- Category = Bibliography,Ephemera,Food & Drink,History,Military,Other Interesting Volumes,Politics,Science & Nature,Sport
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The Imperial Presidency
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. Very nice copy of thir first edition with a warm gift inscription from the author to the politician and journalist Woodrow Wyatt. Clean, slightly darkened dust wrapper, now protected with a mylar cover. Clean, slightly rubbed grey boards. Internally clean and tidy. Inscription in red ink to the front end paper, and Wyatt's bookplate to the inside front board. X, 505 pages. 235 by 160mm (9¼ by 6¼ inches).
Wyatt was initially a Labour politician and MP from 1945-1970 Afterwards he became a broadcaster and journalist. Over time he moved away from the Labour party, and on becoming friends with Margaret Thatcher, moved significantly to the right. His memoirs were described as "Mischievously indiscreet diaries" (Andrew Neill).
Book ID: 3620More details Price: £65.00 -
The Liberal Catholic Church and some facets of its Doctrine
Book ID: 4802More details Price: £40.00 -
The Life and Scientific Legacy of George Porter
London: Imperial College Press, 2006. First edition. Hardback in unclipped dust jacket. Small inscription to FFEP. Otherwise in spotless condition. 640 pages. 265 x 195 mm (10½ x 7¾ inches).
Sir George Porter was a highly regarded and well known British scientist. Appointed Director of the Royal Institution in 1966, Porter was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. He was the only Director of the Royal Institution to later become President of the Royal Society.
Porter's enthusiasm for science was infectious, and in this book his peers, former colleagues, students and friends celebrate his life and work.Book ID: 3663More details Price: £100.00 -
The Life of Robert, Lord Clive:
Collected from the Family Papers communicated by the Earl of Powis.
Book ID: 4881More details Price: £450.00 -
The Life Story of Birds.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1930. Very nice copy of this first edition. Clean and tidy pale grey boards, with illustration to the front board. Beautiful black and white cuts throughout. viii, 236. pp
200 by 140mm (7¾ by 5½ inches).Book ID: 2413More details Price: £20.00 -
The Mechanism of the Credit Standard.
Practical Proposals for a New Monetary Standard.
Book ID: 4200More details Price: £75.00 -
The Memphite Tomb-Chapel of Mose
Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1977. First Edition. Includes English translations of Egyptian texts, and a transcription and translation of the 'Legal text'. Hardback in light blue cloth covered boards. Inside original unclipped illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wear to the edges but no tears. Also a little handled / darkened as it's was originally white. Inside clean and unmarked. v, 40 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations. 300 x 210 mm (11¾ x 8¼ inches)
Book ID: 4379More details Price: £30.00 -
The Mysterious Visit
Book ID: 4496More details Price: £90.00 -
The Netsuke Handbook of Ueda Reikichi with 226 new photographs in color and gravure
London, Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1961. First Edition hardback. Author signed dedication to 'fellow collectors' on half-title. Original gift postcard from the author to the same people also included inside. In original dust jacket. Inside publisher's corrugated cardboard slipcase with pictorial title label; this is somewhat darkened and rubbed. There is some wear to the price-clipped dust jacket. The grey cloth boards underneath remain in very good condition. Overall in good condition. B/w and colour images of netsuke - miniature collectable sculptures, originating from 17th Century Japan. 325 pages. 245 x 165 mm (9¾ x 6½ inches).
Book ID: 3056More details Price: £35.00 -
The Papermaker in Ambert
Book ID: 5250More details Price: £100.00 -
The Parnellite Split. Or the Disruption of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
Book ID: 2357More details Price: £60.00 -
The Path to Power.
London: Harper Collins, 1995. First edition, first impression. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blue end papers. With its original dust jacket. With 20 leaves of photographic reproductions. This is the second book of Mrs. Thatcher's autobiography, covering the years of her childhood up to her election as Prime Minister. With separate b/w photo signed by Thatcher. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 656 pp. 240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 2333More details Price: £120.00 -
The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas.
