Weekly featuring Books - Monday 28th October 2024

° ° Chaucer, Geoffrey - King, Ronald (illustrator) - The Prologue to Canterbury Tales, 2nd edition, one of 250 initialled by King, folio, blue clo...

° ° Yorke, Michael - The Inward Laugh: Edward Bawden and his Circle, one of 750, 4to, original cloth-backed decorative patterned-paper boards, The...

° ° Bawden, Edward and McKitterick, David - Wallpapers, number 8 of 40 copies with 2 additional original full sheets of wallpaper, signed by the a...

° ° Bawden, Edward - Ausonius, Decimus Magnus - Patchwork Quilt. Poems by Decimus Magnus Ausonius, done into English by Jack Lindsay with decorati...

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° ° Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord - Sardanapalus, a tragedy. The Two Foscari, a tragedy. Cain, a mystery, 1st edition, half title, 6 pages of ad...

° ° Rossetti, Christian - Poems with illustrations by Florence Harrison. Introduction by Alice Meynell. (Limited Edition of 525 numbered copies). ...

° ° Tylden, Major G. - Horses and Saddlery: an account of the animals used by the British and Commonwealth armies from the seventeenth century ......

° ° Howlett, Edwin - Driving Lessons. 2nd edition. 18 photo. plates and num. text illus. (2 full page); original coloured pictorial cloth. Paris, ...

° ° Cooper, J.C. - Selection of Drawings of Carriages Exhibited from Various Countries at the Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1878 ... 55 (ex.56) tin...

° ° Miniature Shakespeare. Shakespeare's Works, edited J. Talfourd Blair, 40 volumes, mixed editions, frontispiece to each volume, uniformly bound...

° ° Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens] - Roughing it, 8vo, calf, backstrip torn, boards scuffed, front inner hinge weak, front fly leaf with ink owne...

° ° Kipling, Rudyard - Sea and Sussex from Rudyard Kipling's Verse. With an introductory poem ... Limited Edition 9 (of 500 large paper copies, si...

° ° Stern, Bert - Marilyn Monroe: the complete last sitting ... text by Bert Stern in collaboration with Annie Gottlieb. photo. illus. throughout ...

° ° Gray, Thomas - Poems, with 4 black and white plates, contemporary gilt-decorated calf bound by Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd, a college prize book, t...

° ° Dickens, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield with illustrations by H. K. Browne, (Phiz), 8vo, half calf, Bradbury and Evans, Lo...

° ° Byron, Lord George Gordon Noel - The Complete Works of Lord Byron, with a Biographical and Critical Notice, by J.W. Lake, Esq., 7 vols., eng....

° ° Folio Society - Tractatus de Herbis, British Library Egerton MS 747, one of 1000 copies, with separate Commentary Volume, in full goatskin lea...

° ° Folio Society - Boccaccio, Giovanni - The Decameron, one of 1750 specially bound, black and white illustrations, original decorative goat by R...

° ° Folio Society. Liber Bestiarum, 2 vols, one of 1980, original Nigerian goatskin by Brian Settle of Ludlow and blocked with a design by David E...

° ° Folio Society - Gill, Eric - The Four Gospels, one of 2750, monochrome illustrations, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated full black moroc...

° ° Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote de la Mancha. The history of the renowned Don Quixote ... Motteux' translation revised anew (1743) ... 2 vo...

° ° Dante, Alighieri - La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision ... in Italian & English ... 42 plates after Botticelli (mostly double page), text ...

° ° Homer - The Iliad The Odyssey. (Translated by) Pope. 2 vols. title and text decorations; original gilt ruled tan morocco, panelled spines gilt...

° ° Walton, Izaak (The Compleat Walton) The Compleat Angler; The Lives of Donne, Wotton ...; With Love and Truth; Miscellaneous Writings. Edited b...

° ° Folio Society. Manuscript Facsimile - The Getty Apocalypse, one of 1000 copies, colour illustrations, original morocco-backed pictorial parchm...

° ° Folio Society - Lydgate, John - The Life of St. Edmund, King and Martyr: The Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund in MS Harley 2278, 2 vols, in ...

° ° Folio Society - Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace, one of 1750, quarto, top edge gilt, original full morocco binding with decorated boards, unopene...

° ° Folio Society - Brinkley, Capt F (editor) - Japan : Described and Illustrated by the Japanese, 2 vols, reprinting the 1897-98 first edition in...

° ° Folio Society - The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, one of 1010 copies (1000 for sale), folio facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer, illustrated by Si...

