Sandra Blow.
(Aldershot): Lund Humphries, (2005). First edition, 4to, 172 pp. Numerous illustrations. Cloth, d.w. very slightly sunned and soiled. More
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Nicholas de Staël in America. Essays by Nicholas Fox Weber [&] John Richardson.
Washington D.C.: The Phillips Collection, 1990. First edition, 4to, 192 pp. Numerous illustrations. Pictorial wrappers, spine slightly creased, one corner a little bumped. More
The Audi Book.
(Kempen): Teneues, (2012). Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, folio, 285, (19) pp. Photographic illustrations throughout, inscription to half title. Original pictorial cloth, a lovely copy. More
Sandro Botticelli. The Drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy.
London: Royal Academy of Arts, (2000). First edition, oblong 4to, (360) pp. Numerous illustrations. Pictorial boards, an excellent copy. More
War and Peace. Translated and with an Introduction by Rosemary Edmonds. Drawings by Feliks Topolski.
London: The Folio Society, 1997. Two volumes, 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Two tone cloth, pictorial slipcase with light rubbing. More
The Poetical Works of... With all his introductions and notes; also various readings, and the editor's notes.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853. 8vo, (iv), iv, 823, (1) pp. Engraved second title and a folding manuscript facsimile, printed in double column, marbled endpapers. Handsomely bound in contemporary morocco, a.e.g., gilt arms of Oxford University to the covers with the Greek motto "aien aristeuein" ("ever to be the..... More
The Works of... Edited by Mrs. Shelley.
London: Edward Moxon, 1854. 8vo, xvi, 363, (1, xvi), 164 pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece and second title, printed in double column, foxing to the first few leaves, marbled endpapers. Handsomely bound in contemporary morocco, a.e.g., spine slightly darkened and scuffed. More
The Poetical Works of... With an essay on his language and versification, and an introductory discourse; together with Notes and a Glossary by Thomas Tyrwhitt.
London: Edward Moxon, 1855. 8vo, lxx, (ii), 501, (1) pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece and second title, printed in double column, foxing to the first few leaves, marbled endpapers. Handsomely bound in contemporary morocco, a.e.g., gilt arms of Oxford University to the covers with the Greek motto "aien aristeuein" ("ever to..... More
The Poetical Works of... Edited, with a life, by his son.
London: John Murray, 1851. 8vo, (viii), 584 pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece and second title, printed in double column, marbled endpapers. Handsomely bound in contemporary morocco, a.e.g., gilt arms of Oxford University to the covers with the Greek motto "aien aristeuein" ("ever to be the best") underneath, spine slightly darkened and..... More
Poems of...
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1854. 8vo, (xii), 576 pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece and second title, printed in double column, foxing to front and rear blanks, marbled endpapers. Handsomely bound in contemporary morocco, a.e.g., gilt arms of Oxford University to the covers with the Greek motto "aien aristeuein"..... More
The Works of... with a selection of notes from various commentators; and a glossarial index: to which is prefixed, some account of the life of Spenser by the Rev. Henry John Todd.
London: Edward Moxon, 1852. 8vo, lx, 562 pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece and second title, printed in double column, some light foxing at the beginning and end, marbled endpapers. Handsomely bound in contemporary morocco, a.e.g., gilt arms of Oxford University to the covers with the Greek motto "aien aristeuein" ("ever to..... More
The Poetical Works of... Collected and arranged, with notes and illustrations.
London: John Murray, 1855. 8vo, viii, 576 pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece and second title plus an engraved dedication leaf and 4 pages of facsimile manuscript, printed in double column, marbled endpapers. Handsomely bound in contemporary morocco, a.e.g., gilt arms of Oxford University to the covers with the Greek motto "aien..... More
The Poetical Works of...
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853. 8vo, xxviii, 828 pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece and second title, printed in double column, marbled endpapers. Handsomely bound in contemporary morocco, a.e.g., gilt arms of Oxford University to the covers with the Greek motto "aien aristeuein" ("ever to be the best") underneath, spine..... More
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The Ballet Annual. First - Sixth issue[s].
Lonsdon: Adam and Charles Black, 1947. Six volumes, first editions, large 8vo. Numerous black and white photographic illustrations, coloured endpapers to four volumes. Cloth, d.w.'s. with some light wear and minor loss to spine ends, lower wrapper of volume VI torn without loss. More
The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals. Edited by Francis Darwin.
London: John Murray, 1904. "Popular edition", 8vo, (viii), 397, (1 advertisement, 1) pp. 23 plates, endpapers browned, fly leaf with a small closed tear and a faint blind stamp. Original gilt titled light green cloth, minor rubbing to extremities. Freeman, 1157. More
Radioactive Substances and their Relations.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1913. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 699, (1) pp. Ink stamp of the Tate & Lyle Research Laboratory to fly leaf and one other preliminary leaf, old signature crossed through to the fly leaf. Original gilt titled dark green cloth, slight wear to the top of..... More
Ordinary Citizens. The Victims of Stalin. Photographs from the Memorial Society, Moscow; the David King Collection, London and Reinhard Schultz, Berlin.
London: Francis Boutle, 2003. First edition, 4to, 192 pp. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Pictorial stiff wrappers, very minor shelf wear otherwise fine. More
Selected Essays. 1917-1932.
London: Faber and Faber, (1932). First edition, 8vo, 454 pp. Light foxing to the endpapers, old signature to fly leaf. Original cloth, spine and top edges faded, top of lower joint with mild wear. More
Drawings from Life.
London: Hague & Gill Ltd., (1940). First edition, 8vo, (vi), xvi, (iii) pp, followed by 36 plates. Cloth, d.w. with loss to the spine ends and corners, spine and top edge slightly browned. More
The Real David Copperfield.
London: Arthur Barker, (1933). First edition, 8vo, 424 pp. Cloth, d.w. with some light wear to the spine ends and fading to the very ends of the cloth spine underneath. More
David Jones: Eight Essays on his Work as Writer and Artist. Being the First Transactions of Yr Academi Gymreig (English Section).
(Llandysul): Gomer Press, 1976. First edition, 8vo, 144 pp. Photographic portrait frontispiece. Cloth, d.w. with some mild browning otherwise fine. More
Brief Candles. Stories by...
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. First edition, 8vo, (vi), 324 pp. Cloth, one small mark to upper cover, d.w., spine lightly browned with a couple of tiny chips to the ends. More
Hobberdy Dick.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955. First edition, 8vo, 191, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w. a little browned with some minor loss to corners. More
Sketches in Italy. Selected from "Sketches in Italy and Greece" and "Sketches and Studies in Italy."
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1883. Small 8vo, (3)-312 pp, bound without the half title. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary half parchment, gilt spine, slightly darkened, otherwise a handsome copy. More
Magic M.P.H.
London: Motor Racing Publications, 1951. First edition, 8vo, 166 pp. Frontispiece and 38 plates plus two folding diagrams at the end. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf, with a letter loosely inserted to the recipient from a garage in Hove, offering the book and mentioning how they had..... More