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— Mark Twain
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The Adventures and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. With illustrations by Sidney Paget.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1908. [Detective Fiction] 2 Volumes, stated 'New Edition'; previously published by George Newnes, this is the first edition thus. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.341; 296. Illustrated with plates by Sidney Paget. Both volumes uniformly bound in recent half red calf with burgundy morocco title labels..... More
Stories from Hans Andersen. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1911]. [Illustrated children's classic] FIRST DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.viii; 250; [2]. With twenty eight tipped in colour plates. Publisher's light brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt to the spine and upper board. Internally clean, a couple of light corner creases to..... More
The Book Collector. Autumn 2020. Edited by James Fleming.
Cirencester: The Collector Ltd., 2021. [Literary Journal] Vol. 70, No.1, Spring 2021. Octavo, with illustrations (some in colour). Bound in the publisher's purple-coloured softcovers with text printed in white and black. Trivial handling; fine. This number contains James Pickard's review of 'Ian Fleming and James Bond' by Jon Gilbert, SIGNED..... More
Role Of Honour (A James Bond novel).
London: Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. [James Bond] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.222. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to the spine in pictorial dust-jacket priced at £7.95. A lovely fine copy of the book in a slightly edgeworn jacket. John Gardner's fourth 007 novel as..... More
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The James Bond 007 Annual [1968].
Manchester: Published by World Distributors [by arrangement with Eon Productions / Glidrose Publications], 1968. [Film annual] FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Large octavo (27 x 21cm), pp.93 (the pagination, as with all copies, is awry, beginning at p.4). Publisher's glossy boards without jacket as issued. Illustrated throughout including several colour photographs..... More
The Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books. Arranged by the National Book League at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
London: Published for the National Book League by the Cambridge University Press, no date [1951]. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's plain soft covers, titled to upper. A little toned, with heavy spotting to covers, and some light handling. Blue pencil 'IF' to front over. Very..... More
Athletics. With chapters on Athletics at school by W. Beach Thomas; Athletic Sports in America by C.H. Sherrill; A contribution on Paper-Chasing by W. Rye; and an Introduction by Sir Richard Webster, Q.C., M.P. (Lord Alverstone).
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. [Athletics] DELUXE NEW EDITION, a reissue. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 356 [4]. Publisher's navy half morocco with gilt titles to spine and orange cloth over boards, with Duke of Beaufort's coat of arms stamped in gilt to upper. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed;..... More
Winnie the Pooh.
London: Methuen and Co., 1926. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xi [5]; 158; [2]. Profusely illustrated by Ernest Shepard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; pictorial endpapers. With the dust-jacket, also illustrated by Shepard, priced at 7/6. Owner's small, vintage address label..... More
Now We Are Six. With decorations by Ernest Shepard.
London: Methuen and Co., 1927. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 103 [1]. With in-text engravings by Shepard throughout. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt illustration stamped in gilt to upper. Top edge gilt, and illustrated salmon pink endpapers. Owner's small, vintage address..... More
The House At Pooh Corner.
London: Methuen and Co., 1928. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[xii]; 178; [2] blank. Publisher's pink cloth titled in gilt to spine, gilt vignette to upper board, top edge gilt, pink illustrated endpapers. Illustrative frontispiece and numerous in-text line drawings by Ernest H. Shepard. Owner's small, vintage..... More
Watership Down.
Harmondsworth, Middx., UK: Penguin Books / Kestrel Books, 1976. [Children's Fantasy] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.550, plus folding map. With full colour plates by John Lawrence, and numerous marginal sketches in black and white. Publisher's brown cloth over cream paper-covered boards, mustard-coloured endpapers, illustrated jacket and cloth-trimmed..... More
Three Hymns to Lenin.
Edinburgh: Castle Wynd Printers, no date [1957]. [Political Poetry] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.31 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to upper. With the pale blue dust-jacket titled in red, priced at 5s. Jacket spine sunned otherwise a lovely fine copy. Three related poems written between..... More
Marlborough. His Life and Times.
