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Summer in the Country.
London: George Routledge & Co., 1858. [Diaries] ILLUSTRATED EDITION, first thus. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.viii; 216 [2]. With 45 engravings including a frontispiece after various artists, by the Dalziel Brothers. Contemporary green full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt panelled decoration to boards..... More
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales with Pictures that Spring to Life. Bookano Series.
London: Strand Publications, no date [circa 1938]. [Pop-Up Fairy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.[62]. With four colour-illustrated pop-up scenes, a colour frontispiece and vignette title page, and several line-drawn illustrations, all by Wickham, and design and arrangement by Giraud. Publisher's colour illustrated paper-covered boards, with endpapers illustrated..... More
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Heraldic Album [Arms, Crests, and Monograms].
no date [circa 1890's]. [Crest and Monogram Album] CREST AND MONOGRAM COLLECTION. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), title page and 35 unpaginated leaves, all completed with crests and monograms in various colours cut from envelopes and headed paper. Blue leather-grain-effect cloth over boards with blind decoration. All edges gilt. Clean..... More
The Broken Road. From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos.
London: John Murray, 2013. [Travel Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxi; 362. SIGNED by the editors in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, and red illustrated endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket by Ed Kluz, with printed price £25. Taped in..... More
The Natural History of Selborne.
London: Cassell and Company, 1903. [Natural History] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[16] 294 [2]. With 123 illustrations including a frontispiece. Contemporary dark green half calf, with gilt titles on red label, further gilt decoration to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Gloster marbled endpapers; all edges..... More
Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy. Another case from the records of Biggles and the Special Air Police.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1961. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.182 [2]. Publisher's brown cloth with green titles to spine. With a chromolithographic frontispiece and occasional in-text illustrations by Leslie Stead. With the pictorial dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Internally clean. Minor bump to upper board. Moderate rubbing to..... More
Central Italy and Rome. Handbook for Travellers.
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1909. [Travel Guide] FIFTEENTH EDITION. Sexto-Decimo (16 x 11cm), pp.lxxxii; 527 [1]; 23 [1]. With numerous folding maps and plans, including a large folding map of central Italy as a frontispiece, and a detailed map of Rome in three folding sections at rear. Publisher's red cloth with..... More
Greece. Handbook for Travellers.
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1909. [Travel Guide] FOURTH EDITION. Sexto-Decimo (16 x 11cm), pp.cxxxii; 447 [1]. With numerous folding maps, plans and panoramas, as well as a large folding map of Greece loose to pouch at rear. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. All edges marbled. Gently..... More
William of Wykeham. And His Colleges.
London: David Nutt, 1852. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xvi; 473; xv [11]. With five steel engravings and twenty-seven wood engravings. Contemporary full tan calf, with gilt titles on green label to spine, and further gilt decorations to spine, as well as raised bands and gilt and..... More
Fifty Years of Golf: My Memories. Told to Clyde Foster.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1921. [Golf] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.224 [4]. With twenty-one illustrations including frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, blind ruling to boards, and authors name in gilt to lower front board. Untrimmed edges. Illustrated bookplate of Bernard Lintott to front pastedown..... More
Prince Caspian. The Return to Narnia. A Story for Children. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.194 [2]. With a colour frontispiece and other illustrations throughout by Pauline Baynes. SIGNED by Baynes in black ink to title page. Publisher's blue cloth, with silver titles to spine, and illustrated map front endpapers..... More
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Collected and Arranged, with Notes and Illustrations.
London: John Murray, 1866. [Romantic Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16] 827 [3]. Finely bound by HAYDAY in full black morocco, gilt titles and decorations to spine, gilt panelled decoration to boards, raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt dentelle turn ins over plain endpapers. With an engraved frontispiece..... More
Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey. Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters. Volume V. Wuthering Heights, by Ellis Bell, and Agnes Grey, by Acton Bell.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1878. [Classic Literature] ILLUSTRATED VINTAGE EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[24] 488. Five illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title page. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles and band decoration to spine, black ruling and pictorial title to front board, blind ruling and device to back board..... More
The Christmas Books. [A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man].
