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Rab and His Friends.
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1862. [Illustrated] FINE COPPER ENGRAVINGS, later edition. Slim quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.34. With seven fine copper engravings after George Harvey, R.S.A., including a frontispiece. Recently re-backed using original white glazed paper-covered boards, with black titles printed to upper board. Black ink gift inscription to half-title..... More
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex.
London: John Murray, 1871. [Evolutionary science] FIRST EDITION, Second state. Two volumes, octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.424; pp.476. Bound without adverts in contemporary green half morocco, gilt, with matching cloth sides, marbled edges and endpapers. Contents very clean, same neat ink name (Dutton) to each half title, binding gently aged..... More
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.
London: John Murray, 1899. [Science] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. 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..... 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. Authorized Westminster Edition.
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, no date [circa 1890s]. [Natural History] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] vi; 592 [4]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Number 127 of 1000 copies thus. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. An..... 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
Insectivorous Plants. The Westminster Edition.
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, no date [circa 1890s]. [Natural History] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 376. With occasional in-text illustrations, and a black and white photograph of a statue of the author as a frontispiece. Number 127 of 1000 copies thus. Publisher's burgundy cloth..... 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 Collected Poems of John Drinkwater. 1908-1922.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1923. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.xiv; 234 [6]; pp.[2] xii; 240. Number 49 of 230 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to preface. Printed on fine handmade paper. Publisher's cream buckram with gilt titles to..... 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
Ethics. Moral Phenomena; Moral Values; Moral Freedom.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1932. [Critical Realism] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, INSCRIBED BY THE TRANSLATOR. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 343 [1]; pp.476 [4]; pp.288. Volume I INSCRIBED by the translator in black ink to fly-leaf: 'To | Patrick Gibson | from his | proud..... 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
The Cat and the Devil.
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1964. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST ERDOES-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), unpaginated. With in-text colour illustrations by Erdoes to every page. Publisher's tan cloth with black titles to spine, purple vignette to upper board, and colour-illustrated endpapers. With the Publisher's colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Cloth a...... More
Salamina.
London: Faber and Faber, 1936. [Greenland] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.352 [2]. With 22 full page illustrated plates, a folding illustrated map, and numerous woodcut headpieces, all by the author. Publisher's tan cloth, with black titles and decoration to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 15s..... 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 Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (Reprinted from the Revised American Edition) with Explanatory Notes. The "Albion" Edition.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 630 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary navy full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label, and further gilt decoration to spine. All edges and endpapers..... 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
When We Were Very Young.
London: Methuen and Co., 1927. [Childrens classic]. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.x; 100. Sixteenth printing. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt decoration to boards, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt. Some minor handling, chip to corner of penultimate leaf, cloth is bright and fresh. An attractive early reprint. A book of..... More
Now We Are Six. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Collection of British and American Authors. Tauchnitz Edition. Vol. 5171.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1934. COPYRIGHT EDITION (TAUCHNITZ). Octavo, pp. 116. Bound in publisher's soft paper covers with publishing details, titles, etc. printed to front. Stamp to cover reads 'IMPRIME EN ALLEMAGNE' under notice 'Not to be introduced into the British Empire and USA'. In excellent condition, very clean internally, with..... More
When We Were Very Young. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Collection of British and American Authors. Tauchnitz Edition. Vol. 5153.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1934. COPYRIGHT EDITION (TAUCHNITZ). Octavo, pp. 123. Bound in publisher's soft paper covers with publishing details, titles, etc. printed to front. Notice to cover reads 'Not to be introduced into the British Empire and USA'. In very good condition, age toned to covers, very clean internally. Advertisements..... More