Green, and Co. London. 1898. FIRST EDITION of Churchill's rare first book. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.3 inches). Later state with the errata slip at the front of the book and publishers adverts dated 3/98. Frontispiece portrait and 6 maps. One of the folding maps is frayed to the blank... More
Macmillan and Co. Limited. London. 1941 and 1944. Three volumes. The rare Three-Volume, War time, Macmillan Abridged Reprint Edition in Dust Jackets. First and third volumes are the first Macmillan issues, the second is a 1944 reprint of the 1941 Macmillan issue. Illustrated throughout all 3 volumes with folding maps... More
The Waverley Book Company, Ltd. London. No date. Circa 1910. SIX VOLUMES. ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. 8vo. (7.2 x 5 inches). Illustrated with 14 full page colour plates, 10 scenes from the books (artist unknown) plus two portraits and views of Austen's burial place and Chawton Cottage. Very good clean and bright... More
George Allen. London 1894. FIRST THOMSON EDITION. 8vo. (7.3 x 5 inches). Beautifully illustrated throughout with 101 fine line engravings by Thomson. Neat previous owner two line presentation inscription, dated December 1894, with another name below, dated 1918, on the front blank free endpaper and there are just a few... More
Caves Book Co. Taipei Taiwan China. 1964. PIRATED EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.4 inches). 336pp. No publisher on title page, just the date year printed on the verso and a stuck in paper label of Caves Book Co. on rear blank free endpaper. The title page has the title, author... More
T. Nelson and sons. London. 1853. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7 x 4.6 inches). Frontis, vignette on extra title page and four full page engraved plates, each with a tissue guard. Aside from a couple of small water marks to the frontis and title pages this is a bright copy in... More
Rodwell and Martin, London. 1818. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (12.7 x 10.1 inches). iv, 259pp. Tear to the top outer corner margin of the note page, after the title page, and well away from the text, otherwise a very good uncut copy in publishers original paper covered boards. Some gatherings still... More
John Murray. London. 1903 (1917). THE AUTHOR'S EDITION. 12 volumes, complete. Limited edition of 1000 sets, numbered and signed by Arthur Conan Doyle in Volume one, The White Company. Illustrated with 24 full page plates, by Arthur Twidle (20), Sidney Paget (1), B. West Clinedinst (1), and W. B. Wollen... More
Little, Brown and Company. Boston. 1951. FIRST EDITION. First printing. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.4 inches). Neat ink stamp on the bottom of one page (7505th Hospital Group Base Library), affecting a few letters of the bottom line of text but mostly in the margin, otherwise a very clean copy throughout... More
Baynard Press. London. 1940. FIRST EDITION. Publishers printed stapled wraps. 16pp. Neat previous owner names to the front cover otherwise very good indeed. Staples a bit rusted but still firm. Overall a very good copy of this fragile pamphlet. Housed in a felt lined clamshell box with black morocco spine... More
Leonard Smithers. London. 1898. FOURTH EDITION. Tall 8vo. (8.8 x 5.7 inches). A light stain to the bottom margin of one page, otherwise a very good example which has been finely bound in attractive half red morocco by Zaehnsdorf of London. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled in blind... More
Cassell. London. 1961. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. 8vo. Originally published as a part of Churchill's great four volume work; A History of the English speaking peoples- Vol.4. The great democracies, in 1958. This is the first printing of this history in its own right. Illustrated with 6 maps & 31 fascinating... More
Chatto & Windus. London. 1892. New Edition. 2 volumes bound in one. Small 8vo. (5.3 x 3.5 inches). This edition is made up of volumes 5 and 6 of MacDonald's Works of fancy and Imagination. Finely bound by Riviere in early full dark green morocco. Spine with raised bands, the... More
Hurst and Blackett, Successors to Henry Colburn. London. 1863. THIRD ENGLISH EDITION. Three volumes. 8vo. (8 x 5.4 inches). Some foxing to just a few pages but overall very good throughout. Original publishers purple cloth bindings. Spines lettered and decorated in gilt, boards with blind-stamped decorative borders. Pale green endpapers... More
Nicol and Cadell. London. 1785. ATLAS VOLUME ONLY, FOR THIRD VOYAGE. (22.5 x 16.5 inches). Total of 62 engraved plates and charts in folio volume. --- Lacking the two fold out plates but includes the scarce 'The death of Captain Cook' plate, published separately in 1785, the figures engraved by... More
Bradbury & Evans. London. 1855. FIRST EDITION. Folio. (22 x 15.4 inches). Illustrated with 51 full page plates, all nature-printed in colour by Bradbury & Evans under the direction of Henry Bradbury, each with a tissue paper guard. Extra illustrated with several blank leaves bound among the text and with... More
Edward Moxon & Co. London. 1866. TWELFTH EDITION. 8vo. (6.8 x 4.2 inches). Finely bound contemporary full dark green morocco binding. Decorative flower and leaf design to the top and bottom of both boards and a single gilt ruled border to the centre. Board edges with gilt ruling. Spine with... More
Macmillan and Co. Ltd. London. 1901. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Ten mono plates by J. Lockwood Kipling. Very good copy in the original publishers dark red cloth. Front board with circular gilt elephant device. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Some minor rubbing to edges and some foxing to the... More
The Ariel Press, London. 1954 and 1956. Two volumes bound into one. Folio. (16 x 12 inches). First volume is the third impression and one of 1000 copies, Roses 2 is the first edition of this Ariel Press edition. A total of 48 fine colour plates, reproducing the stunning originals... More
J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. London. 1930. Reprint of 1898 edition. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.7 inches). Fully illustrated with 12 colour plates and 90 line drawings. Finely bound in mid twentieth century full tree calf by Riviere and son. Boards with decorative gilt border. Spine has five raised bands... More
Arthur L. Humphreys. London. 1911. FIRST PRINTING OF THIS EDITION. Small 8vo. (5.9 x 4.7 inches). viii/64pp. Illustrated with 6 fine miniature sepia plates, not by Blake, pasted in. Printed on Waldorf laid paper. Capital letters printed red. In fine clean condition throughout. Fine binding in the 'Arts & Crafts'... More
John Lane The Bodley Head. London. 1933. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo (8.5 x 6.9 inches). Fully illustrated with a full colour frontis and 75 line drawings by Heath Robinson. Some small patches of light foxing to a few pagers, mostly to the margins, otherwise a very good copy in a.... More
Chapman & Hall. London. 1870. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.8 inches). Bound from the original monthly parts, published between April and September 1870. Illustrated with a portrait frontis and 12 full page plates by S. L. Fildes. With 40 pp of publishers adverts at the back... More
George Routledge and Sons. London 1882 - 1883. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE. 8vo. Text in double column. Neat previous owners name written in pencil to the top of each title page. Some foxing to the title pages and fore edge but overall clean and well preserved. Off white coated endpapers... More
Hodder and Stoughton, London. -- No Date. 1913. FIRST RENE BULL EDITION. 4to. (10.5 x 8.5 inches). Beautifully illustrated with 10 large full colour tipped in plates, 19 smaller full colour plates, and numerous line drawings and decorative borders throughout, printed in blue and black. Finely bound in early half... More
