Slim booklet with sewn binding, yellow thin card covers. The Ariel Poems were published in two series; the first by Faber and Gwyer had 38 titles and were published between 1927 and 1931. This title is from the second series published in 1954 and was one of 8 titles published in this new series. Mountains has an striking full page colour illustration by Edward Bawden, a full black and white illustrated title page, and a further small black and white illustration on the final page. The booklet is in lovely, clean condition. Lacks envelope. pp. 5 including title page. Booklet is 21.5cm tall x 13... View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. First edition [1940]. Original blue cloth boards with black outline penguin design and titles on the front / upper board. There is a very, very slight curvature to the boards. Heavy foxing to the top and bottom closed textblock edges. Significant foxing to the endpapers, pastedowns and to the dust jacket. The dust jacket is worn at the edges, with tears, chips, some loss at the spine ends and corners and loss (max 5cm x 4.5cm) to the top edge of the back cover. Some further pale brown staining to the front cover of the dust jacket. Front flap not price clipped. There... View More...
Hardback, in very good condition. Printed at the Curwen Press and bound in one of Curwen Press's distinctive patterned paper boards, in a design by Margaret James Calkin. The boards are rubbed at the spine, and title label to the spine (see photos). Small purple stamped star in the top corner of the front endpaper. No previous owner's names or inscriptions. Contains three of Bax's satirical plays: The Unknown Hand, The Volcanic Island, Square Pegs. The binding is nice and firm and inner hinges are very good. pp. 51. 19.6cm tall. View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. First American edition. Signed by Raymond Briggs, with best wishes (dated July 1981) on the reverse of the front endpaper - no inscription / dedication. The book has glazed pictorial boards and is in very good, clean condition - slight bruising to the base of the spine. The pages are a little discoloured / darkened at the edges but are otherwise clean throughout. The dust jacket matches the design of the boards - it is generally discoloured in the white sections and there is a water stain to the bottom of the jacket, measuring approx. 1.5cm high by 11.5cm across; als... View More...
Hardback, no dust jacket. Glazed pictorial boards. German first edition of The Snowman; the language is unimportant as The Snowman is of course a wordless picture book. Signed by Raymond Briggs on the reverse of the front endpaper, with best wishes and dated July 1981 - no inscription / dedication. In good condition. There is the occasional very pale mark to pages (you need a bright light / bright daylight to see these, they are very pale and therefore they have not shown up in the photographs). The boards are also generally discoloured and there are some writing indentations on the upper boar... View More...
Hardback, no dust jacket. Glazed pictorial boards. Signed by the author, and dated 1983, on the title page - no inscription / dedication. This copy is a 3rd impression, 1983; it was first published in 1982. Pages are very slightly discoloured / darkened at the edges. In otherwise very good, clean condition throughout. A somewhat harrowing wordless picture book about a nuclear attach on Britain by the Soviet Union, told from the view of a retired couple, Jim and Hilda Bloggs. The book was made into an animated film in 1986. Slim and unpaginated. The book measures 30.5cm tall. View More...
Hardback with slipcase. Illustrated edition, with striking and atmospheric Barnett Freedman lithographs, printed at the Curwen Press. 1955. Red cloth faded at the spine. Inside, previous owner's name and date (1966) written in tiny neat writing to the top corner of the reverse of a front free endpaper (plain side, not illustrated side). In otherwise excellent, clean condition. The binding is firm and inner hinges are very good. No foxing or other marks. Illustrations are bright and fresh. The grey slipcase has some brown marks and is rubbed at the corners. pp. xxx, [2], 331. Slipcase 24cm tall... View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. In very good condition. 1979 edition; illustrations reproduced from the original 1913 edition. Publisher's original grey boards, with silver decoration - in very good, clean condition, very lightly bruised at spine ends. The binding is firm and inner hinges are very good. No previous owner's names or inscriptions. Top edge tinted blue. Pages are nice and clean throughout. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed at the edges, has a crease to the back cover, a short tear to the front cover at the top edge. Front flap of the dust jacket not price clipped. pp. 92. 25.2cm tall.... View More...
Hardback. Patterned paper-covered sides backed with brown cloth spine which has a paper title label. In excellent, clean, near fine condition. There is an old tissue paper wraparound cover, possibly original to the publication. Small and lightly written pencil signature of a previous owner at the top edge of the front endpaper (could be erased without trace, if desired). One of 60 special numbered copies signed by the artist, Albert Rutherston (1881-1953), of which 50 copies were offered for sale. This is copy number 28. There are 4 colour plates by Rutherstone, including the frontispiece, plu... View More...
