Illustrated & Plate Books
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1905. [Illustrated Children's Poetry] FIRST UK WILLCOX SMITH EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.xii; 125 [1]. With 12 colour plates, as well as numerous in-text line drawings by Willcox Smith, as well as a colour-illustrated vignette title page. Publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt..... More
Treasure Island.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. [Children's Illustrated] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST WYETH ILLUSTRATED EDITION, First Issue, with '23' for '123' to p.x. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[2] xiv; 273 [3]. With 14 colour plates, each with a captioned tissue guard, as well as an illustrated title page. Recently re-bound..... More
Island Nights' Entertainments. Consisting of The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices.
London: Cassell & Company, 1893. [South-Sea Novellas] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with hand-corrected price on page facing half-title. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 277 [19]. Advertisements dated 3.93. With 28 illustrated plates, including a colour map and a frontispiece. Publisher's light blue grained cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to..... More
Island Nights' Entertainments. Consisting of The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices.
London: Cassell & Company, 1893. [South-Sea Novellas] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with hand-corrected price on page facing half-title. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 277 [19]. Advertisements dated 3.93. With 28 illustrated plates, including a colour map and a frontispiece. Publisher's light blue grained cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to..... More
Treasure Island.
London: Ernest Benn, 1927. [Illustrated classic] FIRST DULAC EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.xiv; 15-256. Contains 12 full page colour illustrations by Dulac, including frontispiece. Publisher's brown buckram binding with leather title label to spine lettered in gilt, boards trimmed in gilt. Contents clean, neat gift inscription to f.e.p., label..... More
By the Old Walls of Kyoto. A Year's Cycle of Landscape Poems with Prose Commentaries.
New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1981. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxv; [1]; 463; [3]. With 24 colour reproductions of nihonga by various artists. Pictorial endpapers inspired by a wall at Daitoku-ji. Publisher's red cloth, with design in black to upper and black titles to spine. With the..... More
Ludo and the Star Horse.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1974. [Children's Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.128. With occasional in-text illustrations by D'Achille. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and orange endpapers. Top edge brown. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by D'Achille. Slight surface scuffing to title page. Some bumping..... More
Emmett's Pig. Pictures by Garth Williams.
London: The World's Work, 1963. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.61; [3]. Publisher's quarter green cloth, colour illustrated paper over boards, titles in green and black to upper. Title page in green and black, colour illustrations throughout. Internally clean and crisp. Light wearing to board edges with..... More
British Rural Sports: Comprising Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Fishing, Hawking, Racing, Boating, Pedestrianism, with all Rural Games and Amusements.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1875]. [Blood and Outdoor Sports] FINELY BOUND, the 11th edition. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.xx; 872 [2]. Very small print over two columns. With numerous engraved plates by various artists. Contemporary red half calf, with gilt titles to a black label, further..... More
The Roy Strong Diaries. 1967-1987.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1997. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16]; 461; [4]. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine, with photographic dust-jacket by John Swannell, with printed price £20.00 to flap. Illustrated map endpapers, with photographic plates throughout the text. Signed by author in black..... More
Hawbuck Grange: or, the Sporting Adventures of Thomas Scott, Esq.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. [Sporting Satire] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 329 [3]. With eight engraved plates by "Phiz," including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, and a gilt illustration stamped to upper, with blind decoration all over. All edges untrimmed;..... More
Laus Veneris.
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. [Poetry] LIMITED EDITION, number 122 out of 750 produced. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[4]; 27; [10]. Publisher's maroon cloth quarter bound with marbled boards, with original glassine jacket. In-text and full page engravings throughout. Some toning to spine, some tearing to glassim jacket. Fine..... More
Hockney: The Biography. Volume I, 1937-1975: A Rake's Progress.
