Sherwood, Robert E.

Roosevelt and Hopkins. An intimate History.

First Edition. New York, Harper Brothers, 1948. 21 x 14 cm. xvii, 979 pages. Illustrated. Original black cloth with red and gilt label on spine. In original, price clipped dust jacket, now in archival jacket. Very good condition. Some shelf wear. Edges and end papers dust dulled. A few pages a little creased. Inscribed on the front free end paper: ‘A footnote to history of which you took such an important and able part’.

Fergusson, James.

Kandahar Cockney: A Tale of Two Worlds.[Signed].

London, HarperCollins, 2004. 14cm x 22cm. 376 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition. Signed by author on title page.

Scott, Gail.

My Paris.

First American Edition. U.S.A. Dalkey Archive Press, 2003. 21.5cm x 14cm. 138 pages. With illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Díaz, Bernal.

The Conquest of New Spain. Translated and introduced by J.M. Cohen.

London, The Folio Society, 1974. 25cm x 16cm. 351 pages. With 16 historic illustrations. Original Hardcover with original Slipcase. Excellent, close to new. Green gilt decorated cloth boards in brown slip-case and maps on endpapers.

Clarke, Mary.

The Sadler’s Wells Ballet. A History and an Appreciation. With fifty-five Illustrations.

Second Edition. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1956. 15.5cm x 24cm. XV, 336 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The dustjacket with tears. From the collection of Margot Fonteyn – photographer and artist Keith Money with an interesting newspaper-clipping loosely inserted.

Dietz, Peter.

The Last of the Regiments: Their Rise and Fall.

First Edition. London, Brassey’s, 1990. 15cm x 23.5cm. XIV, 271 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

[Scott, Walter] Lockhart, J.G.

The Life of Walter Scott.

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1893. 23.8cm x 16cm. XII, 806 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with signs of external wear and some foxing. Lovely gilt lettering on the cover and spine.

Ditchfield, P. H. / Jones, Sydney R.

The Manor Houses of England. Illustrated by Sydney R. Jones.

London, B.T. Batsford, 1910. 17.2cm x 26.4cm. Frontispiece, VI, 211 pages with many (nearly 100) wonderful sketches of Manor Houses in rural settings. (The Frontispiece is a beautiful original, coloured engraving of Grimshaw Hall in Warwickshire). Original Hardcover (illustrated blue cloth). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Excellent publication !

[Nietzsche, Friedrich] Sloterdijk, Peter.

Thinker on Stage: Nietzsche’s Materialism. Translation by Jamie Owen Daniel. Foreword by Jochen Schulte-Sasse.

Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1989. 23.5cm x 15.5cm. 106 pages. Original Hardcover in publisher’s grey cloth. In protective Mylar. First English language edition of the work by the German philosopher and cultural critic. Signed by Peter Sloterdijk. [Theory and History of Literature, Volume 56].

[Fonteyn, Margot] Monahan, James.

Fonteyn. A Study of the Ballerina in her Setting. With Twenty-Five Illustrations.

First Edition. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1957. 15cm x 23.5cm. IX, 115, (1) pages. With 25 Illustrations from Photographs. Original hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Dustjacket with repaired tear. From the collection of Margot Fonteyn – photographer and artist Keith Money.