Search results for: 'the works'
-
PARES, Ethel "Bip". Daily Bread.Hampstead, London : 1935
Unique "book" by Pares, made for and dedicated to the man who was to become her second husband, Robert Christopher Bradby. Comprises a series of well-finished whimsically satirical sketches, broadly on the themes of women's work, fashions, and domestic life; the frontispiece showing the artist pavement-sketching - a pint of beer! - beneath signs, declaring... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 114035
-
(PARES, Ethel Bip.) BRANDE, Dorothea. Beauty Vanishes.London : 1935
First edition, first impression. Uncommon in the dust jacket by designer Ethel "Bip" Pares, recognised for her work in the science fiction genre and particularly for the jackets for Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton and Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 85032
-
(PHOTOGRAPHY.) SMITH, Catherine A. N. Half plate tintype by a female photographer.840 Broadway, New York : [c.1870s-90s]
A notably unusual tintype photograph, very informally composed, of three elegantly dressed women in hats and fur clothing by New York photographer "Mrs C.A.N. Smith", who specialised in ladies' portraits. Each of the women gaze in different directions; their positioning, and the uneven framing of the image, is unorthodox; the photograph's edges are... Learn More£550.00Stock Code: 131611
-
POE, Edgar Allan. The Works.New York : 1903
The Autograph edition, one of a limited edition of 150 numbered copies signed by the editors and publisher on the limitation leaf. The set collects all of Poe's works together with a biographic memoir and six volumes of literary criticism. Editors Edmund Clarence Stedman and George Edward Woodberry were both well-known poets, literary critics, and scholars.... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 103856
-
POPE, Alexander. The Works.London : 1770
A highly attractive set of Alexander Pope's writings. Before his death Pope began the task of bringing together and editing his collected works, with his friend William Warburton finishing the project and seeing it through the press in 1751. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 126010
-
POPE, Alexander. The Works.London : 1835
First edition thus, with Croly's memoir and notes, of Pope's works. This attractive set is from the library of the philosopher and writer Alan W. Watts (19151973), each volume with his self-designed esoterically illustrated bookplate, including the biblical motto "pulsate et aperietur vobis" ("knock, and it shall be opened to you"). Watts was a highly... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 134475
-
POE, Edgar Allan. The Works.New York : 1914
Edition limited of 204 numbered copies of which this is number 181, printed on Old Stratford paper and signed by the publisher on the limitation page. A particularly bright and handsome set. Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 122433
-
POE, Edgar Allan. The Works.Chicago : 1894
A handsomely bound set. There is extra material in volume VII, which was previously unpublished. This material is; the final paragraph of "Plagiarism," "An Author's Face," "Apothegms," "Hyperism," and the eleven pieces on pp.336-349. It also has the first American publication of " The Journal of Julius Rodman" in volume V. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 114677
-
POPE, Alexander. The Works.Basel : 1803
An attractive set with an interestingly complex continental history, printed by the Swiss piratical publisher J. J. Tourneisen, bound in Italy, and thereafter in the "British Library" in Malaga, with their stamps to endpapers. Tourneisen, free from the restraints of British copyright law, printed numerous British authors including Addison, Adam Smith,... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 131574
-
PRESCOTT, William H. The Works.[1904]
The Aztec edition, limited to 250 numbered sets. A stunning set beautifully bound and well illustrated. Includes his History of the Conquest of Mexico, History of Ferdinand and Isabella, History of the Conquest of Peru, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, plus his biographical and critical miscellanies. Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 69123
-
PUDNEY, John. And Lastly the Fireworks. Stories.London : 1935
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Gertie: from John. Nov 1935". The recipient was the British engraver and sculptor Gertrude Hermes. Learn More£55.00Stock Code: 74030
-
POE, Edgar Allan. The Works.New York : 1894-95
A handsomely bound set. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 38711
-
PAINE, Thomas. The Life and Works.New York : 1925.
Patriot's Edition. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 126120
-
PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. System of Economic Contradictions, or the Philosophy of Misery.New York : [1888?]
