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Sil'nyi khrabryi bogatyr' [Il'ia Muromets. Il'ia Muromets - strong and brave bogatyr]  Moscow: V.A. Vasil'yev. c1887.A handcoloured Lubok lithograph, printed on paper, mounted on white card, in a gold painted wooden frame. This print showing Ilya Muromets killing Solovei-Razboinik (Nightingale the Robber) who lived in the forests of Bryansk where he lured travellers to their death. In Russian legend, Ilya Muromets is a Bogatyr, that group of heroic warrior knights whose principal duty was to protect Russia against foreign invasion.

Cape Town: The Gallery Press. 1982. First trade edition. Signed by David Goldblatt. Oblong quarto. 285x292mm. Unpaginated. Seventy-one black and white photographs. Two page introduction by Goldblatt at the beginning of the book and at the end is the four page Declaration of Group Areas at Boksburg designating certain areas in the Boksburg district to be reserved "for occupation and ownership by members of the White group". Original black cloth boards lettered in white. Black dustjacket letter in white, protected by a transparent plastic wrapper.

Paris: Ch. Massin et Cie.. n.d. [c. 1930].First edition. 295x230mm. pp. xxii, 80 colour plates on recto only. Introductory essay in French by A. Feulner. Dark green cloth, black labels with gilt lines and titling to upper cover and spine. Illustrated dust-jacket, with some very minor marking but overall in very good condition. Slipcase, cream label with black lettering, some slight marking and scuffing on the back but otherwise very good. Internally near fine with the colour plates in particularly fresh and good condition.

London: Basic English Publishing. n.d..Second issue published by Basic English Publishing and with the original price of 2/6 overstamped with 3/6. Number 83 in the Psyche Miniatures General Series. 150x100mm. pp. 117, [2]. With the folding table of "Basic English" bound before the title page. Original red cloth backed boards. Printed paper label to spine. Slight scuffing to spine and some marking and soiling to covers. Browning to half title but otherwise in excellent condition throughout. A very good copy of the undated reissue published by C.K.Ogden's Basic English Publishing.

London: T. Dolby. 1821.First edition. 225x145mm. pp. viii, 7 [1bl], 8, 271, [3]. Frontispiece portrait and five further etched portrait plates. Uncut in the original boards. Tan morocco spine. Rubbing and wear to spine, edges and corners with some loss to head and foot of spine. Upper joint is split but holding. Leaf 2L has a closed tear without loss. Although a little delicate, it is in very good condition overall and is a rare book institutionally, Library Hub recording only six copies in the UK and comparatively scarce commercially.

Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press. 1988.Schles's own inscribed copy. First edition. Limited to 2000 copies. Unpaginated. 233x176mm. Midnight blue cloth, blind stamped to upper cover and spine. Dust jacket is a photocopy as explained in the inscription by Ken Schles on the title page. The inscription reads: "For years I held this copy and showed it until the dust jacket disintegrated - I'm sorry - I had to put this xerox copy on the cover but it's a good book, no? This [the photograph on the title page] is in my apartment on Mott many years ago. LA 2009".

London: Art Yard Limited. 2019.Signed limited, lettered Edition (one of twenty six copies) with a set of four giclée prints. 280x220mm. pp. 344. Illustrated throughout with 306 photographs. Printed on 150gsm Garda Matt Ultra FSC (Italian paper stock). Pale blue cloth hardback with metal foiling and laminate print to both covers, lettered in gilt to spine. Lower cover has a poem from Sun Ra printed in gilt. With publisher's belly band. Housed in a printed cardboard box. Unopened, new and in immaculate condition. The giclée prints, measuring 270x210mm are titled "A Certain Darkness Is Needed To See The Stars".

