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London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. First Edition in English. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of T.E. Lawrence and with three maps in red and black.. 8vo, publisher's original mustard cloth, lettered in black on the spine panel. 358 pp. A handsome copy, very well preserved, with notes on cards and occasionally in the text by a previous owner. FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT BIOGRAPHY considered to be fair and well informed. The book takes us through Lawrence's early life and on to the Arab areas of the Middle East where T.E.L. led with Feisal and other Arabs the great Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks during the First World War. The book also provides a fine study of the peace, the conference and the years after the war. A very good read.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977. First Edition. With many illustrations on full-page plates and maps throughout the text. 8vo, publisher's original brown cloth, the spine lettered in gilt. xii, 352 pp. A fine copy, portions of the dustjacket tipped in at the front of the book, textual considerations printed by the publisher at the front and rear flaps of the dustjacket tipped into the rear of the volume. FIRST EDITION. The publisher notes that the author, in this book, shows us where the genius of T.E. Lawrence really lay; 'making his hypnotic influence believable and explains the dedication to SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM giving us a deeper insight into that extraordinary work.... Through his own experience of Iraq and Egypt, his friendships with Arab statesmen, fellahin, bedouin and scholars, the author constantly sifts hard fact from misleading metaphor. The Lawrence we come to know in these pages is courageous, brilliant, fallible and, above all completely real. Stewart has been the… Read More

London: George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Limited and Book Club Associates, 1975. First Edition. With a great profusion of illustrations throughout, both in colour and black and white, many being double page. Large 8vo, publisher's original maroon cloth, the upper cover and spine lettered and decorated in gilt, in the pictorially decorated dustjacket. 232 pp A fine copy with a bit of mellowing to the spine panel and a light bit rubbing at the tips of the jacket. FIRST EDITION. The publisher notes that the author discusses the elusive personality of a man 'who commanded the respect and friendship of such outstanding fugures as Sir Winston Churchill, Lord Allenby, Robert Graves, George Bernard Shaw, and perhaps above all, Shaw's wife Charlotte. The book is illustrated with many contemporary photographs and paintings. Both at the Versailles Peace Conference and as Churchill's adviser during the Cairo Conference of 1922, Lawrence's aim was as much to keep the French out of Syria as to keep… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. First Edition, second impression, within a month of the first and as the first. With numerous illustrations and maps throughout. 8vo, publisher's original sienna cloth in the rarely encountered dustjacket printed in green and black on buff paper. 448, index pp. A very fine copy, pristine and near as mint. Rare thus. FIRST EDITION, EARLY IMPRESSION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK. In 1929 it was suggested to Captain Liddell Hart that he write a considered study of the Arab Revolt and Colonel Lawrence's share in it. This book is the result. It gives a new interpretation of the Middle East campaigns for Jerusalem an Damascus, the major operations to which the Arab Revolt was tied. War Cabinet records to soldeirs' storeies weree opened for the first time to Hart during his authoring of the book. And certain letters of T.E. Lawrence are published here for the first time. Drafts of the chapters were necessarily submitted to Lawrence and a number of his notes and… Read More

Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1988. One volume plus portfolio. FIRST EDITION. THE MOST LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 80 ROMAN NUMBERED COPIES, specially bound and with additional proof prints of the Richard Kennedy illustrations from a total printing of only 750 copies. Illustrated with line drawings by Richard Kennedy printed in umber, as well as with a tipped in photographic frontispiece and 24 illustrations from black and white photographs on glossy plates, and with the addition of ten proof plates in a separate portfolio ONLY INCLUDED IN THE SPECIAL DELUXE COPIES. 4to, in the special deluxe binding for the 80 numbered copies of full Nigerian goatskin with endpapers marbled by Colleen Gryspeerdt, with an image of Lawrence of Arabia on horseback on the upper cover in gilt from one of Kennedy's line drawings, the spine gilt lettered, the proof plates in an umber paper-covered portfolio enclosed with the book in the printer's original slipcase of brown paper-covered boards trimmed in… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. First Enlarged Edition of 1935, reprinted. With numerous illustrations and maps throughout. 8vo, publisher's original maroon cloth lettered on the spine and upper cover. 482, index pp. A handsome copy with slight toning to the spine, some light evidence of age or use. FIRST ENLARGED EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK, EARLY REISSUE. Liddell Hart was a close friend and colleague of Lawrence. His writing is masterful. In 1929 it was suggested to Captain Liddell Hart that he write a considered study of the Arab Revolt and Colonel Lawrence's share in it. This book is the result. It gives a new interpretation of the Middle East campaigns for Jerusalem and Damascus, the major operations to which the Arab Revolt was tied. War Cabinet records to soldiers' stories were opened for the first time to Hart during his authoring of the book. And certain letters of T.E. Lawrence are published here for the first time. Drafts of the chapters were necessarily submitted to… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First American edition, first printing. With coloured end-papers depicting canal builders and a map of Panama and the Panama Canal Zone. Large 8vo, publisher's original blueboards backed in light gray cloth, the upper cover and spine lettered in silver, and in the original dustjacket. 332, [8] pp. An as mint and completely pristine copy. A THRILLING, YET HILARIOUS, NOVEL OF A TAILOR TURNED SPY. LE CARRE'S PANAMA HAS BEEN CALLED "A CASABLANCA WITHOUT ANY HEROS..." Everyone who is anyone in Central America passes through the doors of Harry Pendel's Panama City tailing shop. This makes him the perfect, though rather unusual, recruit for a corrupt British M16 agent in the days leading up to local government taking full control of the Canal Zone. In response to observations that the novel was a more light-hearted affair than his previous books, le Carré replied that, "I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could… Read More

