New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1919. Second, limited American edition and first illustrated edition. Hardcover. This is the second American edition of the author’s second published book, a striking limited edition published in 1919, four years after the American first trade edition. Opening with the famous poems “The Pasture”..... More
First World War, Middle Eastern Theatre. This is an original photographic album of 44 snapshot photographs of the life of an enlisted Australian in Egypt at the beginning of the First World War. Laid in is a 1 February 1916 holograph letter addressed to the owner of the album from..... More
Zanzibar: Printed Privately, 1944. The hand-numbered, limited, privately printed issue of the first edition. Leather_bound. Lillibullero or The Golden Road contains the author’s reminiscences of the colorful Tich Miles in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya in the first half of the twentieth century. Though certainly not common (the book..... More
Fordingbridge, Hampshire: Castle Hill Press, 2009. Limited Edition. Quarter goatskin. This Castle Hill Press limited edition publishes the original (1928) text of The Mint, together with significant "Later Writings about Service Life" and additional unpublished material. Of a total edition of 277, 200 copies were bound thus for subscribers, in..... More
Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1960. This small archive of documents from the 20 January 1961 inauguration of America’s thirty-fifth president, John F. Kennedy, includes four separate items. (1) An original invitation to the Inauguration of the President and Vice President. This is a folded leaflet comprising four..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. This is a first edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s first book, It’s Up to the Women. Eleanor published this book in 1933, concurrent with the first inauguration of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, in part as a declaration of her intended..... More
Paris: Etienne Ganeau, 1725. 1st Edition. Hardcover. "Having joined the East India Company as a chaplain, Ovington was assigned to the Company's vessel Benjamin for a voyage to the East Indies in 1689. Ovington stopped briefly in Bombay and then settled at Surat for two and a half years. His..... More
London: Gyldenal, 1922. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. This is an exceptional copy of the first English edition of Sigrid Undset's The Garland, the first volume in her Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, which was the basis for her being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928. This copy is scarce..... More
Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2013. Full leather. This is a strikingly handsome limited edition of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, with illustrations by Edmund Dulac, published by The Easton Press, 2013. Condition is unequivocally as new; this copy is still hermetically sealed in the publisher’s shrinkwrap and housed in the publisher’s shipping..... More
New York: George H. Doran, 1927. Second U.S. edition ("Gift Edition"). Hardcover. Revolt in the Desert is the only version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom published for the general public in Lawrence’s lifetime. This is the second American edition – the so-called “Gift Edition” issued for the 1927 Christmas season..... More
Fordingbridge, Hampshire: Castle Hill Press, 2010. Limited Edition. Quarter goatskin. This Castle Hill Press limited edition publishes the original (1928) text of The Mint, together with a selection of Lawrence’s later writings about service life. Of a total edition of 475, 180 copies were bound thus for subscribers, in quarter..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Vita Sackville-West's 1924 novel Seducers in Ecuador is seldom seen thus, in near fine condition and still bearing the original dust jacket. One of 1,500 copies, this copy features a beautifully bright, square, and tight binding, with sharp corners, paper spine label..... More
Fordingbridge, Hampshire: Castle Hill Press, 2010. Limited "Library Edition" Quarter goatskin. This Castle Hill Press limited edition publishes the original (1928) text of The Mint, together with a selection of Lawrence’s later writings about service life. Of a total edition of 475, 180 copies were bound thus for subscribers, in..... More
New York and elsewhere: The Robert Shalkenbach Foundation, Public Revenue Education Council, The Economics League, International Union for Land Value Taxation and Free Trade, U.S. Department of State, John C. Lincoln, and other private publishers, c.1950s & 1960s. Various. Paperback. This unusual collection of nineteen pamphlets expounds progressive political and..... More
Cairo: Government Press and Survey of Egypt, 1919. First edition. Wraps. This is the record of the First World War’s Egyptian Expeditionary Force and their actions on the Near Eastern front. This text contains unattributed accounts by T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935), who found fame as instigator, organizer, hero, and tragic..... More
New York: United States Book Company, Successors to John W. Lovell Company, 1885. Hardcover. This is a lovely late 19th century American edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Dodgson (1832-1898), published by the John W. Lovell Company, New York, circa 1885, with 42 illustrations..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. This first edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s (1884-1962) memoir spanning her husband’s governorship of New York to his death in 1945 at the beginning of his fourth presidential term is signed “James Roosevelt” by her son on the front free endpaper recto..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. First American edition, second printing. Hardcover. This is the first U.S. edition, second printing of Robert Frost’s second published book, which bolstered his newly minted literary reputation and precipitated his return to the United States from England, where his first two books were..... More
Charing Cross, London & Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony: Edward Stanford & J.W.C. Mackay, 1877. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Thomas Baines (1822 –1875) was an English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia. Today, Baines is best known for his detailed paintings and sketches which give a unique insight..... More
Amsterdam: Adriaan Wor, en de Erve G. Onder de Linden, 1746. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Jan de Marre (1696-1763) was a commander of a Dutch East India Company ship. He first joined the company at the age of 13, and achieved the rank of commander in 1728. He retired from the..... More
London: John Murray, 1850. Full leather. This is a handsome, finely bound, school prize presentation copy of publisher John Murray’s 1850 edition of the Poetical Works of Byron. The binding, excellent edition, and contemporary school prize provenance render this a compelling example of poetical works of perhaps the best known..... More
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1984. Signed, numbered, and finely bound first edition. Hardcover. This is a pristine, as-new copy of the strikingly beautiful signed and numbered limited first edition of President Gerald R. Ford's November 30, 1983 address to the English-Speaking Union in London. One of 100 copies issued..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1937. Third edition. Hardcover. This is a jacketed third edition of Gertrude Bell’s Persian Pictures, the first edition to feature an Introduction by the English poet, novelist, and Bloomsbury group member Vita Sackville-West – a personal friend of the author. In 1892 Gertrude Bell, a twenty-four-year old..... More
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928. Second edition. Hardcover. This second edition of Gertrude Bell’s Persian Pictures, quite scarce thus in the original dust jacket, is the first edition published under her name. In 1892 Gertrude Bell, a twenty-four year old Oxford graduate, traveled to Persia with her Aunt to visit..... More
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. This is the first edition of Sir John Smyth’s history of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, inscribed and dated by the author in the House of Commons in the year of publication. The author’s inscription, in blue ball-point in four lines on..... More