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Chicago, IL: Rand, McNally and Company, n.d. [1897]. [Science Fiction] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.266 [2]. With a lithographic frontispiece. In publisher's brown cloth decorated in green, brown and gilt. Top edge gilt. Light external wear; some rubbing to spine. Very good overall. An early edition, one of..... More
Oxford: Sackville Parker, 1752. Octavo. p.40. Bound in quarter brown calf over marbled paper boards, wtih gilt titles to spine; all edges red speckled. With owner's stamp and bookplate. Binding is rubbed, worn to board edges, bumping to corners and spine ends. Internally clean, with one illustrative diagram (p.32) of..... More
AB Tiprod, ETC, 1982. [Photography / Counter Culture] FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION. Text in Swedish. Oblong octavo (27 x 24cm). With 88 black and whiite photographs. White cloth hardcovers blocked in black, photographic dust-jacket. Book is fine, jacket near fine with a couple of small marks and tears. An attractive copy..... More
London: Houlston and Stoneman, 1856. [Self-Help] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's blind-decorated brown cloth with one decoration stamped in gilt to upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Black ink ownership to flyleaf, dated 1856. Light browning throughout - a minor ink note to final page. Light rubbing to cloth. Very..... More
London: Thomas de la Rue and Co., 1884. [Card Games] SECOND EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.xvi; 218 [10]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt; brown patterned endpapers. Small black ink inscription to verso of flyleaf. Browned throughout. Upper hinge..... More
London: Arthur F. Bird, 1914. Large Octavo. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to front board and spine. Illustrated with photographic portrait frontispiece, and 267 diagrams. Summary sheet in pocket at rear. Binding is a little rubbed to joints and corners, bumped at spine ends. Internally clean and..... More
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1938. [Philosophy and Spirituality] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.44 [4]. With a photogravure of Breughel's 'August' as a frontispiece, and printed on fine handmade paper. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 6s. Some toning..... More
Lewes: Farncombe & Co., 1898. [Sussex Topography] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] 312. With three plates depicting snow flakes, a photographic plate of hailstones, two other in-text illustrations, and a frontispiece engraving of the author's house. Contemporary half vellum by BARBER of Lewes, with gilt titles to red..... More
London: Alexander Roussos, 1997. SIGNED COPY. Oblong, pp.[48]. SIGNED by the artists in black ink to title page. Colour reproductions of art works. In publisher's card covers. A fine copy. Artwork encompassed by the title of the first piece, 'Spunk Blood Piss Shit Spit'. More
London: George C. Harrap and Co., Ltd., 1931. First Rackham Edition. Large octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.224. With 12 colour plates plus black and white illustrations in text. Finely bound in recent blue half morocco with gilt titles and decorative fish to spine, original publisher's boards with decorative titles stamped..... More
London: Printed by Butler & Tanner for the author, 2004. [Fashion Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (37 x 30cm), pp.112. A mixture of colour and black and white photographic images printed on glossy clay paper. Publisher's glossy black and white photographic paper-covered boards, with black endpapers. With the black dust-jacket, including..... More
London, Batsford 1953. 4to. With photographic illustrations and colour frontispiece. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dustjacket. Slightly frayed to spine ends, price-clipped. A very good copy indeed. FIRST EDITION. More
Christchurch: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Direct Design, 1966. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Tall octavo (23 x 12cm), unpaginated, containing 611 catalogue entries, and notes on the exhibition and use of the catalogue. Not illustrated. Publisher's green soft covers, with titles to upper. Light handling, and one scratch..... More
London: Blackie and Son, no date [1911]. [Architectural Drawings] ONLY EDITION. Folio portfolio (43 x 31cm), complete with all 18 loose plates inside the hard-bound chemise portfolio. Publisher's quarter grey cloth with grey paper over boards and plain title label to upper. Black fabric ties to all open edges. Rubbing..... More
London: William Pickering, 1839. [English Dictionary] EARLY PRINTING. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (29 x 24cm), pp.[8] [72] 1184 [4]; pp.[8] 1185-2223 [5]. Contemporary lightly-diced brown calf boards with gilt rule, recently re-backed to-style in tan calf with raised bands and gilt titles. All edges speckled red; textured orange-patterned endpapers..... More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. INSCRIBED TO MEMBER OF LED ZEPPELIN. Small Quarto, unpaginated. With 28 black and white photographic images, subjects including Dizzy Gillespie, Madonna, Mel Gibson and David Bowie. Warmly INSCRIBED TO JOHN PAUL JONES by the artist in gold ink/paint to front free endpaper: 'To..... More
[Issued by the Press Steel Co., Ltd., Engineering Dept.], June 1946. Folio. This report is a British post war working draft, possibly for eventual printing, concentrating on all technical aspects of the car designs and construction in the USA with a view to develop and modernise the British car industry..... More
Hollywood, CA: Trend Books, 1956. [Figure Photography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo magazine (24 x 17cm), pp.128. With black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice. Lightly browned throughout. Some light rubbing to covers. One tear to p.81/82. Very good. Essentially a guide for nude photography by the..... More
London: Tate Publishing, 2003. [Art Reference] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.128. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. From the library of the writer, media and film executive Edward Milward-Oliver. More
New York, NY: Evert Duyckinck, 1823. [Cookery] EARLY EDITION. Sexto (15 x 9cm), pp.357; [7]. With nine engraved plates including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary straight grained brown calf with gilt decoration to spine and gilt titles to recently applied black labels. Marbled endpapers. Black ink ownership to..... More
Halifax: Milner and Sowerby, 1858. NEW EDITION, third issue. Vigesimo-Quarto (very small). pp. lii, 376. With 9 engraved plates depicting the various edible animals and their joints. All edges untrimmed. In repaired contemporary maroon cloth with gilt and blind stamping. Re-backed using original cloth over spine and boards. Browning and..... More
London: George Allen, 1901. [Art and Philosophy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the sixth edition thus. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xii; 488 [2]. With a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary tree calf for Hampden Gurney School by BICKERS & SON of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration..... More
Joyce and Sone, Newport 1932. Historical essay on Britain's relationship with India. Publisher's softcovers, pp. 202, with loose errata slip present. A fine copy. This thesis was presented to the University of Geneva, and covers the rise of British Power in India up to the Post-Mutiny and Post-War era. The..... More
New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1948. [Anti-Semitism] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] 153 [5]. Publisher's black quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine and orange paper over boards. With the grey and orange typographic dust-jacket. A nice crisp copy with a light tobacco scent. Price-clipped jacket very..... More
London: G. Bell and Sons. 1931. First edition. 8vo. 368pp. Fine in publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt to spine. In a fine unclipped example of the buff paper dustwrapper. Internally bright and clean, a splendid copy. A labour of love 20th century translation of the 18th century German work..... More