New York: Frederick Warne & Company, Inc., ca. 1931. Illustrated with 27 colourplates and pictorially decorated endleaves, by the author. 12mo, original blue-green pictorially decorated paper covered boards. [59] pp. A good copy, well preserved with tight and sound hinges, clean internally, the covers with some light edgewear. POTTER'S FAVORITE OF HER TWENTY-THREE TALES. It was the second work she finished. She printed it privately in 1901. It would be the third published by Frederick Warne coming right on heals of Squirrel Nutkin in 1903. The tale was based on a real world incident involving John Pritchard, a Gloucester tailor commissioned to make a suit for the new mayor. He returned to his shop on a Monday morning to find the suit completed except for one buttonhole.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1960. First edition. 8vo, publisher's original salmon cloth lettered on the spine in gilt, in the scarce original dustjacket of yellow paper printed in black and red. 320 pp. A very nice copy, the text just slightly mellowed due to the paper used in production, a bit of spotting at the prelims, the cloth fresh and bright and very nicely preserved, the jacket bright with some general mellowing and a little rubbing at the tips. A VERY BRIGHT FIRST EDITION OF THIS COMIC NOVEL, by, "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." - Zachary Leader. The plot of TAKE A GIRL LIKE YOU follows traditional realistic conventions and has been compared to that of Samuel Richardson's 1748 novel CLARRISSA. Like Clarissa, our heroine is young, beautiful and virtuous and attempts to defend her virginity, but while providing every opportunity for the next assault on it.

London: Frederick Warne and Company, [1962]. A handsome printing in the original format and by Potter's original publisher. With 27 colour illustrations, most on double-sided plates, illustrated endpapers, and and cover decoration all by Beatrix Potter. 12mo, publisher’s original peach boards lettered in burgundy on the upper cover and spine, with pictorial colour pastedown on the front cover, in the original pictorially decorated white paper dustjacket. 59pp. A fine copy, the book and jacket with just the most trivial evidence of age. IN THE ORIGINAL FORMAT AND DUSTJACKET. Jeremy's origin lies in a letter she wrote to a child in 1893. She revised it in 1906, and moved its setting from the River Tay to the English Lake District. The tale reflects her love for the Lake District and her admiration for children's illustrator Randolph Caldecott.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. First edition, First Issue with p. 213 mis-numbered 113 and signature b to the list of illustrations leaf and the required mis-spelling at p. 134. With 16 illustrations by H. K. Browne, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. 8vo, very handsomely bound in antique three-quarter tan calf, the covers with fine marbled paper over the boards, the spine elaborately decorated within panels gilt tooled at the borders and with central gilt ornamental pieces between raised bands, lettered in gilt on contrasting maroon and brown morocco lettering labels, l blue marbled endleaves, a.e.g. viii, list of plates, 254pp. A fine and very handsome copy indeed, the prelims with some browning from long ago. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. TALE OF TWO CITIES ranks amongst the most famous works in the history of literary fiction. It is one of only two works of historical fiction by Charles Dickens and stands out from most of Dickens's other novels as the one containing the… Read More

London: Frederick Warne and Company, [1965]. A handsome printing in the original format and by Potter's original publisher. Illustrated with 15 colour plates and numerous drawings in woodcut style all by Beatrix Potter. 12mo, publisher’s original light blue boards lettered in green on the upper cover and spine, with pictorial colour pastedown on the front cover, in the original pictorially decorated white paper dustjacket. 94pp. A near fine copy, the book and jacket with just light evidence of age. IN THE ORIGINAL FORMAT AND DUSTJACKET. This is Potter's tale about a badger called Tommy Brock and his arch enemy Mr. Tod, a fox. Brock kidnaps the babies of Benjamin Bunny and his wife Flopsy, intending to eat them. He hides them in Mr. Tod's oven. Benjamin, and his cousin Peter Rabbit, have followed Tommy Brock to come to the rescue. Mr. Tod and Brock come to blows and the babies use the fight as a distraction and manage to escape.

