"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "
— Oscar Wilde
New Arrivals
The Unbroken Web: Stories and Fables.
New York, NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1980. [Children's Illustrated] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.142 [2]. With colour plates by Gilbert and in-text drawings by Campbell. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'To R.W. Smith | Yours with best wishes | Richard..... More
The Early Races of Scotland and their Monuments.
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1866. [Prehistory] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xx; 268 [12]; pp.xii; 269-518 [2]. Complete with 60 lithographic illustrations, including folding panoramic frontispieces to each volume. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed; brown endpapers. Partially unopened. Light spotting to..... More
On the Theory and Practice of Midwifery.
London: Henry Renshaw, 1855. [Obstetrics] THIRD EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.ii-xvi; 667 [5]. Lacking the half-title. With 119 in-text wood engravings. Recently rebound in brown buckram with the original gilt and blind-decorated cloth laid over boards and spine. New endpapers; all edges untrimmed. Occasional moderate spotting; lightly browned..... More
Back Drops: pages from a private diary.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1983. [Stage / Film Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[6] 178. SIGNED by the author ink black ink to the half-title. With occasional illustrations by Larry. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, price-clipped. A few creases..... More
All Round the Clock.
London: Griffith, Farran and Company, no date [1887]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.64. Chromolithographed by Ernest Rister of Nuremberg. Publisher's quarter green cloth with glossy colour-illustrated paper over boards. Patterned endpapers. Browning to endpapers and preliminaries. Tiny damp mark to foot of upper board, rubbing..... More
Sense and Sensibility.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. [Classic Literature] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 342. With forty wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Hugh Thomson. Contemporary brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed;..... More
British Pop.
Bilbao: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2005. [Pop Art] INSCRIBED EXHIBITION CATALOGUE. Quarto softcover (27 x 20cm), pp.474 [2]. SIGNED by the artist Peter Blake in black ink, and additionally INSCRIBED by Livingstone in blue ink: 'For Edward | Marco Livingstone | 16.IV.09.' Both to title page. Text in..... More
America.
New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1985. [American Culture / Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.224. Black and photographs to every page with commentary by Warhol. SIGNED by Warhol in marker pen to the front cover, and again to the blank facing the contents page, also with..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1909]. [Illustrated] FIRST EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 22cm). with 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards; quatrains with brown border decoration. Red half calf with raised bands, matching cloth sides, gilt titles, blue morocco label, top..... More
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[The Illustrated Novels of Jane Austen]. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1898-1910. [Illustrated Novels Set] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, later impressions. Six novels in five volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 20cm). Pride and Prejudice illustrated by Brock; the other titles by Thomson. 40 wood engravings per volume. In recent navy half morocco with raised bands, gilt..... More
Sisters Under the Skin.
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1979. [Photography] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Quarto (32 x 23cm), unpaginated, with numerous photographic portraits of notable women by Parkinson, many with accompanying text or quotations by various authors. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's burgundy cloth with silver titles..... More
Verve: The Intimate Sketchbooks of G. Braque. Vol. VIII, No. 31 / 32.
Paris: Verve, 1955. [Art] FINE COLOUR PLATES. Large quarto (36 x 27cm), pp.160. With 20 colour plates and a colour illustrated title page; some Lithographs, others Heliographs. 132 further heliographs in black and white. Recently re-bound in quarter green morocco with two raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled..... More
Nudes.
New York, NY: The Arts Publisher, 1986. [Art] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (38 x 34cm), Unpaginated, with 21 drawings, etchings, photographs, and chromolithographic reproductions of watercolours by Brandt, and a poem by Guest printed over four leaves at rear. Number 195 of 750 copies, signed by the artist in pencil..... More
Scrapbook Drawings of Stanley Spencer.
London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1964. [Artist Sketchbook]. LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (34 x 25cm), pp.16. With 60 offset lithographs reproducing drawings from Spencer's sketchbooks. Number 230 of 400 copies printed by the Lion and Unicorn Press. Publisher's pictorial grey cloth-covered boards; white cloth spine with grey titles, brown endpapers. Small..... More
Rankin Nudes.
