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Stoke Newington Borough Council, 1960 40 printed pages, contains a detailed bibliographic catalogue of 221 of Defoe's Collected and Single works by date, & works on Defoe and his writings by subject. The remaining 159 exhibits in the catalogue provided a visual context to Defoe's works from the South Sea Bubble to Defoe's tombstone.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine.

London : Printed for Chapple and Son, Pall-Mall, Andrews, New Bond-Street, J. Bumpus, Holborn, and E. Barrett, Bath, Printed by T. Hamblin, Garlick Hill, Thames Street, 1822 viii, 400 pages, 1 unnumbered variant engraved frontispiece plate (normally "A Greek Lady in her Bridal Habit" Published by Bumpus, 1922. Harvard University has a variant plate of "A Spanish Cavalier Serenading his Mistress" by J.Smith), "Mode of Espousal in Guinea" published by J.Smith No. 14 Cross Street, Newington. Scattered foxing. A few leaves imperfectly trimmed. 14 x 22 cm. Contemporary cloth backed marbled boards. Hinges split and weak at top section of front board. Spine with original printed label-slightly chipped- (rubbed and slightly worn). Boards rubbed, edges and corners worn. First edition of this captivating and early investigation of the legal status of women in ancient and modern times. "Whatever might give offence to delicacy has, in the following pages, been carefully… Read More

2 volumes in one. 164, 174 printed pages + index (slight age-toning). One of the Bibliotheque Portative du Voyageur series. 74 x 91 mm. Original brown three quarter morocco over marbled paper covered boards (hinges a trifle weakened but holding firmly; some edges and corners rubbed). Nauroy, 22. Pistner, B229:16-17. Welsh, 3216. OCLC, 52509064. WorldCat locates 3 individual copies worldwide in addition to a number of complete sets.

Papadakis, 2009 264 printed pages. Colour photogrphic plates throughout. Complete with original striking dustwrapper in near fine condition. Edited by Alexander Papadakis. Exploring the extraordinary beauty and structure of pollen grains invisible to the naked eye. This book is the result of the shared fascination of an artist and a scientist with the perfect design of organisms too small to be seen without a microscope. Pollen is a unique interpretation of a magical world that no other book on the subject has ever been able to achieve. Published in collaboration with Kew Royal Botanic Gardens. IP Book Awards 2007 Gold Medal winner for Outstanding Book of the Year - Most Original Concept. Never before seen scanning electron microscope images are unique to the book. It will appeal to scientists, artists and photographers alike.. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine.

Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1920 32.5: 24 cm. 52, (6) pages, number 71 of 250 numbered copies of the limited special edition on heavy hand made paper (total circulation 260). In German- Signed by the author. - Glassine dustwrapper has tears, damage to the edges, slight creases and a little stained. The Plague is Hasenclever's 2nd screenplay & the first film text that was printed in book form. One of a small number of Expressionist plays that was adapted for cinema. Die Pest is divided into 151 film scenes; it implies camera distance and employs the montage technique used a few years later by Mayer and by Eisenstein. It is a sci-fi dystopia set in 2000 about a united European Union, where poverty has been solved through nutritional advances. However deadly disease spreads from cruise liners to spread rapidly through the world population. A mad rush to discover the vaccine includes a banker trying to cash in on the situation. A number of other scenes of montage focus on the pandemic, the increasing… Read More

16mo. 160 unnumbered pages. Oxford India fine paper. Contemporary ink ownership inscription on verso of preliminary blank leaf, dated 1853. All edges gilt. Original yellow endpapers. 2.4 x 3.7" Full contemporary, burgundy velvet binding with brass edges, plain brass clasp and engraved central monogram shaped plaque -"IHS" with "I" depicted as an elaborate engraved cross- with original plain brown card slipcase with blue paper lining. The bookbinder was very possibly James Hayday (1796-1872), one of the most inventive binders of the 19th century and one of the few to be deemed worthy of an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography; books bound by him became and still are considerably sought after. Edward Gardner of the Oxford Warehouse, 7 Paternoster Row, secured Hayday's services exclusively for Oxford University Press publications (of which this is one). Hayday was specifically engaged by Gardner to bind his copies of the finely printed, small format 'Oxford' Bibles, and his output ranged from… Read More

