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The Unbroken Web: Stories and Fables.
New York, NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1980. [Children's Illustrated] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.142 [2]. With colour plates by Gilbert and in-text drawings by Campbell. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'To R.W. Smith | Yours with best wishes | Richard..... More
Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977.
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. [Fashion Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (37 x 28cm), unpaginated, with 162 black and white photographs. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by the photographer in black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy photographic paper-covered boards. With the original clear..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends.
London: Blackie and Son, no date [circa 1940s]. [Literature] SANGOSKI AND SUTCLIFFE BINDING. Duodecimo (14 x 9cm), pp.[2]; xiii; [1]; 394; [2]. Fully bound in red morocco with gilt tooling and lettering to spine, gilt ruling to boards, all edges gilt, gilt-tooled dentelles to turn-ins. Illustrated frontispiece, marbled endpapers. Light..... More
Kings and Colonists, Aspects of Macedonian Imperialism.
Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, 1995. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 240 [12, unpaginated plates]. With 10 halftone illustrations to rear. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, unpriced. Sunning to jacket backstrip, otherwise fine. An account of the Macedonian..... More
Clinical Memoirs on Abdominal Tumours and Intumescence. Reprinted from the 'Guy's Hospital Reports.'
London: The New Sydenham Society, 1861. [Medicine] SECOND PRINTING THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 326. With occasional in-text diagrams and illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind and gilt decoration to boards. All edges red; yellow-coated endpapers. Exceptionally crisp and clean internally. Rubbing to spine..... More
The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer. The Fourteenth Edition: To which is added an Appendix, including the Statures of the last Session of Parliament (20G.3.) and some adjudged Cases.
London: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall for T. Cadell, 1780. [English Legal Procedure] FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING, the fourteenth edition. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 19cm), pp.[2] xxviii; 540 [6]; pp.[2] 607 [1]; pp.[2] 581 [5]; pp.[4] 504 [170]. With an unpaginated table of statutes..... More
[Arabian Nights] The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Translated from the Arabic by Captain Sir R.F. Burton. Reprinted from the original edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers. Illustrated by a series of 71 original illustrations reproduced from the original pictures in oil specially painted by Albert Letchford.
[Benares, by The Kamashastra Society, 1885] London: H.S. Nichols, 1897. The Library Edition. Printed by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers only. Complete in 12 volumes; large octavo, (27 x 18 x 56cm). Frontispiece portrait and photogravure illustrations with titled tissue guards. Publisher's original red half morocco with raised bands..... More
The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. [American Travel]. SECOND EDITION, identical to the First. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 707. With 10 wood engraved plates including a frontispiece and two folding maps. Nine further illustrations in-text. In publisher's blue pebble grained cloth, re-backed during the twentieth century, with original..... More
Etruscan Bologna: A Study.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1876. [Italian Travel and Archaeology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii, 275. Illustrated with folding frontispiece lithograph showing a Synoptical Table of the Paleo-Ethnological Remains of Central Italy. Also with occasional in-text wood engravings. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, decorative friezes..... More
Butterflies In Britain. Puffin Picture Book No. 29. Written & Lithographed by Richard Chopping.
London: Penguin Books Ltd. No date(circa 1940s). [Natural History] Oblong Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp32. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's pictorial hardcovers designed by the author. Contents clean, light wear to covers, owner name to front, spine creased, with neat crack to head and tail. Very good. An early book..... More
The Fly [2 copies].
London: Secker and Warburg, 1965. [Modern literature/60s culture] FIRST EDITION, first printing, together with the second impression. Octavos, each (20 x 14cm), each pp.291; [1]. Publisher's hardcovers in pictorial dust-wrapper, designed by the author. With several contemporary newspaper reviews tucked in. No inscriptions. Both near fine, with gentle toning to..... More
The Fly.
New York: Farrer, Straus & Giroux, 1965. [Modern literature/60s culture] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.291; [1], blank. Publisher's hardcover in pictorial dust-wrapper, designed by the author. No inscriptions, contents clean, top edges dusty/spotted, some foxing to jacket. Very good indeed. A satirical melodrama in an office setting..... More
The Fly.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1965. [Modern literature/60s culture] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.288. Publisher's printed green softcovers. Pagination differs from the published book. Contents clean, spine gently toned and wrinkled, some wear to joints, cup ring to front panel; very good. A satirical..... More
The Ring [2 copies].
