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Queen Mary's Needlework Guild. Its Work During the Great War. St. James's Palace 1914-1919. [1919]

£200

First and only edition. Remarkable initiative to provide comforts for troops and supply items of kit, surgical equipment &c. to all the fighting fronts. Guild volunteer workers...

Quarto. Original card wraps. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, 38 plates, 2-page facsimile letter, and a folding map in two colours. Wraps a little rubbed and with... Read more

Royal Air Force. Technical Notes. Aeroplanes A-L. [1916-8

£95

Rigging and erection notes for 13 different ‘plane types, including B.E. 12a; B.E. 2c; Blackburn Kangaroo; the Curtiss Jenny; and the Handley Page Cossack. Ownership...

Octavo, 13 pamphlets hole-punched and bound into printed green card wraps with brass split-pin fasteners, original wraps retained. Numerous half-tone plates and... Read more

The Dyeing of Unions with Dyestuffs of Leopold Cassella & Co. 1906

£250

First edition. Uncommon, OCLC lists just 4 copies world-wide. Cassella were the foremost producers of these aniline dyes in the late nineteenth century, in 1925 they became part of...

Octavo ( 246 × 159 mm) Original plum half sand-grained cloth on black linen boards, sage green patterned endpapers. Double frontispiece of the company’s... Read more

AA, Pieter van der.

Nieuhoff’s China - Asiatische en Afrikaense Dieren / Animaux d’Asie et d’Afrique. 1665, 1st.

£95

John Nieuhoff was an explorer whose travels were recorded in this first French edition of ‘L’Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale’. These beautiful prints brought...

Copper engraving. Uncoloured. Fine condition Size: 30 x 21.5 cm. Read more

(AALTO, Alvar) FLEIG, Karl.

Alvar Aalto. 1963

£250

First edition, first impression of a collection of work by the Swedish architect who was a founder of the modernist movement. This edition is rare in the dust jacket.

Oblong quarto. Original black and white cloth, titles to spine and upper board in grey. With the dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. Very slight... Read more

ABBOTT, Berenice, & Malcolm Cowley.

Exile's Return. A Literary Odyssey of the 1920's. 1981

£75

First edition thus. One of 2,000 numbered copies signed by Abbott and Cowley.

Octavo. Original brown cloth-backed taupe boards, decorated in brown, titles to spine in silver, taupe endpapers. With the publisher’s matching card slipcase.... Read more

ABE, Katsuji.

My People in Jazz. 1975

£500

First edition, only issued in Japan. This copy dated and warmly inscribed, in an elegant block printed script, by the author on the front free endpaper, "Bernard; Nice to meet and...

Folio, original laminated card wraps in heavy card dust jacket. Black and white and colour photographs. Very good, the jacket just a touch rubbed. Read more

ABOUT, Edmond.

Madelon. 1863

£100

First Edition. With the author’s signed presentation inscription to an early blank leaf, “A mon bon ami Verteuil, Edm. About”.

Large octavo. Bound preserving the original wrappers in early half green morocco, marbled paper boards and endpapers, decoration and titles to spine gilt, raised... Read more

ABRAHAMS, Ethel B.

Greek Dress. 1908

£150

First Edition, First Impression.

Octavo. Original fawn boards, titles and decoration to upper board in brown, titles to spine in brown. With illustrations. Preliminaries and edges foxed, small chip to... Read more

(ACKERMAN, Rudolph)

A History of The University of Oxford, its colleges, halls, and public buildings. 1814

£4,500

First Edition of Ackermann’s lavish history of Oxford, complete with the Founders plate. The text is by William Combe, of Doctor Syntax fame.

2 volumes, quarto (342 × 282 mm). Publisher’s blue straight-grained morocco, spines lettered in gilt, gilt wide bands, compartments decorated in gilt and in... Read more

(ACKERMANN, Rudolph)

A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings; [together with:] A History of the University of Cambridge, Its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings. 1814 & 1815

£12,500

‘These two books are among the finest ever executed. A. Pugin, F. Nash, F. Mackenzie and W. Westall were associated in the drawings, which are worthy even of the splendid...

