![Guide Book] [Louis XIV] A Day in Versailles. Illustrated Guidebook of The Museum, The Park, The...](/pictures/thumb/BB2266.jpeg?v=1605478623)
Paris: Braun & Co., 1950. First Impression. Stiff Wrappers. First English language edition of this Cunard curiosity, as she purportedly translated this guide book. Foolscap 8vo (): 64pp, with 32 full-page illustrations from photographs and 8 plans. Original greyish-beige perfect-bound wrappers printed in green and reddish-brown. A Very Fine copy..... more
![In Search of England [Penguin No. 1431]. H. V. MORTON, 1892.1979 Henry Canova Vollam](/images/noimage.png)
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books in Association with Methuen, 1960. First Printing. First Paperbound Edition of the title that launched Morton's In Search of . . . series. Foolscap 8vo (179 x 107mm): 252pp. Publisher's card covers printed in blue and black. Tightly bound and clean throughout, very faint edge-wear, lightly..... more
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition (so stated). 8vo: [4],176,[4]pp. Publisher's turquoise cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge stained gold, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust jacket priced $3.95 with correct 10/64 date of publication on front flap. As New and unread, a...... more
![Ottoman Empire] A Modern Pilgrim in Mecca and a Siege in Sanaa. Arthur, ng](/pictures/thumb/BB2303.jpeg?v=1627338422)
London: John Constable, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce First Printing of this clandestine tour of the Near East. Demy 8vo (213 x 138mm): viii,[2],349,[1]pp, with seven plates from photographs (one a map) and large folding map of Arabia in black and blue inserted at rear. Publisher's Prussian blue cloth stamped..... more