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![The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo [and] Tootleoo Two. Bernard DARWIN, and Elinor](/pictures/thumb/49527.jpg?v=1510764925)
The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo [and] Tootleoo Two.
London: The Nonesuch Press, n.d. [1925 and 1927]. [Children's Illustrated]. FIRST EDITIONS. In two volumes. Oblong (19 x 26cm), unpaginated. With bright colour illustrations by Elinor Darwin facing every page of text. In publisher's original paper-covered card covers, with red decoration to volume I and blue to volume II. Some..... More
The Adventures of Oliver Twist. Or, The Parish Boy's Progress.
London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. (c. 1880). LARGE PAPER ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Very large octavo; pp. xvi, (1), 506. With 24 illustrations by Cruikshank from the original plates, tipped-in on to grey boards. Bound in recent half speckled calf with red and green title labels to spine, marbled boards, top edge..... More
When I Lived in Bohemia. Papers selected from the portfolio of Peter - esq.
Bristol, Arrowsmith. London, Simkin Marshall. [1892]. [Mystery]. First edition. Small 8vo. Publisher's terracotta cloth titled and decorated in black and gilt to spine and front board. Some soiling to the cloth, nevertheless a very good, tight copy. Internally clean, ownership to pastedown and front flyleaf. Illustrated throughout. A novel presented..... More
A Book of Designs of Deep Sea Racing Craft. Issued Under the Auspices of the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club.
London: Ernest J. Day and Company, [1932]. FIRST EDITION. Oblong quarto, pp.viii, 116. Bound in full dark blue Morocco with gilt emblem to upper board, later respine to style. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Introduction by Malden Heckstall-Smith, followed by 116 pages of plans. Some light spotting to prelims, some..... 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 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 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
The Naked Civil Servant.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.217; [1]. Publisher's purple cloth titled in silver to spine, in photographic dust-jacket designed by Ivor Kaplin with the photographs by Simon Dell, Angus McBean, and Peter Hirst Smith. Light shelf wear to the cloth, some spotting to edges. Dust-jacket is slightly soiled..... More
"The Living Daylights" (released through United Artists). Aston Martin Assembly Manual.
[n.p.] [1987, printed later]. Spiral bound reproduction manual produced by 007 Magazine, for the modifications to be carried out on the Aston Martin V8 vehicles used by James Bond (played by Timothy Dalton) in the 1987 Eon Productions film. Fifteen card sheets printed on rectos only, illustrated throughout with photographs..... More
'The Perplexing Date Line' contained within 'Holiday' magazine. Vol 28, No.5, November 1960
Philadelphia, Curtis Publishing Co. 1960. pp.226 Price 60cents. Magazine format, colour illustrated covers. Some creasing/edgewear. Very good. Contains the first appearance of this Ian Fleming article, being the original full-length essay; it was cut and re-named 'Honolulu' when published as the fourth chapter of 'Thrilling Cities' (November 1963). More
The Chase of The Golden Plate.
London: Collier and Co., 1908. First edition. Octavo, pp.224. Near fine in publisher's ribbed bottle green clothtitled in gilt to the spine and front board. Decorated in blind to front board with two pictorial inlays. Light bumping to head and tail of spine otherwise fine. Internally clean A splendid copy..... More
Opium: The Demon Flower.
New York: Montrose Publishing Co., 1926. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xvi, 310. Black cloth with gilt title to spine and upper board, in light brown dustjacket. Some spotting to prelims, titles to spine heavily rubbed, sight wear to the extremities of the cloth. Dustwrapper shows some wear with rubbing..... More
The Song of The Cotton Picker. With photos by Carl Julien.
Clinton, South Carolina: Jacob's Press. 1942. First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo. Publisher's red rexine, leather effect cloth with onlay photgraphic title label to front board. Bright and sharp, small square of fading to head of spine. In a very good dustwrapper, frayed and chipped to head of spine..... More
The Scarlet Letter.
London: Methuen and co., 1920. First Thomson Illustrated Edition. Bound in recent red half morocco over red cloth, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Profusely illustrated with 32 tipped in colour plates. Publisher's original cloth front board and spine bound in at rear. Binding is tight and shows..... More
Einleitung zu der Herolds-Kunst, auff eine bequeme und deutliche Art verfasset, in zwey Theilen. Die Wapen der vornehmsten Staaten und Republiques von gantz Europa gleichsam auff einen Anblick darstellend und in dieser teutschen Ubersetzung mit einem neuen Theil von der Wapen-Kunst insgemein, laut des nohtwendigen Berichtes in der Vorrede, vermehret.
