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The James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [James Bond Reference] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine, and the pictorial dust-wrapper, based on the familiar Chopping 'trompe l'oeil' designs from the Ian Fleming first editions. Priced at 16s. to flap. A...... More
The James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [James Bond Reference] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine, and the pictorial dust-wrapper, based on the familiar Chopping 'trompe l'oeil' designs from the Ian Fleming first editions. Contents clean, page edges toned, some..... More
The James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [James Bond Reference] FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine, and the pictorial dust-wrapper, based on the familiar Chopping 'trompe l'oeil' designs from the Ian Fleming first editions. Decorative bookplate, SIGNED by..... More
The James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [James Bond Reference] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.159 [1]. Handsomely bound in half red oasis morocco, titled and decorated in gilt to the spine, raised bands, matching cloth sides, top edge gilt. Contents clean, but for a few light spots/reading marks, exterior as new. A...... More
The Anti-Death League. A Novel.
London: Victor Gollancz, [1966] 1972. [Modern Literature] SIGNED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.352. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey, priced at £2.75. One of an unspecified small number of the second printings issued on behalf of the New Fiction Society..... More
The Green Man.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. [Strange tale] UNCORRECTED PROOF of the FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.253. Publisher's green softcovers in proof-only pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 30s. A fine, unread copy of the book in near fine, lightly rubbed oversized jacket. A ghostly tale set in an english medieval coaching..... More
The James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Reference critique] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.159; [1], blank. Publisher's green card lettered in black. Contents clean, covers have some scuffs to upper, tear/loss to lower panel with old tape makes to inside rear. Very good. Amis' first venture into the world of..... More
The James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Reference critique] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY IN PROOF-ONLY JACKET. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.159; [1], blank. Publisher's paper covers, with pictorial proof dust-wrapper (entirely unclipped and with original setting of the text) with design based on the familiar 'trompe l'oeil' art which decorated the Ian Fleming first..... More
Memoirs.
London: Hutchinson, 1991. [Literary anecdotes] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 346; [6], blank. Illustrated with three suites of eight photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth, photographic jacket priced £16.99. A fine copy. Memoirs of the literary heavyweight Kingsley Amis, who had more than a passing interest in James Bond;..... More
My Enemy's Enemy, Stories.
London: Victor Gollancz. 1962. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 224. Red publisher's cloth with gilt titles to spine, in strikingly restrained yellow dustwrapper. Top and fore edge slightly browned, slight bumping to head and tail caps. Some wear to the top and bottom edges of the dustjacket with some marking and..... More
The Riverside Villas Murder.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, coloured endpapers, top edge green. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Ian Beck. Some minor dustiness to fore-edge else a fine, fresh copy. An old-fashioned whodunit, set in the 1930s... More
The Riverside Villas Murder.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. [Crime Mystery] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.224. Publisher's green monogrammed card covers. Light handing to covers. Worn and a little toned to spine, with a reading lean. Very good. An old-fashioned whodunit, set in the 1930s. More
The Letters of Kingsley Amis.
London: Harper Collins, 2000. [Literary correspondence] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.lvi; 1208. Illustrated with four suites of eight photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt, photographic jacket, showing the famous portrait of Amis adopting the pistol pose. A very good copy in like, price-clipped jacket. The letters..... More
Lucky Him. The Life of Kingsley Amis.
London: Peter Owen, 2001. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.432. Illustrated with a suite photographic plates. Publisher's burgundy cloth lettered in gilt, photographic jacket, priced at £22.50. A clean, fine copy. Retailer's security tag to flap. The biography of literary heavyweight Kingsley Amis, who had more than..... More
Arthur and George.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. [Historical Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 360 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's olive cloth decorated in black and titled in white to spine and upper. With the original printed paper band to rear board..... More
The Admirable Crichton. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [c.1914]. FIRST HUGH THOMSON EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), with twenty mounted colour plates and captioned tissues. Publisher's pale green cloth blocked in dark green and red to upper, gilt to spine. Contents are a little foxed, binding lightly handled, one neat/accidental pull to crown..... More
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [1920s]. [Children's] RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.126; [1], advertisement. With sixteen mounted colour plate illustrations, each with captioned tissue guards, illustrated map endpapers. Bound in publisher's gilt decorated green cloth, original pictorial dust-wrapper with colour plate to front, priced 10/6. Undated, with..... More
Historic Memoirs of Ireland; comprising Secret Records of the National Convention, the Rebellion, and the Union; with Delineations of the Principal Characters connected with these transactions.
London: Henry Colburn, 1835. NEW EDITON. In two volumes. Large Quarto, pp.[2] xlii, 358 [2]; pp.[4] x, 464 [2]. With 38 copper engraved portraits, including a frontispiece of Barrington to vol. I, and two plates preceeding the title page in vol. II. Also with three facsimile letters and an index..... More
Rossetti and his Circle.
London: William Heinemann, 1922. [Caricature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (27 x 20cm), ix; [1]; [44]. With 23 colour halftone plates, including a frontispiece, by Beerbohm, pasted on one edge to captioned tissue-guarded leaves. Publisher's blue cloth to boards, gilt titles to upper and spine. Publisher's insignia in blind to lower. Leaves..... More
A Fountain Sealed.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1897. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. viii; 301; [1]; 32, publisher's advertisements. With the half-tone frontispiece illustration by H.G. Burgess. Patterned endpapers. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to upper and spine, embossed pattern to upper. Exlibris stamp front paste down, some spotting..... More
![Item #63652 [Arabian Nights] The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Translated from the...](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/63652.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675704431)
[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
The Woman Thou Gavest Me. Being the Story of Mary O'Neill.
London: William Heinemann, 1913. [Modern literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 586; [14]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt to upper and spine. Embellishment in black to upper, in blind to lower. Catalogue to rear. Interior lightly toned..... More
[Sir Malcolm and Donald Campbell Photographic Archive and Long-Play Record, including] World Water Speed Record 1956: Donald Campbell's Southward Run on Coniston Water [and] See Sir Malcolm Campbell Breaking the World's Water Speed Record Using Castrol Motor Oil [Flick Book].
London: His Master's Voice, 1937, 1956, and 1984. [Land and Water Speed Records] ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS, SIGNATURES, FLICK BOOK, NEWSPAPER, AND LONG-PLAY RECORD, LEO VILLA ASSOCIATION. Two ink signatures by Malcolm Campbell on separate scraps of paper, one with a small newspaper photograph cut out and laid on, dated 22/07/1935. One..... More