First separate edition in English, first published by Tucker himself as the fourth volume in his translated edition of Proudhon's works (1888), here with a cancel half-title and title page, and a variant binding. This reissue is rarely found - OCLC locates only one copy, at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, with another copy... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 133006
-
PLAYFAIR, William. An Inquiry into the permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations, illustrated by four engraved Charts...London : 1805
First edition of this important work and a remarkable attempt to present a general and comparative theory of the rise and fall of nations, and thus extract lessons from the downfall of the great empires of history and in so doing "find the means by which prosperity may be lengthened out, and the period of humiliation procrastinated to a distant day"... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 93567
-
POCK, Alexander. Six highly-finished pencil drawings in the guest-book for Werzer's Gasthof "zum Weißes Rössl".Pörtschach am Wörthersee : 1947
The guest-book for Werzer's famous Gasthof "zum Weißes Rössl" at Pörtschach am Wörthersee, now the home of the Brahms Haus Museum, containing six highly-finished pencil drawings by Alexander Pock: 1) Mounted officer, with New Year's wishes for 1947, dated on 26 December 1946; 2) Bust-portrait of a feldmarschal, 23 March 1947; 3) Two sailors, "on... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 94476
-
PERTSCH, Wilhelm. Die Arabischen Handschriften der Herzoglichen Bibliothek Zu Gotha.Gotha : 1878-92
First editions. Uncommon in complete state, OCLC shows perhaps fewer than 20 sets completing worldwide; Copac lists just two: SOAS and Glasgow, the Oxford set lacking the much later fifth volume; no other copies traced at auction.
The five volumes comprise the catalogue of the extraordinary collection of Arabic manuscripts at the ducal library at... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 94282
-
PETTY, Sir William. Several Essays in Political Arithmetick. The Fourth Edition, Corrected. To which are prefix'd, Memoirs of the Author's Life.London : 1755
Fourth edition of Petty's writings on Political Arithmetic and Demography. "The text follows that of 1699 except that the French version of Five Essays is omitted. The brief account of the author gives the main facts of his life and fortune." (Keynes).
"Instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have taken... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 135285
-
PRIESTLEY, Joseph. Letters to Mr. Volney, Occasioned by a Work of his Entitled Ruins, and by his Letter to the Author.Philadelphia : 1797
First edition. Part of Priestley's continuing campaign against what he saw as atheistic philosophy, published while in self-imposed exile in Philadelphia after fleeing Britain following the Priestley Riots of 1791 and continued government persecution. The pamphlet is directed against the arguments put forth by Constantin Volney in his Ruins of Empires,... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 136976
-
PATCHEN, Kenneth. Panels for the Walls of Heaven.Berkeley, CA : 1946
Signed limited edition, number 115 of 150 copies signed by the author and with his original painting on the front cover. As stated by Patchen on the rear pastedown "no two covers are alike" and the painting by the experimental poet and painter on this copy is exceptionally lavish and a true work of art. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 91736
-
PULSZKY, Francis. The Tricolor on the Atlas; or Algeria and the French Conquest.1854
First edition. Pulszky was a Hungarian nationalist, Kossuth's ambassador in London, and an exile after 1849, he accompanied Kossuth to America in 1851 as his private secretary. He supported himself by the pen, publishing a number of books in his own right, and undertaking translation work. The present book combines both, "Among the Tourists who have... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 62945
-
PUIG, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman.New York : 1979
First US edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front blank, "To Michael Blower, with gratitude for his interest in my work, Manuel Puig. Boston 86". Originally published in Argentina in 1976. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 85941
-
PAINE, Thomas. Letter Addressed to the Addressers, on the Late Proclamation.London : 1792
Early edition, one of a few published in 1792; Howes places an alternative edition of 40 pages to be the true first. Paine's letter is a defence of his Rights of Man, published the previous year, and then under sustained attack from the British establishment - Paine is here responding to the royal proclamation of 21 May 1791 against seditious acts,... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 138768
-
PATERSON, Isabel. The God of the Machine.New York : 1943
First edition, first printing, of the author's best-known work. A leading Canadian-American journalist and esteemed literary critic, Paterson (1886-1961) is credited as one of the "three furies" of the American libertarian movement alongside Ayn Rand and Rose Wilder Lane (William F. Buckley Jr. quoted by Burns, p. 746). In a lengthy and strongly-worded... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 135834
-
PRAGNELL, Festus. The Green Man of Kilsona.London : [1936]
First edition, first impression, of this "science fiction adventure story set on a world within an atom" (Locke). The work was first published in the pulp magazine Wonder Stories from July to September 1935 as The Green Man of Graypec, the same title used for the US edition released in 1950. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 113286
