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Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, The: A Life Wilson, Frances
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Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, The: A Life


Wilson, Frances

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 316 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471555


Price: $19.00 

 

I Guarded Kings - The Memoirs of a Political Police Officer


Brust, Harold

NY, Hillman-Curl , 1st US, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages, b&w photos. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise very good.

Record # 501164


Price: $23.00 

 

Some Records of the Later Life of Harriet, Countess Granville


Oldfield, Susan H.

Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 286 pages. + ads Illustrated with black & white drawings, frontispiece with tissue guard. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Top edge gilt. Cloth cover with gold lettering on front and spine. Bottom spine edges worn, bottom corner edges bumped.

Record # 509069


Price: $33.00 

 

Henry Irving


Craig, Edward Gordon

London, J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Edward Gordon Craig's biography of his mentor, the actor Henry Irving. 252 pp. Colior frontis otherwise illustrated in b&w.

Record # 512670


Price: $22.00 

Churchill and Secret Service Stafford, David
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Churchill and Secret Service


Stafford, David

Hardcover. Woodstock & New York, Overlook Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 386 pages, b&w photos. Pictorial dust jacket with light wear to edges and slight rubbing to covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606483


Price: $20.00 

 

Okay, Let's Try It Again


Lange, Willem

Softcover. Hanover, New England Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608986


Price: $15.00 

 

Collection of Letters of Thackery 1847-1855, A


Thackery, William Makepeace

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Black & with illustrations. Fraying to cloth at top and bottom of spine, with 1/4" piece of cloth missing at very base of spine. Cover corners bumped. Front hinge tender with all paper intact. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609330


Price: $25.00 

 

Lytton Strachey by Himself - A Self Portrait by: Holroyd, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 184 pages. price clipped dust jacket shows wear along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy. Record # 609344
Price: $12.00 

 

Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of his American Kin, The


Muirhead, James Fullarton

Hardcover. Montreal, Montreal News Company, Limited, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages. Blue cloth with gilt title on cover and spine. Light wear to corners. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609838


Price: $30.00 

Writing Home Bennett, Alan
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Writing Home


Bennett, Alan

Softcover. New York, Picador, 1st Thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 634 pages. Softcover. Black & white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked and tight copy.

Record # 750143


Price: $11.00 

 

Writing on Ice - The Ethnographic Notebooks of Vilhjalmur Stefansson


Stefansson, Vilhjalmur/Gisli Palsson (Editor)

Hardcover. Hanover, University Press of New England, First Edition, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages. Grey cloth boards with white titles to black cloth spine. 15 pages of full page, full color illustrations & additional photos in black & white throughout. Bright dust jacket with only light marginal wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750919


Price: $31.00 

 

Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow, The by: Raymond, John

Hardcover. London, England/U.K., The Bodley Head, 2nd, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages, b&w illustrations, portrait of Gronow at frontispiece, dust jacket protected with Mylar, previous owner's book plates, clean, tight copy. Record # 801639
Price: $12.00 

 

War and Colonel Warden, The: Based on the Recollections of Commander C. R. Thompson


Pawle, Gerald

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 422 pages, plus index, b&w photographs. Dust jacket has chipping, tears and old tape on top edge. Red top edge, slightly stained; else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 809013


Price: $15.00 

 

James Durand: An Able Seaman of 1812


Brooks, George S. (Ed.)

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 139 pages. Soiling, light chipping to dust jacket; in brodart. Light foxing to top and fore-edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 852002


Price: $12.00 

 

Samuel Kelly: An Eighteenth Century Seaman.


Garstin (ed), Crosbie

Hardcover. New York , Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering. Minor wear on edges of spine. Pages untrimmed. Nice, clean inside with many b&w illustrations.

Record # 852377


Price: $25.00 

 

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi


Dickens, Charles

Hardcover. New York, Stein and Day, 1st thus, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 311 pages, with illustrations by George Cruikshank; edited, annotated and introduced by Richard Findlater. Minor dust jacket edge wear and crease, otherwise, very clean, bright and tight copy.

Record # 854370


Price: $20.00 

 

English Settler In Pioneer Wisconsin, An


Quaife, Milo M.

Hardcover. Madison, Publications of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1st , 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages hardcover. Blue cloth covers. Illustrated frontispiece with five illustrations throughout. Ex-library stamp on endpaper, spine, and title page. Slight fading on spine. Edge wear on right hand corners. Otherwise clean, tight copy. One of 1250 printed.

Record # 857210


Price: $50.00 

 

Little Learning, A


Waugh , Evelyn

Hardcover. Boston , Little, Brown and Company , 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 234 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. B&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Decorative stain to top edge. Related newspaper articles laid in. Light soiling to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857482


Price: $19.00 

 

Memoirs of a Public Baby


O'Connor, Philip

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A frank self-revelation and a distinguished piece of literature. Price clipped dust jacket. Moderate fading, edgewear, and rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951616


Price: $31.00 

 

Accidental Agent


Goldsmith, John

Hardcover. London, Leo Cooper, 1st UK, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Adventures of an SOE agent in France during WWII. Pencil inscription on front flyleaf. Label sticker affixed to front endpapers. Mild age toning to top text block edge. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951725


Price: $15.00 

 

Mission to Tashkent


Bailey, F.M.

Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 2rd, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 269 pages, hardcover, in a maroon slipcase. Illustrated and indexed. 2 maps in text. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Introduction and epilogue by Peter Hopkirk. Quarter bound in maroon buckram over illustrated boards with gold gilt lettering. Colored endpapers. Mild rubbing to slipcase. Unmarked and clean. A tight copy.

Record # 952446


Price: $19.00 

 

Eaton Family of Nova Scotia, The - 1760 - 1929


Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton

Hardcover. Cambridge, Privately Printed, First Edition, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages. Green cloth boards, mottled. Gilt titles to cover & spine. Gilt top edge. Pages untrimmed, unopened. Frontis illustration, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, with tissue guard. Illustrations throughout in sepia tones, including family crest, all protected with tissue guards. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Toning throughout. Otherwise clean, unmarked.

Record # 3340115


Price: $100.00