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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
Realistic Pictures.
London: The Gallery at John Jones Frames, 1991. [Modernism] FIRST (and only) EDITION. Portfolio (12 x 12 inches) of 10 photographs together with two printed text sheets, housed in original polythene sleeve with text printed in white. Fine throughout, with minor handling to bag. A scarce automotive/industrial/architectural item; only one..... More
Catalogue from Big Pic Box / The Beauty of Our Weapons.
London: Architectural Association, 1988. FIRST (and only) EDITION. A 24-page square catalogue (12 x 12 inches), illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine condition. A scarce automotive/industrial/architectural item. Andrew Holmes is Britain's best-known super-realist painter and graphic designer. He is also an architect and one of the original..... More
The History of the Construction and Craftsmanship of the Racing VIII.
[privately produced and bound]. no date [1959]. ['Eight' Boat Construction] AUTOGRAPH THESIS. Quarto (29 x 22cm), pp.[10] 44 [7]. With one page number per leaf, and 15 photographs of the construction process pasted to bank sides facing text. A frontispiece illustration has been cut out of a magazine and pasted..... 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
Histoire des Diables de Loudun, Ou de la Possession des Religieuses Ursulines, Et de la condamnation et du suplice D'Urbain Grandier, Cure de la meme Ville. Cruels effets de la vengeance du Cardinal de Richelieu.
Amsterdam: Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1740. [Huguenot History] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.[8] 378 [4]. With a copper engraved frontispiece. All text in French. Contemporary speckled calf with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt decoration to spine. Marbled endpapers; edges speckled red. Recent repairs to head and..... More
Addition. Folio IX.
London: Architectural Association, 1986. [Modernism] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, number 850 of 1000 copies. Portfolio (12 x 12 inches) of 20 silkscreen prints which when assembled form a print 1525 x 1120 mm, together with 28-page catalogue printed in colour, housed in folding box with ribbon pull release, titled in white..... More
A Child's Book of Hours.
London: Humphrey Milford, n.d. [1921]. FIRST EDITION. Folio (37 x 25cm), unpaginated, printed on 16 thick card leaves with 12 fine chromolithographic plates. In publisher's quarter tan cloth with tan paper-covered boards. Titles and clock illustration printed in colour to upper board. With rare original dust-jacket, mirroring upper board. Very..... More
Instructions to Young Sportsmen, with directions for the Choice, Care, and Management of Guns; Hints for the Preservation of Game; and Instructions For Shooting Wildfowl. To Which is added, A Concise Abridgment of The Principal Game Laws.
LonJohnson and Co, St Paul's Church-Yard, 1814. [Firearms reference] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.xvi; 150. Publisher's drab grey paper-covered boards, printed title label to spine, edges untrimmed. Contents clean, covers a little bumped and marked, joints worn, chipped to crown of spine. A very good example of a...... More
[Enamelled Russian Address Book featuring a Winter portrait of Lenin].
no date [circa 1980's]. A simple Cyrillic address book in a red plastic binding (14 x 7cm), but uniquely decorated in black over the top with an enamelled image of Lenin leaning on a shovel in a snowy park. Fine and unused inside; some cracking and chipping of the enamel..... More
Extract from Adam's Diary.
New York, NY and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906. [Comedic fiction] Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 89; [1] blank. Frontispiece, and numerous in-text illustrations by F.Strothmann. Bound in red morocco with green labels over original pictorial cloth sides. Contents clean, minor marks to covers. A fine copy in a handsome..... More
Laughing Gas.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1936. [Comic novel] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 303; [3] blank. Publisher's orange cloth titled in black to spine, with black illustration to spine and upper board, top-edge dark orange. Pictorial dust jacket priced at $2.00. Toning to endpapers..... More
The Poetic Parrot.
London: Faber and Faber, 1952. [Childrens illustrated] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.96. Publisher's yellow cloth titled in green to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 6s. 6d. net, numerous in-text illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Internally clean and bright. A few faint marks to cloth. Wrapper a little rubbed..... More
The Picnic Basket.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1967. [Memoir] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[xxvi]; 224. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gold to spine, photographic dust-jacket designed by Martin Bronkhorst, printed price 36s net, top edge purple, photographic frontispiece of author. Signed by author to flyleaf. Minor spotting to edges, internally..... More
The Guardsman and Cupid's Daughter. And Other Poems.
London: Humphrey Toulmin, 1930. LIMITED EDITION, this being number 289 of 500 copies SIGNED by the Author and Artist. Octavo. Frontispiece and further black and white illustrations by John Austen. Publisher's green cloth, gilt title to spine and pictorial title label laid to upper. Top edge gilt, all other edges..... More
Two Ravens.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1977. [Historical Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 199; [3]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket showing an Icelandic wood carving, priced at £3.95. Textblock a little browned, with some spotting to top edge. Slight reading lean, spine ends..... More
Money In the Bank.
New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1942. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 300; [4]. Publisher's brown cloth with black titles to spine and black illustrations to spine and upper board. Fore edge untrimmed. Pictorial dust-jacket designed by Donald McKay with printed price of $2.00..... More
The Small Bachelor.
New York, NY: A.L. Burt Company, no date [1928]. [Classic Humour] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.317; [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, illustrated dust-jacket designed by Hartmann. Lightly browned throughout. Gilt to spine oxidised. Some light bruising chipping to wrapper edges, aome..... More
Journal of the Franklin Institute, of the State of Pennsylvania, for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts. Devoted to Mechanical and Physical Science, Civil Engineering, the Arts and Manufactures, and the Recording of American and other Patented Inventions. Third Series. Vol. XXI, Whole No. Vol. LI [and] LII.
Philadelphia, PA: Published by the Franklin Institute, 1851. [Engineering Papers] ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS, FINELY BOUND. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 444; pp.[2]; 444; [4]. With numerous folding charts and diagrams. Later straight grained tan morocco, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine, as well..... More
Bond, The Beatles and My Year With Marilyn. 50 Years as a Movie Marketing Man.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2018. [Memoir] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED COPY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 223; [1], blank. A paperback original. Signed by the author, with promotional bookmark loosely inserted. Fine/As new. Autographs obtained at the launch party held at the Bond In Motion exhibition, London Film Museum..... More
Cruising and Ocean Racing. The Lonsdale Library Volume XV.
London: Seeley Service and Co. Ltd., 1933. [Yachting] ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.592. Publisher's tan cloth, titled in gilt to spine, gilt insignia to spine and upper board, blue illustrative endpapers, top edge brown, photographic frontispiece. With over five hundred illustrations. Some spotting to the textblock. Binding a little..... More
At 12 Mr Byng was shot...
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962. [Naval Narrative History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 338; [2]. With eight double-sided black and white plates, and several other maps and illustrations in-text. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge light blue. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Francis Russell..... More
The Brushwood Boy. With Illustrations by F. H. Townsend.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1907. [Fantasy] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm). With ninety-two numbered leaves printed on rectos only. Illustrated with sixteen plates in colour, frontispiece with tissue guard present. Smartly bound in recent dark blue half calf over publisher's original gilt-pictorial sides, top edge gilt. Some light..... More
Manuscript letter responding to an editor's request.
London [105 Great Russell Street, WC1] 1972. A brief signed letter, written in black ink, nine lines in total including handwritten address and salutation, declining an offer to contribute material. Single sheet of writing paper (25 x 20cm), folded twice. Near fine, in a grey cloth folder with gilt lettering..... More