New York: Pandick Press,1926. Edition de Luxe, No. 40 of 250 copies. Portraits. Large 8vo (10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches), pages: 444:55, contemporary three-quarter crushed brown morocco, top edge gilt; some sunning to the spine but overall strong, sound, and attractive. Engraved armorial bookplate of Viscount Finlay on front pastedown. Heavy, extra postage will be requested. £45.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16245
London : J. Newbery [1759]. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved title, and seven engraved plates. 12mo (5 5/8 x 3 1/2 inches), pages: iv:291:(1,advertisement), contemporary full unlettered sheep, some rubbing, headband chipped, upper hinge cracked but very firm; internally very clean and free from foxing. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir George Shuckburgh Bart on front pastedown and his signature and date, 1762, on front free endpaper.
£120.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16626
Cairo: for Private Circulation ca. 1948. Portrait & Plates. Tall 8vo, pp. 155:(4), original green grained simulated leather. Endpapers foxed, binding dulled.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 6044
Manchester University Press, 1931. First edition. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), 210-pages, original black cloth; base of spine bumped else good. Imperfect: wants title-page.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15973
London: The Hogarth Press, 1965. First edition. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 3/3 inches), 231-pages. Original cloth; a very good copy in very clean dustwrapper. £20.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14954
Manchester University Press, 1996. Softback. 8vo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 244-pages, original glazed wrappers. Signature on half-title else fine. £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16141
London: John Murray, 1822. First edition. 8vo, pp.xi:326, full contemporary diced tan calf, sides ruled in gilt spine gilt within compartments and on wide raised bands with green lettering piece; a handsome copy.
£50.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 1371
Oxford and London: James Parker, 1877. First edition. 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 148-pages with 16-page publisher's catalogue at end. Original brown fine pebble-grained cloth; rubbed, headband chipped. Perhaps the author's own copy as his initials are inscribed in ink on front free endpaper. Ms. notes in ink on verso of front free endpaper. Rare.
£60.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14589
London: by His Majesty's Law Printers for W. Griffin, 1748. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches), later full tan calf with red and black lettering pieces; with the half titles. 304-pages plus unpaginated index. Some marginal staining to prelims. One worm hole affecting upper blank margin of prelims; generally very good. Modern signature on front free endpaper. £90.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10750
Cambridge University Press, 1997. First edition. Softback. 8vo (9 x 6 inches),329-pages, original glazed wrappers. Signature on half-title else fine.
£16.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16148
London: for the Idia Office, 1919. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 130-pages, original cloth-backed boards; boards browned and inscribed "Record Dept. (Library Copy)". Paper stripped from front pastedown, else good.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16197
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1933. First edition. 8vo (8 x 5 1/2 inches), 206-pages. Original black cloth; front free endpaper removed else good.
£12.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15970
London: Oxford University Press, 1938. First edition. 8vo, pp.viii:(1):351, original black cloth; binding a little marked but a very good copy. Ink stamped on front free endpaper "This book is the property of the North-Eastern Electric Supply Co. " and with their stamp on title.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10404
London: William Blackwood, 1885. Fifty-First Thousand (Revised). Folding frontispiece, plates. Oblong 8vo (7 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), 28-pages, original red pictorial wrappers; some foxing, corners bumped, generally good. Political Satire. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13245
London: William Blackwood, 1885. Fortieth Thousand. Frontispiece, plates. Oblong 8vo (7 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), 32-pages, original red pictorial wrappers; some foxing, corners bumped, generally good. Political Satire. £21.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13246
London: William Blackwood, 1885. Fifty-First Thousand (Revised). Folding frontispiece, plates. Oblong 8vo (7 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), original green pictorial wrappers; generally good. Political Satire. £16.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13243
London: William Blackwood, circa 1888. Twentieth Thousand. Plates. Oblong 8vo (7 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), 30-pages, original green pictorial wrappers; very good. Political Satire. £21.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13244
Oxford University Press, 1916. 8vo (9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches), 421-pages, original green cloth. Lacking title-page else good. Inscribed by the author to H. Dodwell, thanking him for his assistance. With Dodwell's bookplate on front pastedown.
£35.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16198
London: printed by His Majesty's Stationery Office for the India Office, 1927. First edition. 8vo (9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches),682-pages, original black cloth; endpapers foxed. Lacking title-page, first leaf of introduction detached, else good.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16199
Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1982. No. 837 of an unspecified edition. Illustrations. 4to (10 1/2 x 8 inches), 288-pages. Publisher's half dark blue morocco, red cloth boards blocked in gilt, top edge gilt. Red cloth a little marked, leather at head of upper cover abrased otherwise excellent. £90.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17024
Calcutta: Government Printing, India. 1923. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), 73-pages. Original cloth-backed printed boards; boards dusty, some browning.
£50.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16196
London: Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1902. Folio (13 x 8 1/2 inches), 126-pages. Original printed blue wrappers; wrappers now browned & torn. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15536
Not published, circa 1975. Unpublished xerox, 4to, 61-pages, plain wrappers. With typescript aerogramme from the author to the grandson of Sir Arthur Godley respecting Sir Arthur's career at the India Office, this dated 1975.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11185
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1937. Thick 8vo (9 3/4 x 6 inches), 1167-pages, original green cloth. Lacks title-page else very good.
