Search results for: 'chelsea bindery'
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DAVID, Elizabeth. A Book of Mediterranean Food.London : 1958
Second edition, improved with revisions. Beautifully bound by the Chelsea Bindery. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 60075
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(DULAC, Edmund.) STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island.London : 1927
First Dulac edition, signed limited issue, number 49 of 50 copies signed by the illustrator, bound in vellum and printed on handmade paper, and notably rare due to the unusually small limitation. Hughey describes Dulac's watercolour illustration for Treasure Island as his "most careful and superb painting", and Dulac himself considered them... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 131651
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DAVID, Elizabeth. French Country Cooking.London : 1951
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 127585
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(DISNEY, Walt.) TAYLOR, Deems. Walt Disney's FantasiaNew York : 1940
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 127456
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DARWIN, Bernard. The Golf Courses of The British Isles.London : 1910
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 128663
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(DUCHAMP, Marcel.) HUGNET, George. La Septieme Face du Dé. Poëmes - Découpages.Paris : 1936
First edition, first printing, one of 250 numbered copies of the regular edition from a total of 296 copies. Duchamp's cover combines a photograph by Man Ray of his readymade "Why Not Sneeze, Rrose Selavy" with titles whose letters contain the names of many in the surrealist pantheon, including Sade, Freud, Rimbaud, Paracelsus, Swift, Heraclitus, Chaplin,... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 127717
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DURRELL, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet.London : 1962
First combined edition. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 59975
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(DISNEY, Walt.) PALMER, H. Marion. Walt Disney's Surprise Package.New York : 1944
First edition, first printing. Inscribed on the verso of the front free endpaper in crayon to "Mimi Bonesteel, Happy Easter, Walt Disney." Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 89991
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(DULAC, Edmund.) HOUSMAN, Laurence. Stories from The Arabian Nights.London : 1907
First Dulac edition with the plates bound in at the back. Dulac's work rivalled Rackham's in popularity and was largely confined to deluxe editions. Among the popular stories included in this edition is Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 111583
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DIXON, Franklin W. The Tower Treasure.New York : 1927
First edition, first printing of the first Hardy Boys title, long considered one of the holy grails of American children's book collecting. Developed by the American publisher Edward Stratemeyer, The Hardy Boys books were one part of a range of juvenile detective fiction released by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 118415
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(DULAC, Edmund.) Sindbad the SailorLondon : [1914]
First Dulac edition. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 111191
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DOS PASSOS, John. The 42nd Parallel.New York : 1930
First Edition, First Printing. The first novel in Dos Passos's major work, the trilogy U.S.A. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 32963
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(DULAC, Edmund.) HOUSMAN, Laurence. Princess Badoura.[1913]
First Dulac Edition. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 28745
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DUMAS, Alexandre. Les Trois Mousquetaires.Paris : 1844
First separate edition, extremely rare in the original wrappers. The author's best-known work and one of his two masterpieces, Les Trois Mousquetaires was originally published earlier the same year as a serial novel in the Parisian newspaper Le Siècle, from 14 March to 1 July 1844.
The Three Musketeers "has become the archetypal adventure story,... Learn More£125,000.00Stock Code: 124078
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DOS PASSOS, John. The 42nd Parallel.New York & London : 1930
First edition, first printing. The first novel in Dos Passos's major work, the trilogy U.S.A. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 77757
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DU MAURIER, Daphne. Rebecca.London : 1938
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 77756
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DU MAURIER, Daphne. Jamaica Inn.London : 1936
First edition, first impression. Jamaica Inn was Du Maurier's first book, and her strengths in "narrative drive and the evocation of atmosphere" made it an instant best-seller and later a successful film (ODNB). Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 85173
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(DETMOLD, Edward.) The Arabian Nights.London : [1924]
Signed limited edition, number 99 of 100 copies only signed by the artist. "On the strength of The Arabian Nights, Detmold could have become one of the greatest illustrators of fantasy and fairy stories" (Richard Dalby, The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration, pp. 98). Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 30661
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(DULAC, Edmund.) Lyrics Pathetic & Humorous from A to Z.London : 1908
First edition of this humorously poetic alphabet. Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 66581
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DAHL, Roald. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More.London : 1977
First edition, first impression. With the author's signed inscription to the verso of the half-title. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 99107
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DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.New York : 1964
First edition, first printing, first issue, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Veronica Remembering the magnificent job she did with all the children of Alberobello. 1965 Roald Dahl". The reference to the children of the town of Alberobello is a poigant one: Dahl immersed himself in charity work after the death of his eldest daughter,... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 138375
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DURRELL, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet.London : 1962
