"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway
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Harvest of Journeys.
London: Collins, 1960. [Intrepid travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.319; [1], blank. With numerous duo-tone photographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket illustrated by H. Bridgeman Grindley with printed price of 18s. net. Trivial spotting, jacket a little worn to crown; near fine. Travel..... More
Sea and Islands.
London: Collins, 1967. [Yachting travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.288. Twelve double-sided photographic plates showing both colour and black and white images, and occasional in-text diagrams and maps. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket illustrated by Frank Francis with printed price of 36s. net. Cloth..... More
Angel Pavement.
London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1930. [Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[10]; xiv; 613; [3]. Number 7 of 1,025 copies signed by the author. Frontispiece portrait. Publisher's brown cloth over bevel edged boards, gilt titles to spine, yellow endpapers, top edge gilt others untrimmed. With the remains of..... More
The Plays of William Shakespeare. Edited by Thomas Keightley.
London: J.S. Virtue and Co., Limited, no date [1892-1894]. [Plays] ILLUSTRATED AND FINELY BOUND. Four volumes bound as two, large octavo (28 x 21 x 9cm). Contemporary dark green half calf over green cloth boards, gilt titles to a red morocco label to spine, blue/green endpapers, edges speckled red. Text..... More
A Small Town In Germany.
London: Heinemann, 1968. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm) pp.306; [2], blank. Publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Internally fine, some light toning and spotting to edges, small mark to flyleaf from a removed label. Cloth lightly handled. Price clipped wrapper with light bruising to..... More
Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War.
Chichester: Pallant House Gallery, 2014. [Exhibition Catalogue] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.160. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. INSCRIBED by the author and curator in black ink to title page: 'For Edward | with all good | wishes, | Simon Martin.' Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers..... More
Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman.
Wolverhampton: Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 2013. [Art Reference] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.144. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'with best wishes from | Sue Tate | 2013.' Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at £15. A...... More
Peter Blake.
London: Tate Publishing, 2003. [Art Reference] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.128. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. From the library of the writer, media and film executive Edward Milward-Oliver. More
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's hardcover in original dust-wrapper priced at £3.95. Very good or better in similar jacket with some discreet restoration to top edge, sunned to spine. Very good. The author's scarce first book, pitting the greatest detective in the..... More
Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack The Ripper.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1966. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.157; [3], blank. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, in an unmistakably restrained yellow Gollancz dust-jacket priced at 18s. Fine in near fine jacket. How Holmes might have solved the infamous Whitehall murders. More
Terence Rattigan: The Man and His Work.
London: Quartet Books, 2010. [Literary Biography] INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, revised third edition. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[2] 534. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'For Edward | with best wishes | Michael Darlow | 1st August 2011. Publisher's soft covers priced at £22.50. Light wear..... More
London Cries: with Six Charming Children, printed direct from stippled plates in the Bartolozzi style, and duplicated in red and brown, and about forty other illustrations, including ten of Rowlandson's humorous subjects in facsimile, and tinted; examples by George Cruikshank, Joseph Crawhill, etc., etc.
London: Field and Tuer, ye Leadenhalle Presse, no date [1883]. [Street Selling] FINE COLOUR PLATES. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[3] 48 [2]. Leaves printed only to recto. In recent red half morocco with gilt titles to spine and orange cloth over boards. Brown endpapers, with the original brown title label..... More
Mansfield Park.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1892. [English literature] Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2]; 413; [1]. Handsomely bound in recent full burgandy morocco, gilt titles to spine, extra gilt. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece. Some bubbling to a few of the leaves, mostly to the rear and not affecting..... More
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott.
Edinburgh: Printed for Cadell and Co., 1830. Complete in 11 volumes, 8vo. Fine contemporary binding by Root & Son in burgundy straight grain half morocco with gilt tooling and titles to spines, marbled boards and end papers, top edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece and title page to each volume. Boards a...... More
London Photographs.
