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63: Dream Palace. A Novella and Nine Stories.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1957. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 12/6 to front flap. Internally bright and clean with toning to margins and edges. Ownership inscription in black ink to flyleaf. Minimal bumping..... More
Shooting Stars.
London: BBC Books, 1996. [Game Show] MULTI-SIGNED COPY, the second printing. Tall octavo (29 x 15cm), pp.120. Illustrated in colour throughout, with audio CD attached to clear plastic pouch on front cover. SIGNED by all five members of the cast in blue marker to title page. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper..... More
A History of Vagrants and Vagrancy, And Beggars and Begging.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. First Edition. Large Octavo, pp. xxi, 720. With 19 b/w illustrations, and a table showing the number of vagrants apprehended, convicted and discharged from 1831-85. Including and index of statutes, and index of beggars and a general index. In publisher's deep mauve boards with gilt..... More
Green Fields and Running Brooks.
Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1893. [American-Irish Poetry Interest] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 224 [2]. With a SIGNED presentation slip tipped in to preliminaries, addressed to the notable Irish Nationalist MP Hon. T.P. O'Connor, and dated Christmas 1892. Publisher's brown cloth with a maroon strip to top..... More
Six Centuries of Work and Wages. The History of English Labour.
London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1901. [Economic History] FINELY BOUND, sixth edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 591 [3]. Contemporary brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and grey cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Ex libris Sir Malcolm McEacharn, with his armorial bookplate to..... More
Drive.
Harpenden: No Exit Press, 2006. [Crime Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.189 [3]. Number 233 of just 500 copies signed in black ink to the flyleaf by the author. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. Photographic endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £12. A...... More
Japan To-Day.
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1905. [Japanese History and Ethnology] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.323 [5]. With a colour frontispiece and 27 black and white photographic plates. Publisher's red pictorial cloth, with gilt titles to spine and white titles to upper. Top edge gilt. Illustrated bookplate to front..... More
Collected Poems.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1926. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] blank; XXII; 260. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Untrimmed edges. Includes an extract from the Sunday Times dated 15/7/62 discussing the life and mannerisms of Stephens loosely inserted. Toning to edges of textblock..... More
A Poetry Recital.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1925. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] vi; 36 [4]. Publisher's brown paper over boards, with darker brown titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. With the plain dust-jacket, titled in blue to spine and upper, and priced at 3/6. Internally crisp and..... More
The Seasons, Odes, Songs, and Hymns.
London: Printed for John Bumpus, 1822. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 11cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 192 [4]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author, and an introductory biography by Aikin. Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles to a black label, further gilt decoration to spine, and gilt..... More
The Poetical Works of James Thomson. Comprising all his Pastoral, Dramatic, Lyrical, and Didactic Poems, and a few of his Juvenile Productions. With a Life of the Author by the Rev. Patrick Murdoch, D.D., F.R.S. and Notes by Nichols.
London: William Tegg and Co, 1849. [Poetical works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[72] 676 [2]. Nine illustrations including portrait frontispiece. Dark green full calf, gilt titles on red label to spine, with gilt decorations to spine, raised bands, and wide decorative border in gilt and blind..... More
The Beast in Me and Other Animals. A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings about Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. [Humour] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 340. With numerous illustrations by the author. Publisher's green cloth with brown titles to spine, and brown dog device to upper. With the orange dust-jacket, also illustrated by the author, priced at 12/6. Jacket quite heavily sunned..... More
Credos and Curios.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.180. Bound in publisher's red cloth with titles and publisher's imprint in gilt to spine. Yellow dustjacket with illustrations by the author, titles in black and red to front cover and spine, clipped. Internally clean, with foxing just beginning to flyleaves, negligible..... More
Ian Fleming The Book Collector. Edited by James Fergusson; Consultant Editor, Nicolas Barker.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2017. [Bibliography] LIMITED EDITION, number 115 of 150 copies SIGNED signed by Fergus Fleming (co-publisher at Queen Anne Press) and his brother James (publisher of The Book Collector), Ian Fleming's nephews. Additionally signed by Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert. All three authors have written essays contained herein..... More
Ian Fleming The Book Collector. Edited by James Fergusson; Consultant Editor, Nicolas Barker.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2017. [Bibliography] DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, one of a handful of copies marked o/s (out of series) SIGNED by Fergus Fleming (co-publisher at Queen Anne Press) and his brother James (publisher of The Book Collector), Ian Fleming's nephews. Additionally signed by Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert. All three..... More
Ian Fleming The Book Collector. Edited by James Fergusson; Consultant Editor, Nicolas Barker.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2017. [Bibliography] LIMITED EDITION, number 115 of 150 copies SIGNED signed by Fergus Fleming (co-publisher at Queen Anne Press) and his brother James (publisher of The Book Collector), Ian Fleming's nephews. Additionally signed by Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert. All three authors have written essays contained herein..... More
[Five Publishers' Sample Books]. 'Our Martyred President: The Life and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield'; 'The London Dickens'; 'The Klondike Gold Fields'; 'Canada Under the Administration of Lord Dufferin'; 'Earl Kitchener and the Great War'.
