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Stage Management and Theatrecraft. A Stage Manager's Handbook.
London: J. Garnet Miller Ltd., 1968. [Theatre] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 304. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket showing the new lighting equipment at the Royal Opera House with printed price of 45s. (£2.25) net. Frontispiece and twenty two additional plates plus numerous in-text line..... More
Ian Botham: My Illustrated Life.
London: Cassell Illustrated, 2007. [Cricket]. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.256. Illustrated in colour throughout. INSCRIBED by the author 'To Max', in black ink to front free endpaper. Publisher's glossy paper-covered illustrated boards with matching dust-jacket. Illustrated endpapers. A fine copy. More
John Burningham.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2009. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Royal quarto (31 x 24cm), pp.224. With a foreword by Maurice Sendak, and an introduction by Brian Alderson. Illustrated in colour throughout. Signed by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the..... More
John Burningham. An Illustrated Journey.
London: The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, 2011. [Catalogue raisonne] FIRST EDITION. Oblong quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.144. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's photographic softcovers. Fine / as new. Rather scarce. Works by the childrens author, designer, and illustrator of Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (1964). A superb catalogue published on the occasion of the retrospective..... 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
Austin Dobson: An Anthology of Prose & Verse.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1922. [Miscellany] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] xxii; 174 [6]. With a half-tone photographic portrait of the author, and a facsimile reproduction of his bookplate. Contemporary blue half morocco by RAMAGE of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to..... More
Ved Vejs Ende. The Elder Statesman.
Herning: Poul Kristensen, 1965. [Drama in Translation] INSCRIBED FIRST DANISH EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.114 [6]. All text in Danish. INSCRIBED by the translator in black ink to the first blank, dated October 1965, with a longer message written onto the back of a business card. Publisher's grey soft..... More
Gozo: Island of Oblivion. A Graphic Literary Itinerary.
Melfi: Edizioni Libria, 1997. [Maltese Sketches and Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 28cm), pp.133 [7]. A collection of sketches of buildings on Gozo, accompanied by various appropriate quotations, and by eclogues by John Cremona. Publisher's cream soft covers with flaps, priced at 50,000 lire. Spine and part of rear..... More
The Science of James Bond.
Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2006. [Film reference] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, Pp.[xii]; 212. With occasional diagrams. Publisher's photographic softcovers. Fine. Subtitled 'From Bullets To Bowler Hats To Boat Jumps, The Real Technology Behind 007's Fabulous Films'. Raymond Benson was the official James Bond novelist from 1996-2002, and a...... More
Psychic Energy: Its Source and Goal.
Washington, D.C.: Published for Bollingen Foundation by Pantheon Books, 1947. [Psychology] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xvi; 497 [5]. With 10 black and white illustrated plates including a frontispiece, as well as occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's black quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and green..... More
The Fifth Division in the Great War.
London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd., 1921. [Military History] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 278 [2]. With a colour frontispiece, 16 further black and white photographic plates, 16 maps through the text, and two folding maps at rear. Publisher's red cloth, with titles in gilt to spine..... More
The Bond Women 007 Style.
UK: 1-Shot Publications, April 2002. [Film reference] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED and dated (on publication) by the author. Quarto, pp. Pp.117; [1], blank. With silhouette illustraions. Publisher's softcovers priced at £10.95. Fine. A guide to female characters appearing in the Bond films, subtitled '40 Years of Screen Sensuality from Dr. No..... More
Music & Light: Ceol and Solas. Irish Traditional Music Photography.
Enniskerry: Silver Spear Press, 2008. [Irish Music Photography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (27 x 25cm), pp.[12], with 130 black and white photographs, each captioned at rear [16]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to half-title: 'To Susan | Forward in all | directions! | much love | Tony..... More
Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets: Poems in Transit.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1945. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 75 [1]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's black cloth with white titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, titled in red and black. A nice crisp, clean..... More
Preliminary Studies for H. M. Factory, Gretna, and, Study for an Installation of Phosgene Manufacture.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, no date [1920]. [Munitions Factory Plans] SIGNED BY KENNETH BINGHAM QUINAN, one of just 1000 copies. Large octavo (28 x 19cm), pp.xvi; 145 [1]. With 24 large folding plans and diagrams. SIGNED and dated 3rd November 1920 by Quinan in black ink to front pastedown..... More
Prometheus Bound: Vatican Radio broadcast on the case of Ezra Pound.
Vatican City: Vatican Radio, 1954. [Radio Transcript] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 16cm), pp.12. Publisher's grey paper covers, stapled once. Light toning and handling. Near fine. An English transcript of a radio programme originally broadcast on 30th March 1954 on Vatican and Italian Radio. Portuguese poet Pina Martins..... More
Cricket in the Park. The Life and Times of Lord Sheffield 1832-1909.
London: Methuen, 2009. [Cricket] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xii; 288; [4]. Publisher's black paper covered boards, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of £18.99. With a foreword by Sir John Major. inscribed by the author to the title page: "To Leonard F. Johnson | Best..... More
The Accursed, Two Diabolical Tales.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967. [Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.287 [1]. Publisher's dark brown cloth with red titles to spine. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket featuring a blue and orange ravening wolf, priced at 28s. Also with a contemporary Book Society membership..... More
Indian States and the New Regime.
Sitamau: [Privately printed], 1937. [Indian history and politics] INSCRIBED ADVANCE COPY. First edition. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxvi; 469 [3]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'Presented to the | most Honourable the Marquess of | Zetland, P.C., G.C.S.I., | G.C.I.E., etc. | the Secretary of State..... More
Dwin Bramall: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshall the Lord Bramall, KG, GCB, OBE, MC.
Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2005. [Military Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 272. With a suite of eight double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page, and also INSCRIBED by Lord Bramall to Sharon Taylor in blue ink to title..... More
Why Are They Weeping? South Africans under Apartheid.
New York, NY: Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 1988. [Political Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.200. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout. SIGNED by the photographer in black ink to p.1. Also with an original black and white photographic print, signed to rear by Turnley, loose to preliminaries. Publisher's..... More
The Regimental Roll of Honour and War Record of the Artists' Rifles (1/28th, 2/28th and 3/28th Battalions The London Regiment T.F.). Commissions, Promotions, Appointments and Rewards for Service in the Field Obtained by Members of the Corps since 4th August, 1914.
London: Howlett & Son, 1922. [First World War] INSCRIBED THIRD EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.xliv; 596. With 33 black and white illustrations including a frontispiece. INSCRIBED by the Colonel of the Regiment between 1912 and 1921, and author of the foreword, H.A.R. May (1863-1930), in black ink to the..... More
Five Overs & 2 Wides.
Compton Chamberlayne: the Compton Press, 1975. [Cricket Poetry] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xx; 72 [4]. With occasional woodcuts by Gili. One of just 500 copies thus. Publisher's marble-effect pastepaper over boards, with titles in black to spine. Deep pink endpapers. A fine, as-new copy. A collection of poems..... More
Mervyn Peake / Oscar Wilde. Extracts from the Poems of Oscar Wilde with Sixteen Illustrations by Mervyn Peake and a Foreword by Maeve Gilmore.
London: Gordon Spilstead, 1980. [Illustrated Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.47 [1]. With a black and white illustration by Peake facing every poem. Number 158 of 200 copies SIGNED by the illustrator's wife, Maeve Gilmore, in the publilsher's pink silk-covered boards with gilt titles to spine and..... More
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