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The Life of Samuel Johnson, including a Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides. With numerous Additions and Notes, by the Right Hon. John Wilson Crocker. To which are added, Two Supplementary Volumes of Johnsoniana by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murohy, Tyers, Reynolds, Malone, Nichols, Steevens, Cumberland, and others. And Notes by Various Hands.
London: John Murray, 1839. [Literary biography] FINELY BOUND. Ten volumes, small octavo (17 x 11 x 28cm). With upwards of fifty engraved illustrations. Later binding by Ramage in brown half morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spines, marbled boards and end papers; top edges gilt. Edges a little..... More
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 Works of Charles Dickens.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1890-95. [Literature] FINELY BOUND. 24 titles bound in 17 volumes, Octavo (21 x 15 x 62 cm). Contemporary red half calf red with twin green labels, full gilt backs, marbled boards, edges and endpapers. With illustrations from the original plates by Cruikshank, Stone, Phiz, et al...... More
Weird Tales September 1951
New York, NY: Weird Tales Rockefeller Plaza, Sept. 1951. Quarto. Original pictorial wraps. Trimmed flush with page block. Clean and fresh, spine unchipped, colours bright and crisp. Contains 'Gimlet Eye Gunn' as a representative of the World War II zombie pirate vs. the Japanese genre (a wide field), with an..... More
Cruising and Ocean Racing. The Lonsdale Library Volume XV.
London: Seeley Service and Co. Ltd., 1933. [Yachting] ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.592. Publisher's tan cloth, titled in gilt to spine, gilt insignia to spine and upper board, blue illustrative endpapers, top edge brown, photographic frontispiece. With over five hundred illustrations. Some spotting to the textblock. Binding a little..... More
Blinds and Shutters.
Guildford, UK: Genesis Publications / Hedley 1990. [Rock Music / Photography] LIMITED EDITION, No 2795 of 5000 copies, signed by various contributors including Bill Wyman, Spencer Davis and Graham Nash. Photographer Michael Cooper had a long-lasting friendship with both the Beatles and the Stones, and shot the covers for the..... More
Fables, Original and Selected; by the Most Esteemed European and Oriental Authors: with an Introductory Dissertation on the History of the Fable, Comprising Biographical Notices of the Most Eminent Fabulists.
London: Willoughby and Co., 1842. [Children's illustrated] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xxxviii; 352 [2]. With 49 steel engravings after Grandville, including a frontispiece, by various engravers. Contemporary tan full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to brown label on spine. Further gilt decoration to spine..... More
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Tuck's Annual, With Realistic Suprise Panoramas [no. 37].
London: Raphael Tuck and Sons, 1935. 'POP-UP' panorama sections. Quarto, pp.111; [1]. With four chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece, two double-page coloured 'pop-up' panorama spreads, and occasional in-text illustrations. In publisher's blue quarter cloth with black titles to spine and glossy colour illustrated paper-covered boards. Very lightly browned and spotted..... More
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