[various publishers in North America], n.d. [c.1870's - 1910's]. [Book history] RARE PUBLISHERS' SAMPLES. Five volumes, octavo (largest volume 22 x 15cm). Each in publisher's cloth, all slim volumes lacking titles to spines. Each sample is unique, some containing lined paper at the back for the salesman to record subscribers..... More
Irish Short Stories.
London: Faber and Faber, 1932. [Short Story Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.428; [4]. Publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket priced at 3/6. Small blue ink ownership to flyleaf. Light spotting and browning to edges and endpapers. Jacket with chips and closed..... More
Terminator 2: Judgement Day [Tag der Abrechnung] [LOBBY CARDS].
Berlin: Tri-Star Pictures, 1991. [Movie Memorabilia] ORIGINAL LOBBY CARDS. A set of 16 lobby cards from the German version of the film 'Terminator 2: Judgement Day' written, directed and produced by James Cameron, and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton. Colour lithographic images on light stock measuring 21 x 30cm..... More
Gorgo [LOBBY CARDS].
Beverley Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1961. [Movie Memorabilia] ORIGINAL LOBBY CARDS. An incomplete set of five lobby cards from the film 'Gorgo' directed by Eugene Lourie, and starring Bill Travers. Colour lithographic images on heavy stock measuring 28 x 36cm, with production credits to a white banner at foot. Lightly browned..... More
The Scotish Poets. Morison's Editions.
Perth: for R. Morison and Son, Booksellers; and Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1786; 1787; 1788. [Poetry] MORISON'S EDITION, LEATHER BINDING, LARGE PAPER EDITION. 3 Volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp. [xii]; iv; 121; [7], blank. pp. [vi]; lxi; 156; [4], blank. pp. [viii]; 100;..... More
Measures of Poison.
Tucson, AZ: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2002. [Noir Anthology] MULTI-SIGNED FIRST EDITION, an inscribed out-of-series copy. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[12] 710. SIGNED in various inks by most (over 20 of 26) the contributors and the editor to limitation leaf tipped onto the half-title, INSCRIBED 'For Thalia—lover of books & wild..... More
Signature. A Quadrimestrial of Typography and Graphic Arts. New Series 2, November 1946.
London: Signature, November 1946. [Art Periodical] ORIGINAL PERIODICAL. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.52. With numerous black and white plates. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the original glassine jacket. Light toning to covers. Jacket lightly toned and spotted, with some light chipping and closed tears to edges. Near fine. Including a...... More
Gibraltar [and] The Humble Herring [and] Ego [in] Men Only Magazine.
London: C. Arthur Pearson, October 1936. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo magazine (19 x 13cm), pp.152. With 12 double-sided illustrated plates, many in colour, with further in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue soft covers, priced at 1s. Lightly toned throughout. Covers toned, and rubbed to edges. Very good. A withering piece on..... More
The Energy System of Matter. A deduction from terrestrial energy phenomena.
London; Longman's. 1912. First edition. Octavo. Near fine in publisher's dark blue cloth titled in gilt to spine, light bumping to spine ends, minor edgewear. Internally clean, newspaper clipping tipped in to pastedown but without offsetting. Inscribed by the author to Dr. William Park on front flyleaf. More