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Dada and Surealism Reviewed.
London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 20cm), pp.xii; 475 [33]. With black and white illustrations throughout, and a suite of colour images at rear. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the grey dust-jacket. Quite heavy rubbing to jacket edges and joints, otherwise..... More
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales with Pictures that Spring to Life. Bookano Series.
London: Strand Publications, no date [circa 1938]. [Pop-Up Fairy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.[62]. With four colour-illustrated pop-up scenes, a colour frontispiece and vignette title page, and several line-drawn illustrations, all by Wickham, and design and arrangement by Giraud. Publisher's colour illustrated paper-covered boards, with endpapers illustrated..... More
The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1910. [Poetry] OXFORD EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 667 [1]. With a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author, engraved by Emery Walker. Publisher's quarter vellum, green cloth over sides. Spine with gilt-lettered blue label and floral designs in gilt and red. Top edge gilt..... More
The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
London, New York, Toronto, and Melbourne: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1911. [Poetry] OXFORD EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 668. With a halftone frontispiece portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Publisher's quarter vellum, red cloth over sides. Spine with gilt-lettered red label and floral designs in gilt and red. Top edge..... More
Sonnets from the Portuguese, by E.B. Browning. To which is prefaced a 'Little Journey' to the Home of the Author, written by E. Hubbard.
East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop, 1898. Limited Edition to 480 copies of which this is No.217. SIGNED by Elbert Hubbard. Publisher's quarter white cloth with gilt titles to upper, grey paper boards and end papers; edges untrimmed. Hand coloured stylised capitals throughout the text; superb printing on thick pages..... More
Jerramy Green-Eyes.
London: Hurst & Blackett, no date [1947]. [Romance] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.333. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by J. Vibart, priced at 10/6. A large clumsy blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise an exceptionally clean, bright copy, with just a...... More
Secrets of a Private Enquiry Office. Being Tales Weird and Tales Ghostly, Tales Humorous and Tales Pathetic, Tales Exciting and Tales Curious.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1891. [Detective fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth to bevelled boards with gilt titles to upper and spine. 'Routledge's Hearth and Home Library' blocked in blind to upper. Ruling in blind to upper, spine, and lower. Top edge gilt. Toning..... More
Half in Shadow.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1978. [Weird fiction] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.ix [3] 212 [4]. With a monochrome frontispiece. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Tim Kirk priced at $8.95 to front flap. Grey endpapers. Fine, as-new. A collection of short..... More
Summer Cooking.
London: Museum Press, 1961. [Cookery] REISSUE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. With occasional engraved illustrations by Daintrey. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf, dated 1964. Toning and spotting to edges, and a little spotting to endpapers..... More
A Book of Mediterranean Food.
London: John Lehmann Ltd., 1951. [Travel and Cookery] FIRST EDITION, Second Impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.191 [1]. With occasional vignette illustrations by Minton, including a frontispiece and decorated title page. Publisher's oatmeal cloth, with gilt titles to brown backing on the spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Minton..... More
William Tell, or the Patriot of Switzerland. And Hofer, the Tyrolese.
London: J. Harris, no date [circa 1824]. [Swiss Legend] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a New Edition. Duodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.[2] 252. With 10 engraved plates, and a decorated title page from the 1823 edition. Contemporary brown half calf, with gilt titles to brown label, and further decoration in gilt..... More
Hanged Man's House (Crime Club Choice).
London: Collins, The Crime Club. 1974. Mystery novel. Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition. Octavo, pp.190. Publisher's red card covers with title label affixed to upper showing the mis-spelled title 'HANGED MANS HOUSE'. The adhesive on the label has caused it to tone/mottle otherwise this is a near fine..... More
The Doubly Dead.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1963. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.191 [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. Together with the original hand-painted artwork (28 x 21cm), with original notes..... More
Murder Moves In.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1956. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Together with the original hand-painted artwork (27 x 20cm), with original notes in..... More
Ruth.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields 1853. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Slim octavo, pp.160. text printed in two columns. Elegantly bound in period-style half speckled brown calf with red and green labels, gilt decoration to raised bands, marbled sides. Bound without ads or half-title, cheap paper suffers from inevitable browning and spotting;..... More
The Valley of Song.
