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CIPRIANI Gianni direttore.
Intelligence. quadrimestrale per le strategie per la sicurezza. n° 2 dic. 2008. Jihadismo indiano.
In-8° pp. 161, bross. edit. ill. Ottimo stato.
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CIPRIANI Gianni direttore.
Intelligence. quadrimestrale per le strategie per la sicurezza n° 4 dic. 2006. Mosaico libanese.
In-8° pp. 161, bross. edit. ill. Ottimo stato.
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CIPRIANI Gianni direttore.
Intelligence. quadrimestrale per le strategie per la sicurezza n° e sett. 2006. Enigma iraniano.
In-8° pp. 163, bross. edit. ill. Ottimo stato.
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AA. VV.
Segni d'infanzia. Crescere come re nel Seicento. Dari compilato dalla nascita dal protomedico del re Jean Heoard.
In-8° pp. 460 con 52 ill. su tav. n.t. Bross. edit. ill.
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BARBIER J. - B.
Un frac de nessus. Hommes politiques et diplomates au decpage.
In-8° pp. 1400, bross. edit. con sovrac. ill.
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SCOTTI Paolo (gerente responsabile)
La settimana. Giornale illustrato di romanzi e varietà
Annata 1868 (anno III) della parte di Attualità e varietà, mancante di 3 numeri (n. 10, 11 e 12) su 57 complessivi (4 numeri dell'anno II e 53 dell'anno III). Come da 'Avvertenza', ogni numero della rivista constava di 4 parti, ognuna di 4 pagine, con propria numerazione progressiva: una parte di attualità e varietà e le altre tre contenenti ciascuna la puntata di un diverso romanzo; le 4 parti dovevano essere rilegate separatamente al fine di ottenere tre romanzi in libro e, alla fine dell'anno, l'annata della parte di attualità e varietà. Nella nota relativamente all'abbonamento per il 1868, è precisato che agli abbonati sarebbero stati offerti in omaggio i numeri del dicembre 1867: questi, numerati da 1 a 4 (Anno II), formano una sequenza unica di 57 numeri con quelli del 1868, numerati da 5 a 57 (Anno III). 4to (cm 28,5 x 19,5); mezza pelle muta coeva; p. 224, con numerossime illustrazioni xilografiche in bianco e nero; mancanza delle pagine da 37 a 49 comprese (12 pagine in tutto, relative ai numeri mancanti da 10 a 12) e ripetizione della numerazione da 133 a 136 (i numeri 34 e 35, per errore, portano la stessa numerazione delle pagine); a p. 115 uno strappetto con un piccolo foro sul testo (senza perdite), a pagina 151 una mancanza del margine bianco esterno; una lieve abrasione sul margine bianco inferiore di alcune pagine (per rimozione di francobolli). Accenno di brunitura uniforme della carta. Spelature ed abrasioni alla pelle del dorso; mancanze di carta sugli spigoli e alle punte (tendenza ad aprirsi) dei piatti; tuttavia, solida legatura. Mancanza delle sguardie libere (asportate), ingiallimenti ai risguardi. Occasionali sgualciture alle punte delle pagine e timbri postali coevi sul margine inferiore; altrimenti solo rare e trascurabili tracce d'uso, in copia sostanzialmente pulita e in ordine. In ogni numero: la quarta pagina è generalmente occupata dalla pubblicità editoriale; vi è sempre un problema scacchistico di Francesco Discart di Modena ed uno o due giochi (prevalentemente un rebus e/o una sciarada; non è data la soluzione degli ultimi 13 problemi scacchistici, su 54, e dell'ultimo rebus e sciarada). Nel complesso, buona copia.
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CODIGNOLA Arturo, FORMENTINI Ubaldo (diretto da)
Giornale storico e letterario della Liguria. Pubblicazione trimestrale : Nuova Serie, Anno IX - 1933
Annata 1933 completa, in tre Fascicoli (Fascicolo I. Gennaio-Marzo, p. 72; Fascicolo II. Aprile-Giugno, p. 73-160; Fascicolo III e IV. Luglio-Dicembre, p. 161-300 + due carte non numerate di Indice dell'annata, 1 tavola fuori testo in b/n); in 8vo (cm 25,5 x 18 ca); brossura, p. 300 (4) complessive. Leggere usure all'orlo delle brossure. Fascicoli II e III-IV parzialmente a fogli chiusi. Fascicolo III-IV sgualcito all'angolo interno inferiore, usure all'orlo sporgente di poche pagine. Nel complesso, buone copie.
