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Ladies and Gentlemen (screenprint image of David Bowie).
No place, 2022. [ARTWORK] Two-colour monochrome print pulled on hand-made Somerset ivory art paper. One of ten numbered copies signed by lithographer Ashley Lilley in pencil to the lower margin. Image size 30 x 22 inches, ready for framing. In fine condition. The photograph upon which this is based was..... More
David Bowie / Aladdin Sane [Concert Poster].
UK, [1973]. PROMOTIONAL POSTER advertising David Bowie's appearance at Leeds University, 1973 as part of the Aladdin Sane tour. Printed later from the original art. Approximate dimensions 19.5 x 27.5 inches (50cm x 70 cm). Rolled. Fine/as new, ready for framing. A striking poster. Originals were printed in a custom..... More
From Station to Station. Travels with David Bowie 1973-1976.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2007. [Rock/pop] SIGNED BY BOWIE AND MacCORMACK. Deluxe Edition, number 121 of 350 copies bound in full leather, from a total run of 2000 copies, with additional photograph SIGNED by MacCormack. Folio (overall dimensions 42 x 30cm), in full Italian red leather, all edges gilt, within folding..... More
Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust.
London: Cassell / Octopus, 2005. [Rock/pop] FIRST BRITISH TRADE EDITION. Folio (31 x 22cm), pp.320. Text by David Bowie, photographs by Mick Rock. Publisher's purple cloth, orange endpapers, dust-wrapper priced £25. Lightly handled, some shelfwear. A very good copy. A collaboration between David Bowie and photographer Mick Rock. A deluxe..... More
[Archive of Letters and Inscribed Books]. The Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby: Italy 1944; Order of the Day; Countdown to Cassino: The Battle of Mignano Gap, 1943; Pedigree of the Family of Bowlby from 1552 to 1915, Compiled by Charles Cotsford Bowlby and entered in the records of the College of Arms in January, 1915.
London: Leo Cooper, 1915; 1969; 1974; 1995. [Literary Archive] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS AND LETTERS, including an MS letter from LAURIE LEE. Three octavo books (22 x 15cm; 19 x 13cm; 24 x 16cm), a folding family tree (26 x 19cm), and 10 letters addressed to the author, relating to his..... More
The Devil With James Bond.
London: Fontana Books, 1967. [Bond reference] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.126; [2], endmatter. Bound in pictorial card covers priced at 5s. to front. No owner names or writing. Usual toning to cheap paper. A near fine copy, with some inevitable sunning to the spine panel. A paperback..... More
The Devil With James Bond.
Richmond, Virginia: John Knox Press, 1967. [Bond reference] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.123; [5], blank. Bound in pictorial card covers priced at $1.75 Light handling and age-related toning. A near fine copy. A paperback original. An unusual piece of vintage Bondiana, 'for Bond lovers and Bond loathers'. This..... More
An Ice Cream War.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[12] 370 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Paul Webb. Extensive black ink gift inscription to flyleaf, otherwise a crisp, clean copy with some spotting to top edge. Price-clipped jacket..... More
Solo [Waterstones Special Edition].
London: Jonathan Cape, 2013. [James Bond Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.326. Publisher's red screen-printed hardcovers, red endpapers, embossed and die-cut dust-jacket, featuring bullet-holes in the style of the original US printing of Ian Fleming's The Man With The Golden Gun (this adventure being set in 1969, a...... More
On The Borderland
London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1884. [Fiction] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 416; [4], blank. Brown half calf over marbled boards lettered in gilt to spine, gilt decorated raised bands on spine, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Spotting to first and last few pages otherwise internally clean and bright..... More
Varied Verse.
London and Tunbridge Wells: The Reliance Press, no date [1925]. [Kent and Sussex Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.63 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'To Major Heron, with the author's | kindred regards & in remembrance | of many a hearty..... More
Fahrenheit 451.
