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Gift Books & Fine Bindings
The Poetical Works of John Keats.
London: Oxford University Press, 1973. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxix; [1];477; [1]. Bound by Bayntun in mid-blue full calf, gilt titles on red leather square and gilt tooling to spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Internally fine, some quite heavy rubbing to the bottom corners. Very good..... More
Nouvelle Maniere de Fortifier Les Places.
The Hague: Arnout Leers, 1684. EARLY EDITION. Foolscap octavo, pp.[10], 96 [2]. All text in French. With 12 folding plans and tables at rear. In later mottled full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label on spine and further gilt decoration to spine. All edges flecked red. Armorial..... More
Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning, or the Partitions of Sciences, IX Bookes. Written in Latin by the Most Eminent Illustrious & Famous Lord Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Vicont St Alban, Counsilour of Estate and Lord Chancellor of England.
Oxford: Printed by Leon Lichfield, for Rob Young & Ed Forrest, 1640. [Scientific Method] FIRST COMPLETE EDITION IN ENGLISH. Quarto (28 x 18cm), pp.[32] 60; 477 [20]. With a copper engraved frontispiece and decorated title page by William Marshall, as well as a series of 10 tree tables explaining 'the..... More
A Time to Live.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2002. [Retrospective] REVIEW COPY. Folio (36 x 25cm), pp.240. Finely printed by Grafiche Milani, with a large section of monochrome photographs on glossy clay paper. An unnumbered review copy, not part of the limited edition of 2001 copies. In the standard maroon cloth binding, with titles and..... More
An Address by Winston S. Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain, Delivered before members of the Congress of the United States - 19 May 1943.
Stamford, CT: Printed at the Overbrook Press, September 1943. [War Speech] LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.18 [6]. One of just 600 copies specially printed for members of Congress. Publisher's blue paper-covered boards, with gilt titles to red label laid over upper. With the original glassine..... More
Psychedelic Renegades. With Photographs of Syd Barrett.
UK, Genesis Publications Limited. 2001. [Rock Photography] SIGNED LIMITED DELUXE EDITION. Folio (31 x 26cm), pp.160 with approximately 120 monochrome and colour images, some folding plates. Number 84 of 320 copies SIGNED by both Mick Rock and Syd Barrett, the former in black marker to limitation page, the latter to..... More
The Ship That Sailed to Mars. A Fantasy.
London: George G. Harrap, no date [1923]. [Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 24cm). 48 pages of text, and 48 colour plates illustrated by the author, all mounted on thick grey leaves. Publisher's quarter vellum with elaborate gilt titles and decoration to spine, and grey paper-covered boards titled to..... More
Out of Africa.
New York, NY: Random House, 1938. [Africa] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo, pp.[4] x; 389 [5]. Recent green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and green cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; fore-edge untrimmed. Gently toned throughout, as usual. A clean copy in an attractive new binding. Very..... More
The Years.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1937. [Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 469 [5]. In recent green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to red morocco labels on spine, and green cloth over boards. All edges lightly trimmed. A clean copy in an attractive new binding..... More
Royal Yachts. Published by Gracious Permission of His Majesty The King.
London: Rich & Cowan, 1932. [English Yachts] FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.[2] 338 [4]. Finely printed by The Mayflower Press on untrimmed laid paper, with 16 mounted colour plates, including a frontispiece, plus over one hundred further black and white plates. Number 141 of 1000 copies..... More
Nirvana. Photographs.
London: Vision On, 2002. [Music biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION hardback, SIGNED on the limitation plate to pastedown by both photographers - one of 1000 copies published. Folio (34 x 26cm), pp.153 [7]. Publisher's clossy photographic covers housed in a black cloth clamshell box with silk-screen titles in white, with an..... More
On Not Winning the Nobel Prize. Nobel Prize Lecture. Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.
Fyfield: Oak Tree Fine Press, 2008. [Nobel Lecture] SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONS. Two volumes. Tall octavo (27 x 15cm), pp.31 [5]; pp.31 [5]. Each letterpress printed on Zerkall mould made paper, and SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. With a woodcut portrait of the author by Abigail..... More
The Leatherstocking Tales. [The Deerslayer; The Last of the Mohicans; The Pathfinder; The Pioneers; The Prairie].
