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Woodcut
Bryan Nash Gill's tree cross-section art
Bryan Nash Gill, foreword by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2012
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Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare
In a decorative painted calf binding, 6 vols including the Tragedies, Comedies, Biography and Doubtful Plays
William Shakespeare, edited by Charles Knight
Charles Knight, London, 1842
£150.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
Studies in Shakespeare
1849, a first edition of Charles Knight's critical notices
Charles Knight
Charles Knight, London, 1849
£80.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Practical Hints for Footplate Men
A pocket guide for railway works with fold-out illustrations
Not stated
Southern Railway, Traffic Department, London, 1945
£30.00
Transport | Hard Cover | First Editions
Letters on Cezanne
Rainer Maria Rilke's correspondence concerning Cezanne's paintings
Rainer Maria Rilke, edited by Clara Rilke. Translated by Joel Agee.
Jonathan Cape, London, 1988
£10.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Maria Callas
An early Dutch biography of the Diva
Leo Riemens
Bruna & Zoon A.W., Utrecht, 1960
£10.00
Maria Callas | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
An early 20th century copy
James Boswell
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1910
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
1910, in an attractive full-leather binding
William Shakespeare, edited by W J Craig
Henry Frowde, London, 1910
£25.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
The House on the Hill
1956, first UK edition, this copy signed to Neville Braybrooke from Derek Stanford and Muriel Spark
Cesare Pavese, translated by W J Strachan. Dustwrapper by Wendy Des Moulins.
Peter Owen, London, 1956
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Soutine's Portraits: Cooks, Waiters and Bellboys
The book to accompany the Courtauld's exhibtion of Chaim Soutine's portraits
Merlin James, with Karen Serres, and Barnaby Wright
Courtauld Gallery, London, 2017
£17.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
David Lance Goines: Posters
1985, a collection of all 114 posters created by Goines
David Lance Goines, introduction by Charles Shere
Alphabet Press, Natick, MA, 1985
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Case of the Abominable Snowman
Published in Hatchards Library limited edition series
Nicholas Blake, pseud. C Day Lewis
Vintage, London, 2019
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper | First thus
Crete, The Battle and the Resistance
1991, the first edition of Antony Beevor's history
Antony Beevor
John Murray, London, 1991
£25.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities
1890, with nearly 2000 wood engravings
Anthony Rich
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1890
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation
A pocket edition of The Venerable Bede's history
Venerable Bede
J M Dent, London, 1903
£12.00
History | Hard Cover
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron
1861, full leather binding with gauffered and gilt page edges
Lord Byron, introduction by Alexander Leighton
W P Nimmo, Edinburgh, 1861
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1876, an early printing of Lewis Carroll's classic
Lewis Carroll, illustrated by John Tenniel
Macmillan, London, 1876
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Fiction | Hard Cover
Ghost Stories and Presentiments
1888, Arthur Conan Doyle's first appearance in book form with five short stories of horror and the supernatural
Arthur Conan Doyle, contributor
George Redway, London, 1888
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Monet and Architecture
2018, how architecture and buildings feature in Monet's paintings
Richard Thomson
National Gallery, London, 2018
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
Lambeth's Open Spaces
An Historical Account
Marie P G Draper
London Borough of Lambeth, London, 1979
£20.00
Topography & Local Interest | Soft Cover | First Editions
Under the Flag and Somali-Coast Stories
Colonial memoirs in Africa in the 1880s and 1890s, including meeting Sir Richard Burton
Langton Prendergast Walsh
Andrew Melrose, London, 1932
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Mr Clive & Mr Page (Signed copy)
Signed by Neil Bartlett
Neil Bartlett
Serpent's Tail, London, 1996
£20.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Design for Applied Decoration in the Crafts
1959, John Farleigh's guide to decorating furniture and furnishings
John Farleigh
George Bell & Sons, London, 1959
£12.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Henry 'Chips' Channon, The Diaries 1918–38
Simon Heffer's editing of Volume One
Simon Heffer, editor
Hutchinson, London, 2021
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
L'Aviation Militaire Francaise
1936, a summary of the French air force—seaplanes, flying formations etc
Pierre Barjot, preface by General Vuillemin
J de Gigord, Paris, 1936
£12.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
