London: John Lehmann, 1947. 8vo. First edition. Original yellow cloth, gilt. D/w and illustrations by Keith Vaughan. D/w price-clipped. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. An exceptional copy of a strange, dark, dream-like story for children. Keith Vaughan's illustrations are a perfect match.
London: Nicholson & Watson for Poetry Library, 1944. 8vo. First edition. Original quarter black cloth with illustrated paper boards. Drawings by Lucian Freud. D/w toned to spine and edges with tiny loss to corner tips and a 1cm chip from the head of the spine. Near fine in very good...
London: John Lehmann, 1949. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. D/w and eight colour lithographs by Keith Vaughan (printed by The Baynard Press). Neat ink ownership, dated 1952, on fly. D/w very slightly toned, dust-soiled and foxed with light rubbing to top and bottom edges and a nick at...
London: John Lehmann, 1948-9. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Original ochre and buff cloth, gilt. D/ws by Keith Vaughan and John Minton. Illustrated throughout both volumes with drawings and black and white photographic plates. Volume 1: Frontispiece and title page browned as usual (cheap paper). D/w rubbed and dust-soiled with a....
London: John Lehmann, 1948-9. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Original ochre and buff cloth, gilt. D/ws by Keith Vaughan and John Minton. Illustrated throughout both volumes with drawings and black and white photographic plates. Volume 1: Slight foxing to edges of text block. Frontispiece and title page browned as usual (cheap...
London & High Wycombe: J. M. Dent & Sons for Hague & Gill Ltd, 1938. 8vo. First edition. Original sewn printed wraps in envelope. Set in Gill's Bunyan type. Illustrations by Denis Tegetmeier. Fine in fine envelope. Eleven short essays by Eric Gill are accompanied by 11 pictures by Denis...
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944. Royal 8vo. First edition. Original buff cloth. Illustrated by the author. Slight marking and toning to covers. Neat ink ownership dated 1945 on fly. Near fine. The colour illustrations must have seemed even more saturated in wartime than they do now. Almost psychedelic!
London: The Architectural Press, 1958. 4to. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. With black and white photographs by Eric de Maré, John Piper and the author. Jacket design by Gordon Cullen. D/w has two closed tears to the bottom edge of the front panel, some rubbing to the edges and.....
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: The Architectural Press, 1935. 8vo. First edition. Original ring binding with card covers. Two coloured maps and numerous black and white photographs throughout. Advertisement for Shell on the Road at the rear by Edward Bawden. Covers worn and creased. Ring binding a bit bent at the bottom. Very good...
London: The Architectural Press, 1935. 8vo. First edition. Original ring binding with card covers. Two coloured maps and numerous black and white photographs throughout. Advertisement for Shell on the Road at the rear by Edward Bawden. Covers a little rubbed with creasing to the corners of the front cover. Near...
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. Covers a little rubbed and foxed with small creases at...
London: The Architectural Press, [1936]. 8vo. First edition. Original ring binding with card covers. Two coloured maps and numerous black and white photographs throughout. Advertisement for Shell on the Road at the rear by Edward Bawden. Light foxing to slightly rubbed edges and the verso of each map. Both covers...
London: B.T. Batsford, [1938]. 8vo. First edition. Original yellow plastic comb binding, with 'Oxon' printed in red, with card covers. Two coloured maps and numerous black and white photographs throughout. Advertisement for Shell on the Road at the rear by Edward Bawden. A little rubbed around the edges. Near fine...
London: Faber and Faber, 1937. 8vo. First edition, second state. First issued by B. T. Batsford at 2/6d in 1937 in card covers. This is the same text apart from the title page, which shows the change of publisher, and the jacket gives the price as 3/6d and lists 15...
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1962. 8vo. First edition. Original red cloth. Wrapper design by Jack Larkin. D/w very slightly rubbed, dust-soiled and toned. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Dedicated to Graham Greene who provides a quote for the jacket: 'A humour strange to our fiction, closer to Chekhov than to...
London: Mandrake Press Ltd, 1930. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth. D/w slightly faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Hutchinson & Co, 1971. 8vo. First edition. Original brown hardcovers, gilt. Ink presentation dated 1971 on fly. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Uncommon.
London: Century Publishing, 1984. 4to. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Illustrated in colour. D/w rubbed along bottom edge of front panel and with tiny loss at the head of the spine. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Including Christopher Gibbs, Davids Hicks & Mlinaric, Tom Parr, Nicholas Haslam and...
London: Country Life, 1920-37. Folio. 9 volumes, set. First editions with the exception of Period II. Vol. I which is a second impression. 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...
London: William Heinemann, 1951-60. 8vo. 6 volumes. De luxe limited editions. Original quarter vellum with navy buckram boards, stamped with Boswell's coat of arms in gilt on the upper covers and leather labels on the spines. Top edges gilt. Deckle-edge antique laid paper. Silk marker ribbons. 'London Journal' (1951) #423...
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946, 1950 & 1959. 8vo. Three volumes, set. First editions. Recently rebound in full maroon leather, gilt. With marbled endpapers. In cloth-covered slipcase. Illustrations by the author to title pages of the first two volumes and a frontispiece to the last. Slight foxing to fore edge...
New York: The Viking Press, 1968. 4to. First edition. Original beige cloth. Illustrated throughout in colour. Price-clipped d/w is slightly faded on the spine with light rubbing to ends. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. People featured include Nancy Lancaster, the Desmond Guinnesses, Baron and Baroness Philippe de Rothschild, the Duke...
Reykyavik: Oddi Printing Corporation for McSweeney's, 2000. 8vo. First edition. Original laminated printed boards. D/w slightly rubbed at edges. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Souvenir Press Ltd, 1973. 8vo. First UK edition. Original red hardcovers. Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. D/w toned. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.