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The Piper of Hamelin: A Fantastic Opera in Two Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1893. [Illustrated Drama] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.64. With 12 wood engraved plates by Thomson, as well as a decorated title page. Publisher's light green cloth with darker green titles to spine and upper board. Top edge green, others untrimmed. Black ink ownership..... More
George Buday's Eleventh Little Book: The Rules of Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen, containing a useful record of the most indispensable laws which regulate the manner and behaviour of Polished Society, including maxims, prescriptive of the Correct conduct at Parties, the Dinner Table and on other occasions of Domestic of Social Intercourse, selected from various old handbooks, once much favoured by supporters of Progress and Refinement.
London: Published by the author and printed at the Albion Hand Press, 1954. [Private Press] FINE WOOD ENGRAVINGS, an advance copy printed for friends and acquaintances of the artist. Pott octavo (14 x 11cm), pp.[28]. With two full page plates and seven vignette wood engravings by Buday. Publisher's plain paper..... More
Wycliffe and the Tangled Web.
London: Gollancz Crime, 1988. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.191; [1], blank. Publisher's gilt-titled black cloth in dust-wrapper priced at £10.95. A fine copy in near fine jacket. Starring detective Charles Wycliffe, one of the most popular literary Police investigators. 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
Little Lord Fauntleroy.
London: Frederick, Warne and Co., 1886. [Classic children's story] FIRST UK EDITION, with 1886 date to both title and copyright pages. Octavo (pp.22 x 15cm), pp.x; 269; [1], imprint. Twenty-six illustrations illustrations after Reginald B. Birch. Half green straight-grained morocco, gilt, red leather label to spine, combed marble sides and..... More
The works of robert burns. Illustrated by an Extensive Series of Portraits and Authentic Views. With a Complete Life of the Poet: An Essay on his Genius and Character, by Professor Wilson. Numerous Notes, Annotations, and Appendices.
London: Blackie and Son, 1866. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.cclxxvi; iv; 149; [1]; pp.xx; 412. With a total of 83 engraved plates by various artists, including a frontispiece and vignette title page to each volume, and a facsimile example of Burns' handwriting..... More
The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. [American Travel]. SECOND EDITION, identical to the First. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 707. With 10 wood engraved plates including a frontispiece and two folding maps. Nine further illustrations in-text. In publisher's blue pebble grained cloth, re-backed during the twentieth century, with original..... 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
Molly Moon Stops the World.
London, Macmillan 2003. FIRST EDITION, 8vo. Fine in like dust-jacket. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page. More
The Daughters of Danaus.
London: Bliss, Sands and Foster, 1894. [Feminist Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.491; [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. All edges untrimmed. Browning and very light spotting to edges and preliminaries. Neat later ownership to title page, blind bookseller's stamp to rear..... More
The Martyr of Erromanga. Or, the Philosophy of Missions, Illustrated from the Labours, Death and Character of the Late Rev. John Williams.
London: John Snow, 1842. [South Pacific Missionary] FINELY BOUND, the Second Edition. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] xii; 526 [2]. With a hand coloured frontispiece and a wood engraved title page vignette. Contemporary brown full calf with raised bands and gilt titles to black label, and further gilt decoration to..... More
Rough Husbandry.
London: Hutchinson, 1965. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.142; [2]. With a double page title illustration, occasional in-text illustrations and dust-jacket design by Blake. In publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine and red illustration to upper board. With original bright red pictorial dust-jacket. Slight reading lean. Jacket price-clipped, with very..... More
A Screw Loose: My story so far.
London: B and T Publishers, 1977. Signed First Edition. Octavo. Bound in wine cloth with gilt titles to spine. Red dust wrapper bears titles in red and white to spine and front and rear covers. The binding is tight. The text is clean, and shows no signs of spotting. The..... More
The First 100 Years: The Story of the Tunbridge Wells Golf Club.
Tunbridge Wells: Tunbridge Wells Golf Club, no date [circa 1989]. [Golf] RARE PRIVATE PRINTING. Demy Octavo. pp.58. With b/w photographic illustrations. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the original blue dust jacket, titled in gilt. Slight wear to jacket edges; near-fine. More
Victorian Fiction. An Exhibition of Original Editions at 7 Abermarle Street, London, Janurary to February 1947.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xiii, 50. With 16 b/w photographic plates detailing some of the highlights of the exhibition. With Foreword and Introduction by Carter and Sadleir. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pink pictorial dust jacket. Chipping and closed tears..... More
Except the Lord.
London: Michael Joseph, 1953. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 287. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original black and brown dust jacket, featuring black and yellow titles. Slight lean, and even age toning throughout. Jacket somewhat dog-eared to top edge; very good overall. The story..... More
The Horse's Mouth.
London: Michael Joseph, 1944. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. 291. In publisher's orange cloth with silver titles to spine. With original brown dust jacket with green titles. Expected browning to text block; reading lean. Jacket browned to spine; chips to head and tail. Large closed tear to back cover. Front cover..... More
A Documentary History of Chelsea (USA). Including the Boston Precincts of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point; 1624 - 1824.
Boston: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1908. 2 volumes, 8vo. Ex-library copy (Chelsea, England). Very good in publisher's burgundy cloth with discreet library numbering in white to foot of spines; bookplates; small library ink stamp to verso of title pages and some blind library stamping. Illustrated throughout; a few other photographic..... More
The Literature of Roguery.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1907. First Edition. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 14cm). Publisher's embossed green cloth, gilt titles to spines, top edges tinted green. Very light rubbing to extremities, signs of label removal to spines. Blind stamp to title page and first page of text of each volume..... More
Killer In The Rain. Being: Killer in the Rain; The Man who liked Dogs; The Curtain; Try the Girl; Mandarin's Jade; Bay City Blues; The Lady in the Lake; No Crime in the Mountains. With an Introduction by Philip Durham.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1964. [Crime stories] FIRST EDITION (stated). Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.394. Publisher's blue cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Rob Howard, priced at $5.50. Contents and page edges clean, jacket with a little edgewear and a crease to the spine panel, neat tape reinforcement to..... More
Senor Saint [Señor Saint].
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1959. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.189. Publisher's green cloth decorated in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 12/6. A lightly used copy with a few rubs to extremities, edges dusty, creased tear to crown, old tape to reverse; remains bright and..... More
The German Conquest of England in 1875, and Battle of Dorking; Or, Reminiscences of a Volunteer.
Philadelphia: Porter and Coates. n.d. c.1871. US Edition. Octavo, pp. 62, 2 of adverts. Green cloth covers with decorative gilt titles to front, brown endpapers. Neat ownership inscription to the the recto of the frontispiece page. Front hinge has split the paper along the bottom half, rear hinge just starting..... More
[ECONOMICS] A Statistical View of the Population of Massachussetts, from 1765 to 1840.
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846. Small 4to. Publisher's grey paper wrappers with printed titles to spine and upper. Little nicks to head and tail of spine and to corners. Boston Library label to inner cover and small ink stamp to bottom of title page. Clean and strong..... More
Such is the Antarctic.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. [Polar Exploration] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, second state binding. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.265; [3]. With 45 photogravure illustrations including a frontispiece and maps and plans, some folding. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Spotting..... More