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Olly: The Life and Times of Frederick Oliver Robinson, 2nd Marquis of Ripon.
No place: [Privately Published], 2012. [Game Shooting Biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.x; 222. Liberally illustrated with both colour and black and white illustrations. Number 259 of 1500 copies signed by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to..... More
The Story of Horace.
London: Faber & Faber, 1952. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[52]. With colour lithographic illustrations to every page by the author. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Illustrated bookplate to front pastedown. Quite heavily toned throughout, with an 8cm tear to final..... More
Tennis, Lawn Tennis, Rackets, Fives. With Contributions by the Hon. A. Lyttelton, W.C. Marshall, Miss L. Dod, H.W.W. Wilberforce, H.F. Lawford, Spencer W. Gore, R.D. Sears and Herbert Chipp. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897. [Racquet Sports] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 488. With numerous black and white illustrations, both plates and in-text, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth with a mixture of gilt, black, and white titles and decoration to spine and..... More
Swimming. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. [Swimming] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 452. With numerous black and white illustrations, both plates and in-text, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth with a mixture of gilt, black, and white titles and decoration to spine and upper. Green..... More
Bracebridge Hall.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1877. [Short Stories and Essays] FIRST CALDECOTT EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xiv; 284 [4]. With 118 illustrations by Randolph Caldecott, mainly in-text, but also including a frontispiece, decorated title page, and several full page plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to..... More
An Owl and Three Pussycats.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Folio (32 x 24cm), pp.[32]. With colour illustrations by Alice and Martin to every page. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards with blue endpapers. Light rubbing to covers, and bumping to corners. Very good. More
Lawrence and the Arabs.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 454. With twenty-eight black and white plates; a mixture of photographs and illustrations. With the advertising sheet tipped-in after p.448. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. A little offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a clean, fresh copy..... More
The Gay Twenties. A Decade of Theatre.
London: Macdonald, 1958. [British Theatre] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.128. With a photographic frontispiece, and 23 double-sided black and white photographic plates, as well as an index. Publisher's red cloth with black and gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Ronald Searle, priced at 30s. Some..... More
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them [and] The Crimes of Grindelwald: The Original Screenplays.
London: Little, Brown, 2016 and 2018. [Film Screenplays] FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[8] 293 [3]; pp.xiv; 287 [3]. With occasional vignette illustrations and decorative borders. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spines and gilt devices to uppers; star patterned endpapers. With the dust-jackets designed by..... More
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance.
London: Chatto & Windus, 2010. [Art and History] SIGNED COPY, the fifth impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[12] 354 [2]. With occasional in-text illustrations. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's grey cloth with red and dark grey titles, and grey endpapers. With the wrap-around band..... More
Helmet and Spear: Tales from the Wars of the Greeks and Romans.
London: Seeley and Co., 1900. [Ancient Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 380 [8]. With eight black and white plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles, and gilt and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Heavy spotting to first and final leaves..... More
The Observer's Book of British Architecture.
London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1951. [Observer Book] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (15 x 10cm), pp.218 [4]. With frequent in-text illustrations, many dichromatic. Publisher's grey cloth with maroon titles to spine and upper. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 5s. Cloth spine slightly toned. Light rubbing to jacket edges, with..... More
Adam Bede. Novels of George Eliot vol. I.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, no date [circa 1900]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 466 [2]. With seven wood engraved illustrations by Small, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. Contemporary light green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to orange label and further gilt..... More
Bruges and West Flanders.
London: A. & C. Black, 1906. [Flemish History and Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.x; 187 [5]. With 37 half-tone colour plates, including a frontispiece, each with a tissue guard. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles and blue and green decoration to spine and upper. Top edge gilt..... 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 fronispiece 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
To Mars Via The Moon. An Astronomical Story.
London: Seeley and Co., 1911. [Science Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.328 [24]. With 16 black and white plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Black ownership to fly-leaf dated 1920. Upper hinge split, with a strip of paper..... More
William S. Burroughs: A Life.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014. [Literary Biography] SIGNED COPY, the second impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 718. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with metallic blue titles to spine, and orange..... More
Unfinished Poems. "Musings" by William Cullen Bryant, and "Godfrey of Boulogne" by Henry D. Thoreau.
