Illustrated & Plate Books
Our Darlings.
London: John F. Shaw and Company Ltd., c.1920. Quarto, pp. 1 [advertisements]; 288. Edwardian children's annual bound in red publisher's cloth with pictorial paper boards (advertisement for Allenbury's Foods pasted to rear board), depicts a young boy in a sailor's outfit with a young girl on his shoulders carrying a...... More
The Patch on the Quilt [and] William de Luxe [in] Pearson's Magazine. Number 308.
London: C. Arthur Pearson, August 1921. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 89-182. With frequent black and white illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 1s. Internally clean, with fairly light wear to covers, and a purple bookseller's stamp to upper. Very good... More
The Flying Death [and] The Adventures of Etienne Gerard [and] The Castaway [and] Admiral Peters [and] The Truth About Pyecraft [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 25, numbers 147 and 148.
London: George Newnes, March and April 1903. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Two octavo magazines (27 x 18cm), pp.lxxvi; 241-360; lxxvii-lxxxiv; pp.lxxx; 361-480; lxxxi-lxxviii. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled in dark blue, stapled twice. Presented in black cloth-covered chemise case with gilt titles to spine. First..... More
The Boy's Own Paper. No. 107, Vol. III and No. 108, Vol. III.
London: The Leisure Hour, 29th January 1881, and 5th February 1881. [Sherlock Holmes Source] ORIGINAL MAGAZINES. Two A4 magazines (29 x 21cm), pp.281-296; pp.297-312. Paper covers with wood engraved illustrations; stapled. Lightly browned, chipped and rubbed to edges; staples bent out of shape. A pair of remarkable survivals. Very good..... More
[Navarre Society Illustrated Classics]. The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel, Together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc, and response of the bottle, Hereunto are annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle and the Isle of the Apedefts: as likewise the Philosophical cream with a Limosin Epistle. [and] The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. [and] The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Prince of Adventurers and the most indomitable of Lovers. [and] The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Translated into English from the Authentic Text of M. le Roux de Lincy, with an Essay upon the Heptameron by George Saintsbury, M.A., also the Original Seventy-three full-page Engravings Designed by S. Freudenberg, and One hundred and fifty head and tail pieces by Dunker. [and] The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes by Thomas Shelton, reprinted from the First Edition, 1612-1620, with a new preface by F.J. Harvey Darton, and Illustrated with two portraits, eighteen plates and facsimiles of the original engraved titles. [and] The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New Married Couple.
London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society, 1921-1923. [Private Press Classics] SIX LIMITED EDITION TITLES, collected in fourteen volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 65cm). All text in English. Each volume with various engraved illustrations, title pages printed in two colours. Each set strictly limited and printed on fine laid..... More
The £10 Adventure [The Case of the City Clerk] [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume LXXXIV, number 503.
London: George Newnes, November 1932. [Literary Magazine] FIRST UK APPEARANCE. Octavo magazine (25 x 17cm), pp.[32] 443-554 [33-44]. With a suite of four double-sided black and white photographs of Cedric Hardwicke, and numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 1s. A nice clean copy with a little wear..... More
Measures of Poison.
Tucson, AZ: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2002. [Noir Anthology] MULTI-SIGNED FIRST EDITION, an inscribed out-of-series copy. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[12] 710. SIGNED in various inks by most (over 20 of 26) the contributors and the editor to limitation leaf tipped onto the half-title, INSCRIBED 'For Thalia—lover of books & wild..... More
The Tragedy of the Korosko [and] Glimpses of Nature [and] The Strange Experience of Alkali Dick [and] Silenced [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 13 and 14, numbers 77 to 84.
