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Longmans Green and Co., London 1888. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Illustrated throughout. Elegantly hand-bound in half dark blue oasis morocco leather over marbled sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, top edge gilt. A little spotting to first and final leaves else a fine copy in attractive recent leather..... More
London: J. Garnet Miller Ltd., 1968. [Theatre] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 304. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket showing the new lighting equipment at the Royal Opera House with printed price of 45s. (£2.25) net. Frontispiece and twenty two additional plates plus numerous in-text line..... More
London: Printed for W. Strahan [etc.], 1771. [English—Italian Dictionary] A NEW EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (17 x 22cm), pp.[10] xxxiv; [698]; pp.[4] xl; [672]. With an Italian introduction to volume I (Italian to English) and an English introduction to volume II (English to Italian). Main text printed over..... More
London: John Russell Smith, 1859. [Political Economy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[4] 190 [18]. Partly unopened (with some leaves roughly opened); yellow-coated endpapers. Publisher's binding of blind-decorated dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine, binding by Bone and Son, London. Leaves heavily worn and soiled, with damp..... More
London: Elek Books, 1957. [Tigers] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi, 197 [3]. With four double-sided black and white photographic double-sided plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Blue ink gift inscription to flyleaf. A bright example of the jacket, price-clipped..... More
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
London: Hutchinson & Co., no date [1942]. [Wartime Photography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo magazine format (25 x 19cm), pp.47 [2]. With 16 double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's photographic soft covers, with the original matching dust-jacket, priced at 5s. Toning to wartime economy paper, with moderate wear and some chipping..... More
London: John Calder, 1965. [Literary and Art Criticism] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.126 [2]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the orange dust-jacket, priced at 18s. A nice crisp, clean copy, with just a little wear to jacket edges. Near fine. A republication of Beckett's..... More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958. [Caricatures] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.10. With 46 black and white sketches by Beerbohm on 23 double-sided plates, including 35 not previously published. Publisher's burgundy quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and stripy red and white paper-covered boards. Black endpapers; top edge red..... More
New York, NY: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1931. [Film and Theatre] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.385; [3]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of $2.40 to spine. Very light spotting and browning. Jacket browned with some small chips to edges. A remarkably well-preserved..... More
London: Johnstone and Hunter, 1849. [Home Medicine and Self-Help] FIFTH EDITION. Duodecimo (14 x 9cm), pp.224. With 30 in-text engraved illustrations. Publisher's grey boards with titles to upper, advertisements to lower, and a pink cloth spine, priced at 1s. Black ink ownership to title page. Nice and clean internally, with..... More
London: Printed for T. Egerton, and White and Cochrane, 1810. FIRST EDITION, augmented with cuttings and a hand-painted illumination. Octavo, pp.[4]; 158; [2]. With 12 engraved plates, one chromolithographic plate, and one folding table of tinctures. Many heraldry-themed newspaper cuttings from the 1930s pasted and loose to all endpapers, and..... More
London: Charles Wilson, 1850. First Edition. Illustrated with a fronstispiece of H.M.S. St. Vincent, 4 plates of the Trials, tables, and numerous battle plans heightened in blue and red. With the original Protractor housed in a pocket to front paste down. Publisher's embossed green cloth with gilt titles to spine..... More
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1939. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.480. With notes and an index. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original cream dust-jacket with red titles to spine and covers. Top edge red. Black ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Some minor chips and..... More
London: John Churchill, 1846. [Medicine] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xxiv; 356 [2]. With occasional small in-text diagrams and tables. Also with the large folding table to rear, somewhat misfolded. Contemporary tan half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to black label on spine, and marbled paper..... More
London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1983. [Exhibition Catalogue] INSCRIBED COPY, First edition, second impression. Octavo (21 x 21cm), pp.136. Illustrated in colour and black and white. INSCRIBED by the artist in black ink to half-title: 'For Edward | Peter Blake.' Publisher's black soft covers. Corners lightly bumped; very light wear to..... More
The Hague: Arnout Leers, 1684. EARLY EDITION. Foolscap octavo, pp.[10], 96 [2]. All text in French. With 12 folding plans and tables at rear. In later mottled full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label on spine and further gilt decoration to spine. All edges flecked red. Armorial..... More
By the author. No date [circa 1924]. [Magic / Conjuring] ORIGINAL TYPE-WRITTEN ARTICLE. American-gauge paper folded in half (23 x 15cm), pp.14. Original plain, green, paper cover, with three staples. Owner's inscription to upper and title page, typography in typewriter style. A good copy. From the library of American deaf..... More
Birmingham: Swinney & Walker, 1792. [Fishing] REISSUE. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.xii; 118 [2]. With an advertisement for John Higginbotham, Fishing-Rod-Maker, bound into preliminaries, but lacking the frontispiece. Recently re-spined to-style in tan calf, using the original marbled calf boards and the original red title label stamped in gilt to..... More
London: The Press Art School, no date [1918]. [Art Reference] ORIGINAL PORTFOLIOS. Fifteen parts out of twenty. Folio (41 x 28cm), each part having a letter-press text of six leaves, including a half-tone photographic portrait of the illustrator tipped in as a frontispiece, as well as six mounted half-tone illustrated..... More
London: The Gordon Fraser Gallery, 1980. First Edition. Quarto, pp. 20, 100 black and white plates. Black cloth with silver titles to the spine, in striking black and white dustjacket. Slight wear to the top and bottom edges of the dustwrapper and some bubbling along the left hand edge of..... More
Dorking: Robert Best Ede, 1841-48. FIRST EDITIONS. 5 volumes as 10 parts. Octavo (26 x 17 x 28cm). Publisher's original embossed purple cloth with gilt titles to evenly faded spines, yellow endpapers, edges untrimmed. Illustrated with 127 full page steel engraved plates by Thomas Allom, Thompson and others (some folding)..... More
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1933. First Edition. Octavo, pp. xiii, 82, 24 of adverts. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Numerous illustrations; both photographic and line drawings. With a foreword by Juan de la Cierva, the Spanish engineer who built autogiros in..... More
London: The New Sydenham Society, 1861. [Medicine] SECOND PRINTING THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 326. With occasional in-text diagrams and illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind and gilt decoration to boards. All edges red; yellow-coated endpapers. Exceptionally crisp and clean internally. Rubbing to spine..... More
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1941. [Motorcycles] SIXTH EDITION, a later printing. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.vi; 89 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth spine with paper over boards. Advertisements to rear cover and endpapers. Some rubbing to edges and sunned spine. A clean, tidy example. Very good. More