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Firenze: Cittadino Fiorentino, 1723. Book. Fair. Full-Leather. First Edition. Published in 1723 and bound Brown leather - The original brown leather binding is rubbed, frayed and worn some pieces missing off of the front boards. There are marks where a bookplate has been removed from front pastedown. The pages are cream in colour but are in very good condition. The first 176 pages are La Fiammetta and the remaining 88 pages consists of Il Corbaccio - a truly rare book. The book deserves rebinding....

London: Bodley Head, 1967. Book. Fine. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No 152 of 500 numbered copies signed by the author and specially bound Quarter cloth, patterned boards Fine copy in original glassine wrapper. A fine copy in near new condition..

London: T. Osborne, 1738. Book. Good. Leather. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. In 1737 William Oldys, who was later librarian to the Earl of Oxford, published anonymously The British Librarian, in six monthly numbers from January to June, 1737. Among the works discussed are Hakluyt's Voyages, Froissart's Chronicles, Caxton's translation of Virgil's Aeneid, Sir Thomas More's English works. Old calf with five raised bands over cords to the spine, worn and rubbed, joints cracked but both boards still attached by the cords, old (19th C.) paper library labels to the spine. Contents good, tight and complete... Pages good, slightly creamed, page edges faded red..

London: Elliot Stock, 1886. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. GREY GREEN CLOTH WITH GILT TITLES TO SPINE AND FRONT PANEK, DECORATED WITH BRANCHES OF TREES. With 6 photographic plates pasted in, 1 plan (of photograph II) several plans and tables in text and decorative engraved head- and tail-pieces. Original title on cloth, gilt title on cover, untrimmed. Gardening manual with tissue protected early photographs. For the suburban gardener, 'natural' gardens, old-fashioned flowers and the preservation of trees are encouraged, and the author has aimed to provide layout designs and plant lists for a year-round display. A rare and fascinating early example.

London: Visual-editions, 2013. Book. Near Fine. Box, Softcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First printing, a Card Box, containing 16 personal maps and stories. Each one exploring the idea of what a map can be....

London: John Murray, 1959. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). Reissue. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Pale cream cloth with gilt titles on spine. Dustjacket with a few nicks and cuts. Binding is very good, two small marks on page edges and one on rear DJ edge. Compiled and with an introduction by the Earl of Bikenhead. Signed by John Betjeman with best wishes to the PO. This book is in lovely condition..

ludgate hill, London: Trubner and Co, 1887. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. decorative cloth, gilt titles to spine, black decorations and titling to front cover. Some shelfwear, Cloth Covered Boards. Condition: Good. First Edition. 'An attempt to throw additional light upon the late Mr. Charles Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection.' A good to very good copy. Images available.

London: Faber, 1958. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Brown cloth with light blue titles on the spine. Dustjacket in good condition in protective wrapper but with a little edge wear. Very good ccollectable condtion..

London: Gresham, 1913. Book. Illus. by Claude A. Shepperson. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The aften Burns. (The poetical works of Robert Burns) Edited with Biographical Introduction by Charles Annandale. Music harmonized by Harry Colin Miller. FOUR VOLUME SET: Volume One, first few pages loose.: Preface; Sketch of the Poet's Life; Index to First Lines and Titles. Color fp w/ tissue overlay and five full page sepia plates w/ tissue overlays. Volume Two. Index of First Lines and Titles; Autobiographic Letter of Burns to Dr Moore. Color fp w/ tissue overlay and seven full page sepia plates w/ tissue overlays. Volume Three: xii + 187 pp. Index to First Lines and Titles. Color fp w/ tissue overlay and five full page sepia plates w/ tissue overlays. Volume Four: Songs with Music Prefatory Note; Index to Titles and First Lines of Songs. Color fp w/ tissue overlay. Bound in red cloth with very attractive gilt decorative designs entirely over front… Leer más

Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs Book. Very Good. Calf Leather. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Leather spine with six bands, with gilt titles and illustrations. Marbled boards with leather corners. (edges shelworn) Endpapers marbled. Text in French. Top edge is gilt. Beautifully illustrated with 180 vignettes by Fragonard Pere, C. Boulanger, etc. And Staal.

London: William Heinemann, 1919. Book. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur. Very Good. Cloth Spine, Decorative Boards. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Really beautiful copy of retold by C.S.Evan's and illustrated by Rackham's Cinderella - (images available). Corners bumped..

