"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C. S. Lewis
The Arts & Sciences
Romance and Reality of the Puritan Coast.
Boston: Little Brown 1897. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Illustrated. Attractive Art-Nouveau style binding in full green morocco, gilt, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles. with gilt floral endpapers. Spine sunned else fine. Includes a chapter on Salem. More
The World's Foundations, or, Geology for Beginners.
London: Seeley and Co., 1892. Octavo; fine prize binding for Aske's Hatcham School for Girls, 1894; full red calf-leather with gilt lettering / tooling and green title background; all edges marbled; inner dentelle and marbled endpapers; prize bookplate on front free endpaper; 16 illustrations; pp. xiv, 315; some slight wear..... More
Preface to Plato.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1963. [Ancient philosophy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 328. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain dust-jacket priced at 32/6. Quite heavy spotting to edges and preliminaries. Some bruising and very light chipping to jacket edges, and some toning to spine..... More
Picasso as a Book Artist.
London: Faber and Faber. 1962. First UK edition. Octavo, pp. 136. Red publisher's cloth with gilt titles to spine, yellow endpapers. Striking dustwrapper. Slight lean to the book. A fine copy. More
The Game of Draw Poker.
New York: White, Stokes and Allen. 1887. Small 8vo. Publisher's paper covered boards with blue linen spine. Slightly scuffed and rounded to corners, some light wear to front panel and some fairly inoffensive soiling, a very good copy of a fragile production. Internally clean save for some soiling to the..... More
Roloff Beny interprets in photographs Pleasure of Ruins.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1964. [Photography]. FIRST THUS. Large quarto (36 x 27cm), pp.286. With 160 photogravure images, 12 colour plates including a frontispiece, and 29 maps and plans. Publisher's black and white illustrated leatherette boards with silver titles to spine and upper board. Silver illustrated endpapers. Light browning to..... More
The White Negro.
San Francisco, CA: City Light Books, 1957. [Hipsterism] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.[32]. Including the essay, as well as a series of letters on the subject between the author and various correspondents. Publisher's photographic card covers, priced at 50c, and stapled twice. Some rubbing..... More
Living High. Or, At Home in the Far Andes.
London: Lovat Dickson and Thompson, Limited, 1935. First Edition. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to slightly darkened spine, top edge tinted, others foxed; in its original pictorial dust jacket, spine darkened and a little frayed to extremities, upper cover faded in place with some foxing. With 14 photographic plates..... More
The Story Of The Life Of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer.
London: John Murray, 1860. Octavo. Bound in publisher's green cloth, embossed panelling to boards, gilt titles and gilt steam engine to spine. Includes portrait of Stephenson and illustrative woodcuts. With binder's ticket at rear. Tenth thousand. Binding is somewhat rubbed, frayed at spine ends, corners bumped, joints starting. Internally clean..... More
Silver Stream. With a foreword by the Rt. Hon. Lord Inman of Knaresborough.
London: The Epworth press, 1947. [Child Welfare] PRESENTATION COPY TO MRS ATTLEE. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. With eight half-tone plates and a chromolithographic frontispiece. Deluxe binding of blue full calf with gilt titles to spine and white watered silk endpapers, with a silver strip to hinges. Bookplate..... More
General View of the Agriculture of Hertfordshire. Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement.
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1813. FINELY BOUND, Second Edition. Octavo, pp.xix; [1]; 236; [2]. With 9 engraved plates, 2 folding, and a large coloured folding map showing soil types over the county. Recently re-backed in brown half calf, to style with original marbled boards and using original..... More
Solution Du Probleme De La Navigation Dans L'Air. Par La Direction Des Aerostats. Expose D'un Nouveau Systeme De Direction.
Librairie De Frederic Henry, Paris, 1864. 6mo., pp. 83 + 5 wood engraved plates. Publisher's paper covers, uncut. Extremities lightly frayed; general age toning. An early study on "... not only the possibility, but also the ease in piloting a balloon in flight." More
Aerodynamics of the Helicopter.
