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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.6.
Colon, Michigan. Abbott's Magic Novelty Company. 1940. [Ephemera; tricks, games, conjuring etc.] Pp.544. Publisher's orange pictorial card boards. Numerous black and white illustrations within the text. Internally clean, some dustiness and shelfwear; a very good copy of a substantial catalogue. 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
Lighthouses and Lightships. A Descriptive Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization.
London; T. Nelson. 1871. First Edition. Small 8vo. 322pp. Bound in publisher's bright green cloth titled and decorated in black and gilt to spine and front board. Minor edgewear. A fine copy. Internally clean and fresh, yellow glazed endpapers, signs of erased ownership to front flyleaf. Illustrated with numerous illustrations... 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
The Sporting Repository. Containing Horse-Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Archery, Trotting and Tandem Matches, Cocking, Pedestrianism, Pugilism; Anecdotes on Sporting Subjects, interspersed with Essays, Tales, and a great variety of Miscellaneous Articles.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1904. 4to. Embellished with 22 fine hand-coloured plates with tissue guard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles, faded, to spine and horse and rider stamped in gilt to upper. Soiling to upper board; internally clean and tight. LIMITED EDITION to 500 copies. Very good. More
Original Watercolour Artwork for the 1959 Paperback Edition of The Dark Frontier.
1959. The watercolour illustration measures 53cm x 34cm and is SIGNED by the artist, Oliver Brabbins, on the lower left. It is mounted and framed, the total size of the yellow metal effect frame is 75.5cm x 55cm. A striking design of the cover for the First Paperback Edition of... More
Ski-ing on Water.
London: Frederick Muller, 1956. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 143. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in pictorial dustjacket. Some occasional spotting to the textblock and marking to the edges, slight wear to the cloth. A couple of closed tears to the front panel of the dustwrapper, small loss at... More
The Golfer's Manual. Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the National Game of Scotland by 'A Keen Hand' and originally Published in 1857 and now Reprinted with an Introduction by Bernard Darwin.
London: The Dropmore Press, 1947. Private Press. Limited to 750 numbered copies. Pps. xi, 84, (1). Publisher's original green cloth spine lettered in gilt, printed paper boards, top edge tinted green, original illustrated dust-jacket and card slip-case with numbered label to spine. Text printed on hand made paper with wood... More
The History of Medicine.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1912-1922. FINELY BOUND. In three volumes, Octavo. Several sections forming the History of Medicine section from the proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine extracted from the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine and smartly bound at the time in black half calf over... More
Neues Panorama Des Rheins Von Mannheim Bis Coln; and, The Rhine From Maynece To Cologne.
Mainz: Verlag von D Kapp, and Mainz: Joseph Halenza, n.d. [c.1880]. Leporello, or concertina map, in tall octavo boards (30 x 17.5cm; map extends to 242cm). In stiff paperboards with recent red cloth spine, decorative foliate border with titles in black to front board, reproduced to rear board with alternative... More
Peter Blake.
London: Tate Gallery. 1983. Second Impression. Square octavo, pp. 136. Published to accompany the 1983 Peter Blake exhibition at the Tate, with signed "The Owl and the Pussycat" print in original envelope. Paper back with glossy black covers, Some creasing and rubbing to the covers, a very good copy. More
The Rocky Horror Show: Mask of Columbia.
Los Angeles: Michael White Productions, n.d. [1974]. EPHEMERA FROM ROCKY HORROR SHOW U.S. OPENING. Card cut out mask of Columbia, approximately 26cm x 19cm with removable eyes and mouth, printed with production notes printed on the rear. Produced as a promotional item for the U.S. opening at the Roxy Theatre... More
The Ruhleben Bye-Election - July 1915.
