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eBay
17663
[Published
anonymously but attributed to Egerton
Douglas Hammond]
Memoir of
Captain M. M. Hammond, Rifle Brigade
London: James
Nisbet & Co., 1860 Eighth Edition
5” x 7¾”. [xi]
+ 372pp, frontispiece. Original green cloth
gilt. The covers are rubbed but still quite
fresh for a volume of this age. The spine
ends and corners are bumped, quite heavily,
and slightly frayed. There are some
indentations along the edges of the boards
and there is a forward spine lean. This
volume was presented to Arthur Wellesley by
Lord Francis Gordon Lennox in April 1861
(please see the enlarged image above).
According to a pencilled note on the second
front end-paper, “Inscribed to Arthur
Wellesley, later 3d Duke by Lennox Gordon
descendant of Wellington’s ADC.” Lord
Alexander Francis Charles Gordon-Lennox (14
June 1825 – 22 January 1892) was the son of
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond
who was, indeed, Wellington’s Aide-de-Camp;
however, “Arthur Wellesley” was either the
2nd Duke of Wellington, Lieutenant-General
Arthur Richard Wellesley, KG, PC (3 February
1807 – 13 August 1884) or the 4th Duke,
Arthur Charles Wellesley, KG, GCVO, DL (15
March 1849 – 18 June 1934) as the 3rd Duke
was Henry Wellesley. The text is generally
clean throughout, on markedly tanned paper,
with some pages having small stains or
foxing spots. A number of corners are
creased. The inner hinges are cracked. The
edge of the text block is dust-stained and
lightly foxed.
£495.00
16052
Agate, James
Ego 8
London: George
G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1948 [first published
1947]
6” x 9¼”.
269pp, frontispiece. Original blue cloth
gilt in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j. The
covers are rubbed and with an old stain
affecting the bottom edge. The spine ends
and corners are bumped. There is a forward
spine lean. There is a previous owner's name
inscribed (dated 1952). There are no other
internal markings and the text is clean
throughout. The paper has tanned with age
and the bottom comers are bumped.
£20.00
eBay
17530
Alastos, Doros
[pseud. Ioannides, Eudoros]
Venizelos :
Patriot, Statesman, Revolutionary
London: Lund
Humphries & Co., 1942
4¾” x 7½".
[xiv] + 304pp, map, portrait frontis. Pale
blue cloth gilt, no d/j, ex-Karl Marx
Memorial Library with shelf mark on spine,
'cancelled' stamps and usual markings,
otherwise Very Good. Rare.
£150.00
eBay
16755
Anon.
Henry
Richard Compton, Lieutenant, Coldstream
Guards : A Few Notes Relating to His Short
Life & His Death, Collected by a Friend to
Whom he was Devoted
London:
Printed for Private Circulation by Hatchards,
1925
5¼” x 7¾”.
52pp, portrait frontispiece. Original blue
cloth gilt with Coldstream Guards medallion
blocked in silver, gilt and red on front
cover. There is an area of colour loss on
the front cover affecting the title. There
is a Presentation Inscription on the front
free end-paper: "L. E. Barrington Ward
from H. F. Compton March 1925". There is
a small stain on the front pastedown and a
corresponding stain on the front free
end-paper. The tissue-guarded portrait
frontispiece is stained on the top margin
and grubby in the bottom margin. The short
text section is very clean indeed. The edge
of the text block is not trimmed and has a
ragged edge.
£195.00
eBay
18022
Anthony
Farrar-Hockley
Goughie :
The Life of General Sir Hubert Gough
London:
Hart-Davis, McGibbon, 1975
6” x 9½”.
[xii] + 403pp, illustrations, maps. Original
red cloth blocked in gilt on the spine, no
d/j, covers rubbed, edges foxed otherwise
Very Good.
£30.00
eBay
16653
Arnold-Forster, Mary [Mary Lucy Story-Maskelyne]
The Right
Honourable Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster : A
Memoir
London: Edward
Arnold, 1910
5½” x 9”. [xv]
+ 376pp, portrait frontis, illustrations,
Publisher’s catalogue. Blue cloth gilt, no
d/j, spine ends and corners bumped and
frayed,
£70.00
12298
Asquith,
Margot [Edited with an Introduction by Mark
Bonham Carter]
The
Autobiography of Margot Asquith
London:
Methuen London Ltd, 1985 [first published in
this edition in 1962]
5” x 7¾”.
[xxxvii] + 342pp, illustrations. Paperback,
covers rubbed, crease in spine otherwise
Very Good
£4.00
eBay
17753
Bagnold, Enid
A Diary
Without Dates
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1933 ["The Windmill
Library"]
4½” x 7”.
127pp. Original brown cloth gilt, no d/j,
previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise
Very Good.
£50.00
15223
Bailey, Cyril
Hugh Percy
Allen
London New
York Toronto: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford
University Press, 1948
5¼” x 8”.
[viii] + 170pp, frontispiece, illustrations.
Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed,
otherwise Very Good.
£15.00
10005
Balfour,
Michael
The Kaiser
and his times
London: The
Cresset Press, 1964
5¾" x 9".
524pp. Black cloth, cover and lower portion
of spine waterstained, front inner hinge
weak, no d/j, Good
£15.00
eBay
18147
Bayly, Hugh
Wansey
Triple
Challenge or War, Whirligigs and Windmills :
A Doctor’s Memoirs of the Years 1914 to 1929
London:
Hutchinson & Co. [There is no publication
date; however, the main part of the Preface
is dated October 1930, when the Memoirs were
first completed, with a further note, dated
December 1933, immediately prior to
publication.]
5½” x 8¾”.
396pp, illustrations. Decorative blue cloth,
no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, edges
lightly foxed, otherwise Very Good.
£40.00
11100
Beaverbrook,
Lord
Men and
Power 1917 - 1918
London:
Hutchinson, 1956
5½" x 8½".
448pp, ills. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise
Very Good
£18.00
12023
Beaverbrook,
Lord
Men and
Power 1917 - 1918
London:
Hutchinson, 1956
5½" x 8½".
448pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in a
chipped, torn d/j, covers rubbed, edges
dusty, one plate standing slightly proud
otherwise Very Good/Fair
£18.00
eBay
16299
Bentley, E. C.
Those Days
London:
Constable & Co. Ltd, 1940
5½" x 8¾".
[xv] + 328pp, portrait frontis. Blue cloth,
no d/j, front free end-paper excised, covers
rubbed with some colour loss along edges,
previous owner's name inscribed otherwise
Good
£20.00
12202
Birrell,
Augustine
Sir Frank
Lockwood : A Biographical Sketch
London: Smith,
Elder & Co., 1898 [4th impression; 2nd
edition]
5½” x 8¼”.
226pp, portrait frontis, illustrations.
Green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers worn, head
and tail of spine frayed, front gutter split
along half its length, edges & end-papers
foxed otherwise Good
£12.00
11533
Bitton, Nelson
Griffith
John : The Apostle of Central China
London: The
National Sunday School Union, n.d.
4¾" x 7½".
157pp. Red cloth in a torn, tatty d/j with
some loss, old prize label on front free
end-paper, otherwise Very Good/poor
£8.00
15654
Blake, Robert
and Louis, William Roger [Eds]
Churchill :
A Major New Assessment of his Life in Peace
and War
Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1993
6¼" x 9½".
581pp, illustrations. Original cloth gilt in
a torn, rubbed, creased d/j, otherwise Very
Good
£25.00
15188
Blanch, Lesley
The Wilder
Shores of Love
London: John
Murray, 1954
5½” x 8¾”.
[ix] + 324pp, illustrations. Original red
cloth gilt. The covers are rubbed and
somewhat faded; the spine is very faded and
there are a few small marks. The spine ends
and corners are bumped. There is a slight
spine lean.
£20.00
10034
Blom, Eric
Some Great
Composers
London: Oxford
University Press, 1944 [reprinted before
publication]
4¾" x 7½".
120pp. Green boards in torn d/j; produced to
War Economy Standard. Very Good
£7.00
eBay
17119
Bodley, R. V.
C. [Major, M.C.]
Indiscretions of a Young Man
London: Harold
Shaylor, November 1931
5½” x 8¾”.
[xii] + 251pp. Tan cloth blocked in black in
a scuffed and rubbed d/j, front cover
slightly bowed, tanning to pages otherwise
Very Good. Rare. Educated Eton & Sandhurst,
commissioned KRRC, served in India with 4th
Bn. Being in England in August 1914 he was
appointed Adjutant of 10th (S) Bn., 20th
(Light) Div., to France in July 1915 where
he also served on the staff & was invalided;
Military Attaché at the British Embassy in
Paris during the peace conference and later
a Bank Official and sheep farmer.
