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A Treatise on the Venereal Disease
London; Sherwood, Neely and Jones. 1818. 'THE SECOND EDITION', with additions. Octavo, pp 569 + 5 (of 6) plates. Original half calf over marbled sides; some wear and rubbing to covers, discreetly rebacked, neat repair to lower portion of plate I (not affecting image). A serviceable copy of this landmark..... More
Little Songs of Long Ago. More Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by H. Willebeek Le Mair.
London: Augener Ltd, c. 1912. Folio. Publisher's yellow cloth with gilt titles to spine, gilt titles and pasted down colour illustration to upper board. Corners slightly bumped. Pictorial dustwrapper, bright with small chips and tears to edges. 30 (+2) Beautiful full-page colour illustrations to accompany each song. A very good..... More
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories. Including: Gertrude McFuzz and The Big Brag.
New York: Random House. 1958. First Edition; slim Quarto. Publisher's green and blue illustrated boards, with matching dust jacket. Titles in black and white to upper board and spine. Beautifully illustrated throughout by the author, including endpapers. Binding a little rubbed to extremities. Dust jacket showing light rubbing, frayed to..... More
The Rocky Horror Show: Mask of Columbia.
Los Angeles: Michael White Productions, n.d. [1974]. EPHEMERA FROM ROCKY HORROR SHOW U.S. OPENING. Card cut out mask of Columbia, approximately 26cm x 19cm with removable eyes and mouth, printed with production notes printed on the rear. Produced as a promotional item for the U.S. opening at the Roxy Theatre..... More
Electric Railways and Tramways, their Construction and Operation. A Practical Handbook, setting forth at length the modern application of Electricity as a Motive Power for Railways and Tramways; containing Complete Financial and Engineering Data as to Design, Construction, Equipment and Working; fully Illustrating all modern and accepted types of Machinery and Apparatus; and describing in detail the principal Installations of Europe and America.
London: Offices of "Engineering," 1897. [Engineering] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a revised and enlarged edition. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[20]; xxviii; 678; [22]. With frequent in-text engraved illustrations and tables. Contemporary burgundy half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and red cloth over boards with a UCL stamp in..... More
The Subterranean Club.
London; Hodder and Stoughton, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. 320pp. Fine in publisher's slate blue cloth titled and ruled in black to spine and front board. Clean and tight, in a splendid, Hodder Yellow-Jacket dustwrapper, very good indeed with some light spotting and very minor edgewear. Bright and very striking... More
Collected Animal Poems: The Iron Wolf; What is the Truth?; A March Calf; The Thought-Fox.
London: Faber and Faber, 1995. [Poetry] FIRST EDITIONS, SIGNED TO VOLUME I. Four volumes, octavo (22 x 14 x 7cm) Publisher's black cloth, white dust-wrappers, publisher's white pictorial slipcase. Signed by Hughes, the late Poet Laureate, in Volume 1. Illustrated by Chris Riddell in volume 1 and by Lisa Flather..... More
Faceless Killers.
London: Harvill Press, 2000. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 280; [2]. With a map. Signed by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. Navy endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Peter Dyer, priced at..... 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
Reports on Visits to American Automobile Body Plants during the Period of 16th April - 17th May 1946.
[Issued by the Press Steel Co., Ltd., Engineering Dept.], June 1946. Folio. This report is a British post war working draft, possibly for eventual printing, concentrating on all technical aspects of the car designs and construction in the USA with a view to develop and modernise the British car industry..... More
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.
New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1958. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.63. Publisher's glossy pictorial boards, with the matching dust-jacket, not priced. Minor edge soiling, owner's name discreetly hidden under flap. Jacket has small loss to the tail of spine, is rubbed and lightly creased..... More
Who I Am.
London: Harper Collins, 2012. [Rock Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.538. Publisher's grey hardback cloth, photographic endpapers, pictorial jacket priced £20. Illustrated with two suites of photographic plates. With signature of Pete Townshend to title page, obtained at a book-launch signing session with the retailer's original 'Signed..... More
Enter Psmith.
