Waterlog. A swimmer's journey through Britain.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1999. 8vo. First edition. Original maroon paper-covered boards. With illustrations by David Holmes. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1999. 8vo. First edition. Original maroon paper-covered boards. With illustrations by David Holmes. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1981. 4to. Limited edition. #365 of 950 copies. Original maroon cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. The complete history of The Nonesuch Press with a very useful bibliographic catalogue.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1979. 8vo. Second impression. First published in 1978. Original green hardcovers, gilt. Signed and dated in black ink on the title page. Unclipped d/w is faded on the spine and parts of the front panel. There is a nick to the top edge of the back panel.....
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, 1898-1924. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. En Route is a fifth impression from 1922. The Cathedral & The Oblate are first editions. Original green cloth (buckram on The Cathedral), gilt. En Route and The Oblate have darkened spines. The Cathedral is faded on.....
London: The Fortune Press, [1953?]. 8vo. First UK printing(?). First published in English by The Fortune Press in 1930 but printed in France. First published in French in 1891. Original red cloth, gilt. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Price on front flap '15s.' Fine in fine d/w. The Fortune Press.....
London: Enitharmon Press, 1994. 8vo. First edition. Limited edition. #37 of 50 signed, hardback copies. Original buff cloth, inset illustration to front board, gilt. In clear acetate jacket as issued. Images by Graham Crowley. As new. Signed on the limitation page by Edward Upward, Katherine Bucknell and Graham Crowley. 'This.....
London: Bell & Hyman, 1983. 8vo. 11 volumes, set. Reprints except for the last two volumes. Original green buckram, gilt. Top edges stained green. All but the last volume have a bookplate on the flyleaf. Just a little rubbing to the extremities of some jackets. Near fine in near fine.....
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858-9. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. First edition in book form. Contemporary navy half morocco, gilt, by Morrell, London. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece and title page to each volume. With illustrations on steel and wood by the author. Spines slightly faded. Extremities a little.....
London: Country Life, Limited, 1927. Folio. First edition. Original maroon buckram, gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Numerous drawings and black and white photographs throughout. Spine faded. Light wear to corner tips and spine ends and two tiny tears to the cloth towards the top edge of the back board.....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1983. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Portrait frontispiece and thirteen illustrations. D/w slightly faded and tanned on the spine. Faint mark on the front panel. Fine in near fine d/w. 'The present edition is the first to offer the 1653 Compleat Angler followed by.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1924-31. 8vo. 5 volumes, set. First editions (except for volume 1 which is a second impression two months after the first). Original black cloth with printed paper labels to spines. Frontispiece and a few other plates to each volume. Spine labels tanned and slightly rubbed. Spine.....
Swindon: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1996. 4to. First edition. Original maroon hardcovers, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white, with some folding plans. Fine in fine d/w. Includes, amongst many others, Drayton House, as featured in the film 'Saltburn'.
London: The Fortune Press, 1952. 8vo. First UK edition. First published in Brussels in 1882. Original red cloth, gilt. Frontispiece by William Bird. Unclipped d/w is slightly dusty. Fine in near fine d/w. The translator contributes a Note at the back of the book. Scarce in this condition.
London and New Haven: Penguin Books & Yale University Press, 1983-2005. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. Volumes 1-4 published by Penguin Books. Volumes 5 & 6 are first impressions by Yale University Press. Original black rexine hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections in volumes 1-4, colour in volumes 5.....
London, Sydney, Toronto: The Bodley Head, 1970. 4to. Second edition. First published by Oxford University Press. Original illustrated paper boards. Printed by William Clowes & Sons Ltd. 51 illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, including title page vignette, 26 pen drawings and 24 watercolours. Bookplate of Andrew Murray on the flyleaf. Unclipped.....
Dublin: Guinness, 1936. 8vo. 24 page stapled pamphlet. Illustrated card covers. Illustrations by Rex Whistler. Staples rusted as usual. Covers a little tanned and marked. Near fine. The fourth of the miscellanies issued by Guinness to doctors at Christmas between 1933 and 1966.
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1974. Crown 8vo. First edition. Original navy buckram, gilt. Top edge stained blue. With 51 illustrations (4 in colour) and 5 maps. Presentation label on the flyleaf. D/w faded on the spine with some rubbing to the extremities and a couple of very short closed tears.....
London: The Architectural Press, 1934. 8vo. First edition. Original ring binding with card covers. Four coloured maps and numerous black and white photographs throughout. Advertisement for Shell on the Road at the rear by Edward Bawden. Ring binding twisted. Front cover partially detached, very worn and wrinkled. Back cover missing.....
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1946. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Ink presentation on the flyleaf, 'To Yvonne (who asked for them) With love from Jocelyn'. Unclipped d/w with light toning to the spine and back panel, tiny loss to the spine ends and rubbing to the.....
London: Allen Lane, 1983. 8vo. First UK edition. First published in Germany as Die Unendliche Geschichte in 1979. Original red cloth, gilt. Illustrated by Roswith Quadflieg. The unclipped d/w a rather faded and a bit browned. Fine in near fine d/w.
London: Macmillan, 1986. 8vo. First UK edition. (First published in America in 1982). Original green cloth, gilt. Fine in fine d/w. The first of the 'alphabet series' of crime novels featuring Kinsey Millhone, a private investigator in Santa Teresa, California. Sue Grafton died in 2017 having reached 'Y' is for.....
London: The Fortune Press, 1969. 8vo. First UK edition. Original red hardcovers, gilt. Unclipped d/w very slightly dusty. Fine in fine d/w. Scarce in this condition.
London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1897. 8vo. Second impression one month after the first. Rebound in half navy leather, gilt, with marbled paper boards and endpapers by Hatchards of Piccadilly. All edges gilt. With illustrations by I. W. Taber. Light foxing throughout. Near fine.
Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 2000. 4to. Limited edition. One of 200 copies (from an edition of 310, of which 270 were for sale) with an extra engraved illustration by Barry Moser. Original quarter terracotta cloth with wood veneer paper boards. Paper label to spine and gilt device to front.....
London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1936. 8vo. First edition. Original black plastic comb binding with 'Buckinghamshire' silver gilt. Two coloured maps and numerous black and white photographs throughout. Advertisement for Shell on the Road at the rear by Edward Bawden. Just a little rubbing to the cover edges. Contents clean.....