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London: Humphreys, 1905. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket, as issued. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. BEACONSFIELD'S MAXIMS by Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) published by Humphreys in 1905 in London. Disraeli was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, and made the Conservatives the party most identified with the British Empire and military action to expand it. Three-quarter leather with gilt rules to covers, five raised bands and gilt title to spine. Green marbled pastedown and endpapers, green ribbon page marker, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Corners lightly rubbed. With Hatchard's bookshop mark and light pencil number on free front endpaper, 6 ¼" high, 179 pp. No other markings, no bookplates. Pages are clean and bright, binding is tight. A handsome copy.

London: Symonds, 1806. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket, as issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A good copy of THE BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF LORD VISCOUNT NELSON. Published one year after the death of Lord Nelson. Bound in three quarter calf with marbled boards and marbled endpapers. Front board re-attached with binding tape. Size 8" x 5". Overall condition Good. All 7 plates present. Foxing is nearly entirely absent save for the very occasion spot. Tiny note in ink in old hand to margin of p.100, and stain to plate opposite page 100. One ¾" closed tear at margin on page 279. Faint stain p.296. Textblock in generally very good condition, with only very light toning.

New York: The Times Book Club, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. BLACK OUT - a thriller by John Lawton. It is his debut novel. The first of the Inspector Troy novels, Black Out singularly captures the realities of wartime London, weaving them into a riveting drama that encapsulates the uncertainty of Europe at the dawn of the postwar era. London, 1944. While the Luftwaffe makes its final assault on the already battered British capital, Londoners rush through the streets, seeking underground shelter in the midst of the city's black out. When the panic subsides, other things begin to surface along with London's war-worn citizens . . . A severed arm is discovered by a group of children playing at an East End bomb site, and when Scotland Yard's Det. Sgt. Frederick Troy arrives at the scene, it becomes apparent that the dismembered body is not the work of a V-1 rocket. After Troy manages to link the severed arm to the… Read More

London: John Murray, 1841. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket, as issued. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. BYRON'S WORKS - 8 volumes, 4 ¾" high, full calf, gilt ruled & blind stamped covers, 4 raised bands to spines with gilt titles, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Edges rubbed. Former owner's name to front free endpapers. ==>DON JUAN Volumes 1 & 2 - published by John Murray, London, 1841, Stain to front cover. ==> SIEGE OF CORINTH - volume II - contains SIEGE OF CORINTH + PARISINA + THE PRISONER OF CHILLON + BEPPO: A VENETIAN STORY + MAZEPPA + THE ISLAND; or CHRISTIAN AND HIS COMRADES ==> MISCELLANIES in three volumes, volume I. Loss to volume title on spine. ==> THE FOSCARI &c --- Textblock separated at spine, but holding to rear cover. Contains THE TWO FOSCARI: An Historical Tragedy + CAIN: A Mystery + THE DEFORMED TRANSFORMED: A Drama + WERNER: A Tragedy ==> MANFRED &c --- contains MANFRED: A Dramatic Poem + MARINO FALIERO, DOGE OF VENICE: An Historical Tragedy in Five Acts + HEAVEN AND EARTH: A… Read More