Slim booklet with sewn binding, light purple thin card covers. The Ariel Poems were published in two series; the first by Faber and Gwyer had 38 titles and were published between 1927 and 1931. This title is from the second series published in 1954 and was one of 8 titles published in this new series. The Winnowing Dream has an striking full page colour illustration by Robin Jacques and a small black and white vignette on title page, repeated on last page. The booklet is in very good, clean condition but the covers are slightly faded, particularly at the edges. Comes complete with its original... View More...
Hardback. No slipcase (as published I believe, in the Folio Collectables series). 2015 Folio Society edition, with the Edward Bawden lino-cut illustrations. Bound in blue cloth with a blocked design. Top edge tinted blue. Woven ribbon page marker (frayed ends). In excellent, clean and tight, fine condition. No names, inscriptions or other marks. pp. 230. 22.6cm tall. View More...
Card folding book in unused, fine condition, presented unopened in its original packaging (see photos). Kate Farley's folding book, Gardening with Mr Bawden, celebrates Bawden's love of plants and gardening. Her motifs and decorations are inspired by Bawden's work and printed here using lino-cuts before transfer to litho for the final printing process. Folded, the book measures 14.2cm tall x 20cm wide. View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. First edition. Original red boards. The binding is firm and inner hinges are very good. There is a prize presentation bookplate on the front endpaper, dated 1965. No other writing, names or inscriptions inside. Top textblock edge tinted green. Some quite heavy foxing to the remaining two textblock edges. Foxing and general discolouration to the dust jacket which is also price clipped and has a couple of short nicks and minor rubs to the edges. pp. vii, 232. 20.5cm tall. View More...
Complete set of first editions, first impressions of the original Chitty Chitty Bang Bang adventure stories [3 volumes]. Volumes 1 and 2 were published in 1964 and volume 3 in 1965. Pictorial boards with matching dust jackets. All three have clean boards, though all are slightly discoloured / tanned at the very edges and have some light rubs and bruises to the edges, spine ends and corners, with minor bumps to a few corners. Bindings are all firm and inner hinges are very good. Volumes 1 and 2 have a previous owner's name stamp on the half-title page (two stamps in Adventure Number One). Pages... View More...
Hardback. First edition. Lacks dust jacket. Black cloth spine, with printed paper sides (lower board plain grey). Spine ends a little rubbed. Corners rubbed, with board exposed at bottom corners. The boards are darkened / discoloured at the edges. No previous owner's names or inscriptions but there is a doodle in ink pen on the front endpaper. The binding is firm. Pages, including the John Nash plates, are in very good, clean condition throughout. pp. 126, plates. 25.3cm tall. View More...
Hardback. First edition. Lacks dust jacket. Black cloth spine, with printed paper sides (lower board plain grey). Spine ends a little rubbed. Board edges lightly rubbed. The boards are darkened / discoloured at the edges. No previous owner's names or inscriptions. The binding is firm. Some foxing to the prelims and first few pages, including the first full page Paul Nash plate. Light foxing to closed textblock page edges. pp. 126, plates. 25.3cm tall. View More...
Greetings Telegram from 1955, with original GPO envelope - fold out paper style telegram, rather than the later card styles. Wide illustrated borders to the telegram, illustrated by Eric Fraser [1902-1983]. Used, with a brief birthday message written in ink. Postmark on the back of the telegram stamped Saffron Walden 22/12/55. Opened out the telegram measures 21.8cm wide x 16.7cm tall. Envelope measures 12cm wide x 9.5cm tall. Tears to the envelope. View More...
Slim booklet with sewn binding, red/pink thin card covers, with flaps; faded at the edges and spine. The Ariel Poems were published in two series; the first by Faber and Gwyer had 38 titles and were published between 1927 and 1931. This is title number 6 from the original series, published in 1927. pp. 4, comprising, illustration, two pages at the centrefold bearing the poem, last page is list of titles in the series, featuring titles nos 1-8. In good to very good condition; the booklet is clean but has numerous light handling creases. The booklet measures 18.5cm tall x 12cm wide. View More...
Hardback with dust jacket and slipcase. First edition of this edition with John Burningham's illustrations. Signed and dated (Feb 1983) by John Burningham on the reverse of the front endpaper. A super copy. The book and dust jacket are in excellent, fine condition - clean, tight, and no marks other than the illustrator's signature. The slipcase is in very good condition. Printed on a cream-coloured paper, except for the colour illustrations which are on a semi-gloss white paper. A lovely edition. pp. 240. The slipcase measures 25cm tall. View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. Reprint, 1973; the book was first published in 1964. This is the first reprint. Both the book and dust jacket are in very good condition. Pictorial boards with matching dust jacket. Light rubs to the edges of the boards and there is a gift inscription written in biro, child's writing, at the top of the front endpaper. Pages are otherwise clean and bright throughout. The dust jacket has some wear to the edges - rubs, short nicks, some creasing. There are some tiny very pale splash marks to the front cover of the dust jacket (at first glance they look like very pale fo... View More...
