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THOMAS, Dylan.
18 Poems. 1934
£1,250
First edition, first impression, first issue. On of 250 copies bound. The author's first collection.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea in black morocco, titles to spine, two raised bands, single rule to boards, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt,... Read more
DIGBY, William.
1857. A Friend in Need. 1887. Friendship forgotten. 1890
£250
First edition. "Deals with the aid Nepal rendered to India during the Mutiny … and the failure of Britain to help the Nepalese Royal Family when they were overthrown and exiled"...
Octavo. Original blue diapered cloth, title gilt to spine, large block of the Nepalese royal standards to the upper board. Portrait frontispiece and 5 other portraits,... Read more
EMIN, Tracey; Billy Childish, Bill Drummond, Beth Orton, Will Self and others.
19 Raptures. 2009
£600
First edition, first impression. One of 10 copies housed in a slipcase and signed by all the contributing authors, from a total edition of 505 numbered copies. Other contributors...
20 A4s folded as 6 page letters. Housed in the publisher's slipcase with a cover titles designed by Bella Freud and titles to spine gilt. Fine in fine slipcase Read more
FRENCH, John Denton Pinkerstone.
1914. 1919
£25
First edition. Memoir of the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force. "The book is written with considerable power and the narrative is always lively...his memoirs are...
Octavo. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and rule to spine, blind rule to boards. 3 folding maps inserted into rear paste-down. Spine a little crumpled, edges... Read more
(SECOND WORLD WAR)
1st Airborne Division … September 1944. Arnhem… 1944
£1,575
"There can be few episodes more glorious than the epic of Arnhem, and those that follow after will find it hard to live up to the standards that you have set… in years to come...
Folio (380 × 300 mm) Original photographic card wraps, spiral bound. Photographic reproduction of Monrty's congratulatory message to Major-Gen. Urquhart,... Read more
CUTHBERT, J. H., Captain (ed.)
1st Battalion Scots Guards in South Africa, 1899-1902. [1904]
£250
First edition. "An illustrated record with calendar of events, Battalion roll and medal list." (Hackett) This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Major P. Chalmers (late...
Landscape quarto, (310 × 246 mm) orginal red paper covered boards, title in black to the upper board. Portrait frontispiece and numerous half-tone illustration... Read more
ROTHERMERE, Harold Sidney, First Viscount.
2-page letter typed letter signed on German rearmament. 1935
£425
Dated 19th May 1935 and addressed to Mr. [William] Ormsby Gore, Commissioner of Works and member of the Ministerial Committee on Defence Requirements, the letter sets out at length...
2 pages, octavo, first sheet embossed with Rothermere's Stratton House address, autograph salutation and subscription, two inked corrections. Slight creases from... Read more
POWELL, Michael.
200,000 Feet on Foula. 1938
£750
First edition, first impression. A book on the making of The Edge of the World, a 1937 film on the depopulation of the Scottish islands, by director Michael Powell.
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in blue and black. With the dust jacket. Boards a rubbed and marked, spotting to endpapers. A very good copy in the... Read more
(GERMAN-JAPANESE DICTIONARY)
2000 Gebrauchlichste Worter der Deutschen Sprache. 1942
£150
First and only edition. Extremely uncommon wartime German-Japanese dictionary of the most common German words. Just a single copy listed on OCLC.
Octavo. Wire-stitched in the original card wraps with an oddly angular Nazi eagle to the upper panel. Wraps browned, upper joint restored, text similarly browned,... Read more
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CLARKE, Arthur C.
2001: A Space Odyssey [together with] 2010: Odyssey Two. 1968 & 82
£3,250
First UK edition of 2001, & uncorrected proof copy of the first US edition of 2010. Arthur C. Clarke's own copies. Each signed by him on the title page. 2001 has his name and address...
2 volumes, octavo. Volume I in original black cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Volume II in the original printed wrappers. Volume I with a few... Read more
CLAPTON, Eric, Peter Blake, & Derek Taylor.
24 Nights Scrapbook; 24 Nights Commentary. 1991
£1,500
First edition, first impression. Limited to 3500 copies. This is no. 144 signed by Eric Clapton and Peter Blake. Together with the original prospectus.
