Warlock.
London: Macmillan, 2001. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Signed in black ink on the title page, "With best wishes Wilbur Smith". D/w spine faded. Fine in near fine d/w.
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The Triumph of the Sun. A Novel of African Adventure.
London: Macmillan, 2005. 8vo. First edition. Signed, limited edition (#114 of 1000 copies). Original black hardcovers, gilt, in slipcase. Signed in black ink on the limitation page. D/w spine faded. Fine in near fine d/w in fine slipcase.
Pompeii. A Novel.
London: Hutchinson, 2003. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Signed on the title page in blue ink. Pages slightly tanned (poor quality stock). D/w spine very slightly faded. Near fine in near fine d/w. First impression with full number sequence.
Ravilious at War. The complete work of Eric Ravilious, September 1939 - September 1942. With contributions from Barry and Saria Viney, Christopher Whittick and Simon Lawrence and a Foreword by Brian Sewell.
Upper Denby: The Fleece Press, 2002. Landscape 4to. Limited edition. One of seven hundred and fifty copies. Original blue cloth, gilt, with a printed label to the upper board. In (optional) blue cloth-covered slipcase. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine slipcase. 'Over a short period.....
The Wood Engravings of Eric Ravilious. Introduction by J.M. Richards.
London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1972. Folio. Limited edition. #II/11 of an unspecified number (c.500). Second issue. Designed by John Carrod at the Royal College of Art. Printed on Grosvenor Chater's Basingwerk Parchment at The Curwen Press. Original green buckram with a Ravilious design printed in black on the front.....
His Dark Materials. 1. Northern Lights; 2. The Subtle Knife; 3. The Amber Spyglass.
London: Scholastic (Point, David Fickling Books), 1995, 1997 & 2000. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. First UK editions, first impressions. Original hardcovers (maroon, green, black). Northern Lights is in the first state jacket with 'Point' on the spine and rear flap. 1. This appears to be an ex-library copy. The spine.....
An Autobiography. (The Oxford Trollope Crown Edition). With a Preface by Frederick Page.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege for Oxford University Press, 1950. 8vo. First thus. First published in two volumes in 1883. Original brown buckram, gilt. Frontispiece photograph reproducing a page from Trollope's manuscript in the British Museum. With contemporary illustrations chosen by John Johnson. Unclipped d/w is a little rumpled along the top.....
The wood engravings of Ethelbert White. With an Introduction by Peyton Skipwith.
Netherton, Wakefield: The Fleece Press, 1992. 4to. Limited edition. One of 200 copies of a sewn booklet, together with two wood engravings printed from the original blocks and presented in plain mounts - 'Forest Pool' & 'A Corner of the Forest', housed in an ochre clamshell box with title label.....
Mr Derrick Harris 1919-1960.
Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 1998. 4to. Limited edition of 280 copies. Pale yellow, cloth-covered, clamshell box containing: Quarto volume, bound in a quarter orange cloth with printed paper sides. Illustrated with photo plates and wood engravings (1 folding). Together with: Large oblong folder of 9 coloured illustrations for 'Royal.....
Edward Bawden editioned prints. With an Introduction by Elspeth Moncrieff.
Woodbridge: The Wood Lea Press, 2005. Landscape 4to. Limited edition. One of 450 standard copies (there were 55 specials of which 50 were for sale). Bawden-designed patterned paper boards over navy cloth spine, gilt. In grey slipcase as issued. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. As new in.....
Edward Bawden.
Bedford: Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, 2008. 4to. Limited edition of 2000 copies. First edition. Original olive green cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. D/w rumpled at the top of the spine. Fine in near fine d/w. 'Between 1981 and 1989 Edward Bawden (1903-89) donated the contents.....
Edward Bawden's London.
London: V & A Publishing, 2011. 4to. First edition. Original printed cloth. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Ink presentation by both authors on the half title. Fine in fine d/w. Loosely inserted are a postcard from Peyton Skipwith and his card with address added in ink. Both.....
Death & the Dreamer.
London: Westhouse, 1946. 8vo. Original ochre cloth. Black lettering on the spine and a Bawden design on the front cover. Dust-wrapper, frontispiece and ten full page illustrations by Edward Bawden. Cloth edges a little dust-soiled. Unclipped d/w is tanned on the spine and portions of the back panel, with small.....