London: University of London Press, 1951. [Children's Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.255 [1]. With a colour frontispiece and occasional line-drawn illustrations throughout the text by Spurrier. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt ship device to upper. Top edge red, and illustrated endpapers..... More
The story of Porky Peek.
London: Frederick Warne, 1962. FIRST EDITION. Small octavo, unpaginated. Publisher's pictorial boards in matching dust-jacket. Dust-jacket has been clipped to the top right of the front flap, but not where the price is printed. Slight rubbing to extremities, dust-jacket slightly faded to spine. A very good example of a scarce..... More
Good Beds - Men Only. Stories of Outsiders.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1948. [Short story collection] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.174; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, top edge red, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 7s. 6d. to front flap. Some toning but remains internally clean, rolling to spine, toning to..... More
The Street of the Sandalmakers. A Tale of Rome in the Time of Marcus Aurelius.
London: Lovat Dickson Ltd., 1933. [Roman Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.496. With a frontispiece line drawing and decorated title page. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by VMM, priced at 7/6. Light toning and spotting to edges. Jacket..... More
The Experienced English House-keeper, for the Use and Ease of Ladies House-keepers, Cooks, etc. Wrote purely from Practice, and dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, Whom the Author lately served as House-keeper. Consisting of near 800 Original Receipts, most of which never appeared in Print.
Manchester: Printed by J. Harrop, for the Author, 1769. [English Cookery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] iv; 362; xii. SIGNED by the author (title page states all copies are to be signed) in black ink to p.1, complete with two folding plates showing a first and second..... More
The Journal of a Home Life.
London: Longman's, Green, and Co., 1867. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.vi; 413; [1]. Brown half-morocco, marbled paper over boards. Top edge brown, the rest speckled red. Interior toned, moderately spotted, and lightly soiled in areas. A few light pencil marks within. Offsetting to endpapers. Ownership signature in..... More
Laneton Parsonage. A Tale for Children on the practical use of a portion of the Church Catechism.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. [Christian Novel] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[4] 550 [2]. Contemporary brown half calf, with gilt titles to black label, further gilt decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards. All edges speckled red; grey endpapers. Small black ink..... More
Snapshot: Painters and Photography 1888-1915.
Yale University Press, 2011. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 25cm), pp.xiv; 234. heavily illustrated with black and white photographs, and colour images of paintings. Publisher's brown cloth with black titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, not priced. Jacket shows a little sunning to spine, with one small..... More
Now and Then. A Journal of Books and Personalities Published Occasionally from 30 Bedford Square. Number 83.
London: Jonathan Cape, Spring 1951. [Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo pamphlet (25 x 17cm), pp.24. With two double-sided black and white photographic plates, and a loose insert. Publisher's illustrated paper covers, priced at 6d. Light wear to covers, with oxidised staples. Very good. A late-period issue of Cape's occasional literary..... More
The Tragedy of the Korosko [and] Glimpses of Nature [and] The Strange Experience of Alkali Dick [and] Silenced [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 13 and 14, numbers 77 to 84.
London: George Newnes, May to December 1897. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Eight octavo magazines (27 x 19cm), pp.xxviii; 481-600; xxix-xxxvi; pp.xxxii; 601-804; xxxiii-xlviii; pp.xxxii; 120; xxxiii-xliv; pp.xxiv; 121-240; xxv-xxxii; pp.xxiv; 241-360; xxv-xxxii; pp.xxxii; 361-480; xxxiii-xl; pp.xxxii; 481-600; xxxiii-xlviii; pp.xl; 601-804; xli-lx. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers..... More