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ARDIZZONE, Edward.
Tim and Ginger. 1965
£125
First Edition First Impression of one of Ardizzone's famous Tim and Lucy books.
Quarto. Original pictorial boards, titles to upper board within the design. With the pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in colour and monochrome by the author.... Read more
ARDIZZONE, Edward & Maurice Gorham.
The Local. 1939
£1,750
First edition, sole impression. A noted scarcity especially in the dust jacket. Book trade lore insists on this publication to have been one of those largely destroyed by enemy...
Octavo. Original grey boards printed in red and black. With the acetate dust jacket with paper flaps. Housed in a black flat back cloth solander box. Lithographs in... Read more
(ARDIZZONE, Edward) VILLON, François.
The Poems. Translated by H. B. Mccaskie. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. 1946
£150
First Ardizzone edition. The author was a 15th-century French poet and vagabond whose works mimicked the courtly romances but celebrated the darker aspects of medieval society.
Octavo (215 × 135 mm). Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in turquoise morocco, titles to spine, top edge, and inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and... Read more
ARFWEDSON, C.D.
The United States and Canada, in 1832, 1833, and 1834. 1834
£400
First edition. Arfwedson was the son of a Swedish merchant who travelled Europe and America in the 1830s to study commerce. He published an account of his tour through Britain,...
2 volumes octavo (205 × 113 mm). Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, black morocco labels, gilt rules to the spine, blind foliate roll at edges of the corners... Read more
ARGENTINE, Richard.
De praestigiis et incantationibus daemonum et necromanticorum 1568
£2,000
First edition of this magical treatise, the last work of the disreputable Ipswich schoolmaster and clergyman Richard Argentine [formerly Sexton] (1510/11–1568), published in...
Small octavo (159 × 94 mm). Contemporary limp vellum, edges stained red. With index leaves, but without the final blank. Provenance: Bibliothecae M. Hyacinthi... Read more
ARISTOPHANES.
Lysistrata. 1926
£475
First Edition thus. One of 725 numbered copies signed by the translator.
Folio. Original blue half morocco, blue cloth boards, titles to upper board and spine gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a red morocco-backed slipcase.... Read more
(ARISTOTLE) Ellis, William.
Aristotle's Politics. [c.1890]
£45
Sir John Lubbock's hundred books.
Octavo (184 × 120 mm). Original burgundy pebble-grained half morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt.... Read more
ARMITAGE, Merle.
Post-Caviar. Barnstorming with Russian Grand Opera. 1939
£475
First edition, first printing. Inscribed and with an autograph letter signed by the author. This copy was originally in the library of typographer and graphic designer Will Ransom....
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board in red, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the... Read more
ARMSTRONG, Anthony.
Britisher on Broadway. 1932
£95
First Edition. "The call of America, the land of the Free, America where cigarettes can be sold after eight and where there are no Licensed Hours, sounded one day in my ears, and I...
Small octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine, in blind to the upper board, in dust jacket. Endpapers differentially browned, otherwise very good in dust... Read more
ARMSTRONG, George Elliot.
Torpedoes and Torpedo-Vessels. 1896
£175
Small octavo. xvi, errata slip, 287pp. + 1p. ads. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations to the text, many of them full-page, three folding diagrams. Endpapers quite heavily...
Small octavo. xvi, errata slip, 287pp. + 1p. ads. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations to the text, many of them full-page, three folding diagrams. Endpapers... Read more
ARMSTRONG, Louis.
Ma Vie. Ma Nouvelle Orléans. 1952
£1,750
First edition, not published in English until 1954 when Prentice-Hall issued it under the title Satchmo. My Life in New Orleans. This copy rather ramblngly inscribed on the...
Octavo. Original pictorial wraps. Wraps a little rubbed, a few minor scuffs to the spine, text browned, but overall very good. Read more
ARMSTRONG, Louis.
Swing that Music. 1936
£200
First edition. Uncommon, particularly so in jacket. The opening section of the book is Armstrong's first essay in autobiography, the second part is specially designed by Armstrong...
Octavo. Original red ochre cloth, title gilt to spine. In the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 11 other plates, 10 folding score sheets. A very good copy in... Read more
(ARMSTRONG, Louis) GOFFIN, Robert.
