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First edition, superbly illustrated and in near very good condition. In original repaired publisher’s green cloth binding embossed in gilt to upper board with the historic motto for geologists ‘Mente. Manu. Malleoque’. Decorative spine panel sunned; corners just a little bumped; sound and square. Advertisements to front and rear endpapers. Tinted l… Read more…

Seemingly unrecorded imprint of this French manual for lovers, particularly addressing 'la Methode et Adresse pour bien entretenir une Maitresse'. Chapbook-style publication without imprint, dogearred throughout, almost closed tear to head of title page but complete as issued without binding or wrapper, though decorated along spine as if mimicking… Read more…

First Edition in original jacket in good plus condition. Publisher’s green cloth titled in a darker green to spine, faded to yellow along spine hinges otherwise clean and unmarked. Slight spine lean evident. Endpapers and text block clean; map of ‘Island of Storn’ to front pastedown. 317 pp. Original jacket good, drawn by Ben Nicholson, with nicks… Read more…

First Edition in good condition. Red cloth boards square and sound; a little age worn with a few small marks and darkening to edges; sunned to spine. Endpapers clean with a very neat previous ownership inscription dated 1933 to top of front free. 55 pp. Printed in Great Britain by Morrison & Gibb Ltd, Edinburgh. A pleasing copy. Read more…

A complete set of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and stories. This attractive soft cover set includes 1 first printing (The Spy Who Loved Me) and 2 second printings (The Man With the Golden Gun and Octopussy). The books are generally about very good, clean and unmarked throughout, the rest of the imprints are mixed reprints. A lovely set. Read more…

An attractive contemporary half binding of green cloth over marbled boards in very good plus condition containing 2 scholarly articles. Titled in gilt to spine, endpapers age toned, text block clean and crisp, a square and sound copy containing: 1. An 1835 scholarly article titled ‘Results of an Enquiry concerning the Situation and Extent of Westmi… Read more…

Uncommon Caligula Books pamphlet printed in black on silver softback card covers in near good condition; scuffed to corners and spine; a little nicked to edges. Text block very sound; a little age toned with neat previous ownership inscription to front half title. Illustrated by Andy Butler. 43 pp. Printed in small batches, publications from this s… Read more…

A fine copy of this scarce first edition in its original dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to the half title ‘To Alistair and Jennifer, with love and homage from Park’. 421 pp. From the collection of a retired University of Leeds academic and former colleague of Park Honan. Read more…

First UK edition in scorched jacket. Crimson cloth with turquoise and gilt lettering and detail to spine in very good plus condition; just slightly bumped to corners; very slight signs of shelf wear along the upper edges; text block edge a little speckled. Endpapers and contents clean, fresh and unmarked. A sound and square copy. Original unclipped… Read more…

Both volumes of the Common Reader: Series 1 (second edition) and series 2 (first edition) in good plus condition. 1. The Common Reader. First series. Second edition. 1925. Light blue cloth boards titled over white paper label to spine, age toned and darkened to spine. Text block unmarked, square and sound. 305pp. 2. The Common Reader. Second series… Read more…

Limited edition, quarter red leather over red cloth boards in pristine condition throughout, containing over 150 illustrations plus 3 fold out maps and tables. Embossed 6 panelled spine titled in gilt and ‘The Grove Bookshop’ to tail. Title page illustration depicts ‘Ilkley, Yorkshire from the River Wharfe’ by Thomas Griffin. 210 pp. plus bibliogra… Read more…

In near good condition. Publisher’s binding faded, knocked to corners, top and tail. Spine cracking to top. Yellow endpapers clean front and rear. Front free endpaper is inscribed ‘To Peter Musgrave from his Grandfather Xmas 1854’. Text block is sound, age toned with occasional pencil marks to margins throughout. Contains six lectures originally wr… Read more…

In very good condition, the ‘First Comprehensive Tool Catalogue’ issued by this Leeds company. A vintage 1954 tool catalogue produced by J.H. Smith in Leeds, the very first British publication which markets the famous Emco Unimat Universal Miniature Machine Tool, priced within at £27 17s 6. J. H. Smith Ltd were the original sole UK concessionaires… Read more…

