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Illustrated & Plate Books
Coney Island and Brooklyn, N.Y., Illustrated.
New York, NY: Manhattan Post Card Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Coney Island] EARLY POSTCARD IMAGES. Octavo pamphlet. Dichromatic printing on clay paper, with colour-illustrated card covers, stapled. 16 double-sided black and white photographic plates, totalling 64 individual images. Some small losses to edges of first and last leaves. Rubbing..... More
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Deutsche Gefangene in England [German Prisoners in England].
London: the London General News and Book Agency, no date [circa 1916]. [Wartime Propaganda] FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (28 x 20cm), pp.62. A collection of photogravure images printed on clay paper showing German prisoners of war engaging in wholesome and enjoyable activities, including gardening, tailoring, amateur dramatics, sport, and model..... More
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Greater East Asia War Record. [Official Japanese Second World War Photography].
Tokyo, [circa 1942]. [Japanese War Photography] ORIGINAL COMMEMORATIVE COLLECTION. Small quarto portfolio containing 40 loose black and white photographs backed onto card, with descriptions tipped onto verso. Also with a loose introductory leaf, and publishing information to the inside of the portfolio. Publisher's blue cloth chemise portfolio, with plain card..... More
The History of England Faithfully Extracted from Authentick Records, Approved Manuscripts, an the most Celebrated Histories of this Kingdom, in all Langages, whether Ecclesiastical or Civil. With the Effigies of all the Kings and Queens of England, from the Norman Race, to the present Time; Curiously Engraved on Copper-Plates, from Original Medals and Pictures.
London: Printed for Isaac Cleave, Abel Roper, A. Bosvile, and Richard Basset, 1702. [English History] SECOND EDITION, corrected. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 503 [3]; pp.[4] 286; 307-554 [26]. With principal dates and events printed in the margins for easy reference, an index to volume II, and 29..... More
The Pictorial Museum of Sport and Adventure, being a record of daring and marvellous escapes by field and flood, with an account of various countries of the world and their inhabitants: the whole forming a compendium of the world.
London: James Sangster and Co., no date [circa 1881]. [True adventure and hunting] FINE DECORATIVE CLOTH. No edition stated. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[4]; 508; [2]. With eight colour plates, including a frontispiece and decorated title page, (lacking the plate of the Bear and Prey), as well as numerous..... More
Pictorial Sport and Adventure, being a record of daring and marvellous escapes by field and flood, with an account of various countries of the world and their inhabitants: the whole forming a compendium of the world.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [1898]. [True Adventure and Hunting] EARLY EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.viii; 312. With a colour frontispiece and decorated title page, and numerous engravings through the text. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper board. Cracked-earth..... More
The Light of Asia or The Great Renunciation. Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1908. Deluxe Edition. Octavo, pp.xv; 158. Illustrated with thirty two pictures of Indian scenery from photographs taken by Mabel Eardley-Wilmott. Bound in cream vegetable parchment boards with gilt titles to spine and upper board, and illustrated to the upper and lower boards. Top..... More
The Cruise of the "Clan Matheson" in Northern Waters, June, 1895. By One of the "Clan."
London: Printed for Private Circulation by Cassell and Company, No date [1895]. [European Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 18cm), pp.156. With frequent in-text engravings and photographs, a photographic frontispiece, and one folding coloured plate. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt..... More
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Rupert and the Bottled Moonbeams [and Rupert and the Frosties]. Adventure Series No. 28.
London: Oldbourne Book Co., no date [April 1956]. [Children's Cartoon] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), twelve leaves illustrated in colour throughout, including soft covers with two staples. Light rubbing and thumbing to covers. Very good. More
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Rupert and the Snow Sports [and Rupert and the Vanishing Pet]. Adventure Series No. 23.
London: Beaverbrook Newspapers, no date [February 1955]. [Children's Cartoon] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), twelve leaves illustrated in colour throughout, including soft covers with two staples. Light rubbing and thumbing to covers. Very good. More
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Rupert and the French Poodles [and Rupert and the New Jersey]. Adventure Series No. 25.
