Browse by Attribute—Fine Bindings
The Holy Bible (1922, Christ's Hospital binding)
A very nice copy, with 15 coloured maps
Holy Bible
Humphrey Milford, London, 1922
£40.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
Erotic Ex Libris Exhibition (with signed bookplate, and unique leather binding)
Also signed by artists and curators, from the collection of Gordon R Smith
Dr Iva Tauferova, & Ing. Tatána Macurová (introduction)
Municipal Cultural Centre, Havirov, Czech Republic, 2002
£120.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate
Memoires de Casanova (1955, unique leather binding & signed bookplates)
With 32 colour plates by Brunelleschi, and two signed bookplates for Gordon Smith by David Bekker
Casanova, edited by Rene Groos. Illustrated by Brunelleschi
Gibert Jeune, Librairie d'Amateurs, Paris, 1955
£300.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate
Les Amores (1954, the artist's proof copy, and with signed bookplate)
Ovid's verse in prose, limited edition, with illustrations by Paul-Emile Becat
Ovid, as Ovide, translated by George Vertut. Illustrated by Paul-Emile Becat
Editions Athena, Paris, 1954
£100.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate
Thais (1948, in a unique leather binding)
With 10 colour lithographs by Suzanne Ballivet, and from the library of Gordon R Smith with a signed Lynn Paula Russell bookplate
Anatole France, illustrated by Suzanne Ballivet
Aux Editions du Livre, Monte Carlo, 1948
£120.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | First thus | Illustrated | Slipcase
Dévergondages, Souvenirs Érotiques (1937, in a unique leather binding)
With 12 colour plates by DD, and from the library of Gordon R Smith with a signed Lynn Paula Russell bookplate
Spaddy, (pseud. Johannes Gros), illustrated by Berthomme Saint-Andre and DD. Bookplate signed by Lynn Paula Russell
A la Fontaine des Nymphes [Maurice Duflou], Paris, 1937
£300.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate
Daphnis and Chloe (1937, signed by Aristide Maillol)
Limited edition 54/250, additionally inscribed by Anton Zwemmer to E L T Mesens
Longus, translated by George Thornley, illustrated by Aristide Maillol
A Zwemmer, London, 1937
£700.00
Classics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Fine Bindings | Association Copy | Illustrated | Slipcase
The House of Life (1898, The Siddal Edition)
An attractive silk-bound copy of D G Rossetti's sonnet sequence
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, frontispiece by Arthur Ellis
Ellis and Elvey, London, 1898
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
Epitome Rerum Germanicarum ab Anno MDCXVII ad XLIII Gestarum
1644, vellum, A Summary of German Affairs, regarding the events from the year 1617 to 1643, including the Thirty Years War
Leonhard Pappus
Not stated, [Lugdunum Batavorum, Leiden], 1644
£200.00
History | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
Le Manuscrit de Ma Mere
Half-vellum binding, 1886. Alphonse de Lamartine's editing of his mother's diary
Alphonse De Lamartine
Libraire Hachette, Paris, 1886
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
Corona Benignitatis Anni Dei
1920. Paul Claudel's French poetry in an attractive leather binding from Hachette
Paul Claudel
Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paris, 1920
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
L'Annonce faite à Marie
1914, a French edition of Claudel's The Tidings Brought to Mary, in a half-leather binding by Hachette
Paul Claudel
Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paris, 1914
£25.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
The Poems of William Wordsworth
1854, in a full leather binding with marbled page edges
William Wordsworth
Edward Moxon, London, 1854
£45.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
The Lady of the Lake
1853, Walter Scott's poem in an attractive gilt binding
Walter Scott, illustrated by Birket Foster and John Gilbert
A & C Black, Edinburgh, 1853
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Illustrated
Prince Otto, A Romance
1906, a fine blue leather Bumpus binding on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1885 novel
Robert Louis Stevenson
Chatto & Windus, London, 1906
£60.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
Carlisle House, Carlisle Street, Soho, London
1936, a rare if brief history, in a fine Bickers & Son full leather binding
J Brooke Wilkinson, author identified by printed initials at end of text
British Board of Film Censors, London, 1936
£50.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
A Catalogue of the Pictures in the Garrick Club
1936, half-vellum, a comprehensive list with biographies
C K Adams, compiler
The Garrick Club, London, 1936
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings
Die Vielgeliebte Frau; George Sand und ihre Freunde in Briefen und Dokumenten
Signed by Lili Turel, one of only 20 copies in a hand-made leather binding
Lili Turel
O C Recht Verlag, Munchen, 1922
£50.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
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 | Bookplate