£175.00
14726
Bogarde, Dirk
Snakes and
Ladders
London: Chatto
& Windus, 1978
6” x 9½”.
£20.00
11754
Brander,
Michael
Soho for
the Colonel : On The Trail of Colonel
Thornton
London:
Douglas Saunders (in association with
Macgibbon & Kee), 1961
5½" x 8¾".
215pp, portrait frontis, illustrations.
Original cloth gilt in a chipped, scuffed
d/j, front free end-paper missing, else Very
Good/G.
£7.00
10424
Breakspeare,
Eustace J.
Mozart
London: J. M.
Dent & Sons Ltd, 1922
5" x 7¼".
300pp, ills. Red cloth, spine dull, coat of
arms of Brighton Grammar School embossed in
gilt on cover, foxing to edges and
end-papers, Good
£12.00
11513
Briquebec,
John
Winston
Churchill
London: Rupert
Hart-Davis, 1972
8" x 8¼".
58pp, illustrations, colour frontis.
Pictorial boards (colour photographs of
Churchill) which are rubbed and have some
small areas of loss from the surface, one
scratch on front boards, internally Very
Good.
£7.00
eBay
18086
Britnieva,
Mary
One Woman's
Story
London: Arthur
Barker Limited, June 1934 Third Impression
[First published April 1934; Second
Impression May 1934]
5¼” x 8¼”.
287pp, portrait frontispiece. Original blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed, with old staining to front cover and
scuff marks to rear cover, spine slightly
faded and soiled with noticeable variation
in colour, spine ends and corners bumped and
slightly frayed, page 15/16 slightly chipped
at fore-edge, otherwise Very Good. An
Englishwoman's story of life under the
Soviets, including the moving account of the
arrest and execution of her Russian
husband.
£175.00
eBay
17508
Brittain, Vera
Testament
of Youth : An Autobiographical Study of the
Years 1900-1925
London: Victor
Gollancz Ltd, September 1933 3rd Impression
5" x 8".
663pp. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j,
covers stained and rubbed, spine faded,
otherwise Very Good.
£250.00
eBay
17654
Brittain, Vera
Testament
of Youth : An Autobiographical Study of the
Years 1900-1925
London: Victor
Gollancz Ltd, October 1933 4th Impression
5" x 8".
663pp. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j,
covers stained and rubbed, spine faded,
otherwise Very Good.
£150.00
eBay
18024
Brooke,
Major-General Geoffrey (Francis Heremon; C.B.,
D.S.O., M.C.) [Illustrated by Captain Bob
Needham]
The
Brotherhood of Arms
London:
William Clowes and Sons Limited, 1941
5½” x 8½”.
[vii] + 133pp, illustrations. Blue cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, otherwise Very
Good
£40.00
eBay
17448
Brooke-Hunt,
Violet
A Woman's
Memories of the War
London: James
Nisbet, 1901.
4¾” x 7½”.
224pp, frontispiece. Original green cloth
blocked in black, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed, gift inscription on front end-paper
otherwise Very Good. Miss Brooke-Hunt
volunteered to assist soldiers in South
Africa, and has written of her experiences
from a woman's perspective. After a short
stay in Cape Town she was stationed at
Naauwport, Bloemfontein and Pretoria,
successfully organising the provision of
extra rations, etc as well as entertainment
to uplift the spirits of convalescent
soldiers of all ranks. See Mendelssohn, vol.
1, p. 194.
£295.00
15241
Carter,
William C.
Marcel
Proust : A Life
New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2000
6¼" x 9½".
[xiv] + 946pp, illustrations. Cream boards
quarter-bound in black cloth, in d/j, Fine
£30.00
11850
Cecil, Henry
Settled Out
of Court and Alibi for a Judge
London: The
Companion Book Club, 1960
5" x 7½".
336pp. Red cloth gilt in a chipped, torn d/j
which is faded on the spine, otherwise Very
Good/G-
£5.00
12122
Cecil, Hugh &
Mirabel
Imperial
Marriage : An Edwardian War and Peace
London: John
Murray, 2002
6¼" x 9½".
[xiii] + 366pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations, maps. Black cloth in d/j, As
New. Originally published at £25. Certain
lives epitomize an age, its glamour, its
successes, and its broken dreams. Such were
the lives of Lord Edward Cecil, his wife
Violet, and Alfred Milner with whom she fell
in love. The adventurous Guards officer
Edward Cecil married Violet Maxse in 1894,
as Britain reached its imperial zenith.
During the Boer War, as Chief Staff Officer
to Baden-Powell, he was besieged at
Mafeking, while in Cape Town Violet, young,
attractive and enterprising, fell in love
with Alfred Milner, the High Commissioner
responsible for British policy. Her love for
him dominated the rest of her life. This
book is also a picture of the British
aristocratic world during its last period of
real influence. As Foreign Secretary and
Prime Minister, Lord Edward's father, the
Marquess of Salisbury, was Britain's leading
statesman. His Jacobean palace, Hatfield,
was a political powerhouse. Violet's father,
Frederick Maxse was an unorthodox war hero
and landed gentleman. His artistic and
political friends, such as the statesman
Georges Clemenceau, influenced her
profoundly. Alfred Milner, a brilliant
scholarship boy, rose to control the
destinies of the nation alongside Lloyd
George during World War I - a war bringing
terrible personal tragedy to Violet and
Edward. Edward spent his later life
administering the finances of Egypt. After
his death in 1918, Alfred and Violet were
married for four brief, happy years.
£18.00
12073
Churchill, The
Rt. Hon. Winston S.
Thoughts
and Adventures
London:
Thornton Butterworth Limited, September 1933
[1st Keystone Library edition; first
published November 1932]
5½" x 8¾".
320pp, portrait frontis. Blind-stamped green
cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed, head of spine
snagged, corners bumped, front lower corner
frayed (exposing card), end-papers foxed,
front free end-paper excised, edges dusty
otherwise Good
£10.00
eBay
17709
Churchill,
Winston
My Early
Life : A Roving Commission
London:
Thornton Butterworth Limited, February 1934
[First Impression in The Keystone Library
Edition] First published October 1930,
Second Impression in the same month, Third
Impression November 1930, Fourth Impression
December 1930, Fifth Impression September
1931
5½" x 9".
392pp, ills. Purple cloth gilt, no d/j. As
usual with this edition, the cloth has faded
and discoloured, and is also rubbed and
grubby with some fraying along the edges,
pencil marks on the front free end-paper
have been erased, edges dusty, shaken,
otherwise Good
£295.00
14340
Clarke, The
Rt. Hon. Sir Edward
The Story
of My Life
London: John
Murray, 1919 [2nd imp.; first published
1918]
5½" x 8¾".
[viii] + 439pp, portrait frontis. Blue cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine faded,
end-papers discoloured, frontispiece heavily
foxed, otherwise Very Good
£40.00
10534
Clarke, Tom
My
Northcliffe Diary
London: Victor
Gollancz Ltd, 1931
5½" x 8¾".
304pp, ills. Black cloth, gilt lettering, no
d/j, white mark on cover, foxings to edges
and eps. Good
£6.00
11731
Clifford,
Colin
The
Asquiths
London: John
Murray, 2002
6¼" x 9½".
528pp, illustrations. Red cloth gilt in a
scuffed d/j, otherwise Fine/Very Good.
£19.00
eBay
17549
Cooke, Colonel
Montague [D.S.O.]
Clouds That
Flee : The Reminiscences of Colonel Montague
Cooke
London:
Hutchinson & Co., 1935
6” x 9¼”.
288pp, frontispiece, illustrations
[Illustrated from photographs and by the
late Lt.-Col. E. A. Hobday, C.M.G., and two
sketches by L. Raven Hill]. Original red
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, front
free end-paper missing, edges foxed,
otherwise Very Good.
£40.00
eBay
18153
Corry, Percy
Our World
Was The Stage : A Personal History of Watts
and Corry (1927 to 1984) Theatrical
Contractors, Oldham Road, Miles Platting
Manchester
Published in
1984 by Neil Richardson, 375 Chorley Road,
Swinton, Manchester
5½” x 8”.
83pp, illustrations. Original stapled
printed card covers. The covers are scuffed
and rubbed, with some creasing and surface
scratching. There is also some
discolouration and a few minor marks. The
stapled spine is heavily creased. The
corners are creased and dog-eared. There is
a signed presentation inscription by Percy
Corry on the inside front cover (the Table
of Contents), dated 1984. The text is in
typescript, the printing is not of
particularly high quality, and the
illustrations have been poorly-reproduced.
The pages have discoloured slightly and the
edge of the text block is dust-stained and
lightly foxed.
