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The Arts & Sciences
Dada and Surealism Reviewed.
London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 20cm), pp.xii; 475 [33]. With black and white illustrations throughout, and a suite of colour images at rear. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the grey dust-jacket. Quite heavy rubbing to jacket edges and joints, otherwise..... More
Ski-ing on Water.
London: Frederick Muller, 1956. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 143. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in pictorial dustjacket. Some occasional spotting to the textblock and marking to the edges, slight wear to the cloth. A couple of closed tears to the front panel of the dustwrapper, small loss at..... 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
DR. T.J. Barnardo: A Brief Life and Sketch. Reprinted from "Night & Day," October, 1905.
London: Dr. Barnardo's Homes, 1919. [Children's Welfare] EARLY ARTICLE. Octavo pamphlet (24 x 18cm), pp.12. No covers as issued, stapled twice. Folded both horizontally and vertically. Fairly lightly handled, with just a few marks out outer leaves. Very good. A short article on the life and work of philanthropist and..... More
Pictorial Sport and Adventure, being a record of daring and marvellous escapes by field and flood, with an account of various countries of the world and their inhabitants: the whole forming a compendium of the world.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [1898]. [True Adventure and Hunting] EARLY EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.viii; 312. With a colour frontispiece and decorated title page, and numerous engravings through the text. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper board. Cracked-earth..... More
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Triumph workshop manual [for] unit construction 350 c.c. and 500 c.c. twins : T100, T90, 5TA, 3TA, including from engine no. H65573.
Coventry: Triumph Engineering Co., no date [1969]. [Motorcycle Manual] ORIGINAL MANUAL. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.3-178. Stapled twice, in a secondary plain paper cover with titles written by hand in black ink to front cover. Central bi-fold loose. Staples rusted, with significant grease stains and thumb prints throughout. A...... More
How to Decorate a Cake.
Stourbridge: Taylor, Law & Co., 1954. [Baking / Cookery] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.32. With two colour-illustrated leaves, and black and white illustrations to almost every page. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, stapled twice. Light spotting and moderate handing to covers. Minimal oxidation to staples. Very good. A step-by-step..... More
The Goldfinger Files. The Making of the Iconic Alpine Sequence.
Steidl, 2020. [James Bond reference] DELUXE HARDCOVER EDITION. Quarto, pp.192. Glossy photo-documentary in a large hardback format with photographic covers, all edges gilt. Illustrated throughout with black & white and colour stills, with accompanying text. As new, in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert's copy. A comprehensive account of..... More
The Autobiography of Francis Arago. The Traveller's Library 78.
London: Longman, Brown, and Longmans, 1855. FIRST EDITION, with rare original covers. Crown octavo, pp.[6], 122. In publisher's original cream paper wraps with black titles printed to spine and covers. Covers lightly browned; more heavily to spine. Some loss to tail of spine. Very good indeed, especially considering the rarity..... More
De L'Administration des Etablissements d'Instruction Publique et de La Reorganisation de L'Enseignement.
Paris: De L'Imprimerie d'Hacquart, 1801. [Napoleonic Educational Reforms] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] 22. All text in French. Recently bound into plain brown paper covers, sewn, with a paper title label copied from the title page. A crisp, fine copy, in a new paper binding. A short report..... More
Isotopes.
London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1922. [Chemistry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 152. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Ownership stamp to pastedown and neat inscription to title page of Danish engineer and physicist P.O. Pedersen. Occasional discreet pencil annotation else internally fine. Cloth very slightly..... More
Life on Air. Memoirs of a Broadcaster.
London: BBC Books, 2002. [Science and Nature / Television] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.384; with eight suites of photographic plates. Brown hardcovers in photographic jacket with printed price of £18.99 to front flap. A fine, fresh copy. Attenborough's memoirs of his life in television broadcasting—both in..... More
Observations.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson Publishers, 1959. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (37 x 28cm), pp.151 [1]. White card covers lettered in grey to boards and spine. With white card slipcase lettered in red, blue, and grey to sides and spine. Black and white photogravure reproductions..... More
Practical Observations on the Nature and Treatment of Marasmus, and of those Disorders allied to it, which may be strictly denominated Bilious.