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MATHIAS Pierre.
Liberté des Nuages. Poèmes.
"Journal des Poètes" Collection des Iles de Lérins, 1947. Petite plaquette in-12, brochée. Édition originale. Tirage à 200 exemplaires numérotés. Un des 170 sur Satiné. Enrichi d'un envoi autographe du poète. Joint une plaquette "Feu de Joie", La Tour du Feu, avec égalemment un envoi autographe.
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VALLES (Jules).
Les Enfants du Peuple précédés de trois lettres autographes de l'auteur. Histoire de ce livre et préface par Julien Lemer.
Paris, administration du journal La Lanterne, (Impr. Collombon et Brulé), 1879. In-18, demi-percaline, couvertures conservées, XXXIX pp. (faux-titre, titre, autographes et préface) ; 246 pp et 1 f. blanc. (bon ex mais marges brunies). Edition originale rare. L'ouvrage est précédé de la reproduction en fac-similé de trois lettres autographes de l'auteur à Lucien Lemer. L'ensemble apporte une contribution importante à l'histoire des luttes politiques, religieuses et intellectuelles de la fin du Second Empire. UN CHAPITRE CONCERNE CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, écrit le 7 septembre 1867 ; Vallés évoque sa rencontre avec l'auteur des Fleurs du Mal, commente son personnage et retrace ses derniers moments.
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MORIN (Edgard).
Journal de Californie.
Paris, Seuil 1970. In-8, broché 267 pp.
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FORAIN & CARAN D'ACHE.
Psst...! IMAGES PAR FORAIN & CARAN D'ACHE.1898-1899. A LA SUITE : LE FIFRE. Journal hebdomadaire illustré Par J. - L. FORAIN.
Paris, Librairie Plon, 1898-1899. 85 fascicules +15. In folio, 4 pages par n°. Couvertures illustrée. Reliure vélin ivoire, plats dominotés, dos lisse, pièce de titre chagrin rouge. PSST...! COLLECTION COMPLETE DU N° 1 (5 FEVRIER 1898) N° AU N° 85 (16 SEPTEMBRE 1899). LE FIFRE du N° 1 première année 23 février 1889 au N° 15 1er juin 1889. COLLECTION COMPLETE. Caran d'Ache et Forain collaboraient depuis plusieurs années au Figaro, journal longtemps ouvert aux articles de Zola en faveur de Dreyfus avant de devoir reculer face au mécontentement de son lectorat. Malgré ce revirement, la ligne éditoriale du journal reste modérée, ne permettant pas à ses dessinateurs de violentes charges anti -dreyfusardes et antisémites. Psst...! est un journal hebdomadaire satirique français. Paru en 1898-1899, il contient des caricatures et dessins antidreyfusards et antisémites de Caran d'Ache et de Forain. Le titre évoque un sifflement discret destiné à attirer l'attention. Sa ponctuation est une référence évidente au J'accuse…! de Zola publié dans l’Aurore du 13 janvier 1898. En réponse au manifeste dreyfusard du célèbre écrivain, les deux dessinateurs de Psst...! accablent les défenseurs de Dreyfus et représentent ceux-ci comme les instruments d'un complot ourdi contre la France et son armée par les juifs et les puissances étrangères. Le lancement de l'hebdomadaire est notamment salué par Édouard Drumont dans la Libre Parole du 7 février. Dans le numéro de la veille, Forain était interviewé par Gaston Méry au sujet de la fondation de Psst...! : « [Caran d'Ache et moi avons obéi] au sentiment de dégoût et d'indignation que nous inspirent les odieuses manœuvres du Syndicat. Je ne suis pas un Antisémite, dans le sens strict du mot; mais, il n'y a pas à dire le contraire, ce sont les Juifs qui font toute cette sale besogne. [...] Un soir, nous causions de cela, Caran d'Ache et moi. "Il faut faire quelque chose, lui dis-je ; ils nous embêtent à la fin. C'est devenu un devoir pour chacun de combattre tous ces cosmopolites avec les moyens dont il dispose." Et, tout de suite, Caran d'Ache a pensé comme moi. Le lendemain, nous étions chez l'éditeur. Et voilà ! ». Les dreyfusards répliquent peu de temps après : dès le 17 février, Stock commence la publication du Sifflet sous la direction d'Achille Steens. De format similaire à celui de Psst...!, le Sifflet contient des dessins d'Édouard Couturier, de Félix Vallotton, d'Hermann-Paul, de Louis Chevalier et d'Henri-Gabriel Ibels. LE FIFRE : Collection complète de ce journal satirique créé et illustré par le peintre et illustrateur de presse Jean-Louis FORAIN -1852-1931), comprenant 15 numéros publiés entre le 23 février et le 1er juin 1889. L'artiste présentait ainsi son numéro en page 2 du premier numéro : " Conter la vie de tous les jours, montrer les ridicules de certaines douleurs, la tristesse de bien des joies, et constater rudement quelquefois par quelle hypocrite façon le Vice tend à se manifester en nous..." Ont collaboré à ce journal, en dehors de Jean-Louis Forain, Armand Silvestre, Emile André, Jean Richepin, Paul Messon, Paul Hervieu, Jacques Le Lorrain, etc.
