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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
A Zoo in My Luggage.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960. [Animals] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.205 [3]. With frequent illustrations by Ralph Thompson. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the pink dust-jacket, also illustrated by Thompson, re-priced by the publisher from 18s to 16s. A nice crisp copy with..... More
Millennium Trilogy. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl Who Played with Fire; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest; Afterword—Stieg Larsson: Four Essays and an Exchange of e-mails.
London: MacLehose Press, Quercus, 2010. [Swedish Crime Thriller] FIRST BOX SET, complete in four volumes. Octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm), pp.[8] 454 [2]; pp.[8] 517 [3]; pp.[8] 599 [1]; pp.[8] 85 [3]. Publisher's variously coloured cloth, with gilt titles to spines and maps to endpapers. With a series of..... 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 Collected Poetry of Francis Thompson.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. [Poetry] LIMITED EDITION. One of two thousand five hundred copies. Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.xx; 413; [3]. Publisher's grey quarter cloth, stippled blue paper over boards. Paper labels to upper and spine, pictorial device printed to upper. Top edge gilt, the rest untrimmed. Housed inside..... 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
Military Honours.
London: The Fortune Press, 1946. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.56. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket priced at 6s. Just a touch of spotting to endpapers. Jacket toned, with rubbing to joints and edges, some water marks to edges..... 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
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