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.....
Tunbridge Wells: Longcross Press, 1996. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt. D/w slightly faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. The first edition of this idiosyncratic but authoritative companion. 'Perhaps the last one-man reference work in the tradition of Dr Johnson.' I remember the late Simon.....
London: HarperCollins, 1995. 8vo. First edition. Paperback issue (simultaneous with the hardcover edition). Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Small faint stain to fore edge and half title. Bottom corner of the back cover slightly creased. In non-adhesive clear covering. Near fine. 'The New Naturalists reveals for the.....
London: Picador, 1995. 8vo. First UK edition of this translation. Original half black cloth with black paper-covered boards. Jackets and slipcase designed by Chip Kidd and Barabara de Wilde. Mint in slipcase.
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1977. 8vo. First edition. Original blue hardcovers, gilt. Top edge lightly foxed. D/w with trivial loss to corner tips but also three very short closed tears which have been repaired on the reverse. Near fine in very good dust-wrapper. A nice copy of a......
London: Collins, 1990. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Set in Cambridge in 1912, this is as wryly amusing as any of the author's other wonderful novels. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1990.
London: Andre Deutsch in association with Country Life, 1988. 4to. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Top and fore edge lightly foxed. Large bookplate (of Roy and Nina Merley) on front paste down. Near fine in fine dust-wrapper.
London: Hutchinson, 1975. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, silvergilt. D/w spine very slightly faded. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. The author's second novel and one of the classics of the spy genre. 'To say that the assassination of John F. Kennedy is at the heart of The Tears of.....
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1926. 4to. First edition. Original paper-covered boards. Colour frontispiece. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Spine a bit tanned. Light foxing to spine and edges of boards. Ink presentation inscription on flyleaf, 'To Harold with all good wishes from Percy V. Bradshaw, Christmas.....
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1925. 4to. First edition. Original paper-covered boards. Colour frontispiece. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Spine a bit tanned and faded. A few small marks to front and back panels. Very slight rubbing to spine ends and corner tips. Near fine. Vying with Suburbia (1922).....
[London] & New York: The Nonesuch Press & Random House Inc., 1931. 8vo. Volume 6 only of a 7 volume set. Limited edition of 1050 copies. Full tan niger morocco ruled and lettered in gilt. Raised bands on spines. Top edge gilt others untrimmed. Fine. An odd volume of the.....
[London] & New York: The Nonesuch Press & Random House Inc., 1931. 8vo. Volume 4 only of a 7 volume set. Limited edition of 1050 copies. Full tan niger morocco ruled and lettered in gilt. Raised bands on spines. Top edge gilt others untrimmed. Very slight scuffing to the spine.....
New Haven and London: Yale Center for British Art/ Royal Academy and Yale University Press, 2007. 4to. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Published to coincide with an exhibition in Connecticut and London, the hardcover edition is uncommon.....
Bedford: Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, 2002. 4to. First edition. Original grey cloth. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. 4to. First edition. Original orange cloth, gilt. Price-clipped d/w has several large tears which have been repaired with tape. Contents clean. Fine in good dust-wrapper.
Hanover and London: The Boston Athenaeum (distributed by University Press of New England), 2009. 4to. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour. D/w slightly faded on the spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Brochures about the Club and its painting and sculpture collections are loosely inserted. Uncommon.....
Cambridge, Mass & London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985. 4to. First edition. Original grey cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. First editions. Original navy cloth, gilt. Top edges stained blue. Jackets designed by Michael Harvey. Fine in fine d/ws.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983. 8vo. Third edition. First issued in 1956. Original terracotta cloth, gilt. Jacket design by Michael Harvey. D/w faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. This edition is uncommon in hardback.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege for Oxford University Press, 1948-54. Crown 8vo. 11 volumes, set. Firsts thus. First published between 1864 and 1880. Original brown buckram, gilt. Issued in powder blue slipcases in two volumes, except for The Duke's Children. With illustrations by Lynton Lamb, T.L.B. Huskinson, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Hector Whistler and.....
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege for Oxford University Press, 1952. Crown 8vo. First thus. First published in 1855. Original brown buckram, gilt. Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Offsetting to front endpapers from a loose insert (newspaper clipping?) now lost. D/w very slightly rubbed. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Arthur Barker Ltd, 1955. First edition thus. First published by John Murray in 1849. Original blue cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Photographs by Ralph Richmond Brown. Neat ink ownership on fly. Clipped d/w is a bit rubbed and has small loss at the head of the spine.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1937. 8vo. First edition. Original terracotta buckram, gilt. Top edge stained red. Unclipped d/w a bit rubbed at edges, with small loss to spine ends and corner tips. Near fine in very good + dust-wrapper.
London: Faber & Gwyer (Faber and Faber), 1928-31. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. Limited edition. #191 of 210 sets. Signed by Keynes on the limitation page of volume 1. Original blue stained vellum, gilt. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Printed on Kelmscott hand-made paper. Tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume. A little.....
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Spine and top edges slightly faded. Very good +. 'Between Christmas 1939 and New Year 1950, Horizon ran to some ten thousand pages: the purpose of this anthology has been to select some six hundred.' Cyril Connolly's own.....