All Books

London: C. Lane. 1851.A 19th century virtual reality experience of the Great Exhibition.Accordion-style paper peepshow of the Great Exhibition in 1851. 160 x 175 mm extending to c650mm. Ten hand-coloured lithographic cardboard panels, eight with die-cut openings and the other two providing the front and back covers. The front panel has a viewing lens. Housed in the original slipcase which is stained and slightly torn in places and there is some soiling to the front and back panels but otherwise in very good condition with the internal prints particularly clean.

Paris and London: Librairie de l'art and Remington and Co.. 1882.290x215. [8], 243 [1]. pp. xiv adverts. Illustrated with black and white photograph and engravings. Original cloth, lettered and illustrated in black to upper cover and in gilt on the spine. Patterned endpapers. Some soiling to covers, bumping and wear to corners and to head and foot of spine. Internally very good but with some staining and foxing. Front pastedown and verso of front free endpaper have the book tickets of Foyles and the front free endpaper has the bookplate of Barry Humphries.

which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods.London: Christie, Manson & Woods. 1882.Barry Humphries's copy.8vo. 235x155mm. pp. 234. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Original red cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine. Spine a little faded. Slight bumping to extremities and marking to lower cover. Hinges cracked and a number of leaves loose. Upper cover has ownership inscription of Wroth A. Lethbridge. This is Sir Wroth Acland Lethbridge (1831-1902). His bookplate is on the front pastedown as is that of Barry Humphries, the celebrated comic and bibliophile.

First U.S. edition. 250x160mm. pp.[2bl] 3-455 [3bl]. Signed by Le Carré on half-title. Publisher’s red cloth, spine in black cloth with gilt lettering. Front cover embossed with publisher’s mark. Fore edges untrimmed. Original dust jacket. Externally and internally in near mint condition.  “...

First U.S. edition. Le Carré’s signature on title page. 243x170mm. pp. [8] 4-302 [7]. Publisher’s black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Original dust jacket. Fore edges untrimmed. Maps of North Asia printed onto front and back pastedown and free endpapers. In near mint condition. A lifelong rivalry pulls former British intelligence agent Tim Cranmer back into the game, putting the life he has built into jeopardy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1991.  First U.S. edition. Signed by le Carré on title page. 240x165mm. pp.[8], 335 [3]. Publisher’s black cloth, gold lettering to spine and front cover. Original dust jacket. Light fading to head of boards, corners slightly bumped. Internally excellent, overall in very good condition. As intelligence agent Ned approaches retirement, he looks back over his career in the field. Ethical disquiet is increasingly at the forefront of his mind and mentor George Smiley can only offer uncomfortable truths.

Various. 1980s.An archive of material relating to an unreleased film about Brian Jones, the founder of The Rolling Stones. The project was led by Genesis P-Orridge, the artist, musician and co-founder of industrial music pioneers, Throbbing Gristle. P-Orridges worked on the proposals for the film with the writer Jon Savage who wrote the seminal work, England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond. The archive consists of: 1. A copy of the seven inch vinyl single Godstar by Psychic TV and published by Temple Records.

London: Published by Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars. 1856.First edition. 278x215mm. pp. [6], 30. Three engraved plates of specimen bank notes for a ten pound and a hundred pound banknotes. Publisher's printed wrappers with a new lower cover and spine. Tear to top right corner of upper cover with minor loss, chipping to fore-edge and some small marginal holes in the final leaf (not affecting the text) but overall a very good copy of a commercially rare work, only two copies appearing in the auction records.

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.

London Putnam. 1955.First edition. 183x122mm. pp.115 [ibl]. Publisher's dark blue cloth. Original dustjacket printed in pink, purple, grey, white. Two small closed tears to top edge of dust jacket; some slight fading and light foxing to top edge. Internally very good; overall in very good condition.The Times Literary Supplement praised this picaresque fragment with "...the comedy is of the same order as, but generally superior to, that of Under Milk Wood".

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1852.Bound with The Proper Lessons to be read at Morning and Evening Prayer and The New Testament. Handsomely bound in maroon morocco decorated in blind with a gothic tracery pattern. Spine decorated in blind and lettered in gilt. Gilt turn ins and gauffred edges.

