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BOLAND, Bridget.
The Wild Geese. A Novel. 1938
£125
First edition, perhaps remainder issue. Irish family saga of the C18th, the author's first novel. Boland went on to find fame as a playwright and screenwriter, adapting her own play...
Octavo. Original green cloth, title blocked in dark blue to the spine. With the dust jacket. Map of Kerry to the endpapers. Slight lean, spots of foxing top the... Read more
BOISEN, Anton. T.
The Exploration of the Inner World. 1962
£150
First Edition thus. "A classic … After having been violently disturbed for short intervals, he recovered and later became the second man to be employed as a chaplain to a U.S....
Octavo. Original black cloth backed boards in dust jacket. Ownership stamp to the front free endpaper, else very good in slightly rubbed, browned and chipped dust... Read more
BOILEAU, D.
The Art of Working in Pasteboard, upon Scientific Principles: 1827
£250
First English language edition, first impression.
Sextodecimo. Original green pasteboards, skilfully rebacked to style, printed paper label to upper board. Folding engraved frontispiece and 7 plates. Boards rubbed but... Read more
BOHAN , François Philibert Loubat de.
Extraits de l'Examen Critique du Militaire Française, 1820
£3,500
Neatly written and clearly legible manuscript copy of Bohan's important and uncommon work. Originally published in Geneva 1781, "The third volume, including some extracts of the...
3 volumes in 2, octavo (183 × 115 mm). Contemporary full calf , flat spines, red morocco title- and numbering-pieces, compartments gilt alternately with repeated... Read more
BOETHIUS.
Boetius. De Consolatione philosophie, duplici cum commentario, 1506
£4,750
An attractive Paris blind-panelled binding on a rare edition of Boethius, with two copies listed in the BnF, but none at all in Britain, North America, or indeed worldwide, and no...
Quarto (196 × 134 mm), in two parts. Contemporary Paris blind-panelled calf, front panel with four saints, back panel with panels of floral designs, fabulous... Read more
(BOEHME, Jacob) BRINTON, Howard H.
The Mystic Will 1931
£50
First UK Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Modest ink scoring to a few pages, endpapers a little browned, cloth slightly marked at the... Read more
BODART, Anne.
The Blue Dog and Other Fables for the French. 1956
£225
First edition in English language, first printing. A selection of short stories written when the author was just 14 and 15 years old.
Octavo. Original blue paper over boards, front side and spine lettered in silver, with dust jacket. Loosely inserted is a letter and two envelopes from the translator... Read more
BOCK, Carl.
The Head Hunters of Borneo: 1881
£950
First edition. "Dutch Borneo … was heavily trampled by government officials, explorers, romantics, and scientists … In 1878 Carl Bock … Norwegian naturalist and...
Large octavo. Original teal decorative cloth, title gilt to upper board and spine, brown surface-paper endpapers. Folding coloured map frontispiece and 30... Read more
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni, & others.
The Bibliophilist's Library. [c.1898]
£6,500
Edition de Grand Luxe, limited to seven copies numbered with roman numerals, of which this is copy V, printed and bound for Mark P. Robinson. The whole set of this collection of...
20 volumes, octavo (210 × 133 mm), comprising 8 works. Publisher's deluxe binding of grey-green crushed morocco, spines richly gilt in compartments, gilt titles... Read more
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BOCCACCIO, Giovanni.
[Decamerone, in English] The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation. 1625
£12,500
The Decameron in English: second edition in English of volume I; first edition of volume II, as often. Boccaccio's Decamerone, composed between 1348 and 1351, a collection of one...
2 volumes bound in one, folio (274 × 170 mm), first volume gathered in sixes, second volume in fours. Contemporary dark calf, rebacked with original gilt spine... Read more
[BLYTON, Enid] BEEK, Harmsen Van Der
Original drawing of Noddy in bed surrounded by wellwishers. c. 1951
£1,000
This illustration was used on page 50 of "Here Comes Noddy Again", number 4 in the Noddy Library. First published 1951.
