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The Watsons. With an Introduction by A.B. Walkley.
London: Leonard Parsons, 1923. [Literature] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.100. With an engraved, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Green quarter cloth, marbled paper over boards. Top edge green, the rest untrimmed. Blue endpapers. Lightly spotted throughout. Some rubbing to marbled boards. Gentle edgewear. Very good. 'In 1871 Jane Austen's nephew..... More
The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Emma, Lady Susan and The Watsons.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911-1912. [English Literature] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND WINCHESTER EDITION. Twelve volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 34cm). With a portrait frontispiece to first volume, and title pages printed in red and black with a vignette 'JA' monogram. Recently bound in tan half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Emma, Lady Susan and The Watsons.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911-1912. [English Literature] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND WINCHESTER EDITION. Twelve volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 34cm). With a portrait frontispiece to first volume, and title pages printed in red and black with a vignette 'JA' monogram. Elegantly bound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and..... More
The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Emma, Lady Susan and The Watsons.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911-1912. [English Literature] COMPLETE WINCHESTER EDITION. Twelve volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 34cm). With a portrait frontispiece to first volume, and title pages printed in red and black with a vignette 'JA' monogram. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spines. Top edges gilt..... More
Jane Austen's Sanditon: A Continuation by her Niece, Together With "Reminisces of Aunt Jane."
Chicago: The Chiron Press, 1983. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, limited to 500 copies of which this is number 198. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.lii [4] 183 [3]. With four black and white illustrations, including a frontispiece. White quarter leatherette, blue paper over boards. Typographic paper label to spine. With the typographic..... More
Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977.
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. [Fashion Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (37 x 28cm), unpaginated, with 162 black and white photographs. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by the photographer in black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy photographic paper-covered boards. With the original clear..... More
The Islanders: An Introduction.
London: Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art and Koenig Books, 2010. [Art and Philosophy Exhibition Catalogue] SECOND EDITION. Quarto (32 x 23cm), pp.164. With a mixture of colour and black and white illustrations. Publisher's grey leatherette over boards, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Maps to endpapers..... More
Onomatopoeia: The Port.
London: Koenig Books, 2010. [Art and Philosophy Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 23cm), pp.79 [1]. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's brown paper over boards, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Spine sunned, with some light wear to boards. Very good. An early publication..... More
War Storm.
London: Orion, 2018. [Young Adult Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 662 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to preliminary leaf. Publisher's navy cloth with metallic blue titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Sarah Nichole Kaufman, priced at £12.99. 'Signed by the Author'..... More
Practical Observations on the Nature and Treatment of Marasmus, and of those Disorders allied to it, which may be strictly denominated Bilious.
London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1818. First Edition. Small 4to; pp. x, (2), 256. Publisher's blue paper covered boards, a little stained and rubbed; grey paper spine chipped and frayed; original paper title label chipped and rubbed; edges untrimmed. Internally sound and clean. A very good copy of..... More
The Life and Times of Richard the First, Surnamed Coeur-de-Lion, King of England.
London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 1840. [English history] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (15 x 10cm), pp.xvi; 366. With an engraved, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Contemporary red half morocco, borders gilt-ruled, nonpareil marbled paper over boards. Gilt titles, gilt tooling, and raised bands to spine. Nonpareil marbled endpapers, matching marbled edges. Offsetting..... More
Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a later edition. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[12]; 268. With frequent wood engraved vignettes by the Patons. Contemporary green full morocco by R. and A. SUTTABY of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt..... More
The Wind in the Wood.
London: Hollis and Carter, 1952. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[10]; 143; [1]. With twelve chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by the author, and wood engraved vignettes to chapter headings. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 18s. net..... More
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures.
London: Charles Knight, 1832. [Operations Research] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.[2] xvi; 320 [4]. With a vignette title page featuring an engraved medal of Roger Bacon. Publisher's pink moire silk-effect cloth, with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed. Inscribed 'From Her Grace | the Duchess of Gordon..... More
For Your Eyes Only: The James Bond Dossier. Official Film Poster Magazine.
London: Phoenix Publications Ltd., 1981. [Film Poster] ORIGINAL POSTER-MAGAZINE. Folded, approx. 30 x 21cm; open 84 x 60cm. US 'one sheet' format, with articles on the film, books, author, and producers to reverse, priced at 75p. Very light wear to folds. Fine. More
For Your Eyes Only. Official Souvenir Brochure.
London: Phoenix Publications Ltd., 1981. [Film promotion] Magazine format (30 x 20cm), pp.[16]. Introduced by Roger Moore, with a brief biography of Ian Fleming. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, stapled twice. Some minor handling; very good. Published to accompany the hit James Bond film based on..... More
Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil, with Notes and Glossarial Index by W. Aldis Wright, M.A.
Cambridge and London: Macmillan and Co., 1865. [Philosophy] FINELY BOUND, the third edition thus. Small octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[2] xxxii; 388 [2]. In a later binding of brown full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and gilt and blind decoration to boards, dated August 1930 in pencil..... More
Head Kid.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2018. [Children's Humour] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[2] 384. SIGNED by the author in black ink to preliminary signature leaf. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Blue patterned endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Lenton, priced at £12.99. A fine..... More
Pigsticking, or Hog-Hunting. A Complete Account for Sportsmen and others.
London: Harrison and Sons, 1889. FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.211; [1], imprint; [16], advertisements. Bound in publisher's blue-black cloth, titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board, sepia floral endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrated throughout by the author, depicting the techniques and tribulations..... More
Birds And Beasts In Africa, and The Angler In South Africa.
London: Macmillan and Co, and Johannesburg: Hortors Ltd, 1938 and 1923. Pair of Baden-Powell association copies, with a letter of authenticity from the scout association: 1) The Angler In South Africa. Inscribed "To The Chief Scout" by H.V. Marsh, the Assistant Commissioner of Natal during Baden-Powell's trip to South Africa..... More
Cricket. With contributions by A. Lang, W. G. Grace, R. A. H. Mitchell, and F. Gale. With Numerous Engravings after Lucien Davis and from Photographs.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. [Sports] 1901 Reissue (first published 1888). Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.408; [4], ads. Includes a large number of illustrations. Handsomely bound in brown half morocco, gilt, with contrasting blue title label and cloth sides. Marbled paper over sides. Contents clean but for some very..... More
Boating
Longmans Green and Co., London 1888. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Illustrated throughout. Elegantly hand-bound in half dark blue oasis morocco leather over marbled sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, top edge gilt. A little spotting to first and final leaves else a fine copy in attractive recent leather..... More
Bailey's Democracy.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2005. [Nude Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (34 x 27cm), unpaginated. Black and white photographs of assorted male and female nudes on clay paper. Publisher's grey cloth with black titles to spine, and blank white glossy paper laid over upper. Light wear and rubbing. Very good... More
A Drug in the Market. Author of 'The Slip Coach', 'The Blue Poppy', 'The Down Train' and 'The Black Circle'.
London, Edward Arnold and Co. 1928. First Edition, 8vo. Publisher's light blue/grey cloth, titles in black to spine, in dark blue and white pictorial dust-jacket. Other publications listed to the back. A little bumping and scuffing to spine and corners with a slight lean. Light toning to pages, slightly darker..... More
History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the Breaking Out of the War in 1792, to the Restoration of a General Peace in 1815; comprehending the Civil History of Great Britain and France, during that Period.
London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. [European History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Quarto (27 x 22 x 9cm), pp.[4]; 539; [1]; pp.[4]; 595; [1]. With a number of maps, some folding, and copper engraved portraits, including a frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary full..... More