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The John Hassall Lifestyle (Signed)
Witham, Essex: Dilke Press, 1979. First edition. Hardback with dust jacket. Signed copy with dedication to title page (dated 1979). Also an accompanying ALS from the author loosely laid in. Nicely illustrated in colour and b/w throughout. 140 pages. 310 x 220 mm (12¼ x 8¾ inches). Fine, in a fine (unclipped) dust jacket.
Book ID: 2509More details Price: £40.00 -
Examples of San Bernardino of Siena. Chosen by Ada Harrison
London: Gerald Howe, 1926. This is the fine vellum-bound edition on handmade paper. Ornamental gilt panel to upper board, and gilt title to spine. Limitation of 1050 copies, this is one of the 105 on handmade paper- and is numbered #103. Signed to the limitation page by the illustrator, Robert Sargent Austin. Top of page edges gilt. In original slipcase. 29 woodcuts, including frontispiece, title page, and colophon; plus numerous decorated initials. The boards are slightly bowed, but the vellum is in very good condition. Slipcase is slightly soiled. Internally the book is clean and bright, with no inscriptions or other markings. 150 pages. 235 x 155 mm (9¼ x 6 inches).
Book ID: 2520More details Price: £85.00 -
Seventeen Reasons: An Essay of Contingent Acts. Or, Short Theoretical Stories.
Book ID: 2505More details Price: £250.00 -
Omnibus. Illustrated with one hundred engravings on Steel and Wood. Edited by Laman Blanchard.
Book ID: 2447More details Price: £1,400.00 -
The Diverting History of John Gilpin. Illustrated by Chas. E. BROCK
London: Aldine House, 1898. Blue cloth with gilt copy of the title page. In excellent condition. Printed in brown ink, with plates and vignettes by Brock throughout. Intermittent foxing else very good. Part of the Illustrated English Poems series. 50 pages. 210 x 160 mm (8¼ x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 2445More details Price: £30.00 -
The Book Of Ballads. A New Edition with Several New Ballads
London: Wm. S. Orr and Co, 1855. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth, decorated and lettered gilt. All edges gilt. Frontispiece by Alfred Crowquill, decorative title page and numerous illustrations through the text by Richard Doyle, Alfred Crowquill and John Leech. A handsomely illustrated book of verse, first published in 1849. 180 by 140mm (7 by 5½ inches). 254, [x ads]. pp
Condition: Boards are in excellent condition. Internally clean, but the first gather is half detached from the block.
Book ID: 2443More details Price: £30.00 -
Le Code Penal, illustratons de Jean Dratz. Preface de Albert Guislain, texte revu par Jacques Nyns
Book ID: 2436More details Price: £450.00 -
La triste vie d'un homme triste.
Book ID: 2433More details Price: £50.00 -
L'Aveugle clairvoyant. Parabole. Eaux-fortes par Grékoff
Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1948. Limited edition (291/850) on vélin pur fil du Marais. Softback in grey card folder and slipcase. 46 pages. The tale of a blind man and an owl, with beautiful illustrations. Beautiful condition. With a touch of handling to the slipcase only. 275 by 190 mm (10¾ by 7½ inches). Edition limitée (291/850) sur vélin pur fil du Marais. Couverture souple sous pochette cartonnée grise et étui. 46 pages. L'histoire d'une un aveugle et un hibou, avec de belles illustrations. Bel état. Avec une touche de manipulation à l'étui seulement. 275 par 190 mm
Book ID: 2421More details Price: £40.00 -
The Life Story of Birds.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1930. Very nice copy of this first edition. Clean and tidy pale grey boards, with illustration to the front board. Beautiful black and white cuts throughout. viii, 236. pp
200 by 140mm (7¾ by 5½ inches).Book ID: 2413More details Price: £20.00 -
L'Histoire Naturelle en Action. Croquis, contes, recites et aventures. Quatrième Édition.
Book ID: 2407More details Price: £40.00 -
Shirley Temple at Play.
