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London, Lutterworth Press, 1959.First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.An account of Attenborough's animal-collecting expedition to Paraguay as part of the BBC's Zoo Quest television series (1954–1964), the fourth volume in the Zoo Quest sequence.
Translated from the Portuguese by J.B. Wood
Clarksburg, VA., Saucerian Books, 1960.
First US edition, first printing. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced $3.75.
A story in the vein of classic contactee George Adamski, in which a nameless alien from the moons of Jupiter, described as a good Christian, conveyed to Felix a series of unorthodox scientific claims and prophecies. Felix later resurfaced as a cult leader and prophet, making predictions about natural disasters and terrorist attacks during a politically turbulent period in Brazil.
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London, Lutterworth Press, 1963.First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.An account of a four-month journey through the Northern Territory of Australia, the book ranges from the Tropic of Capricorn across desert landscapes and mangrove coasts, focusing substantially on Aboriginal culture and art.
Non-Fiction
London, Macmillan, 1933.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, publisher's price label of 5s net to upper panel and spine.
George Saintsbury (1845-1933) was one of the most prolific and influential literary critics of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, holding the chair of English Literature at Edinburgh from 1895 to 1915.
London, Hobart Manufacturing Co., June 1935.
4to. Original pictorial wrappers. Housed in custom cloth case with colour illustration and title label to upper cover and 2 inset illustrations to lower.
A special souvenir issue relating to the French Line's North Atlantic steamship Normandie.
A Survey of Evidence
London, Faber & Faber, 1939.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
Sir Ernest Bennett (1868–1947) was a British Liberal MP and psychical researcher who compiled this survey of reported apparitions and hauntings as an evidential study.
n.p., G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1937.
First edition, first printed. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.50.
A work adapted from the diary of a Scots private during World War I: 'It ends as it began with the sight of the long road unrolling from the opened end of a moving car; first a lorry and last an ambulance.' (jacket blurb)
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Foreword by Daniel Halévy. Introduction by Edward Crankshaw. Translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins
London, Chatto & Windus, 1951.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Czapski's account of the years following his release from Soviet captivity, during which he was tasked with investigating the disappearance of thousands of missing Polish officers - ultimately murdered by Stalin's NKVD at Katyn.
Non-Fiction
London, Andre Deutsch, 1954.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Sir Harold Scott (1887–1969) served as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police 1945–53, overseeing Scotland Yard through the difficult immediate postwar period. Accompanied by a 3½ page autograph letter from the author.
An investigation into Satanism in England and the International Black Magic Conspiracy
Poole et al, Blandford Press, 1987.
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Appearing at the height of Britain's "Satanic Panic" of the late 1980s, this work belongs to a recognisable genre of sensationalist occult investigation publishing of that period, alongside works by authors such as Doreen Irvine and Kevin Logan.
Non-Fiction
London, Dent, 1931.
First edition, second impression. 8vo. Original decorative cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 4/6.
A perceptive travel and social commentary on 1920s Germany by the novelist, playwright, feminist, and suffragette Cicely Hamilton. Surveying political, cultural and social life across the fragmented postwar states, Hamilton records both the optimism of the Weimar years and the tensions that would culminate in Nazism. First issued in 1931, this later, cheaper edition (likely late 1933) incorporates a newly added chapter, "Postscript: The New Order," addressing the Nazi regime - an unusually early and appended account of Hitler's Germany within an existing work.Illustrated with additional photographs, including images of Hitler at the Nuremberg Rally and of young Nazis, the volume also reflects Hamilton's feminist concerns. In discussing Nazi pronatalism and racial policy, she wryly questions how Germany would feed its projected population increase, only to be told, ominously, that all would be well "when we have colonies."
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Brussels, Editions Est-Ouest, 1945.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.
Scarce; OCLC locates only 5 copies in the US (USHMM, JHU, Hoover, LOC Harvard). One of the earliest substantial eyewitness accounts of Dachau, published only months after its liberation by American forces in April 1945. Arthur Haulot, a Belgian journalist and resistance member, was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 and deported first to Mauthausen and then to Dachau. There he served as a nurse and helped found the International Prisoners' Committee. After liberation he remained in the camp to assist with its administration before returning to Brussels in June 1945. Haulot later travelled in Germany as a witness at the Dachau trials and wrote extensively on the atrocities of the Nazi regime and its assault on fundamental freedoms.
London, George Allen & Unwin, 1929.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original purple cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d.
Müller-Freienfels was a prominent social critic and philosopher whose work combined philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences, emphasising the role of unconscious and symbolic forces in shaping culture. His ideas on the "collective soul" and national psychology resonated with the intellectual climate of 1930s Germany and, while his precise influence on official Nazi doctrine is difficult to measure, his thought aligned in part with contemporary nationalist currents. He joined the Nazi Party in 1933, later distanced himself, and by 1942 was declared "inactive" and placed on the Index of prohibited authors.His legacy became the subject of post-war controversy. In 1948, following the publication of his letter in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Dr Alfred Einstein publicly accused him of having been a "leading Nazi aesthetician," prompting a sharp exchange that illustrates the fraught reassessment of German intellectuals after 1945.
