Children's Books
The Comic Blackstone.
London: At the Punch Office, 1846. 8vo.; pp. 252, with 3 illustrations by Cruikshank: a frontispiece, an engraved title page printed in red and black, and a cartouche at foot of last page. Bound in later (20th century) tan half calf with dark brown title label, gilt titles and extra... More
Abbott's American Watchmaker and Jeweller An Encyclopaedia for the horologist, jeweller, gold and silversmith.
Chicago. Geo. K. Hazlitt and co. 1894. 8vo. pp. 354, 14 of adverts. Publisher's pale blue cloth. Illustrated with 288 in text engravings. Some marking to cloth, inner hinges starting, lower inner hinge split. Very good. FIRST EDITION. More
Catalog No.4.
Colon, Michigan. Abbott's Magic Novelty Company. 1937. Conjuring and Magic Trick apparatus. Publisher's white pictorial card boards. Numerous black and white illustrations within the text. Slight wear to extremities, owners writing in pencil to upper cover and occasional pages. A good copy. More
Catalog No.6.
Colon, Michigan. Abbott's Magic Novelty Company. 1940. [Conjuring and Magic trick apparatus] Publisher's orange pictorial card boards. Numerous black and white illustrations within the text. Slight wear to extremities, internally clean. A good copy. More
Catalog No.9.
Colon, Michigan. Abbott's Magic Novelty Company. 1947. [Conjuring and Magic trick apparatus] Publisher's blue pictorial card boards. Numerous black and white illustrations within the text. Slight wear to extremities, internally clean. A good copy. More
The Olympic Games Book. Foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh.
London: James Barrie, 1956. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED to David B. Evers, husband of opera singer Sybil Evers. Octavo, pp.223. The item includes some contemporary entries detailing the times and records of athletes. Bound in publisher's blue paper wraps, with red titles to spine and front. Olympic rings depicted at head... More
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.
London: Pan, 1984. Inscribed First Edition. Octavo. pp. [5], 191. Bound in publisher's black cloth with titles in silver to spine. Black dust jacket, designed by Gary Day-Ellison, with holographic panel to front cover, and titles in white to front cover and spine, unclipped. Includes publisher's compliment slip. Binding shows... More
Arctic Island Hunter.
London: George Ronald, 1961. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.136. With 12 black and white photographic plates and two maps. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to front free endpaper: 'To Mary, / with the warmest Baha'; / greetings / Paul Adams'. In publisher's light blue cloth with red... More
Watership Down.
London: Rex Collings, 1972. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 413. Light brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt motif to upper board, in charming pictorial dustjacket. A couple of small marks to book else a fine copy, in used original wrapper with some old tape marks... More
The Ceremonies to be Observed at the Royal Coronation of His Most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, on Thursday the Nineteenth Day of July, MDCCCXXI.
London: Samuel and Richard Bentley, 1821. ORIGINAL ORDER OF SERVICE, Addington's copy. Small Folio, pp.[10] 29 [11]. Also with a small loose pamphlet titled 'The Order of Divine Service for Trinity Sunday 31 May 1953 Being the Sunday Preceding Her Majesty's Coronation'. Heavily trimmed and bound up for the Honourable... More
A Collection of the Published Writings of the Late Thomas Addison, M.D., Physician to Guy's Hospital.
London: The New Sydenham Society, 1868. [Medical Essays]. FIRST THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxxii; 242. With a frontispiece engraving of the author and seven lithographic plates, including three hand-coloured. Publisher's brown blind-decorated cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt bust of the author to upper board. All edges... More
Household Tales With Other Traditional Remains. Collected in the counties of York, Lincoln, Derby, and Nottingham.
London: David Nutt, 1895. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.vii, 163. Bound in publisher's green cloth, blind rules to boards, gilt rules and gilt titles to spine, top edge untrimmed, geometric patterned endpapers. Internally clean, browning to endpapers. Binding is tight and presentable, with spine ends rolled, minor bumping and rubbing to... More
Aesop's Fables. A new translation by V.S. Vernon-Jones with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1972. [Illustrated]. FINELY BOUND. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.xxvii; [blank]; 224. Twelve colour plates, numerous in-text illustrations. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in blue quarter morocco over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt titles and tooling to spine, top edge gilt. A handsome presentation of... More
Aesop's Fables. A new translation by V.S. Vernon-Jones with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton.
London: William Heinemann, 1912. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. Octavo, pp.xxii; 223. Recently bound in half green calf over green cloth, with five raised bands, and gilt titles to spine. Green stained top edge. Contains 13 colour plates, including frontispiece, all protected with captioned tissue guards, plus numerous black and white illustrations... More
Aesop's Fables.
Oxford: The Limited Editions Club, 1933. [Folk tales]. LIMITED ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Crown Quarto (27 x 19 cm), pp. xvi, 212. No. 353 of 1500 copies, SIGNED by the typographer, Bruce Rogers. With many facsimile Florentine woodcuts. Elegantly bound in later half red calf, gilt, over marbled sides, top edge gilt... More
Aesop's Fables.
London: William Heinemann, 1912. [Children's Illustrated]. FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Small quarto (21 x 16cm), pp.[2] xxx; 224. With 13 chromolithographic plates including and frontispiece, and 54 further wood engravings, in-text and individual plates. Publlisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge green; lightly illustrated... More
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Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books. [Aesop's Fables].
Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1764. The celebrated fabulist. Crown octavo, pp.lxxvii; 186; [28], index; [2], blank. Bound in full tan calf with red title label to spine, five raised bands with extra gilt, marbled endpapers. A few marks to boards and minor... More
Guy Fawkes, or the Gunpowder Treason, an Historical Romance.
London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. [c.1841]. [Historical Fiction]. EARLY EDITION, first one-volume edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 359 [3]. With 24 wood engraved plates by George Cruikshank, including a frontispiece. In contemporary green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled boards... More
Roads to Glory.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Demy Octavo. pp. 278. no. 199 of 360 copies, signed by the author to limitation page. With original glassine jacket. In quarter blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and orange / white patterned paper-covered boards. All edges untrimmed. Near-fine with... More
New Arrivals, Old Encounters.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. [Science Fiction]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted blue, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Bill Botten. Inscribed on the title page: "Brian Aldiss | for Roger | 24.X.81 | Folkestone". Fine. More
The Brightfount Diaries.
1955. FIRST EDITION. This is the author's first book. Octavo, pp. 200. Bound in blue publisher's cloth with author's name and title in yellow lettering to spine, in a pink pictorial dustjacket designed by Pearl Falconer who provides illustration throughout. Boards in excellent condition with no visible signs of wear... More
Reaching for the Moon.
New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2005. SIGNED. Slim quarto, unpaginated. Publisher's pictorial boards and dust-jacket, blue endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Wendell Minor. Signed by Buzz Aldrin to the title page. Slight shelf wear, near fine. More
Alentejo Blue.
London: Doubleday, 2006. [Modern fiction]. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm). Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles, without dust-jacket as issued, blue cloth slipcase with gilt titles. Still in the original shrink wrap with "Signed by the Author at Waterstone's" label. Some tears and loss to the shrink wrap. Fine. More
The National Sports of Great Britain.
London: Methuen, 1903. NEW EDITION. Duodecimo. pp. xiii [unpaginated]. With 50 colour illustrations including frontispiece by Alken. In publisher's red cloth with black titles to cream paper label on spine. Edges untrimmed. Light spotting and external wear. Spine sunned. Fair overall. Based on the 1825 edition published by Thomas M'Lean. More