Books & Ephemera

(William Nicholson), 'The Owl. A Miscellany', May 1919, No.1, 1st edition, literary journal edited by Robert Graves, and with contributions by Tho...

'The Poster: An Illustrated Monthly Chronicle', 1899-1900, magazine published London, by J.R. Woestyn and later Hugh MacLeay, 4 issues comprising ...

'Oz Magazine', London, OZ Publications Ink, 10 assorted issues 1967-68 of the independent alternative/underground counterculture magazine founded ...

'The Spotlight Casting Directory for Stage and Screen, Actresses and Children. Volume 2, No.76, September 1947', London, The Spotlight, 1947, xxi-...

Keith Douglas, 2 titles: 'Alamein to Zem Zem', London, Editions Poetry London, 1946, 1st edition, colour frontis + 2 colour plates & black & white...

Walter de la Mare, 16 titles, including: 'The Traveller', illustrated John Piper, L, Faber, 1946, 1st edition, 4 lithograph plates by Piper as cal...

Kenneth Clark: 'The Other Side of the Alde', Litton Cheney, Warren Editions, 1968, limited edition (500), designed and with four wood engravings b...

Assorted poetry etc, including Doris Lessing: 'Fourteen Poems', Scorpion Press, 1959, limited edition (225/500), numbered, original plain stapled ...

Robert Frost: 'A Masque of Reason', New York, Henry Holt & Co, 1945, 1st edition, 1st printing, signed and inscribed to FFEP to Nevill Coghill (18...

Alain [i.e. Émile-Auguste Chartier]: 'Mars, or the Truth about War', London, Jonathan Cape, [1930], 1st edition, translated from the French by Dor...

John Cowper Powys: 'A Philosophy of Solitude', London, Jonathan Cape, 1933, 1st edition, 224pp, original cloth (slightly worn/rubbed). Scarce

A small collection of titles from the collection of Ronald Arthur Brimmell (1917-1993), actor, antiquarian bookseller, artist and author/publisher...

Philip Larkin: 'The Whitsun Weddings', London, Faber & Faber, 1964, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; Norman Douglas: 'An Almanac', ...

Havelock Ellis: 'Poems', London, Richards Press Ltd, 1937, 1st edition, signed to verso of title page by Ellis, and further inscribed by author to...

Gustave Doré (illustrated): 'The Vision of Purgatory and Paradise. By Dante Alghieri', L, Cassell, circa 1900, new edition, 60 black & white plate...

Eleven illustrated titles, including J.M. Barrie: 'Peter Pan and Wendy', London, Hodder & Stoughton, c.1920, 12 tipped in colour plates by Mabel L...

Paul Gallico, a collection of 19 titles, including 'The Man who was Magic', London, Heinemann, 1966, 1st edition, signed by author to FFEP, origin...

Fourteen assorted children's & illustrated titles, including modern reissue editions of 3 Jean de Brunhoff Babar titles, all published Methuen: 'T...

Thirteen assorted illustrated titles, mainly Ronald Searle and Gerald Scarfe, including Searle: 'Souls in Torment', 1953, 1st edition, original cl...

Quentin Blake, a collection of 16 titles by/illustrated by Quentin Blake, including 'Laureate's Progress', Chris Beetles Limited, special limited ...

Roald Dahl, 2 first editions, each published London, Michael Joseph, each original cloth, dust wrappers: 'My Uncle Oswald', 1979, 'Tales of the Un...

Roald Dahl, 4 titles: 'The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and six more', London, Jonathan Cape, 1977, 2nd impression, original cloth, dust wrapper...

Raymond Briggs: 'The Snowman', London, Hamish Hamilton, 1978, 1st edition, [32]pp, colour illustrations throughout, large (but relatively neat) co...

Roald Dahl: 'The Giraffe and the Pelly an Me', illustrated Quentin Blake, London, Jonathan Cape, 1985, 1st edition, original pictorial boards. Dah...

Roald Dahl: 'Matilda', illustrated Quentin Blake, London, Jonathan Cape, 1988, 1st edition, gift inscription and child's bookplate on FFEP, origin...

Roald Dahl: 'The BFG', illustrated Quentin Blake, London, Jonathan Cape, 1982, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (£6.50 price intact)...

Raymond Briggs: 'Midnight Adventure', London, Hamish Hamilton, 1961, 1st edition, illustrated frontis/title page + numerous line drawings in text ...

Lewis Carroll [i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]: 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Being a Facsimile of the original MS. book afterwards developed i...

Lewis Carroll [i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]: 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There', London, Macmillan, 1872, 32nd thousand, 50...

An original unpublished manuscript by Harry Henry (1916-2008), titled 'Lewis Carroll and the Subconscious', dated October 1932, "Published by the ...