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The Story of Franz Biberkopf
New York, The Viking Press, 1931.
First US edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Original light grey cloth blocked in red & black. Dust-jackets. Lacking original slip-case.
Translated by Eugene Jolas. First published in Germany in 1929, this landmark Weimar novel follows Franz Biberkopf, an ex-convict determined to go straight after his release from Tegel Prison, only to be drawn back into Berlin's criminal underworld amid economic hardship and mounting political extremism. Döblin's innovative, collage-like style weaves street slang, headlines, and interior monologue into a vivid portrait of the city. This is the first English translation, by Eugene Jolas, co-founder of the avant-garde journal transition—an important but often criticised version, noted for its difficulty in fully conveying the novel's linguistic energy and dense vernacular.
From the papers and diaries of Chief Gouvernante Baroness D'Alteville
London, Cassell, 1916.
First edition, Canadian Export issue. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 50 cents.
Published during the First World War, this sensational work claims to reveal the private life of Bertha Krupp, heiress to Germany's vast armaments empire, through the supposed diaries of her governess, Baroness d'Alteville. Casting Krupp as an agent of the Kaiser in a campaign against Britain, the book presents itself as exposé but is in fact a transparent work of wartime fiction. Contemporary reviewers dismissed it as a dubious "shocker," filled with implausible private conversations and speculative "information" that strained credulity.
His State and His Mind
London, Putnam, 1937.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
Written under the pseudonym E.B. Ashton, Ernst Basch offers a mid-1930s analysis of fascist theory and practice, completed in autumn 1936. A German-born writer and translator (later resident in the United States), Basch was married to Austrian author Hertha Pauli and translated major works by Karl Jaspers, including The Future of Germany. Though not incorporating the latest developments in Germany, Italy, and Spain, Basch notes that events there only confirm his conclusions. Featuring the fasces, the Roman emblem from which fascism takes its name, on its cover, the work is both a study of Fascism and a measured defence of democracy.
Non-Fiction
London, Secker & Warburg, 1939.
First UK edition. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
Signed with the author's compliments to front free endpaper. A perceptive study of the historical, cultural, and political roots of German antisemitism. German-born Jewish economist and writer F.R. Bienenfeld traces the long evolution of anti-Jewish sentiment in Germany and the forces that enabled its transformation into state policy under National Socialism. After fleeing to England in 1939, he worked with the World Jewish Congress, helped draft German reparations claims following the Second World War, and later contributed to the legal preparations for the Nuremberg Trials.
London, for John Murray, 1810.
First edition. 8vo. Modern morocco-backed marbled boards.
Bell is one of the towering figures of early 19th-century medicine; his original ideas on the nervous system have been likened to those of William Harvey on the circulation of blood, and his privately published pamphlet detailing his ideas about the brain has been called the Magna Carta of neurology. He is remembered today chiefly for Bell's palsy, the Bell-Magendie law on spinal nerve function, and his remarkable draughtsmanship (his paintings of the wounded from the Napoleonic Wars are among the most extraordinary medical images of the period). This work presents his observations on various types of strictures in the urethra. Uncommon.
London, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1923.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original gilt pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
An attractively illustrated book on the Ancient East.
London, Arrowsmith, [1930].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 15/-.
A first-hand travel and adventure narrative recounting the author's time among Chinese pirate groups, illustrated with photographic plates.
Non-Fiction
The secret history of Rasputin's betrayal of Russia
London, Cassell, 1918.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-.
A sensational account purporting to reveal Rasputin's role in the downfall of Imperial Russia, presented as exposé rather than fiction.
London, Lectures Universal, [1936].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
A thoughtful and quietly radical exploration of psychical research by the Anglican clergyman and early paranormal investigator Rev. C. Drayton Thomas. Drawing on years of controlled experiments the book examines the possibility of survival after death with an unusually sober, empirical tone.
Non-Fiction
London, Putnam, 1933.
8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
First published in the UK in 1909, this new edition was published in 1933; it added "the theme of collective defence." Angell was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933.
Non-Fiction
London, The C.W. Daniel Company, 1936.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
Esmé Wynne-Tyson (1898-1972) was an English actress, writer and philosopher. A growing interest in religious and moral matters led her into non-fiction and journalism, sometimes in partnership with the writer J. D. Beresford. This work focuses on the World-Brotherhood Educational Movement and its belief in educating children in a culture of peace from a young age.
Non-Fiction
Socialism and the English Genius
London, Martin Secker & Warburg/Searchlight Books, 1941.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2s.
