Illustrated & Plate Books
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Poo-Poo and the Dragons.
London: Michael Joseph, 1942. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.188. With in-text illustrations and endpapers by Lawson. Publisher's yellow cloth, designs and titles blocked in red to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Mild toning throughout. Typographic bookplate of Trevor Hickman to front..... More
The Barbary Pirates.
London: Macdonald, 1956. [Naval history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] 185 [3]. With numerous in-text illustrations by Mazoujian. Publisher's pink cloth, with titles and designs blocked in blue and yellow to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 8/6 to front flap. Illustrated endpapers. Interior lightly..... More
Josephine: Napoleon's Empress.
London: Methuen and Co., 1925. [History] FIRST EDITION, primary binding. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.viii; 246 [2]. With 12 halftone illustrations including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Leaves moderately foxed throughout. Bookplate of Trevor Hickman to front pastedown. Textblock edges toned..... More
Victor Emmanuel II and the Union of Italy.
London: Methuen and Co., 1927. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.viii; 246; [2]; 8, adverts. With twelve halftone illustrations, a map and genealogical table. Publisher's bright blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, cartographic tail edge untrimmed, typographic dust-wrapper priced at 10/6. Contents clean, jacket with a little edgewear..... More
Slide Rule. The Autobiography of An Engineer.
London: Pan Books 1968. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.222; [2], advertisements. With four black and white photographic plates. Lightly handled; a crisp, fine copy. More
[Original Artwork for Biggles]. [Unpublished].
no date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Adventure Artwork] ORIGINAL PAINTING (38 x 57cm). Gouache painted directly onto a Winsor & Newton Fashion-Plate Drawing Board, details printed on reverse. A little rubbed, chipped and bumped to edges, but clean and bright generally. Very good. An original painting produced by Leslie Stead, or..... More
London Toy Books: Aunt Louisa's Sea Side.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [1867]. [Children's Illustrated] FINE CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS. Quarto (27 x 23cm), six leaves of text printed to recto only, with six very fine chromolithographic plates. Publisher's brightly illustrated pink card covers, with titles to front cover and advertisements to back cover. Some light browning and..... More
The Tragedy of the Korosko [and] Glimpses of Nature [and] The Strange Experience of Alkali Dick [and] Silenced [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 13 and 14, numbers 77 to 84.
London: George Newnes, May to December 1897. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Eight octavo magazines (27 x 19cm), pp.xxviii; 481-600; xxix-xxxvi; pp.xxxii; 601-804; xxxiii-xlviii; pp.xxxii; 120; xxxiii-xliv; pp.xxiv; 121-240; xxv-xxxii; pp.xxiv; 241-360; xxv-xxxii; pp.xxxii; 361-480; xxxiii-xl; pp.xxxii; 481-600; xxxiii-xlviii; pp.xl; 601-804; xli-lx. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers..... More
Round the Fire Stories [and] The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings [and] Miss Cayley's Adventures [and] Glimpses of Nature [and] Safety Match [and] Smoked Skipper [and] Clochette [and] The Gray Parrot [and] The Madness of Mr. Lister [and] Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation [and] The Stolen Body [and] Underground Passages and Trap-Doors [and] Where the Air Quivered [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 15 and 16, complete.
London: George Newnes, January to December 1898. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Clean internally, with moderate..... More
The Sanctuary Club [and] Hilda Wade [and] A Master of Craft [and] The Seven Dragons [and] The "Southern Cross" Antarctic Expedition [and] The Croxley Master [and] Whereyouwantogoto: or, The Bouncible Ball [and] Kind Little Edmund; or, The Caves and The Cockatrice [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 18, numbers 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, and 108.
London: George Newnes, July 1899 to December 1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six octavo magazines (28 x 19cm), pp.xl; 120; xli-xlviii; pp.xxxii; 121-240; xxxiii-xl; pp.xxxvi; 241-360; xxxvii-xliv; pp.xl; 361-480; xli-xlviii; pp.xlviii; 481-600; xlix-lvi; pp.lvi; 601-804; lvii-lxviii [8]. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled in dark blue..... More
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