- Category = Bibliography,Ephemera,Food%20%26%20Drink,History,Military,Other%20Interesting%20Volumes,Politics,Science%20%26%20Nature,Sport
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The Vantage Point
Perspective of the Presidency 1963-69 - with TLS from Harold Wilson
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 2016More details Price: £90.00 -
The War in Korea 1950-1953
A military study of the war in Korea up to the signing of the Cease Fire
Book ID: 4252More details Price: £40.00
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The West-End Gazette of Gentlemen's Fashions.
Book ID: 3889More details Price: £550.00
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The Wolfe Tone Annual 1939.
The Story of Young Ireland and the Years Before 1848.
Dublin: Brian O'Higgins, 1939. Scarce First edition. Soft cover. The front cover is an indication of the contents. With stories of 1848, but primarily of John Mitchel. Covers age toned. Staples rusting, but binding holding firm. Also contains some fascinating local Dublin advertising of the time. 98 [6] pp. 215 x 140 mm (8½ x 5½ inches).
Brian O'Higgins was an Irish poet, writer and lifelong Republican (1882-1963). The Wolfe Tone Annual ran for about 30 years from 1932-1962); its purpose to help raise funds for Wolfe Tone commemorations. O'Higgins was one of the founders of Sinn Féin, and used this publication to comment on recent history and current affairs. Censor authorities refused permission to publish the 1944 annual.
Book ID: 3866More details Price: £30.00 -
Trespass. A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art.
GmbH: Taschen, 2015. Very nice copy of this second edition. Clean and tidy dust wrapper over clean hardback boards. Internally in excellent condition, with colour photographs throughout. An excellent copy. 320 pages. 240 by 175mm (9½ by 7 inches).
Book ID: 3343More details Price: £35.00 -
Un pékin sur le front.
Book ID: 2531More details Price: £30.00
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Vanity Fair. An album of 44 lithographs and biographies.
Book ID: 2396More details Price: £250.00
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Vie politique, littéraire et privée de Charles-James Fox,
membre du parlement d'Angleterre et secrétaire d'état, etc. Ornée de son portrait. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglais sur la quatrième édition originale.
Book ID: 2295More details Price: £120.00
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Vingt années de Paris.
Avec une preface par Alphonse Daudet
Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1883. Very nice copy of this first edition. Text in French. Contemporary half burgundy leather, with gilt titles and marbled boards. A little rubbing to the spine. Internally clean and tidy. Complete, with Frontis and 5 caricatures on silk paper. xii, 238 pages. 190 by 120mm (7½ by 4¾ inches). Très bel exemplaire de cette première édition. Texte en français. Cuir demi bordeaux de l'époque, avec titres dorés et plats marbrés. Un petit frottement à la colonne vertébrale. Intérieur propre et bien rangé. Complet, avec Frontis et 5 caricatures sur papier de soie. xii, 238 pages. 190 x 120 mm
Book ID: 3257More details Price: £85.00 -
Vintage Comic Postcard - Old Man on Tricycle with Charabanc full of daytrippers behind
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, c. 1940. Tuck's Postcard No. 58. In an excellent condition. Shows an elderly gentleman on a country road, slowly riding his tricycle in front a charabanc full of people eager to be on their way either to or from a seaside day out. One is holding a 'Kiss Me Quick' sign, some are shouting to get his attention, one has a horn and others have rattles. He seems oblivious to their eagerness to get past. Simply saying to himself (presumably in response to a vague level of noise) "'Ello! Sounds like they danged old pedals be wantin' another drop of oil". 80 x 135 mm (3¼ x 5¼ inches). AS THIS IS EPHEMERAL - PLEASE CONSULT US ABOUT THE POSTAGE COSTS.
Condition: In an excellent condition. Has not been written on or ever posted. Blank to verso.
Book ID: 2339More details Price: £10.00 -
Volunteer Service Gazette and Militia Dispatch
Condition: The boards are somewhat rubbed and have lost much surface sheen. The leather is a little rubbed but in good condition. The binding is tight. Darkening to the pages of both volumes. Scattered worm holes to both volumes. These are worse to the front of vol. 1.
Book ID: 2600More details Price: £300.00 -
Waffenfabrik katalog. Recueil des principaux catalogues des plus importants fabricants de Militaria Allemand 1920-1945
Strasbourg: RZM / Catella, 1986. First edition. Collection of the main catalogs of the most important manufacturers of German Militaria 1920-1945 Softback, colour illustrated cover, 279 pp., fully illustrated in black and white. Nice copy with no significant flaws. French and German text. Book based on the period catalogs of the following manufacturers: Lüneburg, Eickhorn, Baumeister, etc. 300 by 210mm (11¾ by 8¼ inches).
Book ID: 3793More details Price: £80.00