£30.00
12117
Crossman,
Richard
The Diaries
of a Cabinet Minister : Volume One :
Minister of Housing 1964-66
London: Hamish
Hamilton and Jonathan Cape, 1976 [2nd imp.]
6¼" x 9½".
688pp, illustrations. Green cloth gilt in a
scuffed and chipped, price-clipped d/j
otherwise Very Good
£8.00
eBay
17674
Crozier,
Brigadier-General F. P. [C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.]
Impressions
and Recollections
London: T.
Werner Laurie Ltd, 1930
5½” x 8¾”.
330pp, portrait frontispiece, 29 plates.
Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j, front
cover irregularly faded (quite severely)
with significant areas of colour loss to
top corners (front and rear), spine faded
with total loss of colour, previous owner's
name inscribed in ink on front free
end-paper (dated December 1972), offsetting
to end-papers, edges heavily foxed, the
foxing extending into the margins, otherwise
Very Good.
£90.00
15035
Dallek, Robert
John F.
Kennedy : An Unfinished Life 1917-1963
London: Allen
Lane, Penguin Books, 2003
6¼" x 9½". [x]
+838pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in a
torn d/j otherwise Very Good.
£20.00
10098
Darwin,
Bernard
W. G. Grace
London:
Duckworth, 1934 [1st]
4,75" x 7½".
139pp. Red cloth with some marks, gilt
lettering, fep missing, no d/j o/w Very Good
£16.00
eBay
17427
De Croy,
Princess Marie
War
Memories
London:
Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1932
5¼" x 8". [ix]
+ 310pp, 3 plates, map. Green cloth gilt, no
d/j, previous owner's name inscribed,
otherwise Very Good Plus. Life under German
occupation at the Chateau de Bellignies, on
the Franco-German border near Mons, where in
1914 the Princess hid and succoured lost
British soldiers and worked with Edith
Cavell.
£95.00
eBay
18040
Disraeli, The
Right Honorable B.
Lord George
Bentinck : A Political Biography
London:
Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1881 Tenth
Edition
5” x 7¾”.
[xiv] + 422pp + Publisher’s advertisement.
Original blind-stamped cloth blocked in gilt
on the spine. The covers are rubbed and
dull, with some scuffing and a small frayed
patch on the top edge of the front cover,
near the corner. There is a small mark on
the spine. The spine ends and corners are
bumped and frayed with small splits in the
cloth. There is an armorial bookplate of
Thomas Somers-Cocks on the front pastedown
[Motto: “Prodesse Quam Conspici” (To
Accomplish rather than to be Conspicuous)].
Inscribed in blue ink near the top edge of
the bookplate is a subsequent owner's name:
"Michael Hurst, August 1957". This is
Michael Hurst (the Oxford Historian,
subsequently Dr Michael Hurst F.R.Hist.S.,
F.R.G.S., F.R.S.A.). Dr Hurst has added a
number of pencilled comments (in a minute
hand) and a large number of ticks in the
margins. The text is otherwise generally
clean throughout, on noticeably tanned
paper.
£85.00
14067
Dorthy L.
Sayers : The Life of a Courageous Woman
[With a Preface by Anthony Fleming and a
Foreword by P.D.James]
Brabazon,
James
London: Victor
Gollancz Ltd, 1981 [2nd imp.]
6” x 9¼”.
[xviii] + 308pp, illustrations. Brown cloth
gilt in a rubbed and creased d/j, covers
heavily rubbed along the edges, ex-Library
with label on front pastedown, slight spine
lean, otherwise Good.
£5.00
15412
Ebury, Sue
Weary : The
Life of Sir Edward Dunlop
Ringwood,
Victoria: Viking/Penguin Books Australia,
1994
6¾" x 10".
709pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in
lightly creased and scuffed d/j, otherwise
Near Fine
£25.00
12326
Edwardes,
Michael [Introduction by John Terraine]
Clive : The
Heaven-Born General
London: Hart
Davis, McGibbon Limited (Granada Publishing
Limited), 1977
6¼” x 9½”.
[ix] + 211pp, maps, illustrations. Original
boards in a rubbed d/j. The d/j has been
laminated and this is lifting in places,
otherwise Very Good.
£10.00
10071
Eley, Geoffrey
And Here is
Mr Streeter
London: Crosby
Lockwood & Son Ltd, 1950
5½" x 8½".
179pp, 11 ills. Red cloth, no d/j, edge of
pages mildly discoloured, Very Good
£8.00
10242
Erickson,
Carolly
The First
Elizabeth
London:
Macmillan, 1983
6¼" x 9½".
447pp. Brown cloth in d/j, Fine. An
acclaimed biography of Queen Elizabeth I. In
this remarkable biography, Carolly Erickson
brings Elizabeth I to life and allows us to
see her as a living, breathing, elegant,
flirtatious, diplomatic, violent, arrogant,
and outrageous woman who commands our
attention, fascination, and awe. With the
special skill for which she is acclaimed,
Carolly Erickson electrifies the senses as
she evokes with total fidelity the brilliant
colors of Elizabethan clothing and jewelry,
the texture of tapestries, and even the
close, perfumed air of castle rooms.
Erickson demonstrates her extraordinary
ability to discern and bring to life
psychological and physical reality." David
Herlihy, Charles Lea Professor of History,
Harvard University when reviewing the book
stated that "Carolly Erickson is a great
interpreter of history. She writes
political history, but imbeds it into
social, and even more, humane history. She's
likely to be the Barbara Tuchman of her
generation."
£22.00
eBay
17319
Essad Bey [Lev
Nussimbaum (1905–42)] Translated from the
German by Elsa Talmey
Blood and
Oil in the Orient
London:
Grayson & Grayson, 1932 [Re-issued in the
Mayfair Miscellany series]
5¾” x 8¾”.
317pp. Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed, head and tail of
spine frayed, gift inscription on front
end-paper otherwise Very Good
£125.00
10863
Fishman, Jack
[with a foreword by Eleanor Roosevelt]
My Darling
Clementine : The Story of Lady Churchill
London: W. H.
Allen, 1963
5½" x 8¾".
417pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in
chipped, torn d/j, previous owner's name
inscribed, edges dusty, else G+/G-
£5.00
14367
Fraser, David
Frederick
the Great : King of Prussia
London: Allen
Lane, The Penguin Press, 2000
6¼" x 9½".
[xv] + 704pp, maps, illustrations. Black
cloth gilt in a rubbed d/j, otherwise Near
Fine
£20.00
15034
Freedman,
Lawrence
Kennedy's
Wars : Berlin, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam
New York and
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
6¼" x 9½".
[xx] + 528pp. White boards in d/j, As New
£20.00
10095
George, David
Lloyd
War Memoirs
of David Lloyd George [vol. II only]
London: Odhams
Press, nd
5½" x 8½".
1,019pp, ills. Blue cloth, spine faded,
front inner hinge cracked, previous owner's
bookplate, G
£4.00
eBay
17313
Gibbons, John
[With Illustrations by Edgar Norfield]
Roll on,
Next War! : The Common Man's Guide to Army
Life
London:
Frederick Muller, 1935
4¾” x 7½”.
186pp, illustrations (drawings). Red cloth
blocked in black in a torn, foxed and
chipped d/j, covers faded with some loss of
colour, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very
Good.
£150.00
13728
Gilbert,
Martin
Winston S.
Churchill : Volume IV : 1917 - 1922
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1975
6¼" x 9¼".
967pp, illustrations. Red cloth gilt in a
scuffed and chipped d/j, edges dusty,
otherwise Very Good. Please note, as this is
a heavy book postage will be commensurate.
£50.00
14570
Gilbert,
Martin
Winston S.
Churchill : Volume V : 1922 - 1939
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1976
6¼" x 9¼".
[xxvii] + 1,167pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Red cloth gilt in a scuffed
and chipped d/j, the red stain to the top
edge has faded, otherwise Very Good. This is
the rarest of the massive 8-part biography
of Winston Churchill, which was commenced by
his son, Randolph in the 1960s, and
completed, after Randolph's death, by his
former research assistant, Martin Gilbert.
Volume V, dealing with the inter-war years,
1922 to 1939, had the smallest print run and
is now increasingly hard to find, making it
difficult to complete a full set. Please
note, as this is a heavy book postage will
be commensurate.
£75.00
11748
Golding, Louis
Day of
Atonement
Wineham,
Sussex: Poynings Press Limited, 1945
5" x 7½".
262pp. Original boards in a chipped, torn
d/j, else Very Good/G.
£6.00
eBay
14563
Goodman,
Anthony and Gillespie, James L. [Eds]
Richard II
: The Art of Kingship
Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1999
5½" x 8¾".
