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Only Fools and Stories.
London: Century, 2017. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.326. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, in photographic dust-jacket by Colin Bell. Signed by the author to the title page. Minor bump to foot of spine. Signed sticker to the dust-wrapper. Fine. Sir David Jason follows-up..... More
The Truth About the Cuckoo.
London: County Life Ltd., 1940. [Ornithology] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 207; [1]. Publisher's mid brown cloth, titles in darker brown to spine and upper. With a frontispiece line drawing, thirty-seven black and white photographs on plates and two folding maps. Signed by the author to the..... More
The Nature of Beauty in Art and Literature. The Hogarth Essays, Second Series, vol. VI.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1927. [Aesthetics] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.88 [4]. Publisher's green paper-covered boards with black titles and decoration designed by Vanessa Bell. Some browning to endpapers. Spine heavily browned with some rubbing; head pulled with some loss. Board margins lightly browned. Good... More
Fashion is Our Business.
London: John Gifford, 1948. [Fashion] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 199 [1]. With a double-sided black and white photographic plate for each of the 12 chapters. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 7/6, and repriced to 1/6 with a...... 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
Light Matters: Writings on Photography.
New York, NY: Aperture Foundation, 2005. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.248. Publilsher's brown paper-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Francesca Richer, priced at $29.95 / £16.95. A fine, as-new copy. From the library of the writer, media and film executive Edward..... More
Bells and Bellringers.
London: H.J. Infield, 1879. [Campanology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 119 [1]. Publisher's brown blind-decorated cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. All edges red; blue-patterned endpapers. With the bookplate of the Central Northamptonshire Association of Church Bell Ringers, dated 1899, to first blank. Slightly shaken. Rubbing..... More
My Family and Other Animals.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis and the Book Society Ltd., 1956. [Corfu Trilogy] FIRST BOOK SOCIETY EDITION, contemporaneous with the first edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.256. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Ralph Thompson, priced at 16s. Top edge light blue. Heavy..... 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
Snowdon on Stage. With a Personal View of the British Theatre 1954-1996.
London: Pavilion, 1996. [Performing Arts] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.157; [3]. Publisher's white paper covered boards, titles in black to spine, blind stamped to upper. Dust-jacket, with printed price of £35.00. Inscribed by the two contributors to the half title: "To Edward | with very best |..... More
Magne F, Payne's Gray.
Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004. [Art / Pop Music] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Square quarto (31 x 31cm), unpaginated. Publisher's printed cloth covered boards, black endpapers. Illustrated throughout. Signed and inscribed by the author to the first blank: "To Jane | M F | 13.04.12". Uncommon in any state, particularly so..... More
Cafe Lehmitz.
AB Tiprod, ETC, 1982. [Photography / Counter Culture] FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION. Text in Swedish. Oblong octavo (27 x 24cm). With 88 black and whiite photographs. White cloth hardcovers blocked in black, photographic dust-jacket. Book is fine, jacket near fine with a couple of small marks and tears. An attractive copy..... More
November Girl.
New York, NY: Madison Square Press, 1967. [Cult photography book] FIRST EDITION. Folio (35 x 28cm), unpaginated. Publisher's cream coloured cloth in original dust-wrapper priced at $9.95. Photographed throughout in black and white. Some moderate handling, jacket frayed at crown, few small scratches to rear. Very good. 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
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
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
The Principle of Population. Or; A view of its past and present effect on Human Happiness...
London: J. Johnson, 1807. [Economics] The Fourth Edition. Two volumes. 8vo. 580pp, 484pp + 58pp Index. Bound in twentieth century full speckled calf, with red and black title labels, gilt centre tool to compartments. Speckled edges. Top edge stained black. Internally clean and bright with occasional very light spotting. "Malthus..... More
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