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2013réf. SBBIH-LISSD5SZSLOUCreateSpace Independent Publishi 2013. paperback. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. CreateSpace Independent Publishi paperback
1992réf. SBBI-mon0000153452Dover Publications Inc. 1992. paperback. Acceptable. Rip to the cover or dustjacket if hardback or significant tearing to pages. Please see the condition note after this for details if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining water damage writing missing dustjacket etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Dover Publications Inc. paperback
1993réf. SBBI-mon0000104614Hamlyn 1993. hardcover. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Hamlyn hardcover
2016réf. SBBI-mon0000079841W & B Publishers Inc. 2016. paperback. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. W & B Publishers Inc. paperback
2021réf. SBBIH-CDSRPXTL676AMichael Joseph 2021. paperback. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Michael Joseph paperback
2007réf. TH219780National Portrait Gallery London 2007. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. Large heavy 4to. in bright green boards black lettering to spine 191pp on stiff paper colour plates illustrations in text etc. Eight of the artists shown at this important exhibition attended the opening night: Allen Jones; Mel Ramos; Joe Tilson; Colin Self; Gerald Laing; Peter Blake; Richard Smith; and Richard Hamilton. This book was signed by all of them in ink on the front blank fly-leaf and is testament to a very remarkable and now alas unrepeatable event __CONDITION : Aside from a tiny bump to the bottom corner tip of the front cover this book is an AS NEW unread copy in an AS NEW complete Dust Jacket. . NOTE: Depending on destination this item may require an extra payment for insurance. If so orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost. __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS National Portrait Gallery, London hardcover
réf. GOR003722106Paperback. Very Good. paperback
1959réf. 002184Northampton MA: The Print Club of Philadelphia The Gehenna Press 1959. Limited First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. No. 200 of 250 limitation signed and numbered in pencil by Leonard Baskin. This was Baskin's first venture into publishing and his jagged and stark illustrations amplify the fire and brimstone of Blake's both naive and worldweary verse that lilts at the same time it pierces and challenges. Printed on an Italian hand-made paper this is indeed a very handsome brochure and this copy is pristine internally with the faint remnants of tape top and bottom on both the front and rear of the wraps the only minor blight to the special production. The Print Club of Philadelphia, The Gehenna Press unknown
1959réf. 002184Northampton MA: The Print Club of Philadelphia The Gehenna Press 1959. Limited First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. No. 200 of 250 limitation signed and numbered in pencil by Leonard Baskin. This was Baskin's first venture into publishing and his jagged and stark illustrations amplify the fire and brimstone of Blake's both naive and worldweary verse that lilts at the same time it pierces and challenges. Printed on an Italian hand-made paper this is indeed a very handsome brochure and this copy is pristine internally with the faint remnants of tape top and bottom on both the front and rear of the wraps the only minor blight to the special production. The Print Club of Philadelphia, The Gehenna Press unknown books
1968réf. 140938885London: Trianon Press 1968. First Thus. Very Good. Copy #25 of the first 50 which have additional material and morocco rather than cloth bindings of the first three volumes; from a total edition of 726. Publisher's tan morocco and cloth lettered in gilt as issued in original cloth slipcase. Very Good spines a little sunned and rubbed slipcase lightly dampstained. Negative in Vol. 4 has come unglued laid in; copper plate present. A deluxe facsimile of Blake's emblem book in both versions with plates reproduced in collotype plus sketchbook drawings as well as scholarly and critical material. Trianon Press unknown
1968réf. 140938885London: Trianon Press 1968. First Thus. Very Good. Copy #25 of the first 50 which have additional material and morocco rather than cloth bindings of the first three volumes; from a total edition of 726. Publisher's tan morocco and cloth lettered in gilt as issued in original cloth slipcase. Very Good spines a little sunned and rubbed slipcase lightly dampstained. Negative in Vol. 4 has come unglued laid in; copper plate present. A deluxe facsimile of Blake's emblem book in both versions with plates reproduced in collotype plus sketchbook drawings as well as scholarly and critical material. Trianon Press unknown books
