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Tales of the Classics: A New Delineation of the Most Popular Fables, Legends, and Allegories commemorated in the works of Poets, Painters, and Sculptors. Selected and Written by a Lady, for the amusement and instruction of her own daughters.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. [Greek Mythology] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] xxiv; 302 [4]; pp.[4] iv; 302 [4]; pp.[4] iv; 370 [4]. Contemporary black half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy labels, further gilt decoration to spines..... More
![Triumph workshop manual [for] unit construction 350 c.c. and 500 c.c. twins : T100, T90, 5TA,...](/pictures/thumb/56535.jpg?v=1589300951)
Triumph workshop manual [for] unit construction 350 c.c. and 500 c.c. twins : T100, T90, 5TA, 3TA, including from engine no. H65573.
Coventry: Triumph Engineering Co., no date [1969]. [Motorcycle Manual] ORIGINAL MANUAL. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.3-178. Stapled twice, in a secondary plain paper cover with titles written by hand in black ink to front cover. Central bi-fold loose. Staples rusted, with significant grease stains and thumb prints throughout. A...... More
Wood's Royal Almanack for 1846.
London: J. T. Wood, 1846. MINIATURE BOOK. 30x17mm, unpaginated. With a calendar and lists of eclipses, holidays, the birthdays of members of the royal family, bankers and prices for stamps. Also with 14 engraved portraits of the royal family and Sir Robert Peel (then Prime Minister). In original blue paper..... More
The Little Child's Gift; Illustrated by Emblematic Figures.
Boston, Munroe and Francis n.d. 112 x 138 mm. Publisher's yellow paper boards, pp. 64. Containing drawings and descriptions of numerous animals, insects and birds, plus several short stories and word games. Lacks lower board, upper corners rubbed, crack along hinge. Internally very good. Not in Osborne. More
The Talking Horse and Other Stories.
London: Smith, Elder, and co., 1893. Presentation Copy, "New Edition". Octavo. Bound in publisher's red cloth, with panelling embossed in black to boards, titles to front board, and titles in gilt to spine. Binding is rubbed, with noticable fading to spine; somewhat shaken, linen visible in joint at p.1, and..... More
The Autobiography of Francis Arago. The Traveller's Library 78.
London: Longman, Brown, and Longmans, 1855. FIRST EDITION, with rare original covers. Crown octavo, pp.[6], 122. In publisher's original cream paper wraps with black titles printed to spine and covers. Covers lightly browned; more heavily to spine. Some loss to tail of spine. Very good indeed, especially considering the rarity..... More
Heads You Win.
London: Macmillan, 2018. [Political thirller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.470. Publisher's cream cloth with red titles to spine, in typographic dust-jacket. Signed by the author to the limitation page. Minor spot of ink transfer to front edge of textblock. Signed copy sticker to front of jacket. Fine..... More
Tell Tale.
London: Macmillan, 2017. [Short Stories] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[12] 233 [3]; 39 [3]. With an excerpt from 'Heads You Win' (2018) at rear. SIGNED by the author in black ink to preliminary leaf. Publisher's burgundy cloth with blue metallic titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket..... More
Old Herbaceous.
London: Michael Joseph, 1950. [Comic Garden Novel] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.155 [1]. With occasional in-text illustrations by Minton. Publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine and upper. Top edge green. A new bookplate detailing provenance to flyleaf. Some offsetting to endpapers. Light..... More
Dead Man's Bay.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Mystery Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the green and black dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Light offsetting to endpapers and some browning to edges. Jacket toned and chipped to..... More
Those Three. Forty-Four Cartoons.
London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., no date [1942]. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION. Oblong octavo (14 x 21cm), pp.[48] unpaginated. Publisher's wraps printed in red and black with printed price of 1' net. Stapled twice to spine. Three page introduction followed by forty-four full page cartoons with captions..... More
The Secret Trail A Jimmie Rezaire Story.
London, Methuen 1928. A Secret Service thriller. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp256. Publisher's hardcover in dustwrapper. A very good copy with owner name, loss to jacket at base of spine affecting imprint, faded beneath at same, one or two other minor nicks or tears (one taped at rear) spine sunned. A...... More
The Polar Adventure: The "Italia" Tragedy Seen at Close Quarters.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1929. [Arctic Exploration] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.158 [2]. With 24 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. Light spotting to endpapers. Upper board slightly bowed; some wear to cloth. Very good. First..... More
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold.
London: Macmillan, 1913. [Poetry]. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[xii]; 510. Riviere binding of contemporary brown half morocco over purple cloth boards, with raised bands, gilt title and extra gilt to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Presentation note to "Miss D.M. Lapage", the commandant of the Kent 142 Volunteer Ambulance..... More
The Light of Asia or The Great Renunciation. Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1908. Deluxe Edition. Octavo, pp.xv; 158. Illustrated with thirty two pictures of Indian scenery from photographs taken by Mabel Eardley-Wilmott. Bound in cream vegetable parchment boards with gilt titles to spine and upper board, and illustrated to the upper and lower boards. Top..... More
The History of Gambling in England.
Chicago, MI: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1899. [Gambling] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] viii, 286 [8]. In contemporary maroon half morocco by the Eagle Art Bindery, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed; marbled endpapers. Text..... More
Isotopes.
London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1922. [Chemistry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 152. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Ownership stamp to pastedown and neat inscription to title page of Danish engineer and physicist P.O. Pedersen. Occasional discreet pencil annotation else internally fine. Cloth very slightly..... More
A Journey In Other Worlds. A Romance of the Future
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1894. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. viii; 476; [2], blank. With ten full page illustrations. Publisher's dark blue cloth opulently decorated in silver gilt and and titled in gilt to spine and front board with a silver planetary design to the..... More
An Art Tour to Northern Capitals of Europe.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1873. [Russian and Scandinavian Museum Tour] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 455 [3]. Contemporary dark brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and blind decoration to spine, and lighter brown cloth over boards, with a gilt institutional device to upper..... More
Problem Party.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1945. [Children's fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.214; [2]. Publisher's orange cloth, titles in green to spine, decorated front endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Tresilian with printed price of 8s. 6d. net. In-text illustrations by Tresilian. Spotting and toning to edges, cloth bumped..... More
Histoire des Diables de Loudun, Ou de la Possession des Religieuses Ursulines, Et de la condamnation et du suplice D'Urbain Grandier, Cure de la meme Ville. Cruels effets de la vengeance du Cardinal de Richelieu.
Amsterdam: Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1740. [Huguenot History] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.[8] 378 [4]. With a copper engraved frontispiece. All text in French. Contemporary speckled calf with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt decoration to spine. Marbled endpapers; edges speckled red. Recent repairs to head and..... More
The Country Cousin.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978. SIGNED First Edition. Octavo. pp. 239. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original dust jacket featuring a very light monochrome image of a man sitting at a desk next to closed blinds. Brown and red titles. Inscribed to recto of front..... More
Collected Longer Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1968. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.356. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket, repriced by Faber at £2.50 net with a sticker over the original printed price of 45s / £2.25 net. First and last leaves faintly creased at the..... More
About the House.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, with the errata slip at p.7. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.94 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green and pink dust-jacket, priced at 15s. South African bookseller's ticket to pastedown. The lightest of offsetting to endpapers. Spine..... More
Secondary Worlds. The T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, Delivered at Eliot College in the University of Kent at Canterbury, October 1967.
London: Faber and Faber, 1968. [Literary Lectures] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.144. Publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket titled in blue, priced at 30s / £1.50. South African bookseller's ticket to pastedown. The lightest of offsetting to endpapers. A little soiling to jacket, with..... More