Conflicts with Oblivion
Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1969. Hardcover. Reprint edition. Fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Pristine interior. English History. ENG2/8231. Fine. More
English History
The Tatler. The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. (4 volumes)
London: printed for H. Lintot, T. Longman, J. and P. Knapton, B. Sprint, D. Midwinter, et. al. 1737. Hardcover. Size: Small 8vo. Bound in full dark brown leather boards with red and gilt title labesls to spines. Gilt volume numbers to volumes 1, 2, and 3. Volume 4 has been expertly restored; the boards are original, and spine is modern with original title label. The front boards of Volumes 3 and 4 are detached but present. Cracking to exterior hinges of volumes several volumes. Leather of spines of volumes 1 - 3 are cracked with minor chipping. Leather boards of all volumes are scuffed and edgeworn with bumped corners. A border is tooled on all boards. Gilt tooling to edges of boards is worn. Bookplate of previous owner to front pastedowns of all volumes, Harold Randolph. Vols. are also signed by previous owner. Laid paper interiors are very clean with bright text and only very occasional spots of foxing. Edges of pages in Volume 4 are somewhat warped. Decorative woodcut headpieces begin all chapters. A nice set despite noted wear. All volumes include an Index. Vol. I, 299 pages; Vol. II, 330 pages.; Vol. III, 312 pages.; Vol. IV, 309 pages. ENG/091404. Very Good. More
The Familiar Letter in the Eighteenth Century
Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1966. Hardcover. Very good in beige cloth with gilt title to spine. Light soiling to exterior. Index, 306 pages. English History. ENGHIST22/0527. Very Good. More
The Headmaster: Roxburgh of Stowe and His Influence in English Education
New York: Schocken Books, (1966). Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Light bumping to spine ends. Interior is clean and bright. Red price-clipped illustrated dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. Spine panel faded to light brown. Minor rubbing to dust jacket. Index, 216 pages. English Biography. ENGBIO/042313. Near Fine / Very Good. More
The Gay Delavals
New York: Rinehart & Company, (1956). Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth covered boards with black and yellow title to spine. Light bumping to corners and spine ends. Slight browning to end pages and light tonight to margins. Previous owner's name to front free end page. Else is clean and bright. Illustrated brown price clipped dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Minor soiling, browning, and rubbing to dust jacket. 310 pages. English Biography. ENGBIO/060613. Very Good+ / Very Good. More
Personal Reminiscences by Barham, Harness, and Hodder (BRIC-A-BRAC SERIES).
New York: Scribner, Armstrong, and Company, 1875. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Very good in extensively-decorated light brown cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Light soiling to board corners. Interior is clean and bright. 335 pages. English History. ENG3/2262. Very Good. More
Democracy and Foreign Policy, A Case History, The Sino-Japanese Dispute. 1931-33
London, New York, Toronto: The London School of Economics and Political Science, and Longmans, Green and Co., 1952. Hardcover. 8vo. Maroon cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Minor browning to end pages. Else is clean and bright. Light grey dust jacket with maroon title to front and spine panels. Minor toning to edges and spine of dust jacket. Index, 654 pages. English History. ENGHIST/012012. Very Good + in Very Good DJ. More
Guardian of the Lakes: A History of the National Trust in the Lake District from 1946 (1st Edition).
Cumbria: Westmorland Gazette, (1987). Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in near fine red dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. Previous owner's name to half title page. Else is pristine with illustrations throughout and map to rear. English History. ENG11072. Near Fine / Near Fine. More
Robin Ernest William Flower 1881-1946. From the Proceedings of the British Academy. Volume XXXII
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege. Paperback. SCARCE. No date. Circa 1946. Grey paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper. Browning and creasing to edges. Interior is clean and bright with photographic illustrations of Flower. 27 pages. ENGBIO/031418. Very Good. More
Those Impossible English
New York: Crown Publishers, 1952. Hardcover. Very good. No Jacket. 4to. Red cloth boards with blue title to spine and small white unicorn designs. Minor fraying to spine ends; rubbing to boards and spine. Light bowing to front board. Interior pages are yellowed around edges, but are otherwise very clean w/ bright text. Includes 201 photographs of English scenes from 1850-1951. Index, 164 pages. ENG/042004. Very Good. More
The Thomas Bell Library. The Catalogue of 15,000 Volumes of Scarce & Curious Printed Books, and Unique Manuscripts, Comprised in the unrivalled Library collected by the late Thomas Bell, Esq. F.S.A. Between the Years 1797-1860