£75.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16200
Cambridge University Press, 1994. First edition. 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), 424-pages, original brown cloth; excellent. Signature on front free endpaper, cut panel of dust jacked loosely inserted at end. £38.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16096
New Delhi: Viking, 1991. Reprint (same year as first). 8vo (9 x 6 inches), 315-pages. Original cloth in edge rubbed dustwrapper; good. £20.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12719
London: William Smith, 1839. Two volumes 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches),pages: xv:413 & xvi:668. Handsomely bound full olive calf, narrow gilt rules on sides, spines blindstamped in compartments and gilt ruled on bands with burgundy letteriung and numbering pieces. The upper covers blocked in gilt with University Colege, London. A little light rubbing to headbands and extremities. Overall the bindings excellent and strong. Foxing to the text of Volume 2. Engraved University College prize label on front pastedown of Volume 1.
£150.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17192
[London: William Miller, 1811]. Imperfect - wanting title-page. 8vo (10 x 5 3/4 inches), 549-pages, later quarter leather, marbled boards; upper cover detached, headband chipped.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16202
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. First edition. Tall 8vo, pp.xviii:371, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding headbands bumped and white spotting caused by the surface of the dustwrapper to adhere to cloth; dustwrapper poor with a 3cm tear along edge of spine and all edges chipped, rubbed and creased; internally excellent.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 9171
New Delhi: Vikas, 1995 First edition. Frontispiece. 8vo (9 3/4 x 7 inches), 465-pages. Original black cloth; excellent in very good dust jacket. £40.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15476
Calcutta: K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1959. 8vo (9 x 5 3/4 inches), 240-pages, original cloth; very sligtly marked in stained dust jacket.
£35.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15969
London: Clement, (c. 1825). 8vo, pp.vii:27:(1), disbound.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 1958
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1905. Folio (13 x 8 1/2 inches), 97-pages. Original blue printed wrappers, stitched, as issued. Wrappers edge creased and a little torn. £45.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13310
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1981. 8vo (10 x 6 inches), 241-pages. Contemporary full crimson morocco, sides gilt ruled enclosing the royal arms in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, original wrappers retained. With typescript leaf bound in at front "For Our Chaiman in Respect and Affection Suaviter in Modo, Fortiter in Re", with the signatures (Christian names only) of 14 members of the commission below in ink. Spine sunned else very good.
£35.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16013
Manchester University Press, 1940. First edition. 8vo (9 x 5 3/4 inches), 374-pages. Original black cloth; headband worn, short splits to joints, rubbed, corners bumped. Inscribed by the author to his wife.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15488
London: Oxford University Press, 1964. First reprint. 8vo (9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches), 786-pages. Original cloth; very good in edge worn dust jacket. Newspaper review of this work stapled to half-title. £45.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15480
Leeds University Press, 1967. First edition. Maps. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 36-pages. Original printed wrappers wire-stitched as issued; fine. £12.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15478
Cambridge University Press, 1996. First edition. 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), 506-pages, original brown cloth; excellent. Signature on front free endpaper, cut panel of dust jacked loosely inserted at end. £20.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16095
London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1883. Fifth Thousand (vol.1), Fourth Thousand (vol.2). Mounted Woodburytype portraits. Tall 8vo (10 x 6 inches), pages: 528 & 528. Original brown cloth blocked in black and lettered in gilt; headbands bruised else an extremely nice bright and tight copy £20.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12383
London: for Tim. Goodwin, 1701. First edition. 8vo, pp. (8):311:(1, advertisements), contemporary full calf; binding very rubbed, lacking lettering piece, spine chipped, joints cracked, upper board held on cords. Browning and spotting especially prelims. and at end. Rare. £125.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No.8038
London: A. Maxwell, 1844. Two volumes 8vo (9 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches),pages: xlvii:(1):508 & xxi:344. Contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards, spiness gilt ruled and gilt on raised bands and with crimson lettering pieces. Some scuffing to leather of upper board of Volume 2 Overall, an attractive well bound copy. £140.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17197
London: for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1887. 1 of 500 copies. Frontispiece. 4to, original boards uncut; binding dusty and soiled, internally sound. Bookplate. Shelley Society Publications Extra Series No. 5. £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 1921
Edinburgh : Printed for Stirling and Slade (& others), J. Bumpus, London, 1819. Three volumes 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), pages: ix:lxv:360; vi:512:(1, Appendix): & v:448 plus unpaginated index. Contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards, spines gilt with black lettering pieces; lacking the calf from the upper compartments of the spines of all three volumes, partial crack to 2 upper joints but firm. Signature on front free endpapers. Foxing to preliminaries and at end. An uncommon edition. £280.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16645
Dublin: M. H. Gill n.d. Not dated but an early edition. Engraved portraits. 8vo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches), 360-pages. Original pictorial wrappers blocked in colours; wire-stitched as issued. Backstrip chipped, lower fore-corner of upper wrapper and prelims creased and slightly chipped, some marginal age-toning. £35.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15501
London: S. Sweet, 1, Chancery Lane, 1837. Folding tables. 8vo (9 x 5 1/2 inches), 302-pages. Contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards, spine gilt ruled and gilt on raised bands and with crimson lettering piece. Some scuffing to corners. Overall well and attractively bound and in very good condition. Very clean internally. £45.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17201
London: S. Sweet, 1 Chancery Lane, 1845. First edition. The Supllement published 1846, also by Sweet. 8vo (8 x 5 1/2 inches), xvi:394:38 (the Supplement). Contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards, the spine gilt ruled with crimson lettering piece; scuffing to corners but attractive and very sound. The uncommon first edition of a work that was to be reprinted numerous times, the supplement is rarer still (only 2 copies recorded on Copac). £225.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17194