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The Wind in the Willows.
London: Kestrel Books, 1983. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST BURNINGHAM-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.240. With frequent in-text illustrations, and six double-sided colour plates. Publisher's yellow / green cloth with silver titles to spine and blue endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at £7.95. Also with the illustrated slipcase. A bit..... More
The Shepherd's Calendar.
London: Oxford University Press, 1964. [Bucolic Poetry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[2] xiv; 139 [1]. With an engraved head-piece for each month by Gentleman. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, and light brown endpapers. With the yellow dust-jacket also illustrated by Gentleman, priced at 21s. Blue..... More
Seven Little Australians.
London: Ward, Lock, & Co., no date [circa 1909]. [Australian Children's Literature] VINTAGE COPY. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.236 [20]. With three black and white plates, including a frontispiece, by Johnson, and frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Arms of West..... More
Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. [Satire] FIRST MILLAR-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xxiv; 244 [4]. With 40 wood engraved plates by Harold Robert Millar, including a frontispiece. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and decorative blind-stamped boards. All edges untrimmed. A nice clean, bright copy..... More
Not Now, Bernard.
London: Andersen Classics, 2015. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED THIRTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[26]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. One of just 300 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to a bookplate on the fly-leaf. Publisher's colour-illustrated cloth with purple endpapers..... More
Witchcraft Magic and Alchemy.
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1931. [Witchcraft and Alchemy] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.395 [1]. With 10 illustrated colour plates including frontispiece, and a further 366 in-text illustrations. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the grey / blue dust-jacket titled..... More
Gryll Grange.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. [Satire] FIRST TOWNSEND-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xxiv; 292 [4]. With 40 wood engraved plates by Townsend, including a frontispiece. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and decorative blind-stamped boards. All edges untrimmed. A small black ink ownership to fly-leaf..... More
Stories.
Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 2002. [Fashion Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (35 x 26cm), unpaginated, showing 48 'stories' in main black and white on glossy clay paper. Publisher's photographic paper-covered boards with green titles to spine, and black endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at $75.00. A fine, as-new copy..... More
A Song Of The English.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1920]. [Illustrated Poetry] ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.123 [1]. With 16 mounted colour plates by Heath Robinson, including a frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, as well as numerous in-text wood engravings. Publisher's dark blue cloth pictorially blocked in lime green..... More
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The Great War [The World Crisis].
London: George Newnes, 1933-34. [Military History] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION IN BOOK FORM, preceded by the 26 serial magazine parts, constituting the first illustrated edition of Churchill's The World Crisis, with a brand new foreword by the author. Complete in three volumes. Large octavo (25 x 18 x 14cm), pp.iv; 512;..... More
Psychedelic Renegades. With Photographs of Syd Barrett.
UK, Genesis Publications Limited. 2001. [Rock Photography] SIGNED LIMITED DELUXE EDITION. Folio (31 x 26cm), pp.160 with approximately 120 monochrome and colour images, some folding plates. Number 84 of 320 copies SIGNED by both Mick Rock and Syd Barrett, the former in black marker to limitation page, the latter to..... More
The Ship That Sailed to Mars. A Fantasy.
London: George G. Harrap, no date [1923]. [Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 24cm). 48 pages of text, and 48 colour plates illustrated by the author, all mounted on thick grey leaves. Publisher's quarter vellum with elaborate gilt titles and decoration to spine, and grey paper-covered boards titled to..... More
Goldfinger.
London: The Folio Society, 2018. [James Bond] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xii; 274. With seven colour plates by Dalton, including a frontispiece. SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to title page. Publisher's metallic grey cloth, with silver and bronze titles to spine and upper. Grey..... More
The Old Court Suburb: or, Memorials of Kensington Regal, Critical, & Anecdotal by the late J.H. Leigh Hunt Esq., edited by Austin Dobson Esq., & newly embellished by Herbert Railton, Claude Shepperson, & Edmund J. Sullivan Esq.