Edward Moxon, 1847 viii, 587 printed pages, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, full diced calf, spine in compartments with git decoration slightly rubbed, raised bands and gilt ruled edges. From Pull Court Library, with library label on front paste down endpaper and blind embossed stamp on title page. Together with heraldic bookplate of William Dowdeswell of Pull Court, Worcestershire, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Duckworth & Co, London, 1915 Unpaginated [50] printed pages. Illustrated with 24 full-page half-tone plates, with captions and a small black & white silhouette on the proceeding pages. Endpapers have double-page silhouette illustrations of "Lighting Back" (an exploding artillery gun) and "The Free Lance" (a shrapnel-ridden German Monoplane). Some very light finger marks to page margins. Front hinge cracked but still very firm. 25 x 37.5 cm. Original printed decorative paper covered boards. Publisher's red cloth spine, very slightly worn at head and tail and with a few minor horizontal creases. Upper board with red and black caricature of grenade juggling German officer within black lettering. Rear cover withred and black caricature of German soldier lying on his back and artillery shell heading down towards him. Corners, edges and rear board very slightly worn. Front board with short horizontal thin broken line of white paint- not especially noticeable. William Heath… Read More

London. Jonathan Cape, 1955 First illustrated edition issued by Jonathan Cape (Hanneman 45c). Monochrome illustrations by C.F.Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard. Bound in black cloth spine over decorated white boards, with titles in silver. Pictorial price clipped (10s 6d) dust jacket is slightly toned on the spine, with a trace of rubbing at the edges, some extremely mild spotting, soiling and light chipping, but attractive; corners slightly bumped. Raymond Sheppard (19131958) was a British artist and illustrator of books for children and adults. He wrote books on drawing techniques, but is best known for his illustrations of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and the works of Jim Corbett. Much of Tunnicliffe's work depicted birds in their natural settings and other naturalistic scenes. He illustrated Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter. The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last… Read More

Museum of Modern Art New York / Thames & Hudson, London, 2010 376 pages. 25.8 x 4.1 x 31.4 cm. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) is perhaps the greatest photographer of the twentieth century. In a career spanning over sixty years, he has used his camera as an impassive and neutral third eye to capture the vagaries of human behaviour and to produce some of the most memorable and compelling photographs ever published.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.

T Fisher Unwin, 1898 Book is comlpete and in good condition. There is some bumping to the corners and the top and bottom of the spine. Also the front free end paper is slightly discoloured.. Hardcover. Good.

Londini : typis Richardi Hodgkinsonne, 1673 Original Etching. Circa 1673. View of Salisbury Cathedral from the South East, with Chapter House among trees at right; six figures walking in pairs nearby; cartouche at top right; illustration to William Dugdale's 'Monasticon Anglicanum' III (London: 1673, p.375). Lettered in cartouche with title, continuing: 'Impensis / Decani & Cap: / hujus Eccles:'; signed in the plate below image at right 'W. Hollar delin: et sculp:'; page numbered '375' below image at left. Cut impression, listed in new Hollstein (Hollar) as second state, with page number lettered below image to the left. 355 x 277 mm. Mounted, framed and glazed with Salisbury's Art Picture House dealer's colour printed label on reverse. Salisbury cathedral is the inspiration for William Golding's novel The Spire, in which the fictional Dean Jocelin makes the building of a cathedral spire his life's work. The construction of the cathedral is an… Read More

Hellaffi Society, 1996 Culutural Olympiad 2001-4 ran up to & alongside the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004. The Hellaffi collection of large sized painted advertisements for movies made between 1950 and 1975 was acquired by the Greek government to exhibit in the CO. The collection includes posters and portraits of movie stars painted by well known Greek artists. The Cultural Olympiad, contributed considerably to the projection of a positive image for Greece and its artists worldwide as well as nationally. The publication does not appear to be common, WorldCat only locating a single copy in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine.

Gollancz, 1992 This is the first impression of the first edition. By December 1992 (only three months after the first impression in September 1992) the 4th impression had already been issued due very high demand. Near fine, grey boards, gold embossed gilt spine. Dustwrapper unclipped, near fine except for very mild crease at foot of spine and two miniscule pitting marks on the back. This is a book about identity, belonging, obsession; about afternoons in the driving rain and bitter cold and glorious, unforgettable goals; getting your head read in Hampstead and punched at Highbury; the dazzling skills of the gods of football and leaving your girlfriend lying fainted on the terraces because Arsenal are about to score. It's about the moments of ecstasy in one man's life. And his pain. And it's about the only true question there is: Which comes first, Football or Life? Nick Hornby's brilliant mix of personal insight and reportage. This book is not just about goals and rain and semi-final… Read More