Original Kliban Cat Calendar for 1978. First printing, May 1977. Spiral bound. Unused, complete with original illustrated envelope. The envelope has yellowed / darkened at the edges, with some tears at the flaps. The calendar is in excellent, near fine condition. However, one illustration and one calendar month page - January - have some discolouration from where an old news cutting about Kliban was loosely kept inside the calendar and there is now darkened shadowing to both leaves. To compensate for this, there is therefore this lovely old news cutting about Kliban included with the calendar ... View More...
Original Kliban Cat Calendar for 1979. First printing, May 1978. Spiral bound. Unused, complete with original illustrated envelope. The envelope has yellowed / darkened at the edges and on the address side. The calendar is in excellent, fine condition throughout. Printed on lovely thick card. The calendar measures 21.5cm tall by 28cm wide. View More...
Original Kliban Cat Calendar for 1980. First printing, May 1979. Spiral bound. Unused, complete with original illustrated envelope. The envelope has yellowed / darkened at the edges and on the address side, with some tears at the flaps. The calendar is in excellent, fine condition throughout. Printed on lovely thick card. The calendar measures 21.5cm tall by 28cm wide. View More...
Original Kliban Cat Calendar for 1981. First printing, 1980. Spiral bound. Unused, complete with original illustrated envelope. The envelope has yellowed / darkened at the edges and on the address side. The calendar is in excellent, fine condition throughout. Printed on lovely thick card. The calendar measures 21.5cm tall by 28cm wide. View More...
50th anniversary facsimile edition. Hardback with dust jacket. First published in 1954 by OUP, this edition was produced in 2004. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Harold Jones [1904-1992]. First printing of this edition. The book is in excellent, near fine condition - a small bump to the top corner of a few pages in the middle of the textblock. The dust jacket can only be described as good - it is faded at the spine and has several short tears to the edges, repaired to the underside with an acid-free paper repair tape. The front flap has been price clipped. pp. 180. 25.8cm tall. View More...
Slim booklet with sewn binding, pale blue thin card covers. The Ariel Poems were published in two series; the first by Faber and Gwyer had 38 titles and were published between 1927 and 1931. This title is from the second series published in 1954 and was one of 8 titles published in this new series. The Other Wing has an striking full page colour illustration by Michael Ayrton, a full black and white illustrated title page, and two further black and white illustrations; one a small vignette on the title page. The booklet is in lovely, clean, near fine condition. Lacks envelope. pp. 5 including ... View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. In very good condition. Signed limited edition, limited to 1280 copies of which 1250 were for sale and 30 for presentation. This is copy number 36 and is signed by George Moore. Publisher's original boards, with cream cloth spine and grey sides. The binding is firm and inner hinges are very good. Most page sections are uncut at the top edge, indicating the book is unread. Foredges and bottom edges are deckled / rough cut. Some foxing to closed textblock page edges, with some light occasional spots to page margins. No previous owner's names or inscriptions. With illus... View More...
Slim hardback volume. Good overall condition. Black cloth spine, slightly faded, with titles, black printed paper sides. The boards are rubbed and a little bruised at the corners; surface paper crack to the bottom corner of the front board (see photos - sounds worse than it is). The binding is firm. Previous owner's signature - John F Danby - at the top of the front endpaper. Heavy foxing to the endpapers and pastedowns; some lighter foxing to closed textblock page edges and occasional spot to pages. One of the colour plates has some foxing to the top corner; the others are clean. pp. 128. 22c... View More...
Slim booklet with sewn binding, yellow thin card covers. The Ariel Poems were published in two series; the first by Faber and Gwyer had 38 titles and were published between 1927 and 1931. This title is from the second series published in 1954 and was one of 8 titles published in this new series. Prometheus has an striking full page colour illustration by John Pipe, a black and white illustrated title page, and a further small black and white illustration on the final page. The booklet is in lovely, clean, excellent, fine condition. Lacks envelope. pp. 5 including title page. Booklet is 21.5cm ... View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. First edition. In good to very good condition. Printed by Henderson and Spalding. Publisher's original light brown boards. The binding is firm. This copy belonged to the illustrator Stuart Boyle and bears his neat signature and date (1932) on the front endpaper, plus one other's signature. There is some light foxing throughout, including to text pages; heavier spots to the endpapers and to closed textblock page edges. Illustrated, mostly with black and white photographic plates, plus Edward Bawden Scylla and Charybdis illustrations to demonstrate colour block printin... View More...
