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L'Entraîneuse. Roman.
Paris: Albin Michel, n.d. [1923]. [French literature] FIRST EDITION, BOUND BY LEVITZKY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.347 [5]. Fine contemporary navy half morocco, gilt-ruled, with decorative paper over bevelled boards. Spine in five compartments, red labels titled in gilt, with red onlays and gilt tooling. Original cream softcovers and backstrip..... More
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: Watts & Co., 1950. [Evolutionary Science] FIRST REPRINT OF THE 1859 EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xx; 426. With a facsimile frontispiece showing the original 'Whale-Bear' passage. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dark green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 15s. A touch of light toning..... More
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.
London: John Murray, 1899. [Science] Second, revised and augmented, edition, thirty-fifth thousand. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 693; [1]. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt titles to spine. A clean, crisp copy, some spotting to first and last leaves, neat ownership to flyleaf, endpapers split along upper hinge but still firmly..... More
The Different Forms of Flowers, on Plants of the Same Species. The Westminster Edition.
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, no date [circa 1890s]. [Natural History] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 351 [1]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece, and occasional in-text illustrations. Number 127 of 1000 copies thus. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge..... More
The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits.
London: John Murray, 1881. [Biology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] vii [1] 326 [2], publisher's advertisement to rear. With numerous in-text illustrations throughout. Publisher's green cloth, boards blind-ruled, gilt titles to spine. Brown endpapers. With a loose photograph included. Minor, infrequent spotting, mostly to front and rear blanks..... More
Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America. Selected Works of Charles Darwin: Westminster Edition.
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, no date [circa 1896]. [Geology] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[2] xiv; 648 [2]. With two folding maps, one colour folding plate, and three further folding illustrated plates, as well a numerous in-text illustrations. Number 127 of 1000 copies thus..... More
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: John Murray, 1869. [Evolutionary science] FIFTH Edition, tenth thousand. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xxiv; 596; 32. With the folding tree diagram to pg.132 and Murray's advertisements to rear. With 29 chief additions and corrections from the fourth edition. Publisher's green cloth ruled in blind to boards, with three gilt..... More
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. Authorized Westminster Edition.
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, no date [circa 1890s]. [Natural History] LIMITED EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] xii; 461 [1]; pp.[4] viii; 478 [2]. With 43 in-text illustrations to volume I, and a black and white photographic frontispiece to each volume. Number 127 of 1000..... More
The Art of Photoplay Making.
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1918. [Filmmaking] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 283; [11]. With 10 photogravure plates, including a frontispiece of the Venus de Milo. Publisher's brown cloth. gilt titles to spine and in dark brown to upper board, dust-jacket title with printed price of $2.00..... More
Letters of Eric Gill.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1947. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.480. With twelve illustrations by various artists. Publisher's red cloth over boards, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 15/- to front flap. Top edge red. Toning to leaves, light spotting to fore-edge. Bumping to cloth..... More
Cricket for Beginners.
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1924. [Cricket] SECOND IMPRESSION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.121 [3]. With occasional diagrams and illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with black titles and illustration to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced to head of spine but not quite legible. Internally clean. Mould damage to spine..... More
Introducing James Joyce. A selection of Joyce's prose.
London: Faber and Faber, 1942. [Excerpts] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.146 [2]. Publisher's yellow cloth with brown titles to spine. With the yellow typographic dust-jacket, priced at 3/6. Jacket toned, with rubbing and light chipping to edges, and heavier rubbing and browning to spine. Very good. Selected passages..... More
Dubliners.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1944. [Modern literature] VINTAGE REPRINT. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's green cloth, navy titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 5s to front flap. Gift inscription in black ink to flyleaf, dated 1944. Some faint spotting to edges. Jacket backstrip lightly toned, faint spotting..... More
Ulysses.
London: The Bodley Head, 1967. [Modern literature] FILM TIE-IN, the seventh impression of the 1960 text. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 939 [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket showing a white bow to the spine, and a second black and white photographic jacket..... More
Pomes Penyeach.
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. [Poetry] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Vigesimo-quarto (12 x 10cm), pp.[20]. With the errata slip at rear. Publisher's light green paper over boards, titled in dark green to upper, and priced at 1s to lower. Crisp and clean internally, with some wear and toning to spine. Covers..... More
A Book of Dragons, Including Many Episodes in the Life of Dennys, Rouge Dragon of the Fiery Breath.
London: Illustrated Newspapers, no date [1931]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (33 x 25cm), pp.x; 101 [1]. With numerous colour-illustrated plates by the author. Publisher's red cloth spine, with yellow, black and red illustrated paper over boards, priced at 6s. With the original glassine jacket. Light spotting to edges and..... More
A Christmas Book. An Anthology for Moderns.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1928. [Christmas stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xix; 320 [2]. With in-text illustrations and music transcriptions by A.C. Harradine, as well as a colour frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge tinted red. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... More
Blasting and Bombardiering. The Autobiography (1914-1926) of Wyndham Lewis.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1937. [Literary memoirs] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 312. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price 15s on front flap. Minor toning to textblock edges, otherwise internally clean, spine slightly rolled. Some wear to dust-jacket top edge, a slight..... More
The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. [American Literature / Verse] FIRST EDITION, First Issue, with "treacherous" for "ruddy", l.3, p.124. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.215; [1], blank; 12, advertisements dated October 1858. Publisher's brown cloth decoratively blocked in blind, gilt-lettered to spine, brown endpapers. This copy with the additional inserted ad..... More
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1867. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a new edition. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.[2] iv; 556 [2]. With frequent in-text wood engravings by the Dalziel Brothers after illustrations by Gilbert, and a frontispiece etching of the author. Contemporary green full panelled calf with..... More
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
London: George Routledge and Sons, [no date] c.1900. [Poetry] SCHOOL PRIZE BINDING, Cambridge Edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[iv]; xxi; [1]; 689; [4], blank. Bound in blue full calf with gilt tooling and gilt scholastic device to upper. Raised bands, gilt tooling and tan label to spine. All edges marbled..... More
The Poetical Works. Complete Copyright Edition.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse, 1901. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 878. Beautifully bound by in contemporary brown full morocco, raised bands and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of the author. Printed in double columns. Internally nice and clean..... More
The Golden Legend.
London, David Bogue 1851. 8vo. First Edition. Publisher's dark pink cloth with blind stamped design to boards, extra gilt, pale yellow endpapers, owner's name to neat label attached to free endpaper. Minor wear, sunned to spine; a clean, fresh copy. Longfellow's classic verse, in which the central figure is an..... More
A L'Hopital Marie Madeleine.
Paris: Editions du Sagittaire, 1924. [Surrealist Novella] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 12cm), pp.107 [5]. Number 709 of just 750 copies of the first edition. Publisher's plain soft covers with the brown paper wrap-around jacket titled in red and black to spine and front cover. Also with the glassine..... More
The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. Illustrated in colour and black and white, also with maps.
London: William Heinemann, 1915. [Antarctic Exploration] FIRST UK EDITION. Two volumes. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.xxx; 349 [3]; pp.xiv; 338 [2]. With numerous half-tone photographic plates, including frontispieces and a number of colour plates. With the three folding maps in a pouch at the rear of volume II. Publisher's navy..... More