Literature
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
The Tired Train, and other stories.
London: Max Parrish, No date [circa 1952]. [Children's Illustrated] COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS. Octavo (22 x 19cm), pp.36. Colour illustrations throughout. Publisher's blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine and gilt motif to upper. Light spotting and toning to preliminaries. Sunning to spine and board top edges, tearing to spine head. Very..... More
Regiment of Women.
London: Eyre Methuen, 1974. [Modern fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. 349 [3]. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £2.75 to flap. Interiors clean and bright with minor toning to edges. Very small white mark to low upper board. Gentle..... More
The Lady with a Lamp.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1929. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.136. Publisher's black cloth with red paper title label to spine. With the plain dust-jacket, priced at 3/6 for paper, or 5s for cloth. A small blue ink gift inscription to fly-leaf. Quite heavy spotting and offsetting to endpapers..... More
Social Life in England and France, From the French Revolution in 1789, to That of July 1830. By the editor of Madame du Deffand's Letters.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831. [Social Studies] PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.vii; [1]; 214; [4]. INSCRIBED to Lord Henry Peter Brougham by Berry in brown ink to title page: 'To | The Lord Chancellor Brougham | from the author | MB.' Advertisements to..... More
Love and Fame.
London: Faber & Faber, 1972. [American Poetry] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.96. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at £1.40. Very slight toning to jacket spine, with some light rubbing and a few small closed tears to edges. Near fine..... More
A Fountain Sealed.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1897. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. viii; 301; [1]; 32, publisher's advertisements. With the half-tone frontispiece illustration by H.G. Burgess. Patterned endpapers. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to upper and spine, embossed pattern to upper. Exlibris stamp front paste down, some spotting..... More
More Adventures of Rupert [Daily Express Rupert Bear Annual], No.18.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by L.T.A. Robinson Ltd., no date [1953]. [Children's Annual] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.118 [2]. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's matt illustrated card covers, with pictorial endpapers. Title page priced at 4s. 'The Book Belongs To' section filled out in pencil. Colouring section..... More
The New Rupert [Daily Express Rupert Bear Annual], No.19.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by L.T.A. Robinson Ltd., no date [1954]. [Children's Annual] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.123. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy illustrated card covers, with pictorial endpapers. Title page priced at 4/6. 'The Book Belongs To' section filled out in blue ink and pencil..... More
Rupert [Daily Express Rupert Bear Annual], No.20.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by L.T.A. Robinson Ltd., no date [1955]. [Children's Annual] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.107. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy illustrated card covers, with pictorial endpapers. Title page priced at 4/6. 'The Book Belongs To' section filled out in blue ink. Colouring section..... More
Rupert [Daily Express Rupert Bear Annual], No.22.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Oldbourne, no date [1957]. [Children's Annual] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.107. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy illustrated card covers, with pictorial endpapers. Title page price-clipped. 'The Book Belongs To' section filled out in black ink. Colouring sections at front and rear..... More
Poems in the Porch.
London: S.P.C.K., 1957. [Poetry] ILLUSTRATED EDITION, a later printing. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[28]. With in-text illustrations by Piper. Publisher's soft covers titled in blue and red, stapled twice and priced at 2s. Blue ink gift inscription to half-title. Covers toned with some light handling. Very good. Some blank verse..... More
Summoned By Bells. With Drawings by Michael Tree.
London: John Murray, 1960. [Verse Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 18cm), pp.[8] 111 [1]. With engraved head-pieces by Tree. Publisher's blind stamped green cloth with gilt titles to spine and decorative endpapers. With the typographic dust-jacket printed in red and black, priced at 16s. Blue ink ownership to verso..... More
Summoned By Bells. With Drawings by Michael Tree.
London: John Murray, 1960. [Verse Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 18cm), pp.[8] 111 [1]. With engraved head-pieces by Tree. Publisher's blind stamped green cloth with gilt titles to spine and decorative endpapers. With the typographic dust-jacket printed in red and black, priced at 16s. Near fine in like wrapper..... More
Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse.
London: John Murray, 1977. [Poetry] FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[10] 45 [1]. With in-text illustrations by various artists. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to upper. With the dust-jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer, priced at £2.95. Jacket toned and rubbed to spine, with a few small closed..... More
Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse.
London: John Murray, 1937. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[10] 45 [1]. With in-text illustrations by various artists. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to upper. All edges gilt. With the dust-jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer, priced at 7/6. Light spotting to endpapers. Rubbing to cloth, with..... More
A Few Late Chrysanthemums.
London: John Murray, 1954. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.viii; 95 [1]. Publisher's purple cloth, with printed titles to a plain paper label pasted to upper. With the plain yellow typographic dust-jacket, priced at 9/6. Blue ink ownership to fly-leaf. Spotting to jacket, with some toning also to..... More
New Bats in Old Belfries. Poems.
London: John Murray, 1945. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.vi; 54. Publisher's red cloth, with printed titles to a plain paper label pasted to upper. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, priced at 6s. A small black ink ownership to fly-leaf, with some light spotting and bubbling to endpapers..... More
Sand and Canvas; a Narrative of Adventures in Egypt, with a Sojourn Among the Artists in Rome.
London: Charles Gilpin, 1849. [Travel Memoirs] FIRST EDITION, an association copy. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] xii; 370 [2]. With eight engraved plates, including a frontispiece, after drawings by the author, six being hand-coloured, each with a tissue guard. Pencil note to verso of fly-leaf stating: 'Wm. Bevan - my..... More
Select Fables; With Cuts, Designed and Engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, And Others, Previous to the Year 1784: Together With a Memoir; and a Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick.
Newcastle: Printed by S. Hodgson, for Emerson Charnley, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, c. 1880s. [Fables] LEATHER-BOUND STEREOTYPE. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; xl; 332. With numerous wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Thomas and John Bewick. Brown half-calf with brown cloth to boards and blind ruling to calf..... More
The Veiled Wanderer. Letters to the Duc de Guiche and Unpublished Papers.
London: The Falcon Press, 1949. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.88. With all 12 collotype plates. Title page lettered in red and black. Publisher's light blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 7s 6d to front flap. Internally bright and clean, minor..... More
The Illustrated Family Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, With the Self-Interpreting and Explanatory Notes, and Marginal References, of the Late Rev. John Brown, Minister of the Gospel at Haddington: to Which is Appended, A Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testaments.
London: Smith, Elder, and co., 1838. [Bible] EARLY VICTORIAN BINDING. Small folio (34 x 24cm), pp.[12] xlii; 590 [2]; 256 [2]; 104; 54 [4]. Red full morocco to boards. Gilt tooling and blind ruling to lower and upper. Gilt titles and additional tooling to spine. Raised bands. Gilt interior dentelles..... More
The Holy Bible. A Critical Commentary and Paraphrase on the Old and New Testament and the Apocrypha.
London: Richard Priestley, 1822. FINELY BOUND. Quarto (32 x 26 x 28cm). Bound in contemporary diced tan calf, gilt titles on black calf squares to spine, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of Bishop Patrick to volume I, folding map of the Holy Lands in volume V. Bookplate of..... More
The Man in the Shadows.
London: Rich and Cowan, 1954. [Crime Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.208. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf: 'To | Margaret & Denys | with all my love | Charles "Barker" Bidmead | Charworth | September 1954.' Publisher's navy cloth with silver titles to..... More
The Trap.
London: Faber and Faber, 1950. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. 380; [4], blank. Publisher's cream cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket, priced at 10s. 6d. to front and back flap. Toning and spotting to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, bumping to corners, dust-jacket..... More