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Chronograms. 5000 and more in number excerpted out of various authors and collected at many places.
London: Ellliot Stock, 1882. [Chronograms] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.xx; 569 [3]. With a lithographic frontispiece reproduction of an engraving, and 12 illustrations placed throughout the text. Publisher's green quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine and green leather-grain-effect cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed..... More
To You Mr. Chips!
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp244. Printed in two colours, with illustrations. Publisher's orange cloth, in dust-wrapper illustrated by Bip Pares. Some dustiness, jacket edgeworn, some rubbing, spine age-toned. Very good. Further stories of the retired schoolmaster Charles 'Chips' Chipping. Includes the festive..... More
The Life and Times of James Catnach, (Late of Seven Dials), Ballad Monger.
London: Reeves and Turner, 1878. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. xvi, 432 [12]. With frequent engravings. In publisher's green cloth with black titles to paper label on spine. All edges untrimmed. Reading lean. Title label badly worn; titles largely obscured. Good overall. 'Here, you may read how he was bred and..... More
That's the way I see it.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1993. [Modern Art] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 23cm), pp.248. With 365 illustrations, most in colour. Publisher's blue cloth with yellow titles to spine and a yellow illustration to upper board. Illustrated endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket. A little rubbing to cloth; jacket edges bruised. Near..... More
Enter the Lion: A Posthumous Memoir of Mycroft Holmes.
London: J. M. Dent, 1980. REVIEW COPY. Octavo, pp.xxii; [2]; 237; [3]. With publisher's compliments slip loose to prelims. In publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear; likely unread. Near fine. A prequel to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries, in which Mycroft..... More
Little Lord Fauntleroy. Collection of British Authors. Tauchnitz Edition. Vol. 2479.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1887. COPYRIGHT EDITION (TAUCHNITZ). Octavo, pp. 279; 13 [advertisements]. Bound in publisher's soft paper covers with publishing details, titles, etc. printed to front. Fore edge and tail edge deckled. In good condition, very clean internally, with some age toning to covers, and general edgewear. Binding remains tight..... More
"My House shall be called the House of Prayer" [in] The Christmas Argosy.
London: the Amalgamated Press, January 1930. [Literary Magazine]. FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo magazine (24 x 17cm), pp.viii; 184. With one plate of colour advertisements and colour illustrated paper covers, stapled. Some chipping a creases to cover edges. Staples severely oxidised. Good. Also containing 'A Distant Relative' by W. W. Jacobs; 'The..... 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
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
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
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
Half A Hero.
London: A. D. Innes and Co. 1893. FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, octavo, both with the half-titles and publisher's advertisements. Bound in original blue-grey cloth lettered in dark blue to upper with gilt titles to the spine. Light coloured cloth is darkened and dusty as expected, pictorial bookplate of Richard Chamberlain..... More
The King's Mirror
Bristol, J.W. Arrowsmith 1899. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 312, + 40 of adverts dated Sptember 1899 (partially unopened). Publisher's blue/grey cloth, titled in gilt to spine and upper, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Spine a shade darkened, minor wear, occasional spotting, ink name to flyleaf; very good. More
Picasso as a Book Artist.
London: Faber and Faber. 1962. First UK edition. Octavo, pp. 136. Red publisher's cloth with gilt titles to spine, yellow endpapers. Striking dustwrapper. Slight lean to the book. A fine copy. More
The House of Silk.
London: Orion Books, 2011. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 294. Publisher's black cloth, titles in silver to spine, red endpapers, typographic dust-jacket priced at £18.99. Spine ends slightly pushed. Dust-jacket a little rubbed to the top and bottom of the spine and to the corners. Very..... More
Shadows in the Picture.
The Starling Brotherhood, 2013. NO. 3 OF THIS PRIVATELY PRINTED LIMITED EDITION, of which there are 13 copies. Bound in yellow publisher's cloth with a white paper title label pasted to front board, in a sunny yellow dustjacket featuring an extremely intricate insect-and-flower design which extends onto the spine and..... More
The Terror of Villadonga. [The Spanish Cave].
London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d. [1936]. [Nautical Thriller]. FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (23 x 18cm), pp.160. With six lithographic illustrations by "Cuneo", including a frontispiece. In publisher's blue cloth with darker blue titles to spine and upper board. Black ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Heavy external wear; titles..... More
Rogue Male [aka Man Hunt].
London: Chatto and Windus, 1939. [Classic man-hunt adventure] FIRST EDITION, PROOF COPY, with an original 4-page advert/order form. Octavo, pp.[vii]; 271; [1], imprint. Publisher's brown card softcovers, with printed label to upper, handwritten details to spine. Contents clean, some wrinkling and lean to spine, covers lightly handled. A very good..... More
Rogue Male [aka Man Hunt].
London: Chatto and Windus, 1939. [Classic man-hunt adventure] FIRST EDITION, first impression, with later state / printing of the jacket. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 271 [1]. Publisher's purple cloth lettered in white to spine. With the 'sniper' design dust-jacket priced at 4/6 (earliest jackets were priced 7/6). Page edges..... More
The Blue Moon.
London: John Murray, 1904. [Children's fantasy tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 14cm), pp.210. Nine full-page plates. Publisher's blue cloth blocked in red and gilt, top edge gilt, illustrated dust-jacket. Some trivial dustiness, jacket very lightly worn. An unquestionably fine copy. Scarce thus. More
Triptych.
Boston, MA: Privately printed by Reynolds Printing Inc. for the author, no date [1953]. [Tales of the Sea] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.98. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf. Publisher's tan quarter cloth with red titles to spine, brown paper over boards, and printed..... More
Practical Observations on the Symptoms, Discrimination, and Treatment of some of the most common Diseases of the Lower Intestines, and Anus. Particularly including those Affections produced by Stricture, Ulceration, and Tumour, within the Cavity of the Rectum; and Piles, Fistulae, and Excrescences, formed at its external opening. Illustrated by Cases. To which are added, some Suggestions upon a new and successful mode of correcting habitual confinement in the Bowels, to ensure their regular Action without the aid of Purgatives; on a Principle essentislly conducive to the Prevention of the above Diseases.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. First Edition. 8vo; pp. xvi,176. Publisher's blue paper covered boards, lightly stained, corners frayed; grey paper spine, chipped and cracked, paper title labels rubbed and chipped; edges untrimmed. 4 or 5 leaves in middle of book with small waterstaining to..... More
Heroes of The Argonne.
Kansas City: Franklin Hudson Publishing Company. 1919. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's olive green cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Minor rubbing and edgewear, a trifle shaken, gilt somewhat dulled, strong and clean, a very good copy. Internally clean. Dogearing to some early pages, illustrated throughout..... More
The Cinque Ports. A Historical and Descriptive Record.
William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. [Kent]. Quarto (30 x 23cm), pp.xiv; 403; [1]. Publisher's beige cloth blocked in gilt, top edge gilt, red endpapers. Fourteen photogravure plates with tissue guards, nineteen in text and other illustrations. Small repaired marginal tear to page 43, discreet cancelled library stamp to flyleaf with..... More
A High Wind In Jamaica, within Life And Letters, Vol 3, No.15.
London: Printed by Curwen and Sons, August 1929. Historical Fiction. First appearance in print of this novel by Richard Hughes; a slightly abridged version in this monthly journal edited by Desmond McCarthy. Magazine format in original printed softcovers. Minor spine roll, discreet owner name; a very good copy indeed. The..... More