[xii] + 299pp. Blue cloth gilt in d/j, As
New. Richard II (1377-1399) was deposed and
probably murdered at the end of a dramatic
Kingship characterized by the struggle
between Royal Authority and the power of the
great magnates of the land. Richard faced
down the leaders of the Peasant Revolt of
1381 when aged only 14 but found the
magnates much harder to vanquish. 1399 saw
the nadir of his Royal power in the
Merciless Parliament. This attempt to oust
power from the king seems to have spurred
Richard into recovering the royal
prerogative but the King went so far beyond
'good governance' that his final two years
in power became known as the 'tyranny'. The
record of his reign was muddied by hostile
chroniclers such as Walsingham and the
anonymous monk of Evesham, and these
distortions went on to be propagated by
Shakespeare, leading Henry Hallam to write,
in 1818, that 'the reign of Richard II is,
in a constitutional light, the most
interesting part of our earlier history; and
it has been the most imperfectly written.'
£20.00
eBay
17772
Gordon,
Brigadier-General J. M. [Joseph Maria]
The
Chronicles of a Gay Gordon
London:
Cassell and Company Limited, 1921 First
Edition
5½” x 8¾”.
[vii] + 320pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Red cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed and faded along top section of
front boards, spine faded, front inner
hinge cracked, edges lightly foxed
otherwise Very Good. An autobiography by
Gordon who played a role in the development
of military forces in Australia. He joined
the Military Academy, Woolwich, and his
military career included service in Ireland
and New Zealand, and in the Soudan and the
Boer War. He helped organise the
Commonwealth of Australia and served as
Commandant of Victoria and New South Wales.
He includes details of Lord Kitchener's
visit to Australia, and the American Naval
Visit. He ended his career as Chief of the
General Staff. Chapters include e.g.
'Soldiering in Ireland', 'Sport in Ireland',
'A Voyage to New Zealand', 'Soldiering in
South Australia', 'Polo, Hunting and
Steeplechasing', 'The Soudan Contingent',
'Military Adviser to the Australian Colonies
in London', 'With Lord Roberts in South
Africa', 'In Command of a Mounted Column',
etc.
£40.00
12336
Gore, John
Edwardian
Scrapbook
London: Evans
Brothers Limited, 1951
5½" x 8¾".
[xvi] + 148pp, illustrations. Red cloth, no
d/j, covers scuffed, rubbed and dull,
offsetting to end-papers otherwise Very Good
£10.00
eBay
17649
Gough, General
Sir Hubert
Soldiering
On : Being the Memoirs of Gen. Sir Hubert
Gough
London: Arthur
Barker Ltd, 1954
5½" x 8¾".
260pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, maps
as end-papers. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, spine
faded, page edges browned, some damage to
top edge of text block otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
15384
Grenfell,
Wilfred Thomason
A Labrador
Doctor : The Autobiography of Wilfred
Thomason Grenfell M.D. (OXON.), C.M.G.
London: Hodder
& Stoughton
5½” x 9”. [ix]
+ 307pp, portrait frontis, illustrations.
Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and
stained, edge of text block foxed otherwise
Very Good.
£20.00
15506
Grigg, John
Lloyd
George : The People's Champion, 1902-1911
London: Eyre
Methuen, 1978
6¼" x 9½".
391pp, portrait frontis, b&w plates. Black
cloth gilt in a creased d/j, edges lightly
foxed otherwise Very Good.
£20.00
eBay
17814
Hamilton,
General Sir Ian
When I was
a Boy
London: Faber
and Faber, 1939
5¾" x 8¾".
316pp, illustrations. Green cloth blocked in
gilt on the spine, no d/j, pencil
annotations, covers rubbed, otherwise Very
Good.
£30.00
11352
Hammerton, J.
A.
Books and
Myself : Memoirs of an Editor
London:
Macdonald & Co. Ltd, 1944
5½" x 8¾".
343pp, frontis, ills. Black cloth gilt, no
d/j, front inner hinge cracked, exposing
mull, covers marked and rubbed, fair.
£4.00
10348
Hanson,
Lawrence and Elisabeth
Portrait of
Vincent : A Van Gogh Biography
London: Chatto
& Windus, 1955 [1st]
5½" x 8¾".
309pp, ills. Green cloth, no d/j, slightly
cocked, spine rubbed, else Very Good
£6.00
10640
Hanson,
Lawrence and Elisabeth
Portrait of
Vincent : A Van Gogh Biography
London: Chatto
& Windus with Secker & Warburg and The Book
Society, 1955
5½" x 8¾".
309pp, ills. Green cloth in rubbed, chipped
d/j, else Very Good+/G
£7.00
eBay
17562
Harington,
General Sir Charles
Plumer of
Messines
London: John
Murray, 1935 First Edition
5½" x 8¾".
[xviii] + 351pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations, maps. Blue cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers marked and rubbed, edges lightly
foxed, previous owner's name inscribed
otherwise Very Good.
£90.00
11177
Harrer,
Heinrich [with an introduction by Peter
Fleming]
Seven Years
in Tibet
London: Rupert
Hart-Davis, 1953 [3rd impression]
5½" x 8¾".
288pp, colour frontis, illustrations, map.
Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, edges dusty,
frontispiece detached but present, a few
pages creased, otherwise Good.
£4.00
10060
Havilland, Sir
Geoffrey de
Sky Fever :
the Autobiography of Sir Geoffrey de
Havilland
London: Hamish
Hamilton, 1961 [second impression]
5½" x 8¾".
240pp, ills. Red cloth, no d/j, top portion
of boards badly faded, contents Very Good
£14.00
eBay
18157
Hawker and
Grieve
Our
Atlantic Attempt
London:
Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1931 First Edition
4¾” x 7½”.
[ix] + 242pp, portrait frontis. Blue cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, edges lightly
foxed, otherwise Very Good
£70.00
11198
Hendrick,
Burton
The Life
and Letters of Walter Page [Volume I only]
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1923
6¼" x 9½".
436pp, portrait frontis with tissue guard,
b&w plates. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed, spine slightly cocked,
previous owner's name inscribed, else Very
Good. Volume I only, covering the years
1855 to 1915.
£12.00
10585
Hibbert,
Christopher
George III
: A Personal History
London:
Viking, 1998
6¼" x 9½".
464pp, ills. Black cloth in d/j, as NEW
£15.00
14979
Housman,
Laurence
The
Unexpected Years
London:
Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, Second
Impression, February 1937 [First Published,
January 1937]
5¼” x 8”.
392pp, portrait frontis. Original blue cloth
gilt. The covers are lightly rubbed, but
still fresh and bright. The spine ends and
corners are bumped. There are a few minor
pencilled markings in the margins but,
overall, the text is very clean throughout.
There is some play in the inner hinges.
£20.00
11487
Hyde, H.
Montgomery
Norman
Birkett : The Life of Lord Birkett of
Ulverston
London: The
Reprint Society, 1965
5½" x 8¾".
638pp, illustrations. Grey cloth in a torn
and tatty d/j, previous owner's name
inscribed, otherwise Very Good/Fair
£4.00
15603
Idriess, Ion
L. [With Forewords by Sir Sidney Kidman and
Ronald G. Macintyre, C.M.G., O.B.E., D.D.]
Flynn of
the Inland
Sydney:
Australia Angus & Robertson Limited, 89
Castlereagh Street, 1934 Twelfth Edition
4¾” x 7½”.
[xii] + 306pp + short Publisher’s catalogue,
illustrations. Original cloth blocked in
black. The covers are marked and rubbed,
with the spine gutters being particularly
rubbed and the rear spine gutter starting to
fray. The spine ends and corners are bumped.
There is a slight forward spine lean. There
is a previous owner's name inscribed in
pencil on the reverse of the frontispiece,
dated "Xmas 1934". There are no other
internal markings and the text is clean
throughout. The paper has tanned with age.
Some of the internal gatherings have
cracked. The illustrations have acquired a
yellowish tinge.
£25.00
12197
Jacobs, George
and Stadiem, William
Mr. S : The
Last Word on Frank Sinatra
London:
Sidgwick and Jackson, 2003
6¼” x 9½”.
261pp, illustrations. White cloth in a
rubbed d/j otherwise Near Fine
£12.00
eBay
16618
Jagger, Peter
J. [Ed.]
Gladstone,
Politics and Religion : A Collection of
Founder’s Day Lectures Delivered at St
Deiniols’ Library, Hawarden, 1967-83
London and
Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1985
5½” x 8¾”.
[xxiv] + 183pp. Original brown cloth gilt in
a scuffed and rubbed d/j, otherwise Near
Fine
£20.00
eBay
17662
James, Colonel
Lionel [C.B.E., D.S.O.]
