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The Complete Angler, or The Contemplative Man's Recreation. With lives of the authors, and variorum notes, historical and practical. Edited by Edward Jesse, Esq.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1856. [Fishing] PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[xx]; 496; [4] blank. Bound in red polished calf by Nutt, titled in gilt to black label on spine, with raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, 'Windermere College Prize' crest to boards. Marbled edges and endpapers. Pictorial... More
A Book of Words. Selections From Speeches and Addresses Made Between 1906 and 1927.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1928. [Speeches] Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[viii]; 299; [1] blank; [4] advertisements. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, embossed in gilt to upper board, gilt top edge, brown typographic dust-jacket priced at 7/6 net to spine. Title page printed in red and black. Neat... More
Daniel Craig: James Bond 007. Limited Edition Calendar 2019.
007 Magazine and Archive, 2018. Photographic calendar, stapled, in book-form (30 x 21), pp.24, in full colour. Punch-cut hole for hanging. Brand new. RRP £9.99. Our price includes global shipping. An exclusive print collectable published by 007 Magazine. More
Roger Moore: James Bond 007. Limited Edition Calendar 2019.
007 Magazine and Archive, 2018. Photographic calendar, stapled, in book-form (30 x 21), pp.24, in full colour. Punch-cut hole for hanging. Brand new. RRP £9.99. Our price includes global shipping. An exclusive print collectable published by 007 Magazine. More
Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2002. [Rock/pop] SIGNED BY BOWIE AND ROCK. Deluxe Edition, number 171 of 350 copies bound in full leather, with additional photographic print, from a total run of 2500 copies. Folio (38 x 28cm), pp.346. Printed on fourteen different paper stocks, including clear acetate, trace leaves and a.... More
![The Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Jane AUSTEN, Robert Willliam CHAPMAN.](/pictures/thumb/52843.jpg?v=1544797151)
The Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1926. [Complete Novels] FINELY BOUND SET, the second edition thus. In five volumes. Octavo (21 x 15 x 21cm), pp.xiv; 429; pp.xiii; 415; pp.xii; 567; pp.xi; 521; pp.xiii; 311. In recent tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels... More
Maigret and the Black Sheep
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976. [Detective fiction] FIRST U.K. EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.187. In publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Beverley Lebarrow, priced at £2.75. Some edge-spotting, jacket sunned to spine otherwise very good indeed. More
The Patience Of Maigret.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1966. [Detective fiction] FIRST U.K. EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.154. In publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Ken Reilly, priced at 13/6. Some dustiness and offset to endpapers, jacket spine toned, a little rubbed to edges. Very good. More
Do Butlers Burgle Banks?
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1968. [Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.191; [1]. Publisher's quarter blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and yellow paper over boards. Top edge blue. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Alcorn, priced at $4.50. A few marks to edges, remainder... More
"Farthest North", Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-96 and of fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram. About One Hundred and Twenty Full Page and Numerous Text Illustrations and Coloured Plate in Facsimile from Dr. Nansen's Own Sketches. Portrait and Maps.
London: George Newnes, 1898. [Arctic Exploration] SECOND EDITION. Two volumes. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 480; pp.viii; 456. Illustrated throughout with numerous photogravure illustrations and photographs, and a large folding map to the rear of volume I. In a secondary binding of green cloth with gilt titles to spines... More
This Torch of Freedom. Speeches and Addresses.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. [Speeches] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[x]; 339; [3] blank. Publisher's blue cloth, lettered in white to spine and upper board, dust-jacket with printed price of 12/6 net. Light spotting to first and last few pages otherwise internally bright and clean. Spotting to edges... More
The Old Reliable.
London: Herbert Jenkins, no date [1964]. [Humour] FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRRESSION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.233; [1]; [2 of adverts]. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black in an amusing pictorial dust-jacket designed by Frank Ford with printed price of 6/- net. Offsetting to endpapers, some spotting to top edge, all... More
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [First World War] LEATHERBOUND FIRST TRADE EDITION, following the privately published edition of 1926. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.672. With 54 illustrated plates and four folding maps. Complete with appendices and index. Handsomely bound in recent half brown morocco leather with raised bands, navy morocco title... More
The White Tiger.