Newcastle, England: J.G. Foster, 1860. Hardcover. Scarce. Thomas Bell (1785-1860) was a prominent land valuer and surveyor who also served as a commissioner and arbitrator for lands in districts of northern England. He is best remembered, however, as an extraordinary book collector, "bringing together one of the largest and most valuable collections of books, papers, and engravings ever formed in the North of England particularly in matters of local interest"(from obituary reprinted in catalogue). The auction sale lasted fifteen days. On the front free endpaper, there is an interesting later handwritten transcript of notes originally written by John Gray Bell, son of Thomas, about his father's library. He described a good-sized library that was shelved round with filled bookcases buried by other bookcases, also filled and then buried as well. The door of the room would only open slightly ajar and one had to sidle in one at a time along a narrow round pathway. A woman wearing a crinoline could not enter at all. The catalog was published in paper wrappers. This copy has been rebound with covers in blue cloth with a black and gilt spine label. Original wrappers bound in. Some bumping and fading. Browning to wrapper cover and browning to to untrimmed edges and to some page margins, not affecting text. Very good condition. 276 pages. BOB/042415. Very Good. More
The Power of the Early Tudor Nobility: A Study of the Fourth and Fifth Earls of Shrewsbury
Sussex and New Jersey: The Harvester Press and Barnes & Noble Books, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in grey paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Pristine interior. Fine light blue dust jacket with white and black title to front and spine panels. Index, 228 pages. ENGHIS/010418. Fine / Fine. More
All Sorts and Conditions of Men: An Impossible Story
New York: The F.M. Lupton Publishing Company, No date. Hardcover. 8vo. Maroon cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Fading and discoloration to the spine. Minor edgewear. Interior hinges starting. Previous owner's writing to front free end page. Else is clean and bright with frontis. 382 pages. English History. ENG3/4022. Very Good. More
London Cameos (1st Edition).
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, (1930). Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. Very good+ in green cloth covered boards with dark green title to front board and to spine. Previous owner's name to front free end page. A very unique book, each left-hand page is a B&W photographic illustration of a location in the city and each right-hand page describes said location. Many photos of vanished structures. 255 pages. English History. ENG110191. Very Good +. More
The Benevolent Man: A Life of Ralph Allen of Bath
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in Very good illustrated maroon dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. Minor creasing and rubbing to dust jacket. Index, 304 pages. English History. ENGHIST02/0522. Fine / Very Good. More
Victoria, Albert, and Mrs. Stevenson
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., (1957). Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR. 8vo. Light green cloth covered boards with white title to spine. Wear to exterior includes minor edgewear, a few light spots of soiling, and minor fading to spine. Inscription from editor to front free end page as well as an inscription from someone else. Minor browning and foxing to end pages and paste downs. Else is clean and bright with four pages of illustrations. Index, 309 pages. ENGHIS/010418. Very Good. More
Lord Shaftesbury and Social-Industrial Progress
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., (1933). Hardcover. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. Very good in light green/blue cloth with black lattering on spine. Minor edgewear to boards. Text is clean and bright. Index, 446 pages. English biography. ENG106020. Very Good. More
Eminent Edwardians.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. Hardcover. 1st American edition Very good blue cloth covered boards with gilt title, corner bumped, spine rubbed. Very good blue dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. 8 full-page illustrations; 255 pages. English History. ENG/1283. Very Good / Very Good. More
HIstorical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III. Second Series. Volume II
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1839. Hardcover. Very good in original purple cloth with paper title label on spine. Spine and edges of boards faded to brown. Some rubbing to label. Advertisements at front. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Light to moderate foxing. English History. ENG1/12050. Very Good. More
The British Empire at War
London. 1916. Hardcover. 12mo. Blue cloth covered boards with black title to beige title label to front board. Minor Rubbing to spine ends and minor soiling to title label. Minor browning to title page. Rear hinge is starting. Else is clean and bright. 50 pages. English History. ENG14/3142. Very Good. More
Balmoral: The History of a Home
London: Collins, 1955. Hardcover. 8vo. light blue and grey illustrated dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Chipping and creasing to edges of dust jacket as well as rubbing to the spine panel. Previous owner's signature to front free end page. Else is clean and bright. 254 pages. ENGLISH HISTORY. ENGHIS310191. Very Good / Very Good Minus. More
Samuel Pepys
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good+ brick red cloth covered boards with with gilt lettering to black label on front board and to spine. Frontis portrait of Pepys. English Biography. ENGBIO/2043. Very Good+. More
Samuel Pepys: The Years of Peril
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935. Hardcover. Near fine red boards with bright black and gilt title on front and spine; index; frontispiece; 457 pp. ex libris. Early British History. ENGBIO/10162. Near Fine. More
Samuel Pepys: The Years of Peril
MacMillan, 1935. Hardcover. NF in NF DJ. Frontispiece and several illustrations. English History. ENGHIST15/0522. Near Fine. More
The Years of Peril
London: Collins, (1949). Hardcover. Very good+ in very good illustrated dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Minor wear to top edge of dust jacket. English Biography. ENGHIST23/0522. Very Good+ / Very Good. More