Ruhleben, 1915. FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet, pp. 32. Blue pictorial wraps. Some toning to paper, wraps have detached along the spine and have some nicks along the edges. Very good, a fascinating survival. Campaign book for the election of an M.P. representing Ruhleben internment camp, just west of Berlin, which... More
The Gazetteer of the World. Prominence being given to Great Britain and Colonies, Indian Empire, United States of America. With Recent and Authentic Informations respecting the Countries, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Cities, Towns, etc. In every Portion of the Globe.
London: Thomas C. Jack, 1885. 3 volumes; 4to. Illustrated with numerous steel plates, views and maps. Publisher's green half calf with red and green title labels, gilt and blind tooling to spines; gilt rule to boards with decorative title stamped in gilt to uppers; all edges gilt. Light wear to... More
Better Magic. Containing fifteen tricks by fifteen authors taken from volume one of The Eagle Magician. 'Let us all work for better magic'. Number one.
Minneapolis, The Eagle Magician. 1920. Pamphlet, 21pp. + 3pp. of adverts, publisher's brown paper cover with gold and green title to upper. Black and white illustrations within the text. Slight rubbing to decorative title on upper board, owner's name inscribed to title page, internally clean. A very good copy. More
[A Sample Book of Snuff Boxes 1820-1830].
[Private Compilation]. n.d. [c.1830's]. ORIGINAL ENGRAVED DESIGNS. 157x217mm. 16 thick card leaves featuring 104 individual engraved designs for snuff boxes printed on india paper and pasted to leaves. In contemporary dark brown mottled calf boards, re-backed in later tan calf. Held together by two strong brass clasps. Title neatly added... More
Russian Ballet. Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony. With an Introduction by Arnold Haskell.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1939. First Edition. Large Quarto, pp.[28]; 96. Illustrated with 96 tipped-in black and white photographs of Russian ballet stars, including frontispiece. Bound in recent dark blue half morocco with gilt titles and raised bands to spine, blue cloth boards, fore-edge deckled. Internally clean but for a few... More
The Autobiography of Francis Arago. The Traveller's Library 78.
London: Longman, Brown, and Longmans, 1855. FIRST EDITION, with rare original covers. Crown octavo, pp.[6], 122. In publisher's original cream paper wraps with black titles printed to spine and covers. Covers lightly browned; more heavily to spine. Some loss to tail of spine. Very good indeed, especially considering the rarity... More
A Round of Golf with Tommy Armour
London: Hodder and Stoughton 1960. Pp.145. Illustrated by Merritt D. Cutler. Publisher's green cloth in pictorial pictorial dust-jacket. Owner name, else a near fine copy in a slightly edgeworn jacket. A golfing instruction manual from one of the masters of the game; the follow-up volume to 'How to play Your... More
The Scripture Chronology Demonstrated by Astronomical Calculations: and also by the Year of Jubilee, and the Sabbatical Year among the Jews: or, An Account of Time from the Creation of the World, to the Destruction of Jerusalem... Illustrated with a Great Variety of Tables, Maps, and Copper Plates. By Arthur Bedford, M.A. Rector of Newton St. Loe in the County of Somerset, and Chaplain to the Haberdashers-Hospital at Hoxton near London.
London: Printed for James and John Knapton etc., 1730. Folio pp. Title, [2 list of subscribers], vi, [2], 774, [44], [4 index], [17 index and errata], [1 ads.]. Full 18th Century calf, rebacked and recornered with original spine laid on, gilt rule and blindstamping to boards and gilt rules, raised... More
Zoo Quest in Paraguay.
London: Lutterworth Press, 1959. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.168. With 31 black and white illustrated plates, and three in colour, including a frontispiece. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Small browned tape mark to front jacket flap; price-clipped. Light rubbing to fore-edges; a near-fine... More
Letters From Iceland.
London; Faber and Faber. 1937. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's bright green cloth titled in red, slightly darkened to spine. Minor edgewear and bumping. In a very good dustwrapper with minor edgewear and creasing, a trifle soiled to the rear panel. Signed by W.H. Auden to the front flyleaf. A lovely... More