The Arts & Sciences
Grona Lund. Om Manniskor Pa Ett Nojesfalt.
Helsingborg: Fyra Forlaggare AB, 1973. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (29 x 22cm), unpaginated. Publisher's white paper covered boards, printed in black. Introductory text in Swedish, followed by black and white photography. Internally fine. Some slight toning to binding, more so to the spine, some light rubbing to extremities and..... More
The Roy Strong Diaries. 1967-1987.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1997. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16]; 461; [4]. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine, with photographic dust-jacket by John Swannell, with printed price £20.00 to flap. Illustrated map endpapers, with photographic plates throughout the text. Signed by author in black..... More
Hockney: The Biography. Volume I, 1937-1975: A Rake's Progress.
London: Century, 2011. [Art] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 18cm), pp.xx; 363 [1]. With numerous in-text illustrations and colour plates; illustrated endpapers. With an associated Royal Academy bookmark. Publisher's white cloth with black titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £25.00. A fine, as-new copy. From the..... More
The Ornamental Designs of Chippendale from the Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director 1762.
London: Alec Tiranti. 1949. First Edition Thus. Octavo, pp. 24, 80 of plates, 1 of adverts. Black cloth covers with white titles to spine, in black and white pictorial dustwrapper. Some spotting to edges, slight dustiness to the top edge and top inch of boards and dustjacket. More
Some Old Portraits. A Book About Art and Human Beings.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1939. [Portraiture] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.xx; 249 [3]. With 12 colour plates, each reproducing one of the paintings discussed. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to half-title: 'For | John Booth | from | Elizabeth Stanley Trotter..... More
Summer of Love. The Making of Sgt Pepper.
Guidford: Genesis Publications, 2007. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, number 239 of 350 DELUXE copies. Large quarto (35 x 28cm), pp.176. Elaborately bound in full pink leather with a photo of George Martin laid down to upper cover, housed in original silk-screen printed box with ribbon pull, the whole protected in a...... More
In Siberia.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1999. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.287. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with silver titles and publisher's imprint to spine, grey map endpapers, showing map of Siberia. Pictorial dustjacket shows snowfield, with titles in white to front cover and spine, rear cover displays quotations from prominent reviewers;..... More
Television for the Home. The Wonders of "Seeing by Wireless".
London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d. [1927]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xx, 106. Publisher's light brown cloth with black titles to upper board and spine, gilt crest of Waid Academy Anstuther to upper as well. Eight black and white photographic plates. Waid Academy prize bookplate dated 1930 to front free endpaper, some..... 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
The Principles of Great Circle and Composite Sailing; a paper read before the Literary and Philosophical Society, December 1853. With observations made from more recent voyages. [and] Tables to Facilitate the Practice of Great Circle Sailing, and Determination of Azimuths.
Liverpool [and] London: Printed for Private Circulation [and] Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, 1855 [and] 1854. [Navigation] PRIVATELY PRINTED, with a fifth edition copy of 'Tables'. A Presentation copy to AUSTEN HENRY LAYARD. Two pamphlets bound as one. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[6] 30; iii-viii; 67 [5]. With a...... More
Wobbly Sounds: A Collection of British Flexi Discs. Four Corners Irregulars No. 6.
London: Four Corners, 2019. [Sound Recordings] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.160. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated soft covers, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10. Also with a publisher's bookmark loose to preliminaries. A fine, as-new copy. More
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. [Little Red Book].
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1966. [Marxism-Leninism] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, No. 1050-491 00077 1-E-734Pc. Vigesimo-quarto (13 x 9cm), pp.[10] 312 [2]. With a black and white frontispiece portrait of Mao. Publisher's red vinyl covers with blind titles to upper. Heavy pencil underlining to p.11, otherwise crisp and clean with a...... More
Hans Hotter: Man and Artist.
London: John Calder, 1983. [Opera Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.280. With occasional black and white photographic illustrations. SIGNED by both author and subject, in black and blue ink respectively, to the fly-leaf. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink photographic..... More
Adrian Turner on Goldfinger.
New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999. [James Bond reference] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo, pp.[vi]; 248; [2]. Publisher's photographic softcovers. [Together with] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2000. Small octavo, pp.[iv]; 314; [2]. Publisher's photographic softcovers priced at £4.99. Both are fine copies. No.2 in a series of pocket movie guides..... 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
Manual for the Use of the Legislature of the State of New-York, for the Year 1854.
Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons and co., 1854. [Americana] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (), pp.[4] 445 [1]. Bound in red morocco, foliate gilt panelling to boards, "R.F. Wilson" in gilt to front board, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt. Binding is rubbed, with some marks and tanning..... More
The Heart of the Hunter.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1961. [Legends and fables from the African bush] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Maurice Wilson. Illustrated with numerous drawings by Maurice Wilson. A particularly fine copy with a hint of toning to..... More
[Review of The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex in] The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal: (No 273), July, 1871.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, and London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871. [Evolution] CONTEMPORARY REVIEW. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.36 of advertisements; 16 of advertisements; ii; 302; [20 of advertisements]. Publisher blue printed wraps, yellow paper spine with cream paper title label. Partially unopened, some sporadic light spotting and..... More
The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal: for Nov. 1814..... Feb. 1815.
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1815. CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS. Octavo, pp.[8], 560 [2]. In contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. All edges flecked blue / grey. Some light edge wear; a few marks to spine. Very good indeed. Works reviewed include Wordsworth's 'The..... More
[Contribute to] Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. Volume VI. - Part I.
Philadelphia: Jane Aitken, 1804. [Americana] IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Quarto (27 x 23cm), pp.xx; [4] contents; 190. Original grey paper covered boards, cream paper spine, with title label, edges untrimmed and some leaves unopened. Four engraved plates and numerous tables throughout. Small circle clipped from title page, perhaps removing an ownership..... 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
Snapshot: Painters and Photography 1888-1915.
Yale University Press, 2011. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 25cm), pp.xiv; 234. heavily illustrated with black and white photographs, and colour images of paintings. Publisher's brown cloth with black titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, not priced. Jacket shows a little sunning to spine, with one small..... More
Memorable Moments in Motor Racing. Legends and Personalities Tell their Stories.
London: Cyan Books, 2005. [Motor Racing] FIRST EDITION, with SIGNED BOOKPLATE. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xvi; 278 [10]. Heavily illustrated in colour throughout. SIGNED by David Coulthard in black marker to a bookplate on the title page. Publisher's back cloth, with silver titles to spine and blue endpapers. With the..... More
Nature [X-Rays]. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science. Volume LIII.
London: Macmillan and Co., November 1895 to April 1896. [Science Journal] FIRST APPEARANCE IN ENGLISH of Rontgen's discovery of X-Rays. Quarto (28 x 20cm), pp.[2]; xl; 624; [2]. Contemporary black half morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Leather-grain effect cloth over boards. Marbled endpapers; all edges flecked..... More
Encountering Derrida: Legacies and Futures of Deconstruction.
London: Continuum, 2007. [Philosophy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 215 [13]. Publisher's glossy white and blue boards, not priced. Light handling and a few small marks to binding. Near fine. An edited volume containing papers concerning Jacques Derrida and the future of the theory of Deconstruction... More