In near very good condition. Handsomely bound in light green cloth, decoratively tooled and titled in gilt; edges and spine browned; a small nick to spine tail. Endpapers fresh incorporating a ‘July 1851’ hand written ownership inscription. Text block square, sound and unmarked. Contents for the year 1851 include calendars, post office regulations,… Read more…

Lacking half of front board, otherwise in very good condition. A special commemorative program and literary album published to support the Chelsea Hospital for Women and sold at a huge 1884 fundraiser held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Binding square and sound in spite of loss to right hand half of upper, lower corners and spine panel. Light… Read more…

Second edition of this Nobel prize winning volume in very good condition. Green cloth boards a little bumped to corners, top and tail; toned to edges and a little sunned to spine. Front endpaper missing; preliminaries very lightly foxed; text block clean and unmarked throughout. 406 pp. A sound and square copy. Printed by Morrison and Gibb Ltd, Edi… Read more…

First Edition, a very good plus copy in original unclipped jacket. Boards and text block fine. Jacket near very good; lightly shelf worn and a little age toned to edges. 96 pp. A lovely copy of Tony Harrison’s first collection of poems which contains portraits of the citizens of Leeds living around the world and was winner of the Geoffrey Faber Mem… Read more…

An uncommon imprint in very good condition of this ‘Gem’ first edition of Shakespeare’s poetry and songs. Handsome red roan boards embossed in gilt to upper with the crest of Trinity College, Cambridge; decoratively tooled and titled to 6 panelled spine. Gilt text block edges very good. Marbled endpapers very fresh, delicately tooled with gilt deco… Read more…

Signed First UK Edition. Brown cloth hardback boards and text block near fine with just a little dust speckling along top edge of text block. Signed by author in black ink to title page. 441 pp. Original jacket very good with very minimal shelf wear to top and two small clean tears measuring c.1 cm in length to top edge of lower panel. A very pleas… Read more…

US First Edition in original jacket in very good plus condition. Publisher’s half cream cloth spine over dark green boards very fresh with just a touch of sunning along the top edges. Text block entirely square and sound with red top stain to text block. Clean and unmarked throughout. 232 pp. Original jacket good plus; a little speckled to spine; t… Read more…

Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd: London, Melbourne, Toronto, 1912. 8vo. In good plus condition. Publisher’s original illustrated boards very good, very lightly shelf worn, a little bumped to top, tail and corners. Gilt crest of the Harvey Grammar School, Kent to lower. Gilt text block edges a little scuffed. Dark blue endpapers unmarked; light foxing to preli… Read more…

1933 edition illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Original unclipped jacket near good; nicked to tips of fold lines and spine top and tail; approx. 1 cm chip ro upper fore edge; lightly age toned. Publisher’s bright blue cloth in good plus condition, decoratively embossed to upper; spine sunned. Endpapers clean; lightly age toned. Eye catching title page… Read more…

Inscribed first edition; soft backed copy with signs of typical shelf wear; cover age toned to spine and edges; text block likewise age toned; inscribed by the author to the title page ‘for Alistair with love Hermione September 1983’. 95 pp. From the collection of a retired University of Leeds academic. Dame Hermione Lee is a British biographer, li… Read more…

Scarce First Edition, first printing in near fine blue textured card wraps titled in black to the spine. Black discs (suns) to front and rear covers. Limited edition of 500 statement to final leaf. Binding square and firm, the spine just a touch faded. Yellow discs to two consecutive pages mid-sequence. Contents are very clean and bright. Printed o… Read more…

In good + condition. Early British edition of this series of six lectures originally written for the pulpit. Decoratively embossed cloth boards a little bumped to corners, shelf worn as expected. Spine cracking to top 1 cm along rear hinge. Yellow endpapers clean front and rear. Written inscription to front free endpaper reads in a contemporary han… Read more…