Illustrated & Plate Books
In Powder and Crinoline.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1913]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.164. With 24 mounted colour plates, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Re-bound later in the twentieth century in tan quarter cloth with grey paper over boards and green titles to plain..... More
Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel.
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892. [Satirical Novels] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (29 x 20cm), pp.[4] xlvi [2]; 341 [7]; pp.[4] xiv; 455 [5]. With 15 photogravure illustrated plates, including a frontispiece to volume I, with tissue guards. Number 247 of 1000 copies thus. Contemporary green..... More
Gargantua and Pantagruel.
London: The Folio Society, 2019. [Satirical Novels] LIMITED EDITION, FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Folio (38 x 28cm), pp.xxviii; 454 [6]; pp.xii; 455-949 [5]. A modern translation with Dore's original in-text wood engravings. Number 169 of 500 copies thus, typeset in Bulmer and printed on Abbey Pure Paper at..... More
The Last Fight of the Revenge. With an Introduction by Henry Newbolt.
London: Gibbings and Company, 1908. [Maritime history] Quarto (26 x 17cm), pp.132. Contemporary binding by Onrock and Son in full red crushed morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine; period three-masted tall ship made from brown and white leather onlays to centre of upper with elaborate gilt-stamped..... More
The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus.
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1991. [Rolling Stones] FIRST US EDITION. Folio (33 x 24cm), unpaginated. Illustrated with full-page black and white photographs throughout. Publisher's illustrated soft covers priced at $19.95. Two price stickers to fly-leaf. Spine toned, and a red remainder mark to lower edge. A little general wear..... More
Alex Box.
London: Rankin Photography, 2009. [Photography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Folio (37 x 30cm), unpaginated. Finely printed colour images of Rankin's collaboration with make-up artist Alex Box. INSCRIBED in blue ink to flyleaf: 'Enjoy the | book! | with love | Alex | Box x.' Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards with gilt titles..... 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
The Big Six.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1940. [Children's adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.399 [1]. With 23 full-page illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, as well as occasional in-text illustrations. Colour-illustrated map of the Norfolk Broads to endpapers. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. Light wear..... More
Great Northern?
London: Jonathan Cape, 1947. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.352. With in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. Coloured maps to endpapers. Gently toned throughout, with spotting to edges. Light rubbing and bumping to cloth. Very good..... More
Missee Lee. (Based on information supplied by the Swallows and Amazons).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1941. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.336. With 26 illustrations, including a frontispiece, by Ransome, as well as colour-illustrated maps to endpapers. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. Toning to edges and some light wear to cloth. Very..... More
Picts and Martyrs: or, Not Welcome at All.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.303 [1]. With in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. With coloured maps to endpapers. Gently toned throughout with some very light spotting to edges. Light wear to..... More
Swallows and Amazons.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Children's Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, the 34th impression thus. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.351. With 24 wood engraving by the author, including a frontispiece, and two maps illustrated by Steven Spurrier. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and blind to upper. With the green illustrated..... More
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1895. [Satirical Adventure] FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lii; 299 [1]. With frequent wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Strang and Clark. Publisher's cream cloth with black titles and decoration to spine and both boards. Black decoration also to edges. A Glasgow bookseller's label to..... More
The Yearling. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. FINE CONDITION, a later edition. Quarto, pp.[x]; 400; [4], blank. Publisher's illustrated cloth with top-edge red, pictorial endpapers, in original card box with colour plate illustration laid down to lid. Book is fine, box is edgeworn with a few neat repairs. A nicely presented..... More
The Emperor's Nightingale and Other Feathery Tales.
London: Boxer Books, 2013. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.173. With colour scraperboard illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's purple glossy illustrated paper covered boards, with red illustrated endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. An anthology of classic..... More
Ahmed and the Feather Girl.
London: Francis Lincoln Children's Books, 2010. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 25cm), pp.[26]. With bright colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper over boards, and magenta endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, priced..... More
The Nutcracker.
London: Orchard Books, 2015. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 25cm), pp.[32]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Illustrated in colour throughout by the author. Blue illustrated endpapers. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards, priced at £11.99. A fine copy. More
Transformer.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2003. [Rock and Pop] SIGNED DELUXE EDITION. Folio. Number 256 of 350 deluxe copies SIGNED by Lou Reed and Mick Rock on the title page. The total edition was 2,000, but Reed died before he could sign the 1,650 non-deluxe copies, which consequently only bear his facsimile..... More
All About Bond.
London: Evans Mitchell Books, 2012. [James Bond Film Reference] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 25cm), pp.185 [7]. Profusely illustrated with colour and black and white photographs by Terry O'Neill. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, gold endpapers, photographic dust-jacket, priced at £29.95. A fine, as-new copy. More
All About Bond.
London: Evans Mitchell Books, 2012. [James Bond Film Reference] SIGNED COLLECTORS EDITION. Quarto (30 x 25cm), pp.185 [7]. SIGNED by O'NEILL in black ink to title page. Profusely illustrated with colour and black and white photographs by Terry O'Neill. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, gold endpapers, and photographic..... More
The History of Wargrave, Berks. Compiled Entirely from Original Documents in the British Museum, Record Office, &c. in which is included the Legend of Queen Emma, and an Account of the Ancient Monuments in the Parish Church; its Records and Charities.
Reading: E. Langley, Lovejoy's Library, W. Smith. 1885. Subscribers' Edition. Octavo. pp. ix, 137 [vi]. With three plates, including frontispiece. Including errata and appendix. In embossed deep mauve cloth with gilt titles to upper board only. Yellow end papers. Corners slightly bumped, with further bumping and wear to edges. Some..... More
A Collection of Swiss Costumes, in Miniature, Designed by Reinhardt [Collection de Costumes Suisses]. Each Plate Represents a View Taken on the Spot; to which is Added a Description in French and English.
London: Printed by G. Schulze for W.T. Gilling, 1822. [Swiss Costume] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 20cm), unpaginated, with 30 fine hand-coloured plates, including a frontispiece, after paintings by Reinhard. Each plate has a blank leaf facing it as a guard, and a leaf of accompanying text in French and..... More
A History of Vagrants and Vagrancy, And Beggars and Begging.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. First Edition. Large Octavo, pp. xxi, 720. With 19 b/w illustrations, and a table showing the number of vagrants apprehended, convicted and discharged from 1831-85. Including and index of statutes, and index of beggars and a general index. In publisher's deep mauve boards with gilt..... More
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1902]. [Illustrated American Literature] DELUXE ILLUSTRATED EDITION, with ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR. Small quarto (22 x 17cm), pp.[2] 208. With 35 illustrated plates by Copping, including a frontispiece, vignette title page, and a total of 24 in colour. An ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR illustration signed by Copping..... More
Between the Church and the Lighthouse. The History of Burnham and Berrow Golf Club.
Droitwich: Grant Books, 2002. SIGNED SUBSCRIBERS EDITION. Pott Quarto. pp. x, 182. With frequent b/w photographic illustrations. SIGNED by the author and Sir Michael Bonallack to title page. One of just 50 copies. In half green morocco with two raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Gilt titles also to..... More