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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
The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica.
London: The Folio Society, 2014. [Greek Mythology] FIRST EDITION THUS. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.xxii; 168 [4]. With eight colour illustrations by Egneus, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine, and black and white decoration. Maps to endpapers, and with the illustrated paper-covered slipcase. A...... 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
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. [English Literature] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 444. Illustrated with 39 wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Thomson. Publisher's burgundy cloth with titles in gilt to spine and upper, blind-embossed floral pattern to covers, edges untrimmed. Contents clean, no ink names..... 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 Mousetrap & Other Plays.
Franklin Centre, PA: The Franklin Library, 1987. [Drama] DELUXE EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 650 [4]. With an illustration by Manham to accompany each play. Publisher's burgundy suede-effect covers, with gilt titles to spine and upper, and a mocked-up ticket laid onto the upper board. All edges gilt, and..... More
The Mousetrap & Other Plays.
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1978. [Drama] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; 659 [3]. Publisher's grey cloth with blue titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at $12.95. Spotting to edges and cloth. Jacket clean and bright, with just a touch of wear 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
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. A Story of New York by Stephen Crane.
Mount Vernon, NY: printed for The Limited Editions Club by A. Colish, 1974. [American Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (28 x 20cm), pp.[2] 105 [5]. With six photogravures from etchings by Abeles, including a frontispiece. Number 1642 of 2000 copies thus, SIGNED in black ink by the illustrator to..... More
The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha.
London: Gibbings and Co., 1895. [Classic Literature] FIRST BRANGWYN ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.xxxvi; 304; pp.xii; 344; pp.xiv; 351 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 291 [1]. Each volume with five black and white plates, including a frontispiece, illustrated by Brangwyn. One of 1500 copies printed for..... 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
The Adventure of the Lion's Mane. A Facsimile of the Original Sherlock Holmes Manuscript.
London: Westminster Libraries, The Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 1992. [Sherlock Holmes] MANUSCRIPT FACSIMILE. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.102 [2]. Manuscript printed to one side of each leaf. With a frontispiece illustration. Publisher's cream paper-covered boards, with gilt titles to upper. With the matching dust-jacket, titled in dark brown to..... More
The book, film & theatre reviews of William Empson originally printed in the Cambridge magazine Granta 1927-1929, and now collected for the Foundling Press.
Tunbridge Wells: The Foundling Press, 1993. [Literary Criticism] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.91 [5]. With the bi-fold supplement loose at rear. Number 82 of just 300 copies thus. Publisher's marbled jacket over plain soft covers, with a plain printed title label to front cover. A fine, as-new copy..... More
Three Tales. A Simple Heart; The Legend of Saint Julian; Herodias.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1978. [French Literature] LEATHER BOUND, first edition thus. Octavo (28 x 19cm), pp.[2] xx; 132 [6]. With six colour plates by Neama, and several in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue full morocco, with four raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and heavy gilt decoration to..... More