- Category = Art,Illustrated,Architecture,Fine Bindings,Photography,Prints & Posters
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Master J. Spraggles His Version of Robinson Crusoe As Narrated & Depicted to His School Fellows at Dr. Tickeltoby's Academy.
New York: McLoughlin Bros. Presumed First edition. Undated but circa 1867. Humorous version of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Illustrated with childlike caricatures on a school blackboard slate. The soft cover's title reads: To The Admirers of Native but: Uncultured Genius: This Version of Robinson Crusoe Done with Slate Pencil in the manner of the very earliest masters is submitted by McLoughlin Bros, New York.
Spine slightly split at tail, a little light soiling, offsetting from illustrations inside, but overall good. 26 pages. 250 x 190 mm (9¾ x 7½ inches).Book ID: 3970More details Price: £75.00 -
Mauprat.
Dix compositions par le Blant. Gravees a l'eau forte par H. Toussaint
Edition: First Thus
Book ID: 1906More details Price: £80.00 -
Max Ernst.
Book ID: 3214More details Price: £75.00
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Meg at Sea
London: William Heinemann, 1975. Scarce in a very good condition dust jacket. This is a reprint edition in hardback from 1975. Colour illustrated boards, dust jacket, and story line - all Jan Pieńkowski illustrations. The adventures of the witch Meg, her cat Mog, and their friend Owl, as they get shipwrecked on an island and have to be rescued. Book boards, unclipped dust jacket and contents all in very good clean condition. Unpaginated. 210 x 210 mm (8¼ x 8¼ inches).
Book ID: 3778More details Price: £150.00 -
Mehling '67 /II
original signed abstract watercolour
Book ID: 3578More details Price: £350.00
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Mehling '77 BA 1
original signed abstract watercolour with gold embellishments
Book ID: 3576More details Price: £350.00
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Mehling '92 A.WB-A-/26
original signed abstract watercolour
Hofheim: 1992. Original watercolour on handmade paper. This sombre abstract work is a form of Informalism in charcoal grey tones and includes melted candle wax. All Mehling's work remained untitled, though the works do state the year of origin, usually the month and often the techniques used. This work was done in 1992. As Mehling was also a pharmacist in his earlier years, he enjoyed experimenting with mixing his own paints, pigments and inks. An original by "the German master of the small format" (Haudenschild + Laubscher 1968). In distressed metallic painted wooden frame, under glass, with heavy white mount. Signed in pencil to bottom left.
Frame: 445 x 365 mm (17½ x 14¼ inches)). Visible art: 255 mm x 185 mm.Book ID: 3577More details Price: £350.00 -
Mémoires d'un Eunuque.
Book ID: 3927More details Price: £220.00
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Memoirs of the Count De Grammont.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928. Limited Edition of 1000 copies, printed in USA. Rebound in full tan leather, with gilt title to spine. Marbled endpapers. Tipped-in wood engravings by Wilfred Jones. Text descriptions on tissue guards. Leather boards in a very good condition with minimal sign of handling. Light sporadic foxing. Pages rough edged. 230 pp. 245 x 175 mm (9¾ x 7 inches).
Memoirs written by Antoine [Anthony] Hamilton, who was the French nobleman's brother-in-law. Translated by Horace Walpole.
Book ID: 2165More details Price: £30.00 -
Mes voyages avec un poeme d'aragon et des lithographies de l'auteur.
Book ID: 3216More details Price: £120.00
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Metamorphoses of an American:
a cycle of youth 2003-2008
Göttingen: Steidl, 2008. First edition. Four volumes in grey slipcase. Hardbacks in navy blue cloth with b/w portrait laid on to cover of each. Ribbon book marks in each. Pictorial study of the physical and emotional development of Brad Kroenig's evolution from just a typical 'All American Boy' into a professional photographic model. B/w portrait photos throughout by Karl Lagerfeld. Slipcase a little handled but very good condition. Books in fine condition. Each book: 190 x 155 mm. Boxed set: 200 x 155 mm (7¾ x 6 inches).
Book ID: 3454More details Price: £90.00 -
Milton Abbey Dorsetshire - Architectural Report and photographs.
Book ID: 3090More details Price: £80.00
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Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147-1199)
from 'Mirror of brave military guards in Kamakura' (Kamakura Buei Yoshi Kagami)
Edo: Fujiokaya Keijiro, 1844. Original woodblock print on mulberry paper. This is the centre panel from the colour woodblock triptych entitled 'Kamakura Buei Yoshi Kagami'. Minamoto no Yoritomo was the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan, ruling from 1192 until 1199. There was a film made in 1945 about his relationship with his brothers entitled Tora no O o Fumu Otokotachi: The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail. In this print he is actually depicted with his famous tiger's tail! The other panels are not with this. It has rough edges and is delicate, with signs of reinforcement on the verso. 360 x 240 mm (14¼ x 9½ inches).
Book ID: 3412More details Price: £80.00 -
Models of Propriety.
Occasional Caprices for the Edification of Ladies and the Delight of Gentlemen
London: Michael Joseph, 1951. A very nice copy of this first Trade edition. Illustrated throughout with photogravures. Salmon pink boards with gilt titles. A little light foxing to the boards. No dust wrapper. Internally in excellent condition throughout. 280 by 190mm (11 by 7½ inches). 76 pages.
Book ID: 3079More details Price: £40.00 -
Modern Pen Drawings: European and American.
London, Paris, New York: Offices of 'The Studio', 1901. First edition. Limited to 300 copies. Hardback in original full blind-stamped vellum, with just one of the expected brown ties. Boards a little darkened. Illustrated endpapers. Front one neatly repaired. Ex libris to front and same name in small stamp at top of title page. With full-page plates of pen-and-ink drawings, and many other illustrations in text. Some light foxing, and pages a little age toned. Overall good. 216 pages. 305 x 215 mm (12 x 8½ inches).
Book ID: 3900More details Price: £150.00 -
Modulor 2. 1955. La parole est aux usagers, suite de Le Modulor 1948.
Boulogne: Éditions de l'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, 1959. Limited to 3000 copies. Softcover in original colour illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket in very good condition, under glassine. Inside, pages are age toned but very good condition. Complete with b/w illustrations and photographs. 341 pages. 145 x 145 mm (5¾ x 5¾ inches).
. Limité à 3000 exemplaires. Couverture souple en jaquette originale illustrée en couleur. Jaquette en très bon état, sous glassine. A l'intérieur, les pages sont vieillies mais en très bon état. Complet avec illustrations et photographies n/b. 341 pages. 145 x 145 mm
Book ID: 3924More details Price: £75.00 -
Moeurs, usages et costumes de tous les peuples du monde d'après des documents authentiques et les voyages les plus récents.
Book ID: 3014More details Price: £1,225.00
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Mohammed et L'Amour.
Book ID: 3557More details Price: £125.00
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Mort de L'Amour avec, en appendice une prose de Jean Moreas.
Dessins de Rouveyre
Book ID: 3165More details Price: £100.00
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mort du papier
[avec frontispice en bois gravé par Pierre Gaudin].
Paris: Typographie Pierre Gaudin / René Jeanne, 1966. Small brochure - handmade paper from Moulin Richard-de-Bas in Ambert d'Auvergne. Woodcut frontispiece. 16 pages. Good condition. 205 x 120 mm (8 x 4¾ inches).
. Première édition. Plaquette illustrée - papier faits à la main: Moulin Richard-de-Bas in Ambert d'Auvergne. Bois gravé imprimé en rouge. En feuilles in-8, couverture à rabats, état bonne. 16 pages. 205 x 120 mm
Book ID: 3724More details Price: £20.00