CARROLL. LEWIS. ; Tenniel. John. Illustrates.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. And what Alice found there.

Macmillan and Co. Limited. London. 1894. The Peoples edition. Twenty-third thousand. 8vo. (7.3 x 4.9 inches). Illustrated with fifty line illustrations by John Tenniel. Some foxing to the plain tissue paper guard over the frontispiece and a few minor spots throughout but overall a very clean and bright copy in a fine late 19th century leather binding. Full red calf, the spine with five raised bands, each with double rope design in gilt. Compartments ruled and fully decorated in gilt. Dark green morocco title label, gilt. Leaf and rose roll gilt borders on boards. Decorative gilt design on board edges. Decorative blind stamped inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Red silk page marker bound in. Grantham School arms stamped on the front board in gilt. Previous owners neat name stamp to top of the first leaf after title page. Aside from a small area of loss to the leather on the front board and another on the lower spine hinge this is a very good copy in a fine quality leather binding. The binding is not signed but is certainly the work of a master bookbinder.

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Book number: 10813

SWIFT. JONATHAN. ; BROCK. CHARLES. E. Illustrates.

TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD by LEMUEL GULLIVER. First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several ships. With a preface by Henry Craik.

Macmillan and Co. London. 1894. FIRST BROCK EDITION, Large paper issue. One of only 110 copies issued. Large 8vo. (10.5 x 7.4 inches). One hundred fine line illustrations by Brock. Tissue guard to the frontis. Some minor offsetting to the blank endpapers otherwise a fine and clean copy throughout. In the original publishers burgundy cloth binding with printed paper label to the spine. The spine is a bit faded and there is some loss to one corner of the label, not affecting the lettering, but this is still a lovely copy of this scarce volume. With an attractive Art Nouveau bookplate of Christie Chetwynd Atkinson, decorated and illustrated with two women reading, by M.C. Fisher, dated 1902, on the front pastedown endpaper.

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Book number: 11010

KINGSLEY. CHARLES. ; NOEL PATON. J. Illustrates.

THE WATER BABIES. A Fairy tale for a Land Baby.

Macmillan and Co. London. 1863. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (8.1 x 6.4 inches). Second state, without with the L'Envoi poem leaf at the start of the book, which Kingsley had removed from all but the first few hundred copies issued. Two full page mono plates and 8 smaller engravings, one at the start of each chapter, by J. Noel Paton. Some occasional light foxing to a few pages, mostly to the margins. Finely bound in early twentieth century half tan calf leather binding by Riviere. Spine with five raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Tan cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. A little rubbing to the corners but overall a very good, highly attractive copy of this Victorian classic.

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Book number: 10945

BUTLER. SAMUEL. ; FARLEIGH. JOHN. Illustrates.

THE WAY OF ALL FLESH.

Collins. London. 1934. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. 8vo.(7.5 x 5.5 inches). Illustrated with 13 fine John Farleigh wood engravings, most full page. Five pages have a small tear to the fore edge of the page, without any loss, otherwise a lovely bright clean copy in a fine, attractive leather binding by Bayntun of Bath. Full red polished calf. Spine with five raised bands, each with gilt decoration. Compartments decorated in gilt. Blue and green labels, ruled and lettered in gilt. Double gilt ruled border on boards. Gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A wonderful copy of this scarce and beautifully illustrated edition.

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Book number: 10903

ROSEN. MICHAEL. - OXENBURY. HEPEN. ILLUSTRATES.

WE

Walker Books. London. 2019. LIMITED EDITION. 30th anniversary edition. 1st printing with number sequence 10 down to 1. 4to. (11.5 x 10.3 inches). One of 1000 copies, with a full colour print, numbered and signed by both Rosen and Oxenberry, in a transparent envelope mounted onto the rear inner board. Illustrated in mono and full colour throughout. Full colour endpapers, with a note from Helen Oxenbury on the front free endpaper. Original plain tan boards. Spine lettered in black. In the original colour printed dustwrapper with a gold circular stamp to the front stating "with signed limited edition print" around an image of the family. A fine copy of this lovely book, already a firm fixture on nursery bookshelves.

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Book number: 10344

WAUGH. EVELYN. ; WHISTLER. REX. Illustrates.

WINE IN PEACE AND WAR.

Saccone & Speed Limited. London. 1947. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (9 x 6 inches). Two colour illustrations by Whistler within the book plus colour decoration on boards showing three men cowering behind a wine barrel. Both pastedown endpapers browned by the binders glue, as usual. Some light creasing to the very top of the spine but generally a fine bright copy.

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Book number: 11008

INGRAMS. RICHARD; -- STEADMAN. RALPH. ILLUSTRATES.

THE TALE OF DRIVER GROPE.

Dennis Dobson. London. 1969. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (11.5 x 8.5 inches). Signed by Ingrams on the title page. Fully illustrated in colour throughout by Steadman. A very good copy in publishers blue cloth with red lettering to the spine. Very good colour illustrated dustwrapper which has a few small creases to the edges and is just a little rubbed. Overall a lovely copy of this scarce edition.

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Book number: 9227

IRVING, WASHINGTON. ; using the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker.

