Tolstoy. A Russian Life.
London: Profile Books, 2010. 8vo. First edition. Original purple hardcovers. Black and white photographic plate section. Mint in d/w.
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The Life of Captain James Cook.
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1974. Crown 8vo. First edition. Original navy buckram, gilt. Top edge stained blue. With 51 illustrations (4 in colour) and 5 maps. Presentation label on the flyleaf. D/w faded on the spine with some rubbing to the extremities and a couple of very short closed tears.....
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A Biographical Study.
Oxford: The Clrendon Press, 1963. 8vo. Reprint. First published in 1938. Reprinted lithographically from corrected sheets of the first edition. Original green buckram, gilt. Price-clipped d/w has a few small tape repairs. Fine in very good + dust-wrapper.
The Life of a Sailor.
London & Edinburgh: Richard Bentley and Bell & Bradfute, 1850. 12mo. New edition. #120 in Bentley's Standard Novels series. First thus. Original stamped brown cloth, gilt to spine. Yellow endpapers promoting the series. Two pages of advertisements for the Parlour Bookcase and the Railway Library at the back. Tissue-guarded, steel-engraved.....
Beckford.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1937. 8vo. First edition. Original terracotta buckram, gilt. Top edge stained red. Unclipped d/w a bit rubbed at edges, with small loss to spine ends and corner tips. Near fine in very good + dust-wrapper.
The Spirit of the Age or Contemporary Portraits.
London: Grant Richards, 1904. 16mo. First impression in this series. Original 'half-circuit' parchment, gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spine and covers a bit dulled. Near fine. #57 in The World's Classics. This binding variant sold for 2s 6d. Uncommon.
Lives of the English Poets. With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906. 16mo. 2 vols, set. First impressions in this series. Original 'half-circuit' parchment, gilt. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Both spines a bit dulled. Volume 1 has an ink stain to the top of the front cover and volume 2 has a short split.....
Lives of the English Poets. With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906. 16mo. 2 vols, set. First impressions in this series. Original green cloth, gilt. Top edges gilt. Silk marker ribbons. Neat ink ownerships on endpapers. Fly removed from volume II. Near fine. #83 & #84 in The World's Classics.
My Friend H. John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton of Broughton de Gyfford.
London: John Murray, 1948. 8vo. First edition. Original light grey/blue cloth. Frontispiece and 15 further plates. Covers a little bumped. Neat ink ownership of William St. Clair on fly and his occasional pencil marginalia. Very good +. From the library of William St. Clair (1937-2021), the distinguished historian and author.....
His Very Self And Voice. Collected Conversations of Lord Byron. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Ernest J. Lovell, jr.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954. 8vo. First edition. Original maroon cloth, silvergilt. Ink ownership of William St. Clair on the front pastedown and his pencil ownership, dated 10 May 1976, on the fly. His scattered marginalia especially in the first half of the book and extensive notes on the.....
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More 1745-1833.
London: R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1834. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. First editions. Later cross-grained maroon full morocco with titles to spines and 'R.H. More' signature in gilt to each front board. Top edges gilt. Covers very slight rubbed at edges. Ink presentation inscription dated 1873 to half-title of volume.....
Capability Brown. With an Introduction by Christopher Hussey.
London: Faber and Faber, 1975. 4to. New edition. First published in 1950. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated with sections of black and white, and a few colour, photographic plates. D/w price-clipped. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. A completely rewritten account of the master of English landscape gardening and still the.....
Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers. A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer. Narrated and Edited by Betty Alexandra Toole.
Mill Valley, California: Strawberry Press, 1992. 8vo. First edition. Original maroon cloth, gilt. Fine in fine d/w. From the library of William St. Clair (1937-2021), the distinguished historian and author.
Graf Zeppelin - Sein Leben - Sein Werk. Ein Zeppelin-Denkmal für das Deutsche Volk.
Charlottenberg, Berlin: Dr. Wilhelm Glass & Co. Verlag, [1929]. 4to. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt, with portrait medallion to front board. Text in German. Four colour plates, including the portrait frontispiece, and a large number of half-tone images throughout. Gilt on spine a bit dulled. Bottom corners rubbed. Small.....
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