Undertones of War
London, The Folio Society, 1989 (first thus). Introduction by Jon Stallworthy. More
London, The Folio Society, 1989 (first thus). Introduction by Jon Stallworthy. More
Klerksdorp, Transvaal, Printed by H.M. Guest, Printer, Bookseller and Stationer, 'Mining Record' Office, [3 March] 1901. The 'Hobart Mercury' (18 April 1901) reprints the text of this broadside in its entirety, with the following informative introductory paragraph: 'The "Mining Record", published at Klerksdorp, Transvaal, issued the following "Extra" on the..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. 'Towards the end of the war, British drives and offensives became more successful. This was due to the lines of blockhouses and wire fences which parcelled up the wide veldt into smaller areas. Also, the British were themselves using raiding..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. Guest accurately describes the two and a half hour fight as 'one of the most sustained and determined attacks of the war'. 'The Boers lost eleven killed, 35 wounded, and 10 taken prisoner. The British lost 61 killed or mortally..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer, Publisher, Stationer, Bookseller, etc. 1902. 'The operations against the Boers in the neighbourhood of Klerksdorp, which were begun on Sunday night, March 23rd, 1902, were very cleverly conceived and executed.... The object of the operations was to form a long line of mounted men with the..... More
[Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 1902]. 'In the Battle of Tweebosch or De Klipdrift on 7 March 1902, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey defeated a British column under the command of Lieutenant General Lord Methuen during the final months of the Second Boer War........ More
London, Humphry Milford, Oxford University Press, 1916. With 229 illustrations, many from photographs. More
London, Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1908. Baptismal fonts; of the illustrations, 'by far the greater number have never appeared before', and as 'for the Font Covers, it is practically virgin soil'. More
London, Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1908. With 152 illustrations, mainly from photographs. More
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1952. 'Queen Anne received this first official embassy of red Indian chiefs, called 'Kings' in England, who were conducted on a tour of London ...'. More
Edinburgh, The Porpoise Press, 1931. With the printed presentation plate 'From Mr. J.H. Gosse ... With Compliments' to (typed) 'The Secretary, Shiplovers' Society'. Sir James Hay Gosse (1876-1952), businessman, was a 'bustling, forthright and active man, irascible and genial by turn, Gosse was much sought after for his zest and..... More
London, David Bogue, 1880, 1880, 1881 and 1881. More
London, Chatto & Windus, 2004. Inscribed in ink, 'Best wishes', and signed by one author, barrister Lady Cherie Blair QC (née Booth), wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. More
London, T.N. Foulis, 1914. With the bookplate of notable New Zealand author, historian, collector and photographer Hardwicke Knight (featuring an alert squirrel) on the front pastedown. With twelve colour illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan. More
London, Printed for E. and R. Brooke, 1792. The bookplate is for one Joseph Radcliffe, Milnsbridge, Yorkshire; an early ownership stamp and the later name-stamp of the Howard Zelling (1917-2001), sometime Supreme Court Judge of South Australia. More
London, The Folio Society, 1985 [first thus]. Edited, with an introduction, by Frederick A. Pottle. More
[London, Printed for T. Woodward (and others), 1744]. The first dedicated English map of Australia, originally issued as part of the second edition of John Harris's 'Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, or, a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels' (London, 1744-1748); 'Vol. 1, page 325' is printed in the top right-hand..... More
Tralee, The Kerryman, [1954]. The history, the colour and the pageantry of Ireland's thirty-five packs of foxhounds and staghounds. Illustrations by Lionel Edwards. More
Newton Abbott, David & Charles Reprints, 1972 / 1914, 1914 and 1915. First volume with an introduction (unique to these reprints) by Anthony Huxley; the publishers 'were unable to reproduce the colour plates of the original edition'. More
London, Collins & Brown, 2000. More
London, Macdonald, 1972. More
London, Ian Allan, 1968. 'Fenman' is the collective pseudonym of five former graduates of Cambridge with a shared interest in railway photography (dustwrapper). More
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1985 [first edition]. The full scripts of the author's two films for television on single-sex boarding schools, together with a long introductory essay. More
(Swanbourne, Burridge, 1980s, a facsimile edition)/ 1919. More
London, Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, 1855 [first series]. The plates in the text do not count in the pagination, but as we included the lithographic title leaf in the preliminaries total to make up the required number of pages, we suspect this rebound copy is possibly lacking a half-title or..... More