London: Century, 2011. [Art] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 18cm), pp.xx; 363 [1]. With numerous in-text illustrations and colour plates; illustrated endpapers. With an associated Royal Academy bookmark. Publisher's white cloth with black titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £25.00. A fine, as-new copy. From the..... More
Naval Costume: From Sketches Made on a Bed of Pain in 1837, Unfaithfully Lithographed.
London: Privately Published, n.d. [1840]. SIGNED COPY. Quarto. Forty engraved plates of ships, both military and merchant. With four page fold-out of a classification of Topmasts, Yards, Sails etc. Two engravings per plate. Inscribed in black ink by the artist on front paste-down to the Bishop of Norwich, dated 1843..... More
The Giant at the Ford, and Other Legends of the Saints.
London: The Bodley Head, 1980. [Children's Hagiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.183 [1]. With occasional line drawings by Felts. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket, also illustrated by Felts, priced at £4.50. Lightly handled, with slight sunning to jacket spine. Near fine. Fifteen..... More
The Sub: The Autobiography of David Munro, Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917. FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo. pp. 356 [2]. With 5 b/w illustrated plates including frontispiece. In publisher's cyan cloth with darker blue titles to spine and upper board. Lacking jacket. Slight browning to poor quality paper, and slight sunning to spine; near-fine overall. An account of..... More
The Singing Bones.
London: Walker Studio an imprint of Walker Books Ltd., 2016. [Children's Illustrated] LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 21cm), pp.208. Limited edition presented in a toggle fastened clamshell box accompanied with two signed and numbered prints. Housed in the original printed cardboard mailing box. Still in the publisher's shrink-wrap. Fine/as new..... More
The Light Side of Egypt.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. [Illustrated Satire] FIRST EDITION with fine colour plates. Oblong quarto (23 x 30cm), unpaginated. 36 chromolithographic plates, each with a facing leaf of explanation. Publisher's cream buckram, with titles and decoration blocked to upper in black, white, red, blue and gilt. Heavy spotting to..... More
The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family.
London: The Gresham Publishing Co., n.d. [c.1900]. [Classic Literature]. FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxiv; 584. With six wood engraved plates by Rainey, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, along with distinctive white and green decoration. Grey endpapers. Black ink ownership..... More
The Works of W. Thackeray. Including: Vanity Fair, Pendennis, Barry Lyndon, etc.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1869, 1886. 24 volumes. Octavo. Contemporary dark green half morocco by Riviere, with gilt titles and elaborate gilt decoration to spines in 3 compartments; light green cloth boards with gilt rule; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers. With illustrations by the author. Spines evenly faded to..... More
Concert For George.
Guildford: Genesis Publications Ltd., 2004. [Rock photo-documentary] COLLECTOR EDITION, signed by Olivia Harrison. Folio (36 x 27cm), pp.306. Number 1898 of 2500 copies. Publisher's decorative padded cloth binding, housed in a silk-screen printed clamshell box. Inside a pocket in the box are four laminated back-stage passes and an original concert..... More
Concert For George.
Guildford: Genesis Publications Ltd., 2004. [Rock photo-documentary] COLLECTOR EDITION, signed by Olivia Harrison. Folio, pp.306. Number 1604 of 2500 copies. Publisher's decorative padded cloth binding, housed in a silk-screen printed clamshell box. Inside a pocket in the box are four laminated back-stage passes and an original concert programme from the..... More
BIG: Beatles in Germany.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1997. [Beatles History and Photography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 25cm), pp.138. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, and occasional colour images. Number 1026 of 1750 copies SIGNED by Tony Sheridan, Günter Zint, Ulf Krüger to limitation page. Also with an original West German Gingerbread..... More
Marvin and Molly.
London: Sheepsy, 2012. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 24cm), pp.[34]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black in, with some doodles, to half-title. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at £6.99. A fine, as-new copy. More
Marvin Gets MAD!
London: Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2008. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.[32] With fully intact sticker sheet at rear, and colour illustrations to every page by the author. SIGNED by the author in black ink, with a doodle to copyright page. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced..... More