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The Grey Fairy Book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. [Fairy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xii; 387 [1]. With 32 engraved plates including a frontispiece, and numerous in-text illustrations, by Ford. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to spine and upper. Black endpapers; all edges..... More
Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977.
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. [Fashion Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (37 x 28cm), unpaginated, with 162 black and white photographs. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by the photographer in black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy photographic paper-covered boards. With the original clear..... More
Satan's Tears. The Art of Alex Niño.
Detroit, MI: The Land of Enchantment, 1977. [Comic Book Art] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (35 x 27cm), pp.x, 301 [1]. With 20 colour plates, and all other illustrations in black and white, many folding. Number 965 of 1000 copies SIGNED by the artist in black ink to limitation page..... More
Philippe Halsman A Retrospective: Photographs from the Halsman Family Collection.
London: Pavilion, 1998. [Celebrity Photography] FIRST UK EDITION. Quarto (34 x 27cm), pp.212. Black and white photographs throughout. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and brown endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £40. Some light markings to jacket and little creasing to endpapers. Near fine. Iconic photos..... More
The Booze Book.
San Francisco, CA: Determined Productions, 1967. [Cocktail Book] FIRST EDITION. Square octavo (15 x 15cm), pp.68. Illustrated in colour throughout by Astrop and Hill. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and black endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, not priced. Rubbing and bumping to head and tail of spine, and to corners. Jacket..... More
London Toy Books: Aunt Louisa's Sea Side.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [1867]. [Children's Illustrated] FINE CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS. Quarto (27 x 23cm), six leaves of text printed to recto only, with six very fine chromolithographic plates. Publisher's brightly illustrated pink card covers, with titles to front cover and advertisements to back cover. Some light browning and..... More
Chromes.
Göttingen: Steidl, 2011. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Three volumes. Quarto (34 x 33cm), pp.728. Publisher's blue, red and yellow cloth with black titles to spine. With the grey cloth-covered slipcase titled in yellow and orange, still in the original shrink wrap. A fine, as-new copy. William Eggleston's standing as one of..... More
Manners and Customs in Manchoukuo.
Mukden: The Manchuria Daily News, 1942. [Japanese Wartime Propaganda] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.[2] 121 [1]. Black and white photographs throughout, with captions in English. Publisher's grey cloth with white titles to upper, and white device to lower. Purple endpapers. Associated contemporary newspaper clippings loose at..... More
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[Bell's Shakespeare]. [Romeo and Juliet; All's Well that Ends Well; The Winter's Tale; Love's Labour's Lost; Tempest; Titus Andronicus; As You Like It; Measure for Measure; Antony and Cleopatra; Midsummer-Night's Dream; King Lear; Othello; Cymbeline; Much Ado about Nothing; Julius Caesar; Comedy of Errors; Timon of Athens; King John; Merry Wives of Windsor; Richard II; Richard III; King Henry VIII; Hamlet; Taming of the Shrew; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Twelfth-Night, or, What You Will; Troilus and Cressida; Macbeth; Coriolanus; Henry V; Henry IV, parts I and II; Henry VI, parts I, II and III; Names of the Original Actors in the Plays of Shakspeare, by Will. Shakspeare: Printed complete from the Text of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, and revised from the last Editions.
London: John Bell [and] John Cawthorn, 1784-1807. [Shakespeare] JOHN BELL EDITION, later printings, mixed issue. 36 of 38 volumes. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 10cm). Most volumes dated 1788 or 1803, with just a few intersectional exceptions. All volumes with two engraved title pages of varying dates ranging from 1784..... More
The Fur Country, or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875. [Arctic Adventure] FIFTH ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 334 [2]. With 100 engraved plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with black and gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt. Plain bookplate of Judah Levy to..... More
The Purchase Of The North Pole. A sequel to "From The Earth To The Moon."
