Publishers' Deluxe
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(AYRTON, Michael.) WEBSTER, John. The Duchess of Malfi.London : 1945
First Ayrton edition, deluxe issue, number 194 of 200 specially bound copies. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 112346
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(BEARDSLEY, Aubrey.) JONSON, Ben. Volpone: or the Fox.London : 1898
First Beardsley edition, deluxe issue copy, being number 29 of 100 copies printed on japon and specially bound in full vellum, with a further 1,000 copies on art paper also issued and bound in blue cloth. In November 1897 Beardsley was commissioned to produce the artwork for a deluxe edition of Volpone, with 24 illustrations including a frontispiece,... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 137872
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(BEARDSLEY, Aubrey.) MALORY, Sir Thomas. The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur,Westminster : 1893-4
First edition, deluxe issue, number 101 of 300 sets printed on large Dutch handmade paper. The classic combination of Aubrey Beardsley's distinctive drawings and the Arthurian legend, and one of the most iconic books of the fin de siècle.
The young Beardsley was a regular at London's antiquarian book shops, where he forged a friendship with shop... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 134558
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(BLAKE, William.) ELLIS, Edwin John, & W. B. Yeats. The Works of William Blake.London : 1893
First edition, one of 150 large paper copies in the deluxe binding; there were also 500 copies in cloth. Yeats had "marked down William Blake as a master early on, and with Edwin Ellis produced a large-scale commentary on Blake's prophetic writings in 1893. While often erratic and idiosyncratic, it helped establish the importance of Blake's esoteric... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 136158
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(BRANGWYN, Frank.) FITZGERALD, Edward. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.London & Edinburgh : 1919
Deluxe edition, limited to 350 unnumbered copies. Rubáiyáts with Brangwyn's illustrations were published from 1906 onwards; this edition, the most comprehensive and elaborate, includes seven illustrations by the artist hitherto unpublished. The text is that of the first edition of 1859. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 138906
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(BROCK, C. E.) IRVING, Washington. The Keeping of Christmas at Bracebridge Hall.London : 1906
First Brock edition, in the publisher's deluxe vellum, and the first edition of the text in this format, amalgamating sections of Irving's Sketch Book (1819) and Bracebridge Hall (1822). Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 132488
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(CHARLES, Ray.) ADAMS, Joe. Yes Indeed!Guildford : 2009
First edition, deluxe issue. Number 144 of 500 copies signed by Joe Adams, with an original Ray Charles business card, three photographic prints of Charles with Adams embossed stamp, housed in a printed envelope, all in a separate drawer in the slipcase. Together with the original prospectus. From the total edition of 2,500 copies. Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 51095
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(COLE, Herbert.) COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.London : 1900
First edition, deluxe issue, number 1 of 200 copies. Herbert Cole (1867-1930) provided artwork for numerous books in the Edwardian era, with his illustrations showing the influence of Walter Crane, Edward Burne-Jones and the pre-Raphaelites. Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 126960
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(DETMOLD, E. J.) The Arabian Nights.London : [1924]
First Detmold edition. This is one of the finest of all illustrated editions of the Arabian Nights and an impressive specimen from the golden age of deluxe illustrated books. It is uncommon to find the book with the original box preserved. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 130344
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(FABERGÉ.) BAINBRIDGE, Henry Charles. Peter Carl Faberge.London : 1949
First edition, deluxe issue, one of 350 copies, 250 of which were released in the UK; a further 1,750 cloth-bound copies were also issued. A richly illustrated account of Fabergé's life and work, written by the manager of the jewellery firm's London shop. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 140394
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(FLORENCE PRESS.) KEATS, John. The Poems.London : 1915
First edition thus, number one of 250 copies on unbleached Arnold paper, a notably attractive copy in the less commonly found deluxe vellum binding. The handsomely produced collection is edited by Sidney Colvin (18451927), a noted curator and Keats scholar, who published several editions of Keats's poem and letters, and, in 1917, his major biography,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 139533
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(GAY SUNSHINE PRESS.) Gay Roots.San Francisco : 1991-3
First edition, first printing, Winston Leyland's own copy of the deluxe signed limited issue, letters B and Z of 26 specially bound copies signed by Leyland, these volumes additionally signed by Leyland on the title pages and deriving from his personal collection. There were also 300 unsigned cloth copies, the vast majority of which were sold to libraries.
