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The History of Surrey, by Edward Wedlake Brayley. Assisted by John Britton and E.W. Brayley, Junior. The Geological Section by Gideon Mantell.
Dorking: Robert Best Ede, 1841-48. FIRST EDITIONS. 5 volumes as 10 parts. Octavo (26 x 17 x 28cm). Publisher's original embossed purple cloth with gilt titles to evenly faded spines, yellow endpapers, edges untrimmed. Illustrated with 127 full page steel engraved plates by Thomas Allom, Thompson and others (some folding)..... More
The Gang on Wheels.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1930. [Motoring crime caper] PUBLISHER'S FILE COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.269; [3], blank. Publisher's grey-green cloth blocked in colours, dust-jacket designed by W.Edward Wigton, with printed price of 2/6s net. Publisher's file copy signified by ink stamp to title page and paper label to..... More
The Curse of Lono (with fine painting of Thompson).
Köln: Taschen, 2005. [Original artwork] FIRST EDITION THUS, trade issue, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, with superb ORIGINAL PAINTING. Folio (39 x 30cm), pp.208. With numerous fantastical colour illustrations by Steadman, many double-paged. Publisher's white hardcovers screen-printed in black, colour-illustrated dust-jacket. To the half-title is a most personal painted caricature of..... More
The Goldfish Boy.
London: Scholastic, 2017. [Children's fiction] SIGNED PAPERBACK, nineteenth printing. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4]; 393; [3]. Publisher's softcovers. Signed by the author to the dedication page. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front cover. Uncommon signed. A fine/as new copy. More
Alice of Old Vincennes.
Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1900. [American Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION, an advance copy. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 419 [13]. With five black and white illustrated plates and a colour frontispiece, all by Yohn. Publisher's light blue cloth with black and gilt titles, as well as decoration in white..... More
The Lawson History of the America's Cup. A Record of Fifty Years.
Boston, MA: Thomas W. Lawson, 1902. [Sailing] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 20cm), pp.[xv]; 402. With eighty-nine plates in colour and black and white with captioned tissues. Handsomely bound in full dark blue morocco, gilt, with marbled endpapers, original decorative cloth bound in at rear, top edge gilt, others untrimmed..... More
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