Search Results: Titles starting with B from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

Shadowlab. Morten Andersen, 2011 [288 unnumbered printed pages]. Signed by the author & photographer on the title page (printed in blue). Two page introduction by Dorota Sacha-Krol. Colophon page at back. 144 full-page photographic reproductions on good quality paper. First edition of 600 copies. 24 x 18 cm. This is Morten Andersen's 12th photobook, published in conjunction with the 2011 Podium, Oslo Exhibition Morten Andersen: Black and Blue. Morten Andersen revisits his out of print books Fast City , Oslo F and Color F with hitherto unpublished images in a profound photographic examination of the Scandinavian city Oslo. The images are dark, grainy, and mysterious. People, conspicuously absent from most pages, congregate in bars, train stations, and parking lots, appearing both approachable and unavailable at the same time. Blurred lights, deserted streets, and austere building facades are juxtaposed with half drunk coffee cups, empty bubble baths, and cigarette butts, suggesting a busy human… Read More

The OutingPublishing Company. New York, 1907 Red Pictorial Cloth in Good condition. American First Edition. Illustrated with 7 plates by N. C. Wyeth and Frank E. Schoonover. 8vo - 19.5 x 13 cm. A nice copy of this very scarce First American Editon. [Copyright lines read: "Copyright, 1906, 1907 by The Outing Publishing Company, Entered at Stationer's Hall, London, England". The colophon page at the rear reads "Set up, electrotyped and printed at TheOuting Press Deposit NewYork"] Red cloth pictorial cover with gold lettering and a black and white cowboy image is in good condition. Front gutter has a vertical split. Corners gently bumped. Back cover has a stain from top. Top page edges have some dust darkening. Pages generally clean and crisp, though scattered browning is evident. to bottom. White lettering on spine is faded and red cloth is darkened. Binding is a little loose. Preliminaries and lower corners are a little thumbed. Book is 382 pages and represents Hopalong… Read More

The Nonesuch Press, 16 Great James Street, London, 1926 124 pages, Folio. No DJ. Limited Edition of 1650 copies, of which this is no.804. Six full-page illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer. Text reproduced from that of the First Edition (1856) of "The Piazza Tales". Printed in the Walbaum type, pictures hand-colored through stencils at the Curwen Press upon Van Gelder paper. 31.5 x 21 cm. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering along spine. Bevelled edges. Spine slightly faded. [McKitterick, Rendall, & Dreyfus, 36]. Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954) rose to fame as a poster designer for London Transport & Shell. His illustrations for this book (printed by the Curwen Press0 used watercolour or gouache. Desmond Flower, quoted in Haworth-Booth's biography of Kauffer, states that the frontispiece to Benito Cereno is "one of the most brilliant designs ever conceived; with pen and two tints- grey and mauve - he built up a shimmering design of a ship becalmed at last light which has… Read More

2 preliminary leaves, 29, [63] printed pages. Printed in green and blue , within decorative printed frames on each leaf. Decorated blue floral endpapers. Contemporary ownership inscription on top of half-title page. 76 x 74 mm. Original green embossed cloth (slightly rubbed, corners slightly worn & marked; spine slightly faded). Devotional christian old & new testament quotations within attractive floral colour illustrations. Bondy, 133. Welsh, 1238 -Ruth Adomeit's copy is the only one noted. WorldCat locates one copy, in Canada.

10 parchment pages. Manuscript title page in neat contemporary ink hand, followed by nine leaves of contemporary miniature portrait photographs (8 portraits) mounted on hand painted garlands of flowers, each differerent, with hand-penned descriptions below each image, on verso only. Circa 1890. All edges gilt. 54 x 70 mm. Original brown floral blind-stamped cloth with double blind fillet borders (very slightly rubbed); "Bijou Album" in gilt across front cover. Constitutes images of the church itself and portays Pope Leo xiii, the rectors past & current, the Provincials past and current, a Passionist author, the vicar and the Brother in charge of the building works. Paul of the Cross had talked about seeing the cross of Christ on the forehead of the poor . His Rule arrived in England only in 1841. After the potato famine started in Ireland in 1847, there was a massive flow of Irish Catholics into the poorest parts of cities like Liverpool, Birmingham and London. St. Joseph's Retreat, Highgate Hill was… Read More

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.