London: Macmillan and Co, 1929. Book. Illus. by Thomas Mackenzie. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. Signed by Illustrator(s). First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Vellum spines with decorative cloth boards. Gilt titles on spine. Light shelwear with bumped corners. Binding very good with bright and clean pages. Printed in an limited edition of 325 copies, on English hand made paper. With Plates in Drypoint By Thomas Mackenzie and an Introductory Essay By J.C.Squire In Two Volumes. The first plate sign by Thomas MacKenzie..

New York: Semiotext(e), 1985. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. good condition with minimal wear, aging, or shelf wear. Read with some underlining nearly all in pencil. Rare..

London: George Harrap, 1946. Book. Very Good ++. Quarter Leather. Signed by Author and Illustrator. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is number 46 of 110 copies printed in Monotype Fournier on Millburn hand-made paper and signed by Nina Gooden and Stephen Gorden. It has an engraved title-page and one other full-page copper engraving by Stephen Gooden. Quarter black calf with gilt spine titling, with cream canvas sides that have some light shelwear marks, pages rough cut. A very good copy. Contents include Damocharis the Grammerian, Abu Shamaqmaq, T.S. Elliot, George Turberville, De La Fontaine, Mathew Prior, William Cowper, Shelley, Keats, Baudelaire, Rosamond Marriot Watson, Harold Monro, Edmond Rostand, William Rose Benet etc... (a wonderful anthology)..

London: Cresset Press, 1961. Book. Very Good. Original Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. A very good set of three small volumes - The Girl on the Baggage Truck, We're Friends Again & Imagine Kissing Pete. This set is number 25 of 525 copies and is signed by the author on the limitation page of 'The Girl on the Baggage Truck'. Very bright, fresh interior. All have tight and clean bindings. Green title block on ivory spine lettered in gilt. Faux-vellum spines show no wear. Green/white marbled boards. Sharp corners, no wear. All volumes have their original glassine wrappers. A hint of age at upper edge of glassine on spines. Vol. I states, "This edition printed on mould made paper and signed by the author is limited to 525 copies. The 25 of this copy is 351." Slipcase is charcoal/white marbled paper with paper title label in b/w. The slip-case is in good condition with some rubbing/wear to edges, and signs of wear at the bottom beneath… Leer más

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. In three volumes , brown leather spine with guilt titles, 6 raised bands, corners are in brown leather, marbled boards. Bookplates of William Butler on front pastedown. The fourth volume is bound exactly the same but publised by John Murray. A beautiful set, very sound..

London: Blackie, 1892. Book. Very Good. Leather. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Introduction by Dr F.R.Lees. 4 volumes in 2 books. Illustrated with an extensive series of portraits in both books. Includes history of alcoholic liquors, laws, temperance efforts from earliest period to 1820, origin of modern temperance movement, teetotalism, moderation, tee-total societies in various places like Yorkshire and Wales, temperance legislation, america, canada, people and pioneers of temperance, and more. Both books are 1/2 leather and cloth, 5 raised bands on spines, gilt lettering and decoration, spine ends and edges have some wear and rubbing, some rubbing to cloth, owner name inside, very light foxing on some endpapers. ; Engraved Portraits;.

New York: Macmillan and Co, 1884. Book. Illus. by Arthur B. Frost and Henry Holiday. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Red cloth with gilt borders and gilt tiltes on spine and front boards. Spine is a little faded. Arts and crafts end papers, tissue protected frontespiece... Includes The Hunting of the Snark, Phantasmagoria, the three voices.... A very good copy internally...(Fisrt US edition).

London: John Murray, 1831. Book. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The works of Lord Byron: in six volumes complete with a frontespiece to each volume. A very good early set of Byron in the original binders cloth - with original paper labels to each spine. The bindings are sound and the pages clean and tight but with light age spots on age edges. This is a rare printers binding set in very good condition for books 170++ years old.

London: John Murray, 1833. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. This is a complete uniform set all published in 1833 - it is the first complete set of the works of Byron - with Letters and Journals and His Life By Thomas Moore. All in green cloth - volume 1 with dark green with gilt text paper label to spine. The remaining copies all have gilt titles directly on the spine. All the volumes are in extremely good condition with some light bumping on corners. The binding and internals are extremely good. A beautiful set of the first published collected works of Byron..