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Methuen, 1934 Original tan cloth with black lozenge shaped symbol with dagger on the spine. Flourishing ownership signature on front paste-down end-paper.(iv), 220, 8 [pages of publisher's adverts at rear].. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2007 230 x 305mm. Sixth printing, U.S. edition; Signed by the author, his signature enclosed by SHAUN TAN's uniquely designed rubber stamp on the half-title page (not inscribed to anyone); hardback, unread in FINE condition (no marks, without a dustjacket as issued). The Arrival won the Book of the Year prize as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.For his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" Tan won the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council, the biggest prize in children's literature.. Signed by Author(s). Hardcover. As New/No Jacket.

London, Horace Cox., 1873 Title page, (4), 124 printed pages. 4 page publisher's adverts at back. Steel engraved frontispiece and 10 full page plates by T.W. Wood. Ownership signature of Sir Ross Price Bart., 1877 on front free endpaper. All edges gilt. Some very mild age toning; final page of adverts very slightly foxed. Two marginal short closed tears at pages 3/4 & 109/110. 25 x 32 cm. Original emerald green embossed cloth. Spine with gilt lettering with greek key pattern borders at head and tail (some wear and rubbing, including along joints). Both boards with Victorian embossed border pattern of twigs and branches intertwined with leaves and flowers. Upper board with large gilt stamp of pheasant within gilt ruled border ( slight rubbing and a few spots of old ink or other tiny spots). Corners bumped and worn. Inner hinges cracked. Sir Ross Price (1837-99) gained the rank of Major in the service of the Royal Marine Light Infantry. Tegetmeier, a Fellow of the Zoological Society (1816-1912)… Read More

Circa 1905. 365 printed pages (some leaves very slightly creased at upper corners). Frontispiece. Printed at the Glasgow University Press. Thin paper. Original marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Bound in black morocco with gilt title to cover and spine with single fillet gilt border. This copy has the original dust jacket in plain paper with "In Memoriam-Tennyson Miniature Edition" printed on the cover and "In Memoriam" printed on the spine (fragile with both flaps just still attached, edges a bit chipped and generally a little handling patina- including some minuscule spots). 35 x 52 mm. Original publisher's full black leather binding (very slightly rubbed at corners). Bondy describes various versions of In memoriam and other poems, and other works by Tennyson issued by Bryce dated 1905, but not this version. Bondy, 115. Spielmann, 475. Welsh, 6645. OCLC, 250573537. WorldCat locates 3 copies worldwide (Rochester, Delaware and Indiana University Libraries). Scarce with dustjacket.

Circa 1900. viii, 184 printed pages. Full-page frontispiece illustration. Title page with Art Nouveau border decorations. All edges gilt. Pictorial endpapers. 62 x 92mm. Original burgundy roan in a yapp style binding (some pitting to covers, lower back corner very slighty damaged); spine with gilt lettering "Tennyson's Poems". Golden Thought series volumes/Dainty Little Library/Tartan series number 74. Garbett, 50. Welsh, 6637. This edition not in WorldCat.

xiv, 1472 printed pages -four volumes in one; separately and concurrently paginated (some corners slightly creased). Each of the four sections (Poems; Princess and Maud; In Memoriam and other Poems; Idylls of the King and other poems) opens with a black & white illustration and there are other additional black & white illustrations. 1924 tiny inscription of former owner on front free endpaper. Earlier owner's tiny stamp on recto of blank preliminary page. 34 x 53mm. Original orange cloth with lettering and spine decoration in silver (inner hinge cracked; slightly age-darkened and hint of a vertical crease in the spine's centre; page block slightly dust-toned). Provenance: L. and V.L. Davies (no further information available). Bryce published in 1905 a four-volume edition of Tennyson, which was followed by, or published simultaneously with, this one-volume edition. Bondy refers to this edition as "rare." Garbett only refers to copies in green cloth, blue roan or morocco and says that it is often found… Read More

J. Haddon, London, 1831 iv, 126 printed pages. Preface by "The Compiler". Lacks rear free endpaper, some page corner-tips creased or ocassionally nibbled. Leaves mildly and unevenly toned at edges. Rear hinge split. 65 x 52 mm. Contemporary burgundy morocco. Spine with gilt emblems and three bands of double fillet gilt ruling. Charming old repair on front hinge with fine leather stitches quite visible. Boards with single gilt fillet borders (very slight bowing and gently rubbed). Unrecorded title. Not in Bondy, not in Spielmann nor Welsh. No copies in WorldCat. Bondy does mention J.Haddon (page 129) as publishing a later (1830) edition of the well received religious title, The Dairyman's Daughter (Christie's Bible Warehouse, London, 1826). Haddon also printed a satirical broadsheet concerning the political situation in Greenwich, in the early 1830s. It is quite uncommon to identify a bona fide pre-Victorian (William iv) miniature book unseen by the previous experts and collectors..… Read More

