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Signature. A Quadrimestrial of Typography and Graphic Arts. New Series 2, November 1946.
London: Signature, November 1946. [Art Periodical] ORIGINAL PERIODICAL. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.52. With numerous black and white plates. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the original glassine jacket. Light toning to covers. Jacket lightly toned and spotted, with some light chipping and closed tears to edges. Near fine. Including a...... More
Rain-Charm for the Dutchy, and Other Laureate Poems.
London: faber and faber, 1992. [Royal Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 64 [4]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue and gold monogrammed dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. A touch of rubbing to jacket edges. Near fine. A collection of poems dedicated to members..... More
Meissonier.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882. [Artist Biography] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xii; 75 [3]. With 14 engraved illustrations, including a large folding plate and a frontispiece portrait of the subject. Contemporary tan full calf for Stamford School, with gilt titles to navy label..... More
The Bride of Lammermoor; The Fortunes of Nigel; The Pirate.
London: J. Dicks, no date [circa 1880s]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, three volumes as one. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 110; 159 [1]; 160 [2]. Very small print in two columns, on thin paper. With occasional in-text engravings and vignette title pages by Gilbert and Gerlier. Contemporary tan half calf..... More
The Poetical Works of Longfellow. Oxford Edition.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1910. [Poetical Works] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 886 [2]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author. Text printed in two columns on thin paper. Contemporary full tree calf for London County Council, with gilt titles to red label and..... More
Daisy Saves the Day.
London: Walker Books, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED BOOKPLATE, the second printing. Small quarto (28 x 26cm), pp.[32]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author to bookplate on the verso of the fly-leaf. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards, and blue illustrated endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket..... More
Willy's Stories.
London: Walker Books, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 27cm), pp.24. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black paper-covered boards, and marbled-illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. Light surface scratches..... More
Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop's Animal Fables.
Dorking: Templar Publishing, 2004. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[64]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and black endpapers. With the contrasting illustrated dust-jacket, priced at ££14.95. Top corners..... More
A Life Drawing.
London: The Bodley Head, 2002. [Artist Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 24cm), pp.208. Heavily illustrated by the author in colour throughout. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and illustrated green endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £19.99. Light rubbing and bumping to outer edges, with..... More
The Promise.
London: Walker Books, 2013. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (27 x 26cm), pp.40. With colour illustrations to every page by Carlin. SIGNED by the artist in black ink to half-title. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and pavement illustrated endpapers. With the contrasting illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. A fine..... More
Fairy Tales.
New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1982. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST US EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.128. With a mixture of full colour plates and black and white vignettes by Foreman. SIGNED by both author and illustrator in black ink, each to a separate bookplate on the verso of..... More
Helen Oxenbury: a life in illustration.
London: Walker Books, 2018. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.264 [24]. Illustrated throughout with a mixture of fine colour photographs and reproductions of Oxenbury's artwork. Publisher's photographic cloth with blue and maroon titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £30. Some..... More
The Big Alfie Out of Doors Storybook.
London: The Bodley Head, 1992. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[64]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author ink black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and green endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at £9.99..... More
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Thrilling Cities [Part 1 and Part 2].
London: Pan Books, 1964-5. [Travel / Adventure] FIRST UK EDITION in paperback. Two volumes, each with photographic plates. Slim octavo (18 x 11cm). Pictorial card wrappers. Some expected toning to cheap paperstock, spines a little darkened, minor wear. Very good indeed. First printings in nice condition are increasingly scarce. Gilbert..... More
The Snowman. 50 Large Piece Puzzle.
Oldham: Hestair Puzzles, 1984. [Children's Puzzle] ORIGINAL PUZZLE. Complete with the original box (20 x 20 cm). Wear and creasing to box; lid somewhat depressed. Very good. An early example of merchandise based on Briggs' acclaimed wordless book about a snowman who comes magically to life. More
Daily Express New Road Book of Great Britain. Maps by George Philip and Son, Ltd.
London: The Daily Express, no date [c.1937]. [Early Road Map] EARLY EDITION. Quarto (28 x 21), pp.128. A gazetteer with eight loose map cards with the original wrap-around band stating 'Important | First - turn to page two!'. Publisher's navy leatherette boards with titles blind to upper board. Light outer..... More
Under the Deodars. The Phantom 'Rickshaw. Wee Willie Winkie. And Other Stories.
Allahabad: Messers. A. H. Wheeler and Co., [and] London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington Ltd., no date [1888]. [Fiction] THREE TITLES IN ONE VOLUME. English issues of the Indian edition; Under the Deodars is the second edition, The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Wee Willie Winkie both being first editions. Octavo..... More
The Plays of J.M. Barrie. In One Volume [Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton, Quality Street, etc.]
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1928. [Dramatic Works] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the second impression thus. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 844 [4]. Contemporary red full calf for Cheltenham College, with gilt titles to green label and further gilt decoration to spine, as well as the school arms stamped in gilt to..... More
Dragon Rider.
Frome: The Chicken House, 2004. [Children's Fantasy] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.530. With occasional in-text illustrations by Howard. Publisher's blue soft covers, and proof dust-jacket illustrated by Ian Butterworth, priced at £12.99. Some light handling. Near fine. Originally published in German in 1997, and basis for the 2020..... More
Peeps at Many Lands: South America.
London: A. & C. Black, 1928. [South American Travel] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 88. With eight colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and a sketch-map of the continent. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, re-priced by the publisher..... More
In Pursuit of Rare Meats: Being the Story of the Rex Whistler Murals in the Tate Gallery Restaurant.
London: Tate Gallery Publications, no date [1954]. [Art] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (22 x 13cm), pp.28. Publisher's tan soft covers, with decoration to front cover; stapled. Light handling to edges. Near fine. A rare and obscure unfinished description of the unfinished murals in the Tate Gallery Restaurant. In as complex a...... More
Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. [Political Pamphlet] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.24. Publisher's grey paper covers, priced at 1s. The lightest of handling to edges. A crisp, fine copy. The poet questions why the Ottoman suppression of the Bulgarian April Uprising of 1876 had received such widespread condemnation..... More
St. George's Day: A Fleet Street Eclogue.
New York, NY: John Lane, 1895. [Scottish Verse] AMERICAN COPYRIGHT EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.16. Stapled twice. Some handling and a few small chips to covers. Very good. Part of the second series of Fleet Street Eclogues, expressing dismay at the homogenisation of British and American culture, and..... More
Descent.
Tunbridge Wells: Printed for the author (since no one else would), 1952. [Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION, Ex Libris Edwin Morgan. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 15cm), pp.14 [2]. Number 12 of just 150 copies thus. Publisher's light blue soft covers, stapled twice. Blue ink ownership of Scottish poet Edwin Morgan to..... More
The Lost Tools of Learning. Paper read at a Vacation Course in Education, Oxford 1947.
London: Methuen & Co., 1948. [Pedagogical Lecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 30. Publisher's pink soft covers, priced at 1s and stapled twice. Light toning to spine, and a neat black ink ownership to front cover. Black ink definitions of key terms in the lecture copied in..... More