London: Macmillan and Co., 1900 and 1901. [American Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST BROCK EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 522 [2]; pp.[2] xxviii; 398 [2]; pp.[2] viii; 463 [3]; pp.[2] viii; 455 [3]; pp.[2] viii; 437 [3]. With 40 illustrations by Brock to..... More
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1899. [Poetical Works] FINE PRIZE BINDING, an india paper edition. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xvi; 748; pp.viii; 786 [2]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author to each volume. Small print in two columns. Finely bound for Harrow School..... More
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German Popular Stories [Grimm's Fairy Tales]. With Illustrations after the original designs of George Cruikshank.
London: Chatto and Windus, no date [1868]. [Fairy Tales] FINELY BOUND ILLUSTRATED EDITION, first thus. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxviii; 335 [3]. With 22 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards. Top edge..... More
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
London: Bloomsbury, 2003. [Children's Classic] FIRST DELUXE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.766; [2]. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine, upper cover with art panel by Jason Cockroft, all edges gilt. A fine, as new copy, sealed in the original shrinkwrap with 'First Edition' text on price label..... More
Poems of Robert Browning. Containing Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances, Men and Women, Dramas, Pauline, Paracelsus, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Sordello, and Dramatis Personae. Oxford Edition.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912. [Poetical Works] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 696 [2]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary burgundy full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to black label on spine, elaborated gilt decoration to spine, and the crest of..... More
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The Stones '65-67 [and] The Stones '82.
London: Vision On Publishing, 2002. [Rock Music Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, LIMITED GALLERY EDITION (a trade hardback was also issued). Quarto (31 x 26cm), two volumes in publisher's red paper-covered clamshell box, titled in white. Large hardback (30 x 25cm). Limited to 1000 copies, this being no.676, SIGNED by the..... More
Days of Hopes and Dreams: An Intimate Portrait of Bruce Springsteen.
New York, NY: Insight Editions, 2003. [Rock / Pop Photography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, number 425 of 450 copies. Large quarto (34 x 26cm), pp.136. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Publisher's hardcover in glossy jacket housed in a black cloth clamshell with black and white portrait of the subject laid..... More
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["Mis"-Prints Connected with the French Revolution 1789] La Révolution française depuis l'ouverture des Etats-Généraux jusqu'au 9 brumaire. [and 11 other contemporary engravings relating to the French Revolution].
Paris: Chez Decrouan, Imp. de Baudouin, et al., various dates, especially 1838. [Revolutionary Engravings] RARE CONTEMPORARY ENGRAVINGS, including part of the second edition of Helman's famous print collection. Large portfolio codex (39 x 65cm), featuring 10 engravings of the French Revolution by Helman, after drawings by Monnet, and 11 other..... More
Constable.
London: Duckworth and Co., 1905. [Artist Biography] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xii; 239 [3]. With 39 black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green full calf by BUMPUS of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and delicate panelled decoration..... More
The Household Narrative of Current Events, (for the Year 1851,) being a monthly supplement to Household Words, conducted by Charles Dickens.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 29th October 1851 to the 28th July 1852; from the 28th September 1852 to the 27th July 1853. [Current Affairs] FINELY BOUND ORIGINAL SUPPLEMENT. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[2] viii; 241-264; 25-168; 24; 217-280; 168; 265-280. Confusingly bound, with various sections completely out of order. Contemporary..... More
Lectures on the History of The Eastern Church, with an Introduction on the Study of Ecclesiastical History.
London: John Murray, 1876. [Ecclesiastical History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the fifth edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lxxxviii; 437 [3]. With a coloured folding map to rear. In a fine full green morocco binding bearing the arms of both Winchester College and the Baron Saye and Sele, stamped in gilt to..... More
The Roman Poets of The Republic.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1889. [Latin Literature] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the Third Edition, revised. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xx; 474 [2]. Contemporary black full calf by RELFE BROS of London for Huddersfield College School, with gilt titles to red label and further gilt decoration to spine, and the..... More
Gems, Principally from the Antique,
London: Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1822. [Ancient Cameos] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xx; 52 [2]. With 21 etchings by Dagley, including a frontispiece, and an appendix at rear giving details of each gem. Contemporary tan half calf by BIRDSALL & SON of Northampton, with gilt titles..... More