A HISTORY OF NEW - YORK. From the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty.

Printed by Jules Didot, for Baudry. Paris. 1824. FIRST PARIS EDITION. Two volumes. 8vo. (7.4 x 4.7 inches). Vol. 1:xxxix, 344pp. - Vol. 2: viii, 312pp. Very good copies, untrimmed in the original publishers printed wraps. Neat engraved booksellers label (Langues etrangeres vivantes Bobee et Hingray, Libraries, Paris) stuck onto the front free endpaper of volume one. Edges untrimmed. Some creasing to the corners and minor loss to the paper on the bottom of the spines but overall a very good copy and uncommon in the original paper wraps.

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Book number: 10622

ISHERWOOD.CHRISTOPHER.

SALLY BOWLES.

Hogarth Press.London.,1937. FIRST EDITION.Fine copy in recent full black morocco.:

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Book number: 6873

DOYLE. JAMES. E.

A CHRONICLE OF ENGLAND. B.C. 55 - A.D. 1485. The designs engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans.

Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green. London. 1864 (but 1863).. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (11 x 8.7 inches). Title printed in red and black, 81 fine illustrations in the text printed in full colour. Contemporary deluxe binding by Riviere of bright red straight-grained morocco. Both boards with ruled line and decorative floral borders, inner corner decorations, all in gilt. Spine with double raised bands decorated with gilt double wavy lines. Dark green morocco onlays in between the bands with gilt floral rolls. Compartments ruled, letered and decorated in gilt. Decorative gilt roll to the board edges. Floral gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. --- Neat gift presentation, dated December 31st 1863, on a sheet of paper and mounted onto a blank free endpaper. A few small areas of rubbing to extremities, else a fine copy. ----- First Edition of one of the finest examples of Victorian colour printing and the first with the colour illustrations designed purposely for the text. The book was the brainchild of the printer Edmund Evans, who declared it to be the most carefully executed book he had ever printed. The illustrator and antiquary James Doyle was the uncle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. -- Muir, Victorian Illustrated Books, p.158.

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Book number: 11067

JAMES. HENRY.

CONFIDENCE.

Houghton, Osgood and Company. Boston.,1880. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. A fine, clean copy in the publishers 1st state rust brown cloth. Spine with gilt lettering and ruling. Boards with bevelled edges and double blind ruld borders. Brown coated endpapers. A fine, tight copy that looks unread. Small label of the noted New York Bookseller Henry K. Van Siclen on the rear paste down endpaper. Only 1500 copies were printed.:.

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Book number: 7410

WATSON. JAMES. D.

THE DOUBLE HELIX. A personal account of the discovery of DNA.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1968. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.7 inches). Illustrated with 19 half-tone photographic plates, including six pages reproducing Watson's letter to Max Delbruck, telling of the Double Helix, and 11 diagrams within the text. A very good copy with previous owner's name and date (May 1968) written neatly on the front free endpaper. Original dustwrapper with some minor chipping to the corners and edges. A slight forward lean to the book but overall a very good copy.

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Book number: 10805

WATSON. JAMES. D.

THE DOUBLE HELIX. A personal account of the discovery of DNA.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1968. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.7 inches). Illustrated with 19 half-tone photographic plates, including six pages reproducing Watson's letter to Max Delbruck, telling of the Double Helix, and 11 diagrams within the text. A very bright, clean copy. Original dustwrapper with one small chip and a couple of small closed tears, otherwise a better than very good example. Overall a very good copy.

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Book number: 10806

BOSWELL. JAMES.

THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON. New edition, elucidated by copius notes, and illustrated with numrous portraits, and characteristic designs, engraved from authentic sources.

Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge. London. 1859. Four volumes bound in two. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated throughout with fine engravings, some full page. Contemporary fine bindings of half dark reen calf. Spines with raised bands with decorative gilt tooling. Gilt ruling, decoration and lettering to compartments. Red title labels, ruled and lettered in gilt. Marbled paper to boards and endpapers. All edges marbled. Overall a very good clean set in attractive nineteenth century bindings. -- This edition was edited by Robert Carruthers.

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Book number: 10896

HOWARD. JAMES H.

ROAR OF THE TIGER.

Orion Books. New York. 1991. FIRST EDITION, with bookplate signed by the author. 8vo. (9.2 x 6.3 inches). x, 310pp, including an index. A printed red and blue bookplate stuck onto the front free endpaper states that this is a special autographed copy and it has been signed by Howard in ink at the bottom. Illustrated with 26 mono photos. Original plum coloured cloth spine, lettered in bold red. Beige paper on the boards. In the original illustrated dustwrapper which has some fading to the spine but overall is very good. A slight lean to the book but generally a very good copy of this fascinating account. One of an unspecified number distributed in the UK and with the UK publisher's label mounted over the New York publisher's name on the title page. ----- James Howell Howard was a Brigadier General in the United States Air Force and was the only fighter pilot in the European Theater of Operations in World War II to receive the Medal of Honor — the United States military's highest decoration, as well as many other others, including the Distinguished Flying Cross.

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Book number: 10810