London: Rankin Photography, 1999. [Photography]. UNPUBLISHED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (36 x 31cm), pp.107 [5]. Colour and black and white photographs, with a short interview with Rankin about the shoot. One of 500 copies produced as a special hard-cover edition, but left un-published after the Publisher went out of business. 250..... More
After Dinner Golf.
Brighton: Ellesborough Press, 1986. LIMITED NEW EDITION. Oblong octavo (18 x 25cm), pp.[2] x; 125 [3]. Number 9 of 400 copies SIGNED in blue ink by Hutchinson's Great-niece, Mrs. Cicely Sparling, to the limitation page. Contemporary green full morocco with gilt titles to orange label on spine, and larger gilt..... More
The Songs and Sonnets of William Shakespeare. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
London: Duckworth and Co. n.d. [1915]. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST ROBINSON EDITION. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.240. Illustrated with 12 mounted colour plates, captioned tissues (one slightly short), and numerous two-tone illustrations and letter pieces. Recently bound in full red half morocco with gilt titles to spine, gilt border to covers..... More
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Verve: Revue Artistique et Litteraire. [Matisse], Vence 1944-48. Vol. VI, Nos. 21 et 22.
Paris: Editions de la Revue Verve, 1948. [Art]. FINE COLOUR PLATES. Large quarto (36 x 27cm), pp.[80]. With a finely printed colour frontispiece, and 24 further chromolithographs, interspersed with simple black and white illustration, all from original pieces by Matisse. Recently re-bound in quarter red morocco with two raised bands..... More
Bleak House.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. First Edition, first issue text, half-title present. Octavo, pp.624. Has all three typographical errors present in the first issue: p.19, line 6: "elgble"; p. 209, line 23: "chair" instead of "hair"; and p. 275, line 22: "counsinship" instead of "cousinship." Illustrations by H.K. Browne. In..... More
Five Girls.
New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1962. [Fashion Photography / Sixties Culture] Landmark photography book. FIRST US EDITION. Publisher's salmon cloth hardcover in original dust-wrapper priced at $10. Folio, unpaginated. Photographed throughout in black and white. One or two tiny marks to jacket, small chip at crown, soft crease to flaps;..... More
The Walker Cup: 1922 to 1999, Golf's Finest Contest.
Droitwich: Grant Books, 2000. LIMITED 'AUTHOR'S EDITION'. Small Quarto. pp. xvi, 280. With frequent b/w photographic illustrations and colour frontispiece of the Royal and Ancient, St Andrews. SIGNED by the author, Sir Michael Bonallack and William C. Campbell to title-page. Number 126 of just 200 copies. In publisher's full blue..... More
Desert Vivant.
Paris: Societe Francaise Du Livre, 1954. [Film] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto. A fine copy, respined in cloth to style. Inscribed by the great and powerful Mr. Disney in customary flamboyant style to the verso of the half title. A sumptuous photographic collection of the animals and scenery of the Living..... More
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Deluxe Harry Potter With Unique Watercolour Painting.
London: Bloomsbury 2003. FIRST DELUXE EDITION. Octavo. The deluxe issue is a larger format in decorative cloth bindings and gilt titles to spine and upper with pictorial illustration laid down to upper board. This particular copy contains a UNIQUE ORIGINAL watercolour of Harry at his cauldron, by Jason Cockroft, the..... More
An Idler in the Near East.
London: John Milne, 1910. [Ottoman travel] FIRST EDITION, first issue binding. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 279 [1]. With 40 black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Spotting to edges and preliminaries. Spine sunned with some light rubbing to..... More
Visionary Poems and Passages or The Poet's Eye.
London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1944. [Poetry anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.vi; 122. Publisher's grey cloth, blocked in yellow and black to all faces. With sixteen original lithographs by Craxton plus additional vignettes. Ink and blind stamps of Higginbothams Book Stalls of Madras to flyleaf, edges toned else..... More