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By: BYRON, Lord.
Price: £75.00
Publisher: Murray 1850.:
Seller ID: 8568
Condition: First Edition thus, publisher's dark red morocco elegantly stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Thick roy.8vo, c.pp836 a.e.g., neat endpaper booklabel, binding lightly scuffed at extremities, first four leaves [portrait, title &c] with pale stain across lower two thirds, else a very good copy of a large and vulnerable book.
With portrait, title-page & dedication leaf all engraved by Finden : and with 4pp lithographed facsimile of Byron's manuscript. An uncommon edition not listed in Coleridge. View more info
By: CAFFYNS Ltd.
Price: £45.00
Publisher: No publisher, no date [c. 1930].:
Seller ID: 9299
Condition: Limp cloth covers with illustrative design in black. Narrow 8vo, pp16 text + 36pp coloured road maps, an excellent copy.
Rare : no copy listed in COPAC, which otherwise lists only one other Caffyn publication. Caffyns was the major Motor Car Engineers for the whole of Sussex. The text here details their eight branches - at Eastbourne, Bexhill, Brighton, Haywards Heath, Heathfiled, Hove, Lewes and Worthing - with superb illustrations of all their state-of-the-art period premises and numerous gleaming period automobiles. View more info
By: CAMBRIDGE : William White.
Price: £55.00
Publisher: Cambridge, Heffer 1889.:
Seller ID: 9276
Condition: First Edition, blue cloth gilt. Sm.8vo, c.pp56, neat early signature on endpaper. Cloth a little scuffed and lightly marked, free endpapers darkened, but a good copy of a vulnerable little book. With 1 plate + 2 text illustrations.
Rare : only the British Library and the Cambridge University Library copies located in the UK. View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Geneva, Kundig 1917.:
Seller ID: 7897
Condition: Author's Presentation Copy.* First Edition thus, cream wrappers titled in red & black. Tall narrow 8vo, c.pp40 uncut, excellent copy.
Edition Limited to 300 numbered copies. This copy inscribed nearly a half-century later 'To my friend - painter, poet, craftsman - from the author C. R. Cammell. 15th October '65 - 48 years after publication'. *** Cammell is best-known for his 1951 book on Aleister Crowley : The Black Magician. *** See NUC listing 1 copy only of these Lyrical Poems. View more info
By: CARTER, John.
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Private Libraries Assoc 1972.:
Seller ID: 8933
Condition: Gilt cloth & striking green dws. Tall 8vo, c.pp256, a fine bright copy.
This Private Libraries edition with an extensive 33pp Epilogue : originally published 1948. Still one of the outstanding books on the subject. View more info
By: CASSIDY, John.
Price: £24.00
Publisher: Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2009.:
Seller ID: 9547
Condition: First English Edition, red cloth boards lettered black, in striking illustrated dustwrappers. Large 8vo (c.24 x 16 cms), c.pp398, a fine copy with the vulnerable mainly white unclipped dustwrappers also in fine condition.
An excellent and easily read explanatory narrative of the financial crash that began in 2007, together with an exposure of its cultural and historical roots from Adam Smith to Alan Greenspan. The author, John Cassidy, is an award-winning writer for The New Yorker and the Sunday Times. First published in the same year in the USA by Farrar, Starus & Giroux. View more info
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, NdA Press 1984 - 1986.:
Seller ID: 9538
Condition: 7 Small Booklets, each c.pp16 plus covers, each in different coloured illustrated wrappers. Printed from cartoon-style hand-drawn texts and illustrations throughout. In excellent condition.
Scarce. An excellent long run of this amusing series. Comprises 7 issues (completed in 1988 with issue 10) detailing in delightful naive style the soul-searching anxieties plaguing Augustine's life. *** Comprises 1. Augustine Escapes : 2. Augustine Finds the Ultimate Deterrent : 3. Augustine Seen : 4. Augustine and Inertia : 5. Augustine Private and Public : 6. Augustine Not In Love : 7. Augustine and Identity. *** An uncommon run of quirky little items by Natalie d'Arbeloff, the well-known London-based print maker and producer of small press and artist's books. View more info
By: DELILLE, Jacques : Virgil.
Price: £155.00
Publisher: Basle, Jacques Decker, de l'imprimerie de Levrault, Strasbourg, 1800.:
Seller ID: 2658
Condition: With 4 engraved plates by Guerin. Roger Senhouse Copy.* First [or 1st Basle] Edition, contemporary Continental-style marbled paper boards. Sm.8vo, pp[iv], xxxii, [33]-274, boards bit rubbed & darkened, later endpapers[?], clean text with large margins.
Virgil's themes reworked in French. Delille 1738-1813 is best-known in England for his didactic landscape poem The Gardens. His French translation of Virgil's Georgics secured him the support of Voltaire. L'Homme Des Champs, a reworking of Virgil's themes [English translation 1803 The Rural Philosopher or French Georgics], was completed in Switzerland while in self-imposed exile from the Revolution : hence the imprint. Copies - or editions - with Strasburg and Berlin imprints were also issued : all are scarce. This Basle Edition not in NUC. *** This copy signed H[?] Senhouse: & with eleg... View more info
Price: £55.00
Publisher: London, printed and sold by H. Hills, in Black-fryars, near the Water-side 1709.:
Seller ID: 9524
Condition: Sewn in later marbled paper wrappers, handsome modern armorial bookplate on inside of wrappers. 8vo [binding c. 19.5 x 12 cms], pp16 uncut, occasionally roughly opened and cut close at the top just clipping a couple of page numbers, lower corner of A2 lacking small piece just affecting final word in three lines on p3, else a very good copy of a fragile piece.