London: Atlantic Books, 2008. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[6] 321 [1]. Signed by the author to the title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, red endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by gray318, priced at £12.99. A fine copy. More
Child 44.
London: Simon and Schuster, 2008. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 473 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Maps to endpapers. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £12.99. A fine copy. Nominated for... More
The Scarecrow and his Servant. Illustrated by Peter Bailey.
London: Doubleday, 2004. [Fantasy adventure] Signed First Edition. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.230; [2], blank. Publisher's dark green cloth, titles in gilt to spine, light blue endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket with delightful all-over design. Signed by Philip Pullman upon publication and carefully warehoused by ourselves since then. A fine, as-new copy. More
Descriptive Sketches of Tunbridge Wells and the Calverley Estate. With Brief Notices of the Picturesque Scenery, Seats, and Antiquities in the Vicinity, Embellished with Maps and Prints.
London: Published by the Author, 1832. [Town Guide] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii; 148; [4 of adverts]. Illustrated with 3 folding maps and plans, 9 lithographic plates, and 2 in-text woodcuts. Bound in the original pink satin-effect cloth with paper title labels to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. Light spotting... More
The Works of William Thackeray. Including: Vanity Fair, Pendennis, Barry Lyndon, etc.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1899-1900. [Literature] THE BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION, FINELY BOUND. Thirteen volumes, octavo (21 x 15 x 56cm). Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous other plates and in-text illustrations. Smartly bound in contemporary dark red half morocco over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt titles and... More
Voyage to the South Seas, And to many other Parts of the World performed From the Month of September in the Year 1740, to June 1744, By Commodore Anson, in his Majesty's Ship the Centurion, Having under his Command the Gloucester, Pearl, Severn, Wager, Trial and two Store-ships. By An Officer of the Squadron.
London: R. Walker, in Fleet-Lane, 1744. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, (173 x 110mm.), pp.X; 11-408, 54 appendix. Engraved portrait facing title page, five folding engraved plates, contemporary dark calf ruled in gilt to spine. Contents a little soiled with a few minor tears, small loss to corner of pp.401-2 with... More
The Lennon Play: In His Own Write.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. [Sixties Culture] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.35; [3], blank. Publisher's textured purple covers in a pictorial dust-wrapper, priced at 16s. A superb, fine copy. Book Collector No.287 (p32-62) 'The Sixties'. More
Pigs Have Wings.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1952. [Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.220; [2], advertisements; [2], blank. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black, in an amusing pictorial dustjacket by 'Sax'. Edges a little dusty/toned, discreet ink ownership to flyleaf, jacket with a few short tears, price-clipped. Overall a bright... More
Murder in Bermuda.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1935. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, COLONIAL ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.280. Publisher's light blue cloth with black titles to spine. With the rare dust-jacket, illustrated in colour to the front cover, no price. Jacket and front pastedown stamped 'Overseas Edition'. Corners lightly bumped. Spine toned... More
Summer Moonshine.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1938. [Classic Humour] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.312; [8]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Fenwick, priced at 7/6 to the spine. Some spotting to edges, preliminaries and advertisements. Dustiness to... More
Black Swan Green.
London: Sceptre, 2006. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 371; [7]. Signed by the author in black ink to title page, dated 8/5/06. Publisher's green paper-covered boards with silver titles to spine. Green decorated endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Kai Clements and Sunny, priced at £16.99. A fine copy. More
Ross.
New York, NY: Random House and the Fireside Theatre Book Club, no date [1962]. [T.E. Lawrence] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[12]; 180. Beautifully bound for Asprey by Sangorski in red half morocco over red cloth boards, raised bands and gilt to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Original... More