All Books

London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday. 1873.First edition. Small 4to. 208x160mm. pp. [8], i-v, [6], 7-86, [2 adverts]. Fourteen autotypes protected by a blank leaf. Original publishers binding of brown morocco with borders in gilt and blind to upper and lower covers and, in the centre of the upper cover, a panel heavily decorated with Egyptian motifs in gilt and blind. Spine with four raised bands and a simple floral motif in the compartments. Some rubbing to corners and soiling to covers. Internally the hinges are cracked and the first gathering is loose but holding.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press. 1982.SIGNED WITH AN ORIGINAL PAINTINGLimited edition number of 67/100, signed by Bukowski and with an original oil painting by Bukowski on a blank preliminary. 228x150mm. pp. 283 [5]. Half blue cloth, illustrated paper covered boards, protected by original acetate wrapper. In very good condition throughout. The painting is of a human head in profile. Owing something to cubism (in its structure), Mondrian (in its colour) and Gaudier-Brzeska (in its monumentality), this is a striking work in thickly applied oils. Ham on Rye is widely regarded as among Bukowski's finest works.

London: Rivingtons; Longman and Co.. 1852.Four volumes. Fifth edition. 8vo, 217x135mm. pp. xxviii, 523 [1]; [4], 589, [1]; xxiii [i], 431 [1]; viii, 560. Handsomely bound by J. Wright (signed to foot of front pastedown) in blue morocco with triple fillet borders inside which are gilt swags. Spine with five raised bands, compartments lavishly decorated in gilt, second and third compartments lettered in gilt. Edges of boards with gilt roll and turn-ins decorated in gilt. All edges gilt.

London: Michael Joseph. 1949.Fifth impression. Illustrated by Peter Scott. pp. 54, [2]. Handsomely bound by Bayntun and Riviere in red half morocco, marbled paper.

Romae: Excudebat Stephanus Paulinus. 1616.First edition. 213x160mm. pp. [16], 272, [4]. Contemporary vellum, "Canones Hebraice" handwritten on spine, and "Grammatica del Bottore P. Mario di Calascio 1616" on the lower cover. One of the ties is broken and the other is missing. Some marks and stains to the covers. Internally there is water damage with the pages waterstained and cockled but the text is beautifully clear and overall this is a nice copy of a rare book, Worldcat recording fifteen copies and only two appearing in the auction records.

Wien: Verlag von Julius Springer. 1935 [1934].First edition. 8vo, 218x143mm. pp. vi, 248, [2]. In the original wrappers, small tear to foot of spine and to joint with lower cover and a crease to the bottom right corner of the upper cover and the first six leaves but otherwise in very good condition throughout. Popper's Logik der Forschung (translated in 1959 as The Logic of Scientific Discovery) was published in 1934 (although given a 1935 imprint) and is regarded as one of the twentieth-century's most important contributions to scientific and philosophical method.

London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly. 1791 and 1793."The Life": first edition. Two Volumes. 4to (272x210mm). pp. xii, [16], 516: [2], 588 [i.e. 586]; [2], 1-42. In volume I, duplicates of pp153-56 and pp. 157-60 are bound between pp146-47 and pp150-51 respectively but it is complete. The scarce "Corrections and Additions" are bound in at the end of volume II. Engraved frontispiece portrait by J. Heath from Reynolds's portrait. Two plates with facsimiles of Johnson's handwriting in volume II (between pp92-3 and after final page).

London: Published for John Reeves. 1801.12mo. 157x97mm. Unpaginated. Contemporary red morocco, wide gilt and blind roll-tooled borders to the covers, spine lavishly decorated in gilt. Very smart green silk doublures. All edges gilt. Armorial bookplate of Terry. With a New Version of the Psalms by Brady and Tate.

Alhambra, California National Excelsior Press. April 1963.First edition, number 209 of 400. Unpaginated, pp [48]. Original printed wrappers and with the original (and rare) glassine wrapper. Some slight spotting to edges of covers and a short blue biro mark to glassine on lower cover and a small spot on upper cover but overall in very good condition and Toning to edges and spine, crease to lower cover, head and foot of spine very slight chipped but overall in very good condition. Internally near fine.

London: Printed for the author. 1737.First edition. 4to. 248x195mm. pp. vi, 124; 222 (Account of the Bishops of Worcester); 8, 210 (Appendix, Chartae Originales and index). Engraved folding frontispiece and twenty five engraved plates and numerous engravings in the text and a folding plan of the cathedral. Contemporary full calf, rebacked with corners repaired. Front pastedown has armorial bookplate of Carolus Gandolphus Hornyold and, on the verso of the front free endpaper, the plate of John Vincent Hornyold and a handwritten note on the title page "Charles Gandolfi Hornyold bought at Worcester 1869".

West Smethwick . 1933.A Ruskin single-handed vase with a wide-flared neck decorated with a high fired sang-de-bœuf and mottled green and white glaze with specks of green and black. 200mm high, 115mm wide at opening. Base is marked "Ruskin. 1933. England". A beautiful example of the distinctive Ruskin High Fired Flambé process in one of the most striking colours used by the pottery. As William Howson Taylor explained in his 1912 booklet on Ruskin Pottery (see previous item), the aims of the Pottery were "good potting, beauty of form, and rich or tender colouring".