"A poetic history" Inscribed to the memory of Jack Kerouac and illustrated by Peter Gilroy. Map, cover and layour by Nick Noton.Rutland: The Morcott Private Press.. 1993. Limited edition. 208x208mm. pp. x, 24. Illustrated card wrappers. Some light marking and browning to the covers and a mark to the top right corner of the first three leaves. Otherwise in excellent condition throughout.

n.p. 1910.In two parts. 265x185mm. 8 pages of text in Japanese, 162 pages each with 20 designs in black and white. These are a mixture of symbols, nature motifs, geometric and mathematical designs. Part two has a pink title page dated 1910. 26 pages each with 13 small designs ranging from letters and geometric designs to nature patterns. Bound in cream cloth.

ZosoSurrey Genesis Publications and Jimmy Page. 2014. A visual documentary of a British rock legend's contribution to music Presentation copy. 315x258mm. pp. 12-512. Publisher's original black and white cloth printed with photographs on front and back and with gilt lettering on both covers and spine. Minor wear to spine and lower corners. Internally very good; overall in very good condition. Inscription on half-title reads "To Michael and Shakira 14th Feb '20 Jimmy N.Y.C. 2019" - these being British actor Michael and Guyanese actor and model Shakira Caine. Jimmy Page's photo autobiography is a memoir told in images.

London: T. and W. Boone. 1845.Inscribed by the author. Volume one only. First edition. 8vo. 220x140mm. pp. xviii, [2], 448, [4 adverts]. Engraved frontispiece and ten further engraved plates. Original green cloth decorated in blind and spine lettered and illustrated in gilt. Corners bumped, some stains and marks to covers, fading to spine and bumping and small tears to head and foot of spine. Internally very good but with some foxing, heavy in places, especially to the plates. Front free endpaper is inscribed "Lady Thomas with the author's compliments".

London: George Routledge & Sons. 1941.1st ed, 4to. (310 by 250mm)  pp. 8, 48 B&W plates on semi-glossy stock. Very good although with some spotting to endpapers. In oatmeal buckram with chocolate brown-stamped titles and artist's signature to the upper board and spine. In a very good original photographic dust jacket in plastic wraps with light chipping to extremeties and light overall toning.

London: Secker & Warburg. 1972.Wondering what the hell's going on. First UK edition. 197x125mm. pp. 218. Publisher's blue cloth with slight damage to spine. Original illustrated pop art dustjacket designed by Paul May in the manner of Roy Lichtenstein. Some slight rubbing to the extremities of the jacket, marking to the lower cover and creasing to the spine. Internally in excellent condition throughout. A rare book and an even rarer dustjacket. Crews learnt karate in order to write this book - a typically immersive act. But the book is only partly about karate.

Leipzig: Ernst Oldenburg. 1931.Special issue 12 of Alfred Koch's leading naturist magazine Körperbildung-Nacktkultur. 221x142mm. pp. 54, [10]. 24pp with 43 black and white photographs. In original paper covers illustrated with a naked couple dancing on the beach. Scuffing to four of the images with a little loss but otherwise a nice copy of a rare volume. Adolf Koch was one of the leading proponents of the Freikörperkultur and developed his own method of nude gymnastics.

n.p. n.p.. 1914.A diary kept by Oberjäger W. Werkberth a Corporal in the 4th Company Garde-Jäger-Bataillon covering the period 2nd August to 9th September 1914. Handwritten in pencil in a small notebook bound in half black linen with paper covered boards. There are sixty-eight numbered leaves with Weckberth's diary entries on both sides. The first leaf (unnumbered) has the title and year with, on the verso, a list of dates and places beginning with "15.8.14 Dinant" and ending with "8.9.14. Bois Tronces. Gefangen...1.30 nachm", indicating his being taken prisoner at 1.30 in the afternoon.

Paris and Nancy: Berger-Levrault & Libraires-Éditeurs. 1915.First (and apparently only) edition. 8vo. 185x118mm. pp. xii, 207 [1bl]. In original printed grey wrappers and housed in a marbled paper covered slipcase. Most of the gatherings are unopened although there is a tear to the final leaf where is has been opened. Small chip to foot of the spine and a crease to bottom edge of lower cover. Spine somewhat browned but overall a very good copy of a rare book, seemingly untraceable in commerce.