London: The Egoist Ltd. 1917.First edition. pp, [4], 7-40. Lacking half title. Original wrappers, with a new spine. Housed in a new brown buckram covered box. Some slight chipping and wear to extremities and a little soiled and creased and with a black mark on the lower cover. Internally a little toned and with the occasional chip to the edges and corners but overall a very good copy of the collection which started the twentieth-century revolution in English literature.

London: William Heinemann Limited. [1938].Three volumes. 230x152mm. pp. xxxi, [ibl], 1237 [1]. Paginates continuously. The maps that form the endpapers are bound in at the end of volumes two and three. Bound by Bayntun in red half morocco, cloth covered boards. Each volume housed in its own red cloth covered slipcase. In excellent condition throughout.

Zurich: Chez Heidegger & Compagnie. 1766.Edward Gibbon's copy. Two volumes. First edition. 12mo. 165x95mm. pp. x, 338; [4], 330. Contemporary calf, spines with five raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt, second and third compartments with red and green morocco labels lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners a little bumped and joints rubbed and the joint with the upper cover of volume one is cracked but still strong. Front pastedowns of both volumes have the armorial bookplate of Edward Gibbon and volume one has his label.

London: H.M.Schneider, Deluxe Publications Ltd.. 1977-1978.The first two and, indeed, the only issues of this extraordinary fashion magazine that mixed ultra-glossy high fashion with punky street fashion, art and literature. The first issue featured a painting by Peter Blake and the second a painting by Allen Jones. There can be few magazines that put together Vivienne Westwood and John Betjeman.

Bombay: Padma Publications Ltd.. 1942.Revised and enlarged third edition, third reprint of September 1942. 183x120mm. pp. [12], 84. Original paper wrappers bound into black cloth boards. The fragile wrappers are a little soiled scuffed and with some surface damage. Leaves are browned but overall a very good copy of one of the twentieth century's most influential works of civil disobedience. August 1942 was a critical month for Gandhi and the movement to free India from the British Empire. On 8th August he delivered his "Quit India speech" in which he called upon Indians to "Do or Die".

Paris: Galerie René Drouin. 1949.First edition. 201x170mm. Unpaginated. pp. [52]. Beige card wrappers with the title printed on the upper cover. Stapled at the spine. Printed on coloured paper and illustrated throughout with fifty two reproductions of the works shown in this celebrated exhibition of Art Brut organised by the Compagnie de l'Art Brut at Galerie Rene Drouin in Paris where Dubuffet had his first exhibition.

Birmngham: W.H.Haseler Ltd. 1905.Unrecorded trade catalogue. Designed by Archibald Knox, manufactured by William Haseler, sold by Liberty & Co. Twenty seven leaves illustrated (on the recto only) with designs for gold and silver jewellery, rose bowls, cigarette cases, toilet ware (i.e. hairbrushes, scent bottles and the like), pewter clocks and more. Each leaf is protected by a tissue sheet on which the name and price are printed so that, when the tissue lies on the illustrated leaf, the text details match up with the picture. Bound in pale blue/grey card wrappers tied at the left edge with blue cord.

Dublin: Luke White. 1791.First edition. Four volumes bound in two. 8vo. 210x125mm. Volume I. The History of my own times. Parts I and II. pp. xxv, [2], 270, [2bl]. And The History of the Seven Years War. Part I. pp. xii, [2], 154. Volume II. The History of the Seven Years War. Part II. [4], 188. Memoirs from the Peace of Hubertsburg, to the Partition of Poland, and of the Bavarian War. pp. xii, [4], 198. Of the four half titles "Posthumous Works of Frederic II. King of Prussia" only two are present.

Oxford: Printed for the author by B.H.Blackwell. 1915.An archive of letters and poems by Edith and Osbert Sitwell to their cousin Veronica Gilliat together with a copy of the limited, first edition of Edith Sitwell's collection of poems The Mother. 192x150mm. pp. 20. Original wrappers, torn at spine and detached. Inscribed on half title "Veronica Gilliat. December 1916". Housed in a custom made drop-backed box. All have been folded and there is some soiling and the occasional tear but the text is not affected. The letters and poems are as follows: 1.

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.

[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.