Horn of Plenty. The Story of Louis Armstrong. 1947
£2,000
First edition in English, published in French as Louis Armstrong. Le Roi du Jazz, in Paris in the same year. This copy signed by Armstrong on the title page, this title seldom found...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to the spine, treble clef in embossed to the upper board. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece. Differential browning to... Read more
(ARMSTRONG, Louis) PERSSON, Jan.
Louis Armstrong, Stockholm, 1962. [c.2005]
£1,250
Satchmo unfolds his trademark handkerchief. A lovely character study by leading Danish concert photographer Jan Persson. Armstrong toured Europe in 1962 with a band that featured...
Large ( 505 × 405 mm) exhibition print from the negative, image bled off, titled and signed in pencil by Persson verso. Studio label. Very good. Read more
ARMSTRONG, Sir Walter.
The Thames 1906
£250
A handsome copy with lovely etchings of the Thames.
Two volumes, quarto (302 x 240 mm). Contemporary crimson half morocco, titles and decoration to spines, matching pebble-grained cloth boards, marbled endpapers, gilt... Read more
(ARMY IN INDIA) CAMPBELL, Sir Colin.
General Orders by the Right Hon'ble The Commander in Chief … 1st January … 31st December 1859. 1859
£850
First edition. Complete set of Sir Colin Campbell's General Orders as C-in-C of India for 1859, covering a key period in the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny, and including the "White...
Folio (325 × 197 mm) 664 pages. Later calf on marbled boards, red morocco label. A little rubbed, endpapers renewed, very good. Read more
ARNOLD, Edwin.
The Marquis of Dalhousie's Administration of British India. 1862-5
£750
First editions. Important and uncommon. "In 1865 the duke of Argyll concluded, 'When the records of our Empire in the East are closed, Lord Dalhousie's administration will be counted...
2 volumes octavo. Original red pebble-grained cloth, title gilt to spines, blind panelling to the boards, publisher's device in gilt to the upper boards and in blind... Read more
ARNOLD, Eve.
In America. 1983
£45
First edition, first printing.
Quarto. Original blue boards, titles to upper board in blind and to spine in silver, buff endpapers. With the photographic dust jacket. Illustrated throughout in full... Read more
ARNOLD, Eve; Jill Freedman; Ernst Haas; André Kertész; Duane Michals; Inge Morath; Barbara Morgan; Eva Rubinstein; Nea
Ten Photographers. 1978
£5,000
First Edition. Limited to 75 copies. Each photograph signed and numbered below the image by the artist.
Folio. Clamshell portfolio bound in fawn linen, titles to spine and upper board in grey. 10 individually matted original silver prints, each signed and numbered by the... Read more
ARNOLD, Matthew.
The Poems of Matthew Arnold 1840 - 1867. 1920
£45
A handsomely bound copy of Arnold's poetry.
Octavo (180 × 115 mm). Contemporary green calf, red morocco label, elaborate decoration to spine, raised bands, roll to boards, crest to front board, marbled... Read more
ARNOLD, Matthew.
The Poetical Works. 1896
£50
A handsome copy.
Octavo (185 × 120 mm). Contemporary brown morocco, titles to spine, decoration to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Gift inscription to binder's front... Read more
ARNOLD, William Harris.
First Report of a Book-Collector; 1898
£100
First trade edition.
Octavo. Original half red cloth binding with grey paper sides and spine, red cloth spine label lettered in gilt, all edges uncut, title page in red and black. Engraved... Read more
ART JOURNAL.
The Art Journal. 1851-62
£1,000
Covers the years 1851 to 1857 with a later volume for the year 1862.
8 volumes, folio. Full red morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, decoration to boards blind and gilt, all edges gilt. Some scattered spotting, a little... Read more
ARTIN, Yacoub Pasha.
England in the Sudan. 1911
£225
First edition. Artin was a highly accomplished Egyptian orientalist and educationalist, here he gives an account of his trip through the Sudan, and his impressions of England's...
Octavo, original green cloth, title gilt to spine, top edge gilt. 58 plates, folding coloured map at the rear. A little rubbed at the extremities, lacks front free... Read more
ASH, Edward C.
Dogs: their history and development. 1927
£1,250
Edition de Luxe, no. 19 of 50 copies only bound in pigskin and with an extra plate in colour not found in the trade edition published the same year.
2 volumes, large quarto. Deluxe binding of full brown pigskin, spines lettered gilt, cloth inner hinges, top edge gilt. Colour frontispiece in each volume, one... Read more