London: Chapman and Hall, No date [circa 1900]. [Classical Literature] ILLUSTRATED VINTAGE EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 525 [1]. Sixty-four illustrations including frontispiece and engraved plates. Publisher's grey pictorial cloth, with black titles to spine, and black and green illustrations to spine and upper. Green machine-marbled endpapers, all edges..... More
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. A New Edition.
London: Edward Moxon, 1847. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[30] 619 [3]. With a steel engraved portrait frontispiece and vignette title page. Small print over two columns. Full tan calf, with gilt titles to dark green label, gilt decorations to spine, raised bands, panelled..... More
Ludmila. A Story of Liechtenstein.
Liechtenstein: QUICK, 1960. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FOURTH IMPRESSION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.53. Eleven illustrations including frontispiece by Franz Deak. INSCRIBED by Baron von Falz-Fein, father of Ludmila, in blue ink to dedication page. Publishers green cloth, gilt title upper front board. Photographic yellow dust-jacket, not priced. Ownership inscription to..... More
The Poetical Works of James Thomson. Comprising all his Pastoral, Dramatic, Lyrical, and Didactic Poems, and a few of his Juvenile Productions. With a Life of the Author by the Rev. Patrick Murdoch, D.D., F.R.S. and Notes by Nichols.
London: William Tegg and Co, 1849. [Poetical works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[72] 676 [2]. Nine illustrations including portrait frontispiece. Dark green full calf, gilt titles on red label to spine, with gilt decorations to spine, raised bands, and wide decorative border in gilt and blind..... More
Bluey Truscott. Squadron Leader Keith William Truscott, R.A.A.F., D.F.C. and Bar.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1958. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[14] 202 [2]. With 27 illustrations throughout including frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. Blue ink ownership inscription to front endpaper. Light toning to textblock edge, pen marks to back..... More
Five on a Treasure Island.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1942. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Small Octavo. pp.191 [1]. With thirty-two full page illustrations by Soper. Publisher's pale blue cloth, with black titles to spine and upper. Lacking the rare jacket. Contents clean, covers gently handled, some light rubbing to extremities. A very good copy. The..... More
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales.
London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1911. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST WALTON-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.viii; 431 [1]. With 24 chromolithographic plates after Walton, including a frontispiece. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Black and gold illustrated..... More
The Cat and the Devil.
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1964. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST ERDOES-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), unpaginated. With in-text colour illustrations by Erdoes to every page. Publisher's tan cloth with black titles to spine, purple vignette to upper board, and colour-illustrated endpapers. With the Publisher's colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Cloth a...... More
Peggy's Twins.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, no date [1920]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.63 [1]. With 10 illustrations by Appleton, including four colour plates. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper, and decoration in black, white and pink to upper. Line-drawn illustrations..... More
Turner and Girtin's Picturesque Views, Sixty Years Since. With Thirty Engravings of the Olden Time.
London: J. Hogarth, 1854. [Illustrated Togography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 19cm), pp.[2] lx; 164 [4]. With thirty engraved plates after Turner and Girtin, as well as an engraved frontispiece portrait of Turner after Count D'Orsay, and three facsimile letters written by Turner. Publisher's blind-decorated cloth, with gilt titles and..... More
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The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings [and] Miss Cayley's Adventures [and] The Story of the Beetle-Hunter [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 15.
London: George Newnes, January to June 1898. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] 804. With frequent in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with titles in black and gilt to spine, and black titles and decoration to upper. All edges speckled red. A nice crisp, clean..... More
The Mating Season.
New York, NY: Didier, 1949. [Jeeves and Wooster] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[14] 287 [3]. With a frontispiece and numerous in-text illustrations by Hal McIntosh. Publisher's red cloth with white titles to spine and author name to upper board. With the red dust-jacket also illustrated by McIntosh..... More
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