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Rural Employments; or, a Peep into village concerns Designed to instruct the minds of children. Illustrated by numerous copper-plates
London: William Darton, 58 Holborn Hill 1820. 72pp. Twelvemo. Bound in original red morocco-backed marbled boards. Rather rubbed and worn, some inscriptions and juvenile drawings, spine with glue marks, lacking two of the eighteen plates; the plate at p.4 is misbound as the frontispiece. Apparently a scarce childrens' book covering..... More
The Late Uncle Max.
London: MacDonald. 1957. First edition. Octavo, pp. 192. Publisher's black cloth with yellow titles to spine, dynamic pictorial dustjacket. Small pen annotation on flyleaf, plus a small area of rough surface where a sticker or similar has been removed, some staining to the top edge. Dustwrapper shows well with just..... More
Philippe Halsman A Retrospective: Photographs from the Halsman Family Collection.
London: Pavilion, 1998. [Celebrity Photography] FIRST UK EDITION. Quarto (34 x 27cm), pp.212. Black and white photographs throughout. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and brown endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £40. Some light markings to jacket and little creasing to endpapers. Near fine. Iconic photos..... More
The Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wickenham.
London: Henry and co., 1895. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; 290; 14. Publisher's green cloth to boards, gilt titles and blue pictorial decoration blocked to upper and spine. Illustrated title page. Half-title lettered in orange. Advertisements to rear. Top edge gilt, the rest untrimmed. Light toning throughout..... More
General Gordon: The Christian Hero.
London and Felling-on-Tyne: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., no date [1908]. [African Colonial Wars] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 369 [3]. A stamp at rear suggests a printing date of April 1908. Contemporary red full calf by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles..... More
Tales From Shakespeare. Arranged and Illustrated by May Mulliner.
London: Robert Scott, 1915. [Children's Illustrated] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST MULLINER ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Small quarto (23 x 19cm), pp.[4] 242 [2]. With 16 mounted colour plates, including a frontispiece, by Mulliner, each with a captioned tissue guard. Recently re-bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
Tales From Shakespeare. With Twelve Illustrations in Permanent Photography from the Boydell Gallery.
London: Bickers and Son, 1888. [Shakespeare] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10]; 386; [2]. With twelve photogravure illustrations including a frontispiece. Red full calf to boards, double-ruled in gilt. Green label with gilt titles, gilt tooling, and raised bands to spine. Gilt dentelle to board edges and turn..... More
Crow Lake.
Toronto, ON: Alfred A Knopf, 2002. SIGNED TRUE FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.294. Fore edge untrimmed. Bound in publisher's teal paper-covered boards, in a photographic dustjacket depicting a lake. Fine condition. Spotless throughout, as new. Dustjacket in like. The book is signed by Mary Lawson to the title page. This edition..... More
Little Peter: A Christmas Morality for Children of any Age.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1888. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, ex libris Maurice Baring. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.viii; 168. With nine wood engraved plates by Hardy, including a frontispiece, as well as in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt and illustrations in black to spine and..... More
Our Village.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. [English Village Life] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, the second impression thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.lx; 256 [2]. With numerous in-text wood engravings after illustrations by Thomson, as well as a frontispiece. Contemporary light brown half crushed morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration..... More
The Borrowers. With Illustrations By Diana Stanley.
London: J.M. Dent, 1952. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.159; [1]. With wood engravings printed in red by Diana Stanley, as well as a chromolithographic frontispiece. Red wood engraved illustrations to endpapers. Publisher's blue cloth with red titles and illustrations to spine. With the dust-jacket, also illustrated..... More
No Voyage.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1963. [American Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 56. Publisher's green patterned paper-covered boards with spine lettered in gilt, deckled fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust-jacket priced 15s. Owner's small and unobtrusive name to front endpaper, else clean and fine, in a bright, near..... More
The Grass Widow's Tale.