[Oxford] 2 volumes, large quarto (13 1/4 x 10 13/16 inches; 336 x 275 mm.), pp. xiv + [4] + xxv + [1] blank + 275 + [1] blank + [6] index; [4] + 262 + [6] index.... Read more

(ACKERMANN, Rudolph)

The Microcosm of London. 1904

£3,500

Illustrated with 104 coloured plates by Rowlandson and Pugin and EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with over 200 additional plates, an original Rowlandson water colour and a Pugin letter. The...

3 volumes, octavo. Bound in contemporary half blue morocco, gilt lettered and decorated spines, blue silk boards, gilt rule, silk endpapers, top edges gilt. A little... Read more

(ACKERMANN, Rudolph)

The Microcosm of London. 1904

£950

This issue is founded on original edition published by Rudolf Ackermann.

3 volumes, octavo. Recent dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, roll to boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With... Read more

ACKROYD, Peter.

Chatterton. 1987

£80

First Edition. First Impression. Limited to 150 signed by Peter Ackroyd.

Octavo. Original marbled boards with cloth spine, titles to spine gilt. With the original unprinted tissue dust jacket. Fine in worn and creased tissue Read more

ACKROYD, Peter.

London Lickpenny. 1973

£350

First Edition, First Impression. One of 26 copies, signed and containing an additional holograph poem by the author.

Octavo. Original decorated wrappers, by Duncan Grant, printed in orange and black. A fine copy. Read more

ACKROYD, Peter.

Notes for a New Culture. 1976

£250

First Edition, First Impression. Signed by the author on the title page. Scarce.

Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the slightly frayed dust jacket a little faded at the spine. Read more

ACOSTA, Oscar Zeta.

The Revolt of the Cockroach People. 1973

£2,250

First Edition, First Printing. With the author’s signed presentation inscription to the front pastedown, “C. L. F. For Pele who has earned her ticket to Cockroach Paradise...

Octavo. Original cream cloth, titles to upper board in blind and to spine in white, red endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated. An excellent copy in the dust... Read more

ACTON, Harold.

Autograph manuscript: “Poems 1925”. 1930

£4,750

With the author’s 3-page autograph letter presenting this manuscript to Sir Robert Abdy, with the recipient’s small bookplate to the front pastedown. Acton alludes to...

Octavo. Original batik-patterned green wrappers printed in black and gold. In a matching card slipcase. In excellent condition. Read more

ACTON, Harold.

The Bourbons of Naples (1734 -1825). 1956

£225

First Edition, First Impression. With the author’s signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, “To Shirley and George Komrower a little souvenir of bliss...

Octavo. Original blue cloth, decoration and titles to upper board and spine in silver, top edge stained red. Illustrated. Hinges starting, but a very good copy. Read more

ACTON, Harold.

The Last Bourbons of Naples (1825-1861). 1961

£450

First Edition, First Impression. With the author’s signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, “For dearest Arthur and Beryl with the fondest love of...

Octavo. Original blue cloth, decoration and titles to upper board and spine in silver, top edge stained red. With the dust jacket. Illustrated. Slight discolouration... Read more

ACTON, Harold.

The Last Medici. 1932

£150

First UK Edition, First Impression.

Octavo. Original green cloth, decoration and titles to spine gilt, top edge stained red. With the dust jacket. Illustrated. Bookplate to front pastedown but an... Read more

ACTON, Harold, & Lee Yi-Hsieh (transl.)

Four Cautionary Tales. With a preface by Arthur Waley. 1947

£200

First edition, first impression. With Acton’s signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper.

Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Bookshop sticker to rear pastedown but a superb copy in the dust jacket. Read more

ADAM, Peter.

Eileen Gray Architect Designer a Biography. 1987

£50

First Edition, First Imprssion. Inscibed by Adam “For Brian (Baggott) / with very special wishes / for a good fax season / Pete.”

Quarto. Original grey cloth, logo to upper board in silver, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Near fine in dust jacket, creaed to the upper panel. Read more

ADAMS, Ansel.

Sierra Nevada. The John Muir Trail 1938

£6,000

First edition, first printing, limited to 500 copies signed and numbered by Ansel Adams. Additionally inscribed “To George and Mildred Dundough - Photographer and Tolerator,...

Folio. Original white cloth, titles to front cover and spine in black. Issued without a dust jacket. With 50 tipped in black and white photographs. Cloth lightly... Read more

ADAMS, Ansel.

The Negative. 1981

£50

First Edition, First Printing.

Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Read more