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [circa 1900]. [Science Fiction Adventure] EARLY EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 143 [3]. With 30 engraved plates by Roux, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. School prize..... More
Moral Emblems. with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of all Ages and Nations. With Illustrations freely rendered, from designs found in their works, by John Leighton, F.S.A., the whole Translated and Edited, with Additions, by Richard Pigot, Member of the Leyden Society of Netherlands Literature.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. [Illustrated Aphorisms] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.[2] xvi; 242 [2]. Heavily illustrated with engravings by Leighton, and other artists, including a frontispiece. Fine contemporary red full morocco by RIVIERE, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
Alice in Wonderland.
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, no date [circa 1920]. [Children's Illustrated] EARLY ATTWELL-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.148. With 12 colour plates, including a frontispiece, as well as frequent in-text illustrations by Attwell. Recently re-bound with a robust red cloth spine, plain paper title label, and original boards..... More
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Rods and Gunnels [in] The Bookman. August 1902, Vol. XV, No.6.
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, August 1902. [Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[16] 505-600, viii [14]. With frequent in-text half-tone illustrations. The final number of the volume, containing title page and index at rear. All edges untrimmed. Publisher's yellow paper covers, titled in red and..... More
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales.
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, no date [1914]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST THUS. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.140 [4]. With 12 colour plates by Attwell, and numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's brown quarter cloth with black titles to spine and colour-illustrated paper over boards. Heavy browning to endpapers and half-title. Black..... More
The Flowers I Love. A Series of Twenty-Four Drawings in Colour by Katherine Cameron with an Anthology of Flower Poems Selected by Edward Thomas.
London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, no date [1916]. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST THUS. Large octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.[2] xii; 82 [4]. With 24 very fine colour plates, including a frontispiece, by Cameron. Publisher's brown paper-covered boards with gilt titles and decoration to upper, recently re-backed with oatmeal cloth and a...... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
New York, NY: Richard R. Smith, 1930. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST US EDITION, second overall. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), with 41 leaves, including 38 tipped-in illustrated plates (some in colour), with vignette illustrations to facing text, as well as a colour frontispiece. Publisher's colour-decorated paper over boards, recently re-backed with..... More
The Quiet Woman and the Noisy Dog.
London: Andersen Press, 2009. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (24 x 28cm), pp.[26] With naive colour illustrations by Busby to every page. Publisher's matt colour-illustrated paper over boards, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99 (no jacket issued). A fine, as-new copy. More
The Quiet Woman and the Noisy Dog.
London: Andersen Press, 2009. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (24 x 28cm), pp.[26] With naive colour illustrations by Busby to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's matt colour-illustrated paper over boards, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99 (no jacket issued). Some minor..... More
The Conquerors.
London: Andersen Press, 2004. [Children's Illustrated] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 29cm), pp.[26]. With naive colour illustrations by the author to every page. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to copyright page: '& for John - my dealer, | David McKee 2004.' Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper over boards..... More
Ahmed and the Feather Girl.
London: Francis Lincoln Children's Books, 2010. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 25cm), pp.[26]. With bright colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper over boards, and magenta endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, priced..... More
The Story of Dulcibella and the Fairies.
London: C.W. Faulkner & Co., no date [1919]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.55 [1]. With 13 colour-illustrated plates, each with a caption leaf, by Miller. Publisher's grey quarter cloth, with grey paper over boards, as well as brown titles and a colour plate to upper. Upper..... More
Hector Servadac.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. [Science Fiction] SECOND ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 370. With numerous engraved plates. Publisher's green cloth with black and gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Sunday School library bookplate to front pastedown. Fly-leaves and frontispiece lost, with rough..... More
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. [Classic Fiction] FIRST EDITION, bound from mixed issue parts. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 624. With 39 engraved plates by Phiz, and a frontispiece portrait of the author by Maclise. This copy does not have "visiter" for "sister" on p.123 line 17, but it does..... More
September Road to Caithness and the Western Sea.
London: Nicholas Kaye, 1962. [Scottish Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.168. With a colour frontispiece and frequent woodcuts by the author. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and light blue endpapers. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 21s. Decorative bookplate of Ronald Spicer to front pastedown..... More