London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1968. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket designed by Brian Russell with printed price of 18s to front flap. Minimal splitting to hinges, light toning to edges of textblock, bumping to base..... More
A Mirror for the Female Sex: Historical Beauties for Young Ladies. Intended to Lead the Female Mind to the Love and Practice of Moral Goodness. Designed principally for the Use of Ladies' Schools. Ornamented with Thirty-Four Engravings, Beautifully Cut on Wood.
London: Printed for Vernor and Hood in the Poultry; and sold by E. Newbery, 1798. [Historical Female Biography] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (17 x 11cm), pp.[4] xxiv; 226 [6]. Including a leaf of advertisements at rear. With an engraved frontispiece and many head and tail pieces in the style of Bewick..... More
The Mask of Apollo.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1966. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[6] 378. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by A.E. Barbosa, priced at 25s. A lovely crisp copy showing just a little wear to extremities. Near fine. A sequel to..... More
The Amber Witch. [Bound With: Journal of a Residence in Norway].
London: John Murray. [Residence in Norway published by Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans]. 1844. First edition of The Amber Witch (first English translation by Lady Duff Gordon, a virtually simultaneous but less popularly approved translation by E.A. Friedlander was published in the same year). Octavo. Two volumes bound in one..... More
The Works of William Shakespeare, Edited, with a Scrupulous Revision of the Text, by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke.
London: Bickers & Son [etc.], 1869. [Dramatic Works] FINELY BOUND SET. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] liv; 725 [3]; pp.[8] 730 [2]; pp.[8] 700 [2]; pp.[8] 751 [3]. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the Bard to volume I. Contemporary tan full polished calf by BICKERS..... More
The Works of William Shakespeare. Edited, with a Scrupulous Revision of the Text, by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke.
London: Bickers and Son, 1883. [Shakespeare] FINE LEATHER PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.lxi [3] 1002 [2]. With an engraved portrait of Shakespeare and his facsimile signature underneath. Title page lettered in red and black. Contemporary burgundy full morocco, boards lavishly gilt-tooled, upper with the gilt armorial device of..... More
Ludo and the Star Horse.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1974. [Children's Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.128. With occasional in-text illustrations by D'Achille. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and orange endpapers. Top edge brown. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by D'Achille. Slight surface scuffing to title page. Some bumping..... More
Emmett's Pig. Pictures by Garth Williams.
London: The World's Work, 1963. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.61; [3]. Publisher's quarter green cloth, colour illustrated paper over boards, titles in green and black to upper. Title page in green and black, colour illustrations throughout. Internally clean and crisp. Light wearing to board edges with..... More
Rupert Little Bear More Stories.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co, 1939. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm). Illustrative front and back boards with red and black lettering picturing the characters from the Rupert stories. Coloured illustrative frontispiece, two colour title page, two coloured text used throughout, illustrations throughout. Shaken in case, toning..... More
Mary Poppins Comes Back.
London: Lovat Dickson and Thompson Ltd., 1935. [Classic Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.303; [1], imprint; [1], blank. With black and white illustrations. Publisher's cream cloth blocked in green, illustrated endpapers, top edge green, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 5s. Some marginal soiling to pp.80-81 else contents clean..... More
[Review of 'Valperga' in] Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. No. LXXIV.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, March 1823. [Literary Magazine] CONTEMPORARY REVIEW. Octavo magazine in the original grey paper wrapper. pp.[2] 263-384 [4]. Edges untrimmed. An astonishingly well-preserved example, with just the slightest of spotting to preliminaries and some light thumbing and wear to the covers. Near-fine. A rare contemporary review of Mary..... More
A Poet Hero. Or the Lyre and Sword.
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1870. [Nineteenth century literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vi; 401; [1]; [16 of publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's russet cloth on bevelled boards, titles in gilt to spine and upper board, blocked in black and gilt to same, coated dark blue endpapers. The author's second..... More
Fifty-One Poems.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1946. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. 63; [1]. Small in-text wood cut illustrations throughout. Publisher's teal cloth lettered in gilt to spine, red pictorial design to front board, typographic dust-jacket. Toning to edges of textblock, price clipped, 2cm tear to dust-jacket spine, wearing to..... More
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