-
POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse.London : 1910
First edition in the scarce jacket, only listing books published prior to 1910 and with the price of 1/- on the spine panel. The first two impressions of this work are indistinguishable. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 130717
-
PETTY, Sir William. Observations upon the Dublin-Bills of Mortality, MDCLXXXI. And the State of that City.London : 1683
Rare first edition. Referring to John Graunt's work of 1662, Petty opens with: "The Observations upon the London-Bills of Mortality have been a new Light to the World; and the like Observation upon those of Dublin, may serve as Snuffers to make the same Candle burn clearer. The London-Observations flowed from Bills regularly kept for near One hundred... Learn More£11,000.00Stock Code: 134806
-
PHILLPOTTS, Eden. My Adventure in The Flying Scotsman.London : 1888
First edition, first impression, stiff wrappers issue, of the author's scarce first book. Queen's Quorum 13 says; "In 1888, Eden Phillpotts's first book marked the beginning of one of the most prolific writing careers of our time... the cornerstone honour should be accorded to Mr. Phillpott's maiden mystery, the thin, fragile book with the 'rainbow'... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 79769
-
POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester.London : 1903
First trade edition, deluxe issue in art fabric, first issue with single-page endpapers. Only this work and The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin were issued in the present patterned cloth, provided by Beatrix Potter's grandfather's calico printing factory in Manchester, at her request. The Tailor of Gloucester was first printed privately in 1902, with the author... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 130129
-
(PARRISH, Maxfield.) SAUNDERS, Louise. The Knave of Hearts.New York : 1925
First edition, first printing. This work is generally acknowledged to contain some of the best illustrations by American illustrator Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966). Parrish achieved "national popularity for his distinctively elegant style, detailed backgrounds and glowing colours. The subtle shade of blue seen in many of his pictures came to be known... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 123572
-
POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin.London : 1903
First trade edition, deluxe issue binding, third impression with the words "Author of the Tale of Peter Rabbit" on the title page. Only this work and The Tailor of Gloucester were issued in the present patterned cloth, provided by Beatrix Potter's grandfather's calico printing factory in Manchester, at her request. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin was first... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 130131
-
PURDY, John. The Brasilian Navigator; or Sailing Directory for all the Coasts of Brasil, etc.London : 1851
First published in 1838. Uncommon: just 12 copies of various editions between 1838 and 1862 listed on OCLC, only two of the present one. These coastal pilots were for shipboard use, and are far from sturdily produced with a commensurately low survival rate. This is an unusual and desirable example. Purdy apprenticed to David Steel in 1795, drawing his... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 70217
-
PENN, Irving. The Astronomers plan a Voyage to Earth.Rhode Island : 1999
First edition, first printed, inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper, "For Emese and Jim, I.", with two drawn hearts, and signed below "Irving Penn". This work pairs a collection of Penn's pencil sketches, drawn between 1939 and 1942, with a fable written by Penn in 1997. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 131355
-
(POWELL, Anthony.) AUBREY, John. Brief Lives and Other Selected Writings.London : 1949
First edition thus, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper, "Lucy, with love from Tony Powell". The recipient, Lucy Hayes, was "a great love and lifelong friend" of Anthony Powell's father Philip, whom she met in the early 1920s. Violet Powell, reminiscing about Philip, her father-in-law, noted that "he... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 126193
-
POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin.London and New York : 1903
First trade edition, deluxe issue binding. Only this work and The Tailor of Gloucester were issued in the present patterned cloth, provided by Beatrix Potter's grandfather's calico printing factory in Manchester, at her request. The art fabric binding, which Potter referred to as "a flowered lavender chintz, very pretty" has vellum labels used for the... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 125111
-
(LEGER, COUTAUD, GISCHIA, LABISSE, PIGNON.) PARMELIN, Helene. Cinq Peintres et le Theatre. Decors et Costumes de Leger, Coutaud, Gischia, Labisse, Pignon.Paris : 1956
First edition, one of 150 copies only, with a separate suite of four original lithographs by Coutaud, Gischia, Labisse and Pignon (Leger had passed away before the time of publication). This work provides a full study of the sceneography and costume designs of these five influential theatre artists. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 63331
-
(PETTY, William.) COLLINS, John. A Plea for the Bringing in of Irish Cattel, And keeping out of Fish Caught by Foreigners.London : 1680
