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First Edition of Showell Styles' account of HMS Vencejo's last cruise. (Vincey Joe to her crew). The book is fine internally in fresh blue boards, just a little foxing to top edge. The dustjacket is fine with its dynamic design by Charles Mozley. Read more…

First edition in orange boards. Top edge slightly dusty, back board lightly stained. Internally very clean. Dust jacket good, 6cm tear to soiled rear panel. Small chips and nicks to edges. The intriguing plot concerns a piano marathon in a 1930's holiday camp! Read more…

First edition in red cloth. Near very good copy, some foxing to edges, foot of spine discoloured. In fair jacket, not price-clipped. Chips to head of spine, large chip to foot. Creases and closed tear across front panel with some loss. Read more…

pp286 Very good first edition in a good plus jacket. In fresh burgundy boards, the edges and preliminaries are lightly foxed, the binding is tight and the pages clean with no inscriptions. In a striking dust jacket featuring a monocled gentleman sporting daisies on his top hat. The white panels are soiled and the spine sunned with a couple of chips… Read more…

A charming 1790s compilation album of aquatints and engravings, many taken from James Baker’s Picturesque Guide through Wales and the Marches of 1795. Small quarto (16.5x21cm) in red straight grain morocco with an elaborate border to the boards; wide raised bands to the spine; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers with trace of a removed bookplate to t… Read more…

Early edition of Pope’s Dunciad in contemporary calf with faded gilt lines to the spine and blind panelling to the boards; red speckled edges to text block. Bookplate of ‘Thomas Lediard’ to the front pastedown (1685-1743, diplomat, stage designer and latterly Agent and Surveyor of Westminster Bridge, resident in Smith Square). Cracking to paper ove… Read more…

Prettily bound eighteenth century Cambridge Book of Common Prayer in red goatskin with gilt edges. Small octavo in full leather binding with gilt decoration, faded to the spine; book label of ‘Rev J L Saywell’ (author of History of Northallerton); handwritten ‘Evening Prayer’ to the final leaf. A very good copy, pleasing and unsophisticated. Read more…

Elegiac theologian Geoffrey Hill’s annotated copy of this work by the surrealist David Gascoyne, a fellow English poet half a generation older. Red cloth-effect paper binding over boards; very good in a near very good jacket, chipped along the top edge of the front panel. Hill’s blue biro ownership inscription to the front flyleaf; annotated early… Read more…

In very good condition. An early edition of English novelist Charles Reade's nineteenth-century novel which was first published in 1856 and was later turned into a play. It tells the story of a ruthless squire who becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires to have her lover framed and sent to jail. PHYSICAL CONDITION: Rebound in very good… Read more…

First UK edition of a seminal work of climate change science fiction, written before climate change had been widely discussed and set in the year 2145 when global warming has left most of Earth underwater. In very good condition, no dustjacket. Orange cloth boards unmarked and entirely sound. Spine panel in lovely condition, titled brightly in gilt… Read more…

The sixth and unauthorised edition of Lord Byron's first poetry collection, published by W.T. Sherwin after the initial 1807 version. In very good condition in a handsome perhaps contemporary binding. 8 vo. Half calf over marbled boards attractively embossed and titled in gilt on black ground to spine; modestly age toned to edges as expected. Later… Read more…

Legal reports with a handwritten note to the front loose flyleaf which reads ‘Bought the fifth of October 1657 [.....]’. The spine has cracked, the boards are unattached, several sections of the text block sit loosely within the exposed binding but the leaves are in good condition throughout, barely foxed and interestingly and abundantly annotated… Read more…

RESERVED - A richly hand written first person narrative detailing stag hunting trips in the Strathmashie area of the Scottish Highlands in the year 1929, written by young JWC Cameron. His account, written up in a lined text book, fills almost every leaf (circa 60 pp) and is illustrated with pasted in b/w photographs and cuttings. The text book is c… Read more…

First edition, near fine in a near fine jacket not price-clipped, a Review Copy with a slip from Faber and Faber laid in. A very nice copy. Read more…

Very good first edition in a good jacket, not price clipped, designed by Feibusch, loss at top of spine. Ownership signature of Peggy Longland 1936, a good square book. An uncommon book. Read more…

First Edition of Showell Styles' account of Nelson's favourite pupil, William Hoste, and his greatest sea battle at Lissa. The book is fine internally in fresh black boards, just a little browning to top edge. The dustjacket is fine, designed by Barbara Walton. Neat ownership inscription to front free end paper. A very smart copy of a scarce editio… Read more…

With the bookplate and annotation of a former President of the Royal Society (1827-1830), Davies Gilbert Early nineteenth century full calf binding with gilt to the spine and gilt double panelling to the boards. Cracked along the outer hinges, some wear to leather at head and tail of spine; marbled endpapers, engraved title-page and portrait and wo… Read more…

A single volume selection of plays bound up from John Bell’s 1773 Shakespeare edition including an Introduction to Shakespeare’s Plays containing An Essay on Oratory and a Dedication to David Garrick . PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Half calf over marbled boards in good condition only showing extensive wear to the 6 panelled spine which has worn to the lowe… Read more…

Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poems of Passion, her major poetry collection first published in 1883 which includes her poem 'Solitude', and the lines 'Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone'. This volume is undated, c1910. Hardback in good condition, bound in light green cloth with ornate gilt decoration to spine and upper board. Sl… Read more…

The Fourth Edition of Volume 1 only, comprising books 1 & 2. By T R Malthus A.M. late fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and Professor of History and Political Economy in the East India College, Hertfordshire. Tree calf boards pleasingly worn, a little bumped to corners. Six panelled spine lettered ‘Volume 1’ in gilt over black, a little chipped to… Read more…

Controversial at the time of its publishing The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is considered one of the first feminist novels, depicting a woman's flight from an abusive marriage to protect herself and her child, and challenging the patriarchal laws of the time. This 1870 edition is a very pleasing copy in very good condition. Green intricately embossed V… Read more…

A 1920 edition of this scarce work which takes the form of a powerful memoir written by Aurora Mardiganian,a survivor of the Armenian genocide which was instigated by Turkish nationalists during the First World War. This book is a result of her friendship with Harvey Gates, a young screenwriter in New York city to where she fled, and who helped her… Read more…

The Thirtieth Edition with 5 new copper plate cuts. Rebound in a later addition half calf over dark cloth boards in good and very sound condition. A little frayed and chipped to top and tail of 6 panelled spine. A little bumped to corners. A previous ownership signature to front free endpaper in a contemporary hand reads ‘Mo Holroyd’. Age toned thr… Read more…

A delightful copy of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poems of Pleasure, her collection of poems which capture the joy of living and was first published in 1888. This volume is undated, c1910. Hardback in very good condition, bound in rust coloured cloth with ornate gilt decoration to spine and upper board. Slightly bumped to corners. The book is printed on t… Read more…

In very good condition. The 1773 New Edition with a full page frontispiece by C Grignion and seven interesting full page illustrated plates throughout. Includes Fables Book I From the Ancients; Fables Book II From the Moderns; Fables Book III. Newly Invented. Brown calf boards in good condition, lightly worn as expected and a little bumped to corne… Read more…