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Romantic Ceylon. Its History, Legend and Story.
London: Cecil Palmer, 1929. [History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.253. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With 18 line illustrations including a frontispiece. Also with a map of Ceylon preceding title page. Light spotting throughout, toning and minimal marking to boards and spine. Very good..... More
Romantic Ceylon. Its History, Legend and Story.
London: Cecil Palmer, 1929. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.253; [1]. Publisher's grey cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With 18 full-page illustrations including a frontispiece, and several in-text illustrations. Also with a map of Ceylon preceding title page, pristine fold-out map to pg.68. Ink ownership of J.E.S...... More
Practical Letters to Young Sea Fishers.
London: Horace Cox, 1898. [Fishing] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xii; 340; [4] publisher's advertisements. Publisher's green cloth blocked in black and gilt to spine and upper, floral pattern endpapers. Thirty full page plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Some discolouring to endpapers, edges toned/dusty. Cloth lightly rubbed to extremities..... More
An Official Tribute and History of The Royal Observer Corps.
Leatherhead: Ashford, Buchan & Enright, 1993. [Military History] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 176. SIGNED by the author in black ink to fl-leaf. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Lightly handled; a fine copy. More
The Woman Thou Gavest Me. Being the Story of Mary O'Neill.
London: William Heinemann, 1913. [Modern literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 586; [14]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt to upper and spine. Embellishment in black to upper, in blind to lower. Catalogue to rear. Interior lightly toned..... More
The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony in Eight Fits, with nine illustrations by Henry Holiday.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. [Verse] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Crown octavo, pp.83 [3]. 'Baker' to p.84. With numerous illustrations by Holiday. Publisher's grey cloth blocked in black, recently re-backed with the original spine laid over, and the original black-coated endpapers. All edges gilt. Half title removed. A faint black..... More
Bond Bound. Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design
London: The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation 2008. [Bibliography / James Bond reference] FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Illustrated Quarto (23 x 18cm), pp.166. Soft-bound in photographic wraps with integral flaps, die-cut with bullet holes to the front cover and rear flap. A fine copy. This issue with the matt red '007' logo..... More
James Bond, The Man and His World, The Official Companion to Ian Fleming's Creation.
London: John Murray, 2005. FIRST EDITION, with strike-like '1' present. Illustrated quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.250. Hand-bound in half burgundy oasis morocco with raised bands to spine, gilt titles, matching cloth sides, black endpapers, publisher's original cloth spine and dust-jacket preserved at the rear. A fine copy in an attractive..... More
James Bond, The Man and His World, The Official Companion to Ian Fleming's Creation.
London: John Murray, 2005. [Literary Reference] FIRST EDITION, with strike-like '1' present. Illustrated quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.250. Publisher's red cloth hardcovers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £20. Bound without the rear flyleaf (as they were issued). A fine, unread copy. Cited by Gilbert as a primary reference book on Ian..... More
James Bond, The Man and His World, The Official Companion to Ian Fleming's Creation.
London: John Murray, 2005. [Literary Reference] FIRST EDITION, with strike-like '1' present. Illustrated quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.250. Publisher's red cloth hardcovers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £20. Contents clean, jacket unmarked. Bibliographer Jon Gilbert's reference copy, with pencilled comments to two post-it notes within. A fine copy. Cited by Gilbert..... More
The Problem of Industrial Relations and Other Lectures.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1929. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth in scarce original dustwrapper. The book is absolutely fine and appears unread; jacket shows some chipping to spine tips, and a little toning to extremities. An attractive copy. First edition in book form. Some of these essays had appeared..... More
Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit.
London: William Pickering, 1840. FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo, pp.[16] x, 95. In publisher's navy leather-grain effect cloth with black titles to white paper label on spine. All edges untrimmed. Reading lean and wear to title label. Very light internal spotting. Good overall. A collection of MS letters discovered at the poet..... More
The Romance of the Echoing Wood.
Newport: R.H. Johns, the "Directory" Press, 1937. [Welsh Fairy Tale] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[8] 43 [5]. Number 50 of just 220 copies, SIGNED by all the contributors, including the publisher, to the limitation page. With wide marginal illustrations and three full page plates all engraved..... More
The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper. Including his Translation of Homer.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1875. [Poetry] FINELY-BOUND COPY. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxiv; 516; [2]. With eighteen steel engravings, including a frontispiece, after William Harvey. Red full morocco. Tooling in both blind and gilt to boards. Gilt titles, further gilt decoration, and raised bands to spine. Turn-ins gilt ruled. Bevelled..... More
William's Television Show.