First edition. John Collins (1626-1683) is predominantly remembered as a mathematician and scientific administrator, but his long career in the civil service also acquainted him in detail with taxation, trade and public expenditures. The present mercantilist treatise was his first work of economics, a slightly mis-matched proposal to prohibit foreign... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 127344
-
POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin.London : 1903
First edition, first impression, with the title page dated 1903 and without the words "Author of the Tale of Peter Rabbit". The first edition was published in August 1903. The story originated in 1897 with a picture letter to Noel Moore, and was rewritten in 1901 for Norah Moore. It is the first book to feature the introduction of pictorial endpapers,... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 134850
-
POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester.London : 1903
First trade edition, deluxe issue in art fabric, first issue with single-page endpapers. Only this work and The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin were issued in the present patterned cloth, provided by Beatrix Potter's grandfather's calico printing factory in Manchester, at her request. The art fabric binding, which Potter referred to as "a flowered lavender... Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 118305
-
POUCHOT DE CHANTASSIN, Claude-Michel, & Joseph-Jacques Le Maire. A New Voyage to the East-Indies in the Year 1690 and 1691.London : 1696
First editions in English. The first part is a translation of Pouchot de Chantassin's Relation du Voyage et Retour des Indes Orientales pendant les Années 1690 & 1691. Par un Garde de la Marine Servant sur le Bord de Monsieur Duquesne (Paris, 1692). His name is not given in this translation, but appears in the privilege to the French edition. "The... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 80264
-
PLAYFAIR, William. For the Use of the Enemies of England. A Real Statement of the Finances and Resources of Great Britain; illustrated by two copper-plate charts.London : 1796
First edition. The title is ironic - the author holds that the alarmist tracts of his contemporaries, which bemoaned the danger of Britain's ballooning national debt, were bolstering the nation's adversaries by portraying Britain in a weaker economic state than she in fact was. Playfair instead presents the "Enemies of England" with a vision of Britain's... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 131438
-
PENROSE, Roland. The Road is Wider Than Long.London : 1939
First and limited edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to French actor and writer Jacques B. Brunius (1906-1967) on the half-title, "à Brunius mon ami, Roland Penrose", number 137 of 510 copies. Penrose visited the Balkans with Lee Miller in 1938 and recorded the tour in this photographic diary, the first work in the Series of Surrealist... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 123648
-
POPPER, Karl R. The Poverty of Historicism.London : 1957
First edition of Popper's third book, an extensive attack on historicism, "the doctrine that there are general laws of historical development that render the course of history inevitable and predictable... In The Poverty of Historicism, historicism is formally refuted and attributed to two oppositely mistaken views about the nature of social science.... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 132435
-
PATTON, Philip. Strictures on Naval Discipline, and the Conduct of a Ship of War.[c.1807]
Extremely uncommon collection of the clear- and far-sighted memoranda on naval discipline of a long-serving sailor described by Lord Keith as this "deep-thinking and hard-fighting officer." This copy inscribed on the front pastedown, "From Patton to Mr. Ferguson?", the conclusion of the inscription erased.
A scattering of the individual papers and... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 42976
-
POUND, Ezra. The Pisan Cantos.New York : 1948
First edition, first printing, inscribed twice by the author on the front free endpaper: "Eileen from Ezra full benedictions S. Liz 1949", and with his subsequent inscription, "having been forgot returned and re returned repeat 'benedictions' June 58". A superb relic from the St Elizabeth years: the recipient was Eileen Lane Kinney, a member of the... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 124333
-
PARSONS, Abraham. Travels in Asia and Africa; including a Journey from Scanderoon to Aleppo, and over the desert to Bagdad and Bussora;London : 1808
First edition. Little is known of Parson's origins, he was probably born in Bristol, the son of a merchant captain. "In early life he visited many countries in command of merchant vessels, an occupation that suited a man 'naturally fond of novelty, and remarkably inquisitive'" (ODNB). He unsuccessfully tried to establish himself as a merchant in Bristol,... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 99192
-
PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. Qu'est-ce que la propriété?Paris : 1841
Second edition of the French anarchist philosopher's notorious thesis, together with the first editions of his two succeeding works, the "deuxième" and "troisième" memoirs. Qu'est-ce que la propriété? was first published in 1840, and shocked its readership with its famous assertion that "all property is theft", which remains widely cited among radical... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 129328
-
PETTY, William. Political Arithmetick,London : 1691
