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Prior, Matthew; Humphreys, Samuel; Jacob, Hildebrand, et al.,
Poems on Several Occasions.
Publisher: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and H. Lintot; printed for C. Hitch at the Red Lyon in Pater-Noster-Row, and J. Hodges at the Looking-Glass over against St. Magnus-Church London-Bridge, London;
Date of publication: 1754
£600.00
Two imprints in two volumes, comprising a complete set of the fourth edition, which includes works not by Prior, namely Hildebrand Jacob’s notorious erotic poem ‘The Curious Maid’. Duodecimos, pp., [22], 402, [6] index ...
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Wells, H. G.
The Shape of Things to Come The Ultimate Revolution.
Publisher: Hutchinson & co., London;
Date of publication: 1933
£650.00
First edition. Octavo, pp., 431, [1], 12 of publisher’s advertisements. Publisher’s original midnight-blue cloth, titled in gilt to spine, titled in blind to upper board, in the original unclipped bright blue dust-jacket. Colour-printed ...
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La Condamine, Charles Marie de.
Relation abrégée d'un Voyage fait dans l'interieur de l'Amérique méridionale. Depuis la ...
Publisher: Chez la Veuve Pissot, Quay de Conti, à la Croix d’Or, Paris;
Date of publication: 1745
£500.00
First edition. Octavo, pp., [4] preliminaries, xvi, 216, [4]; sig., [pi]4 a8 A-N8 O4. Engraved folding map of the Amazon river by G. N. Delahaye to end. Collated and complete. Contemporary ...
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Holder, Julian; McKellar, Elizabeth (eds.).
Neo-Georgian Architecture 1880-1970: a reappraisal.
Publisher: Historic England, Swindon;
Date of publication: 2016
£50.00
First Edition, quarto, pp, 214. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white and full-colour photographs. Publisher’s pictorial boards. The slightest of shelf-wear to corners and spine-tips. Near fine.
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Burtynsky, Edward.
Water.
Publisher: Steidl, Gottingen;
Date of publication: 2014
£100.00
Second Edition. Landscape quarto, pp., 228. Full-colour photographs throughout. Publisher's navy blue cloth, white titles to spine and upper board, in the original pictorial dust-jacket. Very slight shelf-wear to head and foot of jacket ...
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Richardson, Harriet (ed.).
English Hospitals 1660-1948.
Publisher: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, Swindon;
Date of publication: 1998
£50.00
First Edition, Quarto, pp., 222. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Navy blue publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to spine, in the original pictorial dust-jacket. Slight shelf-wear to head of jacket, former price sticker to front flap ...
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Cotton, Michael; Upietz, Ulrich; Zentgraf, Ekkehard.
Porsche in Le Mans.
Publisher: Gruppe C Motorsport-Verlag GmbH, Duisburg;
Date of publication: 2002
£60.00
First edition. Folio, pp., 368. Numerous large, full-colour photographs of cars, tracks, and drivers, some double-page, within pagination. Publisher’s original textured black buckram, titled in white to upper board, in the original unclipped black ...
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Wheatley, Dennis.
The KA of Gifford Hillary [inscribed by the author].
Publisher: Hutchinson, London;
Date of publication: 1956
£95.00
First edition, first printing. Octavo, pp., 407, [1]. Publisher’s original black cloth, titled in gilt to spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Sax. Inscribed by the author to title page ‘For ...
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Wheatley, Dennis.
The Prisoner in the Mask [inscribed by the author].
Publisher: Hutchinson, London;
Date of publication: 1957
£100.00
First edition, first printing. Octavo, pp., 383, [1]. Publisher’s original pictorial boards, titled in gilt to spine, in the original unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Sax. Inscribed by the author in blue ink to ...
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[Church of England].
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies ...
Publisher: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, printers to the university: and sold by S. Crowder, Paternoster-Row; and by W. Jackson, Oxford;
Date of publication: 1773
£250.00
Thirty-twomo, not paginated, sig., A-2C8. Crimson full morocco; spine on five raised bands, elaborate floral tooling to spine within compartments; ‘A T’ [i.e. Ann Truman] in gilt within border of floral rolls to ...
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Austen, Jane; Jacobs, Joseph; Hammond, Chris (illus.).
Sense and Sensibility. With an introduction by Joseph Jacobs and Illustrations by Chris Hammond.
Publisher: George Allen, 156 Charing Cross Road, London;
Date of publication: 1899
£850.00
First edition thus. Duodecimo, pp., xviii, 389, [3] blank, plus frontispiece. With 64 line drawings by Hammond within text, 11 of which are full page plates included in the pagination; headpieces to chapters, list of ...
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Saint, Andrew.
Richard Norman Shaw.