High
Pressure : Being Some Record of Activities
in the Service of The Times Newspaper
London: John
Murray, 1929 [First Edition]
5½" x 8¾".
314pp, illustrations. Original blue cloth
gilt. The covers are rubbed and stained,
particularly the rear cover where there is
evidence of extensive old staining (in the
from of splash marks). There are fewer but
larger stains on the front cover and a line
of discolouration with significant
variation in colour throughout. The spine
has darkened with age, is dull and also
shows clear evidence of old staining, with a
discoloured patch in the centre from the
removal of an old label. The spine ends and
corners are bumped and frayed, with splits
in the cloth (with the two top corners being
very heavily bumped). There are some
indentations along the edges of the boards
and there is a forward spine lean. There is
a previous owner's name ("C. A. Vale"
21.4.'48) inscribed on the front free
end-paper and there is a large abraded patch
on the top half of the front pastedown,
where a label has been removed. The
end-papers are browned and discoloured. The
front inner hinge is cracked at the
Title-Page. There is foxing throughout
which, in places, is very heavy. The paper
has tanned noticeably with age and the
illustrations have acquired a yellowish
tinge. There is a stamp above the opening
chapter and on the final page of the
penultimate chapter: "This Book is the
Property of the "Right Spot" Library, 56,
High Street, Reigate".
£70.00
eBay
18002
Jones, Capt.
Adrian [Foreword by Lt. Gen. Lord
Baden-Powell]
Memoirs of
a Soldier Artist
London:
Stanley Paul, 1933
5½” x 8¾”.
256pp, illustrations. Original black cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, edges foxed,
otherwise Very Good.
£50.00
eBay
18092
Kerofilas, Dr
C.
Eleftherios
Venizelos : His Life and Work
New York: E.
P. Dutton and Company, n.d. [c.1915] though
printed in England from the sheets of the U.
K. (John Murray) Edition
4¾" x 7½".
[xvii] + 198pp. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
ex-Library with label on front pastedown,
lending schedule on rear end-paper, pocket
on rear pastedown, shelf number on spine, a
few other marks, covers rubbed, page edges
browned otherwise Good. Uncommon.
£75.00
11120
Klemperer,
Victor [abridged and translated by Martin
Chalmers]
I Shall
Bear Witness : The Diaries of Victor
Klemperer 1933-41
London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998
6¼" x 9½".
500pp, maps. Light grey boards in d/j, Fine.
£15.00
11794
Lacey, Robert
Majesty :
Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor
London:
Hutchinson, 1977 [4th imp.]
6¼" x 9½".
382pp, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt in a
creased, chipped, price-clipped d/j,
otherwise Very Good+/G
£6.00
14740
Leaming,
Barbara
If This Was
Happiness : A Biography of Rita Hayworth
London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989
6¼" x 9½".
[viii] + 312pp, illustrations. Brown cloth
gilt in a rubbed d/j otherwise Near Fine
£20.00
14311
Lee, David C.
J.
Ernest
Renan : In the Shadow of Faith
London: Gerald
Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1996
6¼" x 9½".
[viii] + 328pp. Red cloth gilt in d/j, As
New
£15.00
eBay
17540
Leslie, Shane
[With an Introduction by the Right Hon.
Winston Churchill]
Mark Sykes
: His Life and Letters
London:
Cassell and Company Limited, 1923
6¼" x 9½".
[viii] + 308pp, portrait frontis and 30
cartoons by Mark Sykes. Blue cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers rubbed, bookplate of Sir Gervase
Beckett on front pastedown, edges lightly
foxed otherwise Very Good
£75.00
10413
Lindsay,
Philip
An Artist
in Love
London:
Hutchinson, 1954 [1st]
5¼" x 7½".
280pp. Original cloth, no d/j, previous
owner's name inscribed, Very Good+
£10.00
10904
Livingstone,
W. P.
Mary
Slessor of Calabar : Pioneer Missionary
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1916 [7th ed.]
5½" x 8¾".
347pp, b&w plates, portrait frontis. Grey
cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed,
head of spine nicked, end-papers foxed, G
£3.00
eBay
16359
Llewellyn,
William Harold
Pigs and
Wings and Other Things
Alberbury,
Shropshire: W. H. Llewellyn (published by
the Author), 1989
5¾” x 8½”.
224pp, maps, illustrations. Original grey
cloth gilt in a scuffed and rubbed d/j,
otherwise Very Good. The Author has signed
this copy "With best wishes" (dated
28.9.91) on the front free end-paper.
£50.00
10011
Longford,
Elizabeth
Elizabeth R
London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983
6½" x 9½".
389pp, ills. Green cloth in chipped d/j,
Very Good
£6.00
eBay
18021
Lubbock, Percy
George
Calderon : A Sketch from Memory (With
Portraits)
London: Grant
Richards Ltd, 1921
5½” x 9”.
194pp, portrait frontis., 10 plates
(including leaf from a sketchbook and 4
drawings by the subject). Blue cloth gilt,
no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, small
hole near tail of spine and some
indentations in the slightly soiled spine,
end-papers discoloured, edges foxed
otherwise Very Good.
£175.00
eBay
18004
Lyttelton,
General Sir Neville [G.C.B., G.C.V.O.]
Eighty
Years : Soldiering, Politics, Games
London: Hodder
and Stoughton, n.d. [1927]
5¾” x 9”.
311pp. portrait frontispiece, illustrations.
Original cloth blocked in gilt on the spine.
The covers are rubbed and faded,
particularly around the edges, with some
old marks and variation in colour. The spine
has darkened noticeably with age. The spine
ends and corners are bumped and frayed,
with minor splits in the cloth, most
noticeably at the head of the spine.
£65.00
eBay
17541
MacLehose,
James Colin
James Colin
MacLehose : 2nd Lieut., Rifle Brigade :
1897-1917
Glasgow: At
the University Press, 1918 Printed for
Private Circulation [it is believed about
100 copies were printed]
5” x 7½”.
39pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Brown
paper-covered boards blocked in gilt on the
spine, no d/j, covers rubbed, particularly
the spine and around the edges, previous
owner's name inscribed on front pastedown,
otherwise Very Good. MacLehose attended
Rugby School and appears in Memorial to Rugbeians,
Vol. 4. He left Rugby in the summer of 1916,
going up to Oxford where he joined the 4th
Officer Cadet Training Battalion (New
College) though he was unable to take up his
undergraduate place and matriculate. As
soon as age permitted, he volunteered for
service and was commissioned 2nd
Lieutenant, Rifle Brigade, October 1916,
joining the 16th Battalion at the Front
onthe 6th January 1917. Sadly, by the 14th
of the following month, he was dead; killed
in action just east of Ypres.
£145.00
eBay
17315
Macready,
General the Right Hon. Sir Nevil [Bart.,
G.C.M.G., K.C.B.]
Annals of
an Active Life [Two Volumes]
London:
Hutchinson & Co., n.d. [1924]
6” x 9½”.
694pp (paginated over two volumes),
frontispiece, illustrations. Blue cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers scuffed and rubbed,
spines faded, otherwise Very Good. Very
clean internally.
£250.00
eBay
18141
Mantel, Hilary
Giving Up
The Ghost
London:
Slightly Foxed Ltd, 53 Hoxton Square
(Slightly Foxed Editions No. 37), 2017
Limited Edition [first published 2003]
4¼” x 7”.
232pp. Original pale yellow cloth blocked in
gilt on the spine. The covers are rubbed and
with a tiny snag in the cloth on the front
cover. The spine is scuffed (with some
obvious scuff marks) and a little dull. The
head of the spine is bumped.
£45.00
11699
Marchant, Sir
James [ed.]
Winston
Spencer Churchill : Servant of Crown and
Commonwealth : A Tribute by Various Hands
Presented to Him on his Eightieth Birthday
London:
Cassell and Company Limited, 1954
5½" x 8½".
172pp, portrait frontis. Blue cloth gilt, no
d/j, edges foxed, spine dull, presentation
inscription, otherwise Very Good
£6.00
eBay
18084
Marder, Arthur
J.
Portrait of
an Admiral : The Life and Papers of Sir
Herbert Richmond
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1952
6" x 9".
407pp, portrait frontis. Green cloth gilt,
no d/j, covers rubbed, end-papers foxed
otherwise Very Good
£95.00
14158
Matthew, H. C.
G.
Gladstone,
1875-1898
Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1995
6¼" x 9¼".
[xi] + 421pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Blue cloth gilt in d/j, As
New
£30.00
11073
McCullough,
Colleen
The Courage
and the Will : The Life of Roden Cutler, V.C.
