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réf. Z1-Y-023-00692Harper Paperbacks. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Harper Paperbacks paperback
réf. 72764Skopje: Etnoloski Muzej The Ethnological Museum 1963. Traditional Costume FINE COLOUR PLATES. Folio portfolio 49 x 34cm pp.xiv; 42. Complete with 46 colour illustrated plates showing a wide range of traditional Macedonian costumes. Text in Macedonian English and French. In the publisher's colour-illustrated chemise case. Some creasing to left edge of the title page otherwise internally crisp and clean. Chemise case shows some toning and moderate general wear including a ring-mark to upper. Very good. Skopje: Etnoloski Muzej [The Ethnological Museum], 1963 unknown
réf. 72873Sydney NSW: Ure Smith Pty. Limited 1947. Botany SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large quarto 34 x 26cm pp.30. With a total of 10 illustrated plates by Feint and Jones. Number 270 of 550 copies thus SIGNED by the author and both artists to the limitation page. Publisher's green cloth with darker green titles to spine and a device stamped to upper. With the dust-jacket priced at 50s. Internally crisp and clean. Jacket shows light wear with a closed tear to top right of the front panel. Near fine. Sydney, NSW: Ure Smith Pty. Limited, 1947 unknown
réf. 70442London: Chapman and Hall 1840-41. English Literature FIRST EDITION in book-form. 3 volumes bound as two quartos 25 x 17 x 9cm pp.2 iv; 306 pp.vi; 306 pp.vi; 426 4. With illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Bound in early twentieth-century half native red morocco gilt over green buckram sides. Internally clean no inscriptions. Bindings a little rubbed and shelf worn wear to joints with repair to joints of volume two with associated chip. A very good pair which shows well. First Edition in Book Form; originally a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens from April 4 1840 - December 4 1841; Narrator Master Humphrey was a lonely man who lived in London. He keeps old manuscripts in an antique grandfather clock by the chimney-corner and decides to start a little club called Master Humphrey's Clock where the members including Mr. Pickwick himself have a penchant for telling stories. In the book several short tales are recounted followed by the novels 'The Old Curiosity Shop' which follows the life of the beautiful and virtuous Little Nell and her Grandfather and 'Barnaby Rudge' Dickens first effort at historical fiction set during London's non-Popery 'Gordon' Riots Protestant rallying against the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1778. Podeschi; Gimbel Catalogue. Eckel p67 Grolier Exhibition Slater; Suzannet Catalogue. Collins; Dickens and Crime 1962. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41 unknown
réf. 70084London: Wm S. Orr and Co.; London: David Bogue c.1851. Humour FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo 17 x 13cm pp.2; 47; 5; 59; 1; 30. With numerous plates and in-text illustrations by multiple artists includes frontispieces. First two tales with colour-printed title pages. Contemporary olive-green half morocco matching textured cloth over boards. Gilt titles to upper board and spine with raised bands and further gilt embellishment to spine. Edges speckled blue and red. Spotting to preliminaries and endpapers sunning to spine bumping to corners wearing to leather at edges. Very Good. A unique text comprised of three separate editions perhaps combined by the binder or the owner. The first two stories are undated though 'The Crystal Palace' is a first printing published in 1851. Two classic fairy tales and one contemporary one inspired by the Great Exhibition. London: Wm S. Orr and Co.; London: David Bogue, c.1851 unknown
réf. 70558New York NY: The Century Co. 1894; 1895. Children's Illustrated FIRST US EDITIONS first volume 18th thousand second volume first impression. Two volumes. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.xiv; 303; 3. Pp.10; 324; 2. With 35 illustrations by Drake to volume I including a frontispiece and frequent in-text illustrations by the author's father John to volume II. Publisher's green and red cloth respectively with gilt titles and decoration to spines and boards. Top edges gilt. Bookplate of the Colonial Club to front pastedown of volume I with light spotting throughout. Light general wear to cloth. Second volume has a blue ink ownership stamp to fly-leaf otherwise internally clean. Moderate wear to cloth including some loss to headcap. Very good overall. The Jungle Book and its sequel comprise a selection of short stories-the best-known being the three tales centring on the adventures of the abandoned 'man cub' Mowgli. Other popular tales include 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi' the story of a heroic mongoose and 'Toomai of the Elephants' the tale of a young elephant-handler. New York, NY: The Century Co., 1894; 1895 unknown