1799réf. 562217Amsterdam: Johannes Allart 1799. Hardcover. Very Good. First Dutch edition. Volume one only of four. Octavo. xvi 339pp. illustrated with 16 engraved plates: including two folded maps a frontispiece portrait of Steadman engraved by R. Vinkeles and five unsigned plates engraved after the original English plates by William Blake. Contemporary quarter calf and speckled paper over boards gilt spine with dark red leather titling label. The spine is rubbed and darkened leather corner tips are bumped slight stain at top right corner of the front endpapers and at the top of fore-edge very good with all 16 plates in fine condition. The first Dutch edition of Captain John Stedman’s “Narrative of a five years expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam from 1772-1777”. In the 1770s enslaved and formerly enslaved people of African descent led a rebellion in the Dutch colony of Surinam now Suriname South America. The Dutch army officer Stedman volunteered to lead in the fight to suppress the armed rebellion. The Narrative is based on the diary of his voyage and time in the colony. First published in London in 1796 with engravings by William Blake and Francesco Bartolozzi after drawings by Stedman his Narrative became a significant work within the campaigns to abolish the slave trade and slavery. The Narrative includes graphic descriptions and illustrations of the Dutch colonists’ brutal treatment of both enslaved and free Africans. An attractive copy of the scarce first volume featuring many fine plates and folded maps engraved by R. Vinkeles J. Wijsman and A. Zurcher after the original English plates. Johannes Allart hardcover
1799réf. 562217Amsterdam: Johannes Allart 1799. Hardcover. Very Good. First Dutch edition. Volume one only of four. Octavo. xvi 339pp. illustrated with 16 engraved plates: including two folded maps a frontispiece portrait of Steadman engraved by R. Vinkeles and five unsigned plates engraved after the original English plates by William Blake. Contemporary quarter calf and speckled paper over boards gilt spine with dark red leather titling label. The spine is rubbed and darkened leather corner tips are bumped slight stain at top right corner of the front endpapers and at the top of fore-edge very good with all 16 plates in fine condition. The first Dutch edition of Captain John Stedman’s “Narrative of a five years expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam from 1772-1777”. In the 1770s enslaved and formerly enslaved people of African descent led a rebellion in the Dutch colony of Surinam now Suriname South America. The Dutch army officer Stedman volunteered to lead in the fight to suppress the armed rebellion. The Narrative is based on the diary of his voyage and time in the colony. First published in London in 1796 with engravings by William Blake and Francesco Bartolozzi after drawings by Stedman his Narrative became a significant work within the campaigns to abolish the slave trade and slavery. The Narrative includes graphic descriptions and illustrations of the Dutch colonists’ brutal treatment of both enslaved and free Africans. An attractive copy of the scarce first volume featuring many fine plates and folded maps engraved by R. Vinkeles J. Wijsman and A. Zurcher after the original English plates. Johannes Allart hardcover books
réf. GOR002369001Paperback. Very Good. paperback
réf. GOR001824557Paperback. Acceptable. paperback
2015Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and numerous coloured illustrations in the text; burgundy morocco, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt top, purple endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's slip-case blocked in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY BLAKE (THIS COPY NO. 195).
1976réf. 115020Clairvaux: Published by the Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust London 1976. First edition number 11 of 380 copies thus this copy inscribed on the limitation leaf by the publisher Arnold Fawcus "For Raymond: Geoffrey's most recent and exciting contribution to Blake scholarship warmest regards Arnold" from a total edition of 438 copies. This Trianon production constitutes a finely illustrated disquisition by Keynes on Blake's artistic and philosophical obsession with the classical Laocoon sculpture. Quarto. Monochrome collotype plates. Original brown quarter morocco grey cloth sides titles gilt to spine. Fine. hardcover
réf. wmb02Clairvaux: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket in marbled card slipcase. 1973. Limited Edition 14/808. Black hardback morocco leather cover. 250mm x 190mm 10" x 7". 7pp 30 plates. 30 collotype plates. No. XIV of 32 copies numbered I-XXXIII bound in full morocco leather containing a set of plates illustrating the progressive stages of the collotype and hand-stencil process and a guide sheet and stencil. 30 collotype plates original card guide sheet and metal stencil tipped-in. Mounted copper limitation plate to rear pastedown. Signed by the editor Geoffrey Keynes. A further 750 copies were printed - 26 lettered A-Z reserved for the William Blake Trust. The edition comprising 808 copies in total printed on Arches pure rag paper to match the paper used by Blake. . Trianon Press [for the William Blake Trust] hardcover
