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.
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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. Loosely inserted is the publisher's description insisting that it is strictly embargoed until 24th May 1999 and ' a personal journey, a bold assertion of the native swimmer's right.....
Thrice Welcome.
London: Southern Railway of England, 1935. 16mo. First edition. Original printed paper wraps. Stapled. Wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. A vignette at the start of each of the three sections and a small engraving on the title page of a beach with white cliffs and a lighthouse. Colour folding map.....
Military Maps of Southern England (1940). Geographical Section, General Staff. No. 3907 (One Inch to a Mile).
London: The Ordnance Survey for The War Office, 1940. 42 linen-backed sheet maps covering most of Southern England. Contained in a brown leather-covered hinged case with metal reinforcements at the corners and an Index to the maps housed in the lid. The external dimensions are 29 x 20 x 14.....
Guide des Objets Exposes dans le Pavillon du Royaume Uni. 1937 Exposition Internationale Paris AND Guide to the Exhibits in the Pavilion of the United Kingdom, International Exhibition, Paris 1937.
London: H.M.S.O., 1937. 8vo. First edition. Full brown morocco with blind-stamped rule around borders and gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Original printed wrappers with designs by Eric Ravilious on front and back bound in. Light shelf wear otherwise fine. Both the French and English texts of the catalogue.....
English Homes. Norman & Plantagenent; Early Tudor; Mediaeval & Early Tudor; Late Tudor & Early Stuart; Late Stuart; Sir John Vanbrugh & His School; Early Georgian; Late Georgian.
London: Country Life, 1920-37. Folio. 9 volumes, set. First editions. Original quarter blue buckram with blue cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. (The blue of the buckram used varies owing to the length of time between publications.) All edges gilt and marbled endpapers (with the exception of Periods I......
The British Stable.
New Haven & London: Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2004. 4to. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Photography by William Curtis Rolfe. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. 'Nearly every British architect of note.....
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