Illustrated & Plate Books
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew; The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Horse and His Boy; The Last Battle. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
London: Geoffrey Bles [and] The Bodley Head, 1950-1956. [Children's fantasy series] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. Seven volumes. Octavo (21 x 15 x 19cm). With illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Finely bound in recent navy full morocco, with gilt titles to spines, raised bands, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt..... More
Billiards Without a Master; Illustrated by Fifty Fine Copperplate Diagrams, each plate containing from one to twenty-four shots, making a grand total of over one hundred and fifty shots; from which a sufficient knowledge can be acquired to enable the player to accomplish any possible stroke on the billiard table: all of which are fully explained on the page opposite their respective plates. The work contains, also, a full and complete set of rules for the government of the game of billiards, and the various games of pool, and c., hints to players, advice to amateurs, keepers of saloons, and c.; with a variety of explanations, interesting to all connected with billiards, or billiard playing, by Michael Phelan, now acknowledged, by all, to be one of the First Players in this country, and of long experience, both as a Keeper of a Saloon, and a Practical Player. To which is prefixed, a fine steel plate frontispiece, Showing a Billiard Table, and Players in Position. Accompanying the work, is a treatise on the Origin, Rise, and Progress of the Game of Billiards.
New York: D.D. Winant, 1850. [Games] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 127 [1]. With fifty copperplate diagrams and a steel plate frontispiece. Re-backed, though retaining original spine and boards. Brown full calf with gilt ruling, gilt title, and red title label to spine. Edges speckled. Heavy toning..... More
The Clipper of the Clouds. [Robur the Conquerer].
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887 [1886]. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.viii; 234 [32]. Publisher's catalogue dated October 1886. With 42 wood engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and black, brown and white decoration to..... More
A Family Without a Name.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1891 [1890]. [Historical Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 172; 134 [34]. Publisher's catalogue dated October 1890. With 79 of the 80 wood engraved plates by Tiret-Bognet, including a frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles and black, white and..... More
[Works of Charles Dickens:] Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, etc. [with] Charles Dickens: The Story of His Life [and] Speeches, Literary and Social. The "Charles Dickens" Edition.
London: Chapman and Hall [and] John Camden Hotten, no date [circa 1870]. [Literature] FINELY BOUND SET, ex libris Sir William Thomas Madge. Twenty-one volumes bound as fifteen. Octavo (18 x 13 x 53cm). Each title with eight illustrated plates, including a frontispiece (excepting Life and Speeches). Quite thin paper with..... 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
Five Run Away Together. The Third Story of the Adventures of the Four Children and their Dog.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1949. [Children's Adventure] THIRD IMPRESSION. Small Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. With a colour frontispiece (same image as jacket), and numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured blue or red, by Soper. Publisher's light blue cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue pictorial endpapers. With..... More
Five go off in a Caravan. Being the Fifth Adventure of Julian, Dick, George, Anne and Timmy the Dog.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1946] 1949. [Children's Classic] First Edition, Third Impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.208. With colour frontispiece and frequent in-text illustrations by Soper. Publisher's red cloth, dust-jacket also illustrated by Soper, priced at 6s. Contents clean, some dustiness to edges, discreet gift note to first blank, jacket..... More
Five on Kirrin Island Again.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1947] 1950. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION, fourth impression. Small octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.192. With numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured in red, by Soper. Publisher's red cloth, with black titles to spine, and blue pictorial endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Soper, showing the..... More
The Cinque Ports and Romney Marsh.
London: John Gifford, 1972. [English History] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 266 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. With numerous in-text maps and halftone illustrations, folding map to rear. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. With..... More
Edward Plantaganet (Edward I.), the English Justinian, or, the Making of the Common Law.
New York, London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. [English history] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xxiv [2] 360 [4]. With 32 halftone illustrations including a tissue-guarded frontispiece, along with 9 maps, plans, and pedigrees, some of them folding. Dark green half morocco, green cloth over boards. Boards gilt-ruled, gilt..... More
Poems by Thomas Hood. Again Illustrated by Birket Foster.
