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Wood Bending Handbook.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1970. [Craft and Construction] FIRST EDITION THUS. Quarto (30 x 21cm), pp.[10] 110. With diagrams and black and white photographic illustrations. Publisher's brown faux leather over boards, with lighter brown decoration to upper, and white titles to spine and upper. Priced at £1/15s or £1.75..... More
Treasure Island.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. [Children's Illustrated] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST WYETH ILLUSTRATED EDITION, First Issue, with '23' for '123' to p.x. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[2] xiv; 273 [3]. With 14 colour plates, each with a captioned tissue guard, as well as an illustrated title page. Recently re-bound..... More
The Black Arrow. A Tale of the Two Roses. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. [Historical Fiction] FIRST WYETH ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (24 x 18cm), pp.x; 320. With fourteen full-page colour illustrations. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and full size pictorial illustration laid down to upper board, colour printed illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed..... More
Alice of Old Vincennes.
Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1900. [American Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION, an advance copy. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 419 [13]. With five black and white illustrated plates and a colour frontispiece, all by Yohn. Publisher's light blue cloth with black and gilt titles, as well as decoration in white..... More
A Sporting Tour Through Various Parts of France, In the Year 1802: Including a Concise Description of the Sporting Establishments, Mode of Hunting, and Other Field-Amusements, as Practised in that Country With General Observations on the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Husbandry, and Commerce: Strictures on the Customs and Manners of the French People; With a View of the Comparative Advantages of Sporting in France and England. In a Series of Letters to the Right Hon. The Earl of Darlington. To Which is Prefixed, an Account of French Wolf-Hunting. By Colonel Thornton, of Thornville-Royal, Yorkshire. Illustrated With Upwards of Eighty Correct and Picturesque Delineations from Original Drawings from Nature, by Mr. Bryant, and Other Eminent Artists. In Two Volumes.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1806. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, in two volumes. Quartos (30 x 24cm), pp.lxvi; 168; [6], pp.xii; 260; [12]. With numerous in-text engravings and 51 engraved plates across the two volumes, some of them fold-out. Both with frontispieces and vignette title pages, frontispiece of volume II..... More
The Relations of the Sexes.
Christchurch: The Free Age Press, 1901. [Letters and Diaries] FIRST THUS. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.80. Publisher's green paper covers, priced at 4d. Rubbing and toning to spine, with a 1cm loss to head. Very good. A series of extracts from Tolstoy's letters, diaries and unpublished MSS. More
Windfalls: Notes and Essays.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1948. [Essays] SECOND EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, EXPANDED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp. 207; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket. Toning to edges of textblock, bumping to spine and edges, dust-jacket severely sunned, price clipped. Very good. A limited edition;..... More
Britain's Air Peril: The Danger of Neglect, Together with Considerations on the Role of the Air Force.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1933. CLEMENT ATLEE'S COPY, First Edition with a letter from the Air League of the British Empire. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x, 132 [2], 28. With Atlee's distinctive Art-Deco monogram bookplate to front pastedown, and a typed letter on headed note paper signed by..... More
The Fashionable Letter Writer; or, Art of Polite Correspondence. Consisting of Original Letters on every Occurrence in Life, written in a concise and familiar style, and adapted to both sexes. To which are added, complimentary cards, petitions, wills, bonds, etc.
London: Dean and Munday, and A.K. Newman, n.d. [c.1840]. EARLY EDITION in original publisher's boards. Sexto, pp.216. With a steel engraved frontispiece and decorated title page after drawings by H. Corbould, by H. Adlard. In original publisher's plain paper-covered boards with black titles to spine and upper board. Some outer..... More
Why Are They Weeping? South Africans under Apartheid.
New York, NY: Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 1988. [Political Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.200. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout. SIGNED by the photographer in black ink to p.1. Also with an original black and white photographic print, signed to rear by Turnley, loose to preliminaries. Publisher's..... 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
The Bookman Christmas Double Number 1912. December 1912. No. 255. Vol. 43.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, December 1912. [Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE SPECIAL. Folio (34 x 23cm), pp.xvi; 133-196; 217; xvii-xxxv. Not including the special portfolio of colour plates by Dulac, and also lacking the frontispiece portrait of Kipling. With numerous in-text black and white illustrations, and occasional colour plates by various..... More
Land: Its Attractions ad Riches. By Fifty-Seven Writers.
