Syllabubs and Fruit Fools.
(London: Elizabeth David, 1971). Second impression, small 8vo, 20 pp. Printed wrappers, stapled as issued, slightly faded and foxed. More
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A Lewes Diary. Edited by Diana Crook.
Tartarus Press, (1998). Limited edition, no. 150 of 250 hardback copies signed by the editor, 8vo, (vi), x, 254 pp. Frontispiece and 4 pages of black and white photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w. with very mild rubbing to edges, a near fine copy. More
Wolfgang Tillmans. Still Life.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Art Museum, (2002). First edition, small 4to, 61, (1) pp. 36 coloured photographic illustrations. Card covers, spiral bound as issued, some very minor soiling otherwise an excellent copy. More
Lady Chatterley's Lover. Including My Skirmish with Jolly Roger. Written Especially and Exclusively as an Introduction to this Popular Edition.
Privately Printed, 1930. 8vo, (iv), viii, 366 pp. Bumping and minor loss to corners of the first few leaves. Original brown paper wrappers, edges with a little loss. A reprint of the third appearance of Lawrence's controversial work, known as the "Paris popular" edition. Roberts A42c has the 1929 printing. More
Explorations in South-west Africa. Being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the western coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. First edition, 8vo, xiv, 535, (1) pp. 3 folding maps, chromolithographed frontispiece and 8 plates plus 26 illustrations in the text, some occasional light foxing, marbled endpapers. 20th century half calf, t.e.g., some very mild soiling otherwise a very good copy. More
The Connoisseur, and other stories.
London: W. Collins Sons & Co., (1926). Limited edition, no. 174 of 250 copies signed by the author, 8vo, 357, (1) pp. Attractive contemporary bookplate, slightly later inscription to fly leaf. Original lined backed boards, spine with mild browning, morocco label with an old repair. More
In an Eighteenth Century Kitchen. A Receipt Book of Cookery 1698. Edited, with an Introduction, Notes and Glossary, by... a Preface by Beverley Nichols and illustrated by Duncan Grant.
London: Cecil and Amelia Woolf, 1968. Limited edition, one of 2,000 copies, this copy not numbered, 8vo, (xiv), 57, (1) pp. 6 black and white plates by Grant, who also designed the endpapers. Cloth, d.w., pictorial boards with mild rubbing to spine ends, d.w. repeating the design, extremities a little... More
The Last Grain Race.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1956. First edition. 8vo. x, 243, (3) pp. Publisher' dark blue cloth, silver lettered lighter blue spine panel, dust jacket. 36 black and white photographic plates, mostly full page, folding plan of sails and rigging plus map endpapers. A little wear to the spine ends and... More
RFK. Tribute by Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Essays by Vicki Goldberg, Norman Mailer, and Evan Thomas.
(New York): Aperture, (2008). First edition thus, oblong 4to, 223, (1) pp. Coloured photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
Put Out More Flags.
London: The Book Club, 1943. 8vo. 255, (1) pp. Publisher's red cloth, lettered black spine panel, dust jacket illustrated to the upper panel. Some wear to the extremities and a little soiling, an attractive copy. First published the year before. More
Put Out More Flags.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1948. 8vo. 232, (2) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, top edge blue, early ownership inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper, dust jacket. Some mild rubbing to the extremities of the jacket plus some tanning to the spine, else very... More
Scoop. A Novel About Journalists.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1948. 8vo. 241, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, top edge blue, early ownership inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper, dust jacket. Loss to the foot of the spine plus some tanning, a little wear to the other extremities... More
Black Mischief.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1948. 8vo. 232, (2) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, top edge blue, early ownership inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper, dust jacket. Losses to the spine ends and left edge of the jacket spine with some tanning, else a.... More
Vile Bodies.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1947. 8vo. 215, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, top edge blue, the early bookseller's ticket of Martin A. McGoff of Liverpool to the front pastedown plus a contemporary ownership inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper, dust jacket. Slight... More
Decline and Fall. An Illustrated Novelette.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1947. 8vo. 239, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, top edge blue, the early bookseller's ticket of Martin A. McGoff of Liverpool to the front pastedown plus a contemporary ownership inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper, dust jacket, Tears... More
Experiment in Film. Edited by...
London: The Grey Walls Press Ltd, 1949. First edition. 8vo. 285, (1) pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, inscribed by Manvell on the front free endpaper to Nora Traylen - "Once more with thanks for her help in making a heavy book gay with pictures!"... More
Sowing. Growing. Beginning Again. Downhill All the Way. The Journey Not the Arrival That Matters.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1967-1969. Five volumes, volumes I-IV mixed printings, volume V first edition. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. Numerous photographic illustrations. Some wear to the spine ends of the jackets, plus some tanning to those of volumes I and II, else very... More
Cézanne. A Study of his Development.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1952. Second edition. Small 4to. (viii), 88 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 40 black and white plates. Wear to the head of the jacket spine and the front upper corner, very good overall. More
The Poems of... Edited by G. Thorn Drury, with an introduction by Robert Bridges.
London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1896. Limited edition, no. 156 of 200 large paper copies, two volumes, 8vo. Portrait frontispiece in volume I. Publisher's quarter vellum, t.e.g., green cloth sides, some mild marks, very good. "The Muses' Library" series. More
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah. Edited by his wife, Isabel Burton.
London: Darf Publishers, 1986. Two volumes, 8vo. Black and white illustrations and a folding map. Cloth, d.w.'s, spine to volume I sunned otherwise very good. First published 1855, this is a facsimile of the Memorial edition originally published in 1893. More
Le Bords du Rhin, de la Frontière Suisse a la Frontière de Hollande. Manuel du Voyageur par...
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1877. Tenth edition, small 8vo, xxiv, 365, (1) pp. 20 maps and 20 plans plus a general map to the rear endpapers, contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Original gilt titled red cloth, spine sunned, wear to joints. More
Annual Report of the Commissioners of Emigration, of the State of New York: for the year ending December 31, 1862.
New York: John F. Trow, 1863. 8vo, 75, (1) pp. Contemporary inscription and later bookplate to front endpapers. Original blind stamped cloth, spine worn with some loss, corners bumped. More
Wake Up Princes.
Bombay:, 1920. Second edition. 8vo. xxviii, 204, (2) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, black lettered to the spine and upper board, errata slip tipped in at the front of the book apologising for the print quality - "I regret that the Karnatak Press has failed miserably...". Fading to the spine, else... More
Private Life of an Indian Prince. A Novel by...
London: Hutchinson's Universal Book Club, 1954. 8vo. 346, (2) pp. Publisher's red cloth, black lettered to the spine, dust jacket,. Neat old reinforcement to the edges of the jacket, small tear without loss to the lower panel, a little rubbing and soiling. More
The Diary of... A new and complete transcription edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews.
London: G. Bell and Sons [or] Bell & Hyman, 1977-79, 83. Eleven volumes, first editions of volumes IV, V and IX-XI, others later impressions, 8vo. Frontispieces to all but the final volume, plus 47 plates, 20 maps and an extending panorama. Cloth, d.w.'s, some very mild edge wear, a very... More