London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1818. First Edition. Small 4to; pp. x, (2), 256. Publisher's blue paper covered boards, a little stained and rubbed; grey paper spine chipped and frayed; original paper title label chipped and rubbed; edges untrimmed. Internally sound and clean. A very good copy of..... More
Birds And Beasts In Africa, and The Angler In South Africa.
London: Macmillan and Co, and Johannesburg: Hortors Ltd, 1938 and 1923. Pair of Baden-Powell association copies, with a letter of authenticity from the scout association: 1) The Angler In South Africa. Inscribed "To The Chief Scout" by H.V. Marsh, the Assistant Commissioner of Natal during Baden-Powell's trip to South Africa..... More
Boating
Longmans Green and Co., London 1888. [Sport/recreation] FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Illustrated throughout. Elegantly hand-bound in half dark blue oasis morocco leather over marbled sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, top edge gilt. A little spotting to first and final leaves else a fine copy in attractive recent..... More
Stage Management and Theatrecraft. A Stage Manager's Handbook.
London: J. Garnet Miller Ltd., 1968. [Theatre] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 304. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket showing the new lighting equipment at the Royal Opera House with printed price of 45s. (£2.25) net. Frontispiece and twenty two additional plates plus numerous in-text line..... More
A Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages. Improved and augmented with above Ten Thousand Words, omitted in the last Edition of Altieri. To which is added, and Italian and English Grammar.
London: Printed for W. Strahan [etc.], 1771. [English—Italian Dictionary] A NEW EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (17 x 22cm), pp.[10] xxxiv; [698]; pp.[4] xl; [672]. With an Italian introduction to volume I (Italian to English) and an English introduction to volume II (English to Italian). Main text printed over..... More
Views of Labour and Gold.
London: John Russell Smith, 1859. [Political Economy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[4] 190 [18]. Partly unopened (with some leaves roughly opened); yellow-coated endpapers. Publisher's binding of blind-decorated dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine, binding by Bone and Son, London. Leaves heavily worn and soiled, with damp..... More
Max's Nineties: Drawings 1892-1899.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958. [Caricatures] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.10. With 46 black and white sketches by Beerbohm on 23 double-sided plates, including 35 not previously published. Publisher's burgundy quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and stripy red and white paper-covered boards. Black endpapers; top edge red..... More
Carl Michael Bellman: Genius of the Swedish Rococo. Seventeen Songs Translated into English by Paul Britten Austin, with accompaniments for pianoforte and guitar by Arne Sahlin.
Stockholm: Reuter & Reuter Forlags AB, 1965. [Swedish Music] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (30 x 21cm), pp.[2] 61 [5]. With copies of the dust-jacket illustrations bound in at front and rear. Number 58 of just 100 copies thus, bound in orange half morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to..... More
I am Lazarus.
London: The Gallery Press, 1961. [Artist Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 209 [3]. With eight plates illustrated by the author, including a frontispiece. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to the fly-leaf: 'To Griffiths Williams | on first meeting him | from |..... More
An Introduction to Heraldry, Containing the Rudiments of the Science in General, and other Necessary Particulars Connected with the Subject.
London: Printed for T. Egerton, and White and Cochrane, 1810. FIRST EDITION, augmented with cuttings and a hand-painted illumination. Octavo, pp.[4]; 158; [2]. With 12 engraved plates, one chromolithographic plate, and one folding table of tinctures. Many heraldry-themed newspaper cuttings from the 1930s pasted and loose to all endpapers, and..... More
Man's Estate: Adventures in Economic Discovery.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1939. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.480. With notes and an index. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original cream dust-jacket with red titles to spine and covers. Top edge red. Black ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Some minor chips and..... More
Peter Blake.
London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1983. [Exhibition Catalogue] INSCRIBED COPY, First edition, second impression. Octavo (21 x 21cm), pp.136. Illustrated in colour and black and white. INSCRIBED by the artist in black ink to half-title: 'For Edward | Peter Blake.' Publisher's black soft covers. Corners lightly bumped; very light wear to..... More