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.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1980.First, signed limited edition. Number 82 of 475 (out of a total of 501, the first 26, hors commerce, being lettered) and signed by Wasson at the colophon. Printed on special paper made by Cartiera di Sarego and with design and printing by Stamperia Valdonega in Verona. Folio. 305x210mm. pp, xxvi, 248, [2]. Handsomely bound in green quarter morocco, beige cloth with decorated covers, spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. With original cloth slipcase. Very slight fading to spine but otherwise in excellent condition. Internally fine with extensive illustrations.

[Buenos Aries] Ahora Periodico Illustrado.. 1941.Oblong. 210x278mm. 32 leaves, with 31 black and white photographs pasted in. Each photograph has printed captions (text in Spanish) pasted onto the bottom edge. The first leaf has the title details, printed on white paper, pasted in. Each photograph has a glassine protective sheet. Contemporary string bound album covered in maroon cloth and stamped with the name of the owner "Mervyn F. Ryan" on the upper cover with "Ahora Periodico Illustrado" stamped at bottom right corner.

Oxford: H.Hall. Impensis Ric: Davis. 1663.First edition thus in the Arabic edition and Latin translation by Edward Pococke. 4to. 203x155mm. pp. [12], 368, [90], 66, [5bl], 565, [2]. The final part (565, [2]) in Arabic paginates from the rear of the book. The two blanks are present. Three parts in one volume (i.e. the Latin translation, the Supplementum and the Arabic edition), each with its own title page. Bound in twentieth century brown full calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, lettered in gilt to spine. Contemporary manuscript title to fore-edge.

n.p.. c1955.A plaster cast (108x90mm) and a model in bronze (170x140mm), both of which are prototypes for the BAFTA "theatrical mask" trophy. The plaster model is mounted on a short, thin metal rod and the bronze on a metal rod inserted into a wooden block. Both models have the symbol representing an atom with four electron orbitals around one eye and a rectangle symbolising a television screen around the other. These were central to the design from the beginning and represented the technology which underpinned film and television. The bronze has aged attractively with patches of verdigris.

London: Printed for Thomas Hodgkins at the Juvenile Library.. 1807.First edition, first issue. Two volumes. 12mo. 165x100mm. Vol. I. ix [i.bl], [2], 235, [1 with T. Davison imprint]. 10 engravings. Vol. II. [4], 261, [3pp. adverts with the Hanway Street address]. 10 engravings. Contemporary calf, spines with red morocco labels lettered in gilt and small round black labels numbered in gilt. At head of spine, in gilt, is the Pelican of Mercy and the motto, "Pandite Coelestes Fortae". This is the crest of James Gibson of Ingliston, Writer to the Signet whose armorial bookplate is on the front pastedowns.

Kjobenhav [Copenhagen]: J.Jorgensen & Co.. 1893.A catalogue of the first exhibition of paintings by Van Gogh in Denmark. 170x135mm. Text block 155x125mm. Unpaginated. 36pp. In original grey paper wrappers, with title, date and floral decoration on the front cover. Bound into blue half cloth and decorated paper covered boards. Some slight rubbing to the boards but the catalogue itself and its delicate wrappers are in excellent condition. Rare, Worldcat locating only two copies, one in Denmark and the other in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Fair Oak, near Kingsclere: Privately published by the author. 1931.Limited edition. Number two of thirty copies, this is one of the twenty four uncoloured copies, printed on Hollingworth paper, the first page printed in red. 385x275mm. pp. [10], 16, [8]. Seven full-page lithographed plates and other illustrations in the text. Original tan half morocco, cloth covered boards. Upper cover stamped in gilt with a figure of nude boy and lettered in gilt. Spine lettered in gilt. Rubbing to head and foot of spine and to joints.

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: The Black Sun Press. 1929.First edition. Number 38 of 100 copies on Japanese Vellum signed by the author. 4to. 212x168mm. [8], XV, [1], 55, [3]. Original cream paper wrappers lettered in black and red to upper cover and spine and with 'black sun' motif on the lower cover. Original glassine wrapper. Slight chipping to head of spine and there are some tears to the glassine wrapper at the spine and to the front wrapper but overall in very good condition. Internally excellent with only very minor marking in a few places.

n.p. n.p.. 1880-1934.An archive collection of seven sketchbooks extensively illustrated with, in total, over 500 drawings, sketches and studies by the Arts and Craft architect William Bidlake (1861-1938). The drawings are in pen and ink or pencil. Most are highly worked, detailed drawings of buildings (particularly churches) either standing alone or in the context of more developed street scenes but there are numerous studies of architectural details such as gothic window tracery and column capitals. Landscape scenes also feature and there is a small number of sketches of the human form.

Mediolani: Ex Typographia Pauli Antonii Montani. 1733.First edition. 4to. 227x175mm. pp. [XVI], 142 [2bl], 6 folding plates with 55 diagrams. Contemporary vellum, spine with four raised bands, compartments decorated with gilt flower motif. Covers a little marked and soiled. Some foxing and browning but otherwise very good internally. An excellent copy of a scarce book of which Worldcat locates only sixteen copies worldwide. We have traced no copies at auction.

London: Strahan & Co.. 1872.First edition. 8vo. 182x123mm. pp. ix, [i], 97 [1bl], [4pp advertisements]. Original illustrated paper wrappers, slightly soiled and with repair and a little loss to the spine. Some foxing but overall a very good copy of fragile little book, rare in the wrappers.Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901) was a Scottish writer of some talent and contemporary success who is best remembered now for this work and the controversy surrounding it, especially his coining of the epithet "The Fleshly School of Poetry" to describe the work of Swinburne and Rossetti.