Winston... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 123228
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(GAY SUNSHINE PRESS.) GINSBERG, Allen, & Peter Orlovsky. Straight Hearts' Delight.San Francisco : 1980
First edition, first printing, letter O of 26 specially bound copies signed by Ginsberg and Orlovsky. This is publisher and editor Winston Leyland's own copy of the deluxe issue, additionally signed by him on the title page, and with two unpublished autograph letters signed from Ginsberg to Leyland laid in. The first letter, dated 26 November 1982,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 123246
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(GOBLE, Warwick.) KINGSLEY, Charles. The Water Babies.London : 1909
First Goble edition, deluxe issue, one of 260 unnumbered copies printed on large paper and bound in vellum. "Goble moved into the big time in 1909 when he became the resident gift book illustrator for the large publishing firm of Macmillan. The first of his classic de luxe volumes in the Macmillan series was The Water Babies, by Charles Kingsley. Containing... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 138796
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(HEFNER, Hugh.) The Twentieth Anniversary Playboy Cartoon Album.New York : 1974
First edition, first printing, in the deluxe sheep binding; Hugh Hefner's own copy of this Playboy anthology which he edited and for which he contributed the introduction, with his posthumous bookplate to the front pastedown. A trade edition in cloth and jacket was also issued. Following the death of Hefner in 2017, his library was sold with proceeds... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 141796
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(HUXLEY, Aldous.) Bromer, David J. Aun Aprendo.Boston : 2011
Signed limited edition, number 11 of 50 copies signed by the bibliographer David Bromer. Aun Aprendo (the name taken from the commencement speech that Huxley gave at the progressive Happy Valley School in California in 1951) is the most detailed and comprehensive bibliography of Huxley's writings; this deluxe signed edition was designed by Roderick... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 140285
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(KAUFFER, E. McKnight.) DEFOE, Daniel. The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner.London : 1929
First Kauffer edition, signed limited issue, number 30 of 35 copies signed by Kauffer, printed on T. H. Saunders mould-made paper, and bound in quarter morocco, aside from 500 numbered copies unsigned on normal paper and bound in cloth. This deluxe signed issue is rare, with only two copies recorded at auction in the past 70 years. Kauffer was born... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 122649
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![Poems in English: Miscellaneous Poems, Paradise Regain'd & Samson Agonistes. [Together with:] Paradise Lost.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/139550.jpg)
(NONESUCH PRESS.) MILTON, John. Poems in English: Miscellaneous Poems, Paradise Regain'd & Samson Agonistes. [Together with:] Paradise Lost.London : 1926
First Nonesuch Press edition, number 14 of 90 deluxe issue copies on Oxford India Paper bound in one volume in full vellum. This attractively printed edition is illustrated with black and white reproductions of William Blake's remarkable visual interpretations of Milton's poetical works, accompanied by notes on the illustrations. Though individual suites... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 139550
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(PAUL, Evelyn.) Aucassin and Nicolete.London : [1917]
First Evelyn Paul edition, deluxe signed limited issue, number 117 of 125 copies signed by the illuminator Evelyn Paul, and bound in decorated full vellum. Paul's designs are based on the decoration of mediaeval manuscripts, a fine accompaniment for Michael West's translation of the French tale, composed around the late 12th to early 13th century. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 139446
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) King Albert's Book.London : 1914
Deluxe Edition. Not recorded in either of the bibliographies. The book was published in aid of the Belgium fund. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 113114
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) ANDERSEN, Hans [Christian]. Fairy Tales.London : 1932
First Rackham trade edition in the publisher's deluxe binding. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 85331
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.London : [1912]
Deluxe edition, issued unsigned and without statement of limitation. This edition is a revision of the 1906 edition, with an entirely new setting of type, a new coloured frontispiece, and seven full-page black and white drawings not in the earlier edition. The plates are distributed throughout, not gathered at the end as in the 1906 edition. The edition... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 112982
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington GardensLondon : 1907
Fourth impression, in a publisher's deluxe binding not noted by Latimore and Haskell or Riall, though it appears to be the binding described as "rough Persian" advertised by Hodder & Stoughton in the trade press in time for Christmas 1907. After the enormous success of the play Peter Pan, which opened on 27 December 1904 and broke all previous theatrical... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 112932
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) BIANCO, Margery Williams. Poor Cecco.New York : 1925
Deluxe edition, number 78 of 105 copies signed by the author. Unlike many of Rackham's deluxe editions this one was not signed by him, nor was it issued in the UK in a deluxe version. This is the rarest of all Rackham limited editions. Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 113178
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1929
Deluxe edition, number 490 of 575 copies for England signed by Arthur Rackham. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 115989