London: E. Moxton, Son, and Co., 1872. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION THUS. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.vii; 180 [4]. With 23 tissue-guarded engravings including a frontispiece by Foster. Publisher's purple cloth extravagantly decorated in black, blue and gilt to upper board. Titles in black and gilt to spine, blind-tooling to lower..... More
Half in Shadow.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1978. [Weird fiction] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.ix [3] 212 [4]. With a monochrome frontispiece. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Tim Kirk priced at $8.95 to front flap. Grey endpapers. Fine, as-new. A collection of short..... More
Mister Babadook.
St Surry Hills, NSW: Causeway Films, printed by Insight Editions, 2016. [Horror Film Pop-Up] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (33x 26cm), pp.[54]. A hand-made pop-up book, illustrated throughout in black and white. One of 5000 copies thus, SIGNED by the Director, Jennifer Kent, in black marker to the limitation plate at..... More
The Racing Driver.
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1958. [Motor Racing] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.207 [1]. With eight double-sided black and white photographic plates, as well as numerous in-text diagrams. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to verso of half-title: 'Best wishes | to Martin | from..... More
War and Peace.
London: Heinemann, 1961. [Russian Literature] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[6] 1146. With a colour frontispiece and 40 further line-drawn illustrations by Groth. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge purple. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at 42s. Lacking the loose card..... More
Stalingrad.
London: Viking, 1998. [Second World War] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 494. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and illustrated endpapers. With..... More
The Novels of Jane Austen, in Ten Volumes: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; and Emma]. Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1895-97. [Classic Literature] COMPLETE SET, later impressions thus. Ten volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 20cm). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece portrait, and two or three other illustrations by William Cubit Cooke, and ornaments by F.C. Tilney. Publisher's light green cloth, with gilt titles..... More
Tunbridge Wells and It's Neighbourhood, Illustrated by A Series of Etchings, and Historical Descriptions.
London: William Miller and Edmund Lloyd, 1810. [Topography] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Folio (35 x 28cm), pp.[4] 87 [5]. With 31 engraved plates, and 12 vignettes. Contemporary brown half morocco with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Also with original printed paper title label to upper board. Black..... More
Oiling The Wheels.
London: A. White and Co., 1957. [Oil Industry Advertisements] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 29cm), pp.[26]. A full page colour illustration by Kneebone to face every page of text. Publisher's pink illustrated paper over boards, showing a mustachioed gentleman with an oil can against a pink background to upper; rear..... More
The Holy Places.
London: The Queen Anne Press. November 1952. [Travel] LIMITED EDITION, designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. No.263 of 950 copies. Large Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.37; [5], printed on cream wove paper. Original red Buckram with gilt titles, and gilt 'QA' monogram to upper board, top..... More
The Magic Finger.
London: Viking, 1995. [Children's Adventure] FIRST BLAKE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.64. With frequent in-text illustrations by Blake; large print. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. Moderate toning to paper, as usual, jacket with a few small nicks, spine gently..... More
The Eiger Sanction.
London: Heinemann, 1973. [Suspense] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp229; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth hardcovers with gilt titles to the spine, photographic dust-jacket priced at £2.10. Contents clean, no ink names. A fine copy in a near fine wrapper. The British first is rather scarce. A secret..... More
Greater London. A Narrative of its History, its People, and its Places.
London: Cassell & Company, no date [1889-1890]. [London Topography] PUBLISHER'S CLOTH, later printings. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.xvi, 576; pp.xii, 560. Illustrated with numerous in-text engravings. With the large folding map loose to a pouch in volume II. Volume I coded 03.90 to advertisements at rear..... More
Red Eagle. The Story of the Russian Revolution and of Klementy Efremovitch Voroshilov, Marshal and Commissar for Defence of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
London: Hutchinson, 1937. [Military History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.390 [26]. With a coloured halftone frontispiece, 16 plates (30 illustrations), and 8 maps. With author's gift note in blue ink to the title page: 'For / Percy Muir / With the best of / good wishes /..... More