Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including books from the Surrealist Collection of the late John Lyle

CRICKET- Lords [Cricket] Ground. An original score card for a game between Eton and Harrow for the year 1898, from May to August (centre folding c...

WYNDHAM, John (1903-1969). The Midwich Cuckoos. London: Michael Joseph, 1957. 8vo. (Offsetting from jacket on to front endpaper, and rear endpaper...

[ANON]. Impudent Impostors and Celebrated Claimants From Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton. London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, [n.d, c. 1877?]. 8vo. (Occasi...

MCDONALD, John. The Message of a Master. [U.S.A]: California Press, 1929. 8vo. (Some pencil annotation.) Original blue cloth titled in gilt (minor...

ECO, Umberto (1932-2016). The Name of the Rose. London: Secker & Warburg, 1983. 4to. Original pictorial cloth, dust-jacket (some chipping). FIRST ...

MOUNTAINEERING - Charles EVANS (1918-95). Kangchenjunga The Untrodden Peak. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1956. 8vo. (Occasional light spotting). Or...

HULL, William. The History of the Glove Trade, with the Customs connected with the Glove. London: Effingham Wilson, 1834. 8vo. Errata slip and lis...

HILL, Octavia (1838-1912). Our Common Land. London: Macmillan and Co., 1877. 8vo. (Occasional spotting, small fore-edge tear to pp. 63/64 without ...

SANDWITH, Humphrey (1822-81). Siege of Kars and of the Six Months'  Resistance by the Turkish Garrison Under General Williams to the Russian Army....

COMBER, Thomas (1645-99). A Companion to the Altar. London: J. Macock, 1681. 8vo. Imprimatur page, title page printed in red and black (initial pa...

FRANKLIN, John (1786-1847). Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22. London: John Murray, 1824. 2 volume...

VERNE, Henri.  Au Musee du Louvre. [France]: Editions D' Art L. J. Patras, [n.d]. Oblong 4to. (Occasional spotting.) Original green pictorial clot...

PICART, Bernard (1673–1733). Pierres Antiques Gravees, sur lesquelles les Graveurs ont mis Leurs Noms. Amsterdam: Bernard Picart, 1724. Folio, eng...

KELLOW, Kathleen [ie. Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert, a.k.a. Jean Plaidy] (1906-93). Rochester- The Mad Earl. [London]: Robert Hale Limited, 1957. ...

[NUREYEV, Rudolf (1938-93)]. Three works inscribed to Rudolf Nureyev including Drawings of Rembrandt. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1965. Fo...

The Antiquarian Itinerary, Comprising Specimens of Architecture, Monastic, Castellated, And Domestic. London: WM. Clarke, 1815. 7 volumes, 8vo. En...

[TASSIN, Christopher].  A hand-coloured engraved chart of the South of France depicting Cannes, Ile Sainte-Marguerite and Ile Saint-Honarat, [c. e...

POTTLE, Frederick A. (1897-1987). The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1951-60. 5 volumes, 4t...

17th-early 19th-century Miscellany, including M. De. Fenelon's The Education of a Daughter. London: Keating, Brown, and Keating, 1805. Small 8vo. ...

INDIA - A collection of books on India, including [Bengal Military Regulations]: [No place, c. 1790]. 4to. (lacks all before signature b, some spo...

DEED, with military interest.  Right Honorable John Calcraft to the Paymaster of the Forces, dated 1828. With orange wax seal in skippet, depictin...

WARD, John.  Our Sudan. Its Pyramids and Progress. London: John Murray, 1905. 4to. Half title, half tone frontispiece and illustrations, folding c...

[ROSE, George].  A Brief Examination into the Increase of the Revenue, Commerce, and Navigation, of Great Britain, since the Conclusion of the Pea...

DORN, Frank (1901-81). A Map and History of Peiping. Frank Dorn Peiyang Press, 1936. Booklet and large coloured lithographed map (splits to map fo...

BYRD, William (1543-1623).  My Ladye Nevells Booke. London: J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., 1926. Folio, monochrome photographic frontispiece (occasional s...

LANE-POOLE, Stanley.  Sir Richard Church C.B., G.C.H. Commander In Chief of the Greeks In the War of Independence. London: Longmans, Green, and Co...

CANNON, Richard (1779–1865). Historical Records of the British Army. London: Printed by Authority, [n.d]., c.1844. 8vo. 3 hand-coloured plates (ti...

SCHINDLER, Valentin (1543-1604).  Lexicon Pentaglotton. Hanover: Joannis Jacobi Hennei, 1612. Folio. (Title creased and chipped with loss, not aff...