London: The Museum of London, 1999. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.131 [1]. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Publisher's black soft covers with white titles. Light rubbing to covers. Near fine. From the library of the writer, media and film executive Edward Milward-Oliver... More
Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography. 1925-1970 Life and Work.
London: Laurence King Publishing, 2005. [Design Biography] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 20cm), pp.239 [1]. Illustrated throughout in colour. Publisher's black glossy hard covers. Blue endpapers. Light scratching to covers. Near fine. The life of a significant graphic designer, best known for the title sequences of 'From Russia with..... More
Beyond the Fringe.
London: Souvenir Press, 1963. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's dark blue cloth, orange titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket with printed price of 13s. 6d. With six double sided black and white photographic plates. Light spotting to edges. Wrapper slightly edge worn, some marking to rear panel..... More
Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography.
London: HarperPress, 2010. [British Politics] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 X 16cm), pp.xviii; 654. With two suites of four double-sided photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'For John, | With best wishes from the author, | Philip Ziegler | 19/10/10.' Publisher's blue cloth with..... More
The Prince and the Pauper / Crossed Swords. Official film still.
Twentieth Century Fox 1977. [Movie Memorabilia] Original press photo of Raquel Welch as Lady Edith in the 1977 film adapted from Mark Twain's classic novel by George MacDonald Fraser and starring Oliver Reed, Ernest Borgnine, Raquel Welch, George C. Scott, Charlton Heston, Sir Rex Harrison and Mark Lester, playing the..... More
The Adventures of Tintin: The Black Island.
London: Methuen and Co., 1966. [Children's comic] FIRST UK EDITION. Slim quarto, pp.[2]; 62. In publisher's quarter red cloth with colour illustrated paper-covered boards, illustrated endpapers. Light even toning to text block, binding lightly rubbed, mainly to extremities. Fine. More
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Les Aventures de Tintin: Le Crabe aux Pinces D'Or. [The Crab with the Golden Claws].
Paris: Casterman, no date [circa 1960]. [Children's comic] EARLY EDITION. Slim quarto (30 x 23cm), pp.[2]; 62. All text in French, with colour illustrations to every page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards with orange cloth spine, illustrated endpapers. Light even toning throughout. Binding a little rubbed and worn. Very good... More
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Les Aventures de Tintin: Le Temple du Soleil. [The Temple of the Sun].
Paris: Casterman, no date [circa 1960]. [Children's comic] EARLY EDITION. Slim quarto (30 x 23cm), pp.[2]; 62. All text in French, with colour illustrations to every page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards with yellow cloth spine, illustrated endpapers. Light even toning throughout, Methuen label pasted over the publishers information on the..... More
The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. With an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill. An Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David.
London: William Heinemann, 1909. [Polar exploration] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, quarto (24 x 18cm), pp.xlviii; 372; pp.xvi; 419; [1]. Portrait of E. H. Shackleton as frontispiece to first volume, with portrait of the Northern Party at the South Magnetic Pole to second volume. Both are protected with captioned tissue guards..... More
British Museum. A Guide to the Third and Fourth Egyptian Rooms. Predynastic Antiquities, Mummied Birds and Animals, Portrait Statues, Figures of Gods, Tools, Implements and Weapons, Scarabs, Amulets, Jewellery, and other Objects connected with the Funeral Rites of the Ancient Egyptians.
London: Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1904. [Antiquities] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 304; [2] advertisements; [2] blank. Recent grey quarter cloth over blue paper covered boards, printed paper title label to spine. With eight plates and one hundred and thirty one illustrations in the text. Internally..... More
Anthology of Japanese Literature from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century, complied and edited by Donald Kean.
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1956. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.442; [2] bibliography; [4] publisher's colophon and advertisements. Publisher's orange cloth, title in red to spine, top edge red, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 30s. net. Neat ownership to flyleaf, edges a little toned. Wrapper..... More