réf. 70717Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell 1935. Mediaeval Literature LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto 29 x 21cm pp.6 xvi; 318 6; pp.4 xvi; 268 6. With occasional woodcut illustrations produced in facsimile by Beedham and Francis. Number 64 of 325 copies thus letter-press printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's blue full morocco with gilt titles to spine. Top edges gilt others untrimmed with marbled endpapers. A series of old printed booksellers' descriptions loose to preliminaries. Internally crisp and clean with some sunning and light wear to spines. Near fine. A fine private press edition of Isaac Jaggard's first complete English edition from 1625 paired with facsimiles of the woodcuts from an edition printed in Venice in 1492 by the De Gregorii brothers. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1935 unknown
réf. 70684London: Collins 1979. Ornithology UK EDITION revised and enlarged the fourth edition. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.256. With colour plate illustrations and line drawings. Publisher's illustrated hardback covers Collins price label to rear showing £5.95 cartographic endpapers no jacket issued. Contents clean a little spotting to edges two neat annotations to map covers lightly handled. Near fine. The acclaimed work by the ornithologist James Bond whose name was famously appropriated for spy fiction's most celebrated hero. Gilbert page 616. London: Collins, 1979 unknown
réf. 70010London: Collins 1974. Ornithology SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Fourth printing. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.256. With colour plate illustrations and line drawings. Publisher's mid-blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine cartographic endpapers. With author's inscription to the title page; To Dick Sargent / James Bond. With occasional pencil and ink annotations by Sargent together with a note confirming the signed book was presented to him by Bond's colleague Lisa Salmon. A near fine copy without wrapper. The acclaimed work by the ornithologist James Bond whose name was famously appropriated for spy fiction's most celebrated hero. A rare signature in full as here the author usually signing as 'Jim Bond'. The recipient Dick Sargent was president and CEO of the Chubb Institute A dedicated conservationist he served as a trustee on the board of The Land Conservancy of New Jersey. Lisa Salmon founded the Rocklands Bird Sanctuary near Montego Bay in 1958. Laid in is a tri-fold checklist compiled by Salmon identifying birds to be observed at Rockland Feeding Station. Later part of the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert. Gilbert page 616. London: Collins, 1974 unknown
1992réf. 1003919New York: Philomel Books 1992. First edition review copy of Nancy White Carlstrom's Alaskan bedtime story richly illustrated with Native American imagery by Leo and Diane Dillon accompanied by the publisher's signed promotional poster. A sleepy young narrator bids goodnight to the Earth each feature of the snow-covered landscape imagined as part of the family: "Goodnight Papa Star / Goodnight Mama Moon / Bending your silver arms / down through the darkness." Leo and Diane Dillon won numerous awards over the course of their long career including back-to-back Caldecott Medals in 1976 and 1977 for Ashanti to Zulu and Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears the only consecutive medals given to date. They would win the 1992 Society Of Illustrators Gold Medal for the vibrant airbrush and watercolor images in Northern Lullaby. The publisher's poster reproduces their two-page spread of the tree spirits Auntie Willow and Auntie Birch "standing in long flannel gowns in the silence." A near-fine inscribed copy of a stunning book accompanied by a signed poster. Single volume measuring 11 x 10 inches: 26. Original black cloth spine lettered in silver purple pictorial boards stamped in blind original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Inscribed "For Daniel" signed and dated 1993 by Dillons on title page. Publisher's review slip laid in. Poster measuring 18.5 x 21.5 inches signed at lower right. Lightest shelfwear to book horizontal and vertical creases to poster from folding. Philomel Books unknown
réf. 68272London: Macmillan and Co. 1895-1897. Classic English Literature FIRST EDITIONS THUS each being the first edition illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 20 x 14 x 18cm. With an introduction by Austin Dobson to each volume profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice and Hugh Thomson for the all the other titles. Recently bound in navy half calf with raised bands gilt titles to burgundy labels further gilt tooling to spines and matching cloth over boards. All edges untrimmed. Nice clean copies gently toned throughout. Presented in attractive new leather bindings. Book Collector No.271 'The Great Illustrators'. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895-1897 unknown