London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1999 [first
published by Random House, Australia, 1998]
6¼" x 9½".
418pp, ills, maps. Red cloth gilt in d/j, as
new.
£18.00
14004
McDonough,
Jimmy
Shakey :
Neil Young's Biography
London:
Jonathan Cape, 2002
6¼" x 9½".
[xii] + 786pp, illustrations. Black cloth
gilt in a scuffed d/j, otherwise Near Fine
£18.00
15007
McKenzie,
Steven L.
King David
: A Biography
New York:
Oxford University Press, 2000
6¼" x 9½".
[xiv] + 232pp, maps, illustrations. Grey
boards in d/j, As New
£15.00
10205
Meissner,
Hans-Otto
The Man
With Three Faces
London: Evans
Brothers, 1955
5½" x 8½".
192pp, 15 ills. Blue cloth, no d/j, Very
Good. The story of the remarkable Soviet
agent, Richard Sorge.
£14.00
eBay
17842
Middleton,
Edgar
I Might
Have Been a Success
London:
Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd, 1935
5¼” x 8¾”.
[ix] + 11-287pp, portrait frontispiece (in
the RNAS at Ypres in 1915), 12 photos.
Original russet cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, head and tail of spine bumped,
scattered foxing, edges dusty and lightly
foxed, otherwise Very Good. Rare.
£95.00
10809
Minney, R. J.
Viscount
Southwood
London: Odhams
Press Limited, 1954
6½" x 9¾".
384pp, ills. Red cloth in chipped,
discoloured d/j, presentation label on fep,
edges lightly foxed, else Very Good/G+
£12.00
eBay
17618
Molony,
William O'Sullivan
Prisoners
and Captives : the Autobiography of an
Irishman Imprisoned by the Germans in
November 1914
London:
Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1933
5” x 7½”. [xi]
+ 306pp. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, head and
tail of spine bumped, edges lightly foxed,
otherwise Very Good. Quite a bright copy.
Uncommon.
£145.00
eBay
15999
Muir, Edwin
An
Autobiography
London: The
Hogarth Press, 1954
5½” x 8¾”.
288pp, illustrations. Red cloth gilt in a
scuffed and chipped d/j, otherwise Very
Good.
£30.00
11294
Munthe, Axel
The Story
of San Michele
London: John
Murray, 1933 [44th imp.]
5¼" x 8".
519pp, portrait frontis. Blue cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers stained, edges foxed, spine
faded, a reading copy.
£2.00
eBay
17767
Nogales,
General Rafael de
Memoirs of
a Soldier of Fortune
New York:
Garden City Publishing Company, Inc, 1932
5½" x 8½".
380pp, portrait frontis. Tan cloth, no d/j,
Very Good
£95.00
11298
Owen, Frank
Tempestuous
Journey : Lloyd George His Life and Times
London:
Hutchinson, 1954
6" x 9".
784pp, 41 ills. Blue cloth, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed, corners bumped, else G+.
£15.00
eBay
17741
Pears, Sir
Edwin
Forty Years
in Constantinople : The Recollections of Sir
Edwin Pears 1873-1915
London:
Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1916
5½" x 8½".
390pp, portrait frontis, 15 plates. Grey
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed, spine creased, corners frayed,
previous owner's name inscribed [Hermione
Murphy Grimshaw], otherwise Good Plus
£85.00
14593
Philby, Kim
My Silent
War
London:
Macgibbon & Kee, 1968 [3rd imp.]
5½" x 8¾".
[xxv] + 164pp. Black cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed, page edges
stained, a reading copy only
£5.00
14890
Phillips,
Claude
Sir Joshua
Reynolds
London: Seeley
And Co. Limited Essex Street, Strand, 1894
5½” x 8¼”.
[xi] +415pp, frontispiece, illustrations.
Original blue cloth gilt. The covers are
rubbed, particularly around the edges. There
is a prominent tear at the head of the
spine which extends down for about half an
inch and then across for a quarter of an
inch. The spine is also a little dull. The
spine ends and corners are bumped and
frayed. A previous owner's bookplate has
been crudely removed form the front free
end-paper leaving a noticeable residue
including parts of the bookplate itself.
Another previous owner has inscribed his
name in ballpoint pen on the front free
end-paper and Title-Page.
£20.00
11537
Pollock, John
A Foreign
Devil in China : The Story of Dr L. Nelson
Bell
London: Hodder
& Stoughton Limited, 1972
5½" x 8¾".
224pp, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt in a
chipped, torn d/j, remains of old sticker on
front free end-paper, otherwise Very Good/G-
£6.00
10748
Powell, Colin
[with Joseph E. Persico]
A Soldier's
Way : An Autobiography
London:
Hutchinson, 1995
6¼" x 9½".
643pp, ills. Black cloth gilt in scuffed
d/j, Very Good+/Very Good
£9.00
14101
Quincey,
Thomas de
The Opium
Eater [Confessions of an Opium Eater]
London: Ward,
Lock & Co., 1910
4½" x 6¾".
[xxvii] + 320pp. Blind-stamped green cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed otherwise Very
Good
£15.00
eBay
18049
Rendel, Sir
George
The Sword
and the Olive: Recollections of Diplomacy
and the Foreign Office, 1913 - 1954
London: John
Murray, 1957
5½" x 8¾".
(xiii) + 348pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Blue cloth gilt no d/j,
otherwise Very Good. There is a previous
owner's name ("Michael Hurst") inscribed in
ballpoint pen on the front pastedown dated
"April 1996". This is Michael Hurst (the
Oxford Historian, subsequently Dr Michael
Hurst F.R.Hist.S., F.R.G.S., F.R.S.A.).
£75.00
10398
Rewald, John
[ed.] [translated from the French by
Marguerite Kay]
Paul
Cezanne Letters
London: Bruno
Cassirer, 1941
5½" x 8¾".
308pp, ills. Brown cloth which has bubbled
in places, particularly on the front cover.
The front inner hinge is exposed at the top
and one plate is detached but present.
Previous owners' names inked in on eps. The
remainder of the contents are clean and
bright. G
£15.00
eBay
17652
Ridding, The
Lady Laura
The Life of
Robert Palmer : 1888-1916
London: Hodder
& Stoughton Limited, n.d. [1921]
5½” x 8¾”.
[vii] + 208pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed with evidence of
old staining but still bright, edges very
lightly foxed, bottom edge of text block
not trimmed, otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
14929
Ridge, Martin
Ignatius
Donnelly : Portrait of a Politician
St. Paul:
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1991
6" x 9¼".
[xviii] + 428pp. Softback, As New
£15.00
11766
Rimington,
Stella
Open Secret
: The Autobiography of the Former
Director-General of M.I.5
London:
Hutchinson, 2001
6¼" x 9½".
296pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in a
rubbed, creased d/j, otherwise Fine/Very
Good.
£15.00
15046
Roberts,
Andrew
The Holy
Fox: a Life of Lord Halifax
London:
Papermac (Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd),
1992 [first published by Weidenfeld and
Nicolson, 1991]
5½” x 8½”.
[xi] + 348pp, illustrations. Paperback, Near
Fine
£15.00
eBay
17892
Roberts, John
Stuart
Siegfried
Sassoon : (1886-1967)
London: Metro
Publishing, an imprint of John Blake
Publishing, Limited, 2014 [first published
in 1999 by Richard Cohen Books]
6” x 9½”.
[xvii] + 366pp, illustrations. Original
black cloth blocked in silver on the spine
in a scuffed and rubbed d/j, otherwise Very
Good.
£20.00
eBay
11014
Ross, Stewart
[foreword by Jan Morris]
Admiral Sir
Francis Bridgeman : the life and times of an
Officer and a Gentleman
Cambridge:
Baily's, 1998
6¾" x 9¾".
288pp, ills. Blue cloth in slightly marked
d/j, else Near Fine. Bridgeman [1848-1929]
was First Sea Lord during Churchill's first
tenure at the Admiralty.
£22.00
10641
Rowse, A. L.
Matthew
Arnold : Poet and Prophet
London: Thames
and Hudson, 1976
6¼" x 9½".
208pp, 24 ills. Original cloth, gilt, in
slightly rubbed d/j, previous owner's name
inscribed, else Very Good+/Very Good
£9.00
13792
Russell,
Francis
President
Harding : His Life and Times : 1865-1923
London: Eyre &
Spottiswoode, 1969
6" x 9½".
[xii] + 691pp, portrait frontis. Blue cloth,
no d/j, covers rubbed, edges and Contents
page grubby, ex-British Library with one
stamp on title page and shelf number in
white ink on backstrip, otherwise Good
£20.00
15728
Rutherford,
William G.
