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Omnibus press. London. 1979. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Paperback. 48pp. (10 x 7 inches). Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs by Kevin Cummins, Tom Sheehan and Paul Slattery. A near fine copy with some very minor rubbing to the edges but generally bright and tight. Contains 12 poems and 22..... More
Arena. Published by Arrow books. London. 1983. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5 inches). Paperback. Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings by Steve Maguire. A very good copy with some minor rubbing to the edges but generally bright and tight. ---- With; A folder containing five A4 typescript and..... More
W. Straker. London.,circa 1900. 8vo. 24pp, including wraps. Illustrated with chromolithographs of Naval scenes including The battle of Trafalgar with Nelson's ship the victory (front cover), Lord Rodney's victory off Dominica, april 12th 1782, The battle of the nile, august 1st 1798 (double page illustration in centre of book, The..... More
The Macmillan Company. New York. 1926. FIRST MUSSINO ILLUSTRATED EDITION IN ENGLISH. 4to. Illustrated throughout in monochrome and colour. Near-contemporary blue half morocco. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt dots. Ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt to the compartments. Dark blue cloth on boards. Plain blue endpapers. Top edge..... More
Nattali and Bond. London. No Date.,Circa 1850. THREE VOLUMES. Tall 8vo (10.2 x 6.6 inches). Text and plates taken from the Ninth edition. Complete set of this famous trilogy, with 80 fine hand-coloured, full page, aquatint plates, the colouring still strong and bright, by Thomas Rowlandson. Some minor spots of..... More
No place, No Date. circa 1850. CONCERTINA BOOK. (4.5 x 3.2 inches). Thirty fine hand coloured engraved plates,some heightened with gold. The plates fold out to full length of 89 inches. No text. The whole work is cased in a red, decorative paper covered folder with marbled paper inside. This..... More
Constable & Company, Ltd. London. 1930. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Illustrated and lettered throughout in blue, black, green, yellow, orange, brown and red. Finely bound in recent full purple morocco binding. Spine with raised bands. Compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Front board with the title stamped in gilt. Top edge..... More
Blackie and Son. Limited. London. No date. 1939. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (10 x 7.5 inches). Illustrated with 8 fine full colour plates plus 18 black and white line illustrations throughout the text. A very good, bright and clean copy. Publishers beige boards with colour plate mounted to front panel..... More
G. Bell & Sons. Ltd. London. 1911. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.5 inches). x, 278pp, 2 (advert leaf). Red and black decorative title page, portrait of William Morris, from a photo by Emery Walker, and 54 mono illustrations, including some drawings by Crane. Publishers blue cloth with decoration and..... More
Wells Gardner, Darton & Co.Ltd. London.,1905. FIRST EDITION IN RARE DUSTWRAPPER. Illustrated with 89 line drawings, some full page, plus initial letters and smaller illustrations amongst the text. Some minor foxing to the fore edge but not affecting the open pages. A fine copy in publishers decorative blue cloth boards..... More
Printed by W. Baxter, Oxford, for J. Parker and F. C. & J. Rivington. London.,1823. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. (6.8 4.3 inches). 3 Illustrations by George Cruikshank. A fine clean copy in early twentieth century binding by Riviere. Full tan morocco with five raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments ruled..... More
A.Hall Virtue & Co. London.,1850. FIRST EDITION. 30 ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Note title page in 2nd state whilst preface in 1st state. A very good copy in contemporary half black morocco with morocco grained cloth on boards, gilt rule and lettering on spine, top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Watermark..... More
William Kidd. London. 1830. FIRST EDITION. 6mo. (6 x 4 inches). 36pp. Illustrated with 6 engravings. A fine clean copy in an early binding of half red morocco. Spine lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Previous owners armorial bookplate on front paste down endpaper. Some chipping to the spine..... More
Marsh and Miller. London. 1830. FIRST CRUIKSHANK EDITION. 6mo. (6 x 4 inches). 20pp. Illustrated with 8 engravings, seven full page. A fine clean copy in an early binding of half red morocco. Spine lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Previous owners armorial bookplate on front paste down endpaper..... More
Puffin Books. Penguin Group. London. 1988. Reprint of the 1986 Puffin paperback edition. INSCRIBED BY DAHL on the front blank inside of the front cover. - 'To Fritz, Love, Roald Dahl'. Mono illustrations throughout. A very good copy in original full colour illustrated wrapper. More
Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1964. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (9.4 x 6.4 inches). 1st issue, with the six line colophon at the end. With a piece of paper mounted onto the half title which has been Signed by Roald Dahl. The piece has been cut from another book of Dahl's..... More
Jonathan Cape. London.,1989. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. Almost every page has a fantastic Quentin Blake illustration. Fine copy in a very good, lightly creased, full colour dustwrapper.:. More
The Nonesuch Press. London. No Date. 1927. FIRST EDITION. Large oblong 8vo. (10.2 x 7.7 inches). Finely illustrated with line drawing on the title page and 20 full page colour lithographs by Elinor Darwin accompanying the verses of Bernard Darwin. Original beige paper covered boards with wave, fish and border..... More
Longmans, Green and Co. London.,1923. FIRST CANZIANI EDITION. 8vo. (7.5 x 5.1 inches). Beautifully illustrated with 8 wonderful full colour plates and dozens of line illustrations by Estella Canziani. A fine, bright copy in a fine, contemporary leather binding by Birdsall. Half dark green morocco, spine with raised bands, each..... More
William Miller. London. 1804. FOLIO. Later issue with paper watermarked 1819. Fifty fine hand coloured plates showing people of Alpine, Bohemian, Moravian and Hungarian cultures. Some creasing to endpapers, final & preliminary blanks otherwise fine in early binding of dark green straight grain morocco, blind stamped and gilt with foliate..... More
Dropmore press.London.,1948. LIMITED EDITION. One of 400(of a total 450) copies, numbered,hand printed on hand made paper. Illustrated throughout with full page and vignette line drawings. Original binding of quarter brown morocco, spine with two raised bands and gilt lettering and front leather panel with gilt stamped Tartar on horse..... More
George Allen & Co .Ltd. London.,1912. FIRST DETMOLD EDITION. 4to. Title page illustarted with line drawings and 20 full colour plates. Some foxing to the page edges, not affecting the text or illustrations. Overall a very good copy in a fine leather binding executed for Henry Sotheran of London. Half..... More
J. M. Dent & Sons Limited.London.,1919. TWENTY FOUR FINE FULL COLOUR PLATES BY DETMOLD. Each mounted onto card with a printed border and protected with a tissue guard. The title of each picture printed on the guard in brown ink. The colour plates measure 14.9 x 9.6 inches. The card..... More
Chapman & Hall. London. 1886 - 87. NEW EDITIONS. The first three volumes are the first printing of these reprints using the original stereotype plates from the original First editions which were published between 1843 and 1848. The last two volumes are reprints from one year later, dated 1887.---- Five..... More
Chapman & Hall. London. 1844. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (8.6 x 5.6 inches). Engraved title page with the pound sign before the numbers. Walter Smith's bibliography of the works of Charles Dickens states "There is no first state or priority of the illustration as has often been cited in catalogues". Fourteen..... More