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LONDON TO LADYSMITH (VIA PRETORIA)
-First English Edition-
This is a very good copy of the First English edition. The cloth has darkened significantly, particularly along the spine, but the spine type remains bright and unfaded. The binding…
LONDON TO LADYSMITH (VIA PRETORIA)
-First English Edition-
This is a very good copy of the First English edition. The cloth is exceptionally well-preserved, the gilt lettering and stamped imagery still vivid, both on the cover and on…
LONDON TO LADYSMITH (VIA PRETORIA)
-First English Edition-
This is a very good copy of the First English edition, with cloth that has darkened far less than is common for this book. The spine is just a touch…
TOWARDS PRETORIA
A Record of the War between Briton and Boer to the Relief of Kimberley
This is a very good copy of the First American edition without dust jacket. The boards are worn at the corners; the front hinge is a tad loose; and the…
THE LONDON BOOKSHOP and THE LONDON BOOKSHOP (Part Two)
Being A Pictorial Record of the Antiquarian Book Trade: Portraits & Premises
…including the individual leather frontis spine labels. A superb and deeply nostalgic two-volume memory book of London’s legendary antiquarian bookstores, circa 1971. Most are now gone. Churchill knew them well….
JACK LONDON: NOVELS AND SOCIAL WRITINGS
[The People of the Abyss; The Road; The Iron Heel; Martin Eden; John Barleycorn]
As-new, in an unclipped, lightly shelfworn dust jacket. The definitive American literary series encompassing all periods and genres of American writing, published in exceedingly handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings…
THE LONDON JOURNAL OF RAYMOND E. LEE 1940-1941
…to the American Embassy in London during 1940-41, Lee’s Journals provide the “unique perspective of [a] fascinating and unusual man,” whose professional and personal contacts furnished him with a wealth…
LONDON
-Signed First American Edition-
…fellow Anglophile, as sworn by your daughter Lynne, from John Russell. Happy Christmas 1944!” One of the handsomest books ever produced about London as depicted in art over the centuries,…
JACK LONDON: NOVELS AND STORIES
[Call of the Wild; White Fang; The Sea-Wolf; Klondike and Other Stories]
As-new, in publisher’s shrink wrap. The definitive American literary series encompassing all periods and genres of American writing, published in exceedingly handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers,…
FIVE DAYS IN LONDON, May 1940
Brilliant hour-by-hour dissection of Churchill’s first weeks as Prime Minister, including the climactic five-day debate with his War Cabinet whether or not to negotiate with Hitler. The film “Darkest Hour”…
DICKENS’ LONDON
Essays
A Folio Society compendium, first issued in 1966, this handsome recent reprint is in virtually mint condition, as issued, slipcased, without a dust jacket.