The Story
of Garfield : Farm-Boy, Soldier, and
President
London: The
Sunday School Union, 57 and 59 Ludgate Hill,
n.d. [c1895]
4¾” x 7½”.
143pp, frontispiece, illustrations. Original
pictorial cloth. The covers are very marked
and heavily rubbed with noticeable variation
in colour. The spine has darkened with age.
The spine ends and corners are bumped and
frayed. There is an old Prize Label on the
front pastedown dated 1899 and a small
Bookseller's label. The inner hinge is
cracked at pages 49 and 81. The paper has
tanned with age and some pages have grubby
marks. There is a crease and a small tear
in the outer edge of the frontispiece and
the first few pages
£8.00
eBay
17697
Salmond,
Monica
Bright
Armour : Memories of Four Years of War
London: Faber
and Faber Limited, November 1935 Second
Impression [first published September 1935]
5¼” x 8¼”.
251pp, portrait frontispiece drawing.
Original blue cloth blocked in silver on the
spine, no d/j, end-papers foxed otherwise
Very Good.
£150.00
14462
Saul, Nigel
Richard II
New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1997
6¼" x 9½".
[xiv] + 514pp, illustrations. Red cloth gilt
in d/j, As New
£20.00
10485
Sawyer, Roger
[ed]
Roger
Casement's Diaries, 1910 : the Black and the
White
London:
Pimlico, 1997
6" x 9¼".
274pp. Softback, as new
£8.00
eBay
16662
Sayle, Charles
[Edited by]
Archibald
Don : A Memoir
London: John
Murray, 1918 First Edition
5¼” x 9”. [ix]
+ 206pp. frontis. (water-colour sketch by
the subject), 8 plates (including
portraits), map of Salonika. Blind-stamped
blue cloth gilt, no d/j, front cover scored
and damaged, cuttings tipped in to front
pastedown, edges heavily foxed and dusty,
tissue guards have caused browning to pages
opposite, otherwise Good.
£125.00
eBay
18093
Scott
Moncrieff, J. M. and Lunn, L. W. [Editors]
C. K. Scott
Moncrieff : Memories and Letters
London:
Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1931 First Edition
4¾” x 7½”.
[ix] + 242pp, portrait frontis. Blue cloth
gilt, no d/j, spine faded and dull, spine
ends and corners bumped, end-papers browned
otherwise Very Good; internally clean and
bright. Educated Winchester and Edinburgh
University. Approximately 90 pages of
letters from France, 2nd Lt. KOSB 1914,
joined 2nd Battalion October 1914, includes
letters from Armentieres, 1st Ypres, several
times hospitalised sick then wounded and won
MC at Monchy in 1917. Died in Rome in 1930.
£150.00
10555
Sergeant,
Philip W.
The Empress
Josephine : Napoleon's Enchantress
London:
Hutchinson & Co., n.d.
4¼" x 7".
380pp, frontis. Red cloth, no d/j, spine
dull, a little shaken, contents clean, G+
£4.00
eBay
17146
Seton, Graham
[Lt.-Col. Graham Seton Hutchison]
Footslogger
: An Autobiography
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1933 [4th imp.]
6" x 9½".
399pp, portrait frontis, illustrations,
publisher's catalogue. Original cloth, no
d/j, covers rubbed and extremely faded,
edges foxed, gift inscription on front
end-paper, otherwise Good
£40.00
eBay
17935
Sherriff, R.
C.
No Leading
Lady
London: Victor
Gollancz Ltd, 1968 First Edition
5” x 8½”.
352pp, portrait frontis. Original blue cloth
gilt in a scuffed and rubbed d/j, inner
hinges slack, edges lightly foxed otherwise
Very Good.
£125.00
10580
Sidey, Hugh
John F.
Kennedy : Portrait of a President
London: Andre
Deutsch, 1965 [5th imp.]
5½" x 9½".
434pp, ills. Black cloth in slightly grubby
d/j, else Very Good+/Very Good
£9.00
11546
Sitwell,
Osbert
Laughter in
the Next Room [being the fourth volume of
"Left Hand, Right Hand!"]
London: The
Reprint Society, 1950
5" x 7½".
374pp, portrait frontis, illustrations.
Original cloth, no d/j, near fine.
£6.00
13966
Smith, George
Barnett
The Life of
the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone
London: Ward,
Lock, and Co. Limited, n.d. [c. 1905]
5½" x 8½".
[viii] + 650pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Red cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed and soiled, end-papers
discoloured, old Prize Label on front
pastedown, otherwise Very Good
£15.00
10814
Smith, Sally
Bedell
Reflected
Glory : The Life of Pamela Churchill
Harriman
New York:
Touchstone [Simon & Schuster Inc.], 1997
6" x 9¼".
576pp, ills. Large format Softback, covers
scuffed, else Very Good
£6.00
11191
Smuts, J. C.
Jan
Christian Smuts
London:
Cassell, 1952 [1st]
5½" x 8½".
568pp, 23 ills, 5 maps. Red cloth in
chipped, torn d/j, front cover bowed, else
G/G
£8.00
10401
Smuts, J. C.
Jan
Christian Smuts
London:
Cassell, 1952 [1st]
5½" x 8½".
568pp, 23 ills, 5 maps. Red cloth, no d/j,
top & bottom of spine bumped, else Very
Good+
£6.00
10411
Soames, Mary
Clementine
Churchill
London:
Cassell, 1979
6¼" x 9¼".
556pp, ills. Black cloth in very faded
price-clipped d/j, previous owner's
inscription, G+/Poor
£4.00
10677
Sorensen,
Theodore C.
Kennedy
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1965
6½" x 9½".
783pp, frontis. Red cloth gilt in chipped,
torn d/j with some loss. Very Good/Fair
£5.00
16216
Soutar, Andrew
My Sporting
Life
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1934
5½” x 8¾”.
249pp, portrait frontis, illustrations.
Brown cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed with irregular fading,
otherwise Very Good.
£15.00
eBay
18152
Stein,
Gertrude
Wars I Have
Seen
London: B. T.
Batsford Ltd, 1945
5½” x 8¾”.
191pp, portrait frontispiece and three other
black and white photographs by Cecil Beaton.
Original blue blocked in dark blue on the
spine in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j
with some loss. The covers are rubbed with a
distinct line of fading and discolouration
along the front top edge. There is some
variation in colour. The spine has faded and
is quite dull, with a discoloured patch at
the head of the spine and a small circular
discoloured patch near the tail, both of
which correspond to missing sections of the
dust-jacket. The spine ends and corners are
bumped. The boards, which are fairly thin,
have bowed outwards. The poorer-quality
War-time paper stock has tanned
significantly with age, though the text is
generally clean; the printing is not of the
highest quality. A few pages are slightly
marked and there is some faint scattered
foxing. The edge of the text block is
dust-stained and lightly foxed. The
end-papers are browned and foxed.
£65.00
eBay
17087
Stobart, M. A.
St. Clair
Miracles
and Adventures : an Autobiography
London: Rider
& Co., 1936 [2nd edition]
6" x 9¼".
382pp, ills. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, no
d/j, spine dull, occasional light spotting,
else Very Good
£95.00
eBay
18150
Storrs, Ronald
Orientations
London: Ivor
Nicholson & Watson, November 1937 [3rd
impression, issued one month after First
Edition]
6" x 9½".
[xvii] + 624pp, portrait frontis, b&w
plates, maps. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed, spine faded, otherwise Very
Good.
£50.00
11620
Streeton,
Richard [with a Foreword by John Arlott]
P. G. H.
Fender : A Biography
London: Faber
and Faber, 1981
5½" x 8¾".
194pp, illustrations. Brown cloth gilt in a
chipped, rubbed d/j, otherwise Very Good.
£9.00
eBay
17614
Strong, Anna
Louise
I Change
Worlds
London: George
Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1935
6” x 9½”.
[viii] + 422pp. Original red cloth gilt in a
torn, scuffed and chipped d/j with some
loss, extensive ink underlining and
annotations, otherwise Good
£95.00
11976
Summers,
Anthony
The
Arrogance of Power : The Secret World of
Richard Nixon
New York:
Viking, 2000
6¼" x 9½".
[xv] + 640pp, illustrations. Black boards in
a rubbed d/j, otherwise Near Fine
£18.00
eBay
18122
Swayne, Martin
[pseud.: Dr Maurice Nicoll]
In
Mesopotamia
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1917 First Edition
5¼" x 8¾".
166pp, illustrations. Blue cloth with river
scene blocked in silver, no d/j, covers
marked and stained, edges lightly foxed,
corners bumped, otherwise Very Good.