London: Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1859 xii, 681 printed pages, plus 2 pages of publisher's adverts at the end. Frontispiece and 7 steel engraved plates. Extremely mild foxing. Hinges cracked but binding holding firm and sound. 13 x 19 cm. Original completely embossed, red decorative cloth. Spine with gilt lettering within elaborate gilt embossed design of siege and military weapons and hand tools- initialed by the designer "J.L." above the publisher's name at the foot. Upper cover with gilt embossed design of Turkish and British footsoldiers holding up a crenellated "Sebastopol" design above title lettering and a pile of fifteen cannon balls, all within a blind stamped scrolling border. The first edition of 1855 had been published two years earlier, before the sieges of Delhi and Lucknow in 1857 and lacked the additional two chapters written by Captain Spankie for this new edition. At the end, the author, retired Captain of the 48th Bengal Native Infantry of the East… Read More

Vito Schnabel. 20 Hoxton Square Projects, 2009 74 pages. Edition of 1000. 25.5 x 20.5 cm. White printed card covers. Green lettering along the spine and on the front cover. Sealed in original transparent publisher's shrink-wrapping. This publication accompanied the exhibition Theo A. Rosenblum: "I Didn't Know There Was Chicken In This Soup" that took place June 24 August 1, 2009 at 20 Hoxton Square in London, United Kingdom, presented by Vito Schnabel and 20 Hoxton Square. The art works, the artist s first solo show, included humorous paintings, sculptures and drawings influenced by comic books, horror films and medieval art, and allegorical painting. Rosenblum grew up in Manhattan; his mother, Jane Kaplowitz, is a painter, and his father, Robert Rosenblum, was curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum and a Professor at New York University. Rosenblum's work parodied the world around us and offered a visceral thrill, which provoked an immediate reaction… Read More

Robert Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street., 1789 Engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on later linen, very slight wear at corners. Map of England and Wales showing roads, cities, market towns, counties and distances. Includes explanation and references to the counties in upper left corner. 53.7 x 44.3 cm., slipcase in poor state, faded, slightly stained and worn marbled paper covers; but still remaining intact. Robert Sayer (17251794) was a leading publisher and seller of prints, maps and maritime charts in Georgian Britain. He was based near the Golden Buck on Fleet Street in London.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good.

Hampton's railway guide of the 1850's reproduced as miniature facsimile in January 1929. 62 printed pages (a few leaves with corner tips creased; printing quality is not sharp). Includes advertisements for Hotels Cecil, Great Northern Hotel, Liverpool Street Station, Belgravia, Metropole, Grand, Majestic, &c. On the inside rear cover is an ad for the National Provincial Union Bank. On the inside front, ads for Aertex Cellular and the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co. Along the spine it advertises Schweppes Table Waters. 12 x 20 mm. 0.5 x 0.75". Original tan card cover (slightly rubbed). Replica copy of one specially produced for Queen Mary's Doll's House. Photographic reproduction. Bondy calls it scarce in 1981. Spielmann says it is "a curiosity, of considerable rarity" (1961). Bondy, 153. Bromer, 114(photo). Spielmann, 1. Welsh, 8. WorldCat locates just 2 copies worldwide (Pierpont Morgan and University of Virginia).

Amstelodami, sumptibus Andreæ Frisii, 1670 Collation complete with all pages; 2 volumes in 1:De Tesseris Hospitalitatis [12], 227, [25]. Episcopi Aemoniensis Titus Livius 125, [17]. 28 engravings including 16 full-page engraved copper plates, 4 folding & 8 in-text. All edges speckled. Printed in Latin. Two small contemporary stamps and two ink numbers & abbreviations on blank endpapers. 8 x 14 cm. Full contemporary vellum binding with yapp fore-edges. Spine richly patinated with contemporary hand-written ink author and title at the top. Tomasini, Giacomo Filippo (1595-1655), was an Italian Catholic bishop, scholar and historian. These two works are bound together as expected, the first about hospitality and humanitarianism, the second about Livy and the antiquities of Pavia. They are found bound together in each example found and recorded in libraries & contain detailed engravings depicting large extravagant dinners, hospitality tokens, and portraits. Dissertation on the hospitality… Read More

