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Memoirs of King Abdullah of Transjordan.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. [Middle East Political Memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.278; [2]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the cream dust-jacket titled in black and purple, priced 15s. Top edge pink. Some offsetting to endpapers. Apparently... More
Pride and Prejudice.
London: Eldon Press Limited, 1939. [Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 588; [2]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, striking metallic gold dust-jacket with printed price of 2'6 net. Some spotting to preliminaries, neat ownership to flyleaf, bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Cloth discoloured to foot of... More
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[The Illustrated Novels of Jane Austen]. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1898-1906. [Illustrated Novels Set] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, later impressions. Six novels in five volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 20cm). Pride and Prejudice illustrated by Brock; the other titles by Thomson. 40 wood engravings per volume. In recent navy half morocco with raised bands, gilt... More
The Works. Comprises: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock and Hugh Thomson.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. [Classic English Literature] FIRST EDITIONS THUS - each being the first edition illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Five volumes, octavos (20 x 13 x 18cm). With an introduction by Austin Dobson in each volume, profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice... More
Mansfield Park.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. [Illustrated Classic] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xviii; 429; [1]. With 40 wood engraved illustrations by Thomson, including a frontispiece. In the publisher's deluxe red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board. All edges gilt; yellow peacock design... More
Mansfield Park.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. [English Literature] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xviii; 429; [1], blank. With wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Hugh Thomson. Publisher's original burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped floral design to spine and covers, 'Peacock' patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Minor edgewear, some fading/rubbing... More
Mansfield Park.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. [English Literature] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xviii; 429; [1], blank; [2], advertisements. With wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Hugh Thomson. Publisher's original burgundy cloth with gilt titles, floral design in blind to covers, white endpapers, edges untrimmed. Contents quite clean... More
The Vox Edition of the Works of Jane Austen
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1933-4. [Classic Literature] FIRST VOX ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13 x 21cm), 7 volumes. With colour plates and in-text black and white illustrations by Maximilien Vox. Prefatory letter, in French by Maximilien Vox and an introduction by Emile Legouis. Publisher's patterned grey cloth... More
The Best of Beaton. With notes on the photographs by Cecil Beaton. Introduction by Truman Capote.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 24cm), pp.248. Profusely illustrated with mainly black and white photographs by Beaton. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, orange endpapers, dust-jacket. Edges toned with the occasional mark, cloth lightly handled. Jacket price-clipped, with extensive amateur repairs to... More
Beyond the Fringe.
London: Souvenir Press, 1963. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's dark blue cloth, orange titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket with printed price of 13s. 6d. With six double sided black and white photographic plates. Light spotting to edges. Wrapper slightly edge worn, some marking to rear panel... More
John Burningham.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2009. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Royal quarto (31 x 24cm), pp.224. With a foreword by Maurice Sendak, and an introduction by Brian Alderson. Illustrated in colour throughout. Signed by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the... More
The works of robert burns. Illustrated by an Extensive Series of Portraits and Authentic Views. With a Complete Life of the Poet: An Essay on his Genius and Character, by Professor Wilson. Numerous Notes, Annotations, and Appendices.
London: Blackie and Son, 1866. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.cclxxvi; iv; 149; [1]; pp.xx; 412. With a total of 83 engraved plates by various artists, including a frontispiece and vignette title page to each volume, and a facsimile example of Burns' handwriting... More
The Road To Oxiana.
London: John Lehmann, 1950. [Travel] SECOND EDITION, (the first edition was published by Macmillan in 1937). Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvii; 18-292. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, map endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Keith Vaughan with printed price of 15s. net. Illustrated with thirteen black and white plates. Neat... More
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1939. [Classic literature] FINELY BOUND. First Nonesuch Press edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiv; [2]; 1165; [1]. Handsomely bound in recent red half morocco over marbled boards, top edge red. With occasional in-text illustrations. Textblock a little toned, edges a little more so, else a fine... More
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1939. [Children's] FIRST NONESUCH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 1165; [3]. With Tenniel's original in-text illustrations to the Alice books. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the orange illustrated dust-jacket, repriced by the publisher with a sticker at 32/6. Top edge red... More
Killer in the Rain. Being: Killer in the Rain; The Man who liked Dogs; The Curtain; Try the Girl; Mandarin's Jade; Bay City Blues; The Lady in the Lake; No Crime in the Mountains. With an Introduction by Philip Durham.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. [Crime stories] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.332. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper designed by John Andrew. No inscriptions or price-clipping, top edge spotted, jacket a little handled and toned. Very good indeed. First British appearance in book form- contains short stories published... More
Killer In The Rain. Being: Killer in the Rain; The Man who liked Dogs; The Curtain; Try the Girl; Mandarin's Jade; Bay City Blues; The Lady in the Lake; No Crime in the Mountains. With an Introduction by Philip Durham.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1964. [Crime stories] FIRST EDITION (stated). Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.394. Publisher's blue cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Rob Howard, priced at $5.50. Contents and page edges clean, jacket with a little edgewear and a crease to the spine panel, neat tape reinforcement to... 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
After Dark.
London: The Gresham Publishing Co., n.d. [c.1900]. [Classic Literature]. FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxiv; 355 [1]. With six wood engraved plates by Browne, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, along with distinctive white and green decoration. Grey endpapers. Black ink... More
The Pictorial Edition of The Book of Common Prayer, According to the Use of United Church of England and Ireland. Together with the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. Illustrated with Many Hundred Wood-Cuts. To which are Added, Original Notes, and an Introductory History of the Liturgy.
London: C. Knight and Co., no date [1838]. [Common Prayer] FINELY BOUND ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (27 x 18cm), pp.[2] xl; 712; [2]. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings after the Old Masters by John Jackson (1801-1848), a student of Thomas Bewick. Contemporary full morocco with gilt titles and decoration to... More
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1907. [Christmas Story] SIGNED BY THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON. First edition thus. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 204. With a chromolithographic frontispiece and 12 further engraved illustrations. SIGNED by Lord Mayor Treloar in black ink to half title. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to... More
London Photographs.
London: The Museum of London, 1999. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.131 [1]. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Publisher's black soft covers with white titles. Light rubbing to covers. Near fine. From the library of the writer, media and film executive Edward Milward-Oliver. More
The Diamond Smugglers.
London: Ian Fleming Publications Limited, 2009. SIGNED FIRST THUS, a new edition. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.116. SIGNED by Fergus Fleming in black ink to the title page. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, priced at £15. A fine as-new copy. Fleming's first non-Bond... More
Cranford and Mary Barton.
London: The Gresham Publishing Co., n.d. [c.1900]. [Classic Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xx; 409 [3]. With three wood engravings by Hammond, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, along with distinctive white and green decoration. Grey endpapers. Black ink ownership... More
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. The Globe Edition, with Biographical Introduction by Professor Masson.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. [Literary Works]. FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] lxii; 695 [3]. With a wood engraved frontispiece. Contemporary red full morocco by BICKERS for Ladies' College Guernsey, with raised bands, gilt titles and elaborate gilt decoration to spine, and large armorial gilt stamp of... More