(Göttingen): Steidl, (2005). First edition, oblong folio, (144) pp. 66 full page photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a small mark to the top of the half title otherwise fine. More about Recreation. American Photographs 1973-1988
[Paris]: Chose Commune, (2016). Second edition, 4to, (184) pp. Numerous photographic illustrations, a handful in colour, text in French, English and Japanese. Original pictorial cloth, a fine copy. More about Shoji Ueda. Short story by Toshiyuki Horie
Tokyo: Zen Foto Gallery, 2014. First edition, 4to, (108) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations, text in both Japanese and English. Pictorial card wrappers, fine. More about One Road
Cambridge University Press, 1974-77. Five volumes. Large 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, gilt to the spines, dust jackets, prior owner's neat bookplates to the front pastedowns. Occasional slight wear to the dust jackets, a very good set overall. A monumental work of scholarship listing author's works, bibliographies, biographies, letters and diaries... More about The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1969. Six volumes. 8vo. Publisher's red buckram, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. Small loss to the jacket spine of volume VI, save for a few trivial marks and some minimal wear, a very good set. Lithographically reprinted from the first edition thus of 1888. More about The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641... Re-edited from...
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1991. Two volumes. 8vo. xxxvi, 397, (1); viii, 398-768 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt to the spines, prior owner's bookplates to the front pastedowns. An excellent set. First published in 1940. More about The Regimental History of Cromwell's Army
SPBH Editions, (2017). First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 309, (13) pp. Numerous photographic illustrations. Pictorial boards, fine. More about In Most Tides an Island
(Portland): Nazraeli Press, (2010). First edition, oblong folio, (64) pp. Coloured photographic illustrations. Original pictorial cloth, fine. More about A Road Divided. Text: Jean Baudrillard
(Portland): Nazraeli Press, (2013). First edition, oblong folio, (92) pp. Coloured photographic illustrations, 16 leaves folding out. Original cloth with further photographs to both covers, fine. More about Excerpts from Silver Meadows. Essay by Katya Tylevich
(London): Privately Printed (at the Westminster Press), Christmas 1927. Sole edition, 8vo, (ii), 43, (1) pp. Inscribed on the fly leaf by the author to Eric Harmsworth "...from his oldest friend..." and dated 1937. Original printed wrappers, spine worn with loss to the ends. Scarce. More about The New Young. Rhymes made for a few of them By a Grandfather: & appointed to be read to them...
London: William Heinemann, (1952). "New edition", 8vo, (viii), 221, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w. a little browned and worn, subtle restoration to the spine ends on the reverse. More about Afternoon Men
London: Heinemann, (1960). First edition, 8vo, (vi), 229, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped but with strengthening to the top and bottom edges on the reverse, some wear to extremities. The fifth volume in Powell's epic "Dance to the Music of Time" series. More about Casanova's Chinese Restaurant. A Novel
Birminghamiæ: Johannis Baskerville, 1766. 8vo, (ii), 388 pp. Frontispiece. Light foxing throughout, a couple of mild tears to the inner margin of the final leaf. Modern full morocco, maroon spine label. Gaskell 34. More about Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis
London: The Hogarth Press, 1977-84. First edition, five volumes, 8vo. Map endpapers to four volumes. Cloth, d.w.'s with decoration by Duncan Grant, volumes I and V price clipped, some mild creasing to spine ends and light sunning, a very good set. More about The Diary of... Introduced by Quentin Bell. Edited by Anne Oliver Bell. Assisted by Andrew McNeillie
London: The Hogarth Press, 1975-80. First edition, six volumes, 8vo. Numerous black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w.'s, light sunning to four of the spines, some mild marking. More about The Letters of... 1888-1941. The Flight of the Mind. The Question of Things Happening. A Change...
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1877. 8vo, xii, 422, (2, 4 advertisement) pp. 113 text illustrations, upper hinge slightly cracked but sound. Original gilt titled russet cloth, a very good copy. Freeman and Wertheimer 91b. More about Evenings at the Microscope; or, Researches among the minuter organs and forms of Animal Life
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1925. First edition, 8vo, x, 528, (2) pp. Gilt titled blind stamped green cloth, d.w. repeating the design with a little loss to the spine ends and corners. Wade 147. More about Early Poems and Stories
London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. First edition, 4to, (xii), 367, (1) pp. Numerous black and white illustrations. Original gilt decorated dark green cloth, a few minor marks, extremities a little bumped. A detailed history of coaching in Britain, arranged by roads - Bath, Exeter, Portsmouth, Brighton, Dover, York and Holyhead... More about Coaching Days and Coaching Ways. With... Illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railton
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 498, (2), 32 pp. Later black full morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and decorated to the others, gilt rules to the sides, marbled endpapers, small early ownership stamp to the half title, the original... More about London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1954. Sixteenth edition. Large 8vo. xxxiii, (i), 1033, (3) pp. Fine contemporary red full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels, the upper board with the a gilt presentation to Sir Owen Wansborough-Jones from the architects Lord Mottistone and Paul... More about A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. For Students, Craftsmen and Amateurs
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1939. First edition. 8vo. Bound in slightly later dark green half calf by the Government Printing House, Mauritius, spine with raised bands, twin gilt lettered tan labels, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and 16 plates, some featuring two subjects. Very good. More about The Children of Shallowford
London: Seeley and Co. Limited, 1911. 8vo. 329, (1) pp. Contemporary prize binding for Dorchester Grammar School, burgundy full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered black label, gilt decoration to the other panels, the college crest in gilt to the upper board and their contemporary prize bookplate to the... More about The Romance of the Animal World
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1925. 8vo. xx, 1092 pp. Contemporary prize binding by Bickers and Son for Bromley High School for Girls, red half calf over matching cloth sides, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel and decorated to the others, the college crest in gilt... More about The Oxford Book of English Prose. Chosen & Edited by
London: John Murray, 1814. Eighth edition. 8vo. xii, 296 pp. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, spine with three wide raised bands on which the title is gilt lettered, gilt decoration to the other panels plus an ornate gilt border to the boards with elaborate cornerpieces, all edges gilt, the owner ship... More about Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romaunt
London: Colliery Guardian Office, 1866. Second edition, 8vo, (viii), 82, (2 Index, 3 advertisement, 1) pp, with a folding coloured plate showing brick kilns - this with some carefully repaired tears, 4 further coloured and 4 black and white plates plus 2 folding tables, original gilt titled cloth, spine ends slightly worn, some marks. More about The Colliery Manager's Calculator; Containing Practical Rules and Tables, with various...