Publisher: Yale University Press, London;
Date of publication: 2010
£95.00
Second Edition, revised. Large quarto, pp., 498. Illustrated throughout with plans, drawings and photographs. Ruby red publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to spine, in the original pictorial dust-jacket. Very slight shelf-wear to jacket corners ...
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Martin, Steve; Burlingham Cynthia; Hunter, Andrew.
The Idea of North.
Publisher: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto;
Date of publication: 2015
£60.00
Second Printing. Square Quarto, pp., 160. Richly illustrated throughout. Publisher’s grey cloth with white titles to spine and upper board, in an illustrated dust-jacket. A near fine copy.
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Wells, H. G.
The War of the Worlds.
Publisher: William Heinemann, London;
Date of publication: 1898
£2000.00
First edition, first impression. Crown octavo, pp., viii, 303, [1] blank, [24] of publisher’s advertisements: first leaf of advertisements signed ‘A’, first page headed ‘THE LANE THAT HAD NO TURNING’. This later state is ...
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[Church of Scotland].
[Two fine Scottish Herringbone bindings]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. Newly ...
Publisher: Printed by James Watson, One of His Majesty’s Printers, Edinburgh;
Date of publication: 1716
£2000.00
Two imprints in two volumes, the Bible divided across both volumes and signed continuously, the Psalms bound to end of volume two and signed independently. Duodecimo, n. p., sig., A-Y12 Z1-2; Z3-12 2A-2S12 ...
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Harris, Rosemary.
The Double Snare.
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London;
Date of publication: 1974
£45.00
First edition. Octavo, pp., 237, [1]. Publisher’s slate grey cloth, titled in gilt to spine. Publisher’s unclipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Errol le Cain. A near-fine copy, seemingly unread, in a very good ...
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Harris, Rosemary.
Tower of the Stars.
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London and Boston;
Date of publication: 1980
£100.00
First edition. Octavo, pp., 272. Publisher’s turquoise cloth, titled in silver to spine. In the publisher’s unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Anthony Maitland. A near fine copy of the scarce first edition ...
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Peters, Ellis.
A Morbid Taste for Bones: A Mediaeval Whodunnit.
Publisher: Macmillan London Limited, London and Basingstoke;
Date of publication: 1977
£125.00
First edition. Octavo, pp., 191, [1]. Publisher’s terracotta cloth, titled in black to spine. In the publisher’s unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cloth fresh and bright, with some foxing to top edge of text-block and ...
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Le Guin, Ursula.
The Tombs of Atuan.
Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd., London;
Date of publication: 1972
£425.00
First British edition, published one year after the first American. Octavo, pp., 159, [1], double-page map within text. Publisher’s unclipped pictorial jacket. Publisher’s midnight blue cloth, titled in gilt to spine, mint green ...
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Scott, William B.
Antiquarian Gleanings in the North of England, being examples of antique furniture, plate, church decorations ...
Publisher: George Bell, Fleet Street, London;
Date of publication: 1851
£125.00
Folio, pp., 18, plus 38 full-colour, tissue-guarded etchings. Collated and complete. Publisher’s forest green morocco-grain cloth, titled in gilt to spine, blind-stamped with floral geometric borders to boards. Former ownership inscription to front free ...
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Gauld, H. Drummond.
The Truth from the Trenches.
Publisher: Arthur H. Stockwell, London;
Date of publication: 1922
£280.00
First edition. Octavo, pp., [viii], 305, [1]. Publisher’s original pebble-grain crimson cloth, titled in gilt to spine and upper board. Library deaccession label to end. Soiling to cloth, spine cracked and sun-faded, top edge ...
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Conan Doyle, Arthur; Bayley, Harold (ed.).
The Undiscovered Country A Sequence of Spirit-Messages Describing Death and the After-World Selected from Published ...
Publisher: Cassell and Company, Ltd., London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne;
Date of publication: 1918
£200.00
First edition. Octavo, pp., xxi (including the half-title), [1] blank, 270. Publisher’s original brown buckram, titled to paper spine label; brown end-papers; fore-edge uncut. Blurb pasted to front free end-paper. Contemporary ownership inscriptions in ...
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Jones, Gwyn (trans.); Jones, Thomas (trans.); Lee, Alan (illus.).
The Mabinogion.
Publisher: Dragon’s Dream, Hendrik-ido-Ambacht;
Date of publication: 1982
£125.00
First edition thus. Hardcover folio, pp., 224, full-colour and black-and-white illustrations throughout text, some full-page. Publisher’s original pictorial jacket. Original black cloth, titled in silver to spine and upper board. The slightest of fading ...
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Gaskell, Ernest.
Northumberland Leaders. Social and Political.
