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ALCOCK, C. W., & Rowland Hill.
Famous Footballers. [1897]
£950
First edition. Originally issued in 12-page weekly parts, or as single sheets in the News of the World, this is the first book issue, bound without a title page, but in what appears...
Folio, ?publisher's black skiver-backed, matching sand-grained cloth, title and footballer device gilt to the upper board. 224 full-page half-tone illustrations from... Read more
(ALI, Muhammad.) BINGHAM, Howard L.
Muhammad Ali. A Thirty-Year Journey. 1993
£200
First UK edition, first impression. Bookplate signed by Ali and Bingham to the half title.
Quarto. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with monochrome photographs by Bingham. Spine bumped in lightly rubbed dust... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Emma. 1991
£175
Octavo. Hand bound in full black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine.
Octavo. Hand bound in full black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine. Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Sense and Sensibility. 1919
£385
First illustrated by Thomson in 1896. A particularly attractive copy of Sense and Sensibility.
Octavo (168 × 105 mm). Contemporary tan calf, red and olive morocco label, elaborate tooling to spine in compartments, raised bands, twin rule to boards with... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Sense and Sensibility. 1908
£375
A particularly handsome copy.
Octavo (195 × 117 mm). Contemporary blue half morocco, titles and elaborate decoration to spine in compartments, raised bands, blue cloth boards, marbled... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Complete Novels. [c.1960].
£500
A handsomely bound single volume of Austen's novels.
Octavo (200 × 130 mm). Finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in burgundy half morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers,... Read more
(BADMINTON LIBRARY)
The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes: Athletics and Football. 1888
£180
New edition.
Octavo. Near contemporary red half morocco, marbled sides, titles to spine gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Frontispiece and black and white illustrations... Read more
(BADMINTON LIBRARY) HUTCHINSON, Horace G.
Golf. 1890
£1,375
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, burgundy... Read more
BALDWIN, William Charles.
African Hunting from Natal to the Zambesi 1863
£650
First edition, a book most frequently encountered in the second edition issued in the same year with a slightly variant title, and the third edition of 1894. "A work of early sport...
Octavo (211 × 127 mm). Later nineteenth-century half-morocco on marbled boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, red and dark tan labels to the spine, spine gilt in... Read more
BAUM, L. Frank.
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. 1902
£675
Published the same year as the first edition.
Large octavo, pp. ix + 205. Recent full red morocco, lettering and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.... Read more
(BEARDSLEY, Aubrey) MALORY, Sir Thomas,
Le Morte D'Arthur. 1893
£2,500
First edition. One of 1500 ordinary paper copies, out of a total edition of 1800. In 1892, seeking to emulate the books of the Kelmscott Press, John M. Dent commissioned the...
2 volumes, large octavo. Bound from the original parts with the wrappers in half brown morocco with green boards, titles to spines gilt, top edges gilt, other edges... Read more
BEILES, Sinclair.
Ballets. Poems. 1978
£65
First edition, first impression. From the library of Alan Ansen.
Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to spine gilt, green endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed and... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson." c. 1968
£400
Holmes and Watson, as played by Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, confer with a station master outside the waiting room.
Sheet size: 132 × 190 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Sunday Telegraph. Read more
BLIXEN, Karen.
Out of Africa. 1937
£2,750
First edition, first impression of Dinesen's masterpiece. Quite scarce in the dust jacket.
Octavo. Original burgundy cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An unusually nice copy in the rubbed and rather sunned dust jacket with a single internal... Read more
BRADBEER, Richard, & Ian Morrison.
The Ultimate Golfer. 1993
£60
First UK Edition, First Impression. With the author's signed inscription to the half-title "Thank you all for your help and support Richard Bradbeer."
Octavo. Pictorial laminated boards. With the dusjacket. With photographs. A nice copy in the dust jacket. Read more
BRANDT, Bill.
Nudes 1945-1980. 1980
£60
First edition, first printing.
Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. 100 full page photographic illustrations. A near fine copy in lightly corner nicked... Read more
BRANDT, Bill.
The English At Home. 1936
£400
First edition, first impression. This marvellous photographer's first book contrasting the English classes.
Quarto. Original glazed photographically illustrated boards, titles to front board and spine in red. 63 photographs - full page - by Brandt. Small loss of glazed... Read more
BRETT, R. Dallas.
History of British Aviation 1908-1914. [1933]
£275
First Edition First Impression of a fabulously detailed history.
Large octavo. original black cloth, titles to upper board in blind and to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. 16 diagrams and 64 plates. Spine lettering just beginning... Read more
(BRIDGE)
A set of four decks of cards and scoring sheets for bridge, in an elegant book-form case. [1920s]
£450
Finely bound for Asprey's of London, a book-form solander case in blue morocco, the spine lettered and ruled in gilt, pale tan suede edges with brass catch to fore edge, internal...
Finely bound for Asprey's of London, a book-form solander case in blue morocco, the spine lettered and ruled in gilt, pale tan suede edges with brass catch to fore... Read more
(BROCK, C. E.) AUSTEN, Jane.
Emma. 1909
£975
A lovely copy in the deluxe vellum binding with the illustrations signed and dated C.E. Brock 1909.
Octavo. Original full vellum, elaborately gilt to spine and upper board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece, decorated... Read more
(BROCK, C. E.) AUSTEN, Jane.
Mansfield Park. 1908
£975
A lovely copy in the deluxe vellum binding with the illustrations signed and dated C.E. Brock 1908.
Octavo. Original full vellum, elaborately gilt to spine and upper board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece, vignette title,... Read more
(BROCK, Charles) AUSTEN, Jane.
Persuasion. 1909
£875
First Brock edition, first impression. A lovely copy in the deluxe vellum binding.
Octavo. Original full vellum, elaborately gilt to spine and upper board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 22 plates.... Read more
BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily & Anne.
Poems, by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. 1846 [1848]
£1,750
First edition, second issue with cancel title page (as usual). The first issue is extant in tiny numbers and is now virtually unobtainable. Published pseudonymously to forestall...
Octavo. Later green full morocco by Wood, London, titles to spine, ruling, turn-ins and top edge gilt, red onlay and gilt decoration to boards and spine, marbled... Read more
BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily & Anne.
The Novels. 1905
£1,800
First Dulac edition. A very attractive set in the rare original dust jackets.
10 volumes, octavo. Bound in the publisher's white cloth with gilt lettering and decoration in green to spines and boards, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Complete... Read more
BRONTË, Emily.
Wuthering Heights. 1945
£375
This edition was first published in 1943.
Quarto. Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in dark green half morocco, titles to spine, raised bands, green cloth boards and green endpapers, top edge gilt. Illustrated... Read more