Cambridge University Press, 1832 Sixth edition. Gold foiling on front cover reading 'King Edward's School Bruton 1834'. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Full vellum binding, cover in good condition with minor discolouration. Some spotting on first few pages. Two ownership inscriptions on front free end paper, "John Bradley Byrne from his uncle Henry Byrne" and "ex libris John [?] Campbell". This is possibly the mathematician John Campbell (1862-1924) from Oxford who was best known for his contribution to the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula for multiplication of exponentials.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Circa 1901. Diamond 128mo. 688 printed pages. Frontispiece. India paper. All edges gilt over red. Rounded corners. White vertically embossed original endpapers (slightly browned). 48 x 56mm. Original ruby morocco; spine with double fillet gilt rules and gilt block lettering (slightly worn at head and tail). Unusual composite ivorine plaques on boards (back plaque with two short cracks and a minuscule chip); upper cover with image after Rubens' Angels in relief. Mentions Edward vii and Alexandra on page 71. The ivorine composite material was sometimes used, most often but not exclusively on prayer books, in imitation of ivory as a more economic and more industrialised process. Also known as Parkesine and Xylonite, the heyday of its use was from around 1870 until about 1910. Charles Courtier & Sons was an uncommon imprint of a London bookseller. Welsh, 1867. OCLC, 424522515. WorldCat locates five copies (just one in the UK).

Diamond 48mo. 414 + 190 unnumbered pages (lacking final leaf of Psalms table; some offsetting or age-toning on title page). Charming contemporary ink inscription facing title page on blank preliminary page. Inner gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. 52 x 93mm. Contemporary or very slightly later tan calf; spine in compartments with scrolling gilt floral devices, similar cornerpieces and decorative horizontal borders above and below gilt titling. Covers with blind pointille borders within gilt rules with floral cornerpieces , borders that match the spine , all within double fillet gilt rules (corners and hinges very lightly rubbed). Provenance:"Harriet Whitwell, born March 14th, 1834 Christened St. Mary's, Islington March 8th, 1835. Born 7 minutes past 11 o'clock Night" -making Harriet a Pisces (no further information)! Poets Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady produced this famous work, New Version of the Psalms of David in 1696, a metrical version of the Psalms that largely supplanted T. Sternhold and J.… Read More

Ruby 32mo. 480 + 120 unnumbered pages. All text printed within panelled borders (title page a little soiled at the bottom). All edges gilt. Original pale yellow endpapers. Contemporary dedication on the front pastedown dated 1888. Provenance: W.J. Gratton. 70 x 100mm. Original blue velvet, ornately cut-out brass plaque on front with decorations and "Common Prayer" engraved. Original decorative brass clasp, the reverse of the clasp has the name ' J. Blackwood ' engraved. Very faint vertical line impressed on the lower board. Tarnish to some parts of trim and the clasp is slightly twisted but works efficiently in closing the book. Top of the gilt trim is a little uneven at the open end. Small marks at the top of the page edges. OCLC, 220523839. WorldCat locates 4 copies.

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

Gurney and Jackson London, 1924 In original green cloth, with corners slightly bumped and spine very marginally shelf worn. Top edges gilt. 19 coloured plates by W.H. Riddell and 170 sketches by the author. Maps, diagrams &c. Dustwrapper has some stains on the spine and is overall somewhat worn but complete. With ownership book-late of Edward S De Stein on front paste down endpaper. Stein, Sir Edward Adolphe Sinauer de Stein(18871965), was a merchant banker.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair.