Publisher: The Queenhithe Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd., London;
Date of publication: 1908
£150.00
Quarto, unpaginated leaves of biographical sketches printed on laid paper, plus silver-gelatin portraits. Titled in red and Half-morocco over crimson cloth, titled in gilt to spine and upper board; spine on gutta-percha; all edges gilt ...
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Duvendak, J. J. L. (Translator); [Laozi]
Tao Te Ching: The Book of the Way and its Virtue.
Publisher: John Murray, Albemarle Street; London,
Date of publication: 1954
£65.00
First edition. Hardcover square duodecimo, pp., vi, 172. Original pale blue cloth, titled to spine, black-stamped in mandarin to upper board. Publisher’s original card dust-jacket, titles to spine and upper panel, advertisements to lower ...
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Chadwick, Edwin.
The Malthusian Theory... Since Malthus first pronounced his doctrines of population, what have been the ...
Publisher: [The Political Economy Club], [East Sheen];
Date of publication: 1888
£95.00
Octavo, stab-stitched pamphlet, pp., 8. Minor scattered foxing, nicks to edges, browned to corners.
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Irving, Washington.
Rip van Winkle.
Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York & London;
Date of publication: 1899
£350.00
First edition thus. Octavo, pp., v, 115, [1], with tissue-captioned photogravure frontispiece and five further tissue-captioned full-page plates by Frederick Simpson Coburn; text-pages printed to rectos only with elaborate Art Nouveau borders printed in green ...
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Aulnoy, Madame d’ (Marie-Catherine).
The Prince of Carency; a Novel. Written in French by the Countess D'Aunois Author ...
Publisher: W. Wilkins, for J. Peele, at Locke’s-Head, between the Two Temple-Gates in Fleet-Street, London;
Date of publication: 1719
£950.00
First English edition. Octavo, pp., [iv], 382. sig., [A4] B-2A8. Contemporary Cambridge-style panel calf; spine on five bands. Head- and tail-pieces within text. Contemporary ownership inscription, obliterated, to front paste-down, pencil notes to ...
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Kries, Mateo; Eisenbrand, Jochen. (editors)
Alvar Aalto Second Nature.
Publisher: Vitra Design Museum; [Weil am Rhein],
Date of publication: 2018
£225.00
First edition, second printing. Octavo, pp., 688. Publisher’s original grey cloth, titled to spine and upper board, with black ribbon pattern stamped to boards. Black place-marker ribbon. Fully illustrated throughout with monochrome and colour ...
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Fletcher, W.
Lessons of Wisdom for the Young; or, Spring Mornings and Evenings.
Publisher: John Harris, London;
Date of publication: 1828
£50.00
Sixteenmo, pp., viii, 111, [1], 6 of publisher’s advertisements, plus 12 engraved plates on 6 leaves. Collated and complete. Crimson quarter roan over marbled paper boards; titled in gilt to spine. Inscribed ‘J. G ...
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Mavor, William.
The English Spelling-Book, Accompanied by a Progressive Series of Easy and Familiar Lessons, Intended as ...
Publisher: Webb & Sons, London;
Date of publication: 1840
£65.00
Stated ‘new edition, carefully revised and corrected’. Duodecimo, pp., 91 [1], pagination inclusive of upper cover. Publisher’s blue paper wraps backed with black skiver, titles and vignette of a cavalryman printed to upper upper ...
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Forster, E. T. (ed.).
Memoirs of the Hartley Colliery Accident and Relief Fund [Presentation copy].
Publisher: printed and published by Andrew Reid & Company, limited, Newcastle-upon-tyne;
Date of publication: 1912
£95.00
Quarto, pp., pp. viii, 133. Hartley Medal illustrations to title-page; frontispiece with tissue guard and ten further plates, of which four are double-page plans (1 partially coloured). Collated and complete. Printed presentation card from the ...
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Boubat, Bernard, and Anhoury, Genevieve (editors).
Edouard Boubat.
Publisher: Thames and Hudson, London;
Date of publication: 2004
£180.00
First British Edition. Square Folio, unpaginated. Illustrated with 324 tritone photographs. Publisher’s greige cloth with silver titles to spine, blind embossed dolphins to the upper board. In an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Near fine.
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Burningham, John.
John Burningham. [Signed first edition]
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London;
Date of publication: 2003
£125.00
First edition. Folio, pp., 223. Richly illustrated throughout. Publisher’s plum cloth with gilt titles to spine, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. A near fine copy, boldly signed by John Burningham to the title page.
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Burningham, John.
Borka.
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London;
Date of publication: 2003
£150.00
40th Anniversary Edition. Tall quarto, pp., [iv], [36]. Richly illustrated throughout. Laminated pictorial boards in a matching unclipped dust-jacket. A near fine copy, boldly signed by the author to the half-title page.