London: George Newnes, May to December 1897. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Eight octavo magazines (27 x 19cm), pp.xxviii; 481-600; xxix-xxxvi; pp.xxxii; 601-804; xxxiii-xlviii; pp.xxxii; 120; xxxiii-xliv; pp.xxiv; 121-240; xxv-xxxii; pp.xxiv; 241-360; xxv-xxxii; pp.xxxii; 361-480; xxxiii-xl; pp.xxxii; 481-600; xxxiii-xlviii; pp.xl; 601-804; xli-lx. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers..... More
The Return of Sherlock Holmes [and] Dixon's Return [and] The Ebony Box [and] Eyes of Terror [and] Gervais of Blois [and] The Iron Maiden [and] The King and I [and] The Land Ironclads [and] Lawyer Quince [and] Liar and an Elephant [and] The Phoenix and the Carpet [and] Point of Law [and] The Country of the Blind [and] Dialstone Lane [and] Echo [and] Golden Bars [and] Sadi the Fiddler [and] Billy the King [and] The Diver's Story [and] The Girl on the Sands [and] An Irish Gentleman [and] The Messenger in Mufti [and] The Mistress of the Chateau [and] The Ring and the Lamp [and] A Splendid Rogue [and] The Temptation of Samuel Burge [and] That Brute Simmons [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 26, 27 and 28, complete.
London: George Newnes, July 1903 to December 1904. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three volumes. Octavo (24 x 27cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 724; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations, including Paget's famous illustrations for the Holmes stories. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and..... More
Round the Fire Stories [and] The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings [and] Miss Cayley's Adventures [and] Glimpses of Nature [and] Safety Match [and] Smoked Skipper [and] Clochette [and] The Gray Parrot [and] The Madness of Mr. Lister [and] Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation [and] The Stolen Body [and] Underground Passages and Trap-Doors [and] Where the Air Quivered [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 15 and 16, complete.
London: George Newnes, January to December 1898. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Clean internally, with moderate..... More
The Adventure of the Dying Detective [and] The Horror of the Heights [and] How it Happened [and] The Poison Belt, Chapter 6 [and] To the South Pole: Captain Scott's Own Story [and] Back to Back [and] Keeping Watch [and] The Weaker Vessel [and] Bits of Life [and] The Journal of Aura Lovel [and] Keeping it from Harold [and] The Torch [and] Wet Magic [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 46, complete.
London: George Newnes, July to December 1913. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.iv; 802; viii. With frequent black and white, and occasional dichromatic, illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Ink library stamps of..... More
Three of Them [and] Jeeves and the Chump Cyril [and] The Film that was Never Shown [and] The Magic Plus Fours [and] Billy Bones [and] The Forbidden Subject [and] First Aid for Dora [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 55, 56, 64, and 66; numbers 328, 331, 332, 366, 384 and 392.
London: George Newnes, April, July, August, and December 1918, December 1922, and August 1923. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.44; 265-344; 45-52; pp.20; 76; 21-32; pp.16; 77-152; 17-34; pp.64; 361-484; 65-82; pp.84; 487-628; 85-118; pp.48; 105-212; 49-64. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's..... More
The Happy Husband: A Thrilling Story of Love and Passion. [in] The Strand Magazine. Issue Nos. 342 and 343. Volumes 57 and 58.
London: George Newnes, Ltd., June and July 1919. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Two octavo magazines (27 x 19cm), pp.[50] 457-546 [51-66]; pp.[48] 100 [49-64]. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's red and blue paper covers, stapled twice, and a special summer number with colour-illustrated covers. Presented in a black fleece-lined clamshell..... More
Playboy Magazine. Vol. 16, no. 11.
Chicago, IL: HMH Publishing Company, November 1969. [Men's Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.298. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, with three staples to the spine, priced at $1. Fairly light general handling, with some scraps of cloth glued to rear cover, as well as a few patches..... More
Collins' Fairy Folks' Annual.
London: Collins' Clear-Type Press, no date [1924]. [Illustrated Fairy Tales] FIRST THUS. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[4] 160. With numerous engraved illustrations by various artists, including a colour frontispiece and decorated title page, and around 30 other illustrations with colour. Publisher's tan quarter cloth with blue titles and decoration to..... More
Kings of England: Characters of the Kings and Queens of England; Selected from the Best Historians. To which is added, a Table of the Succession of each, from Alfred to the present Time. With Heads, by T. Bewick, Newcastle.
