The Arts & Sciences
The Philosophy of Whist: An Essay on the Scientific and Intellectual Aspects of the Modern Game, in two parts: part I, the Philosophy of Whist Play: part II, the Philosophy of Whist Probabilities.
London: Thomas de la Rue and Co., 1884. [Card Games] SECOND EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.xvi; 218 [10]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt; brown patterned endpapers. Small black ink inscription to verso of flyleaf. Browned throughout. Upper hinge..... More
The Special Kinesiology Of Educational Gymnastics.
London: Arthur F. Bird, 1914. Large Octavo. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to front board and spine. Illustrated with photographic portrait frontispiece, and 267 diagrams. Summary sheet in pocket at rear. Binding is a little rubbed to joints and corners, bumped at spine ends. Internally clean and..... More
Observations upon the Topography and Climate of Crowborough Hill, Sussex.
Lewes: Farncombe & Co., 1898. [Sussex Topography] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] 312. With three plates depicting snow flakes, a photographic plate of hailstones, two other in-text illustrations, and a frontispiece engraving of the author's house. Contemporary half vellum by BARBER of Lewes, with gilt titles to red..... More
The Fundamental Pictures.
London: Alexander Roussos, 1997. SIGNED COPY. Oblong, pp.[48]. SIGNED by the artists in black ink to title page. Colour reproductions of art works. In publisher's card covers. A fine copy. Artwork encompassed by the title of the first piece, 'Spunk Blood Piss Shit Spit'. More
Fashion Stories.
London: Printed by Butler & Tanner for the author, 2004. [Fashion Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (37 x 30cm), pp.112. A mixture of colour and black and white photographic images printed on glossy clay paper. Publisher's glossy black and white photographic paper-covered boards, with black endpapers. With the black dust-jacket, including..... More
Regency Antiques.
London, Batsford 1953. 4to. With photographic illustrations and colour frontispiece. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dustjacket. Slightly frayed to spine ends, price-clipped. A very good copy indeed. FIRST EDITION. More
Aubrey Beardsley: Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1966. Catalogue of the original drawings, letters, manuscripts, paintings; and of books, posters, photographs, documents etc.
Christchurch: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Direct Design, 1966. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Tall octavo (23 x 12cm), unpaginated, containing 611 catalogue entries, and notes on the exhibition and use of the catalogue. Not illustrated. Publisher's green soft covers, with titles to upper. Light handling, and one scratch..... More
A New Dictionary of the English Language.
London: William Pickering, 1839. [English Dictionary] EARLY PRINTING. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (29 x 24cm), pp.[8] [72] 1184 [4]; pp.[8] 1185-2223 [5]. Contemporary lightly-diced brown calf boards with gilt rule, recently re-backed to-style in tan calf with raised bands and gilt titles. All edges speckled red; textured orange-patterned endpapers..... More
Herb Ritts Calendar 1994.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. INSCRIBED TO MEMBER OF LED ZEPPELIN. Small Quarto, unpaginated. With 28 black and white photographic images, subjects including Dizzy Gillespie, Madonna, Mel Gibson and David Bowie. Warmly INSCRIBED TO JOHN PAUL JONES by the artist in gold ink/paint to front free endpaper: 'To..... More
Reports on Visits to American Automobile Body Plants during the Period of 16th April - 17th May 1946.
[Issued by the Press Steel Co., Ltd., Engineering Dept.], June 1946. Folio. This report is a British post war working draft, possibly for eventual printing, concentrating on all technical aspects of the car designs and construction in the USA with a view to develop and modernise the British car industry..... More
Time Was Away. A notebook in Corsica.
London: John Lehmann Ltd, 1948. [Travel book] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.189; [3]. Publisher's yellow cloth with green titles to spine, with usual state of dust-jacket designed by John Minton, printed price 21s to flap. Internally a clean and crisp copy. Slight bumping to upper, central and lower..... More
Danny Rouzer's Glamour Photography. Trend Book 134
Hollywood, CA: Trend Books, 1956. [Figure Photography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo magazine (24 x 17cm), pp.128. With black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice. Lightly browned throughout. Some light rubbing to covers. One tear to p.81/82. Very good. Essentially a guide for nude photography by the..... More
Peter Blake.
