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£225


and his wife Messalina
London, Arthur Barker, 1934.

First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.

The continuing story of the Roman Empire as told from the perspective of the (now) Roman Emperor Claudius. Uncommon in the dust-jacket.

£325



London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1969.

First edition. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 25s.

A consideration of the origins and methods of the Sicilian mafia, by the author of The Eagle Has Landed.

£150



Durban, South Africa, Knox Publishing Company, n.d. [1942].

8vo. Original green cloth.

An interesting volume regarding the queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, great royal wife to Pharaoh Akhenaten.

£125



London, Heath Cranton, 1925.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth blocked in red. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

A tale of high adventure & romance, set in the slave-dealing days of Bristol.

£125



London, Heinemann, 1966.

First edition. 8vo. Original terracotta boards. Dust-jacket, priced 30s.

The first volume of Scott's famous 'Raj Quartet'.

£250



London, Methuen, 1948.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth lettered in white. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.

The third and final volume in the author's Neustrian Cycle.

£275



London, Nash & Grayson, 1930.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

A historical novel, set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, and it explores themes of love, loss, and redemption. Plus great dust-jacket.

£125



London, Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1936.

First UK edition, second printing. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, price redacted on inside front flap.

The author's most famous novel outside Germany, in which he describes Nazism as an epidemic and Hitler as a hysteric. However, despite Glaeser's works being put on the Nazi's hate-list for burning, the author returned to Germany from Switzerland in 1939, branding other émigré writers as traitors, and swearing an oath of allegiance to the Reich.

£1,750



London, Sampson Low, Martson, Searle, & Rivington, 1891.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.

A decent first UK edition of this surprisingly scarce Verne title, an adventure novel by Jules Verne about the life of a family in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) during the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 that sought an independent and democratic republic for Lower Canada.