Illustrated & Plate Books
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
Rolling with the Stones.
London: Dorling Kindersley, 2002. [Rock and Roll] SIGNED LIMITED DELUXE EDITION. Quarto (32 x 27cm), pp.512. One of 1400 copies SIGNED by Wyman. Publisher's red snakeskin-effect spine titled in black, with the colour-illustrated cloth-covered slipcase. A fine, as-new copy, still in the original shrink-wrap, priced at £100. An impressive volume..... 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
Christina Rossetti Poems.
London: Blackie and Sons Ltd., 1910. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST HARRISON ILLUSTRATED EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.xxii; 369. Illustrated with 36 tipped-in colour plates, each with captioned tissue guards. No.149 of 350 copies signed by the illustrator. Publisher's full parchment, pictorially blocked in gilt to spine and..... More
Goblin Market. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: George Harrap & Co., 1933. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST TRADE EDITION, printed by R. Clark of Edinburgh in 1933, not to be confused with the 1939 reissue, printed by Jarrold. A vellum-bound limited edition was released simultaneously with this edition. Slim octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.45; [3], blank. With 4..... More
Goblin Market. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: George Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1939. [Illustrated Poetry] REISSUE. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.37 [3]. With a colour frontispiece and 19 black and white drawings by Rackham. Pictorial cream paper wrappers printed in yellow, brown and black depicting goblins and fruits, with yapp edges, and pictorial end-papers. Light wear..... More
James Dean: photographed by his friend Sanford Roth.
Corte Madera, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1983. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Folio (41 x 27cm), pp.116. Black and white photographs, with several central leaves of commentary by Beulah. Publisher's plain glossy white soft covers with black titles to spine, silver titles to upper, and a price of $24.00 Rubbing, marks and some..... More
India and Its Native Princes. Travels in Central India and in the Presidencies of Bombay and Bengal. Carefully Revised and Edited by Lieut.-Col. Buckle.
London: Bickers and Son, 1878. [Indian Colonial Travel] NEW EDITION. Quarto (35 x 28cm), pp.[2] xviii; 579 [1]. With 317 engraved illustrations after photographs by Rousselet, including a frontispiece, and six maps. Recently re-backed using the original publisher's red cloth, heavily decorated and titled in gilt and black to spine..... More
Villes Anseatiques [Hanseatic Towns]: L'Univers, ou Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples, de Leurs Religions, Moeurs, Costumes, etc.
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1844. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.398. With 22 engraved plates to rear. Text in French. In contemporary quarter tan calf with gilt titles to black labels on spine. Marbled boards and end-papers. Black ink ownership inscription to title page. Gilt nearly all worn from labels. Spine head..... 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
A Short Account of the History and Antiquities of Evesham.
Evesham: Printed and sold by J. Agg, 1820. [English Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.vi; 145 [1]. With a folding plan of the town, and four aquatint plates. Contemporary tan half calf, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. All edges speckled red. One central..... More
Runyon a la Carte.
London: Constable, 1946. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.208. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with silver titles to spine, in a brown paper dustjacket with stylised title. Fairly clean throughout, generally a little aged with light spotting in places. Cloth is near-fine. Dustjacket also near-fine, with one closed chip to rear..... More
Saint Joan Of Arc.
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1936. [Biography] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xv; 436 [4]. With nine illustrations including frontispiece and four maps, one folding. Recently re-bound in burgundy half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. A little light spotting to preliminaries and..... More
Forlorn Sunset.
London: Constable, 1947. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 501; [3]. With four plates, numerous in-text illustrations, and a coloured frontispiece drawn by John Piper. Publisher's purple cloth. Gilt 'M.S.' blocked to upper, gilt labels with black titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket also..... More
The Westminster Alice. Westminster Popular No. 18.
London: Reprinted from the Westminster Gazette, 1902. [Political Satire] FIRST ISSUE, EX LIBRIS HEW LORIMER. Octavo pamphlet (21 x 17cm), pp.44 [4]. With frequent in-text illustrations by Gould. Publisher's illustrated paper covers, stapled twice. Lightly toned throughout, and a little thumbed to edges. Spine quite heavily toned and rubbed, with..... More
The Royal Engineers in Egypt and the Sudan.
Chatham: The Institution of Royal Engineers, 1937. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xxxii; 571 [1]. With 52 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and 35 maps, including two large folding maps at rear. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt regimental badge..... More
Japan To-Day.
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1905. [Japanese History and Ethnology] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.323 [5]. With a colour frontispiece and 27 black and white photographic plates. Publisher's red pictorial cloth, with gilt titles to spine and white titles to upper. Top edge gilt. Illustrated bookplate to front..... 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
A Canvas to Cover.
London: Collins, 1947. [Art] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.[2] 134 [2]. With four colour and sixty-four monotone reproductions of Seago's oil paintings. Publisher's oatmeal cloth, brown titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. Interior bright and clean, minimal marking/spotting throughout. Price clipped to front flap. Cloth extremities..... More
Peace in War.
London: Collins, 1943. [Art / English Topography] FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.80. With 25 photogravure illustrations of paintings depicting the English countryside by Seago, and a frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of 12s. 6d. net..... More
Paris Sketchbook.
London: The Saturn Press, 1950. [France] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.80. With line drawings by Searle to every page. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the grey illustrated dust-jacket, titled in red and priced at 15s. Cloth a little toned to spine. Jacket toned..... More
Slightly Foxed—but still desirable: Ronald Searle's wicked world of Book Collecting.
London: Souvenir Press, 1989. [Book Collecting Humour] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 23cm), pp.124 [4]. A colour illustration by Searle to every leaf, with a facing caption. Publisher's orange cloth, with gilt titles to spine and yellow endpapers. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Price-clipped jacket lightly handled with some rubbing to..... More
A Six Foot Three Nightingale. Norman Gale 1862-1942. A Biographical Essay and Check-List.
Privately Printed for the Eighteen Nineties Society, 1998. [Bibliography] ONE OF 75 COPIES. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 41; [5]. Publisher's green paper wraps, black titles on white label to upper. Copy number thirty-eight of seventy five. Occasional series number seven. Four illustrated plates. Internally clean and bright, minor creasing..... More
Outside Over There.
London: The Bodley Head, 1981. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST UK EDITION. Oblong octavo (24 x 26cm), pp.[20]. Every page illustrated with designs by Sendak and Atha Tehon. Calligraphy provided by Jeanyee Wong. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Light rubbing and creasing to..... More