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Gift Books & Fine Bindings
Sense and Sensibility.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. [Classic Literature] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 342. With forty wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Hugh Thomson. Contemporary brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed;..... More
Antiente Epitaphes (from A.D. 1250 to A.D. 1800). Collected and sett forth in Chronological order.
London: Joseph Masters and Co., 1878. [Headstone epitaphs] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 196; [2]. With a folding facsimile frontispiece. Contemporary blue half calf with gilt titles to maroon label on spine. Marbled paper over boards; all edges speckled red; grey endpapers. A small, neat repair to frontispiece..... More
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company, 1956-58. [English History] HANDSOMELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes, octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 416; pp.[2] xii; 344 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 332 [6]; pp.[2] xii; 322. With occasional in-text maps and plans. In recent green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
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[The Illustrated Novels of Jane Austen]. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1898-1910. [Illustrated Novels Set] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, later impressions. Six novels in five volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 20cm). Pride and Prejudice illustrated by Brock; the other titles by Thomson. 40 wood engravings per volume. In recent navy half morocco with raised bands, gilt..... More
Verve: The Intimate Sketchbooks of G. Braque. Vol. VIII, No. 31 / 32.
Paris: Verve, 1955. [Art] FINE COLOUR PLATES. Large quarto (36 x 27cm), pp.160. With 20 colour plates and a colour illustrated title page; some Lithographs, others Heliographs. 132 further heliographs in black and white. Recently re-bound in quarter green morocco with two raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled..... More
Nudes.
New York, NY: The Arts Publisher, 1986. [Art] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (38 x 34cm), Unpaginated, with 21 drawings, etchings, photographs, and chromolithographic reproductions of watercolours by Brandt, and a poem by Guest printed over four leaves at rear. Number 195 of 750 copies, signed by the artist in pencil..... More
Scrapbook Drawings of Stanley Spencer.
London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1964. [Artist Sketchbook]. LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (34 x 25cm), pp.16. With 60 offset lithographs reproducing drawings from Spencer's sketchbooks. Number 230 of 400 copies printed by the Lion and Unicorn Press. Publisher's pictorial grey cloth-covered boards; white cloth spine with grey titles, brown endpapers. Small..... More
After Dinner Golf.
Brighton: Ellesborough Press, 1986. LIMITED NEW EDITION. Oblong octavo (18 x 25cm), pp.[2] x; 125 [3]. Number 9 of 400 copies SIGNED in blue ink by Hutchinson's Great-niece, Mrs. Cicely Sparling, to the limitation page. Contemporary green full morocco with gilt titles to orange label on spine, and larger gilt..... More
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Verve: Revue Artistique et Litteraire. [Matisse], Vence 1944-48. Vol. VI, Nos. 21 et 22.
Paris: Editions de la Revue Verve, 1948. [Art]. FINE COLOUR PLATES. Large quarto (36 x 27cm), pp.[80]. With a finely printed colour frontispiece, and 24 further chromolithographs, interspersed with simple black and white illustration, all from original pieces by Matisse. Recently re-bound in quarter red morocco with two raised bands..... More
The Walker Cup: 1922 to 1999, Golf's Finest Contest.
Droitwich: Grant Books, 2000. LIMITED 'AUTHOR'S EDITION'. Small Quarto. pp. xvi, 280. With frequent b/w photographic illustrations and colour frontispiece of the Royal and Ancient, St Andrews. SIGNED by the author, Sir Michael Bonallack and William C. Campbell to title-page. Number 126 of just 200 copies. In publisher's full blue..... More
Humorous Poems.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND, the second impression thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxxii; 236. With frequent in-text illustrations by Brock, as well as a frontispiece. In contemporary green full calf by BUMPUS of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and further gilt decoration to spine. All..... More
The Shrine of Death.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1886. [Macabre] LIMITED EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.160. With illustrated majuscules, vignettes and headpieces. Number 75 of just 150 copies in this edition, printed by Unwin Bros., Ludgate Hill. Expertly bound in a suitable sombre full black oasis morocco in the..... More
I Me Mine.