London: Beaverbrook Newspapers, no date [June 1955]. [Children's Cartoon] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), twelve leaves illustrated in colour throughout, including soft covers with two staples. A few minor marks and spots internally. Spine and edges rubbed with some thumbing to edges. Very good. More
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Rupert Winter Adventures [Rupert and the Angry Dolls, and Rupert and Will o' the Wisp]. Adventure Series No. 35.
London: The Oldbourne Book Co., no date [circa 1959]. [Children's Cartoon] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), twelve leaves illustrated in colour throughout, including soft covers with two staples. A section of the margin lost from the first second leaf, about 1 x 3cm. Covers lightly rubbed and detached..... More
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Rupert [and the Little Soldiers, and Rupert and the Weeping Willow]. Adventure Book No. 50.
London: Oldbourne Book Co., June 1963. [Children's Cartoon] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), twelve leaves illustrated in colour throughout, including soft covers with two staples. Light rubbing and thumbing to covers. Very good. More
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Rupert [and the Young Knight, and Rupert and the Whirlpool]. Adventure Book No. 49.
London: Oldbourne Book Co., January 1963. [Children's Cartoon] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), twelve leaves illustrated in colour throughout, including soft covers with two staples. Rubbing and thumbing to covers; nearly detached. Good. More
Academic Graffiti.
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. [Illustrated Clerihews] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), unpaginated. 60 poems with an illustration by Sanjust to each facing leaf. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Sanjust, priced at £2.00. Light handling; a fine copy. More
Tickety-Tock and the Robber Fox.
Tunbridge Wells: Courier Co., no date [circa 1932]. [Children's Illustrated] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.45 [3]. Illustrated through with silhouettes by Johnson. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf: 'Aunt Agatha | October 1932 | with special greetings.' Publisher's blue paper over boards, with black..... More
Young Ern.
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1943. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Oblong octavo (15 x 23), unpaginated. A colour illustration by the authors facing every page of text. Publisher's tan quarter cloth, with colour-illustrated paper over boards, and illustrated endpapers. Green ink gift inscription to fly-leaf. Slightly shaken, with some..... More
Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977.
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. [Fashion Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (37 x 28cm), unpaginated, with 162 black and white photographs. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by the photographer in black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy photographic paper-covered boards. With the original clear..... More
Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a later edition. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[12]; 268. With frequent wood engraved vignettes by the Patons. Contemporary green full morocco by R. and A. SUTTABY of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt..... More
The Wind in the Wood.
London: Hollis and Carter, 1952. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[10]; 143; [1]. With twelve chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by the author, and wood engraved vignettes to chapter headings. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 18s. net..... More
September Road to Caithness and the Western Sea.
London: Nicholas Kaye, 1962. [Scottish Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.168. With a colour frontispiece and frequent woodcuts by the author. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and light blue endpapers. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 21s. Decorative bookplate of Ronald Spicer to front pastedown..... More
Head Kid.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2018. [Children's Humour] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[2] 384. SIGNED by the author in black ink to preliminary signature leaf. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Blue patterned endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Lenton, priced at £12.99. A fine..... More
Bailey's Democracy.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2005. [Nude Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (34 x 27cm), unpaginated. Black and white photographs of assorted male and female nudes on clay paper. Publisher's grey cloth with black titles to spine, and blank white glossy paper laid over upper. Light wear and rubbing. Very good... More
History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the Breaking Out of the War in 1792, to the Restoration of a General Peace in 1815; comprehending the Civil History of Great Britain and France, during that Period.
London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. [European History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Quarto (27 x 22 x 9cm), pp.[4]; 539; [1]; pp.[4]; 595; [1]. With a number of maps, some folding, and copper engraved portraits, including a frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary full..... More
Six Months at the Cape. Or Letters to Periwinkle from South Africa.
London: James Nisbet and Co., 1879. [African Colonial Topography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 256. With 12 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'Mrs. Aveling | with kind regards from | The Author.' Publisher's red cloth with gilt..... More