London, 1946. Limited edition, no. 415 of 750 copies, signed by the author. 8vo. 135, (1) pp. Publisher's tan buckram, gilt to the spine and upper board. Slight fading to the upper edges of the boards, an attractive copy. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme, A44b. More about The Garden
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1984. Three volumes. Second edition, fourteenth, twelfth and twelfth impressions. 8vo. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt to the spines, dust jackets. Folding map in each volume. A very good set. More about The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship of the Ring. The Two Towers. The Return of the King
London: John Starkey, Charles Harper, and John Amery, 1680. Second edition thus. Folio. Recent panelled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered dark red label, all edges marbled, an old ownership inscription (possibly 19th century) to the head of the title page, another later inscription dated 1963 just beneath. A.... More about The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written Originally...
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1925. Oblong 4to. (51), 434, 52-58 pp. including advertisements to pastedowns. Publisher's dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine and blind to the boards. Profusely illustrated. A few trivial marks to the covers, very good. More about Jane's Fighting Ships 1925
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. First edition, 8vo, 412 pp. Occasional light foxing, contemporary pencilled inscription to front blank. Later green quarter calf, spine faded to brown, red spine label. More about Mr. Standfast
(Greenwich): National Maritime Museum, (2009). First edition, large oblong 8vo, 60 pp. Coloured illustrations. Cloth backed pictorial boards, fine. More about Edward Lear. Egyptian Sketches
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Tokyo: Rat Hole, 2007. First edition. Small 4to. (24); (24) pp. Publisher's spiral bound black card covers, white lettered to the upper board. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. A few trivial marks to the upper cover, very good in all other regard. More about Kagasaki. [and] Tsugaru
London: London Gallery Editions, (1939). Limited edition, one of 500 copies, 8vo, (56) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Colourfully inscribed and decorated by the author to artists "David [Thomas] & Margaret [Traherne]" on the half title. Original stiff printed wrappers, some very faint rubbing to extremities otherwise an excellent... More about The Road is Wider Than Long. An Image Diary from the Balkans July-August 1938
London: Red Meat Hart, 2012. First edition. Small 4to. (184) pp. Publisher's green-blue cloth, pink lettered to the spine and upper board, inscribed "with love..." by Cappello to the title page and signed by Jamie Hince to one of the illustrations. Photographic illustrations throughout, mostly in colour. An excellent copy... More about The Kills. Dream & Drive
(London): John Murray, (2013). First edition, 8vo, (xxii), 362 pp. Signed by both editors on the title page. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, with a Hatchards "signed copy" wraparound band, a fine copy. More about The Broken Road. From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos. Edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1937. 8vo, (x), 235, (1) pp. 16 photographic plates, some occasional light foxing. Cloth, d.w., a few marks, a very good copy. Blackwell's Mountaineering Library. First published 1856. More about Wanderings Among the High Alps
Llandogo: The Old Stile Press, (1991). Limited edition, no. 93 of 275 copies, 8vo, 67, (3) pp. Double page drawing to title and 28 further pages of drawings, wood engraving to the colophon. Original quarter morocco, patterned paper sides, spine slightly sunned, pictorial slipcase, a near fine copy. More about The More Angles I Shall Paint. A selection from the sketchbooks, writings and commonplace books of
[London]: Mack, 2012. First edition. 4to. (112) pp. Publisher's plain card covers with integral wrappers with flaps, photographically illustrated to front and rear, loosely inserted is an 8 pp. colour illustrated booklet. Colour photographic illustrations throughout. Small tear to the foot of the upper cover, else very good. A photo... More about Lick Creek Line. With an Essay by Nicholas Muellner
Llandogo: The Old Stile Press, (1994). Limited edition, no. 91 of 195 copies signed by McDowell, thin 4to, (38) leaves. 20 plates tipped in, with a folded single sheet loosely inserted containing four printed pages concerning the papers and their possible commercial availability. Original cloth backed decorative boards, slipcase, a fine copy. More about Robin Tanner & The Old Stile Press. Being printed examples of twenty original patterned paper...
London: The Hogarth Press, 1950. First English edition, 8vo, 223, (1) pp. Prize label of Pietermaritzburg Technical College to fly leaf. Cloth, spine slightly sunned, d.w., price clipped, with a design in yellow and black by Vanessa Bell, spine and edges browned, some small tears and loss to the top... More about The Captain's Death Bed, and other Essays
Göttingen: Steidl, 2001. First edition. Oblong folio. 123, (1) pp. Publisher's dark green cloth, darker green lettering to the spine, dust jacket. Colour photographic illustrations throughout. Slight creasing to fly leaf otherwise an excellent copy. More about Havana
London: The Hogarth Press, 1977-84. First edition, five volumes, 8vo. Map endpapers to four volumes, volume I with a bookplate, volumes II, III and V with owners' inscriptions to front endpapers. Cloth, d.w.'s with decoration by Duncan Grant, volumes II and V price clipped, some light marks and creasing to..... More about The Diary of... Introduced by Quentin Bell. Edited by Anne Oliver Bell. Assisted by Andrew McNeillie
Woodbridge: ACC Editions, 2013. First edition. 4to. 352 pp. Publisher's black cloth, gloss lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket, signed by O'Neill to the lower right corner of the double page photograph of Frank Sinatra and his entourage at pp. 264-65. Photographic illustrations throughout. An excellent copy... More about Terry O'Neill: The A-Z of Fame. Edited by Robin Morgan. Design Direction by Stephen Reid
London: Collins, 1947. First edition. Oblong 8vo. (24) pp. Publisher's light blue cloth backed illustrated boards, dust jacket replicating the same design, not price clipped but with later price annotation. Colour illustrations throughout. A little wear and tear to the jacket edges, occasionally with small losses, else very good. More about Deep Sea Mokey. Written & Illustrated by
London: Edward Moxon, 1851. Fifth edition, 8vo, (viii), 673, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers, sides and edges, later bookplate. Contemporary black half morocco by J. Winstanley, Manchester, a little rubbed. From "Abacus" to "Zurich" this is much more than a historical chronology, with the alphabetical entries covering all areas of knowledge. First published in 1841. More about Dictionary of Dates, and Universal Reference, relating to all Ages and Nations... with copious...
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, (2003). First edition, 4to, (x), 450 pp. Over 400 illustrations, mostly in colour, signed by the author on the title page. Cloth, d.w., edges with mild creasing, very good. More about Hampton Court. A Social and Architectural History
Edinburgh & London: The Moray Press, (1937). First edition, 8vo, 156, (2) pp. Later inscription to fly leaf. Gilt decorated green cloth, d.w. with minor loss to extremities and some old strengthening to the reverse, very good. More about Hebridean Altars. Some Studies of the Spirit of an Island Race
London: The Folio Society, 2004. Third printing thus. 4to. xxi, (iii), 304 pp. Publisher's green quarter morocco over orange moiré silk sides, pictorial slipcase. 12 colour plates. An excellent copy. More about Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books by... with a Preface by Peter Ackroyd, an Introduction by...
London: Published by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1911. Second edition, 8vo, (viii), 302, (2), 30 advertisement pp. 200 illustrations, two to a plate, with a proportion in colour, contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Original gilt titled cloth, spine slightly sunned and rubbed. More about A Monograph of the Mycetozoa. A descriptive catalogue of the species in the herbarium of the...
London: Lund Humphries, (1998). First edition. 4to. 151, (1) pp. Publisher's maroon cloth, white lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Numerous illustrations, a handful in colour. An excellent copy. More about Eric Fraser. Designer & Illustrator. With an Essay by Wendy Coates-Smith