Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1950. First Penguin printing. Paperback. 294, [2], +[9]pp of advertisements for penguins. The book is square and firm, with no markings. The middle area of each page is slightly toned, while the margins are tanned, as is the inner face of the covers. Externally, while the covers..... More

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1941. First Penguin edition. Paperback. 158pp. Contents in good order, with some tanning to edges. The flimsy wartime cerise 'Travel & Adventure' series front paper cover is faded, stained, creased, and worn at the edges, with a corner missing, and puckered due to not having been laid..... More

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 190pp +(2)adverts. Front free endpaper signed by author. Contents clean and unmarked, though closed edges foxed, spots encroaching slightly on page edges. In the original binding of red cloth, titled in black, very clean and bright, with knock to top front corner. In..... More

Cairo: for Middle East Publications, by Al-Hilal, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945. Original printings. Large format wartime periodicals for the troops (16.5x11ins / 42x28cms). 20pp each (special issues 32pp), with articles of general and entertainment interest as well as sidelines on the war, all richly illustrated in monochrome, with film..... More

London: George Newnes Ltd, 1939. Paperback. 128pp: stapled booklet, 19x14cms, with orange paper covers. A very engaging miscellany. Covers tanning slightly. More

London: Epworth Press, 1937. Second Impression. Hardcover. 166pp, with a frontis portrait. Front free endpaper signed diagonally 'C. Ensor Walters'. A little faint soiling to this endpaper, contents otherwise clean. In the original binding of red cloth, ruled and titled in black: bright and sharp, with slight puckering to spine..... More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Ltd Edn, #146 of 750 signed copies. Contents, including the 25 plates, fresh and fine. Endpapers slightly tanned, rear pastedown bubbling slightly, and small (5x1.5cm) brown stain to edge of rear endpaper, the adjacent page slightly affected. No names or marking. Top..... More

London: W. Winn, later William Cross, later E. Steill, 1849 - 1850. Hardcover. 784pp, preceded by two full-page illustrations. A 16-page weekly compendium of sensational and supposedly true tales, the front page of each issue carrying a vivid woodcut illustration and a list of contents. The first issue being dated..... More

London: T. Jones, 1836. First edition thus. Hardcover. [vi], 112; (iii)-xviii, 252; (iii)-viii, 267. Embellished with Engravings drawn on the wood by W.H. Craig, Esq. Contents very good and clean. Some creasing and soiling to front free endpaper. In contemporary grained cloth boards decorated in blind, with a new cloth..... More

London: Printed by A. Strahan... for Joseph Butterworth and Son, 1827. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 797pp. Contents very good, with browning to endpapers. In full 19thC calf, marked with old scuffs, ruled in blind, with five raised bands and bright spine label: joints refurbished with Japanese tissue. Good firm bright..... More

Lynn Regis [Norfolk], Printed for and Published by C. Dinmore, 1822. First edition. Hardcover. [ii], iv, 108pp, plus the guarded foldout woodcut frontis, 'Don't I look spruce on my Neddy?', and includes ten pages listing the voters and how they voted taken from the Poll Book. Furious mudslinging and some..... More

London: Baldwin, Cradock , and Joy, 1816. First edition. Hardcover. xxxvi, [9]-392. Some spotting to final few pages: contents otherwise very clean, with a foxed armorial bookplate: text block firm. Edges sprinkled. In full contemporary calf, ruled in blind, spine with four raised bands, decorated in gilt, and with two..... More

London: Bagster, 1810. Reprint of the 1725 first edition. Hardcover. ccxxvi, 230; (231-) 714, 4. Contents clean and in good order. Publishers' foxed advertisement slip printed in red tipped in at title page. Endpapers stained and bear an early name stamp. Soiling to uncut edges. In contemporary paper-covered boards, very..... More