Beatrix Potter, 2 titles: 'Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes', London, Frederick Warne & Co, [1917], 1st edition, 1st or 2nd printing (believed to be...

Beatrix Potter: 'Peter Rabbit's Almanac for 1929', L, Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, [1928], 1st edition, colour frontis, colour vignette title + 12 co...

Enid Blyton, 'Famous Five', complete set of the 21 children's detective series novels, all 1st editions, 1st impressions, all published Hodder & S...

Edmund Dulac (illustrated), two early 20th Century editions of 'Stories from the Arabian Nights', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1911, 24 tipped in c...

Eight assorted children's titles, including Bernard & Elinor Darwin: 'Tootleoo Two', London, Nonesuch Press, c.1927, 20 colour plates as called fo...

Seven various Victorian illustrated titles, including [Elizabeth Tuckett]: 'How We Spent the Summer, or a "Voyage en Zigzag" in Switzerland and Ty...

Rudyard Kipling: 'The Jungle Book - The Second Jungle Book', London, Macmillan, 1897, 6th printing; 1899, 4th printing, 2 volumes, each with illus...

Five children's & illustrated titles, including Arthur Rackham (ill.): 'Mother Goose The Old Nursery Rhymes', L, Heinemann, c.1920, colour frontis...

Louis Wain (illustrated); Cecily M. Rutley: 'The Tale of Little Priscilla Purr', Dundee & London, Valentine, c.1920, 1st edition, 14 colour plates...

Four ballet related titles by Sandy Posner and illustrated by Joyce Millen, all published Leicester, Newman Wolsey Ltd, all 1945 1st editions, com...

E.V. Lucas, four first editions on animals, all published London, Methuen, all illustrated with frontispieces, all original quarter cloth, printed...

Five titles in pictorial dust wrappers, including Elinor M. Brent-Dyer: 'The Highland Twins at the Chalet School', L, Chambers, 1942, 1st edition,...

Fourteen various children's & illustrated titles, including Tove Jansson: 'Comet in Moominland', L, Ernest Benn, 1959, 2nd impression, original cl...

Five children's/illustrated titles, comprising F.J. Olcott: 'More Tales from the Arabian Nights', illustrated Willy Pogany, NY, Henry Holt, 1915, ...

Laurence Housman, 3 titles: 'The House of Joy', London, Kegan Paul et al, 1895, 1st edition, 10 black & white plates by Housman (including frontis...

(Pre-Raphaelite), Two works illustrated by Florence Harrison (1877-1955), English Australian Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelite illustrator of poetry ...

Six assorted children's and illustrated titles, including Andrew Lang, 2 titles: 'The Yellow Fairy Book', London, Longmans, 1895, 2nd edition, bla...

Lewis Carroll [i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]: 'The Nursery "Alice", Containing Twenty Coloured Enlargements from Tenniel's Illustrations to "Alic...

'Wild Animal Stories. A Panorama Picture Book, with an introduction by G. Manville Fenn', Ernest Nister & E.P. Dutton, [c.1895], 6 full page colou...

'Thirty Plates Illustrative of Natural History, with a Short Description Annexed to Each Plate. Part 1', London, Society for Promoting Christian K...

Richard Doyle: 'In Fairyland. A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World, with a poem by William Allingham', London, Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer,...

A small collection of 19th Century literature, including Charles Dickens: 'Master Humphrey's Clock', illustrated George Cattermole & Hablot Browne...

(Charles Dickens), A collection of 15 titles relating to, or by, Charles Dickens, many of which Dickens family association copies, being the perso...

Samuel Johnson: 'A Dictionary of the English Language', London, G. & J. Offor et al, 1824, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary diced calf gilt, later reb...

Robert Browning: 'Robert Browning's Poetical Works', L, Smith Elder, 1907, 8 volumes, each with tissue guarded frontispiece, original softcover mo...

(Bindings, Extra Illustrated), Henry B. Wheatley: 'The Historical and the Posthumous Memoirs of Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall 1772-1784', London, ...

(Bindings), 'The Tunes of the Clumber Hymnal as used in the Church of S. Mary the Virgin (the private chapel of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle) C...

(Fine Binding, Extra Illustrated), Mrs Bray: 'Life of Thomas Stothard', London, John Murray, 1851, extra illustrated with 125 fine and rare plates...

(Nonesuch Press, Edward McKnight Kauffer), Miguel de Cervantes: 'The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha. Motteux' [sic] translation ...

'Testamenti Novi editio vulgata.', Lugduni, apud A. Gryphium, 1569, 2 parts in 1 volume, 496,1-336pp, (a/f, 2nd part should have 343pp, lacks 4 le...