Foxon D214 : the first of three editions listed by Foxon. First published in 1642. *** One of the earliest and most famous topographical poems, set around the Thames at Egham, by the royalist poet Sir John Denham. View more info
By: DICKENS, Charles : J. H. Stonehouse.
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Piccadilly Fountain Press 1931.:
Seller ID: 1060
Condition: Original grey-green boards & printed paper label. C.pp130 & 10 plates, as so often first and last few leaves and untrimmed foredges foxed or spotted, else a bright copy.
Edition limited to 535 copies signed by the author John Harrison Stonehouse. View more info
Price: £60.00
Publisher: Venice, Alfieri nd [c.1969].:
Seller ID: 9464
Condition: White boards lettered in black, striking green and white illustrated dustwrappers. 4to [binding c.23 x 23 cms], c.pp142, an excellent copy.
Chronologically arranged album of Balla's life 1871 - 1958 as a leading Futurist painter and designer. Essentially a picture essay, with texts mainly in the form of greatly extended captions. Also includes original writings by Balla, a text by Marinetti, and the Futurist manifestos The Anti-Neutral Suit, The Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe, and The Futurist Cinema. View more info
By: DOUBLE CROWN CLUB : B. C. Barker-Benfield.
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Double Crown Club 1978.:
Seller ID: 8762
Condition: Pamphlet c. 22.5 x 15 cms in white wrappers handsomely titled in black, c.pp44, wrappers just lightly spotted, else an excellent copy of a fragile piece.
200 numbered copies only : compiled by B. C. Barker-Benfield, formerly a senior scholar of Corpus Christi College : and printed in a facsimile of his manuscript hand. Comprises an Introduction to, and detailed catalogue of, the outstanding manuscripts from Corpus Christi Library shown in the exhibition. View more info
By: DOUBLE CROWN CLUB : Benjamin Franklin.
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Double Crown Club 1934.:
Seller ID: 8768
Condition: Sheet of thick tan paper folded once to form 4pp c. 19.5 x 14 cms, elegantly printed in caps throughout, and with large opening initial in yellow, fine copy of a fragile piece.
Probably about 60 copies only. Benjamin Franklin's self-penned epitaph : presented by Carl Haeggstrom of Upsala, Sweden, 'In commemoration of the 50th Dinner of the Double Crown Club in its 10th year of existence'. View more info
By: DOUBLE CROWN CLUB : Brooke Crutchley.
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Double Crown Club 1970.:
Seller ID: 8760
Condition: 8 pages c. 29.5 x 16.5 cms sewn with red cotton, a fine copy of a vulnerable piece.
About 100 copies only. The original 1930 menu was produced by S. C. Roberts, Stanley Morison and Walter Lewis in the manner of Ichabod Dawks. This Facsimile - the humorous text gently satirising various leading members of the Club - is in a pastiche of the style of Dawks' Newsletters and was printed by Cambridge University Press in Dawks Scriptorial and Union Pearl. View more info
By: DOUBLE CROWN CLUB : Christopher Skelton.
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Double Crown Club 1982.:
Seller ID: 8765
Condition: Pamphlet c.21 x 10.5 cms in textured cream wrappers strikingly lettered in red and decorated in grey-green, c.pp12, a fine copy.
About 100 copies only issued. Handsomely designed and printed by Christopher Skelton. View more info
By: DOUBLE CROWN CLUB : Christopher Skelton.
Price: £12.00
Publisher: Double Crown Club, Skelton's Press 1981.:
Seller ID: 9305
Condition: Pamphlet c.20 x 10.5 cms in green wrappers decorated with numerous crowns in green and lettered in black, c.pp12, a fine copy.
About 100 copies only issued. Handsomely designed and printed by Christopher Skelton. View more info
By: DOUBLE CROWN CLUB : Christopher Skelton.
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Double Crown Club, Skelton's Press 1982.:
Seller ID: 9306
Condition: Pamphlet c.21 x 10.5 cms in textured cream wrappers strikingly lettered in red and decorated in grey-green, c.pp12, a fine copy.
About 100 copies only issued. Handsomely designed and printed by Christopher Skelton. View more info
By: DOUBLE CROWN CLUB : Christopher Skelton.
Price: £24.00
Publisher: Double Crown Club, Skelton's Press 1978, 1979 and 1980.:
Seller ID: 9308
Condition: Together 3 Items, variously coloured wrappers lettered in black. Each item c.15 x 10 cms with c.pp12, fine copies.
About 100 copies only issued. All three items handsomely designed and printed by Christopher Skelton. View more info
By: DOUBLE CROWN CLUB : Colin Banks : Michael Levey.
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Double Crown Club 1981.:
Seller ID: 8745
Condition: The Menu a stiff tri-fold card c. 21 x 19.5 cms and boldly printed allover in black and white in the style of the London Underground.
About 100 copies only designed by CB/BB [Colin Banks and ??]. Michael Levey, former Design Manager of London Transport, gave a talk titled Bill Stickers Is Alive And Well : An Exploration into London Transport's Poster Archives. View more info
By: DOUBLE CROWN CLUB : Henry van de Velde : Fernand Baudin : Herbert Spencer.
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Double Crown Club 1970.:
Seller ID: 9380
Condition: Together 2 items. The Menu printed in mauve and blue on large stiff white card c. 30 x 23 cms, corners just nudged, small marginal spot. The Invitation printed in matching style in green and gold on stiff white card c. 20 x 15 cms, with neat ink annotation cheque 'sent 4/11/70. Guest Graham D.', else excellent.
About 100 copies only. Designed by Herbert Spencer and printed by Lund Humphries. Both items based on a swirling Art Nouveau design by Henry van de Velde for the Continental Havana Compagnie. Fernand Baudin spoke on Henry van de Velde & Typography. View more info
