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Image for The Quantocks and Their Associations. A Paper Read Before the Members of the Bath Literary Club on the 11th December 1871. [Significant, inscribed association copy]

The Quantocks and Their Associations. A Paper Read Before the Members of the Bath Literary Club on the 11th December 1871. [Significant, inscribed association copy]

By: NICHOLS, WILLIAM LUKE

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Bath: Printed for Private Circulation: 1873

Seller ID: k190121l

Condition: Good

1st ed., 8vo, original decorated green cloth, gilt decorations and lettering. 41 [2] i-xxxiii. Tipped in photographic frontispiece of “Wordsworth’s Glen.” [See note below] A talk about the Quantock Hills area of southwest England, where Coleridge and Wordsworth wrote Lyrical Ballads, which Nichols writes about the landscape as well as some of the other "Quantock Poets," including Charles Lamb, Thomas Lovell Beddoes and Charles Lloyd. Gift inscription on FFEP “with the writer’s compliments” to Welsh mathematician, photographer, and painter Rev. Calvert R. Jones, [1804-1877]. We bel...
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A True Report Of Certain Wonderful Overflowings Of Water In Somerset, Norfolk & Other Parts Of England. AD 1607.

By: Baker, Ernest E (Ed).

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Weston-Super-Mare: Gazette Office: 1884

Seller ID: k190316b

Condition: Fair

1st thus; edition limited to 200 Copies. 41[1] pp, occasional illustrations.. Red boards with black lettering and rulings. Reprint of a rare 1607 tract regarding the great floods in Somersetshire and five other counties in England that year. Includes facsimiles of the original woodcuts. Fair: extremities rubbed, spine chipped; hinge partially cracked; corners bumped. End papers browned. Glued onto inside rear board are ‘extracts from press notices’. Text block is clean, tight and free of foxing, browning; no marks or tears.
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Sunday in London (Illustrated by George Cruikshank)

By: George Cruikshank

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London: Effingham Wilson: 1833

Seller ID: k190218h

Condition: Fair

Full title: Sunday in London, Illustrated in Fourteen Cuts, by George Cruikshank, a Few Words by a Friend of His; with a Copy of Sir Andrew Agnew's Bill. With frontispiece, engraved title, nine full-page woodcuts and three vignettes. 1st ed., 12mo, full polished tan calf, gilt rules and lettering, t.e.g. [iv] 105 pp. [24 publisher’s catalog] A satire on the English Sabbatarians and their leader Sir Andrew Agnew. Condition: Fair. The interior clean and bright overall with few pages darkened or spotted; one page of the catalog with a small closed tear. The major defect is the back board is d...
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A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE WARS IN SCOTLAND; Under the conduct of the Illustrious JAMES Marquis of MONTROSE…etc.

By: George Wishart / James Graham

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, n.p.: 1720

Seller ID: k200614c

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Full title: Under the conduct of the Illustrious JAMES Marquis of MONTROSE, in two parts. The first describing the wars in the years 1644, 45, 46. The 2nd part containing an account of Montrose's Negotiations abroad and the state of affairs in Scotland from the year 1647, to the year 1650 inclusive. The 2d part being never before published, is now done into English from the Latin of the right Reverend father in God, Doctor George Wishart, Bishop of Edinburgh, With an appendix containing 1st a Description of Montrose's pompous Funerals in the year 1661. 2dly, A character of King Charles the 1st...
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Back-Trailers from the Middle Border [Association copy with signature of Rudyard Kipling]

By: Hamlin Garland

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Macmillan, New York: 1928

Seller ID: k190126c

CONDITION: Good. Covers: front hinge cracked, light surface wear, a little more so at top of spine. Newspaper review affixed to back free end paper has browned and left image transfer on facing page. Signed by Garland on front pastedown; two photographs of Garland and company on the half-title, along with a guest pass to the Regent’s Park Zoological Gardens signed by Rudyard Kipling who, as a member, gave Garland admittance. Another photo of Garland on the verso and a fourth affixed to a blank page facing page 205. Unknown whether the extra items were added by Garland or another.
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Departmental Ditties, Barrack Room Ballads, and other Verses

