The Compleat Angler,
Small quarto (270 x 210 mm). Original vellum, titles to spine and front cover gilt, three-line gilt border on front cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers, bookseller’s ticket...
View ArticleThe Railway Children.
Octavo. Original burgundy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine and front cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated title, and 19 plates, half-title,...
View ArticleLove Poet, Carpenter.
Signed limited edition, number 115 of 195 copies, signed by 59 contributors on inserted Fabriano Artistico rear endpapers. This copy is additionally signed by Longley. Love Poet, Carpenter is an...
View ArticleLa Stupenda.
First edition, third impression (first 1980). Inscribed by Sutherland on the title page, "To Den, best wishes, Joan Sutherland". Sutherland, dubbed "La Stupenda" after a performance of Handel's Alcina...
View ArticleSaint Joan Of Arc.
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Piers from Vita, June 9 1936". This is the first of two biographical studies completed by Vita in...
View ArticleThe Casuarina Tree.
First US edition, first printing; first published in London in 1926, two weeks prior to the US edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "for Luigi Muller from W....
View ArticleIn Touch: The Letters.
First UK edition, first impression. The US edition was published in the same year by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. This copy contains four documents laid in. The first, an unpublished typed letter...
View ArticleMore Translations from the Chinese.
Octavo. Original quarter japan, lettered in gilt on spine, light brown patterned paper boards with Chinese characters lower right on front board, deckle edge, top edge gilt. Wear to boards, spine, and...
View ArticleHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Octavo. Original pictorial boards. With the pictorial dust jacket. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. An excellent copy in the jacket with slight fading at head of flaps. The...
View ArticleCartier-Bresson’s France.
Large quarto. Original white boards, titles to front board and spine in black, black and white endpapers. With the dust jacket and orginal protective card slipcase. Illustrated with colour and black...
View ArticleLa Terre visitée.
First and limited edition, number 1,167 of 1,240 copies. Presentation copy to T. S. Eliot inscribed by the author on half-title, "A T. S. Eliot avec l'admiration constante de Georges Cattaui". In 1936...
View ArticleThe Woodcut: an Annual.
First and limited editions, presentation set inscribed in each volume by the editor, 450 copies of each volume were printed at the Curwen Press for distribution in Britain (250 for the US, or 300 in...
View ArticleIn Dubious Battle.
Octavo. Original black cloth backing beige cloth boards, spine in gilt, red top edge, clear acetate jacket as issued. With original black board slipcase, printed paper spine label. Slipcase corners...
View ArticleJoseph Beuys.
First edition, first impression. One of 500 hardbound copies signed by Beuys on the title page. The post Joseph Beuys. appeared first on Peter Harrington.
View ArticleAlexandria: A History and A Guide.
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by Forster "AJB, from the author" on the front free endpaper, with the ownership inscription of the recipient, A. J. Butler, to the front...
View ArticleDog Soldiers; [with:] A Hall of Mirrors.
First editions, first printings. Both volumes presentation copies, inscribed by author title pages, "For Dink Bruce, with thanks and best wishes, Bob Stone". The recipient was Benjamin "Dink" Bruce, a...
View ArticleBilly Liar.
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author and his co-writer on the front free endpaper. The play was first performed at the Cambridge Theatre, London, in 1960 with Albert Finney in the...
View ArticleThe Unfortunate Colonel Despard, and other Studies.
First edition. Interesting collection of essays previously published in various magazines or reviews, includes a study of Despard, with analogies to Casement, and an essay on Arthur Thistlewood "the...
View ArticleWellington’s Army, 180-9-1814.
First edition. Presentation copy from Oman to his wife; "To the Maker of the Index with the best love of the Writer of the Book, Oct. 19th 1912" - "The index is by the same loving hand which has worked...
View ArticleStudies in the Napoleonic Wars.
First edition. This copy inscribed by the author to his son on the front free endpaper; "C.C.O. from his affectionate father, April 7th 1929". Charles Chichele Oman (1901-82), was a noted antiquarian,...
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