"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
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Just Broken Even.
Cambridge: Bath Books, 2000. [Music] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Three items inside blue cloth bound box (37 x 25cm): a book; envelope filled with festival posters and prospectuses; photo album. SIGNED by the author to the inside of box lid. BOOK: Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.192. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in..... More
The Holy War In Tripoli.
London: Edward Arnold, 1912. [Military History/Travel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Large octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.333 [11]. Illustrated throughout with photographic plates. Publisher's green cloth pictorially blocked in black and gilt, edges untrimmed. With the green printed dust-jacket priced at 15s. Edges slightly dusty, spine of jacket a touch sunned..... More
Grace and Glory. Malta: People, Places & Events.
Valletta: Progress Press Company, 1997. [Historical Vignettes] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.xvi; 238 [2]. With frequent in-text photographic images. INSCRIBED and dated by the author in black ink to title page: 'To His Excellency | Mr Graham Archer, CMG | with the respectful compliments of | the..... More
Wallpaper. Its History, Design, and Use.
London: William Heinemann, 1923. [Interior design] FIRST EDITION, scarce. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xix [1] 268. With 29 halftone plates and a tissue-guarded colour frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth, light blue titles to upper board and spine, small illustration onlaid to upper. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. Internally bright and clean..... More
The Lambs of London.
London: Chatto & Windus, 2011. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED COPY. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 216; [2], blank. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, bottle green endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £15.99. A clean, fine copy..... More
The Life of Thomas More.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1998. [Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp. ix; [2]; 434; [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page. With numerous colour, as well as black and white plates. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket..... More
London Illustrated 1604-1851. A Survey and Index of Topographical Books and Their Plates.
London: The Library Association, 1983. [Topographical Bibliography] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 22cm), pp.[4] xxxiv; 586 [6]. With 12 double-sided black and white illustrated plates, as well as a frontispiece. Number 5 of 1000 copies, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation leaf. In contemporary dark..... More
The Salmon of Doubt. Hitchhiking the Galaxy one last time.
London: Macmillan, 2002. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxxci; 299; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by David Tran, priced at £16.99. A clean, fine copy. A posthumous collection of rarely-seen essays articles and interviews, plus the author's final..... More
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
London: Heinemann, 1987. [Modern literature] FIRST US EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[14] 247 [3]. Publisher's black quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and black paper over boards. With the dust-jacket designed by Paul Bacon, priced at $14.95. A crisp, clean copy with a touch of spotting..... More
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1988. [Modern Literature] FIRST US EDITION, first impression. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp. 319; [1], blank. Publisher's quarter blue cloth, brown card over boards. Lettered in gilt to spine. Pictorial dust-jacket designed by Jackie Seow-Pracher with illustrations by Wilson McLean, with the printed price..... More
Mostly Harmless.
London: Heinemann, 1992. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16] 219 [5]. Publisher's grey cloth with silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. Contents clean, no inscriptions, one short tear to front panel of jacket. A near fine copy. "The fifth book in the..... More
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
New York, NY: Harmony Books, 1981. [Science-Fiction Satire] FIRST US EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6] 250. Publisher's cyan quarter cloth, with pink metallic titles to spine, black paper over boards with a device stamped to upper, and yellow endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Peter Cross, priced..... More
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.
New York, NY: Harmony Books, 1985. [Science-Fiction Satire] FIRST US EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 204. Publisher's black cloth with green metallic titles to spine, a device stamped to upper, and lilac endpapers. With the dust jacket illustrated by Peter Cross, priced at $12.95. Spotting to edges..... More
The Narrative of Robert Adams, A Sailor, who was Wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa, in the year 1810, was Detained Three Years in Slavery by the Arabs of the Great Desert, and Resided several months in the city of Tombuctoo. With a Map, Notes, and an Appendix.
London: Printed for John Murray by William Bulmer and Co., 1816. [African Travel] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 22cm), pp.xl; 231 [1]. With a large folding map. Rebound in the mid twentieth century in tan half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper over..... More
The Temple Church.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843. [Mediaeval Architecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.viii; 127 [5]. With five fine lithographic plates by Brandard, including a frontispiece and decorated title page. Engravings also to chapter headings. Publisher's cloth stamped in blind and in gilt to spine and upper, yellow-coated..... More
Dada and Surealism Reviewed.
London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 20cm), pp.xii; 475 [33]. With black and white illustrations throughout, and a suite of colour images at rear. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the grey dust-jacket. Quite heavy rubbing to jacket edges and joints, otherwise..... More
Owen Seaman: His Life and Work. Makers of the Nineties, Edited by G. Krishnamurti.
London: The Eighteen Nineties Society, 1977. [Literary Biography] LIMITED EDITION with AUTOGRAPH SIGNED LETTER. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.viii; 139 [1]. With three double-sided black and white photographic plates, as well as a frontispiece portrait of the subject. An out-of-series copy concurrent with an edition of 750 numbered copies. Also..... More
Aeschyli Persae ad Fidem Manuscriptorum Emendavit Notas et Glossarium Adjecit Carolus Jacobus Blomfield.
Cantabrigiae [Cambridge]: Typis Academicis, Excudit Joannes Smith, 1818. [Ancient Greek Drama] SECOND EDITION THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] xxxii; 228. Interspersed with a blank leaf for every leaf of text, intended for notes. The editor's preface in Latin, followed by the main text in Greek, with extensive footnotes in..... 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
At Half-Past Eight: Essays of the Theatre 1921-1922.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1923. [Literary Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.238 [2]. Publisher's navy quarter cloth, with a printed paper title label to spine, and checkered paper over boards. Top edge green; others untrimmed. Tobacco-scented, with some offsetting to endpapers. Moderate wear to boards, and some toning to..... More
Previously.
London: Walker Books, 2007. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Small quarto (25 x 28cm), pp.[32]. With colour illustrations by Ingman to every page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and green illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99 (no jacket as issued). A fine, as-new copy. A fresh look at some classic fairy..... More
Past Eight O'Clock: Goodnight Stories.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.128. With frequent in-text silhouette illustrations by Pienkowski, some in colour, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, gilt decoration to upper, and illustrated endpapers. With the brown illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £7.95. A...... More
The Poems of Mark Akenside.
London: Printed by W. Bower and J. Nichols: And Sold by J. Dodsley, 1772. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 402 [2]. Contemporary speckled full calf, black gilt-lettered label and raised bands to spine. All edges speckled red. Internally bright and clean but for a few..... More
Selected Poems.
London: The Folio Society, 2016. [Russian Poetry in translation] FIRST THUS. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxii; 161 [1]. With six black and white photographic plates, and an illustrated title page by Modigliani. Publisher's black cloth with blue and white titles and decoration to spine, and a photographic image of the..... More
Malcolm.
London: Jonathan Cape with Secker and Warburg, 1967. [Drama] UK FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. [12]; 138; [2]. Publisher's neon yellow cloth lettered in silver to spine, tinted black top-edge of textblock, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 21s to front flap. Some bumping to spine, wear to..... More