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The Stork's-Bill Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Sycamore Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Tulip Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
George Barker: Collected Poems.
London: faber and faber, 1987. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxii; 838 [4]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf: 'For James | from | George Barker | 87.' Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the monogrammed dust-jacket, priced at £27.50. Heavily..... More
The Patriots.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1960. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp. [6]; 390. Publisher's teal cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of 16s to front flap. Toning and spotting to edges of textblock and flyleaf, bumping to spine, price clipped, toning and spotting..... More
Bond Cars. The Definitive History. 66988
London: BBC Books/Top Gear/Penguin Random House, 2020. [Film reference] FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp.336. Publisher's illustrated hardcovers without jacket as issued, 'blueprint' style endpapers. With colour photographs throughout. Slightly bumped and handled. A near fine copy, supplied with a protective clear plastic cover. Motor journalist and former Top Gear presenter, Jason..... More
Arthur and George.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. [Historical Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 360 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's olive cloth decorated in black and titled in white to spine and upper. With the original printed paper band to rear board..... More
Before She Met Me.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.183 [1]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Craig Dodd, priced at £6.50. A crisp, fine copy, showing just a touch of spotting to top edge. The author's second..... More
England, England.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1998. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[6] 266. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, and navy endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £15.99. A crisp, fine copy. Shortlisted..... More
Metroland.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. [Modern Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.176. Publisher's grey cloth with silver titles to spine. With the black dust-jacket designed by Craig Dodd, clipped and re-priced by the publisher to £6.50. A touch of spotting to top edge, otherwise a lovely crisp..... More
Talking It Over.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10] 273 [5]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt titles to spine, and light blue endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Fraser Taylor, priced at £13.99..... More
In The Potter's Field. and Other New Poems.
London: John Murray, 1936. [Poetry] PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED WITH LETTER. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. [8]; 98; [12]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, embossed ruling to front board with gilt titling, dust-jacket with printed price 5s to flap. Letter attached to front endpaper from Gorell to George..... More
Poems of Rural Life. In Common English.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1868. [Bucolic Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xii; 200 [52]. Catalogue dated January 1868. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Brown-coated endpapers. Bookseller's label to rear pastedown. Spine toned, with moderate wear to cloth, and a few marks. Very good... More
Views of Labour and Gold.
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
The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1910. [Poetry] OXFORD EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 667 [1]. With a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author, engraved by Emery Walker. Publisher's quarter vellum, green cloth over sides. Spine with gilt-lettered blue label and floral designs in gilt and red. Top edge gilt..... More
The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
London, New York, Toronto, and Melbourne: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1911. [Poetry] OXFORD EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 668. With a halftone frontispiece portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Publisher's quarter vellum, red cloth over sides. Spine with gilt-lettered red label and floral designs in gilt and red. Top edge..... More
Quality Street. A Comedy in four acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1913]. [Illustrated Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[4] viii; 198 [2]. With a loose flier for the original exhibition of Thomson's watercolour illustrations for the book, November and December 1913. Complete with 22 colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece..... More
The Admirable Crichton. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [c.1914]. FIRST HUGH THOMSON EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), with twenty mounted colour plates and captioned tissues. Publisher's pale green cloth blocked in dark green and red to upper, gilt to spine. Contents are a little foxed, binding lightly handled, one neat/accidental pull to crown..... More
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [1920s]. [Children's] RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.126; [1], advertisement. With sixteen mounted colour plate illustrations, each with captioned tissue guards, illustrated map endpapers. Bound in publisher's gilt decorated green cloth, original pictorial dust-wrapper with colour plate to front, priced 10/6. Undated, with..... More
Historic Memoirs of Ireland; comprising Secret Records of the National Convention, the Rebellion, and the Union; with Delineations of the Principal Characters connected with these transactions.
London: Henry Colburn, 1835. NEW EDITON. In two volumes. Large Quarto, pp.[2] xlii, 358 [2]; pp.[4] x, 464 [2]. With 38 copper engraved portraits, including a frontispiece of Barrington to vol. I, and two plates preceeding the title page in vol. II. Also with three facsimile letters and an index..... More
Three Years in Tristan Da Cunha.
London: Skeffington & Son, 1910. [South Atlantic Islands] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii; 280. Complete with 37 black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a map. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and a black and white photographic image to..... More
Meet the Beatles. Star Special Number Twelve: An Informal Date in Words & Personal Album Pictures. Introduced by themselves.
Manchester: World Distributors, 1963. [Popular Music] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[40]. Profiles of each band member and their manager Brian Epstein, plus general information about the band and their origins, and many contemporary black and white photographs. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, stapled twice and priced at..... More
Joby.
London: Michael Joseph, 1964. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.187 [5]. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Larkin, priced at 16s. A heavy bump to lower board, with a corresponding closed tear to jacket. Jacket sunned to spine..... More
A Kind Of Loving
London: Michael Joseph, 1960. [Romantic Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.286 [2]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, with the dust-jacket designed by Adrian Bailey priced at 16s. Heavy toning to edges, with some spotting to margins. Jacket toned, with wear and chipping to edges. Very..... More
A Kind Of Loving.
London: Michael Joseph, 1960. [Romantic fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.286; [2]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Adrian Bailey. Light toning to interior, some spotting and offsetting to preliminaries and rear leaves. Ownership inscription in brown ink to flyleaf. Price..... More