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The Third Holiday Book.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., no date [1948]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.192. With four double-sided colour plates by Boswell, and frequent in-text illustrations by various artists. Publisher's green quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and also to orange paper over boards. Red..... More
The Pie and the Patty-Pan.
New York, NY: Frederick Warne and Co., 1905. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST US EDITION. (19 x 15cm), pp.52. With 10 chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by the author, and many more in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue paper-covered boards with white titles to spine and upper board, and a small circular chromolithographic illustration..... More
Tales From Shakspeare. Designed for the Use of Young People.
London: George Routledge and Sons, no date [circa 1880]. [Children's Illustrated] GILBERT ILLUSTRATIONS. Octavo (17 X 11cm), pp.[2] viii; 371; [3]. With eight wood engraved illustrations by Gilbert, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. All edges and endpapers marbled..... More
Tiny Carteret.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1930]. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Spurrier, priced at 7/6 to spine. Light offsetting to endpapers; text lightly browned. Spine lightly sunned. Rather worn jacket..... More
An Essay Descriptive of the Abbey Church of Romsey, in Hampshire, Founded by King Edward the Elder: Compiled by from Various Voluminous Works and Ancient Manuscripts, in the British Museum and Elsewhere.
Romsey: C. L. Lordan, no date [circa 1845]. [Church architecture] SECOND EDITION. Duodecimo (20 x 12cm), pp.[8]; viii; 124. With a lithographic illustrated title page, and a chromolithographic frontispiece. Publisher's blind-decorated brown cloth with gilt titles to upper board. All edges untrimmed. Reading lean; some weakness to binding at the..... More
Ancient Britain. South Sheet.
Chessington: Ordnance Survey, 1951. [Map of Ancient Britain] FIRST EDITION. A folding map on canvas backing with accompanying booklet, bound together. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.36. Map scale 1:625,000 (10 miles to 1 inch). Green cloth library binding, with gilt titles to spine and blind stamp to upper board. Some..... More
Streams.
Lindfield: Lemon Publications, 1975. [Poetry] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.145; [1]; unpaginated blanks to rear. Publisher's printed wrappers. Signed and inscribed on the title page: "To Guy | Have a jolly jubilee | mate | Peter | The Bend | Lindfield. 77." With a foreword by Spike..... More
[Five Publishers' Sample Books]. 'Our Martyred President: The Life and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield'; 'The London Dickens'; 'The Klondike Gold Fields'; 'Canada Under the Administration of Lord Dufferin'; 'Earl Kitchener and the Great War'.
[various publishers in North America], n.d. [c.1870's - 1910's]. [Book history] RARE PUBLISHERS' SAMPLES. Five volumes, octavo (largest volume 22 x 15cm). Each in publisher's cloth, all slim volumes lacking titles to spines. Each sample is unique, some containing lined paper at the back for the salesman to record subscribers..... More
Peace in War.
London: Collins, 1943. [Art / English Topography] FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.80. With 25 photogravure illustrations of paintings depicting the English countryside by Seago, and a frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of 12s. 6d. net..... More
Poems of Childhood.
London: Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1912]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.[8]; 46; [2]. With twelve chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by Millicent Sowerby. In publisher's quarter cream cloth with textured cream red and green cloth over boards. Gilt titles to spine and..... More
The Sleepless.
London: Heinemann, 1993. [Horror] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[4]; 474; [2]. Publisher's black cloth, titles in silver to spine, dust-jacket designed by Button Design Co., with printed price of £15.99. Textblock lightly toned with some very slight spotting to edges. Wrapper lightly handled. Near fine. More
Confetti for a Killing.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1937. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, LATER ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.280; [8]. Publisher's secondary binding of red cloth, black titles to spine, dust-jacket illustrated by Nina Miller Davidson. Neat ownership to flyleaf, light spotting and dustiness to edges. Jacket clipped and repriced at 4/6..... More
Lionboy: The Chase.
