1. Adelson, Alan (Ed.).

The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak. Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto. Translated by Kami Turowski.

London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1996. 16 cm x 24.2 cm. 271 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear and occasional stains.

2. Wilson, Sarah [Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Spencer-Churchill].

South African Memories – Social, Warlike and Sporting, From Diaries Written at the Time. With a Photogravure of Lady Wilson.

London, Edward Arnold. 1909. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XII, 331 pages. 20 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt letter and design on front board. Gilt top edge. Deckled edges. Good condition only with some stronger signs of external wear. Board corners bumped. Tear to cloth at front hinge of spine but binding still firm and strong. Interior bright and clean and the bookblock tight and complete with all illustrations. Excellent Provenance: With tiny – bookplate: “The Times” – Book Club – Oxford Street, London.

3. Wilkinson, Mrs. [Annie Margaret] /

A Lady’s Life and Travels in Zululand and the Transvaal During Cetewayo’s Reign. Being the African Letters and Journals of the Late Mrs Wilkinson.

London, J. T. Hayes. 1882. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece, VIII, 264 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Front and rear boards carry pictorials. Richly coloured pastedowns and endpapers. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor tear to frontispiece. Tissue guard in good condition. Interior bright and clean. Preowner’s name on front pastedown.

4. Rae, Colin.

Malaboch – or Notes from my Diary on the Boer Campaign of 1894 against the Chief Malaboch of Blaauwberg, District Zoutpansberg, South African Republic – To which is appended a synopsis of the Johannesburg crisis of 1896.

London / South Africa, Sampson Low, Marston and Company / J.C. Juta & Co, 1898. 15.5 cm x 23.2 cm. XIX, 248 pages. 53 illustrations. Fold-out map showing ‘the scene of war in Zoutpansberg.’ Modern, recent Hardcover [maroon cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Parts of the original binding (spine and illustrated cover) pasted to pastedown and endpaper. Excellent condition besides the paper being a little brittle at the deckled edges and a minor tear to halftitle. Interior bright and unmarked. Binding firm and strong.

5. Nin, Anaïs.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin. Volume Two: 1934-1939 and Volume Three: 1939-1944. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann.

Volume 2 & 3 of 7 in series. New York, The Swallow Press / Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1967 / 1969. 13.5 x 20cm. Vol. 2: (9), 357 pages / Vol. 3: (14), 327 pages. Original softcover. Vol. 2: Spine worn with a slight lean, some text annotations, otherwise very good condition. Vol. 3: Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. [Harvest Books, Nos. HB174 & HB199].

6. Moore, A.W. [ E.H. Stevens Ed.].

The Alps in 1864 – A Private Journal. Edited by E.H. Stevens.

Volume II (of Two Volumes). Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1939. 13.5 cm x 20.5 cm. XI, 524 pages.18 illustrations and Maps on pastedowns and endpapers of the Saas Grat, Turtmann and Bies Glaciers, the Moming Glacier, the Aletschhorn and the Wetterhorner. Hardcover [publisher’s original grey cloth] with lettering on spine. Small vignette on front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Ink stains to top edge. Interior bright and clean. Ex-libris stamps near front. [Blackwell’s Mountaineering Library]

7. Lawrence, Mary Chipman.

The Captain’s Best Mate – The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler ‘Addison’ 1856-1860. Edited by Stanton Garner.

Hanover and London Published by Brown University Press by University Press of New England. 1986. 15 cm x 23 cm. XXI, 311 pages. Frontispiece illustrated with a reproduction of the Title Page of Mary Lawrence’s journal and a further four black-and-white photographs . Nine maps drawn by Sam H. Bryan, Marblehead, Massachusetts. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.