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THOM GUNN. 'The Passages of Joy.' First edition, 1982, very good condition; HENRY SEWELL STOKES. 'The Chantry Owl.' Signed ded author to St John S...

ANNE PRATT. 'Wild Flowers.' Two volumes, 190 coloured plates complete, orig cloth, gilt, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Gutta percha b...

HAZEL BERRIMAN. 'Crysede: The unique textile designs of Alec Walker.' Thirty-six plates of designs in full colour. Paperback. Very good. Conditio...

BIRKET FOSTER ILLUSTRATIONS. Common Wayside Flowers by Thomas Miller. First Edition, colour plates, decorative pictorial binding, dated in inscrip...

EDWIN FRAY. Golden Recipes for use of all ages. William M'Call, 7, 9, & 11, Hunter Street, Liverpool, etc. orig wps, c 1890, some marks to covers,...

SHAUN GREENHALGH AND WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK. A Forger's Tale. Second Edition before mass market publication. ZCZ Editions, 2015, VG Condition. Condi...

THE STORY OF THE BLUENOSE. Queen of the North Atlantic Fishing Fleet. Pictorial card covers. c 1933, vg. Condition: please request a condition re...

MILLICENT AND GITHA SOWERBY Childhood, Original cloth-backed boards. Chatto and Windus. Inscription dated 1907. Twelve beautiful colour plates com...

GEORGII WOLFFGANGI WEDELII, Hereditarii in Schwartza, Medicinae Doctoris, Comitis Palatini Caesarei, Consiliarii et Archiatri Ducalis Saxonici, Th...

KINGSLEY AMIS. The James Bond Dossier. orig cloth, dustjacket unclipped and in very good condition except pencil on inside back cover listing titl...

THOMAS W F GANN The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan and Northern British Honduras, Smithsonian Institution. Burea of Ethnology, Bulletin 64. Gree...

GERRY ECKHARDT. Two Exhibition Catalogues. Lindnersplan, Stockholm, signed by artist in 1965. Galeria Arrabal. 1973 - coloured image. Good conditi...

THOMAS STRUTH Strangers and Friends. Photographs 1986-1992. Orig wps, colour and black-and-white plates, vg. Institute of Contemporary Arts, Londo...

Gustav Jahn, Ein Maler und Bergstreigerleben. Orig cloth-backed boards, colour and black-and-white plates and illustrations complete. 1920 (Presen...

BRITAIN'S BEST TONIC. HASTINGS & ST LEONARDS. Tourist Guide for 1931/2. Plates, photographs and lots of advertisements. vg condition save for dark...

A H CHURCHER , FRS. The Chemistry of Paints and Painting. Orig cloth, Seeley and Co, 1898. Top and bottom of backstrip and edges rubbed. Conditio...

WORLD WAR II RAF PROPAGANDA. Guidance for Gusts. Being a few windy whimsies captured from the clouds. Humorous recruiting booklet. Small loss to f...

R TURNER An Easy Introduction to the Arts and Sciences: being a short but comprehensive system of useful and polite learning divided into lessons....

LONDON TRANSPORT EXECUTIVE. Twenty-four later miniature Underground posters in original wrappers with the logo of London Transport on the cover in...

R D PENHALLURICK Birds of the Cornish Coast including the Isles of Scilly. Dustjacket, unclipped; plates and line -drawings; very good condition. ...

ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, F.R.S. President. The History of Volcanic Action in the Area of the British Isles, being the Anniversary Address to the Geologic...

WALKERS' TOY-BOOKS Series. The Book of Animals. Eight paged Chap-Book, woodcuts complete. Tan printed paper covers with book list on rear cover. E...

WILL KIDD Dickydidos. The story of two little people and a dog. Cloth-backed boards. Plates in good clean condition complete, but the text pages a...

"The Shrines of Tut-Ankh-Amon". Texts translated with introductions. Vol II. by Alexandre Piankoff. Edited by N. Rambova. Bollingen Series XL.2. O...

ANDREW LANYON The Helping Hand. An Artists' and Collectors' Accessory. A Pocket Critic. Signed Limited Edition of 250 (this is 117), orig card cov...

LION AND UNICORN PRESS. A Newe Booke of Copies. 1574. A facsimile of a unique Elizabethan Writing Book in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Edited wit...

W HEATON COOPER. The Tarns of Lakeland. Orig cloth in vg condition, pictorial dustjacket torn at corners of backstrip. Beautifully illustrated by ...

THE VALE PRESS. THE AMBER WITCH EDITED BY WILLIAM MEINHOLD AND TRANSLATED BY LADY DUFF GORDON. Mary Schweidler, the most interesting trial for wit...

BRASSAI PHOTOGRAPHS. The Sculptures of Picasso by Daniel Henry Kahnweiler. Printed in France by Theo Brugiere. 214 black and white plates and imag...