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FOREST, EVA
DIARIO E LETTERE DAL CARCERE (TIT. ORIG.: DIARIO Y CARTAS DESDE LA CARCEL). TRAD. DI GABRIELLA LAPASINI. PRIMA EDIZIONE ITALIANA.
IN-16°, PP. 202 (6), BROSS. EDIT., COP. (LIEVI TRACCE D'USO E DI POLVERE, MARGG. E DORSO LEGG. BRUNITI), LEGGERE BRUNITURE AI MARGINI DELLE CARTE, OTTIMO STATO (F), (LA QUESTIONE FEMMINILE; 1).<BR><BR>SOGGETTI: FOREST, DIARIO, LETTERE, PRIME EDIZIONI M 154
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COCCIOLI (Carlo)
Journal mexicain.
In-8, 253p. Edition originale ordinaire (pas de grand papier annoncé). Exemplaire du SP. Traduction de L. Bonalumi. Avec quelques dessins in-texte. Enrichi d'un envoi aautographe signé de l'auteur à Ch. Exbrayat.
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RAMUZ (C.-F.)
Journal 1896-1942.
In-8, 466p. Edition partiellement originale [Bringolf 57f]. Dos piqué.
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DELACROIX (Eugène)
Journal. 1822-1863.
3 volumes gr. In-8, 503-483-536p. Edition revue et augmentée. Publiée d'après le manuscrit original. Avec une introduction et des notes par André Joubin. Orné de 6 illustrations hors texte. Index des noms cités à la fin du dernier volume.
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RAMUZ (C.-F.)
Journal 1896-1942.
In-8, 466p. Edition partiellement originale [Bringolf 57f]. Tès bel exemplaire.
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GUYOT (Laure)
Temps de guerre (1939-1942). Une Neuchateloise dans la tourmente.
In-8, 262p. Transcription et commentaires par Maurice Evard. Avec quelques illustrations en noir et en couleurs. Bel exemplaire.
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M†LLER (Grégoire)
Insoumis. Cent jours d'une vie de peintre. Journal.
In-8, 201p. Exemplaire à l'état de neuf.
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THE SUN NEWSPAPER
'THE SUN' Newspaper [London]. Number 4707. Friday October 16, 1807. Price Sixpence. A RARE SURVIVAL WITH TAX STAMP
Broadsheet, 4pp, with fine 'Threepence Halfpenny' newspaper tax stamp in red on front page corner; a little dusty and age-faded else a remarkably well-preserved copy. Contains details of forthcoming production at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, the Lottery winners, numerous legal judgements, trade advertisements, naval news, editorial, 'dreadful accident', sporting intelligence, stock prices, police news, births, marriages and deaths, etc. Ideal for framing either as a single leaf or a double-page spread.
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COLLYER David G.
Battle of Britain Diary . [An Account of the Events in East Kent]. July-September 1940]. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece map, and numerous photographs and maps (a number full-page) in the text, small personal book-label on front inside wrapper; original pictorial wrappers, covers very lightly creased else a very good, clean copy.
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D'ARBLAY Madame
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay . Edited by her Niece Charlotte Barrett. [Complete set]. BRIGHT, FIRM SET
4 vols., 8vo., preliminaries lightly spotted; original cloth, gilt backs, covers a little age-marked else a very good, firm, clean set. With bookplates on front paste-downs.
