"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust

London: Albion Press, Printed for James Cundee, 1808. [Cookery]. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.634. Full tan diced calf, respined to style with a red title label, marbled endpapers. With a portrait frontispiece and ten further plates. Textblock is nice and clean with just occasional light spotting, embossed library stamps to..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979. [American Travel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 340 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to a bookplate on the half-title. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket designed by Peter..... More