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Andrew R. Buxton: The Rifle Brigade, A Memoir.
London: Robert Scott, 1918. [Great War Memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 294. With 16 black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's dark green gained cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Black ink inscription stating 'from Andrew Buxton's Sister | Rosamond Buxton | December..... More
Ian Fleming and James Bond: the Cultural Politics of 007.
Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. [Critique] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxvi; 281 [5]. With occasional black and white illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers. A lovely fine copy. An academic study of Ian Fleming and James Bond, with a foreword from Fleming's official biographer Andrew Lycett..... More
That Summer.
London: faber and faber, 2000. [Wartime Romance] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 13cm), pp.x; 261 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's photographic soft covers, with the dust-jacket priced at £9.99. A little light handling and some toning to edges and margins. Near fine..... More
Addition. Folio IX.
London: Architectural Association, 1986. [Modernism] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, number 850 of 1000 copies. Portfolio (12 x 12 inches) of 20 silkscreen prints which when assembled form a print 1525 x 1120 mm, together with 28-page catalogue printed in colour, housed in folding box with ribbon pull release, titled in white..... More
Catalogue from Big Pic Box / The Beauty of Our Weapons.
London: Architectural Association, 1988. FIRST (and only) EDITION. A 24-page square catalogue (12 x 12 inches), illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine condition. A scarce automotive/industrial/architectural item. Andrew Holmes is Britain's best-known super-realist painter and graphic designer. He is also an architect and one of the original..... More
Realistic Pictures.
London: The Gallery at John Jones Frames, 1991. [Modernism] FIRST (and only) EDITION. Portfolio (12 x 12 inches) of 10 photographs together with two printed text sheets, housed in original polythene sleeve with text printed in white. Fine throughout, with minor handling to bag. A scarce automotive/industrial/architectural item; only one..... More
The Iron Woman.
London: Faber and Faber, 1993. [Children's fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.87. Publisher's black cloth in black pictorial dust-jacket priced £9.99. Internally clean and free from spotting; spine-ends a touch bumped. Dust-wrapper is rubbed with minor chips and tears at spine ends. Very Good. Ted Hughes' classic of..... More
The Iron Woman.
London: Faber and Faber, 1993. [Children's fiction] FIRST EDITION. REVIEW COPY with illustrated press release and review slip loosely inserted. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.87. Publisher's black cloth in black pictorial dust-jacket priced £9.99. A fine copy in slightly nicked and rubbed jacket. Ted Hughes' classic of environmental children's fiction..... More
A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World Performed by Captain James Cook, With an Account of his Life, During the Previous and Intervening Periods.
London: Bickers and Son, 1883. [Maritime history] FINE TREE-CALF BINDING, reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.x [2] 404. Contemporary brown full tree-calf, decorative gilt-ruling to boards. Gilt titles, tooling, and raised bands to spine. Marbled endpapers, marbled edges. With a collotype frontispiece illustration. Lightly toned throughout, faintly spotted to preliminaries..... More
The True Story Book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. [Childrens illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 337; [1], blank; [1], advertisement; [1], blank. With numerous engraved illustrations by Ford, Speed and others. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, coated black endpapers, all edges..... More
The True Story Book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. [Children's illustrated] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 337; [1], blank; [1], advertisement; [1], blank. With numerous engraved illustrations by Ford, Speed and others. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, coated black endpapers, all edges..... More
The Red True Story Book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895. [Childrens illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 419; [1], blank. With numerous engraved illustrations by Ford. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, coated black endpapers, all edges gilt. Light and occasional spotting else contents..... More
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.
London: Faber and Faber, 1981. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST LE CAIN-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (31 x 22cm), pp.32. With a full colour plate by Le Cain to every other page. Publisher's colour-illustrated glossy paper-covered boards, not priced. A fine, as-new copy. More
Peter Lanyon 1918-1964.
Penzance: Andrew Lanyon, with St. Ives Printing and Publishing Company, 1990. [Biography and Catalogue] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (28 x 21cm), pp.340. Heavily illustrated throughout with tipped-in plates. Number 417 of 500 copies SIGNED by the author, Andrew Lanyon, in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's black cloth, with..... More
Wartime Abstractions: The Paintings of Peter Lanyon.
Penzance: Andrew Lanyon, with St. Ives Printing and Publishing Company, 1996. [Biography and Catalogue] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (28 x 21cm), pp.84 [4]. Heavily illustrated throughout with tipped-in plates. Number 200 of 250 copies SIGNED by the author, Andrew Lanyon, in pencil to limitation page. Publisher's black cloth, with..... More
Ian Fleming [2 copies: PROOF/ADVANCE copy and regular paperback].
London: Phoenix / Orion, 1996, 2008. [Literary biography] UK PAPERBACK REISSUE, being a stand-in PROOF COPY for the US paperback reissue. Bibliographer's copies. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.x; 486. With photographic plates. Publisher's photographic softcovcers, priced at £10.99, with printed label to upper from the American publisher stating "In lieu..... More
Ian Fleming.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.x; 486. With photographic plates. Elegantly hand-bound in half black oasis morocco leather, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, red endpapers, original cloth spine bound in at rear. A crisp fine copy in an attractive..... More
Ian Fleming.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.x; 486. With photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth blocked in gilt to spine, beige endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper. A crisp, fine copy. 'The most comprehensive biography of Ian Fleming' - Gilbert. Ian Fleming The Bibliography, p.592... More
Ian Fleming.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.x; 486. With photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth blocked in gilt to spine, beige endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £20. A clean, fine copy. 'The most comprehensive biography of Ian Fleming' - Gilbert. From the collection of..... More
Ian Fleming.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.x; 486. With photographic plates. Elegantly hand-bound in half black oasis morocco leather, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, red endpapers, original cloth spine bound in at rear, top edge gilt. A few thumb marks..... More
Ian Fleming.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.x; 486. With photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth blocked in gilt to spine, beige endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £20. A fine copy. Extensively yet carefully used by Gilbert while writing the bibliography. 'The most..... More
Ian Fleming.
London: Phoenix / Orion, 1996. [Literary biography] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.x; 486. With photographic plates. Publisher's photographic softcovcers, priced at £8.99. Carefully read, covers show minor handling. Near fine. This copy is from the comprehensive collection of Jon Gilbert (pencilled signature within). His encyclopaedic..... More
Ian Fleming.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.x; 486. With photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth blocked in gilt to spine, beige endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £20 net. With author's signature to the title page. A clean, fine copy. Signed..... More
Ian Fleming. The Man Behind James Bond.
Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, 1995. [Literary biography] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.x; 486. With photographic plates. Publisher's two-tone hardcovers cloth blocked in gilt to spine, black endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at $24.95. A clean, near fine copy. 'The most comprehensive biography of Ian Fleming' - Gilbert. Ian..... More
Ian Fleming. The Man Behind James Bond.
Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, 1995. [Literary biography] FIRST US EDITION. REVIEW COPY, with extensive notes and ephemera including an AUTOGRAPH POSTCARD. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.x; 486. With photographic plates. Publisher's two-tone hardcovers cloth blocked in gilt to spine, black endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at $24.95. Near fine (read for..... More