London: Secker and Warburg, Corgi, 1967, 1968. [Modern literature/60s culture] FIRST EDITION, first printing, together with the first paperback edition. Tow vols., octavos. Publisher's red hardcover in pictorial dust-wrapper, designed by the author, priced 30s., and publisher's illustrated softcovers priced 5s. Lightly handled, minor spotting, expected toning to cheap paperback..... More
The Ring.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1967. [Modern literature/60s culture] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.352. Publisher's printed tan softcovers. Contents clean, some light soiling to covers, ink note to rear. Very good indeed. The author's second novel, a frank portrait of the squalid side of..... More
The Visitors' Book. In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller.
London: Constable, 2017. [Biography] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.392. With a suite of colour plate illustrations. Publisher's illustrated softcovers. As new. An account of Richard Chopping and his circle. 'Dickie' Chopping was the artist responsible for the memorable series of jacket designs which adorned Ian Fleming's James..... More
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches; the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons; the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion; and their Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical: with Notes Explanatory, Practical, and Historical, from Approved Writers of the Church of England, Selected and Arranged by the Right Reverend Richard Mant, D.D. Lord Bishop of Down and Connor, and Late Domestick Chaplain to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.
London: J. G. F. and J. Rivington, 1840. FINELY BOUND, fifth edition thus. Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.[6] 2, lxxii, 966 [4]. In two columns with very extensive notes by Rev. Mant. In contemporary dark brown diced calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and further blind decoration to..... More
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches; the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons; the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion: with Notes Explanatory, Practical, and Historical, from Approved Writers of the Church of England, Selected and Arranged by the Right Reverend Richard Mant, D.D. Lord Bishop of Down and Connor, and Late Domestick Chaplain to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Oxford: Printed by W. Baxter for J. Parker and C. and J. Rivington, 1825. FINELY BOUND, third edition thus. Quarto (31 x 25cm), pp.[6] lxxii, 966 [2]. In two columns with very extensive footnotes by Rev. Mant. Contemporary panelled and gilt-decorated brown calf, re-backed in the late nineteenth or early..... More
What Ho!
London: Robert Hale and Company, 1937. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. 288. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, printed price 7/6 to spine. Heavy toning and spotting to textblock edges and front few leaves, else internally clean. A few minor..... More
A Pageant of the Spice Islands.
London: John Bale, Sons and Danielsson, 1936. First Edition. Octavo, pp. i, 131. With 5 b/w plates including frontispiece. In publisher's green cloth with yellow titles to spine. With original cream dust jacket, featuring black titles to spine and upper board. Corners slightly bumped, and some light wear to boards..... More
Ranson's Folly. With 16 Illustrations by Frederic Remington, Walter Appleton Clark, Howard Chandler Christy, E.M. Ashe, and F. Dorr Steele.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First Edition. Publisher's brick coloured cloth with gilt titles to upper with colour illustration to centre, gilt titles to spine; top edge gilt, others rough trimmed. Rubbed to extremities; internally clean and sound. Very good indeed. More
Soldiers of Fortune.
New York, Scribners. 1897. First US Edition. 8vo. Publisher's pale yellow decorated cloth titled in blue to spine and titled and decorated in blue and gilt to front board. Very good indeed with only very slight edgewear and light bumping to the spine ends. Slightly dusty top edge, internally bright..... More
The Flowering Plants of Tunbridge Wells and Neighbourhood.
Tunbridge Wells: Stidolph and Bellamy, 1871. [Natural history] FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.vi; 371; [1], blank. Professionally recased dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, black decoration to boards. Hand coloured frontispiece showing Butomus Umbellatus. Numerous black and white illustrations. Publisher's presentation..... More
The Flowering Plants of Tunbridge Wells and Neighbourhood.
Tunbridge Wells: Stidolph and Bellamy, 1871. [Natural history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.vi; 371; [1], blank. Hand coloured frontispiece showing Butomus Umbellatus. Numerous black and white illustrations. Bound in publisher's russet cloth decoratively blocked in black and gilt, coated brown endpapers. Contents clean, inside paper joints cracked, bright..... More
'Codebreakers'
[No place], [1977] 2019. [Ian Fleming / Bondiana] Illustrated digital colour print from an original painting by Richard Delaporte Hearn after 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (1977, Dir. Lewis Gilbert). Copyright remains with the artist. Presented in a simple, elegant card mount, ready for framing. Approximate total dimensions 40 x...... More