London: The Land Roll Office, 1892. [Property Investments] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 910 [10]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. Bookplate dated 1892 to front pastedown. Light browning and spotting to edges and preliminaries. Light rubbing to cloth. Very good. A rather desperate and highly..... More
Air Force Poetry.
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1944. [Second World War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.90 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the blue and white dust-jacket designed by Foss, priced at 7/6. Cloth spine faded, with toning to jacket spine. Rubbing..... More
Guardian Angel [and] The Secret People [in] The Fantastic Mysteries.
Kokomo, IN: All-Fiction Field, April 1950. [Fantasy / Science Fiction Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.123 [7]. With occasional engraved illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 25c. Moderately browned throughout. Heavy chipping to covers, with a large tear to front cover, recently repaired with archival tape. Covers..... More
Northern Numbers, being representative selections from certain living Scottish Poets. First Series.
Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, 1920. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 130 [4]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and brown titles to grey paper over boards. Top edge toned; others untrimmed. Black ink gift inscription dated Christmas 1921 to flyleaf. Some weakness to binding..... More
Now and Then. A Periodical of Books & Personalities Published Occasionally by Jonathan Cape Ltd. Number 56.
London: Jonathan Cape, Spring 1937. [Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo pamphlet (25 x 17cm). With two double-sided black and white plates. Publisher's grey typographic paper covers, priced at 3d. Light wear to covers, with heavy oxidation to staples. Very good. A mid-period issue of Jonathan Cape's occasional literary magazine, published..... More
Now and Then. News of Books and Authors Published Occasionally from 30 Bedford Square. Numbers 64, 65, 67, and 69.
London: Jonathan Cape, Winter 1939; Spring 1940; Winter 1940; Summer 1941. [Literary Magazines] ORIGINAL MAGAZINES. Four magazines in tabloid newspaper format (34 x 25cm), folded once and stapled twice, priced at 3d. Light wear to covers, with light oxidation to staples. Very good. Spartan, unillustrated wartime issues of Cape's occasional..... More
Now and Then. A Journal of Books and Personalities Published Occasionally from 30 Bedford Square. Number 77.
London: Jonathan Cape, Autumn 1948. [Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo pamphlet (25 x 17cm), pp.32. With occasional woodcut vignettes. Publisher's tan typographic paper covers, priced at 6d. Light wear to covers, with heavy oxidation to staples. Very good. The very first post-war issue of Cape occasional literary magazine (suddenly doubled..... More
Michael Strogoff. A Courier of the Czar Alexander II.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. [Adventure Fiction] FIRST WYETH EDITION. Quarto (24 x 18cm), pp.viii; 397; [1], blank. With colour-illustrated title page and nine captioned colour plates. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, colour plate laid down to upper, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Contents clean..... More
Their Island Home. The Later Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson.
New York, NY: G. Howard Watt, 1924. [Castaway Adventure] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 272 [4]. With a colour-illustrated frontispiece and two further black and white plates by Murphy. Publisher's maroon cloth with green titles to spine and upper, and a reproduction of the frontispiece laid over..... More
Death by Diagnosis [and] Headless Horseman [in] Street & Smith's Mystery Detective. Vol. II, No. 5.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., October 1955. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 1s. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Very small chip to head of spine. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories..... More
The Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain: Illustrated by Topographical, Historical, and Critical Notices; Combining every Interesting Object, Ancient and Modern. From an Elaborate Survey, and Original Designs Taken Upon the Spot. Kent.
London: George Virtue, no date [1829]. [Kent] PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[4]; ii; 130. Contemporary polished calf with gilt double rules, gilt titles to black leather square to spine, later plain brown endpapers. Profusely illustrated with a steel engraved frontispiece, and a vignette title, 126 fine steel engravings..... More
William of Wykeham. And His Colleges.
London: David Nutt, 1852. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xvi; 473; xv [11]. With five steel engravings and twenty-seven wood engravings. Contemporary full tan calf, with gilt titles on green label to spine, and further gilt decorations to spine, as well as raised bands and gilt and..... More
King Kong. Novelization by Delos W. Lovelace. Illustrated with scenes from the Radion Picture.
New York, NY: Grosset and Dunlap, 1932. [Gorilla adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 249;[1], advertisement. Publisher's green cloth blocked in dark brown, photographic endpapers, coloured top edge. Contents very clean, spine sunned, frayed at tips. A used yet respectable copy. The ultimate monster story, giant apes, dinosaurs..... More