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EVELYN John
Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, to which is subjoined the Private Correspondence between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas and between Sir Edward Hyde and Sir Richard Browne. Edited, from the Original MSS at Wotton.
8vo., First Edition, endpapers lightly spotted; original olive buckram, back gilt with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, brown top, black endpapers, uncut, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean, firm copy. With the early twentieth century armorial bookplate of William Bradbrooke, and trade ticket of Blackwell's of Oxford, on front paste-down. The best single-volume collection, predating de Beer's definitive six-volume edition of 1955. Very scarce.
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INMAN A.C.
The Inman Diary. A Public and Private Confession. Edited by Daniel Aaron. NEAR FINE SET IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set housed in publisher's board slip-case.
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JEROME Jerome K.
Diary of a Pilgrimage (and Six Essays). With upwards of one Hundred and twenty Illustrations by G.G. Fraser.
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous illustrations in the text, contemporary inscription on half-title; decorative cloth, gilt back, covers somewhat age-marked (mainly light cockling), backstrip lightly faded and frayed at head and tail, two short splits in lower joint else a sound, clean copy. Published in Arrowsmith's notable Three-and-Sixpenny Series.
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CLERY M.
A Journal of Occurrences at the Temple during the Confinement of Louis XVI, King of France. By M. Clery, the King's Valet-de-Chambre. Translated from the original Manuscript by R.C. Dallas. ['The Journal of the Terror']. ATTRACTIVE COPY
8vo., First English Edition, with an engraved plate (moderately spotted), 2 engraved plans on one plate, and two engraved facsimiles on one plate, rear free endpaper and one rear blank preliminary lightly spotted; attractively bound in nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards, back gilt extra with five raised bands, second compartment with red leather label lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled and elaborately tooled in gilt to a floral design, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, corners lightly bruised else a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy in elegant binding. With the 16pp list of subscribers, which includes virtually every member of the Royal family extended to Prince William of Gloucester. This is the early issue with 'Bookselllers' in the publisher's imprint (see ESTCT110766). The plates depict the Temple tower, plans of the second and third floors and two facsimiles of Marie Antoinette's handwriting. Clery's family had been in the service of the French Royal Family since the time of Louis XIV. Together with his brother, he began his career with the Princesse de Guenenee, governess to the royal children, and became valet-de-chambre to the Duke of Normandy (later the Dauphin) in 1785. From 1789, he acted as valet to King Louis XVI and was permitted by Petion to continue to wait on the Royal Family during their imprisonment in the Temple. After the King's execution, Clery accompanied the Madame Royale (Marie-Therese de Bourbon) on her exile to Vienna where he continued to serve until his death. LOVELY COPY OF A KEY DOCUMENTARY RECORD IN THE HISTORY OF FRANCE, THE REVOLUTION AND THE TERROR, AND THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE IMPRISONMENT OF LOUIS XVI.
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GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON
The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. Vols. 40, 41, 42, 43, 47, 53, 58, 59. [A small run of 8 volumes].
8 vols., 8vo., First Edition with numerous illustrations, diagrams and maps throughout; strongly and uniformly bound in blue cloth, gilt backs, all in very good, bright, state.
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GALTIER-BOISSIERE J.
Mon Journal pendant L'Occupation.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus [Original Edition on Ordinary Paper], text in French, paper yellowing, edges dusty; original wrappers printed in red and black, uncut, a very good, clean copy. Increasingly elusive in this condition
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FISHER (ed.)] [James
The New Naturalist: A Journal of British Natural History. A Journal of British Natural History. Woodlands. The Western Isles of Scotland. Migration. The Local Naturalist.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs (many full-page) and maps in the text; original beige cloth, backstrip lettered in green, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter a little rubbed at extremities, and lightly browned at backstrip and on (predominantly white) rear panel. This bound volume contains the first four of the only six numbers of the Journal. 'So the New Naturalist Journal became another of the might-have-beens of the series. There would be nothing to compare with it for many years to come, not at any rate until the appearance of 'Animals' magazine in the 1960s; and not until the launch of 'British Wildlife' in 1989 has any journal bridged the divide between scientist and field naturalist half so effectively' (Marren). See Marren pp.216-218.
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BOSWELL James
Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763. Now first published from the Original Manuscript. Prepared for the Press, with Introduction and Notes. [Fifth Impression].
