Fine & Rare
Tonbridge Legends, Etc.
London: Kent and Co, Tonbridge: Richard Ware, n.d. [1866]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.232. With seven engraved plates. Green cloth with ornate gilt margins to boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board. All edges gilt. Spine has at some point been professionally rebacked. Bookbinders label of Hanbury and..... More
The Matsuyama Mirror. Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 10.
Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, Ca. 1898. [Japanese folk literature] ORIGINAL 'CHIRIMEN BON' CREPE PAPER BOOK, A REPRINT THUS. Sextodecimo (15 x 10cm), pp.[19]. Washi leaves with text and woodblock-printed colour illustrations by Kobayashi Eitaku. Pictorial woodblock design and black titles to cover. With fukuro-toji pouch binding and Yamato-toji silk stab-ties. Toning..... More
The Wooden Bowl. Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 16.
Tokyo, T. Hasegawa, 1888. [Japanese folk literature] FIRST CREPE-PAPER EDITION. Sextodecimo (15 x 10cm), pp.[24]. Washi leaves with text and woodblock-printed colour illustrations by Tosa Matabei. Pictorial woodblock design and black titles to cover. With fukuro-toji pouch binding and Yamato-toji silk stab-ties. Toning to leaves, a few marks here and..... More
Birmingham Electrical and Industrial Exhibition, (International) 1889, Programme of Concerts Given in Bingley Hall, On Thursday, August 1st, 1889, at the Opening of the Exhibition by Lady Randolph Churchill. Artistes — Miss Constance Bellamy and Mr. J. W. Turner. Gilmer's Military Band.
Birmingham: printed by J. Upton for the venue, 1889. [Concert Programme] ORIGINAL SILK PROGRAMME. Octavo bi-fold, printed on all sides (22 x 15cm). Cream silk printed in dark blue. Heavy fraying to edges, especially fore-edge, with one large brown mark to the front cover, as well as a few much..... More
Complete Life of The Right Honourable Winston L. Spencer Churchill. Life-Stories of Success No.2 Soldier and Statesman.
London: The Self-Help Press, no date [circa 1910]. [Self-Help / Political Biography] RARE ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's paper covers illustrated with a photograph by Elliott and Fry, stapled twice and priced at 2d. Crumbling to dust as you read this; as brown as they come and..... More
Greater East Asia War Record. [Official Japanese Second World War Photography].
Tokyo, [circa 1942]. [Japanese War Photography] ORIGINAL COMMEMORATIVE COLLECTION. Small quarto portfolio containing 40 loose black and white photographs backed onto card, with descriptions tipped onto verso. Also with a loose introductory leaf, and publishing information to the inside of the portfolio. Publisher's blue cloth chemise portfolio, with plain card..... More
Sam Sheridan: The Secret Service Special, or, the jamboree at "Early Bird" bar. The Aldine "Boys' First-Rate Pocket Library." No. 178.
London: Aldine Publishing Company, n.d. [1893]. ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo, pp.32. In original colour illustrated paper covers. Text browned and brittle. Some chips to leaf edges. Covers less brittle, also chipped in places. Spine reinforced with archival tape. Good considering paper stock. More
Selected Articles on Censorship of the Theater and Moving Pictures. The Handbook Series III, Volume 6.
New York, NY: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1931. [Film and Theatre] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.385; [3]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of $2.40 to spine. Very light spotting and browning. Jacket browned with some small chips to edges. A remarkably well-preserved..... More
Social Life in England and France, From the French Revolution in 1789, to That of July 1830. By the editor of Madame du Deffand's Letters.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831. [Social Studies] PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.vii; [1]; 214; [4]. INSCRIBED to Lord Henry Peter Brougham by Berry in brown ink to title page: 'To | The Lord Chancellor Brougham | from the author | MB.' Advertisements to..... More
The Blackbird's Nest. A Tale for Youth.
Philadelphia, PA: Johnson and Warner, 1812. [Children's Antiquarian]. EARLY EDITION. Vigesimo-quarto (13 x 9cm), pp.36. With occasional vignette wood engravings. Recently re-backed in matching grey card with original grey illustrated paper covers laid over. Remarkably crisp and clean, with some wear to original cover edges. Very good. A fine wholesome..... 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
The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain. A Romance of Chivalry. Originally Translated from the French by John Bourchier, Lord Berners. A New Edition. With a Series of Plates, from the Illuminated Drawings contained in a valuable Ms. of the Original Romance.