32 printed pages. Printed by Townsend, Exeter. Small, attractive booklet listing in calendar form events both domestic and international (eg. terific gale in England on 24th November 1877, abolition of paper duty in 1860, Siege of Paris in Franco-Prussian war in 1860, and the Russo-Turkish War in 1877), and advertising various medicines and goods available at publisher William Gregory's chemist's shop. Adverts for herbal and homeopathic remedies, beauty and bathroom products, cookery and household items, local guide books and facilities such as bath-chair and boat hire. It also describes "The Weymoth Bouquet. An exquisite refreshing perfume, possessing all the fragrance of the fresh flowers. In each bright drop there is a spell,'tis from the soil we love so well" . There is presumably a barely still aromatic sachet of this Weymouth bouquet sandwiched into the back cover by the printers Townsend of Exeter in a remarkable and rare Victorian promotional commercial experiment. Slight discolouration and… Read More

2007 Book is complete with dustwrapper an in new condition.. Hardcover. New/Very Good.

London: Stephen Couchman for the author, sold by Sherwood, Neely and Jones., 1811 VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of a work originally issued in 48 parts. 69 (of 96, in the first two 1811 volumes) hand-coloured etched plates by Graves, William Samuel Howitt and Weddell after Graves, Howitt and Sydenham Teak Edwards (occasional light browning or spotting). 15 x 25 cm. Modern burgundy half calf, spines gilt, rubbed and worn. Incomplete first edition first two volumes with 69 fine bird plates drawn, engraved and hand-coloured mostly by George Graves, (a few plates after Samuel Howitt and Sydenham Edwards, and engraved by Weddell and Warner). With 42 plates of the first volume and 27 plates of the second volume, this collection presents nearly three-quarters of all the plates in the first two volumes. It was available with the plates in both coloured and uncoloured form-these are coloured. Graves' etched plates are "notable for their softness and considerable charm and form an interesting link between… Read More

860 printed pages on India paper (many page corners creased, text block somewhat dust and fingermarked). Ink inscription dated 1917 (some offsetting). Marbled endpapers. 40 x 60mm. Original yapp edged dark purple suede (very slightly rubbed). Title in gilt on upper cover. Provenance: M.H.Mudie. Mudie, treasurer of Our Boys Institute, worked among the Parsees in India, claimed that Bombay, although it had millions of inhabitants, had fewer than 2,000 Christians. Mudie then addressed the women in the 1906 Keswick Christian evangelist convention audience, "If some of you dear sisters could join our devoted Zenana workers, what a blessing it would be to many among the 150 millions of women in India." Bondy, 108. Garbett, 40. Welsh, 2392. WorldCat locates nine copies world wide, two of those in the UK.

vii, 433 double pages (some page corners sightly creased; preliminary leaves and page block very slightly dusty). To comfortably read this book you have to rotate it 90 degrees. Marbled endpapers. 48 x 60mm. Yapp style binding. Original brown calf (very slightly rubbed). Lettering on upper cover in gilt "Thumb Gazetteer". Particularly detailed for the UK and for North America; every town of at least 2,000 inhabitants recorded. The UK Census of 1891 recorded a total population of England, Wales and Scotland as 33,015,701. Bondy, 104. Garbett, 13. Houghton, 18. Welsh, 6717. WorldCat locates only two copies in the UK (British Library and the National Library of Scotland) and four in the USA (Newberry Library & Illinois, Indiana and Virginia Universities).

Safari Press, 2006 Complete with original, matching green cloth slipcase. Copy 499/500, signed and limited.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Oxford: : Printed by the University-Printers., 1701 Text printed in double columns. A-Z2,2A, Z3-Z6, 2A4 (1728), Z8-2B1, 2 leaves no signatures (Restauration of Royal Family, 1692), 2B-2B4 (final leaf). The special services and a few other leaves have been inserted from other editions. Copper engraved fontispiece portrait of Queen Anne (unsigned, very early regal portrait without crown, necklace or sceptre, but with Royal coat of arms- Anne was not crowned until 23rd April 1702 -1701 is the publication date of this book, the year before- and only reigned for five years, 55 days). 42 copper engraved plates. Owner's signature on front free endpaper (Edward Chippendall. 19th Regiment. 1st July 1853). Some occasional spotting, and creased corners (particularly in the first gathering-binder's error) with a very few marginal tears, contemporary ink scribblings and small ink stains. 12 x 19.5 cm. Contemporary black goatskin, spine with slightly raised bands and double fillet gilt rules (split with 1 x… Read More