Royal St. James's: Being a Story of Kings, Clubmen, and Courtesans
London: Robert Hale, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1988. Hardcover, in a dust jacket, 257 pp. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
British History & England
The Rise of Great Families, Other Essays, and Stories
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873. Second edition. Hardcover. Rebound in red buckram, octavo, 370pp., not illustrated. Book handsome, binding tight, new endpapers show binder's stamp, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
A Royal Duchy: A Portrait of the Duchy of Cornwall
Dorset: The Dovecote Press, 1996. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1996. Oblong quarto, cloth hardcover in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, 160 pp., illustrated (much in color), Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, light edgewear to the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector...
The Language of Chaucer (The Language of Literature)
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1989. Reprint. Paperback. "This is the first issue (1983) of this title as ""The Language of Chaucer"", but other than the title this is identical in content to Burnley's 1983 ""A Guide to Chaucer's Language"". Softcover, in Near Fine condition, with light shelf wear, and with a......
Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
London: Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1977. Reprint. Paperback. 1977, this is the first paper back edition of the 1965 first edition. Softcover, in Near Fine condition, with light shelf wear, and faint sunning to the spine.
Josiah Wedgwood
New York: Stein & Day Pub, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 1976 Hardcover in Fine condition. The dust jacket is in Very Good+ condition, with very light shelf wear. Pages: 239.
Remains of a Revolution
London: Deutsch, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1975, hardcover with paper boards in dust jacket, quarto, 255pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book VG+ with mild bump to bottom of spine, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked with pencil ghost to rear flyleaf. DJ near fine with mild.....
John Connolly, A Tory of the Revolution. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for October, 1909.
Worcester, Mass. Davis Press, 1909. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1909. Softcover large 8vo, 38pp. An about near fine copy with minimal shelfwear and light wear to the spine. Scarce original printing with clean, unmarked contents.
Bushell on the Rampage: The Autobiography of Gary Bushell (SIGNED)
Essex: Apex Publishing Ltd, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED BY GARRY BUSHELL. First Edition. c.2010. Hardcover. 8vo. 257pp. Fine in Fine dustjacket.
Clifton Hill House: The First Phase 1909-1959
Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd., no date (ca. 1960). Paperback. Printed paper wrap with stapled binding, octavo, 18pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has mild sun to spine, hint of crease to top front corner, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Letter on the Slave Trade, to the Lord Viscount Melbourne, and the other Members of Her Majesty's Cabinet Council
London: John W. Parker, 1838. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, original green cloth, recased with recent endpapers, cloth spine on which much of the original spine has been laid down, very good, light wear to corners, minor age toning and mildest foxing. xv, 215 pp. Buxton was an ardent abolitionist in.....
English Feminism, 1780-1980
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. First edition. Paperback. 1997. First edition. Paperback, 8vo. 336pp. Very good. Light penciling to a couple pages, else internally unmarked.
Old London Taverns: Historical, Descriptive And Reminiscent, With Some Account Of The Coffee Houses, Clubs, Etc.
New York: Brentano's, 1901. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo, bound by Blackwell in half dark green morocco, marbled boards, raised bands, gilt titled on spine with little gilt floral spine decorations. Very good, minor wear. 354 pp, illustrated.
Robert Grosseteste, Scholar and Bishop, Essays in Commemoration of the Seventh Centenary of his Death
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. 1969. Reprint. Hardcover, 8vo. in dust jacket. 263pp. frontis. Very good in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket extremities and spine toned, price sticker. Edges foxed, ownership signature on flyleaf. Contents unmarked.
Naval History of Great Britain, Including the History and Lives of the British Admirals: Vol. VI (This volume only)
London: John Stockdale, 1813. Hardcover. Volume six only! Hardcover with quarter leather boards, 1813, octavo, 490pp., illustrated with folding map of the West Indies. Book VG with rubbing and soil to boards and spine, spine leather dried and cracking, hinges worn through, front board cracking at bottom corner, binding tight.....
The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till the Death of Lord Tenterden; 3 vols.--Volume I, Volume II, & Volume III
Northport: Edward Thompson Co., 1894. Hardcover. "New and Revised edition", 1894. Three volumes (Volume I, Volume II, & Volume III), incomplete. Cloth hardcovers in original cloth dust jackets, gilt top edges, 440 + 403 + 433 pp., illustrated, Good ex-library copies with typical treatments (pockets, stamps, bar-code stickers & labels.....
The Unusual in London and Vicinity: Being a Revel Among the Old and Rare Haunts of London, Especially Those Places from Which Our American Institutions, Customs, and Sayings, Originated; Interspersed Frequently with Interesting and Rare Music and Art Lore
Washington DC: The Daylion Company, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Warmly inscribed by Campbell! First edition, 1935, hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 222pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked with mild toning throughout. DJ.....
The Lives of the Chief Justices of England (Seven volume set)
New York: George W. Smith & Company/James Cockcroft, 1875, 1873, 1874, 1876. Revised edition. Hardcover. Seven volume set (vols. 1-6 + index), 1875 (vols. 1-3 and 6), 1873 (vol. 4), and 1874 (vol. 5), 1876 (index), revised edition (as noted on spine feet in gilt), hardcovers with gilt stamped maroon.....
Ornamentalism How the British Saw Their Empire
New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2002. Second edition. Paperback. 2002 Softcover, in Fine condition, showing lightest shelf wear. Pages: 264.
Corrected report of the speech of the right Honorable George Canning in the House of Commons, 25th April, 1822, on Lord John Russell's motion for a reform of Parliament
London: A. J. Valpy, 1822. Wraps. Disbound pamphlet from "The Pamphleteer," a compilation of various pamphlets, speeches, articles and letters published quarterly and with uncirculated stock bound up at the end of each year and issued as an annual volume. Very good, two staples along left edge. 28 pp.
A letter to the Right Hon. George Canning, in answer to certain passages of "A speech delivered by him at the dinner given in celebration of his re-election for Liverpool, March 18th, 1820"
London: A. J. Valpy, 1820. Fourth Edition. Wraps. Revised and Corrected. Disbound pamphlet from "The Pamphleteer," a compilation of various pamphlets, speeches, articles and letters published quarterly and with uncirculated stock bound up at the end of each year and issued as an annual volume. Very good, two staples along.....
Aristocratic Century: The Peerage of Eighteenth-Century England
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1984. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, 193 pp., Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, light age-toning and creasing to the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
The Capel Letters: Being the Correspondence of Lady Caroline Capel and her Daughters with the Dowager Countess of Uxbridge from Brussels and Switzerland (1814-1817)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. Second printing. Hardcover. 1955 Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. In Very Good condition, with light edge wear. The Very Good Dust Jacket has been price clipped, and shows light shelf wear.
Select Works of the British Poets, with Biographical and Critical Prefaces - Carl Emich, 3rd Prince of Leiningen's copy, 1820
London: Longman, Hurst, et al. 1820. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 1820. With the signature of 'Charles, P. of Leiningen' on the first blank. Tall 8vo, early or original full reddish calf, raised bands, diced blind pattern on spine, maroon gilt spine label, 807 pp. VG tight copy with some.....
Jocelin of Brakelond, from Past and Present
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1923. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1923. Limited edition number 411 of 510. Hardcover, 8vo. in slip case. 157pp. Near fine, with shelf wear and rubbing to slipcase. Volume itself in fine condition.