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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
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold.
London: Macmillan, 1913. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[xii]; 510. Riviere binding of contemporary brown half morocco over purple cloth boards, with raised bands, gilt title and extra gilt to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Presentation note to "Miss D.M. Lapage", the commandant of the Kent 142..... More
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1908. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND, a later printing thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 510 [2]. With a frontispiece etching of the author. Contemporary green full crushed morocco by SPOTTISWOODE & CO., with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. All edges, gilt-ruled turn-ins, and machine-marbled endpapers..... More
Rupert and the Bottled Moonbeams [and Rupert and the Frosties]. Adventure Series No. 28.
London: Oldbourne Book Co., no date [April 1956]. [Children's Cartoon] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), twelve leaves illustrated in colour throughout, including soft covers with two staples. Light rubbing and thumbing to covers. Very good. More
Rupert and the Snow Sports [and Rupert and the Vanishing Pet]. Adventure Series No. 23.
London: Beaverbrook Newspapers, no date [February 1955]. [Children's Cartoon] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), twelve leaves illustrated in colour throughout, including soft covers with two staples. Light rubbing and thumbing to covers. Very good. More
Rupert Winter Adventures [Rupert and the Angry Dolls, and Rupert and Will o' the Wisp]. Adventure Series No. 35.
London: The Oldbourne Book Co., no date [circa 1959]. [Children's Cartoon] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), twelve leaves illustrated in colour throughout, including soft covers with two staples. A section of the margin lost from the first second leaf, about 1 x 3cm. Covers lightly rubbed and detached..... More
The History of Gambling in England.
Chicago, MI: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1899. [Gambling] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] viii, 286 [8]. In contemporary maroon half morocco by the Eagle Art Bindery, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed; marbled endpapers. Text..... More
Of Time and Space and Other Things. Seventeen Essays on Science.
London: Dennis Dobson, 1967. [Science] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[xii] 204. Publisher's grey cloth to boards, silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Christopher Evans, price cut to flap. Some foxing to leaves, concentrated mostly to first and last few. Small tear along lower..... More
[Ian Fleming / James Bond reference] The Inner Circle. A View of War At The Top.
London: Hutchinson, 1971. [Intelligence / WWII Operations] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.228. Illustrated with eight photographic plates. Publisher's red cloth in dust-jacket priced at £2.25 /45s. Signature of the author in blue ink to the title page. A fine copy. Joan Bright was a key British Intelligence..... More
Graham Greene.
London: John Calder, 1957. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.240. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 21s. Light toning to edges and endpapers, and a little light wear to extremities. Jacket shows moderate wear and chipping to edges..... More
An Art Tour to Northern Capitals of Europe.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1873. [Russian and Scandinavian Museum Tour] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 455 [3]. Contemporary dark brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and blind decoration to spine, and lighter brown cloth over boards, with a gilt institutional device to upper..... More
Problem Party.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1945. [Children's fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.214; [2]. Publisher's orange cloth, titles in green to spine, decorated front endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Tresilian with printed price of 8s. 6d. net. In-text illustrations by Tresilian. Spotting and toning to edges, cloth bumped..... More
David Attenborough: Life Stories.
London: Collins, 2009. [Natural History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.224. Heavily illustrated in colour throughout. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'to Lottie | David Attenborough'. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and light green endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket..... More
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
A Living Memory: Hodder and Stoughton Publishers 1868-1975.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975. [Publishing History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.287 [1]. With eight double-sided black and white photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf: 'for my good friend | A.J. Edgar | in gratitude for | your service, and in |..... More
Histoire des Diables de Loudun, Ou de la Possession des Religieuses Ursulines, Et de la condamnation et du suplice D'Urbain Grandier, Cure de la meme Ville. Cruels effets de la vengeance du Cardinal de Richelieu.
Amsterdam: Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1740. [Huguenot History] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.[8] 378 [4]. With a copper engraved frontispiece. All text in French. Contemporary speckled calf with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt decoration to spine. Marbled endpapers; edges speckled red. Recent repairs to head and..... 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
About the House.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, with the errata slip at p.7. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.94 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green and pink dust-jacket, priced at 15s. South African bookseller's ticket to pastedown. The lightest of offsetting to endpapers. Spine..... More
Making, Knowing and Judging. An Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 11 June 1956.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1956. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 15cm), pp.33 [3]. Publisher's plain typographic paper covers, sewn. Sewing broken; covers detached. Quite heavy wear, and a crease, to covers. Good. More
[Minor Works Collection]. Love and Friendship; The Memoir of Jane Austen; Volume the First; Volume the Third; Lady Susan; Sanditon; The Watsons.
1) London: Chatto and Windus; 2-7) Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1922-1951. [Literary Juvenilia and Fragments] MINOR WORKS COLLECTION. Seven volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 13cm). All in publisher's cream quarter cloth with light blue paper-covered boards, except 'Love and Friendship', which is in quarter red cloth with gilt..... More
The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Letters volumes I and II. The text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes, and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1923-1932. [Classic Literature] First Oxford Edition. Large Paper, limited to 1000 sets. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 35cm), pp.[6] xiv; 429 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 415 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 567 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 521 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 252; 310 [2]. With a...... More
The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Letters volumes I and II. The text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes, and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1923-1932. [Classic Literature] First Oxford Edition. Large Paper, limited to 1000 sets. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 35cm), pp.[6] xiv; 429 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 415 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 567 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 521 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 252; 310 [2]. With a...... 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