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ALDINGTON, Richard.
Death of a Hero. 1930
£475
Authorized Unexpurgated Edition, this number 248 of 300 copies. This two-volume Paris printing contains much material left out of the London first edition of the previous year for...
2 volumes, quarto. Original folded buff wrappers over plain light card wraps, titles to spines and upper wraps in dark brown. Wraps a little rubbed, spines creased... Read more
ALDINGTON, Richard, & Edward Storer, & H. D. (all trans).
The Poet's Translation Series. 1919
£150
First editions, first impressions.
6 volumes, octavo. Original cream wrappers, titles to covers in blue. In volumes I and II the contents are separated from the wrappers. All volumes lighly rubbed with... Read more
ALDRIDGE, James; Margaret Laurence; Bernard Malamud; Olivia Manning; Sylvia Plath; Kit Reed; Robert Rushmore; Alan Sillitoe; Fra
Winter's Tales 15 1969
£45
First edition, first printing. Only 400 copies printed. Five of the stories originally appeared in periodicals including Sylvia Plath's story "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams",...
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Light foxing to edges, spine fading to dust jacket and lightly toned. Read more
ALEICHEM, Sholom.
Tevye's Daughters. 1949
£675
First Edition, First Printing of the novel upon which one of the best theatrical and cinematic musical ever made was based.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. Housed in a quarter red morocco drop down box, spine gilt extra, with an... Read more
ALEXANDER, F. Matthias.
Man's Supreme Inheritance. 1957
£40
Fourth edition.
Octavo. Original black cloth, front side and spine lettered in gilt, brown top-stain. With dust jacket. 6 lithographic plates, contemporary ownership inscription and... Read more
ALEXANDER, James Edward.
Travels from India to England; 1827
£2,000
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the first blank "with the Author's respectful compliments", the recipient's name effectively erased. Educated at Edinburgh, Glasgow and...
Quarto (263 × 203 mm). Recent calf to style, green morocco label, flat bands with gilt foliate roll, lozenge devices gilt to the compartments, double gilt fillet... Read more
(Alexander Technique) ALEXANDER, F. Matthias.
Man's Supreme Inheritance. [1946]
£45
First published in 1918.
Octavo. Original black cloth, front side and spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. 2 lithographic illustration plates, contemporary ownership inscription to front... Read more
[ALEXANDER, William]
The Costume of the Russian Empire. 1803
£1,250
First edition (but a later issue), with the uncommon imprint of Howlett and Brimmer on the title and verso of the last page of letterpress. Both Abbey and Colas call for S. Gosnell...
Folio. Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt lettered and decorated spine, blind stamped and gilt decoration to boards. With 73 fine handcoloured... Read more
(ALFA ROMEO) FROSTICK, Michael.
Alfa Romeo Milano. 1976
£85
Second edition. Originally published in 1974.
Quarto. Original red synthetic morocco, titles to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and illustrations throughout. An excellent... Read more
ALI, Monica.
Brick Lane. 2003
£235
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the title page.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, red endpapers. With the dust jacket. A fine copy. Read more
(ALI, Muhammad.) BINGHAM, Howard L.
Muhammad Ali. A Thirty-Year Journey. 1993
£200
First UK edition, first impression. Bookplate signed by Ali and Bingham to the half title.
Quarto. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with monochrome photographs by Bingham. Spine bumped in lightly rubbed dust... Read more
ALISON, Archibald.
History of Europe. 1853–54
£500
Ninth edition.
13 volumes, octavo (182 × 117 mm). Contemporary brown half calf, spines gilt in compartments, brown and green morocco labels, purple sides, green endpapers, red... Read more
ALLAIS, Maurice.
Économie & Intérêt; 1947
£8,500
First edition, presentation copy to his former pupil Gerard Debreu, inscribed by the author at the head of the first title, and with Debreu's ownership inscriptions to each front...
2 volumes, octavo. Original printed paper wrappers, neatly rebacked to style, small portion at head of first front wrapper renewed without affecting printed area.... Read more
ALLAN, Luke.