Maps by Catherine Petit. Translated from the French by A.M. Berrett
London: Viking Penguin, 1995. A lovely copy of this fascinating atlas. Text, maps and a few photographs of the most important migrations of the modern period. These include the Jewish, Armenian, Gypsy, Black, Chinese, Indian, Irish, Greek, Lebanese, Palestinian and the Vietnames and Korean diasporas. Clean and tidy dust wrapper over clean black boards. Oblong octavo. Internally clean and tidy throughout. 190 by 250mm (7½ by 9¾ inches). 184 pages.
Book ID: 3280More details Price: £30.00 -
The Pocket and the Stud : or, Practical hints on the Management of the Stable
Book ID: 4153More details Price: £120.00 -
The Princesse De Lamballe: A Sketch.
London: Richard Bentley And Son, 1896. First edition in neat library brown cloth hardback binding, with title in gilt to the spine. Ex-library copy with usual stamps to a few pages. With numerous illustrations. The tragic life of the Princess Marie-Louise Thérèse of Savoy-Carignan (1749 1792), who was a friend and confidante of Marie Antoinette. Her fate was to be put to death in the September Massacres of the French revolution. 210 pages. 250 x 190 mm (9¾ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 2849More details Price: £30.00 -
The R.B. Adam Library relating to Dr. Samuel Johnson and his era: Volume the first
Letters of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, and David Garrick.
Book ID: 4380More details Price: £100.00 -
The Rake's Progress.
London: Perpetua, 1955. A nice copy of this first edition. No dust wrapper. Clean black cloth. Inside in very good condition. Front free end paper has been removed. 120 pages, 250 by 190mm (9¾ by 7½ inches). 255 by 185mm (10 by 7¼ inches).
Book ID: 3243More details Price: £15.00 -
The Rudiments of the Chinese Language, with Dialogues, Exercises, and a Vocabulary.
Book ID: 5113More details Price: £90.00 -
The Savoy Cocktail Book.
Being a Compendium of Cocktails, Sours, Flips, Toddies, Coolers, Smashes, Daisies, Highballs, Egg Noggs, Tom Collins, Sangarees, Punches, Cobblers, Rickeys, Juleps, Slings, Shrubs, Fizzes, Frappé, Fixes & Cups
London: Constable & co ltd. Scarce. New and enlarged edition of this classic, printed in 1933 with a gift inscription / signature by Craddock to the colophon dated May 18th 1934. No dust wrapper. The hardback boards are bright orange with black titles. Still in bright, clean condition with just a touch of marking. Endpapers show a devil mask and high class revellers. Internally, in good condition with amusing colour illustrations by Gilbert Rumbold. 204 pages. 190 x 125 mm (7½ x 5 inches)
Book ID: 3322More details Price: £800.00 -
The Second Annual Report of the Catholic Institute of Great Britain: With an Appendix; Containing an Abstract of Cash Account, ending 12th May 1840, List of Auxiliary Branches, List of Publications, Names and Number of Tracts, Particulars of distribution, and Forms of Bequests.
Edition: First Edition
London: C. Richards: 1840. A thin volume, not bound up (as issued) Titles and monogram of the institute to the front cover. Sewn. The list of patrons and the committee, led by the Earl of Shrewsbury, includes Lord Clifford as one of the (many) Vice Presidents. The Catholic Institute grew out of the Metropolitan Catholic Tract Society. The organisation was formed "To protect the rights of Conscience of the Poorer classes of Catholics and to promote the interests of Religion and charity." Irish M.P. Daniel O'Connell was also involved in the establishment of the Institute. Led initially by the Hon. Charles Langdale M.P. 26pp.
Condition: Clean and tidy copy of this work. The pages are almost without mark, and the printing has made a clean, deep impression. Slight darkening to the front cover.
Book ID: 1301More details Price: £12.00




















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