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A Water Colour of Mary in the Style of Raphaël.
Une aquarelle de Marie dans le style de Raphaël.
Book ID: 3821More details Price: £275.00
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A Window in Thrums.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1892. First edition. Illustrated with 18 etchings by William Hole. Limited edition. This copy is 450/550. By the creator of Peter Pan. Original blue cloth with gilt titles. Very nice clean copy with almost no bumping or edgewear. Internally spotless, with a foxing to the end papers only. xiv, 217 pp. 270 x 190 mm (10¾ x 7½ inches).
This copy was owned by Mrs Van der Poorten Schwartz - the wife of Dutch author Maarten Maartens. Almost certainly given to her by William Robertson Nicoll, who wrote anecdotes of 19th Century Literary history with T.J. Wise, and edited 'The Expositor' for Hodder & Stoughton.
Book ID: 2380More details Price: £120.00 -
A Wonderful Likeness
Book ID: 2987More details Price: £150.00
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Abraham Ortelius and the First Atlas. Essays commemorating the Quadricentennial of his Death. 1598 - 1998.
With an introduction by Leon Voet.
Utrecht: Hes Publishers BV, 1998. First edition. Hardback in red publisher's cloth with tipped on colour portrait to front board, with gilt title to front and spine. Fully illustrated in b/w. Fascinating insights in to "the father of historical cartography". Text in English. 432 pages. In very good condition. 310 x 240 mm (12¼ x 9½ inches).
Book ID: 3864More details Price: £75.00 -
Age of Surrealism.
London: Dennis Dobson, 1953. First British edition. Published in hardback in original dust jacket. Russet cloth boards under jacket are clean. Dust jacket is light coloured so has some age toning and grubbiness. The first popularly written history of surrealism in art and literature which has appeared in Great Britain when it was published. Professor Fowlie deals in this book with the artists: Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Breton, Apollinaire, Cocteau, Eluard, Mallarmé, and Picasso. Previous owner's name and stamp to FFEP. Overall good copy. 203 pages. 220 x 150 mm (8¾ x 6 inches).
Book ID: 3547More details Price: £30.00 -
Ai Weiwei: On The Table.
Barcelona: La Virreina / La Fábrica, 2014. First edition, in its original clothbound format. Includes photographs from his early years in New York, a selection of his 'altered objects', such as 'Suitcase for Bachelor', and 'One Man-Shoe', plus much more. This book served as both a retrospective of Weiwei's career, and as a companion publication to the exhibition of the same name. With photographs of many of his best-known items, an essay by the exhibition's curator Rosa Pera, and an artist interview conducted by Llucià Homs. Text in Catalan, English and Spanish. As new. Unpaginated [280 pages]. 310 x 230 mm (12¼ x 9 inches).
Book ID: 2689More details Price: £35.00 -
Aigle et Palombe au Survol de la Mer.
Book ID: 2153More details Price: £400.00
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Airborne - The New Dance photography of Lois Greenfield.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998. Softback first edition. Clean and tidy white covers. Internally in excellent condition. Dance photography. 112 pages. 265 by 265mm (10½ by 10½ inches).
Book ID: 3249More details Price: £20.00 -
Album photo français
Book ID: 3372More details Price: £320.00
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Albumen Photograph of John Ruskin.
Book ID: 2588More details Price: £200.00
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Alechinsky. une peinture, etc. - En Puisaye N°3
Book ID: 4211More details Price: £120.00
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All About Copy-Kitten.
The complete adventures of Copy-Kitten, as first told in Copy-Kitten and More About Copy-Kitten.
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1944. First edition thus. Hardback navy blue cloth with gold titles. In original unclipped dust jacket. With pictorial endpapers. Now in wrap for protection. Dust jacket has shelf-wear to edges, light chipping to spine ends, and an area of creasing / closed tear to back. Neat small owners name to front end paper. Pages inside have some transference (shown in pictures). Overall still a lovely little book. Copy-Kitten likes copying other animals and this book contains over forty wonderful illustrations by the talented Helen and Alf Evers. Unpaginated. 200 x 175 mm (7¾ x 7 inches).
Book ID: 2888More details Price: £28.00 -
Almanach dédié aux dames. Pour l'an 1810.
Book ID: 3928More details Price: £50.00
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Almanach de la jeunesse en vers & en prose, orné de douze jolies gravures;
ouvrage entiérement inédit.
Book ID: 2795More details Price: £80.00
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Almanach des Dames pour l'an 1808
Book ID: 4378More details Price: £225.00
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Almanak voor het Verstand en Hart voor het Jaar 1825.
Amsterdam: G. Schaares: 1825. First edition. A small almanac in a marbled slipcase. Turquoise illustrated boards. Engraved title page & 5 further engraved plates. Calendar to the first few pages. Contents to the rear. There is a little rubbing to the edges of the boards, and splitting to both front and rear hinge (boards are holding well though). Slipcase is marbled, with a touch of rubbing and a little nicking to the head and tail - not split though. Internally clean and tidy - with a little darkening and a few light foxing spots.
Book ID: 1856More details Price: £64.00 -
Alphabet Capone
Book ID: 4092More details Price: £150.00
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Alpine Majestaten Und Ihr Gefolge.
Die Gebirgswelt der Erde in Bildern. Dritter Band
Munchen: Vereinigte Kunstanstalen, 1903. First edition. Volume three only (of four). Pictorial boards with alpine picture and art nouveau decoration around. Gilt end papers. Library stamps for the Erasmiaansch Gymnasium Rotterdam. Map of the Alps showing regions, 268 photographs of peaks and features on glossy paper, several are folding plates. Cloth boards are a little stained and darkened, particularly to the front cover. Still attractive though. Moderate foxing to the first few. The rest the book is in very good condition with only light foxing. 440 by 300 mm (17¼ by 11¾ inches).
Book ID: 2246More details Price: £60.00 -
America.
[with introduction by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson]
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1974. First Edition. Bound in publisher's original full black cloth with the title stamped in white on the spine. In original illustrated dust jacket. Some wear and a small tear to top right of dust jacket, otherwise in quite a good condition and unclipped. Book is clean inside and in a good condition. 310 x 235 mm (12¼ x 9¼ inches).
Book ID: 2784More details Price: £45.00 -
American and European Railway Practice in the Economical Generation of Steam.
Including The Materials and Construction of Coal-Burning Boilers, Combustion, The Variable Blast, Vaporization, Circulation, Superheating, Supplying and Heating Feed Water, Etc.,
Book ID: 3310More details Price: £380.00