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1929
Deluxe edition, number 7 of 575 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 113244
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1929
First trade edition, first impression, in the publisher's striking deluxe binding of "Persian morocco". Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 113243
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRIMM, The Brothers. Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales.London : 1917
Deluxe signed limited issue, number 21 of 525 copies signed by the illustrator and with an extra plate signed by Rackham in its original printed envelope, tipped in at rear. The plate is a repeat of the one facing p. 178 ("He hurried away with long strides"). Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 125959
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRIMM, [Jacob & Wilhelm]. Little Brother and Little Sister and Other Tales.London : 1917
Deluxe edition, number 505 of 525 copies signed by the artist; with the extra plate signed by Rackham (in its original printed envelope), a repeat of that facing p. 178 ("He hurried away with long strides"). Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 113145
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) IBSEN, Henrik. Peer Gynt.London : 1936
Deluxe edition, number 6 of ten "special copies" reserved by the publisher, presented in a specially commissioned luxury binding and including a delightful full-page original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawing by Rackham (signed "Arthur Rackham 36"), showing Peer Gynt being swarmed by the trolls and surrounded by anthropomorphic trees. Describing his... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 135675
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) IBSEN, Henrik. Peer Gynt.London : 1936
Deluxe edition, number 250 of 460 numbered copies signed by the artist. Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 113157
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle.London : 1905
Signed limited edition, number 26 of 250 copies signed by the artist. This copy also includes a charming original pen and ink portrait of Rip van Winkle by Rackham, dated 17 July 1918. This was the first book wholly illustrated by Rackham to be issued in a limited edition format and it immediately established him as the leading illustrator of lavishly... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 123180
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle.London : 1905
Signed limited edition, number 137 of 250 copies signed by the artist. This was the first book wholly illustrated by Rackham to be issued in a limited edition format and it immediately established him as the leading illustrator of lavishly produced gift books in the Edwardian era. In March 1905 Rackham's originals were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries,... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 112975
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle.London : 1905
First trade edition, first impression, from the same setting of type as the deluxe edition. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 112930
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) MARTINEAU, Harriet. Feats on the Fjord.London : 1899
First edition featuring Rackham's illustrations, this copy in the more deluxe leather binding, was also issued in blue cloth. Part of the series of The Temple Classics For Young People. Learn More£110.00Stock Code: 113061
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) MORLEY, Christopher. Where the Blue Begins.New York : [1925]
Deluxe US edition, number 89 of 100 copies signed by both author and artist. Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 113003
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) RUSKIN, John. The King of the Golden River.London : 1932
Deluxe edition, number 318 of 570 copies signed by the artist. With a delightful original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawing by Rackham (signed and dated "Arthur Rackham 1932") on the limitation leaf, depicting the twelve year old Gluck opening the window to Southwest Wind, Esquire. Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 113250
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler.London : 1931
Deluxe edition, number 223 of 775 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 125668
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler.London : 1931
Deluxe edition, limited to 775 copies; this copy out of series and bound in wrappers, perhaps for review purposes. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 113229
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(ROLLING STONES.) MANKOWITZ, Gered. I Con.tact. Rolling Stone Archive.Guildford : 1998
First edition, first impression. Limited to 950 copies. This is one of the 100 deluxe copies signed by Gered Mankowitz but comes without the photographic print as issued. Together with the original prospectus. A complete archive of Mankowtz's Rolling Stones contact sheets, taken from 1965 - 69, 3000 images. Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 114867
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(ROLLING STONES.) SYKES, Christopher Simon. The Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas 1975.Guildford : 2006
Signed limited edition, number 29 of 2,500 copies signed by the photographer Christopher Simon Sykes and the Rolling Stones tour manager Peter Rudge; this is one of 350 deluxe copies bound in full leather (the rest of the edition bound in quarter leather), with an additional photographic print of Mick Jagger signed by Sykes and a facsimile of the "Starship"... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 141063
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(ROYCROFTERS.) WILDE, Oscar, & Elbert Hubbard (ed.) The Ballad of Reading Gaol.East Aurora, NY : 1905
First Roycrofters edition, number 19 of 100 copies on Japan Vellum, signed by Hubbard, and inscribed on the first blank "To Margaret Scott, Royal Roycrofter, with all kind wishes from her Uncle, Elbert Hubbard".
