"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
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The James Bond Archives.
Koln: Taschen GmbH, 2012. [Film reference] FIRST EDITION. Oblong folio (42 x 31cm), text in English, pp.600. Art book format, illustrated throughout with film stills, set photos, posters, books, stunt stills, and more. With a preface by 007 film producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli and a 12-page profile... More about The James Bond Archives
Nirvana. Photographs.
London: Vision On, 2002. [Music biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION hardback, SIGNED on the limitation plate to pastedown by both photographers- this is edition number 20 of 1000. Folio (34 x 26cm), pp.153 + [7]. Publisher's clossy photographic covers housed in a black cloth clamshell box with silk-screen titles in white... More about Nirvana. Photographs
The James Bond Novels. PENGUIN LTD EDITION. Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only, Thunderball, The Spy Who loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy and The Living Daylights.
London: Penguin Books / Past Times, 2002. [Spy series] THE COMPLETE JAMES BOND. 14 volumes, small octavo (19 x 12 x 27cm). Softcovers with photographic cover art by Toby MacFarlan Pond. The full set, all absolutely fine and unread, in the original pictorial slip-case with exclusive bookmark. This is the... More about The James Bond Novels. PENGUIN LTD EDITION. Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds...
For Your Eyes Only.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. [James Bond short stories] FIRST EDITION. First Impression, Binding A. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.252. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, pictorial dust-wrapper. Contents clean. A near fine copy in similar, price-clipped wrapper, with a little soiling and rubbing to foot of spine, tape reinforcement to... More about For Your Eyes Only
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Thee Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1922. [English Literature] THE WORKS. Six volumes, octavo (19 x 13 x 22cm). Colour fontispiece and illustrations throughout by C.E Brock. Introduction by Reginald Brimley Johnson. Elegantly bound in navy half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, twin red morocco title... More about Thee Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and...
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
London: Bloomsbury, 2000. [Fantasy novel] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED TWICE. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.636. Cover illustrations by Giles Greenfield. Publisher's pictorial hardback showing Harry escaping fire on his broomstick, illustrated dust-wrapper to the same design, priced at £14.99. Signed by the author on the title page together with the 'Golden... More about Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.306; [4] advertisements dated 15.8.06. Twenty black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar. Elegantly bound in red half morocco over marbled boards, top edge gilt, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Internally fine with just... More about Puck of Pook's Hill
The Scarlet Letter. A Romance.
Boston, MA: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (18 x 12cm) pp.[iv]; 322, title page printed in red and black. Elegantly bound in full deep red oasis morocco, with black title labels lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt decoration to spine, marbled endpapers, top... More about The Scarlet Letter. A Romance
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. Price clipped else fine in a fine wrapper. 'A Small Town In Germany' is set in Bonn, the small and provincial capital of West Germany, where Le Carré had worked... More about A Small Town In Germany
Brave New World.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1932. [Dystopian novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 306; [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Two ownership inscriptions to flyleaf, some light spotting to preliminaries and the occasional mark within, endpapers split slightly along the gutter of the rear... More about Brave New World
Absolute Friends.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2004. [Intrigue] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.383; [1]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, purple endpapers, purple dust-wrapper with red and white titles, priced at £18.99. Signed by the author to the title page. A fine/as new copy. A theatrical masterstroke... More about Absolute Friends
The Mission Song.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2006. [Thriller] 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 slip-case. A fine, unopened copy in the publisher's slipcase title and pictured in silver, with original shrinkwrap intact. One of... More about The Mission Song
Rip Van Winkle. Pictures and Decorations by N.C.Wyeth.
Philadelphia, PA: David McKay, 1921. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION THUS. First issue with gilt top edge. Quarto (25 x 19cm). With eight colour plates and numerous in-text illustrations, colour frontispiece of the Kaatskill (Catskills) Mountains with tissue guard present, Illustrated title printed in colour, pictorial endpapers. Publisher's original brown cloth... More about Rip Van Winkle. Pictures and Decorations by N.C.Wyeth
Wooster & Wodehouse: Wooster of Yaxley & Wodehouse of Kimberley: Parallel Peerages.