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $250.00

Publisher: NY, U.S. Book Company: 1890

Seller ID: c17092203

Condition: Very Good

12mo, Maroon cloth, beveled edges, gilt titles and top. Scarce first state with 'Lovell' on the backstrip and the copyright notice on verso of title page. Later issues generally have the backstrip blank; some have Lovell Coryell. Some have Lovell Coryell on the title page and some have no date on verso. This is the first American edition of the Ditties and first edition altogether of seventeen Barrack Room Ballads, including such famous poems as Gunga Din, Fuzzy Wuzzy, and Mandalay. Very good; minor edge and corner wear; a few small blemishes on front cover appear to be pencil erasure; light...
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Irish Guards in the Great War / Edited and Compiled from their Diaries and Papers, Vols 1 & 2 [1st UK]

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $385.00

Publisher: London, MacMillan & Co: 1923

Seller ID: 17092204

Condition: Fine

Irish Guards in the Great War / Edited and Compiled from their Diaries and Papers, Vols 1 & 2 London: MacMillan & Co, 1923. 8vo, red cloth with gilt titles and regimental badge in gold on upper covers, t.e.g. 1st UK ed. The War service of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards from 1914 to 1918. Meticulously researched from primary sources, Kipling undertook this regimental history following the death in action of his son John at the Battle of Loos. 9 maps. Fine, as-new copies in the scarce d/w with light wear at edges; no tears. Original purchase receipts from 1930 laid in. [Livingston 482]
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Irish Guards in the Great War / Edited and Compiled from their Diaries and Papers, Vols 1 & 2 [1st US]

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $200.00

Publisher: NY, Doubleday, Page & Co: 1923

Seller ID: 17092205

Condition: Fine

8vo, black cloth, t.e.g., gilt emblem on front, paper labels. First American edition.The War service of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards from 1914 to 1918. Meticulously researched from primary sources, Kipling undertook this regimental history following the death in action of his son John at the Battle of Loos. A classic work. 9 maps. Fine, as-new copies; vol. 1 in nicked d/w; d/w lacking on Vol 2. [Livingston 483, Richards A341]
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Dipsy Chanty, The and Other Selected Poems

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $125.00

Publisher: NY/East Aurora, The Roycroft Shop: 1899

Seller ID: 17092207

12mo, handmade paper, gray-green limp suede covers with gilt titles, red satin paste-downs and tie. #557/950 copies, signed by Elbert Hubbard. Fine; backstrip lightly faded and light fade line across top of upper cover. [Livingston suppl. p. 137]
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The North Countrie Garland

By: Maidment, James

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Privately Printed: 1824

Seller ID: k200801g

Binding: Original marbled boards

Condition: Fair

1st edition. Privately Printed, Edinburgh, 1824. One of only thirty copies. 16mo. [2] [iv] 57pp. Original marbled boards, ¼ leather spine. Contains the words for 16 folk Songs and Ballads of Scotland, much of it ribald. Includes Lord Thomas Stuart, Lord Salton and Auchanachie, Bonny John Seton, The Burning of Frendraught, and others. Woodcut illustration on title page. “The ballads collected in this present little Volume, have, with one solitary exception been for the first time printed.” … “Thirty copies printed for the gratification of a few of the Editor’s Friends -- a circumstan...
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Image for Three Famous English Romances: The Gallant Atchievements Of Robin Hood; The Famous History Of Fryer Bacon: The Romance Of Robert The Devil

Three Famous English Romances: The Gallant Atchievements Of Robin Hood; The Famous History Of Fryer Bacon: The Romance Of Robert The Devil

By: Nelson, Harold

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Otto Schulze and Co: 1913

Seller ID: k190126h

Condition: Good

1st ed. 4to, red cloth with gilt decorations and titles, 156 pp. Illustrated with wood enravings and ornamentation. 3 volumes in one. Original publisher’s catalog entry clipped and pasted to front flyleaf. CONDITION: Good; rubbed at corners and spine ends, front hinge lightly cracked. Light foxing to bottom of first several pages and occasional page edges; otherwise a clean copy with very good-near fine appearance internally.
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Image for The Alphabet Annotated, and Hints Upon Slip-Slop by an Old Etonian ; For Youth and Adults in Doggerel Verse. Illustrated and etched by George W. Terry.