Image size 8 x 12.5 inches. Ink and watercolour on paper. Light creasing and small repaired tear just affecting image. Read more
BLYTON, Enid.
Five Fall into Adventure. 1950
£100
First edition, first impression. Ninth adventure of the Famous Five.
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine and front cover in black, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Eileen Soper. Spine lightly bumped,... Read more
BLYTON, Enid.
Five Go Adventuring Again. An Adventure Story for Boys and Girls 1943
£1,750
First edition, first impression. The second adventure of the Famous Five.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board in black, plain endpapers. Illustrated by Eileen Soper. Spine tips faded, endpapers browned, dust jacket... Read more
BLYTON, Enid.
Five Go Adventuring Again. An Adventure Story for Boys and Girls. 1943
£750
First edition, first impression. The second adventure of the Famous Five.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine and front cover in black. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Eileen A. Soper. Boards a little mottled, foot of spine... Read more
BLYTON, Enid.
Five Go Adventuring Again. An Adventure Story for Boys and Girls. 1943
£1,000
First edition, first impression. The second adventure of the Famous Five.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine and front cover in black. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Eileen A. Soper. Boards a little mottled, small light... Read more
BLYTON, Enid.
Five Go Off to Camp. 1948
£500
First edition, first impression. Eighth adventure of the Famous Five.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to front cover and spine in black, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Eileen Soper. Small owner's name to... Read more
BLYTON, Enid.
Five Go to Billycock Hill. 1956
£100
First edition, first impression. Sixteenth adventure of the Famous Five.
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine and front cover in black, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Eileen Soper. Presentation label to... Read more
BLYTON, Enid.
Five Go to Billycock Hill. 1956
£120
First edition, first impression. Sixteenth adventure of the Famous Five.
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine and front cover in black, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Eileen Soper. Spine bumped, dust... Read more
BLYTON, Enid.
Five Go to Demon's Rock. 1961
£100
First edition, first impression. The nineteenth adventure of the Famous Five.
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine and front cover in black, pictorial end papers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Eileen Soper. Spine bumped, dust... Read more
BLYTON, Enid.
Five Go to Smuggler's Top. Another Adventure of the Four Children and Timmy the Dog. 1945
£1,700
First edition, first impression. The fourth adventure in the Famous Five series.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine and front cover in black, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Eileen Soper. Light browning to edges... Read more
BLYTON, Enid.
Five Have a Mystery to Solve. 1962
£100
First edition, first impression. The twentieth adventure of the Famous Five.
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine and front board in black, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Eileen Soper. Spine bumped, dust... Read more
BLYTON, Enid.
Five Minute Tales. Sixty Short Stories for Children. 1933
£600
First edition, first impression and the author's personal copy. With an inserted note by the author stating "This book five minute tales is out of print. Can use stories out of it"....
Octavo. Publisher's red half morocco presentation binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, green morocco labels to spine, floral decorated boards, top edge gilt. Very... Read more
BLYTON, Enid.
Five On a Secret Trail. 1956
£125
First edition, first impression. Fifteenth adventure of the Famous Five.
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine and front cover in black, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Eileen Soper. Spine bumped, dust... Read more
BLYTON, Enid.
The Children's Life of Christ. 1944
£275
First edition, first impression and the author's personal copy. From the library of Blyton's daughter Gillian Baverstock.
Octavo. Publisher's presentation binding of blue half morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, titles to spine and top edge gilt, patterned boards. Very lightly rubbed to... Read more
[BLYTH, Stephen Cleveland]
History of the War between the United States and Tripoli, and other Barbary Powers. 1806
£1,250
First edition, uncommon; the first book published in America on the conflict with the Barbary states. The first section sets the social and religious context of the Barbary coast,...
Duodecimo (168 × 99 mm). Contemporary (perhaps publisher's) sheep-backed grey paper covered thin wooden boards. Housed in a black flat back cloth solander box.... Read more
