"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
Catalogue 47 - Winter 2016
A range of highlights in all fields.
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Extracts from Regimental Orders, for the Use of the First Battalion Grenadier Guards.
[Private Compilation]. n.d. [c.1878]. ORIGINAL HANDBOOK, printed material interleaved with MS notes. Octavo, pp.36, xcv. With approximately half the booklet consisting of blank unpaginated leaves. Printed material interleaved with MS notes in black and red ink, paginated by hand in Roman numerals. Some annotations to printed leaves. Folding poster 'Arrangement..... More
Man's Estate: Adventures in Economic Discovery.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1939. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.480. With notes and an index. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original cream dust-jacket with red titles to spine and covers. Top edge red. Black ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Some minor chips and..... More
Son of a Box of Punks. Original Photographs.
Brighton: [Self-published], 2006. SIGNED by the photographer. From Ian Dickson's 'Collector's Series'; a range of handmade box sets, each title containing seven hand-printed images in signed mounts; offered in Standard, Digital or De Luxe (best) edition. 'Son of a Box of Punks' comprises seven silver gelatine prints of punk and..... More
20th Century Boy. Original Photographs of Marc Bolan
Brighton: [Self-published], 2006. SIGNED by the photographer. From Ian Dickson's 'Collector's Series'; a range of handmade box sets, each title containing seven hand-printed images in signed mounts; offered in Standard, Digital or DeLuxe (best) edition. '20th Century Boy' comprises six silver gelatine prints and one colour digital print of Glam-Rock..... More
A Geological Sketch of the Vicinity of Hastings.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman. Hastings: G. Wool, 1833. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii, 94. Folding chart with four hand coloured geological sections bound in at the rear, plus in text illustrations. Original patterned cloth, with recent paper label to spine. Cancelled library stamp and neat inscription to..... More
'Yes and No'. A critical essay on the morality of Ian Fleming's novels, contained within 'Now & Then' magazine, Number 102, Autumn 1958.
Jonathan Cape, 30 Bedford Square, London. [1958]. pp.24. Price sixpence.. Magazine format, illustrated. Fine. Publisher Jonathan Cape's literary magazine for the publishing industry, booksellers and the public alike. Contains an editorial piece to p.6-7 on the controversy surrounding Fleming's Bond novels, recently heightened by some scornful articles concerning the ethical..... More
The Centenary Edition of the Works of Ian Fleming.
London: Queen Anne Press 2008. LIMITED EDITION in Vellum over cloth sides, one of just 100 copies. 18 volumes, octavo. The definitive edition of Ian Fleming, issued to commemorate the birth of the author; no such edition has been published before. The Queen Anne Press was created by Lord Kemsley..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Illustrated by John Burningham.
London: Jonathan Cape 1964-5. [Children's classic] 3 volumes, octavos (24 x 17cm). ALL FIRST IMPRESSIONS. Complete. Pp.48, 48, 48. Publisher's white hardcovers in glossy pictorial dust-wrappers. A presentable set with some expected wear, a few marks and tears (one longer tear to no.3), no bookplates or inscriptions. All three volumes..... More
A James Bond Omnibus. Containing Live and Let Die, Diamonds are Forever and Dr No.
London: Book Club Associates 1973. FIRST EDITION of the first James Bond omnibus to be published in the UK, preceding the Jonathan Cape equivalent. Publisher's hardcover in original metallic effect dust-wrapper. A used copy with some toning to edges of text block. Jacket shows general use, some scuffing and soiling..... More
The Life of Ian Fleming Creator of James Bond
London: Pan Books Ltd 1967. Paperback. First edition thus. Octavo, pp.416, with illustrated softcovers and photographic plates within. Cheap paper stock toned as expected, some dustiness otherwise a lovely near fine copy of 'an essential biographical volume' (Gilbert). BMC No.1 p.4-13 'Fleming and Bond; Related Titles'. More
The Life of Ian Fleming. Creator of James Bond.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.352, with pp.16 of photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth with 'golden eye' motif to the upper cover, red top-stain, pictorial dust-wrapper. Edges toned/thumbed, Christmas gift label to flyleaf, jacket worn at spine ends and corners. A very good..... More
Zur Chirurgie des Herzens und des Herzbeutels, in 'Archiv fur Klinische Chirurgie'.