£80.00
eBay
17704
Sykes,
Major-General The Right Hon. Sir Frederick
From Many
Angles : An Autobiography
London: George
G. Harrap & Company Ltd, 1942
5½” x 8¾”.
592pp, portrait frontispiece, illustrations.
Original blue cloth blocked in gilt on the
spine, no d/j, edges foxed otherwise Very
Good.
£90.00
eBay
15319
Tallents, Sir
Stephen
Man and Boy
London: Faber
and Faber Limited, 1943
5½" x 8¾".
431pp, portrait frontis, illustrations.
Original cloth gilt, covers marked and very
rubbed, with some colour loss, front inner
hinge cracked, shaken, a reading copy
£25.00
12176
Taylor, S. J.
The Great
Outsiders : Northcliffe, Rothermere and The
Daily Mail
London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996
6¼” x 9½”.
[xiii] + 377pp, illustrations. Blue cloth
gilt in a scuffed and rubbed d/j, otherwise
Near Fine
£18.00
eBay
17451
Taylor,
William [M.A.] and Diack, Peter [M.A.]
Student and
Sniper Sergeant : A Memoir of J. K. Forbes,
MA, 4th Gordon Highlanders, Who Died for his
Country, 25 September 1915
London: Hodder
and Stoughton, 1916 First Edition
4¾” x 7½”.
[viii] + 182pp, portrait frontis. Red cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed with variation
in colour, spine faded and chipped at head,
front inner hinge cracked, ex-University
otherwise Very Good. Aberdeen Univ. Coy.,
4th Gordons, Western Front 1915, including
extracts from his letters & diary until KiA
at Loos.
£150.00
10754
Thomas, Sir
Miles
Out On A
Wing : an Autobiography
London:
Michael Joseph, 1964
5½" x 8¾".
406pp, ills. Black cloth gilt in chipped,
price-clipped d/j, previous owner's name
inscribed, else Very Good/Very Good
£6.00
12049
Thompson, J.
Lee
Northcliffe
: Press Baron in Politics 1865 - 1922
London: John
Murray, 2000
6¼" x 9¼".
[xv] + 462pp, illustrations, map. Red cloth
gilt in a rubbed d/j, otherwise Near Fine
£20.00
eBay
18047
Tiltman, H.
Hessell
James
Ramsay MacDonald : Labour's Man of Destiny
London:
Jarrolds Limited, n.d. [c.1931] [Fifth
Impression]
5½” x 8¾”.
352pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Red
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed, spine faded, rear spine gutter
frayed, slight spine lean, gift inscription
on front end-paper, previous owner's name
inscribed, edges lightly foxed otherwise
Good.
£30.00
14376
Tinniswood,
Adrian
His
Invention So Fertile : A Life of Christopher
Wren
London:
Jonathan Cape, 2001
6¼" x 9½".
463pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in
d/j, NEW
£20.00
eBay
17981
Uhlman, Fred
The Making
of an Englishman
London: Victor
Gollancz Ltd, 1960
5½” x 8¾”.
256pp, portrait frontis. Original blue cloth
gilt, no d/j, ex-Library.
£95.00
eBay
18028
Uhlman, Fred
The Making
of an Englishman
London: Victor
Gollancz Ltd, 1960
5½” x 8¾”.
256pp, portrait frontis. Original blue cloth
gilt in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j,
otherwise Very Good.
£150.00
eBay
17564
Wade, Major A.
G. (M.C.) [Foreword by Field-Marshal Lord
Milne, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., D.S.O.]
Counterspy!
London:
Stanley, Paul & Co. Ltd, 1938
5½" x 8¾".
288pp, portrait frontis, illustrations,
publisher's catalogue. Red cloth gilt, no
d/j, head and tail of spine bumped and
rubbed, otherwise Very Good
£75.00
eBay
16752
Walker, Sir
Charles (K.C.B.) [Late Deputy Secretary of
the Admiralty]
Thirty-Six
Years at the Admiralty
London:
Lincoln Williams Ltd, 1933
5” x 7½”.
218pp. Black cloth, no d/j, spine dull,
end-papers lightly foxed, covers bowed
otherwise Very Good. Uncommon.
£60.00
eBay
17850
Waters,
Brigadier-General W. H-H.
Private and
Personal : Further Experiences of a Military
Attache
London: John
Murray, 1928
5½" x 8¾".
[xix] + 370pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Red cloth blocked in black,
no d/j, spine dull, covers mottled and
rubbed, edges and end-papers foxed,
bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise
Good
£40.00
11610
Weigall,
Arthur
Nero :
Emperor of Rome
London:
Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1930
5¾" x 9".
320pp, portrait frontis, b&w plates.
Original cloth, no d/j, head of spine
frayed, covers stained and rubbed, edge of
p15 removed [text unaffected], edges dusty,
shaken, a reading copy only.
£7.00
11715
White, Myrtle
Rose
No Roads Go
By
Adelaide:
Rigby Limited, 1962 [first published 1932]
5½" x 8½".
196pp, illustrations. Brown cloth gilt in a
chipped, torn d/j, front free end-paper
removed, otherwise G.
£7.00
10425
Williams, C.
F. Abdy
Bach
London: J. M.
Dent & Sons Ltd, 1921
5" x 7¼".
223pp, ills. Red cloth, spine dull, coat of
arms of Brighton Grammar School embossed in
gilt on cover, foxing to edges and
end-papers, G
£12.00
10231
Wilson, Trevor
[ed]
The
Political Diaries of C. P. Scott, 1911 -
1918
London:
Collins, 1970
5¾" x 9".
509pp, ills. Blue cloth, no d/j, previous
owner's inscription, Very Good
£16.00
15408
Wolf, Markus
Man Without
a Face : The Autobiography of Communism's
Greatest Spymaster
New York:
Times Books [a division of Random House,
Inc.], 1997
6¼" x 9½".
[xv] + 367pp, illustrations. Black boards in
a rubbed d/j, otherwise Near Fine
£15.00
12219
Woodruff,
William
The Road to
Nab End : A Lancashire Childhood
London: Eland,
2000 [first published 1993]
5½” x 8½”.
[ix] + 374pp, frontis, Softback, covers
rubbed otherwise Very Good
£5.00
14390
Worcester,
Donald E.
Bolivar
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1978
5½” x 8¾”.
[viii] + 243pp. Green cloth gilt in a rubbed
d/j, otherwise Near Fine
£15.00
eBay
13277
Yallop, David
A.
The Day The
Laughter Stopped : The True Story Behind the
Fatty Arbuckle Scandal
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1976
6¼" x 9½".
350pp, illustrations. Blue boards in a
chipped, rubbed d/j, otherwise Very Good.
The place, the St. Francis hotel. The time,
September 5th 1921. The Jazz Age. The
Roaring Twenties, Prohibition, all of these
had just begun. At 2.45 that afternoon a
pretty screen actress left the boisterous
part she was attending and walked into a
bedroom. Ten minutes later a fat film
comedian walked into the same bedroom. They
had both walked into history. What followed
was to change the course of events forever
in the motion picture industry. The screen
actress was Virginia Rappe. The film
comedian was Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. For
both of them it was the day the laughter
stopped. A week after that party Virginia
Rappe lay dead and Arbuckle had been charged
with rape and murder. Based on trial
transcripts and secret Grand Jury
transcripts (material thought to have been
destroyed long ago), and many exclusive
interviews, this book details the
astonishing events that took place when
Roscoe stood trial 3 times before winning a
breath-taking acquittal and vindication. But
this book is much more that that. It is the
biography of the man considered by millions
in 1921 to be one of the world's funniest
comedians. The story of a man born in a sod
hut in Kansas who was destined to rise to
the heights of a multi-million dollar
career only to have it taken from him by a
wave of hysteria and bigotry that swept
round the world. It is the story of
Hollywood and what really happened in the
corridors of power; the political corruption
of San Francisco, the immorality of a
President. How Chaplin's career was saved.
How Keaton's begun. Both by Arbuckle. It is
a lifestory that ranges from comedy heights
to tragic depths.
£30.00
eBay
17707
Yeats-Brown,
Francis
Caught by
the Turks
London: Edward
Arnold, 1919
5¾" x 9".
220pp, illustrations, publisher's catalogue.
Decorative blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
publisher's file copy, head and tail of
spine bumped otherwise Very Good Plus.
Yeats-Brown, a Captain in the 17th Cavalry,
was observing for Captain White of the
Australian Flying Corps when they were
forced down during a recconaissance mission
to Bagdhad in November 1915; PoW and
eventual escape. Writing of this book in a
later work (“Golden Horn,” 1932) he stated:
“...fewer than a thousand copies were sold.
Few people therefore read it, & fewer still
will remember it.”
£125.00

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