Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Children of the Sun: A Narrative of "Decadence" in England After 1918

Green, Martin · 1976

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Basic Books, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Children of the Sun" is how Martin Green dubs the brilliant and influential generation of young men who, following the conclusion of W.W.I., refused to become fathers, husbands and heads of househo...

Thames: The Biography

Ackroyd, Peter · 2007

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Anchor Books, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations and photographs. S...

The Life of Thomas More

Ackroyd, Peter · 1998

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, England, Chatto & Windus, 1998. Third Printing . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Neatly tape-repaired illustrated dust jacket, bright and shiny, not price-clipped, else a nice-looking, structurally sound copy in blue cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering ...

Letters to His Son, Volume I, Volume

The Earl of Chesterfield · 1901

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, M. Walter Dunne, 1901. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Complete in two volumes, bound simply in brown cloth over boards, sans dust jackets, octavo hardcover format, with paper title labels to spines. Clean interiors but for previous owner's in...

A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion and the Bensons in Victorian Britain

Goldhill, Simon · 2016

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, minimal rubbing to extremities, clean interior but for previous owner's inscription. Bright and shin...

Bigarrures; or the Pleasant and Witlesse and Simple Speeches of the Lord Gaulard of Burgundy from a Manuscript Circa 1660

Tabourot, Estienne · 1884

$140.00 (€127.02 | £105.97 | ¥22,356)

Glasgow, Scotland, Printed for Private Circulation by Thomas Bird Mosher , 1884. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. The title is an odd one, "BIGARURES or The Pleasant and Witlesse and Simple Speeches of the Lord Gaulard of Burgundy, From a manuscript Circa 166...

Coaching Days and Coaching Ways

W. Outram Tristram · 1894

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

London, Macmillan and Co., 1894. . Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Very Good condition, structurally sound copy of apparently the original First Edition, from the pages of the English Illustrated News. Illustrated plentifully, on virtually ever page, by Hugh Thomson and Herbert...

A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco

King James I · 1954

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Emmaus, Rodale Press, 1954. Reprint Edition. . . Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked, a fine reprint edition of a common but important title, being King James I's lambasting of "this filthie novelty." Bound simply in t...

Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures

Jerrold, Douglas · 1879

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, George Munro, Publisher, 1879. . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Volume XXIX, No. 610 in the series published as the Seaside Library, this folio-format softcover example clean and unmarked, chipped along edges, lightly soiled to front cover, with double-column ...

Winston S. Churchill: His Memoirs and His Speeches, from Armistice to Victory 1918-1945

Winston S. Churchill. His Memoirs and His Speeches, from Armistice to · 1964

$84.00 (€76.21 | £63.58 | ¥13,414)

London, England, Decca Records, 1964. First Edition. LP Record. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. From the home of a devoted Winston Churchill collector, Mr. Richard (Dick) Barrett of Loudonville, New York, also an expert regarding World War Two, trains and railroads and local histor...

Winston S. Churchill. His Memoirs and His Speeches, from Armistice to Victory 1918-1945winston Churchillpublished by Decca, 1964

Churchill, Winston S.; Arthur Bryant · 1964

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

London, DECCA, 1964. First Edition. LP Record. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A fine exemplar of a Special Edition, being a recorded collection of the speeches and memoirs of Churchill between the World Wars. The sets contain 12 records housed in individual sleeves and that...

Rasselas, a Tale

Doctor Johnson · 1825

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

London, Printed for the Book-Sellers, 1825. . Hardcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Rebound quite handsomely in full calf leather by Pat Bruno of Pasadena and Sacramento, blind-ruled covers, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Light dampstaining at outset, dissipa...

The Jargon of Master Francois Villon, Special Limited Edition

Villon, Francois · 1918

$18.40 (€16.69 | £13.93 | ¥2,938)

Boston, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. This, the first English translation of The Jargon, by Jordan Herbert Stabler, B.A., printed for Houghton Mifflin Company at The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massa...

Richard Tottell, the Printer, and His Connection with Buckinghamshire

Plomer, Henry R. · 1900

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

, Home Counties Magazine, 1900. Offprint. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the first page of this offprint from the Home Counties Magazine, Volume 2, No. 7, July 1900: "Some of those who read The Home Counties Magazine maybe interested in the accompanying pedigree, or ...

Wat Tyler: Dramatic Poem, in Three Acts

Southey, Robert · 1850

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Boston, Massachusetts, J.F. Mendum, 1850. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover copy, bound in brown cloth, blind-stamped front and rear panels, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, sharp and di...

An Examination of Precedents and Principles; from Which It Appears That an Impeachment Is Determined by a Dissolution of Parliament; with an Appendix, in Which All the Precedents Are Collected

Christian, Edward · 1791

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London, Printed for XX Stockdale, 1791. . Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Edward Christian (3 March 1758 – 29 March 1823) was an English judge and law professor and opines here on the process of impeachment in the English Parliament. He was also the older brother of the leadi...

English Handwriting Continued from Tract XXIII with Thirty-One Additional Plates; with Notes on Penmanship

Bridges, Robert, ed.; Alfred Fairbank · 1927

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Oxford, England, The Clarendon Press at Oxford University Press, 1927. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine introduction to the sterling scholarly historical and paleographical work of Mr. Robert Bridges. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fan...

The Life of Col. James Gardiner

American Tract Society · 1830

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, American Tract Society, . . Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. A Good condition copy of an early-mid 19th-century treatise about Colonel James Gardiner of the British Army in the Jacobite Rebellion, with additional material about Scotland, Religion, and Christianit...

Punch and Judy, with Cruikshank's Etchings

1900

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

London, George Routledge and Co., . . Softcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Punch: "Ladies and Gentlemen, pray how you do? If you all happy, me all happy too. Stop and hear my merry littel play; If me make you laugh, me need not make you pay." No date of publication, but appear...

Catalogue of an Exhibition Commemorative of the Bicentenary of the Birth of Samuel Johnson (1709-1909)

The Grolier Club · 1909

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, The Grolier Club, 1909. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Consisting of original editions of his published works, special presentation copies, and several of his original manuscripts, together with a large number of engraved portraits after the pict...