Mes Trois Grandes Courses. Avec un Sonnet d’Edmond Rostand
BEAUMONT, André First edition. 8vo. (viii), 159, (1) pp. Publisher's light blue buckram, gilt lettered and illustrated to the spine and upper board, top edge gilt, pictorial bookplate of Hugh Oswald Short to the front pastedown featuring Pegasus (a gas ballon) and a Sunderland flying boat. 32 black and white photographic plates plus three maps on folding sheet to the rear. Very good. Oswald Short (1883-1969) was a co-founder of the aeronautical firm Short Brothers. Originally interested in ballooning, he and his brothers Eustace and Horace saw the huge potential commercial in building aeroplanes. The First World War accelerated the growth of the company as they began production of military aircraft for the war effort and went on to build many other military and civilian planes over the succeeding decades including the Sunderland featured on his bookplate.- $95
- $95
History of Western Philosophy. and its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
RUSSELL, Bertrand Second impression. 8vo. 916 pp. Publisher's oatmeal cloth, contemporary ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, dust jacket with a colour printed war map on the verso as usual, not price clipped. Wear with small losses to the jacket edges, foxing to the top edge, else very good.- $64
- $64
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
STOPPARD, Tom Second impression. 8vo. 92 pp. Publisher's plain card covers with integral dust jacket, not price clipped. Some fading, soiling and light rubbing to the covers, else a decent copy. As with a number of Faber titles from this period, the first and most of the early issues were published in paperback.- $45
- $45
Roger Fry. A Biography
WOOLF, Virginia Second impression. 8vo. 307, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Frontispiece self portrait plus 17 photographic plates, some two to a page. Jacket worn with losses, else very good. The first printing appeared the previous month.- $95
- $95
Doolittle’s Tokyo Raiders
GLINES, Carroll V. Seventh impression. 8vo. xiv, 4471, (1) pp. Publisher's black cloth, red lettered to the spine, dust jacket, signed by General James H. Doolittle himself on the front free endpaper and inscribed by one of the members of his crew, Brigadier General Richard A. Knobloch, above, also signed by the author on the title page. Black and white photographic illustrations. Sunning to the jacket spine with a little mild edge rubbing, else very good. An authorised account of the first US bombing mission over Japan in the Second World War, led by Doolittle and his crew in April 1942.- $191
- $191
Delhi Diary. (Prayer Speeches from 10-9-’47 to 30-1-’48)
GANDHI, M.K. [Mohandas Karamchand] 8vo. xxiv, 406, (2) pp. Publisher's linen backed pale blue-grey boards, printed text to the upper cover, contemporary compliments slip of "The All-India Scheduled Castes Federation" loosely inserted. Frontispiece photographic portrait. Mild dampstaining to the lower edges of the covers plus some other minor wear to the extremities, the contents generally very good.- $381
- $381
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. A Conversation Piece
WAUGH, Evelyn First edition. 8vo. (viii), 184 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. Slight wear to the head of the spine and corners of the jacket plus one inconspicuous small closed tear, an attractive copy. Davis, Doyle et al, XXXI.- $38
- $38
Poems by. With introduction by Richard Garnett and illustrations by Byam Shaw
BROWNING, Robert First edition thus, 8vo, (xx), 377, (3) pp. Black and white illustrations, small contemporary monogram to the fly leaf. Original gilt titled blind stamped green cloth, t.e.g., spine ends slightly bumped otherwise very good. The first book Shaw illustrated.- $57
- $57
Reach for the Sky. The Story of Douglas Bader
(BADER). BRICKHILL, Paul Fourteenth impression. 8vo. 384 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, inscribed by Bader on the front free endpaper "Good luck John! Thanks for a splendid and agreeable interview. London 15/9/65", with a typed letter signed on headed paper from Bader to the same recipient presenting this book also enclosed. Black and white photographic illustrations Mark to the title page, else very good.- $191
- $191
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The Gulag Archipelago. 1918-1956. An Experiment in Literary Investigation I -II [with] .III-IV. Translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney
SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksander Two volumes. Early reprints. 8vo. Publisher's cloth (black and green respectively), gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. Slight sunning to the jacket spine and spotting to the top edge of volume II, else very good.- $57
- $57
The Young Ladies’ Treasure Book. A Complete Cyclopædia of Practical Instruction and Direction for All Indoor and Outdoor Occupations and Amusements Suitable to Young Ladies
(LADIES) Large 8vo. vi, 890, (8) pp. Publisher's brown cloth, richly decorated and lettered in gilt, black, blue and green to the spine and upper cover, early Bible class prize label tot he front pastedown. Profusely illustrated with wood engravings and coloured plates. Slight discolouration to the cloth in places, occasional mild foxing, one leaf (pp. 63/64) slightly creased, else very good.- $83
- $83
Cooper Cars
NYE, Doug Second edition. Large 8vo. 376 pp. Publisher's red cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket, inscribed by John Cooper to the first page. Profusley illustrated, mostly in black and white, but with 8 pages of colour plates in the middle. A little, very mild wear to the jacket edges, an excellent copy. John Cooper co-founded the Cooper Car company with his father Charles and was a fêted racing driver in his own right.- $51
- $51
Indonesia
Second impression. 8vo. 224 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For Mr. R.H.M. Thompson M.P., With my compliments and regards. In memory of our meeting. 15-11-1952". Black and white illustrations, mostly photographic and some two to a page. Edge wear to the jacket, else very good. Conservative politician Sir Richard Hilton Marler Thompson. Gerbrandy was the wartime Prime Minister of the Netherlands. Roger Fry. A Biography
First edition, 8vo, 307, (1) pp. Contemporary signature to fly leaf. Cloth, ends of the spine sunned, d.w. with loss to the top of the spine, lower wrapper with small tears and creasing to the top edge, old repair to the reverse of this area, some mild soiling, overall an unusually well preserved copy. Kirkpatrick A25a.