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Russian Ballet. Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony. With an Introduction by Arnold Haskell.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1939. [Ballet Photography] LEATHER-BOUND First Edition. Large Quarto (33 x 27cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated with 96 tipped-in black and white photographs of Russian ballet stars, including a frontispiece. Recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with gilt titles to twin red labels, four raised bands to spine, and matching..... 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 Boke of Saint Albans. Containing Treatises on Hawking, Hunting, and Cote Armour: Printed at Saint Albans by the Schoolmaster-Printer in 1486, Reproduced in Facsimile. With an Introduction by William Blades.
London: Elliot Stock, 1881. [Hawking, Hunting and Heraldry] FACSIMILE EDITION, first impression. Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.34; [176]. Printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's full vellum, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blind decoration to boards. All edges untrimmed. Internally crisp and clean, with some offsetting to endpapers..... More
Travels in Arabia Deserta.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Arabia Travel] NEW 'DEFINITIVE' EDITION, First Thus. Complete in two volumes. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.674; pp.696. Complete with a frontispiece and illustrated plates to volume I, and a large folding map to each volume. Publisher's brown buckram with gilt titles to spines. Top edges..... More
Seven Years in Tibet.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. [Central Asian Travel] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH (without 'The Book Society' to imprint). Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 288. With 12 double-sided black and white photographic plates, a double-page sketch-map, and a colour photographic frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge red..... More
Recollections of Rifleman Harris.
London: Peter Davies, 1929. [Napoleonic Wars] Second impression thus. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 191 [1]. Publisher's yellow cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dark green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. A nice clean copy internally. Jacket shows some toning to spine and a little wear to edges..... More
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Arthur Brooks Lapsley. With an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. Together with The Essay on Lincoln, by Carl Schurz; The Address on Lincoln, by Joseph H. Choate; and The Life of Lincoln, by Noah Brooks.
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. [History] Finely bound Constitutional Edition. Complete in eight volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 37cm). Frontispiece of the author with captioned tissue guard. Title page printed in red and black. Handsomely bound in recent dark blue half oasis morocco, spines gilt-lettered in six..... More
The Autobiography of Arthur Machen.
London: The Richards Press, 1951. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION WITH ASSOCIATED LETTERS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.308. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to spine, top-edge red, photographic frontispiece of author, two further photographic plates. Loosely tipped in are three associated items; A letter from Morchand Bishop to News Chronicle journalist..... More
The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Volumes I, II, III, IV and V, 1915-1941.
New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977-1984. [Literary Diaries] COMPLETE FIRST US EDITIONS. Five volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 16cm), pp.xxviii; 356; pp.xii; 371 [1]; pp.xiv; 384 [2]; pp.xiv; 402; pp.xiv; 402. Sketch-maps to endpapers of all volumes except I. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spines and..... More
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