America and Cosmic Man.
London: Nicholson & Watson, (1948). First edition, 8vo, 231, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., a little rubbed and soiled, minor loss to the top of the spine. More
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The Sot-weed Factor.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1961. First edition, 8vo, 806 pp. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, spine and top edge browned. Originally published in New York the year before. More
Sun & Steel. Translated by John Bester.
London: Secker & Warburg, (1971). First UK edition, 8vo, 104 pp. Cloth, d.w. neatly laminated and so in excellent condition. More
Fotografia no Douro: Arquelogia e Modernidade. Photography in the Douro: Archaeology and Modernity.
Peso de Régua: Douro Museum Foundation, 2006. First edition. Square 4to. 260 pp. Publisher's plain green cloth, dust jacket. Photographic illustrations throughout. Some bumping and creasing to the jacket, else very good. More
When the Sweet Talking's Done.
London: Leslie Frewin, (1968). First edition, 8vo, (iv), 314, (2) pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, some mild rubbing and browning. More
The Long Day's Dying.
(London): Hodder and Stoughton, (1965). First edition, 8vo, 157, (3) pp. Cloth, d.w., some mild browning otherwise an attractive copy. More
The Diary of... Introduced by Quentin Bell. Edited by Anne Oliver Bell. Assisted by Andrew McNeillie.
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, price clipped, four with later publisher’s price stickers, mild rubbing to the top of the spine of that to volume I plus a small closed to the foot..... More
The Bad Luck Girl.
(London): Macmillan, (1971). First edition, 8vo, 176 pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, some light edge wear. More
My Sweet-Orange Tree. Translated from the Portuguese by Edgar H. Miller, Jr. Illustrated by Frank Bozzo.
London: Michael Joseph, (1971). First UK edition, 8vo, x, 213, (11) pp. Brief inscription to half title. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine slightly browned. More
The Road to Wigan Pier. With a Foreword by Victor Gollancz.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. First edition, 8vo, xxiv, 264 pp. 32 black and white photographic illustrations, owner's signature to the fly leaf, small stain to the rear endpapers. Original limp orange cloth wrappers, somewhat marked and dusty, top of the upper joint worn. "Left Book Club Edition, not for sale..... More
The Sleeping Beauty. Told by... and illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, (1920). First edition, 4to, 110, (2) pp. One coloured plate tipped in plus silhouette illustrations throughout. Original pictorial boards, spine a little sunned, some mild soiling. More
Lapland: A Natural History.
London: T & A D Poyser, 2005. First edition. Large 8vo. xii, 352 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Colour photographic illustrations plus further black and white illustrations and maps in the text. Very good. More
The English People.
London: Collins, 1947. First edition, 8vo, 47, (1) pp. 8 coloured and 17 black and white illustrations. Original white lettered green boards, d.w. with light browning and some wear to the spine ends. "Britain in Pictures" series. More
Ten Thousand Light Years from Home. With an introduction by Harry Harrison.
London: Eyre Methuen, (1975). First UK edition, 8vo, 312 pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a handsome copy. Originally published as an Ace paperback in the US in 1973. More
Martin Parr.
London: Phaidon Press, (2002). First edition, oblong 4to, 352, (2) pp. Numerous illustrations in both colour and black and white. Publisher's cloth backed boards, very slightly rubbed. More
The Ring of the Niblung. A Trilogy with a Prelude by... Translated into English by Margaret Armour. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, (1939). First edition thus, 4to, viii, 160, viii, 182 pp. 48 coloured plates, upper hinge slightly cracked but sound. Original light blue decorated cloth, mild rubbing to spine ends otherwise very good. Originally published in two parts, the Rhinegold & the Valkyrie and Siegfried & the Twilight..... More
Still Life. With an introduction by John Szarkowski.
(London): Thames & Hudson, (2001). First UK edition, 4to, (142) pp. Photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., some very minor marks otherwise a lovely copy. More
A Tolkien Bestiary. Illustrated by Ian Miller, Michael Foreman, Allan Curless, Lidia Postma, John Blanche, Pauline Martin, Sue Porter, Linda Garland, Jaroslav Bradac, Victor Ambrus [and] John Davis.
London: Mitchell Beazley, (1979). First edition, 4to, 287, (1) pp. Illustrated throughout. Cloth, d.w. with some mild marks otherwise an attractive copy. More
Lucie Rie.
(Yeovil): Marston House, 1994. 4to, 224 pp. Numerous illustrations. Paperback, mild sunning to spine. More
Portraits.
(London: Rankin Photography, 2010). First edition, 4to, 352 pp. Photographic illustrations throughout. Pictorial boards, an excellent copy. More
The New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1950. Chosen and Edited by...
London: Oxford University Press, 1975. 8vo. xii, 974, (2) pp. A stylish binding of two-tone green full morocco, predominantly pale green with a hexagonal inlaid panel of dark green across the spine and inner boards, this gilt lettered, gilt tooled diagonal lines on slightly different angles emanating from the central..... More
The Carpenter's New Guide: Being a Complete Book of Lines for Carpentry and Joinery. Treating Fully On Practical Geometry, Soffits, Brick and Plaister Groins, Niches of Every Description, Sky-lights, Lines for Roofs and Domes; with a Great Variety of Designs for Roofs, Truffed Girders, Floors, Domes, Bridges, &c., Staircases and Hand-rails of Various Constructions; Angle Bars for Shop Fronts, &c.; and Raking Mouldings; with Many Other Things Entirely New...
London: Printed for J. Taylor, 1808. "New edition". 4to. x, 76 pp., tipped in flyer for W.F. Pocock's "Modern Finishings for Rooms" at the title page and a folding four page catalogue for Taylor's architectural books to the rear. Contemporary full tree sheep, neatly rebacked to style with raised bands..... More
The Poems of Ossian, Translated by... With the translator's Dissertations on the Era and Poems of Ossian; Dr. Blair's Critical Dissertation; and an Inquiry into the Genuineness of These Poems, Written Expressly for this Edition, by the Rev. Alex Stewart.
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, [c.1819]. 12mo. viii, 590, (2) pp. Contemporary pink full calf albeit the spine and top third of the rear board faded to tan, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered label, triple gilt rules and a further blindstamped border to the boards, endpapers and all edges marbled..... More
The Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907. 8vo, (xii), 500 pp. Portrait frontispiece, marbled endpapers and edges, Wellington College prize label, appropriately, to paste down. Bound by T. Hunt in contemporary tree calf, gilt spine, edges and arms, green morocco label slightly faded otherwise a handsome copy. More
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