Arundel: Privately published for the author by Mr. Thomas J. Wise, 1992. [Literary Tribute] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 22cm), pp.23; [3]. Printed on blue paper to the recto only. Numer 34 of just 99 copies SIGNED by the author in blue marker to the limitation page. Also... More about Wooster & Wodehouse: Wooster of Yaxley & Wodehouse of Kimberley: Parallel Peerages
Sorry You Missed the 60s - The Limited Editions.
Colchester: Silver Shutter Books, 2009. [Photography] SIGNED FIRST SOFTCOVER EDITION. Quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.148. SIGNED by the photographer in black ink to title page. Publisher's pictorial soft covers, with a flyer for the exhibition loose to preliminaries. In the original cardboard box. A fine, as-new copy. From the library... More about Sorry You Missed the 60s - The Limited Editions
The Half: Photographs of Actors Preparing for the Stage.
London: Faber and Faber, 2010. [Photography] FIRST SOFTCOVER EDITION. Quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.xii; 308. Black and white photographs throughout. With the black and white soft covers, priced at £20.00. A fine as-new copy. From the library of the writer, media and film executive Edward Milward-Oliver. More about The Half: Photographs of Actors Preparing for the Stage
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1910]. [Metaphysical Poetry] EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Text follows the second edition of Fitzgerald's English translation.Quarto (28 x 23cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's gilt-stamped red cloth, illustrated dust-jacket. Book is fine with... More about The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With...
Shakespeare's Comedy of The Tempest, with illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1908]. [Children's Illustrated] EARLY THUS. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.xxiv; 144. With 40 tipped-in chromolithographic plates, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. A little shaken, slightly toned to edges;... More about Shakespeare's Comedy of The Tempest, with illustrations by Edmund Dulac
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. Blue ink ownership to... More about Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book. Fairy Tales Of The Allied Nations
Edmund Dulac's Picture Book for the French Red Cross.
London: Published for the Daily Telegraph by Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1915]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[8]; 135; [1]. With 20 tipped-in chromolithographic illustrations, including a frontispiece, each with a tissue guard. Publisher's yellow cloth with blue titles and decoration to spine and upper board... More about Edmund Dulac's Picture Book for the French Red Cross
Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Illustrated by Harry Clarke.
London and New York: George Harrap 1919. [Strange Tales] FIRST CLARKE EDITION, printed in Great Britain by the Complete Press. Quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.384. With 24 full-page plates, numerous illustrations within the text. Publisher's limp brown suede, yapp edges, lettered in gilt to spine, blocked in blind to upper... More about Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Illustrated by Harry Clarke
America.
New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1985. [Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.224. Black and photographs to every page with commentary by Warhol. SIGNED by Warhol in marker pen to the front cover, and again to the blank facing the contents page, also with a heart. Publisher's... More about America
The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales. From the Old French. [Including: Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Blue Beard, and Beauty and the Beast, etc.]
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1910]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST DULAC TRADE EDITION. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[xviii]; 131; [1], blank. With 30 beautiful tipped in colour plates, including a frontispiece, each protected with tissue guard. Recent burgundy half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and matching cloth... More about The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales. From the Old French. [Including: Sleeping Beauty,...
Drinks-man-ship. Town's Album of Fine Wines and High Spirits
London: Haymarket Press, 1964. [Literary Cocktail book] FIRST EDITION. Folio (33 x 24cm), pp.133; [1], blank. Publisher's quarter white cloth over green paper-covered sides, photographic dust-wrapper. Illustrated with photographs throughout. A very good copy in similar price-clipped wrapper with a few nicks, tears and creases. This is a superior example... More about Drinks-man-ship. Town's Album of Fine Wines and High Spirits
Stories from the Arabian Nights, In the Words of Laurence Housman.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938. [Children's Illustrated] FINE ILLUSTRATIONS, a later edition of Dulac's illustrations. Small quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.222; [2]. With 12 chromolithographic plates, including a frontispiece, by Dulac. Publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine and upper board. Brown decorative endpapers. Blue ink gift inscription to... More about Stories from the Arabian Nights, In the Words of Laurence Housman