Sydney: Dymock's Book Arcade, 1958. [Children's Short Stories] FIRST AUSTRALIAN EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.248. With occasional in-text illustrations by Henry, as well as a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. Extremely heavily browned throughout to low quality paper. Small..... More
William—In Trouble.
London: George Newnes, no date [1927]. [Children's Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.261. With occasional in-text drawings and a frontispiece by Henry. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Black ink gift inscription to flyleaf. Light toning and very minor spotting to edges and..... More
The Track of Man; Adventures of an Anthropologist.
New York: Doubleday and Company, 1953. [Anthropology] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.448. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to half-title: 'To Kathleen | with greetings | Henry Field | August 30, 1960.' With two suites of black and white photographic plates, 28 in total. Brown cartographic..... More
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1844. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. In two volumes. Octavo (16 x 12cm), pp.[6]; 456; [2]; pp.[6]; 443; [3]. Contemporary tan quarter calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red spine labels, and marbled boards and endpapers. Browning and spotting throughout. Spines lightly toned with some marks and..... More
The Works of Henry Fielding.
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., and New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. [Literature] FINELY BOUND. Twelve volumes, octavo (23 x 15 x 38cm). Beautifully bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for E.P. Dutton and Company in contemporary dark red half morocco over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt titles and..... More
Aston Martin. The Postwar Road Cars.
Yeovil, UK: Haynes, 1988. [Motoring] Oblong quarto (26 x 27cm), pp.128, illustrated throughout with colour photos. Publisher's cloth hardcovers in dust-wrapper glossy photographic covers. Contents fine, jacket with some scratches to panels, one creased tear to rear. Very good. A comprehensive illustrated history of the Aston Martin marque. From the..... More
[James Bond] A group of four Comic Book volumes comprising [1] Casino Royale, Live & Let Die; [2], The Spy Who Loved Me; [3] Octopussy, The Hildebrand Rarity; [4] The Man With The Golden Gun, The Living Daylights.
US/UK: Titan Books, 1987-90. [Comic strip anthologies] Tall paperbacks in illustrated glossy covers. Strips written by Ian Fleming, Henry Gammidge, Anthony Hern and Jim Lawrence, illustrated by John McLusky and Yaroslav Horak. All first printings. Fine copies. Comic-strip adaptations of Ian Fleming's James Bond stories, as serialised in the Daily..... More
[James Bond] A group of seven Comic Book volumes comprising [1] Casino Royale, Live & Let Die, Moonraker (and other stories); [2] Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No; [3] Goldfinger, Risico, From A View To A Kill, For Your Eyes Only, Thunderball; [4] OHMSS, You Only Live Twice; [5] The Man With The Golden Gun, The Living Daylights; [6] Octopussy, The Hildebrand Rarity; [7] The Spy Who Loved Me, The Harpies.
US/UK: Titan Books, 2004-5. [Comic strip anthologies, series 1-3] Tall paperbacks in illustrated glossy covers. Strips written by Ian Fleming, Henry Gammidge, Anthony Hern and Jim Lawrence, illustrated by John McLusky and Yaroslav Horak. Mixed printings. With introductions by Roger Moore, Eunice Gayson, Shirley Eaton, George Lazenby, Lucy Fleming, Maud..... More
A School History of England.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1911. [British History] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 250 [4]. With 10 colour plates by Ford, as well as various maps and drawings. Contemporary navy full calf by RELFE BROS for Langport Grammar School, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration..... More
The Michael Fraenkel and Henry Miller Correspondence, Called Hamlet. Volume I and Volume II.
London: Edition du Laurier, Carrefour, 1962. FIRST ONE VOLUME EDITION, third printing. Quarto, pp.411 [5]. With a handful of in-text lithographic illustrations. In publisher's cream card wraps, bound together with blue string. Titles to front cover. Some light external wear; very good overall. First printed in 1939, with subsequent impression..... More
Twelve Part Songs. Omnipotent Lord; Little Celandine; Gitanella; Bright Star of Eve; My True Love Hath My Heart; Take Me, Mother Earth; The Farewell; Go, Lovely Rose; The Bell; Far From My Native Mountains; Adam Could Find No Solid Peace; Le Loup et L'Agneau (The Wolf and the Lamb), a Fable from La Fontaine, with French and English Words.
London: Goddard & Co., no date [1872-1873]. [Part-Song Collection] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS, with two significant associated inscriptions. Two six-part series bound as one volume. Large octavo (27 x 19cm). With the composer's blue ink stamp-signature to title page of each Part Song. Additionally INSCRIBED in pencil to the composer's sub-conductor..... More