8vo., Fifth Impression, with a portrait frontispiece, 3 full-page facsimiles and endpaper maps, small neat contemporary signature on title; cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. First volume of The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Brown 98 (recording the first edition).
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NEALE Kenneth
Victorian Horsham, The Diary of Henry Michell 1809-1874. Edited and Introduced by Kenneth Neale.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, neat inscription on front free endpaper, small red stamp on title; original brown cloth, gilt back, brown endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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STARK Freya
An Italian Diary. With a Foreword by Freya Stark.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, endpapers lightly spotted; patterned boards, cloth back, upper board lettered in gilt, a very good, clean copy. Dairy kept by Freya Stark's mother Flora in wartime Asolo, including her incarceration in one of Mussolini's prisons. No dustwrapper was issued with this work. Scarce.
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WILSON Edward Adrian
Diary of the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic Regions 1901-1904. Edited from the original MSS in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge by Ann Savours.
4to., First Edition, with a coloured portrait frontispiece, and very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations by the author; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean in the dustwrapper. First published in 1966. Very scarce, especially in this condition. Spence 1030
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TOMKINSON [W.]
The Diary of a Cavalry Officer in the Peninsular War and Waterloo Campaign 1809-1815. By Lieut. Col. Tomkinson. Edited by his Son James Tomkinson. Second Edition. SIR CHARLES OMAN'S COPY WITH HIS BOOKPLATE
8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure, 2 plates in photogravure and 5 folding maps, neat signature on front free endpaper verso, half-title, frontispiece and title mildly spotted ; original red cloth, upper board framed in blind enclosing regimental crest of 16th Light Dragoons in gilt, gilt back, black endpapers, upper hinge tender (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, bright, clean copy. SIR CHARLES OMAN'S COPY WITH HIS NINETEENTH CENTURY ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE MOUNTED ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Tomkinson's Diary was first published in 1894 (a number of Press reviews is given on half-title verso). Widely regarded as a classic personal account of the campaign, it has been several times reissued but usually without the plates. This second edition contains the editor's final amendments, including the correction to the part played by Vivian's brigade at Waterloo. A RARE, POSSIBLY UNIQUE, ASSOCIATION COPY. Sandler 3277.
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BOYD A.W.
The Country Diary of a Cheshire Man.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 20 plates on 14, neat inscription on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper.
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ARBUTHNOT Mrs. [H.]
The Journal of Mrs Arbuthnot 1820-1832. Edited by Francis Bamford and the Duke of Wellington.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispieces and 16 plates on 14, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, small neat contemporary inscription on front free endpapers; original green buckram, gilt backs, a very good, clean set. The set comprises: Vol. I: February 1820 - December 1825; Vol. II: January 1826 - January 1832. Harriet Arbuthnot's celebrated journal throws detailed light on George IV and his brothers as well as her close friend Wellington in the post-Napoleonic period. See Brown & Christie 203.
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ROBINSON Henry Crabb
Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson. Selected and edited by Thomas Sadler. BRIGHT, FIRM SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with an engraved portrait frontispiece, titles very lightly foxed; original green cloth, upper boards framed in blind, gilt backs, uncut, very neatly recased, a bright, firm set. With publisher's advertisements at end of each volume. Sold from an institution with its small blind stamp on titles. Complete sets of the first edition are scarce in this condition.
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MARSHALL CAVENDISH
War Diary 1939-1945. [The Story of World War II in the words of those who lived through it]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations throughout; laminated pictorial boards, yellow endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Illustrated survey of the key land, sea and air battles told by participants.
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ANGLO-ZULU WAR HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The Journal of the Anglo Zulu War Historical Society. Eleventh Edition. June 2002.
Sm. folio, First Edition, with illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE
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GREAVES (ed.)] [A.
The Journal of the Anglo Zulu War Historical Society. Thirteenth Edition. June 2003.
Sm. folio, First Edition, with illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE
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ASTON MARTIN.
[Aston Martin]. The Journal. Volume One. No Hunting or Fishing. FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
4to., First Edition, with numerous fine coloured and monochrome photographs (the majority full-page) in the text; original pictorial boards, a fine copy. Fine copy of the first volume in the series. VERY SCARCE.
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GOLLIN Alfred M.
The Observer and J.L. Garvin 1908-1914. A Study in a Great Editorship.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured portrait frontispiece and 8 plates; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, markings on front free endpaper, and small blind stamp on title.