Petit-Bourg Chez Paul de Cauville. 1888.12mo. (170x95mm). pp. [2], XII, 13-103, [3]. Reprint of the Edition de la Haye of 1743. Twentieth century quarter brown morocco, marbled paper covered boards, spine lavishly decorated in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some shelfwear and rubbing to joints. Upper cover has the remains of an auction label reading Lot 386. Internally very good. Overall a nice copy. This sweet little book is a short version of the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum written in the 12th or 13th century and generally attributed to John of Milan.

Part one. L’AntiquitéPart two. Le Moyen-ÂgePart three. Temps Moderne Leipzig: K.F.Koehlers Antiquarium. n.d. [1915].First edition. Three volumes each consisting of a suite of sixty coloured plates, showing examples of polychrome decoration, design and ornament from three broad historical periods, tipped-in on grey card with descriptive captions. These are housed, loose, in their original portfolio folders of grey paper covered boards with beige cloth hinges. The title is printed in grey and yellow on the upper covers with a Greek helmet device in the centre. Title printed in black on the spine.

Paris: Librairie Gallimard.. 1928.First edition. Number 928 of 1000 copies printed on velin pur fil Lafuma Navarre. 8vo. 202x155mm. pp. 141 [1]. Brown quarter morocco, marbled paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some shelfwear and rubbing but overall very good. Internally slightly soiled in places but very good.

[Paris]. 1890.A beautiful late nineteenth-century illuminated manuscript with the text of the Ordinary of the Mass. 178x125mm. Title page and thirty-two pages. Signed at foot of final page "Germaine Mimey 1890" with the initials "G.M." at the foot of each page. Bound by Emile Rousselle (signed at foot of front doublure) in tan morocco with a single fillet border framing a wide, gilt tooled border inside which is a smaller gilt tooled border which frames a shield with three fleur de lys surmounted by a crown. Below the shield is a dragon.

London: Printed for Private Distribution. 1892.First and only edition - number 74 of 100 privately printed copies. Large 8vo. 240 by 168mm. pp: 18, frontispiece with tissue guard & one plate of a bust of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, after the late T. Woolner. R.A. Toning to margins but otherwise very good in contemporary full parchment (discoloured to margins) with gilt-stamped spine.

London Penguin Books. 2006. Beautiful edition of an infamous classic, designed and signed by Sir Paul Smith Limited edition. No. 78/1000. Signed by Sir Paul Smith on title page. 245x170mm. pp. xxxvi, 364. Publisher's purple cloth with white lettering to spine and front cover. Textile dust jacket with embroidery to spine, front and back covers. Front and back pastedown and free endpapers printed with botanical illustrations in purple ink. Text printed in purple ink. In excellent condition throughout. To mark their 60th anniversary, Penguin commissioned notable British creatives to design new editions of five classic texts.

Edinburgh: Canongate Publishing. 1985.SIGNED LIMITED "DEFINITIVE" EDITIONLimited edition, signed by Alasdair Gray and numbered 603/1000. 233x155mm. pp. [6], 560, [2]. Original black cloth lettered in gilt "Endure You are not alone" on the boards and with the title, author and imprint on the spine. Original illustrated dust jacket. Slight fading to jacket but otherwise in immaculate condition throughout.

London: Printed for J. Murray. 1814.First edition. 8vo. 165x110mm. pp. [8], 128, [4pp, publisher's adverts]. Bound by G.H.May in tan half calf, marbled paper covered boards. Spine with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt and the top compartment decorated in gilt with an extraordinary snake, skull and star design. Top edge gilt. Some light shelfwear but otherwise in very good condition throughout. Front pastedown has the bookplate of Gilbert Compton Elliot.