Second edition, first published the previous year, of what is by title at least Petty's key work, posthumously published. After training as a doctor and being admitted to the College of Physicians, Petty worked for many years as an administrator in Ireland, and was a founding member of the Royal Society. He has gone down in history as the originator... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 127275
-
POUJADE, Jean. Documents d'Ethnographie Navale.Paris : 1946-8
First editions, all published. Uncommon. An excellent set of these important works of naval ethnography, forming a series on boat construction around the world. The series was planned as a supplement to Admiral François-Edmond Paris' famous Souvenirs de Marine Conservés , first published in 1877, the Fascicule Introductif including an index to Paris'... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 94734
-
POUND, Ezra. Imaginary Letters.Paris : 1930
First edition, first printing, deluxe signed limited issue, number 46 of 50 copies printed on Japanese vellum and signed by the author. There were also 350 ordinary copies issued unsigned on Navarre, and 25 hors commerce. Imaginary Letters is one of the exquisitely produced books put out by the Black Sun Press, founded by the wild and wealthy avante-garde... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 133236
-
PETTY, Sir William. Sir William Petty's Political Survey of Ireland,London : 1719
Second edition, corrected and enlarged, following initial publication in 1691 under the title The Political Anatomy of Ireland. "Petty wrote his Political Anatomy of Ireland about 1671 after his second long stay in the country. It provides a wide survey of Irish institutions and government with much statistical evidence... the volume concludes with... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 129326
-
PETTY, Sir William. Sir William Petty's Political Survey of Ireland,London : 1719
Second edition, corrected and enlarged, following initial publication in 1691 under the title The Political Anatomy of Ireland. "Petty wrote his Political Anatomy of Ireland about 1671 after his second long stay in the country. It provides a wide survey of Irish institutions and government with much statistical evidence... the volume concludes with... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 129327
-
(PARRISH, Maxfield.) SAUNDERS, Louise. The Knave of Hearts.New York : 1925
First edition, first printing. This work is generally acknowledged to contain some of Parrish's best illustrations. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 118661
-
PAZ, Octavio. Blanco.Mexico City : 1967
First and limited edition, number 405 of 579 copies, of one of Paz's major works, experimental in both form and content, which, when unfolded, "in a certain sense produces text by transforming the space itself into a text" (Sanchez). It was composed while Paz was serving in India as Mexican ambassador; his time there is important in relation to his... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 132640
-
PEABODY, Henry Greenwood. Representative American Yachts.Boston : 1891 & 1893
First editions, extremely uncommon. OCLC lists just six copies of the first, all in the United States, two copies of the 1893 supplement and a few copies of subsequent portmanteau editions. A superb collection of images of some the great yachts of a Golden Age of American boat-building. Missouri-born and Dartmouth College-educated, Peabody initially... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 112236
-
PENN, Irving. Cranium Architecture.London : 2013
First edition, first impression. This is the catalogue raisonné of the exposition of Penn's Cranium Architecture series, shown at Hamiltons throughout the summer of 2013. This copy comes with the exhibition brochure laid-in loose, dated 9th of September 2013. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 141006
-
PULLMAN, Philip. His Dark Materials.London : 1995-1997-2000
First editions, first impressions, each volume signed by the author on the title page. Northern Lights has the first issue points on the jacket: 12.99 price, "Point" to the spine panel, and 7-9 Pratt Street to the rear flap. Pullman's epic trilogy of fantasy novels is recognized as one of the best children's novels of the 20th century. The... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 138494
-
(PENN, Irving.) SZARKOWSKI, John. Irving Penn.New York : 1984
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the photographer on the half-title, "For Nicholas Rosser, Irving Penn". Loosely inserted is a ticket from the Museum of Modern Art presenting the copy as a gift to a museum member. This work comprises the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of Irving Penn. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 131503
-
![[Sammelband of travel narratives and digests.]](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/112632.jpg)
(PHILLIPS, Sir Richard.) [Sammelband of travel narratives and digests.]London : 1820-1
An interesting sammelband of scarce travel narratives printed by the radical publisher and bookseller Sir Richard Phillips (1767-1840), including a rare collection of anonymous letters from William Parry's first Arctic voyage, and the sole editions in English of Baron Hallberg's Reise durch Skandinavien (1818) and of Louis Albert Necker de Saussure's... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 112632
-
PETERKIN, Julia. Black April. A Novel.Indianapolis : 1927
First edition, first printing. "Peterkin's epic novel about a plantation foreman, Black April, appeared in 1927, and this time there was no confusion about the author's race. Peterkin had changed publishers to Bobbs-Merrill, a sales-oriented firm with an aggressive publicity department. Advertised as the work of a southern plantation mistress, Black... Learn More£525.00Stock Code: 59267