° ° Folio Society - The Surinam Album, one of 1000. With introductory booklet and 3 plates in an envelope. Elephant folio, Printed at Cambridge Un...

° ° Folio Society - Patrick O'Brian - The Aubrey-Maturin Series, 10 vols (of 20), 8vo, blue decorative cloth in gilt, blue, white, and black, cons...

° ° Corbet, Sybil and Katharine. Animal Land Where There Are No People, second edition, oblong 4to, introduction by Andrew Lang, numerous illustra...

° ° Twain, Mark - The Price and the Pauper: a tale for young people of all ages. First Edition (2nd state). title vignette, many engraved illus. (...

° ° Waugh, Evelyn - The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, illustrated by Stuart Boyle, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in unclipp...

° ° Forsyth, Frederick - No Comebacks and other stories, one of 12 additional copies printed for the personal use of the author, over and above th...

° ° Thackeray, William Makepeace - Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero. First Edition (bound as 2 vols.) engraved pictorial (vol.1) and printed (v...

[Herring, J.F.] - Sporting Sketches. 24 chromolithographed plates (with guards), no title of letterpress present: contemp. gilt decorated half mor...

° ° [Whistler, James McNeill] Mr. Whistler's "Ten O'Clock". As delivered in London, at Cambridge and at Oxford. Together with his Propositions and...

° ° Austen, Jane - The Novels - 10 vols., edited by R. Brimley Johnson, illustrations by C.L and H.M Brock, 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt,...

° ° Eliot, George - The Works, Cabinet edition. 20 vols. 8vo, contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards and edges, spines gilt in compartme...

° ° Surtees, Robert Smith - Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities, second edition, additional engraved pictorial title and 14 plates, all hand-coloured ...

° ° Dickens, Charles - The Works of Charles Dickens, the Household Editions. 14 vols, (of 16), 4to, publishers uniform green cloth with gilt and b...

° ° [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. By Lewis Carroll ... sixteenth thousand. frontis. and 41 engraved text illus. ...

° ° Wilde, Oscar - De Profundis. 1st trade edition. half title, Methuen's 40pp. catalogue (March 1905); original gilt ruled pictorial cloth, gilt ...

° ° Morris, William - The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems. Illustrated by Jessie M. King. pictorial title, frontis., decorated dedication lea...

° ° Beddoes, Thomas - The Complete Works of ... Edited with a memoir by Sir Edmund Gosse. And decorated by The Dance of the Death of Hans Holbein....

° ° Henry G. Bohn Publications - (Classical Authors), 11 vols. contemp. vellum, gilt decorated spines with red labels, sm.cr.8vo. 1851-56

° ° [Bingming, Xiong] - The Art of Wu Guanzhong. revised edition. photo. portrait frontis. & 157 full page reproductions (mostly coloured), d/wrap...

° ° Eliot, T.S – Dante, 2nd impression, 8vo, cloth in d/j, Faber & Faber, London, 1930; Four Quartets, 2nd impression, cloth in d/j, Faber & Faber...

° ° Fleming, Ian – 7 works – Diamonds Are Forever, 2nd impression, cloth no d/j, Jonathan Cape, London, 1958; You Only Live Twice, 1st edition, se...

° ° Kipling, Rudyard – Kim, 1st English edition, 8vo, photographic plates, tissue-guard, 2pp. publisher’s advertisement to rear, original red clot...

° ° Dickens, Charles - The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 1st edition in book form, with 40 engraved plates including portrait frontisp...

° ° Tolkien J.R.R - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1st edition, 1st impression, folding map at rear, neat previous owner signa...

° ° Tolkien, J.J.R - Lord of the Rings, 3 vols, to consist of The Fellowship of the Rings, first edition, 14th. impression, original cloth, foldin...

° ° Tolkien J.R.R - The Hobbit, 2nd edition, 5th. impression, colour frontispiece, illustrations, map endpapers, top edge green, original green pi...

° ° Baum, Frank - The Wizard of Oz, illustrated by W.W. Denslow, 12mo, pictorial front board over red cloth, Hutchinson & Co, London, [1926].

° ° Barclay, James R. - Keith, Alexander - The Aberdeen-Angus Breed: a history. num. plates; publisher's cloth and d/wrapper. Aberdeen, 1958; Whit...

° ° [Hutt, William] - State and Prospects of British Agriculture; being a compendium of the Evidence given before a Committee of the House of Comm...