Edited & with an introduction by R. P. Lister. Pp. xxviii+78(last blank)+[4](blank, colophon), the title page printed in red/brown & black, hand-tipped coloured frontispiece (from a watercolour portrait of Enid Bagnold by Claud Lovat Fraser), plus 4 monochrome hand-tipped plates, printed endpapers; roy. 8vo; Laura Ashley rust coloured floral patterned..... More
Edited by J. C. Beaglehole. In two volumes. Pp. xxviii+476+xviii+406, with a total of 102 plates (16 coloured, including the frontispieces), a few text figures and maps (1 folding, printed in brown & red), appendices, index; med. 8vo; maroon cloth, spines lettered in gilt, a couple of fore-corners faintly bruised;..... More
Views of Life and Nature from a Maine Coastal Farm. Pp. 190(last blank), pictorial double title page, text illustrations; small med. 8vo; light brown cloth, lettered in gilt, top fore-corners of boards slightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper; outer leaves and edges foxed; Rand McNally & Company, Chicago, 1981. First edition..... More
Commander-in-Chief of the Corvettes Geographe and Naturaliste, assigned by order of the government to a voyage of discovery. Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. With a Foreword by Jean-Paul Faivre. Pp. xxii+610(last blank), frontispiece, 2 full page maps, appendices, index; med. 4to; dark green cloth, lettered and ruled in..... More
The frontline diary of C. E. W. Bean. Selected and annotated by Kevin Fewster. Pp. 217(last blank), frontispiece portrait, text illustrations and maps, coloured pictorial endpapers, notes, biographical notes, select bibliography, index; small cr. 4to; black cloth, spine lettered and blocked in gilt; dust wrapper; Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1983..... More
The Diaries of Maud Berkeley. Adapted by Flora Fraser. Introduction by Elizabeth Longford. Pp. 192, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, full page coloured map; square 4to; brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the upper board faintly scratched; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, backstrip slightly faded; Secker &..... More
Edited by Michael Roe. Pp. lvi+342, frontispiece, 5 maps (2 folding), bibliography, index; demy 8vo; gilt lettered & decorated blue cloth; price-clipped dust wrapper, backstrip a trifle faded; Cambridge University Press for The Hakluyt Society, Cambridge, 1967. Second Series, No. CXXXI. *In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master..... More
Pp. 40(last blank, colophon); cr. 8vo; printed stiff green paper wrappers, stabbed and tied (lacking the tie, contents loose), the edges slightly faded, small piece chipped from bottom fore-corner of upper wrapper; uncut and unopened; a little faint creasing; printed for private circulation, London, 1913. Edition limited to Thirty Copies..... More
Now first published from the original manuscript prepared for the press, with introduction and notes by Frederick A. Pottle. Pp. xiv+370, black & white frontispiece portrait, 3 tinted plates, title page decoration, endpaper maps printed in brown & black, appendices, index; med. 8vo; navy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt..... More
Volume I: 1820-1832. Edited by Peter Chapman. Pp. xxviii+692, 16 coloured plates, black & white frontispiece portrait and text illustrations, endpaper maps, appendices, bibliography, index; thick med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985. First edition. *The first publication in full of the diaries and letters of G.T.W.B. Boyes..... More
Compiled and Edited by Michael Brander. Pp. xiv+160, text illustrations, bibliography; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, the backstrip lightly faded and with a tiny closed tear near the editor's name; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Leo Cooper, London, 1989. First edition. *Selection of military diaries by officers and private..... More
To which are added letters signed "Currer Bell" and "C. B. Nicholls". Pp. 24(including wrappers, last colophon); cr. 8vo; plain self-wrappers, printed in black, stabbed & tied, slightly soiled and faintly creased, edges a trifle rubbed and split, the backstrip splitting at extremities, four small damp spots to upper wrapper..... More
A bio-bibliographical note. Pp. 30(last blank)+[2]Ashley Library device, blank), frontispiece plus one plate; f'cap 4to; plain papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, spine and edges of boards lightly browned and rubbed, fore-corners a trifle bruised; endpapers faintly offset, a couple of tiny spots of foxing; privately printed, London, 1896. Edition..... More
Edited by Thomas J. Wise. In two volumes. Pp. xii+98+[2](Ashley Library device)+xii+98+[2](Ashley Library device), with a facsimile of a letter from Browning to Wise tipped-in as frontispiece to Volume I (with tissue guard); post 8vo; maroon cloth over bevelled boards, spines lettered in gilt, boards a trifle flecked, edges slightly..... More
Collected by Thomas J. Wise. Edited with an introduction and notes by Thurman L. Hood. Pp. xx+390(last blank), frontispiece portrait, plus 15 plates, notes, index; med. 8vo; dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, edges a trifle rubbed, scattered foxing; John Murray, London, 1933. First U.K. edition. Todd 102i..... More
Collected by Thomas J. Wise. Edited with an introduction and notes by Thurman L. Hood. Pp. xx+390(last blank), frontispiece portrait, plus 15 plates, notes, index; med. 8vo; red/brown cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, with a couple of..... More
Pp. 20(last colophon); post 8vo; grey/brown paper wrappers, stabbed & tied with cord, upper wrapper printed in black, the wrapper edges slightly creased and browned; uncut; pages 9/10 slightly creased; printed for private circulation, Edinburgh, 1929. Edition limited to thirty copies, printed for M. Buxton Forman, Pretoria. *Ten letters, written..... More
Pp. x+898, 32 plates, index; med. 8vo; tan papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; ; dust wrapper, lightly browned and soiled; text block browned; Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1990. First edition. More
In three volumes. Pp. xx+480+viii+464+viii+460, appendix, index; nineteenth century half calf, the spines with gilt lettered contrasting maroon & green title and volume labels, marbled papered boards, lightly rubbed, the edges and spines grazed; matching marbled edges and endpapers; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedowns, occasional faint soiling; Edward..... More
Edited, with an Introduction and annotations by Albert J. Schutz. Pp. xvi+256, frontispiece portrait, 3 full page maps, index; spine extremities slightly bruised; dust wrapper; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; The Australian National University, Canberra, 1977. Pacific History Series No. 10. *Letters and diaries of the first Wesleyan..... More
With Introduction & nots by A. Francis Steuart. Now for the first time published. Pp. [iv]+xii+132, title and text decorations; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, boards lightly flecked; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges creased and split, with a couple of small chips; bookplate of Benjamin..... More
Edited from the originals, with a memoir of Lord Chesterfield by The Earl of Carnarvon. With Portraits and Illustrations. Pp. c+410, 7 plates (all but the frontispiece with tissue guard), folding facsimile letter tipped-in at front, text figure, chronological table, folding genealogical table, appendix, index; med. 8vo; maroon cloth over..... More
The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill. Edited by their daughter. Pp. xxviii+702, 32 plates (small paper defect on bottom edge of four plates), endpaper illustrations, select family tree (double page), nick-names and aliases, bibliography, index; thick med. 8vo; burgundy cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; edges of..... More
Their Secret Wartime Correspondence. Edited by Francis L. Loewenheim, Harold D. Langley, Manfred Jonas. Pp. xvi+808(last blank), 16 plates, 4 double page maps, chronology, bibliography, index; tall demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the head of spine and fore-corners of lower board slightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly..... More
The struggle for survival 1940-1965. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran. Pp. xviii+830(last blank), frontispiece plus 21 plates, appendices, index; thick med. 8vo; maroon cloth, spine blocked in black and lettered in gilt, the cloth flecked, with spots of fading on spine; top edges maroon; dust wrapper, browned and..... More