London: Puffin, 2004. [Children's Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 320; [6]. With occasional illustrated maps and diagrams by Fred van Deelen. SIGNED by the author/s in black ink to the title page. Publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine. Orange endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... More
The Martyr of Erromanga. Or, the Philosophy of Missions, Illustrated from the Labours, Death and Character of the Late Rev. John Williams.
London: John Snow, 1842. [South Pacific Missionary] FINELY BOUND, the Second Edition. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] xii; 526 [2]. With a hand coloured frontispiece and a wood engraved title page vignette. Contemporary brown full calf with raised bands and gilt titles to black label, and further gilt decoration to..... More
Poor Jack.
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846. [Novel] Finely bound. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[x]; 384; [2], blank. Red half calf binding over red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, raised bands with blind panelling. Black and white pictorial frontispiece, illustrations by Clarkson Stanfield. Some spotting, damp marks to..... More
The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. [American Literature / Verse] FIRST EDITION, First Issue, with "treacherous" for "ruddy", l.3, p.124. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.215; [1], blank; 12, advertisements dated October 1858. Publisher's brown cloth decoratively blocked in blind, gilt-lettered to spine, brown endpapers. This copy with the additional inserted ad..... More
On The Borderland
London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1884. [Fiction] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 416; [4], blank. Brown half calf over marbled boards lettered in gilt to spine, gilt decorated raised bands on spine, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Spotting to first and last few pages otherwise internally clean and bright..... More
The Piper of Hamelin: A Fantastic Opera in Two Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1893. [Illustrated Drama] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.64. With 12 wood engraved plates by Thomson, as well as a decorated title page. Publisher's light green cloth with darker green titles to spine and upper board. Top edge green, others untrimmed. Black ink ownership..... More
The Bird of Night.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1972. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 186. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Craig Dodd with printed price of £1.95 net. Neat ownership to flyleaf, a little dustiness to top edge else a fine copy. Shortlisted for the Booker..... More
Cold Marble and other ghost stories.
London: Faber and Faber, 1985. [Children's ghost stories] FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.101; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Pentagram with printed price of £5.95 net. With the publisher's review slip loosely inserted. Textblock marginally toned. Fine. More
Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy. Another case from the records of Biggles and the Special Air Police.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1961. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.182; [2]. With a chromolithographic frontispiece and occasional in-text illustrations by Leslie Stead. Publisher's brown cloth with green titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Stead, price obscured. Very light spotting to edges. Bruising and very..... More
Nenagh Minstrelsy: A Volume of Original Poems, Songs, and Translations, Compiled, Revised, and Published by John O'Shea.
Nenagh: Printed at the Office of the Guardian, 1838-39. [Irish Poetry and Songs] ONLY EDITION. Sexto (18 x 12cm), pp.xii; 7-126 [2]; pp.64 [2]; pp.56 [2]; pp.11 [1]. Complete with the two separate title pages dated 1838. Contemporary green diced cloth with gilt titles to spine and yellow coated endpapers..... More
The Terminators.
London: Collins, 1971. [Intrigue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.255; [1]. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket priced at £1.50. Some light general wear, small ding to top of rear wrapper panel and lower board. Very Good. Adventure caper featuring the sardonic and resourceful British agent Idwal Rees..... More
The Iron Woman.
London: Faber and Faber, 1993. [Children's fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.87. Publisher's black cloth in black pictorial dust-jacket priced £9.99. Internally clean and free from spotting; spine-ends a touch bumped. Dust-wrapper is rubbed with minor chips and tears at spine ends. Very Good. Ted Hughes' classic of..... More
The Pie and the Patty-Pan.
New York, NY: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1920s]. [Children's Illustrated] VINTAGE US EDITION. (18 X 15cm), pp.52. With 10 colour plates including a frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's address given as 26 East 22d Street, making this edition no earlier than..... More