Hamburg, 1694. First Edition of the German translation of Caspar Bussing's original Latin work published the year before, containing the Arms of all the European Emperors, Kings and other Rulers. Small oblong 8vo. (95 x 150mm). Contemporary full roan with raised bands, gilt and red title label to spine. Illustrated..... More
Attack Alarm.
London: Collins. 1943. First Indian Edition. Octavo. In cream soft paper cover. Dust wrapper with titles in black to front cover and spine, and publisher's adverts for further titles to rear cover; unprice-clipped, originally priced at two rupees. Paper binding is rubbed, worn to extremities. Dust wrapper shows well, with..... More
The Mint, by 352087 A/c Ross A Day-book of the R.A.F.Depot between August and December 1922 with later notes.
London, Jonathan Cape. 1955. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. Publisher's blue morocco-backed buckram morocco boards. One of 2000 copies numbered in ink. Printed on fine laid paper with marbled endpapers, deckle edges, top edge gilt. Clean within but for spotting to first and final leaves, cloth marked at fore-edge. A very..... More
Lyra Australis; Or, Attempts To Sing In A Strange Land.
London: Bickers and Bush, 1854. First Edition. Octavo. Bound by Bone and Son in publisher's green cloth, with embossed foliage in the outline of a lyre, with gilt titles and further embossed foliage to spine; pale yellow endpapers, uncut and unopened. Binding is rubbed and a little grubby, worn at..... More
Tales of Mean Streets.
London, Methuen. 1894. First Edition. 8vo. 301pp + 32pp ads dated October 1894. Publisher's olive green cloth titled in gilt to spine and front boards. Contemporary Rockwell Kent-designed bookplate to front pastedown. Minor wear. A bright, near fine copy. Published in the same year as 'A Child of The Jago'..... More
The Yellow Claw.
Lippincott's Magazine. 1915. First appearance in print, bound from the parts. 8vo. Attractively bound in recent half green morocco leather with gilt titles to spine, black title label. Green cloth boards and plain endpapers. Near fine. Bound from the parts extracted from the 1915 issues of Lippincott's Magazine predating the..... More
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Night on The Devil's Pathway. [Night on the Pathway]. A Master Thriller.
London: The World's Work, 1938. [American Crime Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo. Publisher's light green cloth titled in black to spine and upper. With the colour illustrated dust-jacket. Very light wear to spine ends. dustwrapper, bright, sharp and clean with very slight wear to head and tail of spine. Trifling..... More
The Rajputs: A Fighting Race. A Short Account of the Rajput Race, its Warlike Past, its Early Connections with Great Britain, and its Gallant Services at the Present Moment at the Front.
London: East and West Ltd. 1915. First Edition. Quarto, pp. xvi, 164. With a foreword by General Sir O'Moore Creagh, ex commander-in-Chief, India. With 61 plates tipped in. In khaki cloth with gilt titles spine and upper board, gilt margins to upper board. Top edge gilt, all other edges untrimmed..... More
The Darkwater Hall Mystery.
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1978. Limited edition. Number 67 of 165 copies. 8vo. Illustrated by Elspeth Sojka. Bound in publisher's original marbled card wraps. Fine with trifling edgewear. Internally clean and bright, a very pretty copy of a scarce piece of Sherlockiana. More
The Golfer's Manual. Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the National Game of Scotland by 'A Keen Hand' and originally Published in 1857 and now Reprinted with an Introduction by Bernard Darwin.
London: The Dropmore Press, 1947. Private Press. Limited to 750 numbered copies. Pps. xi, 84, (1). Publisher's original green cloth spine lettered in gilt, printed paper boards, top edge tinted green, original illustrated dust-jacket and card slip-case with numbered label to spine. Text printed on hand made paper with wood..... More
Extracts from Regimental Orders, for the Use of the First Battalion Grenadier Guards.
[Private Compilation]. n.d. [c.1878]. ORIGINAL HANDBOOK, printed material interleaved with MS notes. Octavo, pp.36, xcv. With approximately half the booklet consisting of blank unpaginated leaves. Printed material interleaved with MS notes in black and red ink, paginated by hand in Roman numerals. Some annotations to printed leaves. Folding poster 'Arrangement..... More