Eight original borderless press photographs for the seminal 1955 Ealing Comedy. All eight with British press stamps and typed layout slips to the verso. The curtain call of the famous "Ealing Comedies" the Ladykillers was ...

First edition in French. Two parts in one, paginated and registered continuously. Duodecimo, pp., xxiii, viii, 405, [1], plus 2 folding maps and 2 folding genealogical tables. Collated and complete. Contemporary acid calf; spine on ...

Duodecimos. Sixty imprints in 12 volumes complete. Each play has an etched and engraved frontispiece showing a contemporary actor in performance. Each volume has an etched and engraved frontispiece (vol. 1’s is additional, all ...

First Folio Society edition. Three volumes complete. Octavos, pp., [6], 339, [1]; x, [4], 500; v, [3], 366. Frontispieces and 8 full-colour plates by Tim Laing to each volume. Uniformly bound in publisher’s slate-grey ...

Nonce-volume first issued with this title by Edmund Curll in 1713, this copy the first issued by Tonson with significant textual differences: one leaf of prefatory material to Sewell’s life dated 1719 (suggesting new ...

Landscape duodecimo, 75 leaves of pastel-coloured paper, with approximately 70 pages of text or images. Maroon cloth; flower vignette colour-printed to upper board; moiré end-papers. Upper hinges and spine cracked with text-block partly detached. Contents ...

First edition in English. Octavo, pp., 227, [5], 16 of publisher’s catalogue; photographic portrait frontispiece. Publisher’s original pale green cloth over forest green back; white end-papers. Armorial bookplate of one ‘E. Penton’ front ...

First Edition. Duodecimo, pp., x, 224, [2] colophon, plus tissue-guarded wood-engraved frontispiece, 4 initial and terminal blanks, upper cover of original publisher’s cloth bound to end. Green crushed full morocco by Riviere and Sons ...

Octavo. A presentation binding of full straight-grain crimson morocco; spine on five raised bands; frames in blind to compartments; titled in gilt to spine; ‘Ann Pendlebury 1830’ lettered in gilt to upper board within frame ...

First edition. Octavo, pp., [2], xii, [2], 435, [1], plus photographic frontispiece of the Masonic lodge in Shanghai, 30 photographic plates and 1 folding plan (counted as 2 in the index), as called for. Half ...

First British edition, after the first Italian of 1955. Duodecimo, pp., [2], 107, collated and complete. Publisher’s original black cloth; titled in bronze to spine; white end-papers. In the original unclipped yellow dust-jacket titled ...

Second edition, after the first of 1839-40. Quarto, pp., xxiv, 352, 2 initial and 1 terminal blanks. With engraved title-page, frontispiece, 2 steel-engraved maps, 24 steel-engraved full-page views, and 350 wood-engravings within text, as called ...