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T.Rex. Marc Bolan - Electric Warrior.
no date [taken 1971]. [Glam rock] Original black and white photograpH. Printed by photographer Spud Murphy, titled signed and dated by him in ink to lower margin. In an elegant acid-neutral mount, glaze, and bespoke archival frame. Overall dimensions 37 x 46 cm. Fine. This classic shot shows the band..... More
History of the French Revolution. From 1789 to 1814.
London: David Bogue, 1846. [French Revolution] PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[xii]; 424; [2] blank. Dark green polished calf binding, with raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, gilt titles to red label on spine, gilt to boards, yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Forest Proprietary Grammar School crest to..... More
White Man Falling.
Richmond: Alma Books, 2006. [Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6]; 285; [5]. Number 111 of just 250 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to a limitation page. Issued with a variant dust-jacket by Goldsboro Books. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With..... More
Mark Twain's Pleasure Trip on the Continent. The complete work previously issued under the title of "The Innocents Abroad" and the "New Pilgrim's Progress".
London: John Camden Hotten, 1871. [Literature] 2 VOLUMES IN 1. Octavo (16 x 11cm), pp. 256; 259; [1] imprint; [20] advertisements. Contemporary red half morocco, lettered and decorated in gilt to spine, marbled boards. Brown endpapers, pictorial frontispiece and title page vignette. Ownership to titlpage, textblock spotted and a shaken..... More
A New Topographical, Historical, and Commercial Survey of the Cities, Towns, and Villages, of the County of Kent. Arranged in Alphabetical Order.
Canterbury: Printed for the Author, 1776. [Kent Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[4]; xxxvi; 828; [4]. With the folding distances chart. In recent brown quarter calf with raised bands and gilt titles to a red label on the spine. Marbled paper over boards. Textblock toned to edges, some..... More
A Tradition of Victory.
London: Hutchinson, 1981. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.296. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, cartographic endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Chris Mayger. Discreet Harrods library blind stamp to rear pastedown. Some spotting to edges, slightly handled with some bumping to corners and spine..... More
The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Western Railway [and] The Official Illustrated Guide to the Bristol and Exeter, North and South Devon, Cornwall, and South Wales Railways, Including the Amalgamated West Midland Line, and the Chester and Holyhead Line, also, the Isle of Man. With descriptions of the most Important Manufactories in the several Towns on the Lines.
London: Griffin, Bohn, and Co., no date [1861]. [Railway Guide] SECOND EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Small octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[8]; 800; pp.[6]; 280; [2]. Filled with wood engravings by the author, as well as a steel-engraved frontispiece of Chepstow Castle by Bartlett and Cousen. In a mid-twentieth..... More
Incendiary.
London: Chatto and Windus, 2005. [Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 242; [6]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, dated 17th June 2005, three weeks before the book was published. Number 58 of 500 copies stated on a special tipped in..... More
Playtime and Company: A Book for Little Children.
London: Methuen and Co., 1925. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.95; [1]. With wood engravings by Shepard to every page. Publisher's pink quarter cloth with titles printed to paper label laid over spine. Glossy paper-covered boards with colour illustrations by Shepard. Yellow endpapers. Tiny ownership to flyleaf..... More
Murder in Bermuda.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1935. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, COLONIAL ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.280. Publisher's light blue cloth with black titles to spine. With the rare dust-jacket, illustrated in colour to the front cover, no price. Jacket and front pastedown stamped 'Overseas Edition'. Corners lightly bumped. Spine toned..... More
Original Concept drawing for an outfit designed by Yuki for Diana Spencer, HRH The Princess of Wales.
Studio Yuki, 1990. Original pencil drawing with colour accent on lightweight paper, titled, signed and dated by Diana's dress designer Yuki. Loose on acid-neutral card, with elegant contrasting mount, glazed and archiveally framed. Overall dimensions 55 x 42 cm. One of the original concept sketches by the designer Yuki for..... More
Original Concept drawing for an outfit designed by Yuki for Diana Spencer, HRH The Princess of Wales.
Studio Yuki, 1986. Original pencil drawing with colour accent on lightweight paper, titled, signed and dated by Diana's dress designer Yuki. Loose on acid-neutral card, with elegant contrasting mount, glazed and archivally framed. Overall dimensions 55 x 42 cm. One of the original concept sketches by the designer Yuki for..... More
Original Concept drawing for an outfit designed by Yuki for Diana Spencer, HRH The Princess of Wales.