London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1907. Early edition, in the same format as the first. With 27 color plates, illustrated endpapers, and cover decoration by Potter. 12mo, original red boards with a pictorial decoration on the upper cover. 85. A poor copy. The binding is loose and soiled, the backstrip is lacking, and the front flyleaf is also lacking.

New York: Frederick Warne and Company, Ltd., [n.d.]. Early edition. With 28 colored plates by Potter. 12mo, original off-white boards, pictorial paste-down on upper cover, illustrated endpapers. 85 pp. A fine copy with only the lightest evidence of use or age.

London: Frederick Warne and Company, [1964]. A handsome printing in the original format and by Potter's original publisher. With 6 colour plates and black and white illustrations throughout, illustrated endpapers, and and cover decoration all by Beatrix Potter. 12mo, publisher’s original butter yellow boards lettered in red on the upper cover and spine, with pictorial colour pastedown on the front cover, in the original pictorially decorated white paper dustjacket. 112pp. A near fine copy, the book and jacket with light evidence of age only. IN THE ORIGINAL FORMAT AND DUSTJACKET. Although this was one of the last of her twenty-three tales to be published it was one of the first to be written. It is also the longest.

London: Frederick Warne & Co., [1963]. A handsome printing in the original format and by Potter's original publisher. With 27 colour illustrations, most on double-sided plates, illustrated endpapers, and and cover decoration all by Beatrix Potter. 12mo, publisher’s original buff boards lettered in chestnut brown on the upper cover and spine, with pictorial colour pastedown on the front cover, in the original pictorially decorated white paper dustjacket. 59 pp. A fine copy with only trivial evidence of use, the jacket with just a bit of edgewear. POTTER'S SECOND PUBLISHED TALE. This story of an impertinent red squirrel named Nutkin and his narrow escape from an owl was the first book to follow Potter's hugely successful 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit'. The now beloved endpapers of the Peter Rabbit series were first introduced with this story.

London: Frederick Warne & Co., [1969]. A handsome printing in the original format and by Potter's original publisher. With 27 colour illustrations on double-sided plates, illustrated endpapers, and and cover decoration all by Beatrix Potter. 12mo, publisher’s original buff boards lettered in red on the upper cover and spine, with pictorial colour pastedown on the front cover, in the original pictorially decorated white paper dustjacket. 59 pp. A fine copy, even the jacket with only trivial evidence of use. ONE OF THE MOST LOVED OF BEATRIX POTTER'S TWENTY-THREE ANIMAL TALES. Potter's pet hedgehog, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, and Kitty MacDonald, a Scottish washerwoman, were the inspirations for the eponymous heroine. Lucie Carr, a child friend of Potter's, was the model for the fictional Lucie.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. First edition, later issue. With vignette title-page. 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine, the covers with central arabesque decoration ruled and paneled in blind. v, [2], 225 pp. A very nice copy, the binding bright, clean and nearly without wear, a slight bit of rubbing to the tips of the spine, the text-block clean and the binding tight, hinges sound, a very pleasing copy. SCARCE FIRST EDITION. Nice copies of this rather elusive title, one of Longfellow’s best books, are quite difficult to come by. Ours is both clean and tight. “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” included in the volume”isten, my children, and you shall hear TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN is a collection of poems inspired by, and structured much like, Chaucer’s CANTERBURY TALES. A group of travelers, brought together at an inn near Boston, pass the time by exchanging stories. Longfellow’s most famous poem, “The Ride of Paul Revere”, is… Read More

New York: HarperCollins, 1996. First edition, first printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo, publisher’s original black boards backed in black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, in the original dustjacket. 452 pp. A very fine copy in a very fine dustjacket. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. TALES OF BURNING LOVE, like LOVE MEDICINE, begins with June Kashpah’s death during a 1981 North Dakota blizzard. It also shares with the other North Dakota novels the conviction that the universe does not reveal how to love, but still requires truthful and faithful love; the only alternative to burning love is freezing death.

London: Martin Secker, 1934. First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original brown cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, in dustjacket printed in red. 1138, [2] pp. A very well preserved and pleasing copy, light mellowing and light age evidence as would be expected. FIRST EDITION. The volume contains the whole of Lawrence's shorter fiction, from "The Prussian Officer" (1914) to "The Man Who Died" (1931), in chronological sequence. Lawrence's best-known short stories are also included here: "The Captain's Doll", "The Fox", "The Ladybird", "Odour of Chrysanthemums", "The Princess", "The Rocking-Horse Winner", "St Mawr". "The Virgin and the Gypsy" and "The Woman who Rode Away". In a number of these stories Lawrence develops the theme of leadership that he also explored in novels such as Kangaroo and The Plumed Serpent and the story Fanny and Annie.