Illustrated & Plate Books
Life on Air. Memoirs of a Broadcaster.
London: BBC Books, 2002. [Science and Nature / Television] FIRST EDITION. 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. The much-loved naturalist's reflections on a career in broadcasting. More
The Private Life of Plants. A Natural History of Plant Behaviour.
London: BBC Books, 1995. [Animal Behaviour] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.320. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £17.99. A touch of light..... More
The Trials of Life. A Natural History of Animal Behaviour.
London: Collins / BBC Books, 1990. [Animal Behaviour] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.320. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £16.95. A fine, as-new copy. The third in Attenborough's book and TV series..... More
Academic Graffiti.
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. [Illustrated Clerihews] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), unpaginated. 60 poems with an illustration by Sanjust to each facing leaf. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Sanjust, priced at £2.00. Light handling; a fine copy. More
Mansfield Park.
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1950. [Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13), pp.v; [1]; 414; [2]. 16 colour halftone plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket designed by Charles E. Brock. Light toning to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, jacket..... More
The Novels of Jane Austen, in Ten Volumes: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; and Emma]. Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1895-97. [Classic Literature] COMPLETE SET, later impressions thus. Ten volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 20cm). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece portrait, and two or three other illustrations by William Cubit Cooke, and ornaments by F.C. Tilney. Publisher's light green cloth, with gilt titles..... More
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen. Juvenilia; Northanger Abbey; Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Persuasion; Later Manuscripts; Jane Austen in Context.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. [Classic Literature] COMPLETE SET, first editions thus. Nine volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 34cm), pp.lxx; 502 [4]; pp.lxvi; 354 [4]; pp.lxx; 500 [6]; pp.lxxii; 540 [2]; pp.lxxxviii; 738 [6]; pp.lxxx; 600; pp.lxxxviii; 392; pp.cxxx; 742; pp.xxx; 467 [7]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles..... More
Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977.
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. [Fashion Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (37 x 28cm), unpaginated, with 162 black and white photographs. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by the photographer in black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy photographic paper-covered boards. With the original clear..... More
The Islanders: An Introduction.
London: Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art and Koenig Books, 2010. [Art and Philosophy Exhibition Catalogue] SECOND EDITION. Quarto (32 x 23cm), pp.164. With a mixture of colour and black and white illustrations. Publisher's grey leatherette over boards, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Maps to endpapers..... More
Onomatopoeia: The Port.
London: Koenig Books, 2010. [Art and Philosophy Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 23cm), pp.79 [1]. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's brown paper over boards, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Spine sunned, with some light wear to boards. Very good. An early publication..... More
Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a later edition. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[12]; 268. With frequent wood engraved vignettes by the Patons. Contemporary green full morocco by R. and A. SUTTABY of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt..... More
The Wind in the Wood.
London: Hollis and Carter, 1952. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[10]; 143; [1]. With twelve chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by the author, and wood engraved vignettes to chapter headings. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 18s. net..... More
Head Kid.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2018. [Children's Humour] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[2] 384. SIGNED by the author in black ink to preliminary signature leaf. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Blue patterned endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Lenton, priced at £12.99. A fine..... More
Bailey's Democracy.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2005. [Nude Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (34 x 27cm), unpaginated. Black and white photographs of assorted male and female nudes on clay paper. Publisher's grey cloth with black titles to spine, and blank white glossy paper laid over upper. Light wear and rubbing. Very good... More
History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the Breaking Out of the War in 1792, to the Restoration of a General Peace in 1815; comprehending the Civil History of Great Britain and France, during that Period.
London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. [European History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Quarto (27 x 22 x 9cm), pp.[4]; 539; [1]; pp.[4]; 595; [1]. With a number of maps, some folding, and copper engraved portraits, including a frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary full..... More
The Girls of St. Gabriel's, or, Life at a French School.
London and Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1905. [Girls' School Story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[8] 296 [32]. With six black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, by Tarrant. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles, and black, white and pink decoration, to spine and upper. Dark brown..... More
Six Months at the Cape. Or Letters to Periwinkle from South Africa.
London: James Nisbet and Co., 1879. [African Colonial Topography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 256. With 12 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'Mrs. Aveling | with kind regards from | The Author.' Publisher's red cloth with gilt..... More
Banksy: Wall and Piece.
London: Century, 2006. [Graffiti Art] FIRST ONE-VOLUME EDITION, softcover. Octavo (26 x 21cm), pp.238 [2]. Illustrated in colour throughout, with occasional passages of text. Publisher's illustrated soft covers, priced at £12.99, with the 'Now with 10% more crap' sticker to front cover. A vertical crease to front cover with some..... More
The Alder Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Black Medick Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Cat's-Ear Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Goose-Grass Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Hazel-Catkin Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Lime Tree Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Pine Tree Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More