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London: W H Allen. 1986. The son writes the father's wrongs. Presentation copy. 240x150mm. pp. [25],414,[6] Publisher's original black cloth. Lettered in gilt on spine. Near fine save for some rubbing at head and foot of spine. Original illustrated dust jacket near fine with just some minor creasing at head of cover. Internally fine. Inscribed by the author on half title page "For Mr. Brian Harrison with best regards from the author W R Hess, May 1986"Written by his son, this biography of Rudolph Hess recounts his infamous solo flight to Scotland on a dubiously conceived peace mission.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1959. A Chilling Account First edition in English. 225x145mm. pp.[16], 252,[2]. Publisher's original black cloth. Lettered in silver on the spine. Slightly bumped at head of spine but otherwise near fine. Original illustrated dust jacket is near fine with just some very small creasing at head of spine. Internally fine. This chilling first-hand account chronicles the bureaucracy and day-to-day operations of the largest Nazi concentration camp. Written by Hoess whilst awaiting execution, the book offers a disturbing report into the logistics of mass murder. [ref.

London Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1930. Exceptionally bound edition of a scarce Norfolk guide Fourth edition, revised. 225x165mm. pp. [1bl] x, 408 [8bl]. 46 colour plates, 23 in monotone by SOUTHGATE, Frank, R.B.A. Calf leather intricately tooled in black, with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Six compartments and five raised bands on spine. Title in second, author's name in third and illustrator's name in fifth compartments. Binding by Syd. A. Howe, Guildford. Marbled fixed and free front and back endpapers. Foxing to all edges and internally.  A beautiful, privately bound edition of a classic Norfolk text.

New York:. 1938. Promotional prospectus for the Fashion Academy at 16 East 52nd Street, New York. 198x130mm. pp. 44. Illustrated throughout with colour fashion plates and one pochoir pastedown image. Decorated covers with an embossed gilded label pasted on upper cover. Illustrated endpapers with gold fashion silhouettes. The fashion plates are mostly of historic designs. Some rubbing and wear and internally there is some marking and slight staining but overall a nice copy. The Fashion Academy was operated under the direction of Emil Avil Hartman and ran a series of courses on fashion and costume design.

New York:. 1935. Promotional prospectus for the Fashion Academy at 16 East 52nd Street, New York. 192x125mm. pp. 48. Illustrated throughout with art deco colour fashion plates and one pochoir pastedown image. Decorated art deco style cover and endpapers. Some rubbing and wear but overall a very nice copy and internally very good. The Fashion Academy was operated under the direction of Emil Avil Hartman and ran a series of courses on fashion and costume design. This fascinating little book was published as an annual prospectus and so is quite uncommon.

London John Murray. 1948.First edition. Signed by the author. 263x185mm. pp (iibl) xii, 132, (iiibl). Publisher's red cloth with white and black lettering to spine and front cover, printing to front cover. Original dust jacket. Slight bumping to head and foot of spine; slight chipping to head of dust jacket. Internally very good; overall in very good condition. Inscription reads "Kay Francis from John Betjeman 1957", surrounded with decorative flourishes.The last of Betjeman and Piper's British travel guides to be published by Betjeman's own publisher, John Murray.

Dublin: Luke White. 1791.First edition. Four volumes bound in two. 8vo. 210x125mm. Volume I. The History of my own times. Parts I and II. pp. xxv, [2], 270, [2bl]. And The History of the Seven Years War. Part I. pp. xii, [2], 154. Volume II. The History of the Seven Years War. Part II. [4], 188. Memoirs from the Peace of Hubertsburg, to the Partition of Poland, and of the Bavarian War. pp. xii, [4], 198. Of the four half titles "Posthumous Works of Frederic II. King of Prussia" only two are present.

with some illustrations of human error and impostureLondon: John Maxwell and Company. 1844. First edition. From the Library of the Theosophical Society in England. Two volumes. 8vo. 187x125mm. pp. xx, 315 [1bl]; xv, [ibl], 308. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, with library shelfmark at foot of spine. Front pastedown has the bookplate of the Theosophical Library. Some rubbing and bumping to extremities. Internally very good. Davenport Adams is said to have been a voracious reader as a child and this book suggests wide and, it must be said, somewhat directionless reading.

London: Printed for the author. 1737.First edition. 4to. 248x195mm. pp. vi, 124; 222 (Account of the Bishops of Worcester); 8, 210 (Appendix, Chartae Originales and index). Engraved folding frontispiece and twenty five engraved plates and numerous engravings in the text and a folding plan of the cathedral. Contemporary full calf, rebacked with corners repaired. Front pastedown has armorial bookplate of Carolus Gandolphus Hornyold and, on the verso of the front free endpaper, the plate of John Vincent Hornyold and a handwritten note on the title page "Charles Gandolfi Hornyold bought at Worcester 1869".

London: Printed for Edmund Casson. 1623.Second edition in English. 4to. 175x130mm. Unpaginated. [118pp., lacking final blank P4]. Bound with a frontispiece engraved map of Norwich taken from Hermannides's Britannia Magna. Although the second edition of Norfolke Furies, this is the first appearance of the Description of Norwich (L1-4) which is the first published history of Norwich in English. Nineteenth-century tan calf with a decorated border in blind and gilt decoration to spine. Two morocco labels to spine, lettered in gilt. Front pastedown has the armorial bookplate of Charles Barclay, for whom the book was probably bound.

New York: Times Books in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 1987.First edition. Oblong 4to. 255 by 303mm. 128pp Unpaginated. 55 colour photographs. Text by Any Grundberg and Anne Wilkes Tucker, design by Elissa Ichiyasu and Mark LaRiviere. Original dove-grey cloth with spine lettered in silver. Title to upper cover in blind. Original colour photographic dust-jacket. A particularly nice, near fine copy of this collection of starkly archetypal images of everyday America. Sternfeld travelled across America on and off for eight years with a large format camera.

New York: Aperture. 1975. 4to, unpaginated, illustrated throughout. Near-fine in chocolate-brown cloth with both blind and silver stamping.