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Rip Van Winkle. With drawings by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, November 1905. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, the trade issue. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.viii; 62. With 51 mounted colour plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges..... More
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, Who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1929. [Classic Literature] FIRST JOHN AUSTEN-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.xii; 333 [7]. With 16 engraved plates by Austen, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Fore and lower edges untrimmed; engraved endpapers. A...... More
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[Album of Cuttings from the Borders of Maps by John Speed].
no date [circa 1650 and 1833]. [Ethnographic Engravings] ORIGINAL ENGRAVINGS. Small quarto notebook (25 x 20cm), unpaginated, featuring 179 individual cuttings mounted four per leaf. The album is undated, but the paper has a watermark stating 1833. Contemporary brown half morocco with marbled paper over boards. Generally quite clean internally..... More
The Court of Queen Elizabeth: Originally Written by Sir Robert Nauton, under the title "Fragmenta Regalia." With considerable Biographical Additions by James Caulfield.
London: Printed and Sold by G. Smeeton, and J. Caulfield, 1814. [Elizabethan Biographies] NEW REVISED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 20cm), pp.[4] 127 [1]. With 18 of the 21 engraved portraits, including a frontispiece of Elizabeth I, but lacking Sir Francis Walsingham, Sir Francis Knowles, and Lord Brooke. Publisher's blue /..... More
The Art of Darkness: Staging The Philip Pullman Trilogy.
London: National Theatre, 2003. [Theatre] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.120. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. SIGNED by both Butler and Pullman in blue ink to title page. Publisher's black soft covers, priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. All about how the 'His Dark Materials'..... More
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Stage Premiere of His Dark Materials: Parts One and Two. [How To Read The Alethiometer].
London: The National Theatre, 2003. [Theatre Programme] SIGNED ORIGINAL PROGRAMME AND BOOKLET. Octavo (24 x 14cm), pp.[80]. Including interviews with both Wright and Pullman about the creation of the play, and profiles of the cast. Also including the rare fold-out booklet 'How to Read the Alethiometer,' loosely tipped into the..... More
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Stage Premiere of His Dark Materials: Parts One and Two. [How To Read The Alethiometer].
London: The National Theatre, 2003. [Theatre Programme] ORIGINAL PROGRAMME AND BOOKLET. Octavo (24 x 14cm), pp.[80]. Including interviews with both Wright and Pullman about the creation of the play, and profiles of the cast. Also including the rare fold-out booklet 'How to Read the Alethiometer,' loosely tipped into the centre..... More
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
London: Bloomsbury, 2002. [Harry Potter] NEW PAPERBACK EDITION, FIRST THUS. Octavo, pp.251 [3]. Publisher's soft covers illustrated by Cliff Wright, priced at £5.99. A fine, as-new copy, with just a little light handling. The second novel of the perennially popular children's series. Harry returns to Hogwarts for his second year..... More
Harry Potter and the The Half-Blood Prince.
London: Bloomsbury, 2005. [Children's Classic] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.607; [1]. Publisher's glossy pictorial paper-covered boards with matching dust-jacket illustrated by Jason Cockroft, priced at £16.99. A fine copy, boldly SIGNED by the author on a special promotional bookplate to the flyleaf, with colour-printed artwork and the..... More
Warhol: Red Books.
Göttingen: Steidl / Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 2004. [Photography Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Twelve small ring-bound booklets, including one in black covers containing the introduction and index, and eleven containing reproductions of Warhol's photographs, all in red covers. All housed in a red box with white titles (9 x 17..... More
Chronograms. 5000 and more in number excerpted out of various authors and collected at many places.
London: Ellliot Stock, 1882. [Chronograms] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.xx; 569 [3]. With a lithographic frontispiece reproduction of an engraving, and 12 illustrations placed throughout the text. Publisher's green quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine and green leather-grain-effect cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed..... More
A Description of the Works of the Ingenious Delineator and Engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, Disposed into Classes of Different Sorts; with some Account of His Life.