réf. 68181Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Company 1961. Ornithology / Bondiana FIRST US EDITION THUS. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.256. With occasional colour plate illustrations and frequent line drawings in-text. Publisher's green cloth with darker green titles to spine and upper. Cartographic endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Samuel Bryant priced at $6. A nice clean copy showing just a hint of spotting to top edge and some light wear to jacket extremities. Near fine. The acclaimed work by the ornithologist James Bond whose name was famously appropriated for spy fiction's most celebrated hero. This new edition followed two earlier printings in America; Philadelphia 1936 and Macmillan New York 1947 under the title Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies. Gilbert page 616. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961 unknown
réf. 68403London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1883. Russian Adventure 'New Edition'. Octavo 21 x 15cm pp.xii; 377 1. With a folding map and illustrations by Ferat and Barbant including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Ink names to endpapers. Contents generally clean. Binding shows acceptable wear with joints rubbed corners pushed frayed at spine tips inner paper joints cracked as usual. Very good. Verne's classic tale of adventure and intrigue in the Russian Empire which was first published in English in 1877; also includes Verne's novella 'The Mutineers' which was omitted from most printings after 1912. Provenance; H.A.V. Bulleid M.A. 1912-2009 writer film-maker and cinema historian and an amateur bibliographer of Jules Verne. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883 unknown
réf. 68889London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press 1941. Children's Adventure FIRST EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.254; 2 blank. With a colour frontispiece and six full-page black and white illustrations by Alfred Sindall. Publisher's orange cloth blocked in brown text block thickness is 32mm. Some light and infrequent spotting throughout heavier in preliminaries and endpapers toning to edges of textblock no inscriptions some expected marks to covers spine sunned. Very good. Biggles is sent on a dangerous mission to retrieve a Polish inventor's plans which were hidden from the Nazis near the Finnish frontier. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, [1941] unknown
réf. 68946London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1900-1901. American Literature FIRST BROCK ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 19 x 13 x 18cm. Each volume contains twenty-five line drawing plates by the brothers Brock. Elegantly hand-bound in traditional half tan calf with twin labels gilt raised bands gilt titles and decoration to spines matching cloth over boards t.e.g. Contents clean and fresh exterior as new. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. An epic series set in the Iroquois area near New York over the lifetime of Natty "Hawkeye" Bumppo from the mid eighteenth century up to the early nineteenth and one of the first truly American literary creations. 'The Pathfinder' is a publisher's presentation copy with their blind-stamp to prelims. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1900-1901 unknown
1909réf. 21142851909. London; Adam and Charles Black 1909. Large 8vo. original white cloth with an armorial design blocked in orange green and gilt to spine and upper board top edges gilt; pp. xix i 320 4 publisher's advert.; with a total of 75 fine coloured plates after watercolours guarded by captioned tissues and a folding pull-out map at the rear; a near fine copy of this scarce and vulnerable book preserved in uncommonly clean condition both externally and internally with just light rubbing and dusting to boards with a previous owner's bookplate to inner upper cover another ownership inscription to front free endpaper and mild foxing to prelims.First edition of one of the scarcest titles in A. & C. Black's Twenty Shilling Series. Inman 37. hardcover
réf. 66497London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1897. Aesthetic Literature FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 21 x 17cm pp.316 16. With 18 black and white plates by various artists including the Scottish painter D.Y. Cameron each with a tissue-guard. Publisher's yellow cloth with titles and decoration in black. All edges untrimmed. Internally clean with some toning to endpapers. A few leaves poorly opened. A large contemporary library label to rear board. Spine browned with moderate general wear and a 1cm split to head. Very good. The last of 13 volumes in this era-defining series combining short stories poetry essays reviews and contemporary art. This issue features 'The Blessed' by Yeats. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1897 unknown
réf. 65163London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1878. Strange Tale SECOND UK EDITION. Octavo 19 x 15cm pp.xii; 246. With 44 engraved illustrations including a tissue-guarded frontispiece by Jules Férat and Charles Barbant. Publiisher's pale blue cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper coated cream endpapers all edges gilt. No inscriptions inside paper hinges cracked contents clean cloth a little rubbed frayed to spine ends some ripples to cloth on rear board spine toned. A very good copy. The discovery of an apparent race of troglodytes holds up the development of a promising new vein at an old coal mine near Stirling in Scotland. First published in English in 1877. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878 unknown
