The Arts & Sciences
The Iron Pirate, A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea.
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
A Treatise on Electricity, Wherein its various phaenomena are accounted for, and the cause of the attraction and gravitation of solids, assigned. To which is added a short account, how the electrical effluvia act upon the animal frame, and in what disorders the same may probably be applied with success and in what not.
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
Cafe Lehmitz.
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
How a Penny became a Thousand Pounds.
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
The Philosophy of Whist: An Essay on the Scientific and Intellectual Aspects of the Modern Game, in two parts: part I, the Philosophy of Whist Play: part II, the Philosophy of Whist Probabilities.
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
The Special Kinesiology Of Educational Gymnastics.
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
Glory of Life.
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
Observations upon the Topography and Climate of Crowborough Hill, Sussex.
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
The Fundamental Pictures.
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
The Compleat Angler. Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish and Fishing not unworthy the Perusal of most Anglers. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
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
Fashion Stories.
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
Regency Antiques.
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
Aubrey Beardsley: Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1966. Catalogue of the original drawings, letters, manuscripts, paintings; and of books, posters, photographs, documents etc.
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
Building Construction and Architectural Drawing.
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
A New Dictionary of the English Language.
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
Herb Ritts Calendar 1994.
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
Reports on Visits to American Automobile Body Plants during the Period of 16th April - 17th May 1946.
[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
Danny Rouzer's Glamour Photography. Trend Book 134
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
Peter Blake.
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
American Domestic Cookery, formed on Principles of Economy, for the use of Private Families. By an Experienced Housekeeper. To which is added the Complete Family Brewer.
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
A New System of Domestic Cookery; Formed Upon Principles of Economy, and adapted to the Use of Private Families. With the Addition of Many New Receipts, and Embellished with Engravings.
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
Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin, Second Series 186-1888.
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
The Nature and Evolution of the Political Relations between the Indian States and the British Imperial Government.
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
Anti-Semite and Jew.
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
The Collected Papers.
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