The recipient, the actress, poet, and playwright Margaret Scott Oliver (1879-1930), was not in fact Hubbard's niece. Settled in the arts... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 142011
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(UNWIN, T. Fisher, pub.) WATSON, William, Frédéric Mistral, A. Mary F. Robinson, Robert Burns, Katherine Tynan, & José Echegaray. [Seven titles from the Cameo Series:]London : 1890-95
The publisher's retained first copies of the rare deluxe japon issue of seven titles in Unwin's Cameo Series, each copy number 1 of 30 numbered copies only printed on japon vellum, three signed by the publisher on the colophon; all from the personal library of Thomas Fisher Unwin (1848-1935).
Unwin's Cameo series of poetry was a distinctively packaged... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 125995
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BLAKE, William. Songs of Innocence.Clairvaux, Jura, France : 1954
First edition thus, deluxe issue in full morocco, number 56 of 1,600 copies on Arches pure rag paper made to match that used by Blake, watermarked with his monogram. Of the 1,600 copies, 800 went to the UK and US respectively, this being part of the former issue; a further 26 were retained by the publisher. This colour facsimile, painstakingly produced... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 136953
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BLAKE, William. The Book of Ahania.Clairvaux : 1973
First edition thus, copy XXIX of 32 deluxe copies in full morocco, each containing an original guide-sheet, stencil and copperplate, and a set of plates showing the progressive stages of the collotype and hand-stencil process, from a total edition of 808 copies on Arches pure rag paper made to match that bused by Blake. The heroine of one of Blake's... Learn More£1,525.00Stock Code: 115043
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BLAKE, William. There is No Natural Religion.Clairvaux : 1972
First edition thus, publisher Arnold Fawcus' copy, number 1 of 540 copies this, from a total edition of 616 copies on Arches pure rag paper made to match the paper used by Blake. This deluxe copy derives from the publisher's archive, from the estate of Trianon Press's founder and publisher Arnold Fawcus. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 115026
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BOWIE, David, & Geoff MacCormick. From Station to Station. Travels with Bowie 1973-1976.Guildford : 2007
First edition, number 170 of 350 deluxe copies signed by Bowie and MacCormack, and with the additional portrait of Bowie signed by MacCormack in the printed envelope.
This richly illustrated work documents the three years MacCormack spent writing, recording, performing, living and travelling with David Bowie. The book presents photographs and items... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 139485
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BOWIE, David, & Mick Rock. Moonage Daydream.Guildford : 2002
Signed limited edition, number 170 of 350 deluxe copies signed by David Bowie and Mick Rock, with an additional photograph of Bowie signed by Mick Rock and specially bound, from a total edition of 2,500 copies. "Published to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Ziggy Stardust LP's original release, Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 139483
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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets From The Portuguese.London : 1914
First Riccardi Press edition, number 151 of 350 numbered copies specially bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, from an edition of 1,000 copies on handmade Riccardi Paper; there were also 12 copies on vellum. This is a very scarce and attractive deluxe issue of an already finely produced book, printing some of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's most famous love... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 131514
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CARROLL, Lewis. Rhyme? And Reason?London : 1883
First edition. Presentation copy in the deluxe binding, inscribed by the author to Joanna de Morlot Pollock on the half-title, with a six line acrostic poem that spells "Joanna": "Joa Pollack from the Author: in memory of an Awful Afternoon.
