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New Arrivals
History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner.
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
A History of the Great Massacre by the Sioux Indians, in Minnesota, including the personal narratives of many who escaped.
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
Dahcotah; or, Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling.
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
Red Hunters and the Animal People.
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
Blackfeet Indian Stories.
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
The James Bond Films: Front of House Sets - UK; Lobby Card Sets - USA; Portfolio.
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
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The Thirty-Nine Steps [39 Steps].
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
The Ship That Sailed to Mars. A Fantasy.
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
The Mission Song.
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
Complete Swallows and Amazons Series. Swallows and Amazons; Swallowdale; Peter Duck; Winter Holiday; Coot Club; Pigeon Post; We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea; Secret Water; The Big Six; Missee Lee; The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All; Great Northern?
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
The Second World War.
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
Aesop's Fables.
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
The Water-Babies.
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
The Arabian Nights' Entertainments.
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
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
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
The Vicar of Wakefield.
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
Tannhäuser. A Dramatic Poem by Richard Wagner, Freely Translated in Poetic Narrative Form by T.W. Rolleston. Presented by Willy Pogany.
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
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
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
The Ingoldsby Legends. Or, Mirth and Marvels. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
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
The Ring of the Niblung: A Trilogy with a Prelude by Richard Wagner. The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie [and] Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods.
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
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. From the Little White Bird. A New Edition.
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
Shakespeare's Comedy As You Like It.
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
The Diamond Fairy Book.
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
Eragon. Inheritance, Book One.
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
Octopussy and The Living Daylights. Two original typescripts, owned by Richard Chopping.
[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