A wartime political essay arguing for a distinctly English form of democratic socialism, written in the context of the Second World War and the threat of fascism.
London, Cassell, 1931.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12/6.
A polemical historical study examining the decline of the Russian imperial family, combining personal recollection with political critique of the Romanov dynasty. Radziwill was a Polish aristocrat with close connections to European royal circles.
London, OUP, 1936.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Non-Fiction
London, Chatto & Windus, [c.1932].
First edition. 8vo. Original dark cloth. Dust-jacket, with price sticker '3/6 first cheap edition'.
Non-Fiction
Being the Book of the Federation of Progressive Societies and Individuals
London, George Allen & Unwin, 1934.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
Essays articulating the aims of interwar progressive movements: pacifism, rationalism, sexual reform, socialism and internationalist co-operation. Contributors include Olaf Stapledon, Francis Meynell and H.G. Wells.
London, Macmillan, 1942.
First Macmillan edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10s6d.
A collection of Churchill's political articles and speeches tracing European affairs in the lead-up to the Second World War, documenting his repeated warnings about German rearmament and appeasement.
Non-Fiction
London, OUP, 1925.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy (inscribed in vol.I). 2 vol. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jackets.
An ethnographical account of the Northern provinces of Nigeria together with a report on the 1921 decennial census.
edited with introduction and notes by H.A. Rose
London, OUP, 1927.
First edition thus, first impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 18/-.
A study of Sufi orders and ceremonial practice in the Ottoman Empire, originally compiled by Brown (a U.S. diplomat in Istanbul) in the mid-19th century and reissued here with scholarly additions by H.A. Rose.
London, John Bale, 1894.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt.
A medical-historical treatise published in 1894 by John Fletcher Horne that surveys the practice of trepanning (drilling holes in the skull) from ancient times through late-19th-century medical contexts.
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A shtudium fun dem ershaynen, leben und thetigkayt fun dem Musulmanishen gezets-geber un die rezultaten fun zayn religyon New York, M. Chinsky, 1898.First edition. Printed in Yiddish. 8vo. Contemporary green cloth.First edition of this Yiddish study of the Prophet Muhammad, written by the prolific journalist, novelist, and translator D. M. Hermalin (1865–1921). Beyond a biography of Muhammad and an outline of the Qur'an and Islam, the work includes chapters written from a distinctly Jewish perspective, such as on the Jewish communities of Mecca and Medina and on the Prophet's conflicts with them. Hermalin, who also produced popular accounts of Jesus of Nazareth and Sabbatai Zevi, was a central figure in the intellectual life of New York's Yiddish-speaking immigrant community, where he strove to place Jewish readers within a broader world culture. His choice of subject reflects both the fin-de-siècle vogue for comparative religious biography and Yiddish modernism's cosmopolitan ambitions, which sought to introduce global figures, from Mohammed to Goethe, to an audience often excluded from such literature by language barriers.
Non-Fiction
for remembrance of bygone scenes and circumstances
London, Hutchinson, 1927.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12/6.
Sir John W. Simpson, a leading architect, recorded his impressions of Paris and its vanished corners in this 1927 volume.
London, Stanley Paul, n.d..
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, publisher's price-sticker of 3/6 to spine.
This 1935 compendium gathers Robert Ripley's illustrated oddities and curiosities from his popular newspaper panel series, presenting "wonders, miracles, freaks and almost impossibilities".
London, Collins, 1937.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 16/-.
A travel narrative recording Lord Cottenham's journey across the United States. He drives by motor-car from New York to Los Angeles, returns by aeroplane, spends time in Hollywood, and takes a police-escorted tour through San Francisco's nightlife.
Non-Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1939.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Military fiction set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars.
Non-Fiction
(October 1899 - June 1902)
[London], Wesminster, Archibald Constable, 1902.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
This memoir recounts the Boer general's experiences during the Second Boer War. De Wet explains that he was called up in September 1899 as a private burgher and documents preparations for war, the camaraderie of commando life, battles and the strategies and hardships faced by Boer soldiers.
Non-Fiction
...edited by R.L. Smith-Rose
London, Methuen, 1922.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Published at the start of the public broadcasting boom, this popular handbook explains how broadcasting works and what listeners might hear.
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1933.
First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 35s.
This copy has been inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, dedicating it to H.M. Budgett (1882-1951), Master of Hounds and author of a comprehensive treatise on olfactory tracking, Hunting by Scent, which Hatfield declares himself a fan of in the inscription.
Henry Stafford Hatfield (1880–1966) was himself a chemist, broadcaster and inventor, and the author of several books on science, automatons and inventions. A scarce first printing of this title (later to be published by Pelican in 1948).
Non-Fiction
London, Faber & Faber, 1941.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8s.6d.
A thoughtful scholarly study tracing magic, astrology and the occult through history, blending translations (including from the Westcar Papyrus) with Gleadow's own interpretations.