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Des Moines, IA: Iowa Printing Co., 1885 [1891]. [Americana] THIRD EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] iv; 316 [2]. With six black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown leather-effect cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper. All edges speckled red, with patterned endpapers. Neat ownership to..... More
Cincinnati, OH: Rickey and Carroll, 1864. [Americana] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 504 [10]. With seven wood engraved plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Little Crow. Publisher's green blind-decorated cloth with gilt titles to spine. Printed advertisements to pastedowns. Spotting throughout, textblock a little shaken with some gathers..... More
New York, NY: John Wiley, 1849. [Native American Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiv; 268. With four lithographic illustrations by Ackerman, after drawings by Seth Eastman. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, a gilt illustration to upper, and blind decoration all over. Top edge untrimmed. Quite..... More
New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1904. [Native American Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 249 [1]. With a dichromatic half-tone frontispiece. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, and red titles with a printed illustration to upper board. Occasional thumbmark but generally internally fine, some loss..... More
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. [Native Americans] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.x; 214. Colour-illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's green cloth, with white lettering to spine and upper, and a chromolithograph on the front cover. Internally crisp and clean, with some toning to edges. faded writing..... More
UK: 007 Magazine, no date (circa 2012). [James Bond Films] LOBBY CARD ARCHIVE. A4 ring-bound portfolio (30 x 22cm), unpaginated. A comprehensive collection of images of lobby cards and front of house sets ranging from Dr. No (1962) to Die Another Day (2002), including the 'non canonical' 007 films Casino..... More
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. [Espionage thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.253; [1]; [2], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's blue cloth boards with dark blue embossed lettering to spine and upper. Browning to page edges, though less than would normally be expected. Reading lean; spine sunned. Very good, in..... More
London: George G. Harrap, no date [1923]. [Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 24cm). 48 pages of text, and 48 colour plates illustrated by the author, all mounted on thick grey leaves. Publisher's quarter vellum with elaborate gilt titles and decoration to spine, and grey paper-covered boards titled to..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2006. [Spy Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, limited issue. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6] 339 [6]. With a map of Africa at rear. Publisher's hardback in pictorial cloth slipcase. A fine, as-new copy, still in the shrink-wrap. A naive young interpreter stumbles into the heart of an..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1930-1947. [Children's Adventure] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS, FINELY BOUND. 12 volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 42cm). With occasional illustrations, and an engraved frontispiece to each volume. Uniformly bound in recent green full morocco by BAYNTUN-RIVIERE of Bath, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and..... More
London: Cassell and Co., 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 by BAYNTUN of Bath in red half crushed..... More
London: Ward, Lock & Co., no date [1924]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST ROUNTREE ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.340 [4]. With 48 colour plates illustrated by Theaker, including a frontispiece, one for each story. Publisher's grey cloth with black titles and decoration to spine and upper, as well as a...... More
London: Ward, Lock & Co., no date [1922]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST THEAKER ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.340 [4]. With 48 colour plates illustrated by Theaker, including a frontispiece. Publisher's grey cloth with black titles and decoration to spine and upper, as well as an oval colour illustration laid..... More
London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1908. [Islamic Folklore] VINTAGE COPY, an abridged edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.3-448. With 15 wood-engraved plates by various artists, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, with gilt titles and white, green, tan and gilt decoration to spine and upper. Dark blue..... More
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1898. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.xxiv; 638. With 12 colour plates, including a frontispiece, by Rackham, as well as numerous in-text black illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Top edge gilt, others..... More
London: George G. Harrap and Company, Limited, 1929. [Illustrated Literature] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.232. With 12 plates in colour and several black and white illustrations by Rackham. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and floral decoration to spine and upper. Top edge gilt, and illustrated..... More
London: G.G. Harrap & Co., 1911. [Illustrated Epic] FIRST POGANY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 20cm), unpaginated, printed on thick grey card, with numerous in-text illustrations and decorated capitals, as well as 16 mounted colour plates and various other line-drawn plates by Pogany. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles and..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, no date [circa 1920]. [Illustrated Metaphysical Poetry] DULAC ILLUSTRATED, a later printing. Quarto (33 x 24cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards, and green border decoration. Publisher's red buckram, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and..... More
London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1907. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST THUS, second Rackham illustrated edition. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.xx; 549 [3]. With twenty-four mounted coloured plates, captioned tissue guards, twelve illustrations with tint, and sixty-six line drawings. Publisher's mid-green cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, with illustrated dark green endpapers, top..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1939. [Opera / Norse Mythology] FIRST ONE VOLUME EDITION THUS. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.[2] viii; 160; pp.viii; 182. With a total of 48 colour plates, including a frontispiece for each volume. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper, and decorative endpapers. Illustrated..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, no date [1912]. [Children's Illustrated] REVISED 'BEST' EDITION. Quarto (29 x 22cm), pp.[8] 126 [2]. With 50 chromolithographic plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, as well as further occasional wood engravings. Recently rebound in green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1909]. [Illustrated Shakespeare] FIRST THOMSON EDITION. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.xxxvi; 143 [1]. With 24 mounted colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and red titles with dark green decoration..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., no date [circa 1911]. [Fairy Tales] VINTAGE COPY. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.viii; 310 [2]. With eight coloured plates by Pape, including a frontispiece, and 82 in-text line drawings by Millar. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine, with a colour illustration laid..... More
London: Doubleday, 2004. [Fantasy novel] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[14]; 509; [5]. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Publishers blue cloth hardback, with pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by John Jude Palencar, priced at £12.99. With the original 'Eragon' bookmark loosely inserted. Gentle toning of paper..... More
[Jonathan Cape], n.d. [1965]. THE ONLY KNOWN TYPESCRIPT for Octopussy and The Living Daylights. Richard Chopping's signed original typescripts for the two James Bond short stories, each inscribed by the book jacket illustrator. Octopussy, 46pp., and The Living Daylights, 35pp., quarto, stapled sheets. Both fine copies with a few minor..... More