The Arts & Sciences
Brian Eno: Visual Music.
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2013. [Music and Art] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.416. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated cloth, with white titles to spine and upper, and bright pink endpapers, priced at $50 / £35. With the magnetic strip affixed to copyright page. A fine, as-new..... More
The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal: for Nov. 1814..... Feb. 1815.
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1815. CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS. Octavo, pp.[8], 560 [2]. In contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. All edges flecked blue / grey. Some light edge wear; a few marks to spine. Very good indeed. Works reviewed include Wordsworth's 'The..... More
Russian Ballet. Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony. With an Introduction by Arnold Haskell.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1939. [Ballet Photography] LEATHER-BOUND First Edition. Large Quarto (33 x 27cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated with 96 tipped-in black and white photographs of Russian ballet stars, including a frontispiece. Recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with gilt titles to twin red labels, four raised bands to spine, and matching..... More
Screencraft, or the Making of a Photoplay.
New York, NY: Chalmers Publishing Co., 1916. [Early Film-Making] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.151; [1]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Simple typographic dust-jacket with titles and testimonials from well-wishing readers. Fore-edge untrimmed. Toned and a little dusty to edges. Light wear to..... 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
The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001. [Film Reference] INSCRIBED BY PETER JACKSON, First Edition. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.120. INSCRIBED by the film director Peter Jackson to title, once in white ink and once in black ink, both to the title page: 'Hi Cameron! | Best wishes | Peter Jackson.' With photographic illustrations..... More
The Art of Photoplay Making.
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1918. [Filmmaking] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 283; [11]. With 10 photogravure plates, including a frontispiece of the Venus de Milo. Publisher's brown cloth. gilt titles to spine and in dark brown to upper board, dust-jacket title with printed price of $2.00..... More
A Pictorial Autobiography.
Bath: Adams & Dart, 1970. [Sculptor Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.128. Heavily illustrated with in-text black and white photographs. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to half-title: 'For Bruce with love | January 10th | Barbara.' Publisher's orange cloth, with gilt titles to spine and..... More
A Sketch of some Late Arrangements, and a View of the Rising Resources, in Bengal.
London: John Stockdale, 1792. First Edition; 8vo. Uncut in original grey boards with a recent cloth spine, paper title label and end papers; edges untrimmed. Markings to boards, corners bumped and frayed. Red stamp to verso of title page. A clean and sound copy. More
The Conquest of The Arctic.
London: Harrap, 1939. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 284. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth titled in pale silver to spine, in a pictorial dustjacket depicting modes of transport heading towards the North Pole. Cloth in excellent condition with limited signs of wear. Endcaps a little pushed, with superficial rubbing..... More
Television. To-Day and To-morrow
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons 1934. Demy octavo, pp.xxxii; 208; 24, advertisements. With 70 photographic plates and 56 illustrations. With a new preface to this [fourth] edition, and a foreword by John Logie Baird. Publisher's gilt-titles cloth in striking colour pictorial dust-wrapper. Book is near fine (slightly dusty); jacket..... More
The Botanical Pocket-Book. With Observations on Some of the Rare Plants Growing in the Neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells.
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
Selected Articles on Censorship of the Theater and Moving Pictures. The Handbook Series III, Volume 6.
New York, NY: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1931. [Film and Theatre] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.385; [3]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of $2.40 to spine. Very light spotting and browning. Jacket browned with some small chips to edges. A remarkably well-preserved..... 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
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
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Medical Digression.
London: Ash & Co., 1935. [Sherlock Holmes Fan Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (21 x 13cm), pp.56. Publisher's green card covers, priced at 1s. Some light spotting. Covers rubbed and toned; upper joint starting. A black ink ownership to front cover partially erased. Very good. A lecture on the medical..... More
Chronograms. 5000 and more in number excerpted out of various authors and collected at many places.
London: Ellliot Stock, 1882. [Chronograms] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.xx; 569 [3]. With a lithographic frontispiece reproduction of an engraving, and 12 illustrations placed throughout the text. Publisher's green quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine and green leather-grain-effect cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed..... More
[Materia Medica] Medicines, Their Uses and Mode of Administration. A Complete Conspectus of the Three British Pharmacopoeias, an Account of all the New remedies, and an Appendix of Formulae.
Dublin: J. Fannin and Co., 1844. [Medical science] REBOUND RARE FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[XXXVI] 432. Tan half calf with marbled paper over boards and black rulings to tan borders. Black tooling, gilt titles, and label in black morocco to spine. Raised bands. Binder's label to rear paste-down..... More
Handbook to the Tellurium.
Birmingham: Robert Hopper, no date [1879]. [Scientific Equipment] RARE HANDBOOK. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.30 [2]. With intext wood engraved diagrams. Publisher's purple cloth with a gilt illustration stamped to upper board. Light spotting and browning to preliminaries. Some neat black ink corrections to p.20 and p.24. Boards rubbed and..... More
Hunting the Sea Otter.
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
Views of Labour and Gold.
London: John Russell Smith, 1859. [Political Economy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[4] 190 [18]. Partly unopened (with some leaves roughly opened); yellow-coated endpapers. Publisher's binding of blind-decorated dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine, binding by Bone and Son, London. Leaves heavily worn and soiled, with damp..... More
The Art of the Illustrator. W. Hatherell; Bernard Partridge; Lawson Wood; Bert Thomas; Cyrus Cuneo; Frank Reynolds; Balliol Salmon; Harry Rountree; W. Heath-Robinson; C.A. Shepperson; E.J. Sullivan; F.H. Townsend; H.M. Bateman; C.E. Brock; Spencer Pryse; Warwick Reynolds.
London: The Press Art School, no date [1918]. [Art Reference] ORIGINAL PORTFOLIOS. Fifteen parts out of twenty. Folio (41 x 28cm), each part having a letter-press text of six leaves, including a half-tone photographic portrait of the illustrator tipped in as a frontispiece, as well as six mounted half-tone illustrated..... More
The Autogiro and How to Fly It.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1933. First Edition. Octavo, pp. xiii, 82, 24 of adverts. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Numerous illustrations; both photographic and line drawings. With a foreword by Juan de la Cierva, the Spanish engineer who built autogiros in..... 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
A Person From England. and other travellers to Turkestan.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.384. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket and matching endpapers, top edge tinted blue. Illustrated with a map and eight double sided two tone photographic plates. With signed inscription to half title: "Momo /..... More