Quarto. Original illustrated boards with leather spine, titles to front cover in black and white, titles to spine gilt; Octavo. Original illustrated boards, titles to... Read more
(ROLLING STONES.) GRUEN, Bob.
25 Years of the Rolling Stones in the USA. Crossfire Hurricane. 1997
£550
First edition, first impression. Limited to 1750 copies. This is no. 144 signed by Bob Gruen. Together with the original prospectus.
Quarto. Original full white leather screenprinted in three colours with Mick Jagger on the front cover and Keith Richards on the back, titles to spine in black and... Read more
IGGULDEN, H. A.
2nd Battalion Derbyshire Regiment in the Sikkim Expedition of 1888. 1900
£425
Number 4 of the Derbyshire Campaign series. Iggulden served in the Campaign, also at Tirah and in Tibet. Uncommon.
Octavo. Original red cloth, title in gilt to the spine and in black, together with the regimental badge, to the upper board. Frontispiece and a folding map. A little... Read more
CAREY, Peter.
30 Days in Sydney. 2001
£35
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original pictorial laminated boards. With the dust jacket. Library stamp to the bottom of title page otherwise an excellent copy. Read more
(LAWRENCE, T. E.) OCAMPO, Victoria.
338171 T. E. (Lawrence of Arabia). 1963
£625
First US edition, first printing. Originally published in London in the same year. Inscribed by the author to Hollywood screenwriter Anita Loos, author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,...
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled. An excellent copy in the very lightly rubbed jacket with a small crease... Read more
RAY, Man.
40 Rayographies. 25 Février - 25 Mars 1972. 1972
£5,750
First edition, first printing. One of 60 (including 10 hors commerce) copies on Arches paper accompanied with an original Rayograph mounted on veneer over board, signed lower right...
Quarto. Original stiff wrappers. With the card dust jacket and original glassine. With 65 illustrations. Small nicks to head of dust jacket spine and glassine... Read more
NEWTON, Helmut.
47 Nudes. 1982
£80
First edition, first impression. Published as Big Nudes in the US.
Quarto. Original grey boards, titles to front cover and spine in black. With the dust jacket. One plate, one facsimile to the text. Toning to extreme edges, dust... Read more
HANFF, Helene.
84, Charing Cross Road. 1970
£325
First edition, first printing.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in black and white, postmark design to upper board in black, red endpapers and top-stain. With the dust jacket. Small spot... Read more
WHARTON, Edith.
A Backward Glance. 1934
£3,250
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Petit voyage préhistorique pour mon ami St. André, E. W. Mai 1934". Wharton's...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. Bookplate of author and historian Louis Auchincloss and small slip to front pastedown. Very lightly... Read more
BOND, Michael.
A Bear Called Paddington. 1958
£1,800
First edition, first impression. The first Paddington book. Bond based Paddington Bear on a lone teddy bear he noticed on a shelf in a London store near Paddington Station on...
Octavo. Original cerise cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. Spine bumped and a little darkened, dust jacket lightly... Read more
BOND, Michael.
A Bear Called Paddington. 1958
£675
First edition, first impression, of the first Paddington book.
Octavo. Recent burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With black and white... Read more
BIGMORE, E. C. & C. W. H. Wyman (compilers).
A Bibliography of Printing with Notes & Illustrations. [1974]
£125
Reprint organised by the St. Bride Institute, originally published in the 1880s.
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with faded spine panel and a few small spots. Read more
(FRAZER, James George) BESTERMAN, Theodore (ed.)
A Bibliography of Sir James George Frazer. 1934
£225
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by Frazer, anthropologist and author of The Golden Bough, on the half-title "A notre ami Francois Ceccaldi, en affectueuse reconnaissance...
Octavo (216 × 135 mm). Near contemporary black morocco, titles to spine, ruling to boards, and top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece and folding facsimile. A few... Read more
(WILDE, Oscar) MASON, Stuart.
A Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde. 1907
£500
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 475 copies signed by the author Mason (real name Christopher Millard).
Quarto. Original white cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. Portrait frontispiece. Cataloguing note attached to front free endpaper. Boards rubbed and a... Read more
(WOOLF, Virginia) KIRKPATRICK, B. J.
A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf. 1980
£50
Third Edition. The most current and up-to-date bibliography on Virginia Woolf.
Quarto. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Fine in dust jacket which has a small nick to head of spine. Read more