Scotland Yard Takes a Holiday. 1934
£375
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Ownership inscription to title page, but an exceptional copy in the rubbed and nicked... Read more
ALLAN, Luke.
The Black Opal. 1935
£275
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled, spotting to edges and contents. A very good copy in the price-clipped,... Read more
ALLAN, Luke.
The Traitor. 1933
£425
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in yellow. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with toned spine panel, spotting to the... Read more
ALLEN, Gardner W. (ed.)
The Papers of Francis Gregory Dallas. 1917
£75
Limited edition of 700 copies of which this is number 151.
Octavo. Quarter vellum, blue paper boards, titles to spine, device to front board, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 4 monochrome plates. Spine is a little spotted... Read more
ALLEN, Lewis M.
Printing With the Handpress. 1969
£150
First trade edition, first printing. Originally published in a limited edition of 140 hand-printed copies, with the trade edition offset from proofs of the limited edition.
Large octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and pictorial decoration to upper board in black, orange endpapers. Diagrams throughout. Lightly rubbed at the... Read more
ALLEN, Thomas.
The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and Parts Adjacent. 1827 - 1829
£400
First edition. George Virtue issued an updated 2nd edition in 1837 with a 5th volume covering the suburbs. In vol.1 the illustration plate titled ' Map of Roman London' is bound as...
4 volumes, octavo (210 × 133mm). Contemporary black half calf over marbled boards, red morocco spine label, spine decoratively blocked in blind and gilt-ruled in... Read more
ALLEN, Woody.
Getting Even. 1971
£750
First edition, first printing of the author's first collection of essays and humorous pieces. One of a very small number of copies specially bound for the publishers for presentation.
Octavo. Original publisher's blue morocco presentation binding, titles to spine and top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Binding lightly rubbed, spine and top edge of... Read more
ALLINGHAM, Margery.
Traitor's Purse. 1941
£2,750
First edition, first impression. A fabulous piece of book design and exceedingly scarce in the dust jacket.
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Annotation to list of titles opposite title page, but an exceptional copy in the... Read more
(ALMANAC)
Rider's British Merlin: For the Year of our Lord God 1767. 1767
£500
Rider's British Merlin was a very popular almanac, first published in 1656 and continuing annually until the nineteenth century. Cardanus Rider is often said, though probably...
Duodecimo (132 × 77 mm). Contemporary red morocco, gilt panel spine with saltire design, covers tooled in gilt all over to a cottage-roof design, Dutch floral... Read more
![or the Mathematical Repository; an Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1804 [1805] [1810] [1813] [1814] [1815] [1816] [1820] [1824] [1825] [1826] [1828].](/content/store/products/577/2/1662.jpg)
(ALMANACK) THE GENTLEMAN’S DIARY,
or the Mathematical Repository; an Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1804 [1805] [1810] [1813] [1814] [1815] [1816] [1820] [1824] [1825] [1826] [1828]. 1804–28
£1,200
A most attractive collection, each volume containing 6 different almanacs for the above years, viz. The Gentleman's Diary; Vox Stellarum: or, a Loyal Almanack by Francis Moore; Old...
12 volumes, 16mo, 168 × 99mm. Bound in full contemporary straight-grained red morocco, gilt, bands, borders and edges, marbled endpapers. Very good throughout. Read more
ALMAZAN, Emmanuel Louis Marie Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest, duc d'.
La Turquie. Son Gouvernement et ses Armées pendant la Guerre d'Orient. 1860
£475
Originally published as a two-part article in the Revue des Deux Mondes, this is essentially a detailed study of the fall of Kars. Almazan had served with the Russian army in the...
Octavo (237 × 151 mm) Contemporary red pebble-grain morocco from the library of Henry V de France, duc de Bordeaux, comte de Chambord, title gilt to spine, raised... Read more
ALTOLAGUIRRE, Manuel.
Nube temporal. Poemas... 1939
£750
First Edition, First Printing. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the first blank, "To Nancy, Manolo". The recipient was Nancy Cunard who has noted in pencil...
Small octavo. Original cream wrappers printed in black and green. Backstrip a little cocked, red mark to upper wrapper but an excellent copy. Read more