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, no date [1952]. [Aviation] GALLEY PROOF. A4 photocopied paper, ring-bound in black plastic with clear plastic covers. (28 x 24cm), lacking pages 2 and 3 (one sheet of paper). pp.[6] 1; 4-343. A small blank area of the first page cut away. Browned throughout..... More
A Descriptive, Diagnostic and Practical Essay on Disorders of the Digestive Organs and General Health, and particularly on their numerous Forms and Complications, contrasted with some Acute and Insidious Diseases; being an attempt to prosecute the Views of Dr. Hamilton and Mr. Abernethy; and a Second Edition of the Essay of the Mimoses, with Additions.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. First Edition of the first title; Second Edition of the work on the Mimoses. 8vo; pp. (4, publisher's catalogue dated Sept. 1820), (8), 184. Publisher's blue paper covered boards, later respine in grey paper with title labels. Some acceptable marking..... More
Practical Observations on the Symptoms, Discrimination, and Treatment of some of the most common Diseases of the Lower Intestines, and Anus. Particularly including those Affections produced by Stricture, Ulceration, and Tumour, within the Cavity of the Rectum; and Piles, Fistulae, and Excrescences, formed at its external opening. Illustrated by Cases. To which are added, some Suggestions upon a new and successful mode of correcting habitual confinement in the Bowels, to ensure their regular Action without the aid of Purgatives; on a Principle essentislly conducive to the Prevention of the above Diseases.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. First Edition. 8vo; pp. xvi,176. Publisher's blue paper covered boards, lightly stained, corners frayed; grey paper spine, chipped and cracked, paper title labels rubbed and chipped; edges untrimmed. 4 or 5 leaves in middle of book with small waterstaining to..... More
Jack B. Yeats, An Appreciation and Interpretation.
Dublin: Victor Waddington, 1945. LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo. pp. 39. Followed by 19 b/w plates of the artist's work. Limited to 250 copies. In publisher's quarter red cloth with tan paper-covered boards, red titles and red 'JB' monogram. Grey end-papers. With original light tan dust jacket featuring red title..... More
An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, A View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with An Inquiry into our Prospects respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which it occasions. Reprinted from the last Edition Revised by the author.
London: Ward Lock and Co. n.d (c.1880). With a Biography of Malthus. Quarto, pp614 +pp.16 (advertisemnets). A fine ninetenth century copy in publisher's leather-effect printed cloth, gitl-titled to spine. Binding is rubbed to joints and spine ends, worn to corners, with a significant splash mark to the front board. Rev..... 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
Essays on the Natural History and Origin of Peat Moss. The Peculiar Qualities of that Substance, the Means of Improving it as a Soil, the Methods of Converting it into a Manure, and the Other Economical Purposes to Which it May be Made Subservient.
Edinburgh: George Ramsay and Co. 1810. First edition. Octavo, pp. xvi, 665. Half bound in mid brown calf over marbled boards, red speckled edges. Some bumping to the corners and some small loss along the top and bottom edges of the boards. Some light wear to the spine. Textblock is..... More
Land: Its Attractions ad Riches. By Fifty-Seven Writers.
London: The Land Roll Office, 1892. [Property Investments] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 910 [10]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. Bookplate dated 1892 to front pastedown. Light browning and spotting to edges and preliminaries. Light rubbing to cloth. Very good. A rather desperate and highly..... More
Dada and Surealism Reviewed.
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
Ski-ing on Water.
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
An Art Tour to Northern Capitals of Europe.
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
A Companion to the Almanack, containing an Explanation of the Saints' Days and Holidays, with Biographical Sketches of the Persons, and Historical Accounts of the Events, on which the Festivals are founded. To which is prefixed, and Introduction, Explaining the Chronological and Astronomical Terms, and the general Contents of Modern Almanacks; with a brief inquiry into their origin.
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
Raphael, Mozart, The Renaissance. A Lecture Delivered in the Freemasons' Hall, Edinburgh, on Saturday, June 24, 1882.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and sons. 1882. A rare publication, 'Printed strictly for Private Circulation.' Octavo. pp. 58. In publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles and dark green endpapers. Author of the more widely circulated 'On Musical Education and Vocal Culture', Bach was a professional singer based in Edinburgh. More