Boston, MA: The Bibliophile Society, 1907. [American Poetry] LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.[4] xxviii [4]. With a double-sided facsimile plate of the manuscript of each poem, and an engraving for each, together with the printed texts. One of 470 copies thus, finely printed on Japanese..... More
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes [and] Dixon's Return [and] The Ebony Box [and] Eyes of Terror [and] Gervais of Blois [and] The Iron Maiden [and] The King and I [and] The Land Ironclads [and] Lawyer Quince [and] Liar and an Elephant [and] The Phoenix and the Carpet [and] Point of Law [and] The Country of the Blind [and] Dialstone Lane [and] Echo [and] Golden Bars [and] Sadi the Fiddler [and] Billy the King [and] The Diver's Story [and] The Girl on the Sands [and] An Irish Gentleman [and] The Messenger in Mufti [and] The Mistress of the Chateau [and] The Ring and the Lamp [and] A Splendid Rogue [and] The Temptation of Samuel Burge [and] That Brute Simmons [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 26, 27 and 28, complete.
London: George Newnes, July 1903 to December 1904. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three volumes. Octavo (24 x 27cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 724; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations, including Paget's famous illustrations for the Holmes stories. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and..... More
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Painting as a Pastime [and] A Glass of Whisky [and] Jeeves in the Spring-Time [and] The Nightmare Room [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 62 and 63; numbers 372 and 373.
London: George Newnes, December 1921 to January 1922. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Two octavo magazines (25 x 17cm), pp.[76] 471-590 [77-108]; pp.[40] 92 [41-52]. With frequent in-text illustrations, including colour reproductions of Churchill's Paintings. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice. Moderate wear to covers, with large losses to head and..... More
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The Sanctuary Club [and] Hilda Wade [and] A Master of Craft [and] The Seven Dragons [and] The "Southern Cross" Antarctic Expedition [and] The Croxley Master [and] Whereyouwantogoto: or, The Bouncible Ball [and] Kind Little Edmund; or, The Caves and The Cockatrice [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 18, numbers 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, and 108.
London: George Newnes, July 1899 to December 1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six octavo magazines (28 x 19cm), pp.xl; 120; xli-xlviii; pp.xxxii; 121-240; xxxiii-xl; pp.xxxvi; 241-360; xxxvii-xliv; pp.xl; 361-480; xli-xlviii; pp.xlviii; 481-600; xlix-lvi; pp.lvi; 601-804; lvii-lxviii [8]. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled in dark blue..... More
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The Uncharted Coast [and] The Idol's Eye [and] The Spring Frock [and] "The Uncrowned King of Arabia"—Colonel T.E. Lawrence [and] "Good Hunting, Old Chap!" [and] Dear Old Squiffy [and] A Room at the Hermitage [and] "Mother's Knee" [and] The Coming of Gowf [and] When Greek Meets Greek [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 58, 59, 60, and 61; numbers 348, 349, 353, 357, 359, and 365.
London: George Newnes, December 1919 to May 1921. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six octavo magazines (28 x 19cm), pp.[104] 501-664 [105-124]; pp.[48] 102 [49-66]; pp.[52] 405-504 [53-80]; pp.[48] 185-276 [49-84]; pp.[52] 369-460 [53-84]; pp.[52] 371-464 [53-70]. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled in dark blue and..... More
Gilbert & George: Moscow 1990.
Moscow: Central House of Artists, 1990. [Exhibition Catalogue] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 35cm), pp.121 [3]. A full colour catalogue of all 44 exhibits, printed on clay paper. All text in Russian. INSCRIBED by Gilbert & George in red ink to first blank: 'For Michael and Miriam | love..... More
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The Flying Death [and] The Adventures of Etienne Gerard [and] The Castaway [and] Admiral Peters [and] The Truth About Pyecraft [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 25, numbers 147 and 148.
London: George Newnes, March and April 1903. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Two octavo magazines (27 x 18cm), pp.lxxvi; 241-360; lxxvii-lxxxiv; pp.lxxx; 361-480; lxxxi-lxxviii. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled in dark blue, stapled twice. Presented in black cloth-covered chemise case with gilt titles to spine. First..... More
The Mill On The Floss.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, no date [circa 1890s]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, a stereotyped edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] x; 486. With six of the seven wood engraved plates by Allen, lacking the frontispiece. Contemporary green half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red and brown labels..... More