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, no date [1935]. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Using the British sheets. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 247; [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Anderson. Reading lean, textblock browned. Jacket with some rubbing to edges, and chips..... 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
Wheels and Butterflies. New Plays.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[x]; 181; [1], imprint; [2], blank. Publisher's gilt-embossed green cloth, edges untrimmed, in original printed dust-wrapper, priced at 6/- net. Book is fine, jacket lightly worn to crown and foot. Generally a crisp, fine copy. A collection of five plays, all..... More
A Practical Trestise on Painting. In Three Parts. Consisting of Hints on Composition, Chiaroscuro, and Colouring.
London: James Carpenter and Son, 1830. [Painting] LEATHER BOUND, a New Edition. Three parts bound in one volume. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[6]; 31; [1]; pp.viii; 45 [1]; pp.iii-xii; 64; [4]. With 25 engraved plates, eight being hand-coloured. Contemporary brown half calf, later rebacked with the original spine label laid..... More
Cape Colony (Cape Province): Its History, Commerce, Industries, and Resources.
London: The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co., 1910-1911. [South African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.792. Printed on clay paper with frequent photographic illustrations. Contemporary dark green full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. A large gilt motif showing four national..... More
A Book of Nonsense.
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1863. [Children's Illustrated] FOURTEENTH EDITION. Oblong (15 x 23cm), pp.[4] 112. Printed on the recto of each leaf only. All the original illustrations and verses, plus some new ones. Rebound in the mid twentieth century in brown half cloth with the original yellow illustrated cover..... More
Out of the Smoke; Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom,
London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, 1963, 1968. [Wartime trilogy] FIRST EDITIONS, COMPLETE. Three volumes, octavo (23 x 15 x 10cm), pp.xv; [5]; 310; [2]; pp.xiv; [2]; 290; [2]; pp.xx; 266. Publisher's cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jackets. Illustrated throughout. With an introduction to the first volume by van der..... More
The Ruhleben Bye-Election - July 1915.
Ruhleben, 1915. FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet, pp. 32. Blue pictorial wraps. Some toning to paper, wraps have detached along the spine and have some nicks along the edges. Very good, a fascinating survival. Campaign book for the election of an M.P. representing Ruhleben internment camp, just west of Berlin, which..... More
The Wind in the Wood.
London: Hollis and Carter, 1952. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[10]; 143; [1]. With twelve chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by the author, and wood engraved vignettes to chapter headings. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 18s. net..... More
The History of Surrey, by Edward Wedlake Brayley. Assisted by John Britton and E.W. Brayley, Junior. The Geological Section by Gideon Mantell.
Dorking: Robert Best Ede, 1841-48. FIRST EDITIONS. 5 volumes as 10 parts. Octavo (26 x 17 x 28cm). Publisher's original embossed purple cloth with gilt titles to evenly faded spines, yellow endpapers, edges untrimmed. Illustrated with 127 full page steel engraved plates by Thomas Allom, Thompson and others (some folding)..... More
The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To which are added, two brief dissertations: I. On Personal Identity. II. On the Nature of Virtue. Together with a Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham, at the Primary Visitation, in the Year M.DCC.LI.
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, G. Wilkie, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown [etc.], 1817. [Theology and Philosophy] CONTEMPORARY BINDING, a new edition. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.lxiv; 408. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to orange label on spine, and marbled paper over boards..... More
The Birds of the Western Palearctic: Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978-1985. FOUR VOLUMES, volume one a reprint. Quarto, pp.[10], 722; pp.[8], 695; pp.[8], 913 [2]; pp.[10], 960. With a wealth of colour illustrations. In publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spines. With original colour illustrated dust-jackets. Jackets lightly sunned to spines. Very good indeed. The..... More
Donald Maxwell 1877-1936.
Kendal: The Maxwell Estate, 1995. [Art Reference] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.xvi; 245 [3]. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt decoration to upper board. Decorated endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket. A small gum mark to..... More