London: Freemantle & Co., 1902. [London Topography] ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.[2] xviii; 211 [1]; pp.[2] x; 208. With 108 engraved illustrations, including numerous plates, and a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spines and uppers. Top edges gilt;..... More
Black Beauty. The Autobiography of a Horse. Illustrated by Eighteen Plates in Colour Specially Drawn For This Edition by Cecil Aldin.
London: Jarrold Publishers, no date [1912]. [Children's classic] FIRST ALDIN ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.xii; 13-291; [1], blank. Eighteen colour plates and other illustrations. Handsomely bound in green half morocco, over original green cloth covers elaborately blocked in gilt. Some spotting to the thick paper stock, exterior is..... More
Royal Yachts. Published by Gracious Permission of His Majesty The King.
London: Rich & Cowan, 1932. [English Yachts] FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.[2] 338 [4]. Finely printed by The Mayflower Press on untrimmed laid paper, with 16 mounted colour plates, including a frontispiece, plus over one hundred further black and white plates. Number 141 of 1000 copies..... More
The Shepherd.
London: Hutchinson, 1975. [Short Christmas Story] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.54 [2]. With seven illustrations by Foss, including a frontispice. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate on fly-leaf. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt and red titles to spine. With the..... More
Nirvana. Photographs.
London: Vision On, 2002. [Music biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION hardback, SIGNED on the limitation plate to pastedown by both photographers - one of 1000 copies published. Folio (34 x 26cm), pp.153 [7]. Publisher's clossy photographic covers housed in a black cloth clamshell box with silk-screen titles in white, with an..... More
From Hamburg to Hollywood.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1997. [Music / Film Photography] LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (31 x 22cm), pp.130. No 1026 of 1750 copies SIGNED by Jurgen Vollmer. Foreword by Sir Paul McCartney. 140 illustrations from photographs. Quarter bound with gilt-stamped covers, all edges silver, housed in a Kodak-style lid and tray box. With..... More
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The Sussex Vampire, a Sherlock Holmes Story [in] Hearst's International Magazine. Volume 45, number 1.
New York, NY: The International Magazine Company, January 1924. [Sherlock Holmes] FIRST US APPEARANCE. Folio (30 x 22cm), pp.152. With black and white and dichromatic illustrations throughout, including four by W.T. Benda to 'The Sussex Vampire.' Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 35c. Some wear and chipping to covers, with..... More
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The Sussex Vampire, a Sherlock Holmes Story [in] Hearst's International Magazine. Volume 45, number 1.
New York, NY: The International Magazine Company, January 1924. [Sherlock Holmes] FIRST US APPEARANCE. Folio (30 x 22cm), pp.152. With black and white and dichromatic illustrations throughout, including four by W.T. Benda to 'The Sussex Vampire.' Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 35c. Blue ink ownership to first leaf. Some..... More
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Trent and the Bad Dog [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 93.
London: George Newnes, September 1937. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[28] 449-560 [29-40]. With frequent black and white, and occasional dichromatic, illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 1s. Some toning and thumbing to edges. Quite heavy wear to covers, with a large tear to upper and..... More
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The Patch on the Quilt [and] William de Luxe [in] Pearson's Magazine. Number 308.
London: C. Arthur Pearson, August 1921. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 89-182. With frequent black and white illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 1s. Internally clean, with fairly light wear to covers, and a purple bookseller's stamp to upper. Very good... More
![The Contest: A Story of the Emperor Nero [in] Pearson's Magazine. Number 30. Arthur Conan DOYLE, Sir](/pictures/thumb/58791.jpg?v=1612460404)
The Contest: A Story of the Emperor Nero [in] Pearson's Magazine. Number 30.
London: C. Arthur Pearson, March 1911. [Literary Magazine] FIRST UK APPEARANCE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxxvi; 233-340 [10]. With frequent black and white illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 6d. Toning and spotting to edges. Covers quite heavily worn and chipped, with heavy rubbing to joints..... More
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