n.d. Recently rebound in full calf and with new linen joins, this charming album has seventeen thick card leaves, each with a window for a photograph. Original endpapers and brass hinge have been preserved, and eight of the leaves have delightful borders of flowers and butterflies. Minor scattered foxing and..... More
Los Angeles: The Press in the Gatehouse, 1973. Minature book (7 x 5.4cm or 2 3/4 x 2 1/16 inches); unpaginated (12pp comprising; 2 blanks, title page with etching of a laughing green frog, blank, 4pp text, 4 blanks) ; soft green wraps bound with white string. Near fine, the..... More
London: G. Routledge and Co., 1851, 1852. Volume bound in ¼ brown leather, binding tight, leather corners, lozenge pattern on spine with gilt rules and raised bands, gilt on black leather titles, marbled (combed) paper boards slightly abraded, a little fraying at edges, faded marbled edges of text pages, 616..... More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1858. First thus. Pp. xxviii, 50, twenty-three fine wood engravings after designs by Birket Foster, John Tenniel and others. Full brown morocco with gilt borders, lettering and dentelles, all edges gilt, bookplate of G. & N. Ingleton, Ingleton Catalogue sticker No. 8960. Joints and corners..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1956. First Edition. Octavo, pp (viii), 214, (ii). light blue boards with lettering in gilt on the spine, illustrated paper jacket. Corners are lightly bumped and with light foxing to the edges of the leaves. The jacket is price clipped, a little edgeworn and with a 1cm..... More
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover 16mo (23.5 x 15.5cm); pp. [12], 401, [3, blank]; peach leather spine; beige marbled paper covered boards; metallic blue lettering on the front cover and borders either side of the spine; deckled fore edge; beige textured endpapers; opaque rice paper..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Original glassine wrapper a little worn at the top corners and head of spine. Cloth spine with paper label, blood orange eps, 133 pp., Billy Jones bookmark on front paste down (mass produced). One of 200 trade copies. Inscribed to..... More
Sydney: Selected Publications, n.d. Almost square stapled paperback with illustrated card covers (19 x 16cm); 8pp (also card); 6 colour and 6 b&w illustrations. Covers slightly soiled, a little age toned, otherwise very good. More
London, Paris, New York, Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Limited, nd. Quarto (31 x 23.5cm), xlvii, 152pp., 250 plates, alledges gilt; three quarter red leather over red pebbled boards, gilt lettering to top board and spine, five raised bands separated by gilt decorated panels, marbled endpapers with leather strip at the..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2004. First Edition. Large format hardcover (33.5 x 21cm); pp. (240), richly illustrated with black and white photographs; paper covered boards; black and white pictorial cover with lettering in white on the spine; black endpapers; lacking publisher's band. Very gentle bruising at the head and tail..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. One of 400 cloth trade copies. Occasional marginalia (Jones’s signature spiral). Original glassine wrapper a little tender at the head of the spine. Cloth spine with slightly chipped paper label (no loss), paper covered boards show evidence of insect damage..... More
London: Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd, 1984. First UK Edition. Pictorial cover. Tall softcover (30 x 22cm); 256pp., richly illustrated with photographs from the tour; laminated glossy covers with Bowie on the front cover and the album cover artwork on the back cover. Laminate lifting along the joints, leaves showing a hint..... More
Brisbane: J. W. Buxton, 1867. Octavo. Pp. xii, 88 (including Appendix). Frontispiece: Photograph of F. and A. Jardine (LACKING), view of Somerset (facing p.75), and folding map showing the northern part of Queensland showing route of the explorers (at end). Ferguson 7747. Recently rebound in three quarter leather with lettering in..... More
New York: D. Applegate & Company, 1903. New edition. Small octavo (17.5 x 10.6cm); pp. xi (1) 219 (1, Colophon);bound in red cloth covered boards with paper labels to the spines, top edges gilt, and plain endpapers. Spine very slightly faded, head and foot of spine pushed, large light patch on..... More
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA: Symposium Press, 1984. Produced at the Institute for the Book Arts, University of Alabama, designed by Gabriel Rummonds, text handset in Monotype Van Dijck, printed on Mohawk Superfine, 31.3 x 20.5 cm, 54 pages plus Colophon. Poems by participants in the 11th Alabama Symposium on English and..... More
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1969. Australian Facsimile Editions No. 33, in two volumes. Octavo, Vol. I: xii 521 pages, engraved Frontispiece, List of Charts, List of b&w Illustrations, Errata to Vols. I and II, three foldout maps, one two-colour, at end; Vol. II: viii 543 pages, engraved Frontispiece..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1961. First English edition. Octavo. 19.5cm x 12.5cm, red boards, gilt title to spine, 487pp including Author's note. Translated from the French by Xan Fielding. No Dust-jacket. Clean boards, slight lean to text block. Inscription on front endpapers. Top right hand corner of last page (487) is slightly..... More
Kent, Ohio: Kent State University, 1995. Large octavo, 28.5 x 22cm, black linen boards with white title on spine, green dust jacket with glass plate negative circa 1891 of a man and woman in formal attire, xxii, 594pp, 272 illustrations (photography). Dust jacket has a 2cm vertical tear along the joint..... More
Rome: galleria Ponte Sisto art moderna, 1971. Limited Edition. Almost square format (21.5 x 20) card folder containing 16 disbound sheets, 14 of which are original lithographs pulled on BKF Rives paper at the Bank Street Atelier, Ltd., New York. The print was limited to 300 examples each print individually..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, [n.d. circa 1920s]. Hardcover 4mo (24 x 16.5cm), pp. [2, blank], ix, [1, blank], 305, [3, blank], richly illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, illustrated endpapers, black line drawings throughout + 12 tipped in colour illustrations; orange cloth covered boards with embossed black lettering on the..... More
London: T. & W. Boone, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover octavo (22.5 x 15cm); pp. [2, blank], 8 (advertising pages), xx, 544, (12, advertising pages) including seven black and white illustrations + frontispiece and six black and white plates (one folding). Original dark green ribbed cloth covered boards; lettering in gilt..... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1918. First Edition. Quarto (29 x 22cm); pp. [2, half title, blank], 171, [1, printers' address]; coloured title page precedes typographical title page, A&R endpapers; tan illustrated boards, brown cloth spine with gilt lettering, facsimile illustrated dust wrapper. Muir 4263. Boards are mostly clean with soiling along..... More
Sydney: Dunvegan publications, n.d. [1946]. Octavo (19 x 12.5cm), frontis, 127pp (1), original green cloth binding with dark green lettering, illustrated dust jacket. Illustrations by Mirren. Some of the illustrations have been neatly hand coloured (probably by a previous owner) and the jacket is chipped and torn (now protected in librarian's..... More
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1989. Stated Collector's Edition. Hardcover (22.5 x 14.5cm); pp. [8], 170, [6]; white cloth covered boards; lettering in black on the spine; beige textured endpapers; lilac grey dust wrapper with lettering in black, designed by Christopher McVinish using an illustration by Cynthia Breusch for..... More
Braintree, Mass. The Organ Literature Foundation. Reprint. Small softcover (18.4 x 12.3cm); pp. [xi] 168; numerous in text illustrations; illustrated card wraps. Top and lower edges of front cover a little tender, corners lightly bumped, spine sunned. An unabridged republication of the original 1930 edition that was published at The Office..... More