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London: Thames and Hudson. 1995.Description:Signed first edition. 250x222mm. pp112. Colour illustrated card cover. In excellent condition with only a little shelf wear. Illustrated throughout with 78 colour illustrations from various countries and war-zones where Page had worked. The text is a mixture of autobiographical essay and commentary on the images. Signed by Page, "Manchester, April '95".

London and New York: The Studio Ltd. and William Edwin Rudge (New York). 1932.First edition. 252x321mm. pp12 with twelve plates on card protected by tissue paper on which the details of the etching are printed. Original blue papered boards with label in centre of upper cover. Original and rare cream coloured illustrated dust jacket lettered in red. Very slight chipping to the dust jacket but overall in very good condition. The book itself is in fine condition throughout and the plates are superb.

n.p. . [1925].Typescript novel with extensive manuscript corrections and alterations. ff. [2], 117, [2], 118-276. Text on recto only, tied with string through two punched holes in the left margin and tied into a cover fashioned from heavy card apparently salvaged from packing material for a French retailer of sheet music and musical instruments. Housed in a custom made cloth wrapper and slipcase.

London: Richard Hodgkinsonne. 1655.First edition. Volume one (first part). Folio in 4s. 332x210mm. [ff.23], pp.1- 608. Ends on 4G4 after the survey of the Benedictine foundations and before the Cluniac. Engraved title page and fifty-one engraved full page (and some folding) plates, many by Wenceslaus Hollar, and with engraved illustrations in the text. The folding map of Thanet is present. In an extraordinary binding of eighteenth century red morocco with triple fillet borders.

London. c1870.A mezzotint showing a mourning scene in a churchyard. A mother and child are weeping at the foot of an octagonal tomb on which is a ruined Doric column with ivy twisted around it. In the background is the church and on either side are looming leaning trees which frame the scene and appear to weep with the mourners. On the tomb have been stuck two unbearably moving mourning cards. The first is for Isabella Rowlandson who died aged 26 on 31st July 1875.

London John Murray. 1948.First edition. Signed by the author. 263x185mm. pp (iibl) xii, 132, (iiibl). Publisher's red cloth with white and black lettering to spine and front cover, printing to front cover. Original dust jacket. Slight bumping to head and foot of spine; slight chipping to head of dust jacket. Internally very good; overall in very good condition. Inscription reads "Kay Francis from John Betjeman 1957", surrounded with decorative flourishes.The last of Betjeman and Piper's British travel guides to be published by Betjeman's own publisher, John Murray.

n.p. C. Johnson. [1793].Portrait of Wybrand Lolkes and his wife, full length, the husband directed to the right, and the wife in frontal view but looking left. Scene set in an interior. Etching on paper. Mounted on white card, 255x197mm. (mount measures 330x270). Crease to top edge of mount but print is in excellent condition. This illustration to The Wonderful Magazine (London, 1822). Lolkes was a celebrated dwarf (he was 27 inches high and weighed 56lbs) who, in the manner of the time was exhibited as something of a curiosity.

London: Chapman & Hall.. 1882.First edition. Two volumes. Small 8vo. 178x115mm. pp. vi, 199 [1bl]; vi, 208. Collates complete although the pagination in signature H of volume is somewhat awry, the printer having mixed up some pages - but the text is all present. Green cloth, brown morocco label on spine, lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. Decorated, floral endpapers. Front pastedown has the armorial bookplate of Sir William Eden Bart whose ownership inscription is in both volumes. Slight rubbing to corners but otherwise in fine condition throughout.

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd. 1953.Two bound volumes. Volume 171 (January 3 1953 to June 27 1953) and Volume 172 (July 4 1953 to December 22 1953). Bound in maroon (vol. 171) and brick-red (vol. 172) cloth, spine lettered in gilt. In very good condition. Front pastedown has the bookplate of Worthing Public Library and title page of volume 172 (and verso of volume 171) has a small round Worthing Public Library stamp. The papers are as follows: 1. Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, by J.D.Watson and F.H.C. Crick. Nature, Volume 171, No.

Berlin: Verlag von August Hirschwald. 1865.First edition. 8vo (212x133mm). pp. [iv], 96. Marbled paper over boards, backed with brown cloth. Remains of handwritten title label to head of the spine. Some wear to outer edges and corners but otherwise very good. Contents are very good but with light damp-staining to the lower third of the first thirty two pages. Browning to the title page and the last leaf but otherwise this is a clean tight copy. Ownership stamp on the title page of Dr med. R. Kobert, pract. Arzt.

n.p. . n.d. [c1780].A manuscript poem on one side of a single leaf. Five verses of four lines each written in a neat italic hand. It has been folded in three for posting (there is the mark of a seal and, on the verso, the name of the addressee, Chas Blatchley Esq, Bury. A strip has been torn on the left edge no doubt when the letter was opened but there is no loss of text. Otherwise it is in very good condition with nice clear text.

New York . Undated.Spraypaint, acrylic and marker pen and stencil on an original New York subway map. Signed by Seen in black felt pen and numbered 142/500. Although numbered as a print, these NYC Subway Maps with added graffiti are original works as each has a different graffiti style. Image measures 810x570mm and the frame is 890x640mm.The map is a folding plan showing all the subways, buses, railroad and ferry links in NYC. It has been unfolded and is laid flat on a white card and framed. In excellent condition.