London: Printed for William Bathoe, 1759. [Catalogue Raisonné] SECOND EDITION, revised. Small Quarto, pp.[6]; vi; 151; [5]. In contemporary brown mottled leather boards with gilt and blind ruled decoration, recently re-spined to style with brown mottled leather, raised bands and gilt titles to a green morocco label. Original marbled endpapers..... More
The Anniversary Edition of Ian Fleming's James Bond Novels. 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; Octopussy and The Living Daylights.
London: Penguin Books, 2002. [James Bond] LIMITED HARDBACK SET. Complete in 14 volumes. Small octavo (41 x 18cm). Cloth-bound hardcovers in photographic dustwrappers by Toby MacFarlan Pond. A fine set, presented in a black cloth-covered slipcase with fleece lining and ribbon pulls. This was the first James Bond hardback published..... More
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.
London: John Murray, 1909. [Anthropology] VINTAGE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xx; 1031 [5]. Publisher's mid green buckram cloth with gilt titles to spine, title panel and floral decoration stamped in dark green to upper. A few light marks to rear cover, spine age-toned. A very good copy indeed. The..... More
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The Brass Bottle [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 19 and 20; numbers 109 to 117.
London: George Newnes, January to September 1900. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Nine parts in their original light blue illustrated paper covers. Octavo (28 x 20cm), pp.xliv; 120; xlv-lii; pp.xl; 121-240; xli-xlviii; pp.xl; 241-360; xli-xlviii; pp.xl; 361-480; xli-xlviii; pp.xliv; 481-600; xlv-lii; pp.xliv; 601-724; xlv-lii; pp.xliv; 120; xlv-lii; pp.xxxvi; 121-240; xxxvii-xliv; pp.xxxvi;..... More
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. With Memoir, Explanatory Notes, etc. The "Chandos Poets."
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1880s]. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.[2] xl; 600 [2]. Very small print in two columns, with occasional in-text illustrations, and a steel engraved portrait frontispiece of the poet. Contemporary brown full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and..... More
Full Moon.
London: Herbert Jenkins, no date [1947]. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.252. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Frank Ford. Light spotting to top edge. Price-clipped jacket shows just a little light wear to edges. Near fine. "The thought..... More
McAuslan In The Rough And Other Stories.
London: Collins, 1981. [Army Satire] RE-ISSUE, with cancel title page. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.219 [5]. Barrie & Jenkins red cloth with gilt titles titles to spine. With the original Barrie & Jenkins dust-jacket, labelled over spine with 'Collins' and labelled over price and ISBN on flaps. A little toned..... More
Gale Force.
London: William Heinemann, 1956. [Shipwreck Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 262 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Francis Russell Flint. Blue ink gift inscription to fly-leaf. Spotting to..... More
The Penthouse.
London: Collins, 1983. [Hostage Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] 314 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Jean-Pierre Trevor, priced at £8.50. A lovely crisp, fine copy; almost as-new..... More
The Damocles Sword.
London: Collins, 1981. [Nazi Hunter Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] 315 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrate by Tony Masero, priced at £6.95. A lovely crisp, fine copy; almost..... More
The Shoot.
London: Heinemann, 1966. [Missile Test Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] 236. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Edward Tan, priced at 18s. Minor light handling. A lovely fine copy..... More
Len Deighton's London Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. [Counter-culture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.352. Publisher's bright red cloth lettered in gilt, 'aerial' photographic endpapers, top edge coloured black, collage-style dust-wrapper designed by Raymond Hawkey with printed price of 30s. net. Faint mark to fore-edge else a crisp, fine copy. An amusing guide to swinging London;..... More
The Amateur Gentleman. A Romance.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 1913. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 599 [17]. Publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt to spine and white to upper. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Very light spotting to preliminaries, and some light toning to endpapers. Spine slightly toned..... More
Portrait photos of film stars 1930s-2000s.
no place, [Cinema and television promotion] A group of 44 press-type / staged studio photographs, in black and white and colour, each measuring 8 x 10 inches. All are quality prints, circa 1990s-2000s, some with the subject's name on a label to the rear, likely for retail, or some possibly..... More