Wrexham: Bridge Books, 1991, 1992, 1997. c.20x21cms, and 48pp each. Vol 1 is staple-bound, the other two are perfect-bound: Vol 3 has a colour cover. All are inscribed at the first opening, Vol 2 by the author; also one of the photos in Vol 2 has a handwritten note beside..... More
Hardcover. Typescript, A4 printed on one side, 198pp, and presumably never published. I assume that there may be other carbons or copies of this document. There are some short comments from the copier, and some corrections in the text. The pages were initially unbound, and the first leaf is somewhat..... More
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London: printed for the Author... and pubd. by William Miller et al. 1805. First edition. Hardcover. xv, [1], 252, followed by the 15 plates, a 32-page Appendix, an 8-page Prospective Sketch of the Intended Contents of the Unpublished Part, a 10-page Illustration of the Monastic History and Antiquities of the..... More
London: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, n.d. [1935?]. Hardcover. xii, (9-) 457pp, with 48 illustrations from photographs by the author, and with map endpapers. Contents fresh, clean, and unmarked. Top edge blue, faint foxing to closed fore-edge. 19.5x13cms, in the original binding of blue cloth, firm and clean, spine titled..... More
Ipswich: Suffolk Local History Council, 1980. Softcover. 48pp, illustrated with extracts from contemporary documents and a photo. Stapled booklet, with some rusting to staples. Underlining to pp5-13, very little else: pages fresh, 21x15cms, in cream glossy card covers, bright and clean. More
Bury St. Edmunds: Printed at the 'Free Press' Works, 1889, 1890, 1891. First editions. Paperback. Each 'Hundred' has between 13 and 53 pages, and is issued stapled in grey printed paper covers, 18x12cms. Each is in good to very good condition, unless otherwise stated, staples rusting. 1889: Cosford Half Hundred..... More
[Nairobi]: [The East African Standard], [1952]. Magazine. 176pp. 29.5x23.5cms/ 11.5x9.25ins. Upbeat glossy magazine for the expats in business, much of it in colour, stuffed with articles and advertisements. Contents clean and fresh, covers firm. Front cover creased two inches in from the margin, rear cover rather soiled. A very nice..... More
Chester: John Poole, 1778. First edition. Hardcover. [vi], lxxxviii, 1-430; [ii], 431-994. With the original marbled endpapers, bearing the handwritten ownership label of John Clough of Lostock Gralam. Structurally sound and attractive set, with foxing or soiling affecting most pages, sometimes heavily. Offsetting to a few pages, and early owner's..... More
Southwold: [self published], 1984. First edition. Softcover. 76pp, illustrated with many monochrome photographs. '..not a history of the two World Wars but a collection of photographs and information to give some idea of Southwold during those dark wartime days.' With the author's signature (or signature stamp?) in blue ink, beside..... More
Southwold: [self-published], 1986. First edition. Softcover. 65pp, illustrated. Signed by the author to the title page. A very fresh unread copy, with no markings or soiling. A5, in pictorial brown card covers, faintly rubbed, sharp and square, plain brown spine sunned, and some very light scuffs to the edges. More
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Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2014. First edition. Softcover. 128pp, richly illustrated in colour and monochrome. Signed by author inside front cover. Contents very fresh, like new. Landscape format, c.16.5x24.5cms, in thin card pictorial covers, fresh, clean, and uncreased. Brilliant copy. More
Lowestoft: Samuel Tymms; and (except Vol IV) London: Whittaker & Co.:, 1864, 1866, 1869, and 1885-7. First edition. Hardcover. A complete set of Tymms' wonderful repository of curious information in the original cloth. Contents in good order, with no ownership names, and generally unmarked, though with marginalia to pp117-166 of..... More
London: Jarrold & Sons, n.d. [c.1895]. First edition. Hardcover. 194pp, with a portrait frontis. Contents clean, on good paper, with some foxing to the endpapers, prelims and final pages, only a few odd spots in the text. 26.5x17cms, top edge gilt, fore-edge spotted, in the original binding of maroon cloth..... More
Coggeshall Heritage Centre, 1995. Presumed first and only edition. Softcover. A5 Stapled booklet. 48pp, reproducing c.80 postcards with extensive explanatory captions. Contents clean, upper corners slightly bent. There are diagonal creases to pp23-30, and the bottom corner of the last two pages are creased. In cream card covers: the pictorial..... More
London: Elliot Stock, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. [x], 173pp, illustrated with a frontis map and nine photographs (all called for?). Endpapers tanned. Most pages and plates are clean; a few openings are decidedly soiled, others have occasional thumbing or a small (. More
London: James Nisbet, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 486, [2] adverts. A stark, highly informative, but also evangelical, view of the state of India, with vigorous proposals for improving the lot of Indians. With the ownership name of Francis L.M. Noel R.N., to the pastedown (his relation to the author..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. x, 403, +24 adverts; with two maps, one being foldout, the other has a few foxing spots. Contents clean and unmarked. With the armorial bookplate of Lord Battersea. In the original binding of fine navy cloth, ruled and titled in gilt..... More
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1890. New Edition / Second Edition. Hardcover. xxxvi, +[4] (1891 Census), +177, +[3] adverts. With a frontis of Wicken Fen, a foldout Map of the Fen-Land, and a map of the Route to Wicken Fen with the route in red. There has been..... More
Norwich: Norfolk News Company, Ltd., 1905. Original edition. Paperback. 23pp plus 10 plates, being photo portraits and views of the works, with a decorative design to the opening page and the Arms of Norwich to the title page. A very fresh copy: contents fresh and unmarked, like new: 20x12.5cms, secured..... More
London: Dean & Son, n.d. [c.1888]. New Edition, revised and extended: Tenth Thousand. Hardcover. Two-page map of Ireland by Clapp; +[iv], title page & list of works on the History of Ireland; +193pp, text, with 3 plates reproducing fine engraved scenes, and 3 other illustrations; +[5], Chronological Table and Index;..... More
Lagos: The Government Printer, 1939. Original edition. Softcover. [vi] (Title & contents), xxxii (Index), 189 (text), [12] (Register of alterations and additions). All pages printed recto only, the blanks not counted, so there are about 240 leaves. Accompanied by a number of unused forms in an envelope attached inside the..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 256, [16] adverts. Some foxing to fore-edge margins throughout, and to prelims. Ownership name to front pastedown. Vivid accounts. Structurally in good order, in the original blue cloth, spine title yellow: clean and firm, spine ends puckered, slight rubbing to edges and extremities. Scarce..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. [c.1872]. Presumed early reprint. Hardcover. 'Mrs Brown' spouting in her forceful and malapropinquitous vernacular: but, in a humour all too familiar, not a force for liberation. (iv) (publishers' list), 154pp. Early ownership name to adverts, title, and rear pastedown: also shelf number to title..... More
Pinner: The Pinner Association, 1940-1955. Original issues. Softcover. Quarterly publication. A5 stapled booklets, between 24pp and 40pp each, illustrated with photographs and including advertisements, in pictorial thin card covers. Issues 9 to 18, 21 to 27, 30 to 50, and 52 & 53: total 39 issues from August 1940 to..... More
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 'printed 1920'. Hardcover. 256pp, with a colour frontis, illustrations in line, and pictorial endpapers of desultory children by a different artist. Children's story, set in British India, and Billy is an English girl. 1932 presentation note to front endpaper, with Sunday School Award label..... More