réf. 99-0119London: John Stockdale 1793. 2 vols. With a life of the author and embellished with seventy plates. With twelve plates engraved by William Blake. GAY. Vol. I. II. London: Two octavo volumes. xi 1 blank 225; vii 1 blank 187 1 ads pp. Seventy-one engraved plates Qtr. Contemporary leather and marbled boards. Spines chipped marbling peeling off lower corners of covers of both volumes corners lightly bumped and worn in general edges a little worn front hinges of both volumes loose but not falling off yet mild foxing to endpapers and title page. London: John Stockdale, 1793. hardcover
1999réf. 9450London: The Camberwell Press 1999. Introduction by Russell Hoban. No. 175 of 300 signed copies. Superb reproductions of 20 very large watercolour drawings by Quentin Blake. The watercolours were expertly scanned directly from the originals and printed on Rivoli White paper on a single colour press by Smith Settle. 645 x 460 mms original grey cloth ribbon laced binding by Smith Settle. An extremely good copy. Hogan’s introduction “Wrapped Attention Also Unwrapped” describes how Blake has done these watercolours and how under their blankets dressing gowns etc they are in fact female nudes. The result is a very strong collection of drawings which show beautifully a woman in various poses in the act of absorbed reading. The Camberwell Press hardcover
2005réf. 141665London : The Folio Society 2005. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket Issued. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Two folio volumes plus 8vo commentary volume half blue goatskin leather with leather label to upper board of each volume lavishly illustrated throughout LIMITED EDITION this being number 864 of 1000 copies a little faint tanning to companion volume and inside of box from leather labels see images otherwise a lovely fine clean set in fine original cloth box which has leather label to spine. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. The Folio Society hardcover
réf. 26143London: Jonathan Cape. 1982. Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition first printing. Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition first printing. Publisher's original red card covers printed in black. Illustrated by Quentin Blake with line and wash drawings throughout. A near fine copy the binding square and firm with little rubbing to the spine tips and corners the covers bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Uncommon in proof form. One of Roald Dahl's best loved tales. The basis for several stage and screen adaptations most notably the 2016 Walt Disney Pictures film directed by Stephen Spielberg starring Mark Rylance Ruby Barnhill Penelope Wilton Jemaine Clement Rebecca Hall Rafe Spall and Bill Hader. The BFG character first appears in a story told to Danny by his father in Danny the Champion of the World 1975. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: Jonathan Cape. 1982 unknown
1925réf. 45972Nonesuch Press 1925 1927. Together 4 vols. roy. 8vo. First Edition thus on laid paper with first work portrait frontispiece in photogravure original tissue guard present and 58 fine plates in collotype second work portrait frontispiece and 23 plates free endpapers lightly browned; original Nonesuch binding of marbled boards vellum backs lettered and numbered in gilt uncut backstrips lightly age-soiled else a very good bright clean crisp set. THIS SET WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF ROGER SENHOUSE AND BEARS HIS NEAT HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE WITH DATE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPERS. EDITIONS LIMITED TO 1500 NUMBERED COPIES THIS COPY NO. 779 AND 1480 COPIES THIS COPY NO. 1445 RESPECTIVELY. Nonesuch Press, hardcover
1860réf. 184324Columbus Ohio: H. Miller 1860. The forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations particularly in Greece and Rome. The African slave trade and the political history of slavery in the United States. Compiled from authentic materials. Pp. 832 frontispiece plus 12 plates one small text figure appendix; thick med. 8vo; original blind embossed black leather boards neatly rebacked with later black leather spine lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands edges of boards lightly rubbed; marbled edges; marbled endpapers upper hinge starting several early inked ownership markings on the outer leaves plus very occasional inked marks to the text a couple of marginal tears quite foxed throughout often heavily occasional slight soiling; H. Miller Columbus Ohio 1860. First published in 1857. H. Miller unknown
1999réf. 456007 pages of text by Russell Hoban followed by 20 plates by Quentin Blake the watercolour drawings were directly scanned from the originals and printed on Rivoli White paper on a single colour press bu Smith Settle Otley Yorkshire who also made the lace binding Published by The Camberwell Press hardcover