"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx

London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 20cm), pp.xii; 475 [33]. With black and white illustrations throughout, and a suite of colour images at rear. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the grey dust-jacket. Quite heavy rubbing to jacket edges and joints, otherwise..... More
London: Printed for R. Ware, 1741. [Ornithology] SECOND EDITION. Octavo in half-sheets (17 x 11cm), pp.[6] 96 [6]. With a copper engraved illustration of each bird, and a frontispiece, by the author. Later full marbled calf, recently re-backed in brown calf, with raised bands, and gilt titles to a red..... More
Oxford: Sold by D. Prince and J. Cooke, 1789. [Architecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[12] 54; pp.[6] lxvi; 66 [2]. Complete with all 55 copper engraved plates at rear, as well as the etched portrait frontispiece after Kneller. Recently re-backed in tan calf with raised bands and gilt..... More
London: Horace Cox, 1910. [Hunting] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 188. With eight half-tone plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, priced at 7/6. Light spotting and browning to endpapers. Upper board and spine bowed with some rubbing and a...... More
London: Frederick Muller, 1956. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 143. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in pictorial dustjacket. Some occasional spotting to the textblock and marking to the edges, slight wear to the cloth. A couple of closed tears to the front panel of the dustwrapper, small loss at..... More
London: The Dropmore Press, 1947. Private Press. Limited to 750 numbered copies. Pps. xi, 84, (1). Publisher's original green cloth spine lettered in gilt, printed paper boards, top edge tinted green, original illustrated dust-jacket and card slip-case with numbered label to spine. Text printed on hand made paper with wood..... More
Tunbridge Wells: J. Clifford, 1840. [Botany] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.v; [1]; 179; [1]; [one of publisher's advertisements]; [1]. Publisher's green textured cloth with paper labels to spine and upper board. Hand-coloured folding plate of Dentaria Bulbifera facing title page. Bookplate of W. H. Hills to pastedown, some..... More
Mainz: Verlag von D Kapp, and Mainz: Joseph Halenza, n.d. [c.1880]. Leporello, or concertina map, in tall octavo boards (30 x 17.5cm; map extends to 242cm). In stiff paperboards with recent red cloth spine, decorative foliate border with titles in black to front board, reproduced to rear board with alternative..... More
Los Angeles: Michael White Productions, n.d. [1974]. EPHEMERA FROM ROCKY HORROR SHOW U.S. OPENING. Card cut out mask of Columbia, approximately 26cm x 19cm with removable eyes and mouth, printed with production notes printed on the rear. Produced as a promotional item for the U.S. opening at the Roxy Theatre..... More
Ruhleben, 1915. FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet, pp. 32. Blue pictorial wraps. Some toning to paper, wraps have detached along the spine and have some nicks along the edges. Very good, a fascinating survival. Campaign book for the election of an M.P. representing Ruhleben internment camp, just west of Berlin, which..... More
London: Dr. Barnardo's Homes, 1919. [Children's Welfare] EARLY ARTICLE. Octavo pamphlet (24 x 18cm), pp.12. No covers as issued, stapled twice. Folded both horizontally and vertically. Fairly lightly handled, with just a few marks out outer leaves. Very good. A short article on the life and work of philanthropist and..... More
London: Published for the National Book League by the Cambridge University Press, no date [1951]. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's plain soft covers, titled to upper. A little toned, with heavy spotting to covers, and some light handling. Blue pencil 'IF' to front over. Very..... More
R.C.A.F., January 1944. [Wartime Booklet] ORIGINAL BOOKLET. Sextodecimo (13 x 11cm), pp.91 [5]. With frequent in-text illustration. Publisher's orange soft covers with titles to upper, stapled three times. Light wear to covers, with some creasing and bumping, and a little oxidation to staples. Very good. More
Buffalo, NY: Larkin Co. Inc., 1923. [Cookery] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.140. With occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth with black titles to front cover. Neat inscription to flyleaf, textblock toned and a little shaken. Some marks and wear to boards, heavily rubbed and worn to spine. Very..... More
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [1898]. [True Adventure and Hunting] EARLY EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.viii; 312. With a colour frontispiece and decorated title page, and numerous engravings through the text. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper board. Cracked-earth..... More
Coventry: Triumph Engineering Co., no date [1969]. [Motorcycle Manual] ORIGINAL MANUAL. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.3-178. Stapled twice, in a secondary plain paper cover with titles written by hand in black ink to front cover. Central bi-fold loose. Staples rusted, with significant grease stains and thumb prints throughout. A...... More
London: Longman, Brown, and Longmans, 1855. FIRST EDITION, with rare original covers. Crown octavo, pp.[6], 122. In publisher's original cream paper wraps with black titles printed to spine and covers. Covers lightly browned; more heavily to spine. Some loss to tail of spine. Very good indeed, especially considering the rarity..... More
London: Country Life, 1936. [Illustrated Gardening] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[8] 226 [2]. With 24 woodcut engravings by Farleigh. Publisher's green cloth with white titles to spine and upper. Light toning and spotting to edges, endpapers, and preliminaries. A nice clean copy internally. Some toning and rubbing to..... More
Paris: De L'Imprimerie d'Hacquart, 1801. [Napoleonic Educational Reforms] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] 22. All text in French. Recently bound into plain brown paper covers, sewn, with a paper title label copied from the title page. A crisp, fine copy, in a new paper binding. A short report..... More
London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1922. [Chemistry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 152. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Ownership stamp to pastedown and neat inscription to title page of Danish engineer and physicist P.O. Pedersen. Occasional discreet pencil annotation else internally fine. Cloth very slightly..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1873. [Russian and Scandinavian Museum Tour] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 455 [3]. Contemporary dark brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and blind decoration to spine, and lighter brown cloth over boards, with a gilt institutional device to upper..... More
New York, NY: The Ecco Press, 1981. [Philosophy, Politics, Aphorisms] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.93 [19]. Publisher's cream cloth with black titles to spine and black monogram to upper. With the grey dust-jacket titled in red and black, priced at $9.95. Jacket sunned to spine. Near fine. Originally..... More
London: Printed for J. Mawman, 1808. [Calendars] CONTEMPORARY BINDING, the Third Edition. Duodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.151; [7]. Contemporary brown full calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Light browning and spotting to preliminaries. Contemporary black ink ownership to flyleaf. Joints rubbed and starting, but holding well. Corners bumped..... More
London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1818. First Edition. Small 4to; pp. x, (2), 256. Publisher's blue paper covered boards, a little stained and rubbed; grey paper spine chipped and frayed; original paper title label chipped and rubbed; edges untrimmed. Internally sound and clean. A very good copy of..... More
London: Methuen & Co., 1957. [Art and Aesthetics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.219 [5]. With 12 black and white half-tone plates. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to upper. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by the author, priced at 25s. Offsetting to..... More