Edward Bawden. A Seventy-Fifth Birthday Exhibition 20 February-10 March 1978. With An Appreciation by Carel Weight.
London: The Fine Art Society Ltd, 1978. 8vo. Limited edition. 103 of 800 numbered copies. Pamphlet. Printed at the Curwen Press. Plain card covers in flapped, printed paper jacket with a design by Bawden. Decorated title page and four pages of black and white plates displaying five paintings. Fine.
Edward Bawden. A Retrospective Survey. With a Preface by Halina Graham.
Bath: Combined Arts, 1988. 4to. First edition. 1 of 950 copies. Original printed paper covers. Paper title label to front cover. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fine.
The Inward Laugh. Edward Bawden and his circle.
Upper Denby: The Fleece Press, 2005. Large 4to. Limited edition. One of 750 copies (75 were not for sale). Original quarter brown/tan cloth, with paper spine label, with printed paper boards adapting Bawden's 'Pigeon and Clocktower' pattern. The publisher's prospectus is loosely inserted, with notes about changed dimensions and binding.....
The Greville Memoirs. 1814-1860. Edited by Lytton Strachey and Roger Fulford.
London: Macmillan, 1938. 8vo. 8 volumes, set. Limited edition. One of 630 sets. First complete edition. Original red buckram, gilt. Top edges gilt. Silk marker ribbons. Spines uniformly slightly faded. Covers a little spotted and rubbed. Light foxing to the endpapers and prelims. Very good +. Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville.....
The Manaton Edition of the Works of John Galsworthy.
London: William Heinemann, 1923-36. 8vo. 30 volumes, set. Limited edition. #63 of 530 sets (of which 500 were for sale). Signed by the author on the limitation page of volume 1. Numbered in each volume. Original quarter vellum with parchment boards, gilt. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed and partly unopened.....
The Journals and Life of Captain James Cook. 1. The Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771; 2.The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775; 3. The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780 in two parts; 4. The Life of Captain James Cook; together with a portfolio of Charts & Views.
Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press (volumes 1-3) & A & C Black (volume 4) for the Hakluyt Society, 1955-74. 8vo. & portfolio. 6 volumes, set. Original navy buckram, with a gilt block of Cook on each front board. Five volumes in d/ws and a portfolio. Illustrated throughout in black.....
John Piper's Stowe. With a Foreword by John Piper & a Commentary by Mark Girouard.
Westerham, Kent: Hurtwood Press in association with The Tate Gallery, 1983. Folio. First edition. Limited edition of 300 copies. Signed by John Piper on the limitation page and "Artist's Copy". Original marbled cloth binding by Smith Settle. Gilt to spine. Printed on French rag paper at Westerham Press. Illustrated throughout.....
A Sort of Life.
London: The Bodley Head, 1971. 8vo. First edition. Original dark green cloth, gilt. Top edge stained purple. Jacket by Michael Harvey. Unclipped d/w has just a hint of rubbing at the extremities. Fine in near fine d/w.
Collected Essays.
London: The Bodley Head, 1969. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Top edge stained pink. Jacket design by Michael Harvey. Very slight foxing to the fore edge. Price-clipped d/w is tanned on the spine. Near fine in near fine d/w.
Rothmans of Pall Mall. Diamond Jubilee 1890-1950.
London: Rothmans of Pall Mall, 1950. 4to. Portfolio of six drawings by Rex Whistler (from 30 originals in commissioned by Rothmans). Six drawings with a printed sheet describing them, in the original pale blue card portfolio. WITH the cover for 'Radio Times' December 18th 1931 and 'Souvenir of Laurence Housman's.....
British Art (B.B.C. talks pamphlet).
London: The Kynoch Press for the British Broadcasting Corporation, 1934. 4to. Two copies in different formats. First editions. Original stapled pamphlet together with sewn pamphlet in stiff card covers. Front cover illustration by Eric Ravilious. Illustrated with half-tone photographic plates. The stapled copy has rusted staples and light foxing to.....
A Collection of Prospectuses, Retrospectuses and other ephemera.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1923-68. Folio, 4to. & 8vo. A collection of 30 prospectuses, retrospectuses and other ephemera produced by The Nonesuch Press. 'Completion of the 1923 programme' and the '1931 Prospectus' are quite foxed. Other pieces have some light foxing, creasing or pencil marks, but are generally in very.....