THE GRABHORN PRESS. The First Part of Henry the Fourth by William Shakespeare Illustrated by Mary Grabhorn has been printed at the Grabhorn Press ...

The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder, A National Toy, with Fourteen Step Scenes; and Illustrations in Verse, and eighteen other cuts. By the Author of "...

VICTORIAN THREE-DECKER. 'Arundel: A Tale of the French Revolution,' by Sir Francis Vincent, Bart, first edition, three vols complete, each volume ...

"Struwwelhitler." 'A Nazi Story Book by Doktor Schrecklichkeit,' coloured plates complete, original wraps, printed by the Daily Sketch and Sunday ...

VICTORIAN THREE-DECKER. 'Martin french,' By John Bradshaw author of Dedham Park etc, first edition, three vols complete except for ffep missing fr...

LIEUT-COL HORT. 'Penelope Wedgebone: The Supposed Heiress.' First Edition, eight hand-coloured etched plates complete, plus additional coloured ti...

Bentley, G., E., Jr. 'Blake Books: Annotated Catalogues of William Blake's Writings in Illuminated Printing' in Conventional Typography and in Man...

GARSTANG, JOHN. 'The Burial Customs of Ancient Egypt: As Illustrated by Tombs of the Middle Kingdom being A Report of Excavations made in the Necr...

VICTORIAN TWO-DECKER NOVEL. 'Richard Dare by Mrs Alfred Baldwin.' First Edition, two vols complete, partially unopened, adverts complete, original...

MAURICE RICHARDSON. 'The Exploits of Engelbrecht.' First edition, orig cloth, pictorial dusthacket and illustrations by James Boswell who signed t...

EDWARD BAWDEN ILLUSTRATIONS. 'Adam and Evelyn at Kew, or, Revolt in the Gardens,' by Robert Herring, limited edition of 1060 of which this is un-n...

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS. 'Lord of the Jungle.' Grosset & Dunlap Publishers New York, 1928, original cloth; RONALD SEGAL. 'Into Exile.' Richard Clay a...

POETRY, various titles and authors on poetry. (Box). Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding...

POETRY, various titles and authors along with various other first editions and books. Condition: please request a condition report if you require...

GEORGE BRACKENBURY, The Campaign in the Crimea An Historical Sketch, accompanied by forty double tinted Plates From drawings taken on the spot by ...

WILLIAM BLAKE. 'Life of William Blake....by Alexander Gilchrist'. New and enlarged 2nd Edition, 2 vols, original pictorial gilt cloth, wide margin...

IRVINE WELSH. Five signed copies inncluding 'Filth', 'Ecstasy,' 'Porno,' 'Glue,' and a hardback 'Porno. (5) Condition: please request a condition...

FOLIO Society, various titles, six in original cellophane packaging. (11). Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional...

JOHN MANSFIELD. 'Recent Prose.' First edition, origina cloth, Heinemann, 1924; With seventeen other Mansfield's, mostly published by Heinemann, al...

YOZO KURIHAMA, Zen poetry Photobook, Publisher Ito Bungaku. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information re...

MINING and CORNWALL INTEREST. 'Spassky Photo Album.' 18 photos of the smelter and works at the Spassky Copper Mine, Kazakhstan between 1910 and 19...

ARTHUR RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. 'The Springtide of Life,' first edition, original cloth, cloth worn and sun bleached, good clean text block, William...

C. LEWIS HIND. ' 'Turner's Golden Visions,' Original gilt embossed cloth, fifty colour illustrations, T.C & E. C. Jack, 1925; FREDERICK WEDMORE. '...

MIROSLAV SASEK. 'This is London,' 1970; 'This is Ireland,' 1970; 'This is Edinburgh,' 1972; 'This is Australia,' 1970; 'This is Israel,' 1962; 'Th...

REX WHISTLER ILLUSTRATIONS. '!Oho!. Written by Laurence Whistler, original pictorial coth, illustrated throughout, The Bodley Head, 1946; With thr...

BINDINGS. 'English Lierature: An Illustrated Record,' four volumes, half red leather with gilt embossed spine, gilt edge to text block, illustrate...

Arthur Rackham - Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods 1924, Arthur Rackham - Snowdrop and other tales 1920, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Edmund Du...

HELEN ALLINGHAM. 'Happy England'. Col plates, original cloth, 1904; Plus four other books. Condition: please request a condition report if you re...

John MILLER (1931-2002) 'Another Shade Of Blue', hand-signed, together with other John Miller catalogues and other catalogues from Cornish artists...

SEAMUS HEANEY. 'Human Chain.' First edition, unclipped dj, Faber & Faber, 2010; RICHARD MURPHY. 'The Battle of Aughrim and The God Who Eats Corn.'...

GREAT DOMEDAY BOOK. The 'Penny Edition,' facsimilie in six volumes, wooden boards with quarter leather spine, Norman coin displayed in boards of f...

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