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London: The Folio Society, 2016. [Russian Poetry in translation] FIRST THUS. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxii; 161 [1]. With six black and white photographic plates, and an illustrated title page by Modigliani. Publisher's black cloth with blue and white titles and decoration to spine, and a photographic image of the..... More
How They Do It.
London: George Allen and Unwin ltd, 1945. [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.158; [2]. With numerous in-text illustrations by Karel apek. Publisher's green cloth to boards, blue titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, price-clipped to front flap. Top edge green. Toning to leaves and endpapers. Minor sunning..... More
Three Novels [Noetic Trilogy]. Hordubal; An Ordinary Life; Meteor.
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1948. [Modern Literature] FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION IN ENGLISH, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.469 [3]. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Top edge orange. With the grey typographic dust-jacket, printed on the reverse of a WWII map of Denmark..... More
Those Three. Forty-Four Cartoons.
London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., no date [1942]. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION. Oblong octavo (14 x 21cm), pp.[48] unpaginated. Publisher's wraps printed in red and black with printed price of 1' net. Stapled twice to spine. Three page introduction followed by forty-four full page cartoons with captions..... More
Problem Party.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1945. [Children's fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.214; [2]. Publisher's orange cloth, titles in green to spine, decorated front endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Tresilian with printed price of 8s. 6d. net. In-text illustrations by Tresilian. Spotting and toning to edges, cloth bumped..... More
Six Months at the Cape. Or Letters to Periwinkle from South Africa.
London: James Nisbet and Co., 1879. [African Colonial Topography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 256. With 12 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'Mrs. Aveling | with kind regards from | The Author.' Publisher's red cloth with gilt..... More
Quality Street. A Comedy in four acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1913]. [Illustrated Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[4] viii; 198 [2]. With a loose flier for the original exhibition of Thomson's watercolour illustrations for the book, November and December 1913. Complete with 22 colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece..... More
The Admirable Crichton. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [c.1914]. FIRST HUGH THOMSON EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), with twenty mounted colour plates and captioned tissues. Publisher's pale green cloth blocked in dark green and red to upper, gilt to spine. Contents are a little foxed, binding lightly handled, one neat/accidental pull to crown..... More
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [1920s]. [Children's] RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.126; [1], advertisement. With sixteen mounted colour plate illustrations, each with captioned tissue guards, illustrated map endpapers. Bound in publisher's gilt decorated green cloth, original pictorial dust-wrapper with colour plate to front, priced 10/6. Undated, with..... More
Three Years in Tristan Da Cunha.
London: Skeffington & Son, 1910. [South Atlantic Islands] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii; 280. Complete with 37 black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a map. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and a black and white photographic image to..... More
Sky Pioneer, the Story of Igor I. Sikorsky.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. [Aviation] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[6] 153 [1]. SIGNED by Sikorsky in blue ink to flyleaf. With four suites of photographic illustrations. Publisher's dark blue cloth, pink titles blocked to upper board and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at $2.50..... More
The Psychology of the Salem Witchcraft Excitement of 1692 and its Practical Application to Our Own Time.
Stratford, CT: John E. Edwards, 1971. [Anomalistic Psychology] LIMITED FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xx; 112 [2]. One of just 500 copies thus. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Light spotting to top edge, with a small mark where a label has been removed to fly-leaf..... More
'The James Bond Books of Ian Fleming: A Descriptive Bibliography' appearing in 'Firsts magazine' Volume 8, Number 11.
Firsts Magazine, Inc., Tuscson, Arizona November 1998. [Bibliographic journal] Magazine format, pp.76, pictorial covers. This illustrated article appears on pp.38–51, SIGNED by James M. Pickard. A fine copy. A most readable essay which contains much previously undocumented information; although some technical detail has since been expanded, this remains essential reading..... More
Guerilla Warfare. Restricted.
London: Ministry of Defence, 1957. [Warfare] WRITTEN WITH ACCESS TO OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[x]; 201. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles on red label to spine, 'Restricted' in gilt to boards, with sixteen folding maps and diagrams, erratum slip for p.91. Internally clean. Wearing to boards, more so..... More
The Heritage of the Sioux.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1916. [Old West Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 313. With a black and white frontispiece illustrated by Monte Crews. Publisher's brown cloth with black and tan titles and decoration to spine. Water staining to margins. Lacking rear endpaper, hinge starting. Moderate..... More
The Pilgrim's Progress, from This World to That Which is to Come.
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, no date [circa 1860s]. [Christian Allegory] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.xvi; 400 [2]. With over 100 full page and in-text wood engravings by Selous and Priolo, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full panelled morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles, and blind..... More
The Boy on the Bridge.
London: Orbit, 2017. [Zombie Apocalypse] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 392 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver title to spine, and yellow endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Duncan Spilling, priced at £16.99. 'Signed by the Author'..... More
Such is the Antarctic.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. [Polar Exploration] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, second state binding. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.265; [3]. With 45 photogravure illustrations including a frontispiece and maps and plans, some folding. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Spotting..... More
Jerramy Green-Eyes.
London: Hurst & Blackett, no date [1947]. [Romance] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.333. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by J. Vibart, priced at 10/6. A large clumsy blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise an exceptionally clean, bright copy, with just a...... More
A Review of Aristotle's Sytem of Ethics. A Prelection Read before the Vice-Chancellor, and Council of the Senate, Feb. 16, 1867.
Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1867. [Philosophy Lecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] 56 [2]. Contemporary brown calf, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. All edges speckled red; apricot endpapers. Black ink ownership to front pastedown. The lightest hint of spotting to blanks and..... More
Madame de Sable. Etudes sur les femmes illustres et la societe du XVIIe siecle.
Paris: Didier, 1854. Signed presentation copy. Octavo. Bound in half brown calf over marbled paper, with raised bands highlighted with gilt, and brown and gilt label to spine. Signed by the author, and presented to Viscount Mahon, later Earl Stanhope, MP, prominent historian and biographer.Binding is rubbed, both leather and..... More
Dr Ischenasch.
London: Peter Davies, 1952. [Industrial Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Val Biro, priced at 12/6. An exceptionally clean, bright copy, with just a little wear and chipping to jacket edges. Near fine. The..... More
The Fall of Lord Barrymore. [An extract from The Strand Magazine].
London: George Newnes, December 1912. [Magazine Extract] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 16cm), pp.603-611 [1]. With dichromatic illustrations by Brock. Leaves removed from a copy of The Strand Magazine and bound recently in brown paper, with a plain printed title label to upper, stapled twice. Light creasing and marking..... More
5 Passengers from Lisbon.
London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1946. [Murder mystery novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.192. Bound in tan cloth blocked in black, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price at 8/6. Contents clean, neat ink name to front endpaper, in a secondary or cheap edition binding, jacket with reduced..... More
Enemy in the House.
London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1963. [Historical murder mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.216; [4], blank. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine, dust-wrapper priced at 12/6. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A fine copy of the book in a near fine jacket with some..... More