London: Tate Publishing, 2003. [Art Reference] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.128. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. From the library of the writer, media and film executive Edward Milward-Oliver. More
American Domestic Cookery, formed on Principles of Economy, for the use of Private Families. By an Experienced Housekeeper. To which is added the Complete Family Brewer.
New York, NY: Evert Duyckinck, 1823. [Cookery] EARLY EDITION. Sexto (15 x 9cm), pp.357; [7]. With nine engraved plates including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary straight grained brown calf with gilt decoration to spine and gilt titles to recently applied black labels. Marbled endpapers. Black ink ownership to..... More
A New System of Domestic Cookery; Formed Upon Principles of Economy, and adapted to the Use of Private Families. With the Addition of Many New Receipts, and Embellished with Engravings.
Halifax: Milner and Sowerby, 1858. NEW EDITION, third issue. Vigesimo-Quarto (very small). pp. lii, 376. With 9 engraved plates depicting the various edible animals and their joints. All edges untrimmed. In repaired contemporary maroon cloth with gilt and blind stamping. Re-backed using original cloth over spine and boards. Browning and..... More
Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin, Second Series 186-1888.
London: George Allen, 1901. [Art and Philosophy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the sixth edition thus. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xii; 488 [2]. With a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary tree calf for Hampden Gurney School by BICKERS & SON of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration..... More
New Hopes For A Changing World.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1951. [Political and Philosophical Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.218 [6]. Publisher's yellow cloth with blue titles to spine. With the blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 9/6. A lovely crisp, clean copy showing just a touch of wear to extremities. Near fine. A...... More
On Education. especially in Early Childhood.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1926. [Educational Theory] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254 [2]. With an article by Russell criticising Communism cut from the News Chronicle and Daily Dispatch, March 1956, folded and loose to preliminaries. Publisher's blue cloth with red titles to spine and upper. A lovely..... More
The Nature and Evolution of the Political Relations between the Indian States and the British Imperial Government.
Joyce and Sone, Newport 1932. Historical essay on Britain's relationship with India. Publisher's softcovers, pp. 202, with loose errata slip present. A fine copy. This thesis was presented to the University of Geneva, and covers the rise of British Power in India up to the Post-Mutiny and Post-War era. The..... More
Select Parts of Saunderson's Elements of Algebra. For the Use of Students at the Universities.
London: Printed for C. Dilly [etc.], 1792. [Mathematics] REVISED FIFTH EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.iv; 417 [3]. With two folding plates. Contemporary speckled calf, with gilt titles to a red label, and further gilt tooling to spine. All edges speckled red. Black ink gift inscription to fly-leaf dated 1804..... More
The Collected Papers.
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1931. [Chemistry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.368. Publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt to spine. With the buff paper dust-jacket, priced at 10s to spine. Internally bright and clean, showing just a touch of spotting and toning to edges and jacket spine. An..... More
Brian Eno: Visual Music.
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2013. [Music and Art] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.416. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated cloth, with white titles to spine and upper, and bright pink endpapers, priced at $50 / £35. With the magnetic strip affixed to copyright page. A fine, as-new..... More
The Conquest of The Arctic.
London: Harrap, 1939. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 284. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth titled in pale silver to spine, in a pictorial dustjacket depicting modes of transport heading towards the North Pole. Cloth in excellent condition with limited signs of wear. Endcaps a little pushed, with superficial rubbing..... More
My Sporting Holidays.
London: Edward Arnold, 1904. [Hunting and Fishing] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 367 [17]. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. A large black ink ownership dated Xmas 1904 to..... More
Memorandum on Atmospheric Visibility.
London: Published for the Naval Meterological Service, Hydrographic Department, February 1918. ORIGINAL PAPER. Small quarto, pp.[2], 16. With tables and diagrams. In original oatmeal cloth with black titles to upper board. Some light outer wear and bleeding from rusting staples. Very good. In this short paper Shaw makes some contributions..... More