London: Folio Society, 2011. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION THUS, Folio Society. Octavo (25 x 15cm), pp. xix; [2]; 152. Illustrative grey cloth depicting Guy Montag with red and black lettering to spine, Folio Society black box. Red flyleaf, illustrative frontispiece, five illustrative plates throughout the text. Some light wearing to..... More
The Art of the Illustrator. W. Hatherell; Bernard Partridge; Lawson Wood; Bert Thomas; Cyrus Cuneo; Frank Reynolds; Balliol Salmon; Harry Rountree; W. Heath-Robinson; C.A. Shepperson; E.J. Sullivan; F.H. Townsend; H.M. Bateman; C.E. Brock; Spencer Pryse; Warwick Reynolds.
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
Clavis Calendaria; or, a Compendious Analysis of the Calendar: Illustrated with Ecclesiastical, Historical, and Classical Anecdotes.
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown [etc.], 1815. [Chronology]. FINELY BOUND, third edition. In two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4]; x; 404 [4]; pp.[6]; 406 [4]. With a frontispiece woodcut of an Anglo-Saxon 'Almonaght' and occasional in-text wood engravings and tables..... More
Life at the Top.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1962. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and red blocking to spine, in monochrome pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 18s. Some faint offset toning to endpapers otherwise a lovely clean, near fine copy. Gritty, Northern working-class drama, bring..... More
Bill Brandt: Nudes 1945-1980.
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
The History of Surrey, by Edward Wedlake Brayley. Assisted by John Britton and E.W. Brayley, Junior. The Geological Section by Gideon Mantell.
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
Hauspostille. Mit Anleitungen, Gesangs-Noten Und Einem Anhange.
Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1927. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.XII; 156; [4]. With one black and white plate, illustrated by Caspar Neher. Ten leaves of sheet music and publisher's catalogue to rear. Shell marbled paper over boards, brown label with white titles to upper and spine. Top edge..... More
Faerie Wars.
London: Bloomsbury, 2003. [Children's Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.368. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf. Publisher's paper-covered boards illustrated by Carol Lawson and Ian Butterworth, with the matching dust-jacket priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. The first of five volumes in the..... More
Saraband & Satyricon: Poems and Verses, Orthodox and Heterodox.
Kineton: The Roundwood Press, 1970. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 235 [1]. Number 190 of 250 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's white cloth with gilt titles to spine and green endpapers. With the light green typographic dust-jacket. A few..... More
The Cinque Ports and Romney Marsh.
London: John Gifford, 1972. [English History] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 266 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. With numerous in-text maps and halftone illustrations, folding map to rear. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. With..... More
A Knight of St. John. A Tale of the Siege of Malta.
London: Blackie and Son, 1906. [Children's Historical Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.384 [16]. With eight black and white plates by Rainey, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and colour decoration to spine and upper. All edges green; grey endpapers. Blue ink gift inscription to..... More
Rough Riders of the Pampas. A Tale of Ranch Life in South America.
London: Blackie and Son, 1909. [Children's adventure] ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] 366 [17]. With six halftone plates, including a frontispiece, by Stanley L. Wood. Catalogue at rear. Grey endpapers. Publisher's green cloth to boards, gilt titles and pictorial designs to cover and spine. All edges green..... More
Flagrant Délit: Rimbaud Devant La Conjuration de L'Imposture at du Truquage.
Paris: Thésée, 1949. [Literary Essay] FIRST EDITION, trade issue. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.66 [6]. With the errata slip at rear. Publisher's orange illustrated paper covers. All edges untrimmed. Gently toned throughout, otherwise clean. Spine a little toned; edges rubbed, with a chip to tail of spine. Very good..... More
British Design from 1948: Innovation in the Modern Age.
London: V and A Publishing, 2012. [Art and Design] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 26cm), pp.400. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's purple paper-covered boards with white titles to spine. Gold endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at £40. A fine, as-new copy. From the library of the writer, media and..... More