Joy was what we hoped to meet,
On that dreary day;
And we sought her in the street -
Never resting... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 108891
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Second World War.London : [1955]
First edition of the Chartwell Edition, the first illustrated edition of Churchill's masterly account of the Second World War. The Chartwell Edition, incorporating Churchill's final revisions and adding illustrations, was produced upon the completion of the Second World War series, which Churchill had published in six volumes between 1948 and 1954.... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 140950
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COOK, Theodore Andrea. The Cruise of the Branwen.London : 1908
First edition, privately published in May 1908 and preceding the trade edition of October, here the author's own copy, with the later presentation inscription facing half-title "from Hans Rommel to his friend Mr. S. C. Gilmour in remembrance of the years which we spent together on the staff of the field this book out of the library of its late editor,... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 141845
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COZZENS, Freder ic S. (illus.) Yachts and Yachting.New York : 1887
First edition, deluxe issue, number 105 of 250 large-paper copies, also published in the United Kingdom sometime the same year under the title American Yachts and Yachting, the American edition with likely priority, and preferred on the basis of the author's nationality. "Contains a history of American yachting from the early days of the New York Yacht... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 112618
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CRANE, Stephen. The Black Riders and Other Lines.Boston : 1895
First edition, deluxe issue, one of 50 copies printed in green on japon. The Black Riders is first book of poetry by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), famous for his novels such as his acclaimed Civil War tale The Red Badge of Courage, published in the same year as this collection. Crane was a prolific writer of poetry, though only in private at first, writing... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 117295
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CURTIS-BENNETT, Noel. The Food of the People, being The History of Industrial Feeding.London : 1949
First edition, deluxe limited issue, number 51 of 100 copies, presented to Eric Simonds by the directors of Peter Merchant Ltd, with their numbered presentation bookplate. A highly attractive copy of this study of the history of the feeding of employees in the workplace, from the middle ages to the factory canteen. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 128771
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DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.London : 1839
First edition, in the publisher's deluxe binding of half morocco. Following the serialization in parts, Dombey and Son was issued in book-form in cloth, full morocco, and the present half morocco. The deluxe bindings of Dickens have been somewhat marginalized by bibliographers, but it is certainly the case that they are significantly scarcer than the... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 138737
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DICKENS, Charles. The Life of Our LordLondon : 1934
First edition in book form, first impression, in the scarce publisher's deluxe leather binding with the dust jacket, printed on japon. The History of Jesus Christ was written by Dickens for his children between 1846 and 1849, and the author later claimed that the book was "an inseparable part of their earliest remembrances" (see Letters,... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 138148
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club.London : 1837
First edition, bound from the original parts, in the rare primary publisher's trade binding of plum coloured full morocco. Upon completion of the publication in parts, Chapman and Hall issued The Pickwick Papers in book form in cloth for 21s., half-morocco for 24s. 6d., and the present full morocco with gilt edges for 26s. 6d. (Patton, p. 326). They... Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 138130
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club.London : 1837
First edition, bound from the original parts, in the rare primary publisher's trade binding of plum coloured full morocco. Upon completion of the publication in parts, Chapman and Hall issued The Pickwick Papers in book form in cloth for 21s., half-morocco for 24s. 6d., and the present full morocco with gilt edges for 26s. 6d. (Patton, p. 326). They... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 130554
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DULAC, Edmund. Lyrics Pathetic and Humorous from A to Z.London : 1908 [1909]
First edition, portfolio issue. This deluxe edition is one of about 160 copies and was issued in 1909 (although the imprint states 1908), a year after the trade edition. It is in a much larger format than the standard edition and is extremely scarce. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 102465
