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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 Story of Broadcasting.
London: Cassell and Company, 1924. [Wireless and radio] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 182 [2]. With eight half-tone plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 3/6 to to spine. Offsetting to endpapers; a little..... 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, 1885. [Evolutionary science] SECOND EDITION, revised and augmented (nineteenth thousand). Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 693; [1], blank. With in-text black and white illustrations. Bound in original green cloth with gilt titles to spine, ruled to covers in blind, coated dark brown endpapers. Discreet ownership (1887), contents..... More
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. With Photographic and Other Illustrations.
London: John Murray, 1904. [Science and Nature] POPULAR EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 397 [3]. With 21 engravings, and seven black and white photographic plates. Including the preface to the second edition of 1889. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and titles and decoration in black to..... More
A Naturalist's Voyage Round The World.
London: John Murray, 1909. Octavo. Bound in green cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and dark green panelling and design to front board. Includes Christmas gift insert and review slip. Stain to front board, and some spotting to edges. Occassional spots in text, mostly to prelims, but largely clean, including..... More
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: John Murray, 1892. [Evolutionary science] Sixth Edition, Forty-third thousand. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xxii; 432. Bound in publisher's green buckram, lettered and trimmed in gilt to backstrip, blind-stamped borders, pale blue floral-patterned endpapers. Ink name to first blank (dated 1894), second name to flyleaf, contents very clean, some browning..... More
The Works of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett and R. B. Freeman.
London: William Pickering, 1986-1989. [Science / Evolution] THE COMPLETE WORKS, Pickering Masters Series. Octavo, 29 volumes. Handsomely bound in dark green half morocco over green cloth boards, raised bands and gilt titles to spine, top edges gilt. The complete works in 29 volumes edited by Paul H. Barrett and R...... More
By Way of Introduction.
London: Methuen and Co. 1929. [Sherlockiana] FIRST EDITION, First Issue. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii, 208; [8]. In publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, lower edges untrimmed, printed dust-wrapper priced at 6s. Contents clean, jacket toned to spine, lightly rubbed at joints. Very good indeed..... More
Edmund Dulac's Picture Book.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, for The Daily Telegraph, no date [1915]. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.135; [1] advert. Twenty tipped-in colour plates, one tipped-in photograph of Dulac by E.O. Hoppé. Half dark green oasis, gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, matching cloth sides, top..... More
Sindbad (Sinbad) the Sailor, and Other Stories From the Arabian Nights.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. Circa 1915. Quarto. Pp.224. Illustrated with 23 stunning colour plates, mounted, with captioned tissues, text pages printed in two colours with geometric arabeque borders. Elegantly hand bound in blue half morocco, gilt, with matching cloth sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Internally clean, binding unmarked..... 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
Drama in Gloucestershire (the Cotswold County): Some account of its development from the earliest times till to-day.
Gloucester: Minchin and Gibbs, 1928. [History of Theatre] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 240 [2]. With eight black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary full tree calf for Cheltenham College, with gilt titles to black label and further gilt tooling to spine, as well..... More
The Voice of Shem. Passages from Finnegans Wake, freely adapted for the theatre by Mary Manning.
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 75 [5]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket. Offsetting to endpapers. Price-clipped jacket a little rubbed to edges. A lovely bright copy. Near fine. Originally performed at the Poet's..... More
Simples. A Setting of James Joyce's Poem by Arthur Bliss.
London: Oxford University Press, 1971. [Music] LIMITED EDITION, FIRST THUS. Folio booklet (36 x 26cm), pp.[4] 5 [3]. With the half-tone portrait of Arthur Bliss by Lewis as a frontispiece. Words set to musical notation. One of just 500 copies thus. Publisher's dark grey soft covers, priced at 80p. Some..... 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
Seven Poems by James Joyce set to music by E.J. Moeran.
London: Oxford University Press, 1930. [Music] FIRST THUS. A4 booklet (31 x 23cm), pp.20. Words set to musical notation. Publisher's decorative purple soft covers, stapled twice, and priced at 10/6. Very light rubbing to edges. Near fine. Featuring 'Strings in the Earth and Air;' 'The Merry Green Wood;' 'Bright Cap;'..... More
Two Tales Of Shem And Shaun. Fragments From Works In Progress.
London: Faber and Faber, 1932. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.45; [3], blank. Publisher's light blue paper-covered boards with dark blue titles to spine, orange dust-wrapper priced at 2/6. A near fine copy of the book, jacket slightly toned and torn, with a few tiny chips..... 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
Longfellow's Poetical Works. Author's Complete Copyright Edition.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 680; [2]. With 14 engraved plates. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Elaborate gilt decoration to spine and boards. Gilt textured endpapers; all edges gilt. Spotting to preliminaries and..... 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 of Longfellow. Oxford Edition.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1910. [Poetical Works] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 886 [2]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author. Text printed in two columns on thin paper. Contemporary full tree calf for London County Council, with gilt titles to red label and..... 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