Illustrated & Plate Books
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 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
Harlemville.
Göttingen: Steidl Mack, 2003. [Photography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Oblong quarto (24 x 29cm), 40 unpaginated leaves with colour photographs printed to recto only. INSCRIBED by the photographer in black ink to flyleaf: 'For Edward, | All the Best | Clare Richardson | 27/07/04.' Publisher's oatmeal cloth with black titles to..... 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
The Devil is Jones [and] The Startled Face of Death [in] Street & Smith's Detective Monthly. Vol. 1, Issue 11.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., October 1955. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 1s. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories is made only more appealing by its..... More
The Prince's Album of Tunbridge Wells.
London: Rock Brothers and Payne, no date [circa 1880]. ORIGINAL SOUVENIR ALBUM. Small oblong booklet (8 x 12cm) with four engraved images of Tunbridge Wells in a folding concertina. Likely incomplete - other similar albums generally consist of 12 images. Also with five loose contemporary black and white photographic cards..... More
People of the Veil: Being an Account of the Habits, Organisation and History of the Wandering Tuareg Tribes which inhabit the Mountains of Air or Asben in the Central Sahara.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1926. [North African Ethnology] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.xvi; 504. With 51 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and 11 maps and plans, several folding. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to the half title: 'John Loder | 1905-1926 |..... More
The Pleasures of Memory, with Other Poems.
London: For T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1801. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND NEW EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[8] 187 [1]. With numerous copperplate vignettes throughout, designed by Thomas Stothard. Contemporary brown full tree-calf, boards gilt-ruled. Brown label with blind titles and gilt-tooling to spine. Dentelles in blind to turn-ins..... More
T.O.T.A. '75: The Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas, 1975.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2006. [Rock & Roll] SIGNED LIMITED 'STARSHIP' EDITION. Folio (total dimensions 52 x 34 x 11cm), pp.416. Containing 620 images. Number 46 of 350 copies thus, from a total limitation of 2500, SIGNED by Sykes and Rudge to limitation page. Full black leather with embroidered eagle patch..... More
The Rolling Stones in Concert. [Exile on Main Street 'American Tour' Programme].
Sundays Promotions Inc., 1972. [Rock and Roll Tour Programme] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Oblong octavo (23 x 31cm), with eight leaves of black and white photographs of the band on Tour, in publisher's black and white card covers, stapled twice. Very light rubbing to edges, with some creasing to spine. An..... More
The Stones '65-67 [and] The Stones '82.
London: Vision On Publishing, 2002. [Rock Music Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, LIMITED GALLERY EDITION (a trade hardback was also issued). Quarto (31 x 26cm), two volumes in publisher's red paper-covered clamshell box, titled in white. Large hardback (30 x 25cm). Limited to 1000 copies, this being no.676, SIGNED by the..... More