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Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd. London. No date. Circa 1918. Complete deck of 48 cards, each illustrated on one side. A rare survivor still wrapped in the original pink paper and with a thin string tie to hold the rules card in place. Housed in the original two... More
Souvenir Press. London. 1989. SIGNED, LIMITED FIRST EDITION. 4to. (12.1 x 8.8 inches). One of only 150 copies, numbered and signed by Searle. Fully illustrated throughout with sixty full page colour plates by Searle, each with a humorous book related title on the opposite leaf. Single page introduction by Searle... More
Victor Gollancz Ltd. London. 1936. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.5 x 5.3 inches). A very good clean copy in publishers blue cloth with dark blue lettering to the spine. Edges a little rubbed but overall a nice bright copy of this classic work. More
Macmillan and co. London. 1894 + 95. FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes. 8vo. With illustrations by J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. A remarkably clean and fresh set with absolutely no foxing or marking in either volume, they book look unread. Original blue cloth with gilt illustrations to... More
Country Life Limited. London. 1914. FIRST EDITION. Folio. (15.6 x 11.1 inches). Full illustrated with 234 mono photographic plates throughout the text. Recently rebound in half dark blue morocco with complimentary blue cloth boards. Spine has raised bands with red title label and gilt lettering. Gilt decorative motif in compartments... More
Astolat Press. Leopold B. Hill. London. No date. circa 1910. FINE BINDING BY BUMPUS. 16mo. (5 x 4 inches). 90pp. Illustrated with a mono frontis of G. F. Watts' Love and Life, with a tissue guard. Fine full dark brown morocco, spine with raised bands. Compartments ruled in black and... More
Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell. London. 1786. THREE VOLUMES. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.4 inches). Volume one; viii, 499 + errata; Volume two; vi, 518, [5] Appendix + errata; Volume three; v + errata, 465, (49) index + (1) ad pp. (The 4pp of contents in volume two are... More
J. M. Dent and Co. London. 1907. FIRST PRINTING OF THIS REVISED AND ENLARGED RACKHAM EDITION. 4to. (10.3 x 8 inches). Fully illustrated with 24 tipped in colour plates, each with a printed tissue guard, 12 tinted full page plates and and 66 line drawings throughout the text. Some minor... More
Hatchards, Piccadilly. London. 1882. Small 8vo. (5.2 x 3.7 inches). Contains only a dozen or so names in the dated sections. A very good copy in an attractive early hand painted vellum binding. Blue, green and gold used to paint on emblems to the front board and spine. Decorative light... More
Hatchards, Piccadilly. London. 1879. Small 8vo. (4.8 x 3.6 inches). Contains scores of signatures in the dated sections, mostly members of the Huth family. Tipped in signatures of Queen Isabella II of Spain and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (the Mother of Queen Mary) and also four 19th century postage... More
Macmillan and co. Ltd. London. 1901. REPRINT OF 1896 ILLUSTRATED EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with 40 full page mono plates by Hugh Thomson. A bright and clean copy bound, for Hatchards of Piccadilly, in early half burgundy calf, spine with a single raised band, dotted in gilt... More
Constable & Company Limited. London. 1934. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (9.9 x 7.1 inches). Illustrated title page with a fine wood engraving by John Farleigh. Inscribed by Shaw to the film and stage Actress Joyce Bland. There is a presentation inscription, not in Shaw's hand, on the front free endpaper... More
The Condé Nast Publications Ltd in association with Collins. London. 1969. FIRST EDITION. Folio. (14.3 x 11.2 inches). Fully illustrated throughout with mono photos. Ex Vogue Library copy, elaborately inscribed by David Bailey, with doodles and drawings to three pages. On the (purple paper) front free endpaper is a small... More
Frederick Warne and Co. London. 1902. FIRST TRADE EDITION. 16mo. (5.6 x 4.4 inches). First state of the text with "wept big tears" on page 51. Illustrated with colour frontis, line vignette of a bunny on the title page and 30 fine colour plates by the Author throughout. A very... More
Macmillan and Co. Ltd. London. 1910. FIRST COLONIAL EDITION. 8vo. (7.2 x 5 inches). Four full page mono plates by Frank Craig. Issued by Macmillan's Colonial Library, with the note that this edition is intended for circulation only in India and the British Colonies. Publishers green paper wraps, lettered and... More
Longmans, Green, and Co. London. 1898. FIRST EDITION of Churchill's rare first book. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.3 inches). Later state with the errata slip at the front of the book and publishers adverts dated 3/98. Frontispiece portrait and 6 maps. One of the folding maps is frayed to the blank... More
Macmillan and Co. Limited. London. 1941 and 1944. Three volumes. The rare Three-Volume, War time, Macmillan Abridged Reprint Edition in Dust Jackets. First and third volumes are the first Macmillan issues, the second is a 1944 reprint of the 1941 Macmillan issue. Illustrated throughout all 3 volumes with folding maps... More
Macmillan and Co., Limited. London. 1926. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. 8vo. (9.1 x 5.9 inches). Twelve full colour plates and 31 mono wood block illustrations as head and tail pieces. Neat previous owner inscription, dated 1927, to the front blank paste down endpaper. Finely bound in an attractive early craft binding... More
The Waverley Book Company, Ltd. London. No date. Circa 1910. SIX VOLUMES. ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. 8vo. (7.2 x 5 inches). Illustrated with 14 full page colour plates, 10 scenes from the books (artist unknown) plus two portraits and views of Austen's burial place and Chawton Cottage. Very good clean and bright... More
George Allen. London 1894. FIRST THOMSON EDITION. 8vo. (7.3 x 5 inches). Beautifully illustrated throughout with 101 fine line engravings by Thomson. Neat previous owner two line presentation inscription, dated December 1894, with another name below, dated 1918, on the front blank free endpaper and there are just a few... More
Caves Book Co. Taipei Taiwan China. 1964. PIRATED EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.4 inches). 336pp. No publisher on title page, just the date year printed on the verso and a stuck in paper label of Caves Book Co. on rear blank free endpaper. The title page has the title, author... More
T. Nelson and sons. London. 1853. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7 x 4.6 inches). Frontis, vignette on extra title page and four full page engraved plates, each with a tissue guard. Aside from a couple of small water marks to the frontis and title pages this is a bright copy in... More
Rodwell and Martin, London. 1818. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (12.7 x 10.1 inches). iv, 259pp. Tear to the top outer corner margin of the note page, after the title page, and well away from the text, otherwise a very good uncut copy in publishers original paper covered boards. Some gatherings still... More
John Murray. London. 1903 (1917). THE AUTHOR'S EDITION. 12 volumes, complete. Limited edition of 1000 sets, numbered and signed by Arthur Conan Doyle in Volume one, The White Company. Illustrated with 24 full page plates, by Arthur Twidle (20), Sidney Paget (1), B. West Clinedinst (1), and W. B. Wollen... More