Studio Yuki, 1986. Original pencil and ink drawing in full colour on lightweight paper, titled, signed and dated by dress designer Yuki. Loose on acid-neutral card, with elegant contrasting mount, glazed and archiveally framed. Overall dimensions 55 x 42 cm. One of the original concept sketches by the designer Yuki..... More
Original Concept drawing for an outfit designed by Yuki for Diana Spencer, HRH The Princess of Wales.
Studio Yuki, 1987. Original pencil drawing with colour accent on lightweight paper, titled, signed and dated by Diana's dress designer Yuki. Loose on acid-neutral card, with elegant contrasting mount, glazed and archiveally framed. Overall dimensions 55 x 42 cm. One of the original concept sketches by the designer Yuki for..... More
Hitler. Where is Germany Going?
New York, NY: Dial Press, 1932. [Modern European History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[viii]; 256; [8], blank. With photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to backstrip, striking pictorial jacket by Samuel Bernard Schaeffer priced at $3.00. Neat ink ownership dated 1932, jacket a little toned to..... More
Peckover.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1934. [Modern Literature]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[xii]; 297; [1], blank; [10], advertisements. Publisher's navy blue cloth in striking pictorial jacket by Fraser, priced 3/6, showing the confused Gilbert Peckford's haunting and bloodshot reflection. A clean copy of the book, bright wrapper with a...... More
Instruction in Military Engineering, Volume I (Part III) Military Bridges. Compiled at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1877. [Military history] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.iv; 174. With forty illustrated plates. Contemporary straight grained red morocco, gilt titles to spine and upper board, gilt name to base of front cover: Lieutenant G. Turnbull. All edges gilt; yellow coated endpapers. Small ex..... More
The Time of the Hero [The City and the Dogs].
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.409. Publisher's hardcover in original dust-wrapper. No inscriptions or price-clipping. A clean, fine copy. The Nobel-winning Peruvian writer's first novel, set among the cadets at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, which he attended as a teenager. The novel portrays the..... More
A Word to Gandhi.
London: William and Norgate 1931. FIRST EDITION, octavo, pp.142. Travel writer ROBERT BYRON'S REFERENCE COPY with his pencil signature and annotations; Byron published 'An Essay on India' the same year. Original yellow card covers printed in black. Some expected rubbing and toning to extremities but generally near fine. Byron has..... More
Crow Lake.
Toronto, ON: Alfred A Knopf, 2002. SIGNED TRUE FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.294. Fore edge untrimmed. Bound in publisher's teal paper-covered boards, in a photographic dustjacket depicting a lake. Fine condition. Spotless throughout, as new. Dustjacket in like. The book is signed by Mary Lawson to the title page. This edition..... More
The Blackbird's Nest. A Tale for Youth.
Philadelphia, PA: Johnson and Warner, 1812. [Children's Antiquarian]. EARLY EDITION. Vigesimo-quarto (13 x 9cm), pp.36. With occasional vignette wood engravings. Recently re-backed in matching grey card with original grey illustrated paper covers laid over. Remarkably crisp and clean, with some wear to original cover edges. Very good. A fine wholesome..... More
[Review of 'Valperga' in] Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. No. LXXIV.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, March 1823. [Literary Magazine] CONTEMPORARY REVIEW. Octavo magazine in the original grey paper wrapper. pp.[2] 263-384 [4]. Edges untrimmed. An astonishingly well-preserved example, with just the slightest of spotting to preliminaries and some light thumbing and wear to the covers. Near-fine. A rare contemporary review of Mary..... More
[The Riding of Ninemileburn, in] Blackwood's Magazine No. MCLVIII [1158].
London: William Blackwood and Sons, April 1912. FIRST APPEARANCE. Large octavo, pp.[32], 445-496. In publisher's light brown paper wrappers with titles and contents to front cover. Some expected wear; small losses to spine; very good. The first appearance of a strange tale included in the published collection 'The Moon Endureth'..... More
Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel [in] The Grand Magazine. No. 143.
London: George Newnes, January 1917. [Literary Magazine] FIRST UK APPEARANCE. Octavo magazine (24 x 17cm), pp.viii; 261-380; xi-xvi. With four double-sided photogravure plates. Publisher's colour-illustrated covers with advertisements to rear. Browned, as expected. A few chips from covers, and head and tail of spine. A large mended tear to rear..... More
T.E. Lawrence: Contrast and Conflict [in] Now and Then.
London: Jonathan Cape, Autumn 1937. [Book Reviews] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.40. With two double-sided black and white plates. Also with three associated loose adverts for books. Publisher's printed paper cover, with two large staples to spine. Heavy oxidation to staples, otherwise near fine. A collection of contemporary..... More