PETRARCH, Francesco (1304-74). [Works in Italian]. Venice: Presso Antonio Zatta, e Figli, 1784. 2 volumes, 8vo. Engraved circular portraits of Pet...

ART & BIBLIOGRAPHY - Joshua REYNOLDS (1723-92).  Catalogue of the Works ... Exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery ... Illustrated with Photo-Intaglio...

DANET, Pierre (1650-1709).  A Complete Dictionary of the Greek and Roman Antiquities. London: John Nicholson, 1700. 4to. Printed in double column,...

Abstract of the Answers and Returns Made pursuant to an Act, passed in the 43d Year of His Majesty King George III. Intituled, "An Act for procuri...

POSTLETHWAYT, Malachy ([?]1707-67).  The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce: with large Additions and Improvements, Adapting the same to t...

Super Real. The British Journal of Surrealism. London: [No pub], 1992. Issue number one, folio. Printed photographic wrappers (some mild discolour...

BIBLIOGRAPHY - A collection of works including Herman Teerink's A Bibliography of the Writings of Jonathan Swift (Philadelphia: University of Penn...

Minotaure. Paris: Albert Skira, Tériade, [1933-1939]. 13 instalments in 11 volumes, folio, illustrations (occasional spotting and chipping). Origi...

BREAKWELL, Ian (1943-2005). Calendar. Devon: Peeks Press, 1971. 8vo. Original monochrome pictorial wrappers. LIMITED EDITION OF 100 COPIES SIGNED ...

SURREALIST MISCELLANY - A collection of works including Arthur Cravau's Maintenant. (Paris: Editions Jean-Michel Place, 1977). Provenance: John Ly...

La Revue Du Cinema. [Paris: Librairie Gallimard [1929-1930]. Folio. (Some spotting.) Original printed wrappers (some light browning). The issues a...

SURREALISM - A collection of works including William Hayward's It Never Gets Dark All Night (London: Heinemann, 1964, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed...

VAMPIRES - A collection of bibliography and reference material relating to vampire and gothic horror including Leonard De Vries's "Orrible Murder"...

PRINTING - A collection of works including Roderick Cave's The Private Press (London: Faber and Faber, 1971), J. Ferguson's Bibliotheca Chemica (L...

BOVLESTIN, X.-Marcel (1878-1943). L' Hypocrite Sanctifie ... et Precede d'un Essai Sur Max Beerbohm. Pars: Societe Du Mercure de France., 1905. 8v...

The Trial and Conviction Mr. and Mrs. Sloane. Authentic Memoir of the Victim. Lives and Crimes of the Culprits. [London]: Henry Beal, Shoe Lane, [...

JEAN, Marcel (1900-93). A collection of works and ephemera related to the French painter, including Marcel Jean's Oeuvres Graphiques 1926-1980. Ga...

JARRY, Alfred (1873–1907). A collection of works relating to Alfred Jarry. (qty) ...[more]

[An Expert]. The Art of Projection and Complete Magic Lantern Manual. London: E. A. Beckett, 1893. 8vo. (Occasional spotting.) Original green clot...

EROTICA - A collection of books including works on Bill Brandt and Helmut Newton and a small collection of works on photography. (qty)

SURREALISM - A quantity of books including works on Andre Breton and Rene Crevel. (qty)

A small collection of works on surrealism. (qty)

A small collection of works on Andre Masson, Joan Miro, Paul Delvaux, Man Ray and Dorothea Tanning. (qty)

FRENCH - A large quantity of works on surrealism, mostly in French, mid-20th century. (qty)

[BURTON & L. C. SMITHERS]. Priapeia or the Sportive Epigrams of Divers Poets on Priapus. Athens: Erotika Biblion Society, 1888. 8vo. (Occasional s...

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DADA - A collection of works on DADA & surrealism. (qty)

A quantity of books on Lewis Carroll. (qty)

ARETINO, Pietro (1492-1556).  The Ragionamenti or Dialogues ... Literally translated into English. Paris: Isidore Liseux, 1889. 6 volumes, 8vo. Ha...

WRIGHT, Almroth Edward (1861-1947).  The Unexpurgated Case against Woman Suffrage. London: Constable, 1913. 8vo. Half title (half title lightly sp...

WALKER, George Alfred (1807-84).  Gatherings from Grave Yards; Particularly those of London: with a Concise History of the Modes of Interment amon...

MARINETTI, F. T. (1876-1944). Les Mots en Liberte Futuristes. Milan: Edizioni Futuriste, 1919. 8vo. 4 folding plates (browned, chipping to corners...