"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
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Dada and Surealism Reviewed.
London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 20cm), pp.xii; 475 [33]. With black and white illustrations throughout, and a suite of colour images at rear. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the grey dust-jacket. Quite heavy rubbing to jacket edges and joints, otherwise..... More
Those Three. Forty-Four Cartoons.
London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., no date [1942]. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION. Oblong octavo (14 x 21cm), pp.[48] unpaginated. Publisher's wraps printed in red and black with printed price of 1' net. Stapled twice to spine. Three page introduction followed by forty-four full page cartoons with captions..... More
The Vox Edition of the Works of Jane Austen
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1933-4. [Classic Literature] FIRST VOX ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13 x 21cm), 7 volumes. With colour plates and in-text black and white illustrations by Maximilien Vox. Prefatory letter, in French by Maximilien Vox and an introduction by Emile Legouis. Publisher's patterned grey cloth..... More
Bailey's Democracy.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2005. [Nude Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (34 x 27cm), unpaginated. Black and white photographs of assorted male and female nudes on clay paper. Publisher's grey cloth with black titles to spine, and blank white glossy paper laid over upper. Light wear and rubbing. Very good... More
The Best of Beaton. With notes on the photographs by Cecil Beaton. Introduction by Truman Capote.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 24cm), pp.248. Profusely illustrated with mainly black and white photographs by Beaton. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, orange endpapers, dust-jacket. Edges toned with the occasional mark, cloth lightly handled. Jacket price-clipped, with extensive amateur repairs to..... More
Max's Nineties: Drawings 1892-1899.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958. [Caricatures] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.10. With 46 black and white sketches by Beerbohm on 23 double-sided plates, including 35 not previously published. Publisher's burgundy quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and stripy red and white paper-covered boards. Black endpapers; top edge red..... More
Beyond the Fringe.
London: Souvenir Press, 1963. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's dark blue cloth, orange titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket with printed price of 13s. 6d. With six double sided black and white photographic plates. Light spotting to edges. Wrapper slightly edge worn, some marking to rear panel..... More
The Collected Poems of T.E. Brown.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, second impression thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxvi; 736 [2]. With a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary Art Nouveau binding of green full calf, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and some decoration to boards including red..... More
John Burningham.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2009. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Royal quarto (31 x 24cm), pp.224. With a foreword by Maurice Sendak, and an introduction by Brian Alderson. Illustrated in colour throughout. Signed by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the..... More
The works of robert burns. Illustrated by an Extensive Series of Portraits and Authentic Views. With a Complete Life of the Poet: An Essay on his Genius and Character, by Professor Wilson. Numerous Notes, Annotations, and Appendices.
London: Blackie and Son, 1866. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.cclxxvi; iv; 149; [1]; pp.xx; 412. With a total of 83 engraved plates by various artists, including a frontispiece and vignette title page to each volume, and a facsimile example of Burns' handwriting..... More
Songs of Robert Burns. With a Prefatory Notice, Biographical and Critical, by Joseph Skipsey.
London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., no date [1902]. [Scots Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Sextodecimo (14 x 11cm), pp.[2] 354 [2]. With a frontispiece portrait of Burns. Contemporary quarter vellum, with gilt titles to a brown label, as well as delicate green and gilt decoration to spine. Striped green cloth over..... More
Killer In The Rain. Being: Killer in the Rain; The Man who liked Dogs; The Curtain; Try the Girl; Mandarin's Jade; Bay City Blues; The Lady in the Lake; No Crime in the Mountains. With an Introduction by Philip Durham.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1964. [Crime stories] FIRST EDITION (stated). Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.394. Publisher's blue cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Rob Howard, priced at $5.50. Contents and page edges clean, jacket with a little edgewear and a crease to the spine panel, neat tape reinforcement to..... More
The Romance of the Echoing Wood.
Newport: R.H. Johns, the "Directory" Press, 1937. [Welsh Fairy Tale] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[8] 43 [5]. Number 50 of just 220 copies, SIGNED by all the contributors, including the publisher, to the limitation page. With wide marginal illustrations and three full page plates all engraved..... More
The Great Digest & The Unwobbling Pivot. Stone Text from rubbings supplied by William Hawley.
London: Peter Owen, 1952. [Chinese Philosophy] SECOND IMPRESSION THUS, first impression title page. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.187 [3]. A dual language edition with images of the stone-classics, and translation and commentary, on facing leaves. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain yellow dust-jacket, priced at..... More
The Great Digest & The Unwobbling Pivot. Stone Text from rubbings supplied by William Hawley.
London: Peter Owen, no date [1952]. [Chinese Philosophy] FIRST UK EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.187 [3]. A dual language edition with images of the stone-classics, and translation and commentary, on facing leaves. Publisher's black cloth with yellow titles to spine. With the yellow dust-jacket showing a photograph..... More
A Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testament: or a Dictionary and Alphabetical Index to the Bible. In two parts. To which is Added, a Concordance to the Apocrypha. With a Compendium of the Bible, and brief account of its History and Excellency.
London: H.G. Bohn, 1864. [Concordance] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.[2] xiv; 720. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Main text in very small print over three columns. Contemporary brown full polished calf over blind-decorated bevelled boards, with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy label, and further..... More
London Photographs.
London: The Museum of London, 1999. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.131 [1]. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Publisher's black soft covers with white titles. Light rubbing to covers. Near fine. From the library of the writer, media and film executive Edward Milward-Oliver... More
A Journal Kept by Richard Doyle in the Year 1840. Illustrated with several hundred sketches by the author.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1886. [Artistic Diary] SECOND EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 22cm), pp.xii; 152. With an engraved portrait of the author, and a facsimile of Doyle's 1840 diary, complete with illustrations to every page. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper..... More
The Diamond Smugglers.
London: Ian Fleming Publications Limited, 2009. [True Crime] FIRST EDITION THUS, SIGNED COPY. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.116. Autographed by Fergus Fleming in black ink to the title page, in my presence. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, priced at £15. A fine as-new..... More
The Vicar of Wakefield, Essays, and Poems.
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1823. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Duodecimo (13 x 9cm), pp.[4] viii; 517 [7]. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary deep mauve full calf, with wide raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt panelled decoration to boards. All edges and endpapers..... More
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, English and Latin. Illustrated.
Eton: E.P. Williams, 1854. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND FIFTH EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] viii; c; 142 [4]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary tan full calf..... More
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, English and Latin. Illustrated.
Eton: E.P. Williams, 1847. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4] x; lxvi; 142 [2]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary red full morocco..... More
Philippe Halsman A Retrospective: Photographs from the Halsman Family Collection.
London: Pavilion, 1998. [Celebrity Photography] FIRST UK EDITION. Quarto (34 x 27cm), pp.212. Black and white photographs throughout. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and brown endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £40. Some light markings to jacket and little creasing to endpapers. Near fine. Iconic photos..... More
Nigerian Days.
London: John Lane the Bodley head, 1925. [Colonial History]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 255 [9]. With 32 black and white plates including a frontispiece and a map. In publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original green dust-jacket with black titles. Top edge red, others..... More
The Diary of Colonel Peter Hawker, Author of 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen' 1802-1853. With an Introduction by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bart.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. [Country Sports] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 366 [26]; pp.[8] 393 [3]. With 10 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's brown textured cloth, with gilt titles to spines. All edges untrimmed and black coated endpapers..... More