Results
Results 1 - 10 (of 10)
The Dream of Ravan: A Mystery. (Reprinted from "The Dublin University Magazine," 1853 & 1854.)
London: The Theosophical Publishing Society, 1895. [Hindu Theosophy] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 248. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. Merchant Taylors' School prize plate to front pastedown, dated 1944. Spotting to endpapers, and to first and final few leaves..... More
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 Life and Times of Madame Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardin.
Reims: Printed for Champagne Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardin by the Curwen Press, 1961. [Champagne] SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Large octavo (27 x 18cm), pp.[8] 54 [2]. With frequent black and white illustrations by Drian. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Publisher's yellow patterned soft covers, with the original..... More
Life's Not a Rehearsal. The Autobiography of Margaret Durdant-Hollamby, MBE, Founder of the Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks.
Sevenoaks: Durdant-Hollamby, 1998. [Theatre] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 239 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. With three suites of four double-sided photographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and architect's drawings to endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced..... More
An Adventure.
London: Faber and Faber, 1934. [Paranormal Activity] FOURTH EDITION, third impression thus. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.118 [2]. With four folding maps at rear. Publisher's light green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Blind ex-libris stamp of Alan H. Hooker to fly-leaf. A touch of light spotting to endpapers, otherwise..... 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
Memorable Moments in Motor Racing. Legends and Personalities Tell their Stories.
London: Cyan Books, 2005. [Motor Racing] FIRST EDITION, with SIGNED BOOKPLATE. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xvi; 278 [10]. Heavily illustrated in colour throughout. SIGNED by David Coulthard in black marker to a bookplate on the title page. Publisher's back cloth, with silver titles to spine and blue endpapers. With the..... More
Seaweeds from the Shores of Nantucket.
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Co., 1853. [Poetry anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[10] 135 [3]. Publisher's red cloth with the floral decoration to boards in blind. Gilt titles and decoration to spine. Toning to leaves with light staining and spotting. Previous owner's pencilled inscriptions to contents page and..... More
Results 1 - 10 (of 10)