Illustrated & Plate Books
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Academic Graffiti.
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. [Illustrated Clerihews] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), unpaginated. 60 poems with an illustration by Sanjust to each facing leaf. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Sanjust, priced at £2.00. Light handling; a fine copy. More
Charterhouse Past and Present: A brief history of the Hospital founded in Charterhouse by Thomas Sutton, and more particularly of the school belonging thereto.
Godalming: H. Stedman, 1879. [Public School History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 239 [3]. With 20 illustrations, including a frontispiece and plans of the school. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to first blank: 'Cecil James Gladdish Hulkes | from Dr. Haig Brown | for History..... More
George Buday's Eleventh Little Book: The Rules of Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen, containing a useful record of the most indispensable laws which regulate the manner and behaviour of Polished Society, including maxims, prescriptive of the Correct conduct at Parties, the Dinner Table and on other occasions of Domestic of Social Intercourse, selected from various old handbooks, once much favoured by supporters of Progress and Refinement.
London: Published by the author and printed at the Albion Hand Press, 1954. [Private Press] FINE WOOD ENGRAVINGS, an advance copy printed for friends and acquaintances of the artist. Pott octavo (14 x 11cm), pp.[28]. With two full page plates and seven vignette wood engravings by Buday. Publisher's plain paper..... More
News From Tartary. A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Travel Literature] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 384 [2]. With 32 photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a fold-out map. Recently re-bound in burgundy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge burgundy; lower edge..... More
Creeper's Jeep.
Tadworth: World's Work, the Windmill Press, 1973. [Children's Illustrated] REISSUE. Small quarto (24 x 20cm), unpaginated, with colour illustrations printed by offset to every page. Illustrated endpapers. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with black cloth to spine. With the matching dust-jacket. Black ink gift inscription to verso of flyleaf. Price-clipped jacket..... More
Chronograms. 5000 and more in number excerpted out of various authors and collected at many places.
London: Ellliot Stock, 1882. [Chronograms] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.xx; 569 [3]. With a lithographic frontispiece reproduction of an engraving, and 12 illustrations placed throughout the text. Publisher's green quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine and green leather-grain-effect cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed..... More
Wild Flowers of Chalk and Limestone. The New Naturalist Library 16.
London: Collins, 1950. [Science and Nature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 254. With 52 colour photographs, 29 black and white photographs, and 35 maps and diagrams. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, priced at 21s. Spotting to..... More
The Sixpence that Rolled Away.
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.24. With five colour plates and six line drawn illustrations by Bawden. Publisher's colour illustrated paper covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Some offsetting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Wear to extremities and some..... More
James Dean: photographed by his friend Sanford Roth.
Corte Madera, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1983. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Folio (41 x 27cm), pp.116. Black and white photographs, with several central leaves of commentary by Beulah. Publisher's plain glossy white soft covers with black titles to spine, silver titles to upper, and a price of $24.00 Rubbing, marks and some..... More
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