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Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977.
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. [Fashion Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (37 x 28cm), unpaginated, with 162 black and white photographs. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by the photographer in black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy photographic paper-covered boards. With the original clear..... More
Chandler Before Marlowe: Raymond Chandler's Early Prose and Poetry, 1908-1912.
Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1973. [Posthumous anthology] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 110. With a frontispiece of the author. Number 167 of 499 copies. Publisher's red quarter faux leather with gilt titles to spine and mottled cream paper over boards. Matching cream endpapers; all..... More
The Indian Police.
London: Faber and Faber, no date [circa 1933]. [Indian Policing History] FIRST CHEAP EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.353 [1]. With a folding map at rear. Publisher's light blue cloth with yellow titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket priced at 5s. Spotting to edges and preliminaries. A browned newspaper..... More
Wanderers: Episodes from the Travels of Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley and her daughter Victoria 1849-1855.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.364 [4]. With a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Heavy pencil ownership to flyleaf. Light offsetting to preliminaries. Light rubbing and bumping to boards. Very good. More
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Game in Season: Mr Abbott's Sporting Tour. [1981 English Cricket Season].
no place: Privately Printed, 1984. [Cricket] INSCRIBED. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[16]; 130; [10]. Generously illustrated with 72 black and white photographs, as well as a photographic frontispiece. Printed on light yellow paper. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to half title: 'With love & best wishes to the..... More
The Vicar of Wakefield.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1915. [Illustrated Classic] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a later impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4]; xxxvi; 305; [3]. With numerous wood engravings by Thomson, including a frontispiece. Contemporary lilac half calf by RIVIERE, with raised bands, gilt titles and decorations to spine, and blue cloth over..... More
La Révolution Française (1789-1799), D'Apres les Temoignages Contemporains et les Historiens Modernes.
Paris: Alcide Picard et Kaan, no date [circa 1900]. [French History] FINELY BOUND, the fifth edition. Large octavo (28 x 20cm), pp.[2] xvi; 459 [7]. All text in French. With frequent wood engravings by various artists. Contemporary red quarter morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and..... More
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1996. [Diaries] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; 214. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Purple endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £16.00. A few spots to top edge and preliminaries. Light handling. Near fine. Guinness' diary between January 1995 and June 1996..... More
Humorous Poems.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND, the second impression thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxxii; 236. With frequent in-text illustrations by Brock, as well as a frontispiece. In contemporary green full calf by BUMPUS of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and further gilt decoration to spine. All..... More
The Hights of Macchu Picchu.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. [Latin-American Poetry] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.47 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and white dust-jacket. Blue ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1974. Some small chips and closed tears to jacket edges, and light..... More
Children of the Albatross.
London: Peter Owen Limited, 1959. [Modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. 192; [1], blank. Publisher's grey cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Eric Patton with printed price of 15s to front flap. Minor crease to spine-ends of jacket, some closed tears, some..... More
Barbara Rae Sketchbooks.
London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2011. [Art Reference] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 25cm), pp.148. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's navy cloth with silver titles to spine and upper. Illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. Light bumping to corners; near fine. More
The Beasts, Birds, and Bees of Virgil. A Naturalist's Handbook to the Georgics.
Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1914. [Classics] ASSOCIATION COPY, First Edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xx; 107; [1]. Inscribed to Rev. A.R. Alsop from the Author's mother, 1914. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed. Some marking and rubbing to cloth, darkened to spine. Very good... More
Men. A Dialogue Between Women. Translated from the French by Vyvyan Holland, with a Prefatory letter by Graham Greene. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
London: Cresset Press, 1955. INSCRIBED First Edition in English. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.95 [1]. INSCRIBED by the translator, Vyvyan Holland, to the author, publisher and critic Alec Waugh in blue ink to front free endpaper: 'For Alec / who knows / far more / about this / subject than..... More
Scott's Last Expedition. Vol. I being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O., Vol. II being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. Arranged by Leonard Huxley. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. [Polar Exploration] FIRST COLONIAL EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 497; [11]; pp.x; 431; [1]. With eight photographic plates including a frontispiece to each volume, and a folding map at the rear of each volume. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles and..... More
Scott's Last Expedition. Vol. I being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O., Vol. II being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. Arranged by Leonard Huxley. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1913. [Antarctic Exploration] FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Large octavo, pp.[2] xxvi, 633 [3]; pp.xvi, 534 [2]. With eight photogravure plates, including a frontispiece portrait for each volume, 18 coloured plates, and 260 photographic plates taken by members of the expedition. Handsomely bound in dark..... More
The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood.
London: William Heinemann, 1918. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.[2]; x; 133; [3]. With eight chromolithographic plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, and vignette illustrations to most pages. Recently bound in green half morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Original gilt-decorated..... More
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