London: Printed for Edmund Casson. 1623.Second edition in English. 4to. 175x130mm. Unpaginated. [118pp., lacking final blank P4]. Bound with a frontispiece engraved map of Norwich taken from Hermannides's Britannia Magna. Although the second edition of Norfolke Furies, this is the first appearance of the Description of Norwich (L1-4) which is the first published history of Norwich in English. Nineteenth-century tan calf with a decorated border in blind and gilt decoration to spine. Two morocco labels to spine, lettered in gilt. Front pastedown has the armorial bookplate of Charles Barclay, for whom the book was probably bound.

London: Archibald Constable and Co. 1819.First edition. 12mo. 190x110mm. pp. viii, 170. Uncut in the original boards. Rubbing and some wear to extremities and boards are loose (but holding). Some foxing but otherwise in very good condition. Joseph John Gurney and Elizabeth Fry were brother and sister, scions of the great Gurney banking family. Elizabeth was already a noted campaigner for prison reform when she joined Joseph on a tour of prisons in Scotland and the North of England. This book is their report.

Londres: en la imprenta R.Taylor.. 1826.Simon Bolivar's copy. First edition. 4to. 294x197mm. pp. [2], xiii [ibl], [2], 707 [1]. Two parts in one volume, paginates continuously. Two frontispiece portraits in each part. Half title (bound after, rather than before the prologue) is signed by Simon Bolivar, using only his surname and in his distinctive hand. Contemporary calf, gilt roll border, spine decorated in gilt, green morocco label lettered in gilt. Some scuffing and marking to boards, corners a little worn and slight cracking to hinge with upper cover. Internally very good with some foxing and marking (on p.657).

Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo. 1971.First edition. Portfolio of ten gravure prints, eight in black and white and two in colour. 592x420mm. The prints are in a large white envelope together with a separate title page on the verso of which are notes and details about the photographs (text in Japanese). They are protected inside the envelope by a heavy sheet of cardboard. This is all placed in a black card folder with an illustrated label covering part of the upper cover, spine and lower cover.

London: Sands & Co.. [1893]. First edition? 8vo. pp. iv, 92. Folding illustrated alphabet and further illustrations in the text, decorative initials. Verse written by Lady Strachey, 1840-1928, the wife of Richard Strachey and the mother of Lytton. Original light blue pictorial cloth.

London: George Routledge & Sons. 1940.1st ed, 4to. pp 8, 48 B&W plates. Very light toning to margins and occasional spotting to versos of plates and endpapers only. Text block is approx 1/8th" bowed - else a Very Good copy in oatmeal buckram with chocolate brown-stamped titles and authors signature to the upper board.

Parma [Bodoni]: Nel Regal Palazzo. 1791.152x102mm. pp. [2], viii, 180. Contemporary red morocco, gilt. Upper and lower covers with double fillet borders framing corner-pieces combining rococo and baroque designs and an elegant rococo centre-piece. Spine richly decorated and lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Some slight marking to upper cover, corners lightly worn and a tiny worm hole at the top of the upper joint. Internally very good save for two tiny (and barely visible) worm holes on the inner margin at the gutter and some worming to the bottom margin of the last eleven leaves.

Paris: de l'imprimerie de P. Didot L'Ainé. 1813.Five volumes. 8vo. 215x135mm. pp. xxiii [i bl], 325, [3]; 369, [3]; 370, [2]; 416; 325, [7]. Red half morocco, orange morocco covered boards. Raised bands, compartments decorated with a single gilt flower motif, second and fourth compartment lettered and numbered in gilt. Some marking to boards and rubbing and wear to extremities. Marbled endpapers. Internally very good but with some foxing. Some pages unopened. Front pastedown of each volume has the armorial bookplate of Charles Bowyer Adderley, Hams Hall, Warwickshire and the label of Hams Hall Library.

Le Club Francais du Livre. 1960.210x137mm. pp. [iv], xxxvi, 780, [2]. Number 2470 of 9000. Frontispiece portrait of Poe. Text printed in double columns. Collection Les Portiques 65. Full dark green morocco, lettered in gilt to covers and spine. Bumping and chipping to head of spine but otherwise the binding is in very good condition. Internally very good although the front pastedown and the rear free end paper have some damage where labels have been removed and the final leaf has a small hole, not affecting the text.

A Translation in Prose and Verse from the Old French together with Amabel and Amoris London Chatto and Windus. 1925.Chatto & Windus, London, 1925. New edition of the 13th Century tale of Aucassin and Nicolette, forbidden to marry but, overcoming various hazards, eventually do so. Octavo. 106 pages. Limited edition: Number 41 of 160 printed on Batchelor's hand-made paper signed by the author and the artist. With frontispiece, drawings, initials and decorations by Paul Woodroffe engraved on the wood by Clemence Housman. Blue/grey boards, with linen spine and paper label. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press.

London: William Pickering. 1851.8vo. 218x145mm. pp. xiv, 248. Maroon morocco, decorated in blind on upper and lower covers. Spine with five raised bands and decorated with leaf motif and lettered in gilt. Gauffered edges, marbled endpapers.

Zurich: Scalo. 1995. 1st ed, folio. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout in B&W. Near-Fine in wine-red cloth with silver-stamped 'KL' to the upper board and silver-stamped titles in indigo panels to the spine. No DJ as issued - one small pale mark to the loward the lower edge of the upper board. A series of exquisite photographic essays in style by the enigmatic Mr.