Bath: Binns and Goodwin., 1846 8vo, iv, 146, (2, ads. and errata slip "Since the Specimen Pages were printed, it has been found desirable to substitute ulva latissima, broad green laver, for ulva linza") printed pages. With a frontispiece (printed in sepia with a basket of mounted seaweed fronds) and 38 leaves of mounted specimens of seaweeds, zoophytes, corallines, etc. (a few with minor breakages or loss, frontispiece and title page damp stained). Occasional light spotting and offsetting from specimens to facing text leaf. All edges gilt. Original front free endpaper incorrectly bound facing page 24. 15 x 23 cm. Original blue silk stamped in gold, rebacked with new endpapers, cover blocked in gold with a central vignette of shells, seaweed, and foliage; the spine is decorated similarly -a remarkably good copy of this fragile and rare book. Duggins (2017) states of this work "such gift-books were ultimately commodities, hybrid creations that combined mounted naturalia with… Read More

Cambridge University Press, 2007 xi, 329 printed pages. Inscribed, signed and dated dedication from the author to Helene (Helene Haw, who taught French literature at Trinity College, Cambridge) on front free endpaper. Also tipped onto front paste-down endpaper is a printed invitation to the launch of this book at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, addressed to Helene and with a guest pass attached. 16 x 23.5 cm. Original black cloth. Spine with gilt lettering. Complete with original photographic unclipped dustwrapper. Helene Haw was also a benefactor of the Almeida Theatre, Islington.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

189 printed pages. Lacks half title page. Very sporadic and very light spotting. Marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. Original green silk place-marker. Binding, 64 x 103 mm. Printed surface, 50 x 84 mm. Contemporary full vellum. Spine with gilt repeat tooling and slightly chipped black morocco titling piece with gilt lettering. Boards with scrolling zigzag gilt tooled borders. Slightly rubbed, particularly at the head of the spine. Poems including Feuilles d'Automne first published in 1831. Not in Welsh. Nauroy, 111. OCLC, 948341417 . WorldCat locates 2 copies worldwide (Oxford and North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries).

London: Printed For J.M.Richardson., 1820 1820 EDITION. Complete in 13 volumes (8 & 5). Volumes 3 and 6 have split inner hinges, front and back respectively. xxxii, 471, [9, notes]; viii, 500, [9]; viii, 445, [14]; viii, 448, [12]; vii, 492, [32]; viii, 547, [29]; viii, 514, [14]; vii, 559; 514; 574; 548; 511; 440 printed pages, including index. 56 portrait plates engraved on copper (some offsetting). All edges gilt. Sporadic foxing. 14 x 21.5 (43- width of complete set) cm. Uniformly bound in contemporary, full, straight-grained crimson morocco. Spines in six compartments with gilt raised bands- hand tooled in gilt with visored helmets, breast plates, pairs of spurs and crossed swords from the suit of armour of a Renaissance knight and monarch. Rubbed, corners slightly bumped, edges and spines slightly worn particularly at the foot of volume one and top of volume four. Front and back covers hand-tooled in gilt with late Medieval knight on foot with plumed helmet, shield, short sword and body… Read More

London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1852 12mo, bound in original publishers blindstamped green cloth glit. Original yellow endpapers with armorial bookplate of Charles V. Walker. Dedicated to Hurton's friend Hans Christian Andersen, author of Fairy Tales. This is the revised and corrected 2nd edition, published a year after the 1st. The book measures 13.5cm by 20.5cm. The contents are complete, meeting collation: [6], ii, 344pp. Condition: The binding is holding firmly and is in good condition, with some general wear to surface / extremities from handling, slight lean toward upper board, sunning to spine with some nicks/fraying to hinges and ends, corners bumped. Textblock firm and contents in good clean condition, some light toning and spotting. Period ink ownership to title, and bookplate to front pastedown of Charles Vincent Walker FRS (20 March 1812 24 December 1882), an English electrical engineer and publisher, a major influence on the development of railway telecommunications,… Read More

London : J. & A. Churchill, 1877 viii, 698 pages, plus 16 page publisher's catalogue (dated 1884); line illustrations. Owner's neat, ink signature on front paste-down endpaper. Booksellers ink stamp on front free end-paper (S.H. Lazarus, 116 New Oxford Street, London, W.C.). Mild sporadic foxing, more concentrated on title page, as is common. 14.5 x 21 cm. Original, embossed brown cloth, head and tail of spine slightly worn, edges, hinges and corners very slightly worn- overall in very good condition. Huxley had little formal schooling and was virtually self-taught. He became perhaps the finest comparative anatomist of the later 19th century. He worked on invertebrates, clarifying relationships between groups previously little understood. Huxley spent over twenty years writing this textbook on the comparative anatomy of invertebrates, the companion to his Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals (1871). The Royal Society, who had elected him as Fellow when he was 25 (1851), awarded him the Royal… Read More