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1933 - 1938. [Biography/History] FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes, octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[4]; 612; pp.651; [1]; pp.[2]; 608; [2]; pp.671; [1]. With 325 illustrations, including a frontispiece to each volume, black and white plates, folding maps and battle plans, and facsimile documents. In publisher's..... More
Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book. Fairy Tales Of The Allied Nations.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1916]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[10]; 170; [2]. With 15 tipped-in chromolithographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's light green cloth, elaborately titled and decorated in black and blue to spine and upper board. Illustrated blue endpapers. A little toning/spotting otherwise..... More
Bond On Bond. The Ultimate Book on 50 Years of Bond Movies.
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2015. [James Bond Film Reference] FIRST SOFTCOVER EDITION. Quarto (29 x 22cm), pp.224. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's photographic card self-wraps (with printed flaps), originally priced at £20. A fine, as-new copy. More
The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide.
London: Harper Collins, 2001. [Film Reference]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.120. With photographic illustrations throughout. Publisher's pictorial hardcovers in dust-jacket priced at £16.99. A fine, as new copy, carefully dark-stored by ourselves since publication. Advertised as the 'Collector's Hardback Edition', this book was simultaneously issued as a trade..... More
Thrilling Cities.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Travel / Adventure] FIRST EDITION in the first state dust-jacket (laminated rear flap). Large octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.223; [1] blank, erratum slip tipped-in at p.223. Illustrated with photographic plates. Publisher's quarter white cloth over patterned grey boards, black topstain and endpapers, pictorial wrapper by Paul..... More
Yachting. With Illustrations by R.T. Pritchett and from Photographs.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. [Sports] First edition was 1894, this being the 1901 reissue. 2 volumes, octavo (19 x 14cm). Illustrated throughout. Finely bound in recent blue-grey morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt yacht motifs to spines; blue cloth boards; top edges gilt. Contents clean, minor..... More
A Small Town In Germany.
London: Heinemann, 1968. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm) pp.306; [2], blank. Burgundy cloth hardcover in pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30s. A moderately used copy, jacket with a few neat tape strips to reverse side. Very good. 'A Small Town In Germany' is set in Bonn, the small..... More
A Small Town In Germany.
London: Heinemann, 1968. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm) pp.306; [2], blank. Burgundy cloth hardcover in pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30s. A lightly handled copy with clean page edges, faint offset on endpapers, trivial edgewear to jacket, spine is not sunned (seemingly a common problem with this title)..... More
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1948-1954. [Military history] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Complete in six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Elegantly bound in navy blue half calf, with twin..... More
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004. [Fantasy] First Edition. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[10] 782 [8]. Contains several rather haunting illustrations, including frontispiece, by Portia Rosenburg. Publisher's white cloth with black titles to spine. With the white dust jacket with black lettering, designed by William Webb (one of two distinct bindings, the..... More
Suffer the Little Children.
London: William Heinemann, 2007. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 264. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £15.99. Lightly browned throughout. A fine copy. The sixteenth in..... More
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The Great War [The World Crisis].
London: George Newnes, 1933-34. [Military History] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION IN BOOK FORM, preceded by the 26 serial magazine parts, constituting the first illustrated edition of Churchill's The World Crisis, with a brand new foreword by the author. Complete in three volumes. Large octavo (25 x 18 x 14cm), pp.iv; 512;..... More
The Wonderful Discoverie of the Witchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, daughters of Joan Flower neere Beuer Castle: executed at Lincolne, March 11. 1618. Who were specially arraigned & condemned before Sir Henry Hobart, and Sir Edward Bromley, Judges of Assize, for confessing themselues actors in the destruction of Henry, Lord Rosse, with their damnable practices against others the Children of the Right Honourable Francis Earle of Rutland. Together with the seuerall Examinations and Confessions of Anne Baker, Ioan Willimot, and Ellen Greene, Witches in Leicestershire.
Leicester: Vance Harvey Publishing; 1970. [Witch Trials] FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.26 [20]. With a woodcut vignette title page. A facsimile of a Victorian edition, circa 1841, limited to 500 copies, including the alarmingly large publisher's catalogue. Publisher's brown hard covers reproducing the title page to upper. Light..... More