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History of the Seventh Regiment of New York 1806-1889.
New York, NY: Published by the Seventh Regiment, 1890. [American Military History] FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED ASSOCIATION COPY. Complete in two volumes. Large octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[2] xviii; 498 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 543 [3]. With numerous in-text vignettes and woodcuts, as well as 11 engraved portraits, including a frontispiece to..... More
Huntsmen Past and Present. Illustrated from contemporary prints and from original watercolour drawings by the Author.
London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Quarto, with 21 plates in colour and black and white, pp. [14], 91. Publisher's vellum spine with buckram boards, t.e.g. Fine. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Limited Edition of only 150 copies of which this is no.45. More
When the Movies Were Young.
New York, NY: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1925. [Early film] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; [2]; 256; [6]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, textured paper covered boards, paper title labels to spine and upper, fore and tail edge untrimmed. With a photographic frontispiece and fifteen further double sided..... More
The Mirror and the Light.
London: Fourth Estate, 2020. [Historical fiction] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm). Publisher's cloth, with the specially-designed dust-jacket, housed in the black cloth-covered slipcase. One of 500 copies thus. A fine, as-new copy, still in the original shrink-wrap. The final part of the 'Wolf Hall' trilogy, charting the rapid..... More
With Blood and Iron.
London: Jarrolds, 1964. [Naval Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.288. SIGNED by the author in black ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate on fly-leaf. Publisher's blue cloth with white titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Smith. Miss Cond's usual exemplary condition, with a...... More
Ronnie.
London: Macmillan, 2007. [Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 358. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of £20. Signed "Love Ronnie.07" to title page. Illustrated with four photographic suites. Textblock very lightly toned, binding and wrapper lightly handled with a...... More
Indian States and the New Regime.
Sitamau: [Privately printed], 1937. [Indian history and politics] INSCRIBED ADVANCE COPY. First edition. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxvi; 469 [3]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'Presented to the | most Honourable the Marquess of | Zetland, P.C., G.C.S.I., | G.C.I.E., etc. | the Secretary of State..... More
From Hamburg to Hollywood.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1997. [Music / Film Photography] LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (31 x 22cm), pp.130. No 1026 of 1750 copies SIGNED by Jurgen Vollmer. Foreword by Sir Paul McCartney. 140 illustrations from photographs. Quarter bound with gilt-stamped covers, all edges silver, housed in a Kodak-style lid and tray box. With..... More
Fairy Tales.
New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1982. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST US EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.128. With a mixture of full colour plates and black and white vignettes by Foreman. SIGNED by both author and illustrator in black ink, each to a separate bookplate on the verso of..... More
British Pop.
Bilbao: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2005. [Pop Art] INSCRIBED EXHIBITION CATALOGUE. Quarto softcover (27 x 20cm), pp.474 [2]. SIGNED by the artist Peter Blake in black ink, and additionally INSCRIBED by Livingstone in blue ink: 'For Edward | Marco Livingstone | 16.IV.09.' Both to title page. Text in..... More
Peter Blake: One Man Show.
Farnham: Lund Humphries, 2009. [Art] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 26cm), pp.240. Illustrated throughout in colour. INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST PETER BLAKE in black ink to title page: 'For Edward | Peter Blake.' Publisher's green cloth with white titles to spine. Illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Lightly sunned..... More
Tropic of Cancer.
London: John Calder, 1963. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 318. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page; possibly a secretarial hand. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue dust-jacket, priced at 25s. Large blue ink ownership to..... More
Fight Club.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2014. [Psychological thriller] SIGNED COLLECTOR'S EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[2]; 208. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to the limitation page. Grey full morocco over boards, gilt ruling and embellishment to both. Gilt titles, gilt embellishment, and raised bands to spine. Watered silk..... More
The Specials: How They Served London. The Story of the Metropolitan Special Constabulary.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. [Great War Policing] FIRST EDITION with associated signature. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 223 [57]. With eight photographic plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Chief Staff Officer, Colonel Sir Edward Ward, SIGNED by Ward in blue ink to lower margin, and dated January 1921. Publisher's aquamarine..... More
One Across, Two Down.
London: Hutchinson, 1971. [Psychological Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.191 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and grey endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket designed by Colin Andrews, priced at £1.50. Offsetting to endpapers, and..... More
Green Fields and Running Brooks.
Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1893. [American-Irish Poetry Interest] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 224 [2]. With a SIGNED presentation slip tipped in to preliminaries, addressed to the notable Irish Nationalist MP Hon. T.P. O'Connor, and dated Christmas 1892. Publisher's brown cloth with a maroon strip to top..... More
The State Policy of Modern Europe, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Present Time.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo, pp.xvi, 334; x, 392. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to front free end-paper, dedicated to Sir Edward Shepherd CREASY, author of 'Fifteen Decisive Battle of the World' (1851). In publisher's light tan embossed..... More
Sonnets from the Portuguese, by E.B. Browning. To which is prefaced a 'Little Journey' to the Home of the Author, written by E. Hubbard.
East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop, 1898. Limited Edition to 480 copies of which this is No.217. SIGNED by Elbert Hubbard. Publisher's quarter white cloth with gilt titles to upper, grey paper boards and end papers; edges untrimmed. Hand coloured stylised capitals throughout the text; superb printing on thick pages..... More
Social Life in England and France, From the French Revolution in 1789, to That of July 1830. By the editor of Madame du Deffand's Letters.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831. [Social Studies] PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.vii; [1]; 214; [4]. INSCRIBED to Lord Henry Peter Brougham by Berry in brown ink to title page: 'To | The Lord Chancellor Brougham | from the author | MB.' Advertisements to..... More
The Private Life of Plants. A Natural History of Plant Behaviour.
London: BBC Books, 1995. [Animal Behaviour] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.320. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £17.99. A touch of light..... More
Quality Street. A Comedy in four acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1913]. [Illustrated Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[4] viii; 198 [2]. With a loose flier for the original exhibition of Thomson's watercolour illustrations for the book, November and December 1913. Complete with 22 colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece..... More
I am Legion.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 380 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in green ink to title page: 'John R. Cronland | with all kind thoughts | from Neil Bell | Brixham | June, 1950.' Publisher's black cloth with silver titles..... More
Oscar Wilde: A Study.
Oxford: The Holywell Press, 1905. [Literary Biography] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[12] 110 [2]. From an edition of 500 copies. With five illustrated plates, including a frontispiece caricature of Wilde. Publisher's slate blue paper-covered boards with red and black titles to paper labels on spine and upper. All..... More
Collected Animal Poems: The Iron Wolf; What is the Truth?; A March Calf; The Thought-Fox.
London: Faber and Faber, 1995. [Poetry] FIRST EDITIONS, SIGNED TO VOLUME I. Four volumes, octavo (22 x 14 x 7cm) Publisher's black cloth, white dust-wrappers, publisher's white pictorial slipcase. Signed by Hughes, the late Poet Laureate, in Volume 1. Illustrated by Chris Riddell in volume 1 and by Lisa Flather..... More
Marilyn. A Biography.
New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., 1973. [Biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (30 x 26cm), pp.[2] 270 [2]. Heavily illustrated with both colour and black and white photographs by various artists. SIGNED by the author and the editor in blue ink to the limitation page. Publisher's white padded cloth..... More