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Stoddart, Tom.
iWitness.
Publisher: Trolley Ltd., London;
Date of publication: 2004
£185.00
First edition, square quarto, pp., 348. Monochrome photographic illustrations throughout. Publisher’s grey cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board. Near fine.
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Taylor-Wood, Sam.
Still Lives and Jesus Is Coming [Signed by the author].
Publisher: Baltic, Gateshead;
Date of publication: 2006
£125.00
Signed First Edition. Quarto, two volumes, pp., 158, and unpaginated. Colour photographic illustrations throughout. Pictorial hardcover and softcover, both housed in a single pictorial card sleeve. Near fine, with the artist’s signature and date ...
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Steele-Perkins, Chris;
Tokyo Love Hello.
Publisher: Editions Intervalles, Paris;
Date of publication: 2006
£95.00
First Edition. Landscape octavo, unpaginated. Colour photographic illustrations throughout. Publisher’s laminated pictorial boards. A near fine copy.
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Stock, Dennis.
Flower Show.
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, New York;
Date of publication: 1986
£85.00
First edition. Landscape folio, unpaginated. Colour photographic illustrations throughout. Publisher’s black cloth with silver titles to spine. In the publisher’s unclipped silver dust-jacket, with full colour photograph and black titles to upper panel ...
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Penrose, Antony. (editor)
Lee Miller’s War. [Signed by the editor, her son Antony Penrose]
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London;
Date of publication: 2008
£65.00
Reprint. Folio, pp. 216. With 159 illustrations in duotone. Softcover in pictorial card wrappers.
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Penrose, Antony.
The Lives of Lee Miller [Signed by the author, her son Antony Penrose].
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London;
Date of publication: 2007
£75.00
Reprint. Folio, pp. 216. With 171 illustrations in duotone. Softcover in pictorial card wrappers. A near fine copy signed by the author to the title-page.
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Donaldson, Julia & Scheffler, Axel.
Tabby McTat. [Signed by both the author and artist]
Publisher: Alison Green Books, London;
Date of publication: 2009
£280.00
Signed First Edition, with full number line. Portrait quarto, pp. [32]. Colourfully illustrated throughout. Publishers’ laminated pictorial boards, with illustrated lime green end-papers, in the original unclipped matching pictorial dust-jacket. A near fine copy signed ...
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Rowling, J. K.; Kay, Jim (illustrator).
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone [Inscribed by Jim Kay].
Publisher: Bloomsbury, London;
Date of publication: 2015
£300.00
First Illustrated Edition, first printing, with complete number line. Square quarto, pp., [8], 245, [3]. Colour illustrations by Jim Kay throughout, many full-page. Publishers’ scarlet cloth with metallic blue titles to spine, ribbon place-marker and ...
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Rowling, J. K.; Gill, Olivia Lomenech (illustrator).
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them [Inscribed by the illustrator].
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, London;
Date of publication: 2017
£85.00
First Thus, square quarto, pp., 138. Lavishly illustrated throughout by Olivia Lomenech Gill. Pictorial boards and illustrated end-papers. A near fine copy with an inscription by the illustrator to the title-page.
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Grahame, Kenneth; Ingpen, Robert.
The Wind in the Willows [Signed by the illustrator].
Publisher: Templar Publishing, Dorking;
Date of publication: 2009
£45.00
Centenary edition, square quarto, pp., 224. Lavish illustrations throughout by Robert Ingpen. Publisher’s turquoise cloth with silver titles to spine and blind embossing to upper board. In an illustrated unclipped dust-jacket. A near fine ...
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Heath Robinson, W.
Railway Ribaldry.
Publisher: Great Western Railway, London;
Date of publication: 1935
£30.00
First Edition. Softcover. Quarto, pp., 96. Original pictorial card wraps with yapp edges. Some minor creases and rubbing to the yapp edges. The contents are clean and bright free from any annotations. A very good ...
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Green, Adrian; Pollard, A. J.
Regions and Regionalism in History: Regional Identities in North-East England, 1300-2000.
Publisher: The Boydell Press, Great Britain;
Date of publication: 2007
£40.00
First Edition. Octavo, pp., xx, 237, [15]. Publisher’s sage green cloth with gilt title to spine and in blue on off-white label to upper board. A bright, fine copy.
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Hunt, Dorothy A.
The Amazing Paradox.
Publisher: Hurst & Blackett Ltd, London;
Date of publication: 1948
£85.00
First edition, octavo, pp., 272. Apricot boards with black titles to spine in an illustrated dust-jacket. Slightly dusty and foxed top edge. The dust-jacket has come creases and tears to the extremities with some markings ...
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