Akron: Ohio. Well-kept copy of this Shirley Temple book from 1935. Light golden yellow color illustrated softcover with the famous child star, Shirley Temple, on every other page, in movie costumes, with a nursery level story accompanying each of the eight large full page color plates. Temple was 5 years old when this was produced. Very Good condition. A few minor nicks to the edges, otherwise in excellent condition. Internally clean and tidy. 20 pages (inc. covers). 320 by 260mm (12½ by 10¼ inches).
Book ID: 2473More details Price: £30.00 -
Histoire du naufragé volontaire.
Les Editions de Paris, 1953. First Edition. Yellow boards with blue cloth spine. Paul Gayet-Tancred aka Samivel. A touch of bumping to the edges only. Inside clean and tidy, but a fraction darkened. A very nice copy. 53 pages. 215 x 180 mm (8½ x 7 inches). Première édition. Plats jaunes à dos en toile bleue. Paul Gayet-Tancred dit Samivel. Une touche de cognement sur les bords seulement. A l'intérieur propre et bien rangé, mais une fraction assombrie. Un très bel exemplaire. 53 pages. 215 x 180mm
Book ID: 2468More details Price: £50.00 -
The Love of a Foolish Angel with decorations by Edmund Dulac.
London: W. Collins Sons and Co. Ltd, 1929. Cloth bound first edition. Binding is an Art Deco design by Dulac. Slightly darkened, but no significant marking. Fading to spine. Internally sound with foxing to end papers. 252 pages. 200 by 140mm (7¾ by 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2459More details Price: £15.00 -
The Comic English Grammar; A new an facetious Introduction to the English Tongue
London: Richard Bentley, 1840. Original dark green blind stamped buckram, with gilt design to the front board. Gilt is rather rubbed. Bumping and a touch of chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally clean, but slightly darkened with a few foxing spots. A nice, unrestored copy. 228 pages. 200 x 135 mm (7¾ x 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 2458More details Price: £75.00 -
The Stuffed Dog. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1967. First edition in dust wrapper. Blue boards with black and gilt decoration. Wrapper is neatly price clipped. 60 pages. Wrapper has a touch of marking to the rear panel and a small stain to the front cover (oddly, exactly the same colour as the girls sash). Book itself, both boards and internally, in Fine condition. 220 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2456More details Price: £30.00 -
The Kickleburys on the Rhine [and] Rebecca and Rowena, A Romance upon Marriage. With illustrations by Richard Doyle
London: Smith, Elder / Chapman & Hall, 1850. Two First editions, bound together in a contemporary full leather binding. All edges gilt. Both by Titmarsh, a pseudonym for Thackeray. The 15 full page illustrations to the Kicklebury's are unsigned, the 8 plates in Rebecca & Rowena are attributed to Richard Doyle. These were two of the 'Christmas books' written by Thackeray. Clean full leather binding. A touch of rubbing. Spine is somewhat dulled. Internally clean, binding is firm but slightly shaken. 88, viii, 102 pages. 185 by 140mm (7¼ by 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2453More details Price: £80.00 -
London is London. A Selection of Prose and Verse. Illustrated by Edward Bawden.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1949. First edition. Dust wrapper. The wrapper has a couple of closed tears, and a chip to the head of the spine (about 1 cm). Blue cloth is clean. The book itself is in very good condition, with fractional foxing to the end papers and closed page edge only. Gift inscription to end paper. 300 pages. 210 x 140 mm (8¼ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2451More details Price: £40.00 -
Poems, With illustrations by G.J. Pinwell, J.W. North, J. Wolf, E.J. Poynter, E. Dalziel, T. Dalziel, A.B. Houghtoun & W. Small, Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel
London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1867. First edition thus, in a Riviere binding, full blue leather, with gilt to the spine and decoration to the edge. All edges gilt. A little rubbing to the spine edges. Slight staining to leather. Bookplate of Michael Ernest Sadler (Master of University College Oxford and father of Michael Sadler). Light to moderate foxing, particularly to the initial pages. Pencil annotations to the verso of the front end paper. 240 by 170mm (9½ by 6¾ inches).
Book ID: 2444More details Price: £75.00 -
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







