New Arrivals
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
London: Paul Hamlyn, 1968. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[24]. With uncredited colour illustrations to every page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated hard covers. Yellow pastedowns. A brown and green gift inscription to title page, dated 1969. Well-handled, with some light rubbing and bumping to covers. Spine sunned. Very..... More
The Kinks All Day and All of the Night. Day-by-day concerts, recordings and broadcasts, 1961-1996.
San Francisco, CA: Backbeat Books, 2004. [Pop Music] SIGNED BY THE KINKS. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.352. Illustrated with occasional black and white photographs. SIGNED by Ray Davies, Mick Avory, Jim Rodford, and Ian Gibbons in black and blue marker to inside front and rear covers. Publisher's photographic soft covers..... More
The Discovery of Witches: A Study of Master Matthew Hopkins, commonly call'd Witch Finder Generall, together with a Reprint of The Discovery of Witches from the rare original of 1647.
London: At The Cayme Press, 1928. [Witch Hunting] FIRST THUS. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.62 [2]. With a facsimile frontispiece taken from the original edition of 1647, a facsimile of the plate 'The Witch Swims!' and a facsimile of the original title page. Publisher's black paper covers with titles..... More
Witchery of the West. Some Legends of Cornwall.
Penzance: The Cornish Library, no date [1950]. [Cornish Mythology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.64. With eleven line drawings by Quick. Publisher's plain grey cloth boards. Fore-edge untrimmed. With the green dust-jacket titled and illustrated to front cover, priced at 6s. Spotting and damp staining to endpapers. Boards bowed..... More
The Adventure of the Lion's Mane. A Facsimile of the Original Sherlock Holmes Manuscript.
London: Westminster Libraries, The Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 1992. [Sherlock Holmes] MANUSCRIPT FACSIMILE. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.102 [2]. Manuscript printed to one side of each leaf. With a frontispiece illustration. Publisher's cream paper-covered boards, with gilt titles to upper. With the matching dust-jacket, titled in dark brown to..... More
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] xvi; 436 [2]; pp.x; 438 [2]. With 40 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to each volume and a decorated title page to volume I. In contemporary aqua full calf by James HAYDAY..... More
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No Dust in the Attic. [with Original Artwork].
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1962. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION with the ORIGINAL DUST-JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the deep pink dust-jacket illustrated by John Rose, priced at 12/6. Together with two separate original artworks by..... More
Randolph Caldecott's "Graphic" pictures.
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1883. [Illustrated Satire] FIRST THUS. Oblong quarto (28 x 38cm), pp.96. With colour illustrations to every page, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Each leaf printed to one side only, largely by Edmund Evans using his superior six-colour process, but with pp.81-96 printed in..... More
Malebranch's Search After Truth. Or, a Treatise of the Nature of the Mind, and of its Management for avoiding Error in the Sciences. To which is Added, The Author's Defence against the Accusations of Monsieur de la Ville. Also The Life of Father Malebranch, of the Oratory at Paris: With an Account of his Works, and several particulars of his Controversie with Monsieur Arnaud Dr. of Sorbonne, and Monsieur Regis, Professor in Philosophy at Paris. Written by Monsieur Le Vasseur, lately come over from Paris.
London: Printed for J. Dunton and S. Manship, 1694 and 1695. [Philosophy and Theology] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[32] 224; 229-244; 241-271 [1]; 95 [1]; 96 [2]; pp.[16] 104; 129-312; 353-488; 737-820; [2] 23 [5]. Complete continuous text, despite the wild pagination..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Adventures. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Over the Moon.
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2011; 2012; 2013. [Children's Adventure Sequels] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS, one volume SIGNED by the author. Three volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 216 [2]; pp.[6] 234; pp.[6] 293 [5]. Frequent in-text illustrations by Joe Berger. Volume I SIGNED by the author with a doodle in black..... More
Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2014. Tenth Edition.
London: Bloomsbury, 2013. [Publishing] J.K. ROWLING CONTRIBUTION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[14] 461 [5]. With a suite of glossy colour advertisements. Publisher's green soft covers, priced at £16.99. Light handling. A fine copy. The complete guide to writing and publishing for Children's writers, featuring sage advice from many well-known authors..... More
Michael Robartes and the Dancer.
Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1920. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[12] 35 [5]. One of just 400 copies printed on Irish paper by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. Publisher's cream quarter cloth, with plain printed title label to spine, and blue paper over boards, titled in black to upper..... More
The Ladies of Grace Adieu.
London: Bloomsbury, 2006. [Fairy tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 235 [11]. With numerous illustrations by Vess, including a decorated title page. Publisher's grey cloth with titles and illustration in black and pink to spine and boards. Black endpapers. No jacket, as issued, with a barcode sticker priced..... More
Ulysses.
London: The Folio Society, 1998. [Modern Literature] ILLUSTRATED EDITION, first thus. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.xxii; 735 [3]. With 18 etchings in black and gold by Paladino, corresponding to one for each hour of the story. Also featuring an introduction by Jacques Aubert. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles..... More
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The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; [and] The Return of the King.
London: The Folio Society, 1997. [Fantasy Epic] ILLUSTRATED EDITION, third printing thus, and the first in this binding. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] 459 [3]; pp.[2] 372 [2]; pp.487 [1]. Each volume with wood engraved frontispiece and chapter head pieces by Fraser and Grathmer. Publisher's green..... More
The Compleat Angler, or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1927. [Fishing and Philosophy] FIRST DAGLISH-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.367 [1]. With sixteen wood engraved plates by Daglish, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Text reprinted from Major's edition of 1889. Publisher's oatmeal quarter cloth, with black titles to spine and cream..... More
The Psychology of the Salem Witchcraft Excitement of 1692 and its Practical Application to Our Own Time.
Stratford, CT: John E. Edwards, 1971. [Anomalistic Psychology] LIMITED FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xx; 112 [2]. One of just 500 copies thus. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Light spotting to top edge, with a small mark where a label has been removed to fly-leaf..... More
Divided We Fall.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Trade Union Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13m), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the black and green typographic dust-jacket, not priced. Light toning to edges, with a bump to upper top right corner. Jacket..... More
Miss Lonelyhearts.
London: Grey Walls Press, 1949. [American Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.116. Publisher's pink cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by SB, priced at 7/6. Blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, dated 1949. A little toning to edges. Jacket toned, with some loss to..... More
Bowie by O'Neill.
London: Iconic Images, 2016. [Photographic memoir] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (38 x 27cm), pp.288. Printed on Italian paper with over 180 photographs - many unpublished or rarely seen. Includes related articles reprinted from Melody Maker and Rolling Stone magazine. Housed in a luxury orange silk clamshell box decorated with a...... More
Poems by William Wordsworth.
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, no date [circa 1870]. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Small octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 574 [2]. With 12 engraved plates after Halswelle, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green full calf for Harrow School by CROSSLEY & CLARKE, with slightly raised bands, gilt titles..... More
Dylan Thomas: 'Dog Among the Fairies.'
London: Lindsay Drummond, 1949. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to upper. With the typographic red dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Gilt lightly dulled. Jacket toned to spine, with rubbing and light chipping to edges and..... More
Winston S. Churchill. 1874-1965.
London: William Heinemann, 1966-1988. [Political Biography] FIRST EDITIONS. Illustrated with photographs throughout. In eight volumes, being the complete set of the Life. Octavo (24 x 17 x 51cm). Handsomely bound in burgundy half morocco with raised bands, black leather title labels lettered in gilt, 'lion rampant' motif in gilt to..... More
Etruscan Bologna: A Study.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1876. [Italian Travel and Archaeology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii, 275. Illustrated with folding frontispiece lithograph showing a Synoptical Table of the Paleo-Ethnological Remains of Central Italy. Also with occasional in-text wood engravings. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, decorative friezes..... More
A Plurality of Worlds.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. [Popular Science] LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] x; 138 [6]. With fine colour-illustrated head pieces. Number 1556 of 1600 copies, including 1200 thus, and 400 for sale in the US by Random House. A fine letterpress printing on Van Gelder paper..... More