The Alphabet Annotated, and Hints Upon Slip-Slop by an Old Etonian ; For Youth and Adults in Doggerel Verse. Illustrated and etched by George W. Terry.

By: TERRY, George W.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London: Ackermann & Co: 1853

Seller ID: k200120l

Condition: Poor

London: Ackermann & Co, , (1853). 1st ed., 4to approx.. 12-3/4” x 9-3/4”. Green cloth with large pictorial paper paste-on. 64 pages. Each page illustrated with elaborate b/w etchings An alphabet book, including the proper phonetics for the English language. Poor; internally sound but substantially shaken; occasional light foxing. Binding split with spine lacking, corners rubbed and bumped.
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A SEASON AT HARWICH with Excursions By Land and Water to Which is Added Research Historical, Natural, and Miscellaneous

By: W.H. LINDSEY

Price: $145.00

Publisher: J.Smith, Harwich and Simpkin, Marshall & Co, London: 1851

Seller ID: cr191118f

Condition: Good

1st ed., 8vo, violet embossed cloth. , 2 volumes in one, 208, 168 pp. Alternate title: “A Season at Harwich and A Visit to The River Stour / The River Orwell / Illustrated by the Author.” 16 plates, including illustrated title page, several folding maps. Numerous b/w illustrations within the text. The first part entitled “A Season at Harwich”; the second “Researches in the Library of Doctor Bremmer Containing Additions Historical Natural and Miscellaneous.” Condition: Good; text block is reasonably tight and bright with no foxing, but cracked at center with the plate opposite p...
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Autographs -- 292 of Britain’s House of Lords circa 1827-1839.

By: [Autographs] House of Lords

Price: $850.00

Publisher: 1827

Seller ID: k210111a

Condition: Good

Large contemporary scrapbook containing 292 autographs of members of Britain's House of Lords; clipped from franked envelopes and correspondence. 14”x17” leather covers with embossed onset label, a.e.g. Approximately 80 leaves, each with one to six clipped signatures. Penciled headings indicate Dukes, Earls, Viscounts, Barons, Marquesas’ galore. Note: Given the format and vintage, we presume all signatures are genuine. About 30 clipped signatures were removed before we obtained this; we do not know when this happened or who was removed -- it is being sold as is, as we obtained it...
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[Autographs] Lawrence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, etc..

By: [Autographs] Lawrence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, etc..

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London, King George’s Pension Fund for Actors and Actresses: 1948

Seller ID: k210111c

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very good

1948 Souvenir Theater Program for a charity production of “Oedipus” and “The Critic” signed by Lawrence Olivier and eight other members of the cast. 8.5x11”, stitched wrappers. 16 pp. A special production in aid of King George’s Pension Fund for Actors and Actresses, Theatre Festival Week, April 10, 1948, with H.R.H. The Princess Elizabeth in attendance. Signed inside the front cover by Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, Ralph Richardson, George Relph, Miles Malleson, Nicholas Hannen, Margaret Leighton, and one unidentified. Gorgeous cover by portrait artist and illustrator Anna Zinke...
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SKETCHES BY BOZ Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

By: [Dickens, Charles] Boz

Price: $650.00

Publisher: London Chapman and Hall : 1839

Seller ID: k200420

Condition: Fair

First edition in book form. 1st state. 8vo, three-quarter crushed black morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine with raised bands. viii, 526 pp. t.e.g. ##### First Issue, with engraved half-title/frontispiece which is often missing. Other points: p.526 l.18 having the words 'reeledbefore' run together and all plates following p.120 with publisher's imprint at bottom. Publisher’s address reading '186, Strand'. A fresh, tight, textually clean copy. Cohn, 234; Eckel 15-22; Gimbel A7; Hatton & Cleaver, p.103; Jerrold, p.364. ##### Condition: Good. Condition: Covers Fair/Text Block Good. C...
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Category: Great Britain/England