London: Printed for White, Cochrane and Co., 1814. Limited Edition to 175 regular copies. Quarto; pp: half title page, frontispiece, title page, (12), (1), vi - xxvii, (1), iv, 544. Illustrated with black and white plates based on drawings from the original manuscript. Complete. This edition is edited by Edward..... More
Bill Brandt: Nudes 1945-1980.
London: The Gordon Fraser Gallery, 1980. First Edition. Quarto, pp. 20, 100 black and white plates. Black cloth with silver titles to the spine, in striking black and white dustjacket. Slight wear to the top and bottom edges of the dustwrapper and some bubbling along the left hand edge of..... More
Advice to Mothers, on the subject of their own Health; and on the means of promoting the Health, Strength, and Beauty, of their Offspring.
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[4]; 419; [1]. Recently re-backed with a cream paper-covered spine using original blue/grey paper-covered boards. Hand-written black ink titles to white label on spine; all edges untrimmed. Large damp stain extending through the first 50 pages of text, with (inactive)..... More
Récits et Anecdotes de Chasse.
Tours: Ad. Mame et Cie, 1853. [Children's hunting fiction] ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] 188. With eight tissue-guarded colour chalk lithographs, including a frontispiece, by Victor Adam. Pictorial paper-covered boards, with multicoloured titles to upper board and spine. Very light foxing and toning to leaves with a...... More
...Or Be He Dead.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by William Randell, not priced. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (23 x 18cm)..... More
The Burning Question.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1957. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Randell, priced at 10/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (31 x 25cm)..... More
Long Shadows.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1958. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by William Randell, priced at 10/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (29 x...... More
The English Baronage: Or an Historical Account of the Lives and Most Memorable Actions of Our Nobility; With Their Descents, Marriages, and Issue. Deduc'd From Records, Historians, Manuscripts, and Other Authorities. By Arthur Collins Esq. Volume the First.
London: Printed for Robert Gosling, 1727. [English History] SCARCE FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.[4]; xvi; 683; [13]. With numerous engravings by Gerard van der Gucht, including two fold-out monument illustrations. Recently rebound in green cloth, gilt titles to spine. Leaves toned and somewhat soiled/spotted as to be expected..... More
Mist, and Other Ghost Stories. Edited with an Introduction by Richard Dalby.
Dorset: Sundial Supernatural, 2015. [Ghost stories] LIMITED EDITION COPY, only 265 published. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.x; 182. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £17.50 to front flap. Black endpapers. Fine, as-new. The first reprinted edition of this incredibly rare 1928 series, its..... More
The Peerage of Ireland: or, an exact Catalogue of the present Nobility both Lords Spiritual and Temporal, with an Historical and Genealogical account of them, containing the Descents, Creations and most remarkable Actions of them, their Ancestors, and some of their Monuments; also the Titles of Honour they now enjoy, both here and in England, their Preferments, and the time of their Promotions, with their Marriages and Issues, continued to this Time; with their Paternal Coats of Arms, and of the Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Sees, and the time of their Consecrations and Translations of each Family in Blazon, with their respective Arms, Crests, Supporters and Mottos; the whole collected from the most authentick Histories, Pedigrees, choice Manuscripts, Certificates, and other Records of this Kingdom. [Together with] The Signification of most Things that are born in Heraldry, with the Explanation of their Natural Qualities, and of those Persons that they ought properly to be born by.
Dublin: Printed by Thomas Hume, 1724 - 1725. FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Folio (32 x 21cm), pp.[16]; 260; [14]; 86; [10]. In recent brown speckled full panelled calf, with raised bands and gilt titles to red label on spine. Blue ink library stamp to title page and..... More
Mistura Curiosa.
Edinburgh. Maclachlan and Stewart. 1896. First edition. 4to. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth covered bevelled boards, titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Light edgewear, some slight frayiong to head of spine; bright, clean and handsome. All edges gilt. Internally clean. A bizarre and unusual collection..... 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
The Ginger Man.
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1958. [Modern Literature] FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.382. Publisher's green cloth with printed title lables to spine and upper, and red endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 15s. very minor wear to jacket edges. A lovely near fine copy. The Irish American..... More
The Friend of the Family, or, Stepantchikovo and its Inhabitants, and another story. The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky Volume XII.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. [Russian Literature] FIRST GARNETT EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 361 [3]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a gilt device to upper. Spotting and toning to edges and endpapers. Browning throughout; quite heavily to margins. Spine sunned with a few..... More