London: Printed for Scatcherd and Whitaker, [1774]. Fifteenth edition, 24mo, 168 pp. Slightly later inscription to front blank. Contemporary sheep, rebacked and held in a modern marbled slipcase. More
London: Michael Joseph, (1951). First edition, 8vo, 237, (1) pp. 8 black and white photographic plates. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, with some minor tears, loss to the top of the spine. Cross & Ravenscroft Hulme A48. More
(London): Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983. Fourth impression, 4to, (vi), 32, (2) pp. Marbled endpapers, original endpapers bound in as well, gilt presentation inscription to the foot of the paste down. Handsomely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in maroon quarter morocco, a.e.g., very slight sunning of spine otherwise a lovely..... More
Privately Printed, [n.d.]. Limited edition, no. 18 of 50 copies, 4to, (i), 2, (1), 3-4, 97 leaves, printed on rectos only and being reproduction of typescript. 9 full page maps. Green boards, an excellent copy. Originally composed in 1950, but published more recently. More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. First edition, small 4to, 151, (1) pp. 83 wood engravings. Cloth, d.w. with some marks and browning, loss to the top of the spine. The wrapper in it's second state, with the quote from Eric Gill. More
(London): Faber and Faber for the Aids Crisis Trust, (1991). First edition, folio, (118) pp. 26 coloured illustrations. Cloth, a few marks, d.w. with some mild soiling, very good. Contributions from Spender and 25 other authors, including Iris Murdoch, Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot, Arthur Miller, John Updike, Douglas Adams and..... More
(Chichester: Pallant House Gallery, 2013). First edition, square 8vo, 47, (1) pp. Double page folding plate. Pictorial wrappers, fine. More
London: New Cavendish Books, (1977). First limited edition, no. 94 of 250 copies signed by the artist, oblong 4to, 244 pp. Numerous illustrations. Original quarter morocco, suede sides with light wear to the corners, slipcase, very good. More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1888. Three volumes, 8vo. Bookplate to front blanks, marbled endpapers and sides, small closed tear to the outer edge of the fly leaf in volume I. Contemporary teal half morocco, t.e.g., spines browned with some light rubbing to joints. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988*91. Mixed editions. Seventeen volumes. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth, dust jackets. A few jacket spines slightly tanned, very good overall. Mostly reprints dated between 1987 and 1982, the penultimate volume dated 1965. More
[N.p., likely Lamoni, Iowa]: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I.L. Roger, E Robinson, Publishing Committee, 1867 [but probably 1882]. Second edition. 917, (1), 286 pp. Contemporary black pebbled morocco, possibly a publisher's binding,spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to one panel and simply..... More
London: J. Harding, 1813. First edition. 8vo. xix, (i), 362 pp. Nineteenth century brown half calf over marbled boards, gilt ruled compartments to the spine with a gilt lettered maroon label, blindstamped decoration to the other panels, later bookplate to the front pastedown. 5 plates - 4 hand coloured, including..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1951. First edition. 8vo. (viii), 229, (1) pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered black panel to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped, signed by the author on the title page and inscribed by him on the front free endpaper - "Inscribed for John King after doing..... More
London: Scholastic, 1995. First edition. 8vo. (viii), 398, (2) pp. Publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped (£12.99) and with "Point... 7-9 Pratt Street..." to the rear flap, twice signed by the author - directly to the title page and again to a bookplate..... More
London: Adam Islip, at the charges of Bonham Norton, 1598. First Speght edition. Folio. (28), 394, (13) ff., lacking the front and rear blanks and the "Faults escaped" errata leaf, as often, text printed throughout in double column black letter. Later brown full morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered..... More
London: Duckworth, 1928. First edition. 8vo. 292 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, the ownership inscription of an Ianthi Zygounas dated July 1928 to the front free endpaper. Frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, mostly photographic and including many taken by the author. The..... More
London: Melch. Bradwood [and William Stansby], for Edw. Blount and William Barret, 1611. Second, enlarged edition. Small folio. [xii], 617, [3], 617-690 pp, with some erratic pagination at intervals, lacking the blanks at the front and rear plus another at Fff4. Nineteenth century tan half calf over marbled boards for..... More
London: E. Stanford, Jany. 1st, 1857. Map dimensions 107 x 76 cm, overall 113 x 85 cm. Folding map with rich geological hand colouring, cross section in two rows showing the strata from Land's End to the North Sea along the lower edge, above this three panels comprising an explanation..... More
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, (1924). First edition, 4to, 146 pp, with 30 colour plates, 2 monochrome portraits (all with captioned tissues) plus 2 facsimile plates, original red cloth, spine sunned, ends rubbed. Extracts from 11 of Dickens' books with fine painted illustrations. More
Bolton: Tillotson and Son, 1893. Limited edition, no. 3 of 150 subscriber's copies, signed and numbered by Daft, 4to, xiv, 274, iv pp. Frontispiece plus black and white illustrations, small closed tear to the fly leaf. Original half roan, t.e.g., spine faded with some chips to ends and the lower..... More
London: The Bodley Head, (1966). First edition, 8vo, 313, (1) pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, loss to the upper corner of the lower wrapper otherwise very good. More
London: The Studio Limited, 1930. 4to, viii, 176 pp. 197 illustrations, 8 in colour, plus engraved initial letters. Original decorative wrappers, spine browned with some loss to the ends. The Studio, Special Spring Number, 1930. More
Dundrum: The Dun Emer Press, 1904. Limited edition, one of 500 copies, 8vo, (vi), 56, (2) pp. Woodcut by Robert Gregory, limitation and colophon printed in red, contemporary inscription to front blank, offsetting from an old taped cover for the binding to both free endpapers. Original linen backed boards, paper..... More