Guildford: Genesis Press [Genesis Publications], 1980. [Music autobiography] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION (No.482). Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.404; [2], blank. With sepia plates and illustrations. Original half brown morocco with 'guitar' gilt-stamped to boards, gilt edges, in original slipcase. Number 482 of 2000 copies only, signed by the late former..... More
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The Works of Nikolay Gogol. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. [Including] Dead Souls; The Overcoat and Other Stories; Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka; Mirgorod; and The Government Inspector and Other Plays.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1922-28. [Literature] FIRST EDITIONS OF THE GARNETT TRANSLATION. Six volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 21cm). Elegantly hand-bound in blue half morocco over matching cloth sides, with raised bands and gilt titles to red labels on spines, top edges gilt. Occasional light marginal marks to 'The..... More
Crossfire Hurricane.
Guildford, UK: Genesis Publications, 1997. [Rock photo-documentary] LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by Photographer Bob Gruen. Folio (30 x 24cm), pp.136. Bound in three-colour silk-screened fabric cover, featuring Mick Jagger on the front board and Keith Richards on the back, with a four-colour screen printed slipcase featuring the band. A superb production..... More
The History of the Heavens, Considered according to the Notions of the Poets and Philosophers, Compared with the Doctrines of Moses.
London: Printed for J. Osborn, 1740. [Pagan Theology and the Occult] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Two volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] xii; 288; [8]; pp.[2]; 312; [8]. With a total of 25 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary mottled calf boards, recently rebacked in matching calf..... More
Journal of The Discovery of the Source of the Nile.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. [African Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[2] xxxii; 656. With 26 engraved plates, including a frontispiece portrait of the author, and two folding maps in a pouch at rear. Recent tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled..... More
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The World Crisis 1911-1918. [Complete in six volumes].
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923-31. [Military history] SMARTLY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, a complete set. Six volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 29cm), pp.[8]; 536; pp.557; [3]; pp.292; pp.x; 293-589; [1]; pp.474; [2]; pp.368. With errata slips, illustrated with black and white plates and folding maps. Recent green half calf with raised..... More
Alexander's Path. From Caria to Cilicia.
London: John Murray, 1958. [Travel literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 283 [1]. With 21 black and white photographic plates, as well as vignette title page illustration by Reynolds Stone, in-text illustrations by the author, maps, and an index. Recent blue half morocco with raised bands..... More
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[War Speeches 1938-1945]: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill.
London: Cassell and Company, 1941-46. [History] COMPLETE WAR SPEECHES IN FIRST EDITION, smartly bound. Seven volumes bound as six (Victory and Secret Sessions bound together). Octavo (22 x 14 x 19cm). Includes several half-tone plates. Recent dark green half morocco, with gilt titles and gilt lion motifs to spines, raised..... More
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE: "Veller" title and two "Buss" plates; bound without the half-title. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.iii-xvi; 609; [1]. With 41 engraved plates, as well as an engraved frontispiece and decorated title page. Later green half straight grained morocco, with raised..... More
The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1902. FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, and first colour plate edition. Text on p.51, line 1 "wept big tears," fourth printing onwards has "shed big tears." Sextodecimo (14 x 10cm), pp.86. Illustrated with twenty-seven coloured plates, pp.98. Publisher's dark grey paper-covered boards, illustration laid-down to upper, grey..... More
The New Method of Fortification, As Practised by Monsieur de Vauban, Engineer General of France. With an Explication of all Terms appertaining to that Art. Made English. With Cuts. The Second Edition. In which is added, Exact Draughts of Dunkirk, Maestricht, Charleroy, Aeth and Mayence.
London: Printed for Abell Swall, 1693. [Fortifications and Ordnance]. SECOND EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[2]; [16]; 79 [1]; [2] 104 [4]. With 35 folding plates and a wood engraved frontispiece. Recent full speckled calf with blind panel decorations, raised bands and gilt titles to red label on spine. Black..... More
Two Discourses. The First, Concerning the Spirit of Martin Luther, and the Original of the Reformation. The Second, Concerning the Celibacy of the Clergy.
Oxford: [no publisher stated] 1687. [Theology] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes as one. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.[26]; [8]; 104; pp.[4]; 39; [35]. Contemporary brown panelled calf, rebacked to style with raised bands and gilt titles. Small black ink 'R.H.' to top right corner of fly-leaf, denoting the initials Woodhead..... More
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.
London: Longman, 1855-56. FIRST EDITION. In three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xvi; 388; pp.[2]; iv; 426; pp.[2]; x; 448. With four maps and plans, three folding; and 13 lithographic plates, five coloured. Recently re-bound without adverts in burgundy full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spines..... More