Signed limited edition, number 56 of 500 numbered copies. Durrell's enduring masterpiece. Learn More£1,950.00Stock Code: 76495
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DOYLE, A. Conan. The Sign of Four.London : 1890
First edition. This copy has both internal issue points, "138" on the contents page is incomplete and appears as "13" and "wishes" is misspelt on p.56 as "w shed". However, these issue points are present in both the first and second issue of the first edition, the only way of determining between the two issues is by the binding. The second issue was... Learn More£3,975.00Stock Code: 48026
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DIXON, Franklin W. The Hardy Boys: The Shore Road Mystery.New York : 1928
First edition, first state and format. The sixth Hardy Boys title. Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 104570
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DU MAURIER, Daphne. Jamaica Inn.London : 1936
First edition, first impression. Jamaica Inn was Du Maurier's first book, and her strengths in "narrative drive and the evocation of atmosphere" (ODNB) made it an instant best-seller and later a successful film. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 83157
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DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel. De l'origine et des progrès d'une science nouvelle.London & Paris : 1768
First edition of undoubtedly one of the scarcest of Dupont's works, and probably one of the most successful publications promoting physiocracy. The work is based on Le Mercier de la Rivière's L'Ordre naturel et essentiel des Sociétés politiques (with which it is here bound), which Adam Smith referred to as "the most distinct and best connected account... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 93587
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DAHL, Roald. The Gremlins. From the Walt Disney Production. A Royal Air Force Story.London and Glasgow : [1944]
First UK edition, preceded by the first US edition of the previous year. A special copy, bound for presentation, signed by 32 assorted dignitaries, probably at a special dinner in London in aid of the RAF Benevolent Fund. The eclectic group of signatories include Air Marshall Richard Peck, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, London, and Dahl's superior, to... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 83206
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(DULAC, Edmund.) HOUSMAN, Laurence. Princess Badoura. A Tale From the Arabian Nights.London : [1913]
First Large Paper Dulac Edition. Learn More£1,350.00Stock Code: 30868
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DUNANT, Jean Henry. Un souvenir de Solferino.Geneva : 1862
First edition. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on a blank before the half-title: "Monsieur Albert Dunant de la part de l'auteur", apparently in a secretarial hand. An excellent familial association: Albert Dunant was a state councillor for the canton of Geneva; this copy also carries his attractive etched bookplate and official autograph... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 110889
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DAHL, Roald. The Enormous Crocodile.London : 1978
First edition, first impression, of the first of Dahl's works to be illustrated by Blake. Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 135664
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(DULAC, Edmund.) ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Stories from Hans Andersen.New York and London : 1911
First English trade edition. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 111588
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DIXON, Franklin W. The Tower Treasure.New York : 1927
First edition, first printing, of the first Hardy Boys title, long considered one of the holy grails of American children's book collecting. Developed by the American publisher Edward Stratemeyer, The Hardy Boys books were part of a range of juvenile detective fiction released by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, and was so successful that they launched Nancy... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 104563
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(DULAC, Edmund.) OMAR KHAYYÁM; Edward Fitzgerald (trans.) Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.London : [1909]
First Dulac edition, first impression. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 132279
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DUPUGET, Edme-Jean-Antoine. Essay sur l'Usage de l'Artillerie dans la Guerre de Campagne et dans celle des Sieges.1767
A handsome and highly interesting manuscript. The first published edition was issued by Arckstée & Merkus in Amsterdam in 1771, credited to "un Officier du Corps," the author previously identified by Barbier as Edme-Jean-Antoine Du Puget. Du Puget (1742-1802) was a member of an old aristocratic family from Bresse and was introduced to the corps by... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 41080
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.London : 1892 & 1894
First editions of the first two great collections of Holmes stories. The first collection, Adventures, is the first issue with the misprint "Miss Violent Hunter" on page 317; there is no corresponding issue point for Memoirs. Learn More£6,950.00Stock Code: 131695
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DAHL, Roald. The Gremlins.New York : 1943
First Edition, First Printing. Roald Dahl's first book and his only collaboration with Walt Disney, The Gremlins was written as a promotional device for a feature-length Disney animation that was never produced, partly because the studio could not establish firm copyright in the "gremlin" characters (Dahl claimed to have invented them, though they had... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 88956
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DURRELL, Lawrence. [The Alexandria Quartet:] Justine; Balthazar; Mountolive; Clea.London : 1957-60
First editions, first impressions. Perhaps Durrell's greatest success, a study of love and political intrigue in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during World War II. Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 121818
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DONNE, John. Poems. With Elegies on the Authors Death.London : 1633
First edition of the principal collection of Donne's poetical works, issued two years after his death. This copy has the two inserted leaves with "The Printer to the Understanders" and the publisher John Marriot's Hexastichon Bibliopolae, not always present, and has the leaf Nn1 in the earlier uncorrected state with 35 lines of text on p. 273 instead... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 82696