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BELL] [D.H.
A Soldier's Diary of the Great War. With an Introduction by Henry Williamson.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, some very light occasional spotting; original red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. A minor classic of WWI literature. 'The author of this diary [Captain D H Bell] was a serving territorial when war broke out and was in France with his Battalion by November. He got a commission in 1915, was twice wounded, transferred in 1916 to the Royal Flying Corps, 'crashed' in France and finished he service as a Flight Commander training observers at home. His diary is one of the most vivid that has appeared, and shows its writer to be a gallant and likeable character. Mr. Henry Williamson contributes an introduction, so different in spirit to the journal that an introduction from him seems hardly worth while from the anonymous author's point of view' (Falls). Williamson also prepared the text for publication dated 28 December 1929. Williamson's introduction was reprinted in 'Threnos for T E Lawrence', published by the HW Society in 1994. Falls, p.176; Matthews, B1929.
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ANGOULEME] [Duchess of (Marie Therese Charlotte de Bourbon)
Private Memoirs, which, with the Work of M. Hue, and the Journal of Clery, complete the History of the Captivity of the Royal Family of France in the Temple. Translated from the French, with Notes. [First English Edition.] RARE ACCOUNT OF THE 'TERROR' IN ENGLISH
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, small age-mark on half-title verso; contemporary half calf, marbled boards, back ruled in gilt, second compartment with red leather label lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with a floral motif, joints cracked (but hinges and binding entirely sound), a most attractive and remarkably crisp, clean copy. Complete with half-title, and 6pp publisher's catalogue (dated February 1817) bound in at end. RARE. We have seen this edition confused with a very similar but shorter (and apparently less elusive) version of Angouleme's memoirs published by Constable in Edinburgh later the same year. NICE COPY OF A KEY DOCUMENTARY RECORD IN THE HISTORY OF FRANCE, THE REVOLUTION AND THE TERROR, AND AFTER CLERY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS OF THE IMPRISONMENT OF LOUIS XVI.
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TURNER Thomas
The Diary of Thomas Turner 1754-1765. Edited by David Vaisey. [Second Impression]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with facsimiles; black cloth, gilt back, a fin copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1984
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BRAND] [John
A Brief Description of Orkney, Zetland, Pightland-Firth and Caithness, wherein after a Short Journal of the Author's Voyage thither, these Northern Places are first more generally more described. FIRST DEDICATED PUBLISHED ACCOUNT
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, eighteenth century inscription on title, title and several following leaves age-stained, title neatly mounted without loss of text, final leaf of Appendix mounted with loss of half text; strongly and attractively bound in half calf, marbled boards, back with five flat gilt bands, second compartment with red leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy. This copy was formerly in the McIntosh Library, Dunkeld, and carries the MS press-mark A8.51 and bookplate (numbered 493) on front paste-down. A sound and complete (save last leaf) copy of the first dedicated published account of Orkney and Zetland. RARE. Anderson, p.402.
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KENT
Bygone Kent: A Monthly Journal in all Aspects of Local History. Vol. 4 No. 4. April 1983.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
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LEAUTAUD Paul
Journal of a Man of Letters 1898-1907. Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury. With a Preface by Alan Pryce-Jones. IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First English Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece, some light dust-soiling; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper.
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SWIFT Jonathan
Journal to Stella. Edited by H. Williams.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with portrait frontispieces and 5 plates; cloth, gilt backs, a very good bright clean set in mildly dust-soiled dustwrapper. Nice set of the original edition of Williams' masterly study marked by a very full commentary explaining the often taxing contemporary allusions. Includes six documentary appendices a seventh by Henry Mangan on the portraits of Stella and Vanessa and exce
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WAIT W.E.
Ceylon Journal of Science. Manual of the Birds of Ceylon. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo. Second Edition with folding map; original cloth a very good clean copy. Scarce especially in this condition.
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HENRY WILLIAMSON SOCIETY.
Henry Williamson Society Journal.. A run as follows: vols. 31-49 (wanting vol. 37); Index to issues 1-31; Supplement to the Index No. 1; Henry Williamson Society Newletter NL16; NL18. A FINE RUN
Together 22 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; original pictorial wrappers, all in near fine condition. Includes two sought-after issues: Centenary Journal (vol. 31) and 'Reality in War Literature' (vol. 34).
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