London: Printed for E. Newbury, 1795. [English Royalty] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (14 x 9cm), pp.viii; 204 [4]. With an engraved frontispiece, vignette title page, and a vignette bust portrait for each Monarch, all by Thomas Bewick. Recently re-backed in brown calf, with gilt titles to spine and the original brown..... More
Nasty Tales. No. 5.
London: Meep Comix Group, no date [circa 1973]. [Adult Comic] ORIGINAL COMIC (28 x 21cm), pp.52. Several black and white comic strips, with the colour illustrated covers priced at 20p, and stapled twice. Light toned, as expected, and very light handling to covers. Near fine. A collection of satirical counterculture..... More
Punchard's Agency [and] Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest [and] The British Campaign in France [and] Uneasy Money [and] The Man-Trap [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 53, numbers 315, 316 and 317
London: George Newnes, March to May 1917. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.50; 209-312; 51-58; pp.50; 313-416; 51-58; pp.40; 417-512; 41-48. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's blue paper covers, titled in red and navy, and priced at 7d. Presented in a navy..... More
Stalky and Co. [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume 9.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1898 to May 1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.vi; 754. With numerous photogravure illustrations. Publisher's green cloth over boards, with gilt and brown titles and decoration to spine and upper. Floral-patterned endpapers. Pink 'Book Fund' book plate to front pastedown..... More
Akros. Special Hugh MacDiarmid Issue. Volume 5, Number 13 (with No.14).
Preston: Akros Publications, April 1970. [Literary Magazine] COMPLETE DOUBLE-ISSUE. Two magazine, held together with an additional wrapper. Numerous black and white photographs to volume I, and volume II printed in variously coloured paper. Publisher's white card covers, sewn, with a type-written list of publications in print loose to preliminaries. Moderate..... More
The Sanctuary Club [and] Hilda Wade [and] A Master of Craft [and] The Seven Dragons [and] The "Southern Cross" Antarctic Expedition [and] The Croxley Master [and] Whereyouwantogoto: or, The Bouncible Ball [and] Kind Little Edmund; or, The Caves and The Cockatrice [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 18, numbers 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, and 108.
London: George Newnes, July 1899 to December 1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six octavo magazines (28 x 19cm), pp.xl; 120; xli-xlviii; pp.xxxii; 121-240; xxxiii-xl; pp.xxxvi; 241-360; xxxvii-xliv; pp.xl; 361-480; xli-xlviii; pp.xlviii; 481-600; xlix-lvi; pp.lvi; 601-804; lvii-lxviii [8]. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled in dark blue..... More
The Best from Playboy Number Five.
Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1971. [Anthology] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (28 x 21cm), pp.196. Illustrated in colour throughout, with central folding plate. Publisher's illustrated soft covers, priced at $2.50. Some rubbing to covers, with spotting to preliminaries, and occasionally throughout. Very good. Another round-up of notable articles published in Playboy..... More
Playboy Magazine. Vol. 23, no. 9.
Chicago, IL: HMH Publishing Company, September 1976. [Men's Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.214. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, with two staples to the spine, priced at $1.50. Light wear to covers. Near fine. Including an interview with David Bowie, articles on Watergate and the photography of..... More
Scottish Art and Letters. Number One.
Glasgow: William MacLellan, 1944. [Literary and Art Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.52. With three double-sided illustrated plates, one image reproduced in colour, as well as occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine and advertisements to endpapers. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at..... More
The Beach of Dreams [and] Cambrai: The Second Phase [and] What People Laugh At! [and] "Tickets, Please!" [and] The Official Mind [and] The Magnificent Ensign Smith [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 57, numbers 338 to 343.
London: George Newnes, February 1919 to July 1919. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six octavo magazines (27 x 19cm), pp.[30] 77-162 [31-42]; pp.[34] 163-254 [35-46]; pp.[40] 255-346 [40-52]; pp.[40] 347-446 [41-52]; pp.[50] 447-546 [51-68]; pp.[48] 100 [49-64]. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled and illustrated in dark..... More