Berlin: Verlag von August Hirshwald 1907. Pp.904. Original printed wrappers. Prof. Dr. Rehn's treatise appears on pp.723-778. A fine copy, in a folding protective case with gilt-titled orange leather label to spine and gilt crest to upper (some wear to box). This is an account of the first successful suture..... More
Beatles Ltd.
London: George Newnes, 1964. ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION. Quarto (31 x 31cm), with 12 leaves of black and white photographs of the band by Freeman. Stapled in original purple card covers with green titles. Rubbing and creases to cover edges; covers detached. Good. More
Estuary Saga. A Wildfowler Naturalist on the Elbe.
London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 1952. Association Copy, Signed First Edition. Octavo, pp. Bound in publisher's White pictorial dustwrapper showing wid fowl circling above a wintery pond, titles in blue and black to front cover; unclipped, originally priced at 12s 6d. Bookplate. Binding is bright, with a touch of..... More
Pastures New. A Wildfowler Naturalist Explorers North-West Germany.
London: H.F. and G. Witherby Ltd, 1954. Signed First Edition. Octavo. pp. xv, 172. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Green pictorial dust wrapper shows pheasants on dunes overlooking the sea, with titles in white to front cover and spine, advertisements for companion volume Estuary Saga..... More
Hodge and his Masters.
London: Smith, Elder, 1890. NEW EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii, 424. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and black decorative stamping to upper board. Black end-papers. Reading lean and some light shelf-wear. Very good overall. A collection of articles on farming and the rural economy first published in the..... More
The Lennon Companion. Edited by Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman
London; Sidgwick and Jackson 2002. FIRST EDITION thus. 273 pages, standard size, with photographic plates. Comprising twenty five years of comment from the likes of Tom Wolfe, Noel Coward, Kenneth Tynan, David Frost, Martin Amis, George Melly and Philip Larkin. Publisher's cloth in dustjacket. Very fine. More
Poisonous Plants on the Farm. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Miscellaneous Publications No. 57.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.58. With 51 illustrations to plate section at rear. In original leather-effect blue quarter cloth, with titles to plain paper-covered boards. Boards lightly browned, with a couple of small water stains to top edge (upper board only). Near fine overall... More
Elvis: 10 Years After.
Heanor: Heanor Record Centre, 1986. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small Quarto. pp. iii, 204. With many colour photographic plates and a flexi EP of the 1956 New Orleans interview. Number 1766 of 2000 copies SIGNED by the author and editor to a book plate pasted to the front free end-paper. In..... More
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[Material relating to] Grapefruit. Works and Drawings by Yoko Ono. Introduction by John Lennon.
Tokyo and London: Wunternaum Press and Peter Owen, 1964, 1970. An important archive relating to the British publication of Yoko Ono's Grapefruit, comprising the true first edition limited to 500 copies [Tokyo, 1964] used for setting the UK edition; the UK publisher's file copy, being the first English language edition..... More
Stories We Could Tell.
London: Harper Collins, 2005. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[8] 309 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. In publisher's black cloth with white titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. A very fine, unread copy. A novel of sex and love and rock and roll (from..... More
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Saladin Productions / Wendell Ltd. 1967. An original portrait poster by Saladin Productions designed by the talented West Coast graphic artist and illustrator Robert 'Bob' Wendel, depicting Portland, Oregon's acid rock n rollers Paul Rever and the Raiders. Condition A (fresh copy, unrolled). Approx dimensions 20 x 13, portrait format..... More
The Life of Ian Fleming. Creator of James Bond.
London: The Companion Book Club, 1966. FIRST REGULAR EDITION from the Companion Book Club, who also released a 'De Luxe' version. Octavo, pp.368 + photographic plates. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with pale blue label and topstain, in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 5/9. Some trivial toning to the spine..... More
Jazz 1955-1959. 61
Amsterdam: Fragment Uitgeverij, 1991. First Dutch Edition, having previously published in Japan. Square octavo, with 190 photographic plates. Bound in publisher's printed softcovers with striking pictorial jacket. A clean, fine copy, with a signature to half-title 'Joost Divend'. Ed van der Elsken was a prolific Dutch artist, photographer, and filmmaker..... More
Bob Dylan: European Concert Tour 1981.
London: Arena International Merchandising Services, 1981. ORIGINAL CONCERT PROGRAMME AND TICKET. Quarto (32 x 24cm), 12 leaves with colour photographs of Dylan in concert by David Redfern, with tour dates, a short biography and a few quotes. Stapled in original light yellow illustrated card covers with red titles. With original..... More