réf. 62247London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1935. Fantasy Tales FIRST EDITION THUS first impression. Octavo 19 x 12cm pp.x; 670 4 ads. With colour frontispiece and full page illustrations. Publisher's red cloth gilt with top edge gilt in pictorial dust-wrapper priced 10/6. Contents clean school prize label binding a little mottled fragile jacket mostly complete with a few chips to upper panel and to crown with a few neat tape strips to reverse side. Very good uncommon in jacket. Kipling's complete series of popular tales told by 'Puck' traditionally a name for a malicious spirit or demon of popular superstition and from the 16th century the name of a mischievous goblin or Hobgoblin similar to that appearing in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' the fairy scene from which is acted out here. Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature 277. BMC No.11984; 'Edwardian Children's Books'. London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1935 unknown
réf. 60962London: Macmillan and Co. 1874. Children's Classic FINELY BOUND a later edition. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.8 388 2. With four illustrated plates including a frontispiece. Contemporary tan full calf by BICKERS & SON with raised bands gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels and further gilt tooling to spine. All edges and endpapers marbled. Illustrated bookplate to flyleaf. A little toning and spotting to first and final leaves. Lower half of upper hinge and joint split with an archival tape repair to hinge. Moderate wear to spine and extremities. Very good. The classic children's tale first published in 1863. London: Macmillan and Co., 1874 unknown
réf. 57499London: Cassell & Company 1892. Crime Mystery FIRST EDITION. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.viii; 427 12. Publisher's catalogue dated May 1892. With 12 half-tone illustrated plates by Hole and Metcalf including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Fore-edge untrimmed. Repair to split lower hinge. Spotting and toning to edges and endpapers. Slightly cocked. Quite roughly opened in places. Moderate wear to cloth; spine quite heavily toned. Very good. Another stirring tale of shipwreck salvage and dark doings from Mr.Stevenson; the second mystery written in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osborne in this instance the investigator being the narrator himself. Inspired by the schooner Equator 1888-1953 this strange South Seas tale concerns the abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Island. London: Cassell & Company, 1892 unknown
réf. 57588London: A. and C. Black Ltd. 1928. Travel SECOND EDITION REVISED. Octavo 21 x 16cm pp.x; 250; 2. Publisher's blind stamped blue cloth gilt titles to spine and in blind to upper blue top edge dust-jacket. With thirty two plates in colour and a sketch map of the country. Ownership to flyleaf some spotting to edges. Wrapper price clipped with a few small marks. Uncommon in wrapper. A clean bright example. Near fine. Part of Black's Popular Series of Colour Books this volume being a revised version of the same title which formed part of the A. and C. Black 20 Shilling series first published in 1908. London: A. and C. Black Ltd., 1928 unknown
1828réf. 9027029London: Jones 1828. Hardcover. Very good. Cruikshank George. Illustrated with three etched frontispieces by George Cruikshank and 84 woodcut illustrations by George and Robert Cruikshank et al. "With a copious and classified index" in each volume. Bound in half black morocco with gilded bands spine stamped in both gilt and blind black cloth boards ruled in gilt printed endpapers. A few signatures loose but stilll holding otherwise binding is intact. A nice clean set. Jones hardcover
réf. 55376London: Longmans Green and Co. 1893. Childrens illustrated FIRST EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.xvi; 337; 1 blank; 1 advertisement; 1 blank. With numerous engraved illustrations by Ford Speed and others. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board coated black endpapers all edges gilt. Some spotting within bookplate to pastedown some overall handling to cloth. Very good. Stirring tales of Culloden Rourke's Drift Pirates Red Indians Kidnaps and Escapes. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893 unknown
réf. 51034London: John Cumberland n.d. c.1830. Theatre. EARLY PRINTING. Small pamphlet in sixes 15 x 10 pp.50. With a wood engraved frontispiece and cover illustration after R. Cruikshank by Mr. Bonner. Publisher's grey paper covers with titles illustration and a price of 6d sewn. Cumberland's No. 36 Minor Theatre being a Companion to Cumberland's British Theatre. Wear and some small chips from the covers. A remarkable survival of a delicate pamphlet. Very good. A play originally performed on 9th April 1830. London: John Cumberland, n.d. [c.1830] unknown
