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  • An account of the English Mission

    PORTAL, Gerald
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    Rare privately printed edition.In 1887 Portal was ordered to attempt a reconciliation between the King of Abyssinia and the Italian Government, fo...

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  • Exploration of the Nile tributaries of Abyssinia.

    BAKER, Samuel.
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    The present work complements his earlier book The Albert Ny'anza, Great Basin of the Nile, by giving a summary of the Nile system derived from Ba...

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  • The Golliwogg's Bicycle Club.

    UPTON, Bertha & Florence K.
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    A very good example of this popular title from the Uptons' Golliwogg series of thirteen books; one of the best in terms of subject matter and the ...

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  • Croquet.

    REID, Captain Mayne.
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    A very rare, first edition. Thomas Mayne Reid (1818-1883) was a Scots-Irish American novelist, who fought in the American-Mexican War. In additi...

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  • The Broken Spoke.

    GOREY, Edward.
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    Signed by author & illustrator. Edward Gorey's fun and occasionally dark exploration of the history of bicycling; scarce in such condition and ...

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  • The Red King Dreams

    WHISTLER, Rex (artist); CRUMP, C.G.
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    Rex whistler dust jacket. A delightful copy of this first edition, in the splendid Rex Whistler dust-jacket. Rex Whistler (1905-1944) was one of t...

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  • A land journey from Asia to Europe,

    WHYTE, William Athenry.
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    Scarce. Entertaining narrative of a journey across Mongolia and Siberia, mostly by sled. Hong Kong to St. Petersburg via Canton, Shanghai, Peking,...

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  • Priklyucheniia Alisy v strane chudes. Skazka, rasakazannaia Boris Zakhoderom.

    CARROLL, Lewis (pseud. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge); KALINOVSKIY, Gennadiy (illustrator).
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    A wonderful translation with beautiful illustrations of one of the most popular children's stories of all time. Zakhoder's version was hugely popu...

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  • Margery of Quether and Other Stories.

    BARING-GOULD, Sabine.
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    A rare example of an early vampire story. The eponymous Margery of Quether is discovered by a bell-ringer, George Rosedhu on Christmas Eve. She ex...

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  • The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.

    HUME, Fergus W.
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    With autograph letter. An attractive early issue of this classic of Victorian detective fiction, further enhanced by a letter from the author to a ...

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  • Seneca's Oedipus.

    HUGHES, Ted (adapted by).
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    A very good first edition example of this translation of Seneca's Oedipus by Ted Hughes, presented at the time of publication to his friends John ...

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  • Costume of the Russian Empire,

    HARDING, Edward.
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    a wonderful costume book of the Russian Empire and an important record of Catherine the Great's reign.Folio (37.4 x 28); hand-coloured engraved ti...

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  • Narrative of the Burmese war,

    SNODGRASS, Major [John James].
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    Contemporary account of the First Burmese War.First edition. 8vo, xii, 319 pp., large folding map (foxed), 2 engraved plates, contemporary half ca...

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  • The Piccadilly Puzzle.

    HUME, Fergus W.
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    Inscribed from the author "To Miss C Crommelin with the kindest regards of The Author Fergus Hume 28. 6. 89." Miss C. Crommelin is presumably one ...

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  • An African Millionaire.

    ALLEN, Grant.
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    The most sought-after of the various novels by prolific writer Grant Allen: 'More successful were the detective stories, written later in his life...

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  • My Name is Love.

    MACLAREN-ROSS, Julian.
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    The authors last novel, written whilst living in abject poverty. In part autobiographical, the narrative details the amorous pursuit of the beauti...

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  • Filibusters in Barbary.

    LEWIS, Wyndham.
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    Account of Lewis' travels through Morocco and the Middle East. Scarce as the book was withdrawn due to fears over legal action. First edition, fir...

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  • The Black Book.

    DURRELL, Lawrence.
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    A very good example of the true first edition of The Black Book by Lawrence Durrell, published as the first volume in The Villa Seurat Series crea...

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  • Waterfront.

    BROPHY, John.
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    An uncommon book in dust jacket, strikingly similar to, and coeval with, Malcolm Lowry's first book Ultramarine (1933). Waterfront was the source ...

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