General Antiquarian Books and Literature
ALDIN, Cecil. The Romance of the Road.
Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1928.
£298
Folio. Original black cloth, lettered in white on spine and upper cover; with a folding map of London in a pocket inside the front cover, and numerous illustrations by Cecil Aldin, 11 of …
ALDIN, Cecil. Time I Was Dead. Pages from My Autobiography.
Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1934.
£498
Royal 8vo. Recently rebound in half red morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt and with gilt emblematical centre tools, top edges gilt; profusely illustrated, including a colour frontispiece and 8 colour plates; a fine copy. First edition.
ALDIS, Harry G. The Printed Book.
Cambridge. At the University Press. 1941.
£98
8vo. Original cloth with dust wrapper. A little browning to title-page, otherwise a very good copy. Second edition, revised by John Carter and E.A. Crutchley. Inscribed by the two …
ALDISS, Brian. The Hand-Reared Boy. A Novel for our Times.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1970.
£38
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. A fine copy. First edition.
ALEXANDER, Jonathan J.G. Medieval Illuminators and their Methods of Work.
New Haven and London. Yale University Press. 1992.
£40
4to. Original cloth with dust wrapper. With colour and black and white illustrations. A very good copy. First edition. Jonathan Alexander presents a survey of manuscript illumination …
RARE FIRST ISSUE, IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
ALKEN, Henry (illustrator). APPERLEY, C.J. The Life of a Sportsman. By Nimrod.
Rudolph Ackermann. 1842.
£2,500
Royal 8vo. Original dark blue cloth, blocked in blind and gilt, with a gilt design of a sporting trophy at the centre of the upper cover and elaborate gilt title to the spine, all edges …
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ALLEN, Woody. Without Feathers
Elm Tree Books 1976
£18
8vo. Original cloth with dustjacket, slightly marked. A very good copy. First edition.
ALLEN, Arthur A. American Bird Biographies.
Ithaca, NY: Comstock Publishing Company, Inc. 1934.
£60
8vo. Orginal brown cloth, gilt lettering to upper board and spine with gilt vignette of kingfisher to upper, decorative endpapers; pp. x + 238, 20 colour plates, numerous black and white …
ALLEN, Darina. Ballymaloe Seasons. Cooking From an Irish Country House.
Niwot Colorado. Roberts Rinehart Publishers. 1997.
£25
Folio., original cloth with price-clipped dust wrapper. With photographs by Melanie Eclare, Michelle Garrett and Timmy Allen. A fine copy. First edition.
ALLEN, David Elliston. The Naturalist in Britain. A Social History.
Allen Lane. 1976.
£50
8vo. Original cloth and dustwrapper; pp. xii + 292, 13 plates, text illustrations; signed by the author to title page; previous owner's label to ffep; spine sunned, very good. First …
ALLEN, Peter. Travels in the Cevennes.
Risbury. The Whittington Press. 1998.
£450
4to., original morocco backed decorative paper covered boards. With illustrations, some with linocut keylines pochoir coloured by the author. A mint copy with wrap around paper band in …
ALMANAC. Poole's Ladies & Gentleman's Polite Assistant and Useful Remembrancer for 1842 containg an Almanack, the Sovereigns of Europe, Lists of both Houses of Parliament, Engagements, Cash Accounts & a Variety of Useful Information.
Printed by Asignment of J Poole for Suttaby & Co. [1842]
£98
80 x 120mm, in original red morocco wallet, illustrated with 5 engraved topographical plates. Lacking the original pencil, with neat pencil and ink notes on front blanks. Ink date and ink …
ALTRINGHAM, John. British Bats.
HarperCollins. 2003.
£200
8vo. Publisher's cloth and dustwrapper; fine. First edition. New Naturalist 93.
AMIS, Kingsley (as Robert Markham). Colonel Sun, a James Bond Adventure.
Jonathan Cape. 1968.
£148
8vo., original printed proof wrappers. Front wrapper with a light crease, otherwise a very good copy. Uncorrected Proof.
AMIS, Kingsley (as Robert Markham). Colonel Sun, a James Bond Adventure.
New York. Harper & Row.. 1968.
£48
Crown 8vo. Original cloth, price-clipped dust-jacket by Tom Adams; bookplate, otherwise a very good copy. First US edition.