James S. Hodson, London., 1858 viii, 214, [14] printed pages. Folding engraved map and 12 wood-block vignettes. Original yellow endpapers. Corrigenda and Addenda slip atfter page viii (a few marginal spots and one pin-prick hole in the margins of 211-2). 16 x 25 cm. Original green embossed cloth. Boards with blind-stamped floral borders (corners slightly bumped). Spine with embossed bands and gilt titling (some wear, particularly at head & tail and along hinges). Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins (1762 1841) was a legal writer and member of the Inner Temple (educated at St. Paul's School, London and Queen's College, Oxford). Jointly with his sister Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins he published a collection of short poems, Tributes of Affection by a Lady and her Brother, in 1797. Well researched topographical study and complete with detailed references and index. Tomlins lived at 3, Charles Street, Gibson Square, Islington.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

First edition. Large quarto. Unpaginated. 25 x 37 cm. Hessian-backed marbled boards. number 134 of 200 numbered copies, signed by the artist in ink under the limitation. Eighteen black and white plates by Julian Trevelyan. Commentary opposite each plate & two page introduction by Kathleen Raine. Printed by Daedalus Press, Stoke Ferry. Fine in very good, slightly nicked and rubbed dustwrapper, designed by Julian Trevelyan (with longish closed tear at head of front panel). Trevelyan RA (1910-88) was an English artist and poet who worked alongside artists including Max Ernst, Oskar Kokoschka, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso. From 1955 to 1963, Trevelyan worked at the Royal College of Art and became Head of the Etching Department. Because of his enthusiasm in his work and the desire to share it with others, Trevelyan became a highly influential teacher, with students including David Hockney, Ron Kitaj and Norman Ackroyd. He was an important leader of modern print techniques and today is regarded as a silent… Read More

First edition. Large quarto. Unpaginated. 25 x 37 cm. Hessian-backed marbled boards. number 134 of 200 numbered copies, signed by the artist in ink under the limitation. Eighteen black and white plates by Julian Trevelyan. Commentary opposite each plate & two page introduction by Kathleen Raine. Printed by Daedalus Press, Stoke Ferry. Fine in very good, slightly nicked and rubbed dustwrapper, designed by Julian Trevelyan (with longish closed tear at head of front panel). Trevelyan RA (1910-88) was an English artist and poet who worked alongside artists including Max Ernst, Oskar Kokoschka, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso. From 1955 to 1963, Trevelyan worked at the Royal College of Art and became Head of the Etching Department. Because of his enthusiasm in his work and the desire to share it with others, Trevelyan became a highly influential teacher, with students including David Hockney, Ron Kitaj and Norman Ackroyd. He was an important leader of modern print techniques and today is regarded as a silent… Read More

Leadenhalle Presse, 1884 146, [18] printed pages, many unopened. Illustrations. Printed in Pearl type on bank note paper of the highest quality. At head of title: Midget folio .The miniature book is embedded in the hollowed out blank leaves at the end of the enlarged edition. The larger book has 94 printed pages- some very occasional spotting, four blank leaves with contemporaneous newspaper cuttings pasted in (Mark Twain with the Typothetae, c. 1886), followed by 2 pages of publisher's adverts. 12 x 15 cm, original vellum, lacking ties; on the upper cover, below the gilt titling is the helpful advice "In unlocking this Forme see that the QUADS do not drop out" (priced "7/6"). The miniature book is 27 x 40 mm. Original gilt titled vellum (priced "2/6")with long silk ties (all but one intact). Quads are small metal blanks used by printers to fill up any gaps. The text contains English and American printer's jokes from the Paper and Printing Trades Journal, such as, Figures won't lie! Yes they will if… Read More

London : the London printing and publishing company / New York : A. W. Gittens, 1880 Two volumes bound in one. lxii, 192 printed pages. 12 tissue guarded, fine, steel engraved plates after J.M.W.Turner. Pages are bright, with just some scattered instances of foxing. Upper hinges are cracked yet still remaining firmly bound. 24 x 32 cm. In publisher's green embossed cloth binding with slightly worn printed paper spine label. Corners with just some slight bumping. Extreme edges of lower corners very slightly stained, not affecting the pages within. In the late summer and autumn of 1832, Turner toured the coast, countryside, and urban settlements of northern France, focusing most of his attention on Paris and its satellites, and also on the picturesque banks of the River Seine as it meanders through Normandy. His immediate aim was to gather materials for which he had been commissioned to provide illustrations for the publisher Charles Heath, a two-volume account of a leisurely cruise up the Seine… Read More