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The Ladies' Pocket Book of Etiquette.
Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. [Etiquette] PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.[12]; 55 [5]. With four engraved plates by Sainsbury. Number 390 of 500 copies, hand-numbered to limitation page at rear. In quarter cream vegetable parchment with gilt titles to spine and red and..... More
Baa Baa Black Sheep.
London: Macmillan, 1970. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.223; [1]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Mike Cook. Some spotting to endpapers and top edge, a few pages creased from being turn over. Price clipped dust-jacket shows well with just some slight fading..... More
Hellenica: A Collection of Essays on Greek Philosophy History and Religion.
London: Rivingtons, 1880. [Classics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15 cm), pp.[1] x; 492; [2]. Contemporary dark brown full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Gilt armorial stamp to upper board, impaling the arms of the Bishop of Winchester and New College Oxford. Marbled endpapers and all..... More
The Holy War In Tripoli.
London: Edward Arnold, 1912. [Military History/Travel] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.333; [1], blank; [2], advertisements; 8, Catalogue. Illustrated throughout with photographic plates. Publisher's green cloth pictorially blocked in black and gilt, edges untrimmed, printed dust-wrapper priced at 15s. Edges slightly dusty, spine of jacket a touch sunned..... More
Abbott's American Watchmaker and Jeweller. An Encyclopaedia for the horologist, jeweller, gold and silversmith.
Chicago. Geo. K. Hazlitt and co. 1894. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.354, 14 of adverts. Illustrated with 288 in text engravings. Publisher's pale blue cloth. Some marking to cloth, inner hinges starting, lower inner hinge split. Good. More
The Story of Mr Korah.
London: Michael Joseph, 1954. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 20cm), unpaginated, with three fine chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece tipped in and 16 further sketch illustrations by Whistler. Publisher's red quarter cloth over grey cloth boards, gilt titles to spine gilt figure to upper, light blue endpapers, dust-jacket..... More
The African Trilogy; Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God.
London: William Heinemann, 1962, 1960, 1964. [Modern Literature] COMPLETE TRILOGY. The first volume being a third printing the other two being first printings. Three volumes, (21 x 14 x 7cm). Publisher's hardcovers in pictorial dust-wrappers. A moderately used set with some acceptable dustiness and sunning. A very good, uniform set..... More
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
London: Heinemann, 1988. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 246; [2]. Publisher's grey cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Claudia Zeff with printed price of £10.95 net. Textblock marginally toned to edges otherwise clean and bright. Cloth and wrapper lightly handled, lightly bumped to..... More
Mostly Harmless.
London: Heinemann, 1992. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16]; 217; [32]. Publisher's grey cloth, titles in silver to spine, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of £12.99. Lightly toned to edges, very light wear to edge of wrapper. Near fine. "The fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named..... More
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So Long And Thanks For All The Fish [Hitch-Hikers Guide].
London: Pan, 1984. [Comedy-Fantasy] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm). pp. [5], 191. Bound in publisher's black cloth with titles in silver to spine. Black dust jacket, designed by Gary Day-Ellison, with holographic panel to front cover, and titles in white to front cover and spine, unclipped. Includes publisher's..... More
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.
London: Pan, 1984. [Comedy-Fantasy] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm). pp.191; [1]. Bound in publisher's black cloth with titles in silver to spine. Black dust jacket, designed by Gary Day-Ellison, with holographic panel to front cover, and titles in white to front cover and spine, unclipped. With signed presentation..... More
Penang. Illustrated Guide.
George Town: The Municipal Council of George Town, Penang, 1952. [Travel Guide] ORIGINAL GUIDE. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.100. With in-text black and white photographic illustrations, and a large folding map at rear. Publisher's silver moire silk-effect card covers with blue titles to upper. Matching endpapers showing a price of..... More
Arctic Island Hunter.
London: George Ronald, 1961. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.136. With 12 black and white photographic plates and two maps. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to front free endpaper: 'To Mary, / with the warmest Baha'; / greetings / Paul Adams'. In publisher's light blue cloth with red..... More
The Unbroken Web: Stories and Fables.
New York, NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1980. [Children's Illustrated] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.142 [2]. With colour plates by Gilbert and in-text drawings by Campbell. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'To R.W. Smith | Yours with best wishes | Richard..... More
The Free-Holder, or Political Essays.
London: Printed for D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, 23rd December 1715 - 29th June 1716. [Political Newspaper] COMPLETE RUN. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[14]; 311; [3]. Bound complete with the half-title. Contemporary speckled calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label on spine and further gilt decoration to spine..... More
The White Tiger.
London: Atlantic Books, 2008. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[6] 321 [1]. Signed by the author to the title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, red endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by gray318, priced at £12.99. A fine copy. More
Adomnan's Life of Columba.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1961. FIRST THUS. Octavo, pp.xxiv; 590; [2]. A superior edition with a large introduction and duel Latin / English text on facing pages. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original green dust-jacket. Top edge green. Some very light rubbing to jacket..... More
Aesop's Fables.
Oxford: The Limited Editions Club, 1933. [Folk tales]. LIMITED ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Crown Quarto (27 x 19 cm), pp. xvi, 212. No. 353 of 1500 copies, SIGNED by the typographer, Bruce Rogers. With many facsimile Florentine woodcuts. Elegantly bound in later half red calf, gilt, over marbled sides, top edge gilt..... More
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Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books. [Aesop's Fables].
Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1764. [The celebrated fabulist] Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.lxxvii; 186; [28], index; [2], blank. Bound in full tan calf with red title label to spine, five raised bands with extra gilt, marbled endpapers. A few marks to..... More
An Idler in the Near East.
London: John Milne, 1910. [Ottoman travel] FIRST EDITION, first issue binding. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 279 [1]. With 40 black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Spotting to edges and preliminaries. Spine sunned with some light rubbing to..... More
Lyrebird.
London: HarperCollins, 2016. [Romance] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.416; [2]. Publisher's white cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Heike Schussler. Signed by the author to the title-page. Signed sticker to dust-wrapper. Fine. A young woman with a remarkable talent for mimicry is..... More
Costumes by Eros.
London: Jonathan Cape. 1929. First edition. Octavo, pp.255. Publisher's plum cloth with gilt titles to spine, white paper dustwrapper with a depiction of Eros by Gower Parks, priced at 7/6. Slight lean to the book, light spotting to the prelims and moderate spotting to the edges. Covers show general wear..... More
Memoirs of King Abdullah of Transjordan.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. [Middle East Political Memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.278; [2]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the cream dust-jacket titled in black and purple, priced 15s. Top edge pink. Some offsetting to endpapers. Apparently..... More
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A Play.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. [Drama] UK PROOF COPY. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 242 [4]. Publisher's pink monogrammed card wraps with a type-written label showing title, price and testimonials pasted to front cover. Very light wear and sunning to spine; some marks to edges. Near fine. More