New York: American Colortype Company, ca. 1911. Original wraps. Octavo (297 x 190 mm.), [52 pp.], ill., card wrappers stapled then tied through three holes with fine cord. Very good, internally clean and bright, spotting to edges, 2 cm strip cut from boottom of tp, 7cm piece missing from upper..... More
Full leather. A Grand Tour photo album containing 401 photographs taken predominately in Italy, England and Egypt with some photos from Adelaide and on board the SS Caprera as it crossed the Indian Ocean. Places visited include Harrow, Cambridge, Igtham, Cantebury, Fawley, Henley, Bellagio, Ravenna, Lake Orta, San Gimignano, Mentone..... More
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1920. 3rd Printing. Cloth. First published, March 1899; reprinted, October 1911, May 1920. Two uniform octavo volumes (29 x 22cm), The Early Work:15 pp, 157 plates (including port. frontis and tp). The Later Work: (18pp) unpaginated, 174 plates (including port. frontis and tp). Blue..... More
Carlton: Melbourne University Press on behalf of The Library Council of Victoria, 1979. First Edition. Large format hardcover (30.5 x 23cm), pp. (xiv), 224, [2, blank]; brown flecked, beige cloth covered boards, lettering on the spine and front cover in white; puce pictorial dust wrapper with lettering in white featuring..... More
UMinnP, 1964. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo, xix, 393pp. Illus. Original cloth, dust-jacket worn, Kay Long [Easson] bookplate (Blake scholar). Heavily underlined. The Bible until Bentley’s Blake Books and Essick’s various books came along. More
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover folio (34 x 24.5cm), pp. 492 including 765 illustrations; brown cloth covered boards with lettering in gilt on the spine; blue pictorial dust wrapper with lettering in white and black on the spine and lettering in white on the front cover. Front..... More
Cambridge: Heffer, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Oblong small folio, viii, 88 pp., colour frontispiece and 74 illustrations. Original wrappers, gently bumped at top right corner. First edition (also issued in cloth). Bentley, Blake Books, 703. More
[N. P.]: The William Blake Trust, 2009. William Blake. Facsimile. Folio, 95pp. Original quarter-maroon calf with black moiré silk-covered boards, with gilt lettered maroon-morocco label to top board, the spine also stamped in gilt; tongue and strap portfolio in full maroon calf containing 19 watercolours reproduced in facsimile, mounted within..... More
Clairvaux: Trianon Press, 1976. Facsimile. Quarto, 5 colour plates and commentary. Quarter brown morocco, marbled paper boards, slipcase. Number 11 of an edition of 538 copies, printed on Arches pure rag paper made to match the paper used by Blake. Thirty-two copies were bound in full morocco and showed progressive..... More
Clairvaux: Trianon Press, 1969. Facsimile. Folio, 17 colour plates, 9 pp. of commentary plus extra material: 23 additional proof sheets, 22 progressive plates, original stencil and guide sheet. Full brown morocco over boards with slipcase. This fasimile was made from copies held by Mrs Landon Thorne and Lord Cunliffe. The..... More
Clairvaux: Trianon Press, 1975. Facsimile. Quarto, 8 plates, 8 pp. commentary by Keynes with another plate, and 22 additional progressive proof plates, and with a metal pochoir stencil mounted at the end. Full brown morocco, a fine copy in slipcase. Special publisher's de luxe copy. Copy B of 26 lettered..... More
Manchester Etching Workshop, 1983. Facsimile. 2 vols., large and smaller quarto, the larger bound in full red morocco, the smaller loose in wrappers as issued, both enclosed in brown cloth folding boxes, new as issued. With an additional folder containing one facsimile plate and the Viscomi text. Some of the..... More
Clairvaux: Trianon Press, 1959. Facsimile. Folio, 11 plates, 7 pp. text [Geoffrey Keynes], plus the extra materials: 11 plates in monochrome and a suite of 26 progressive states of one plate. Full orange morocco, marbled slipcase, some foxing internally and to the edges. Limited to 446 copies of which this..... More
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Clairvaux: Trianon Press, 1958. Facsimile. Quarto, 27 plates, 5pp text, plus the extra materials, top edge gilt. Full red morocco, spine very slightly faded. Slipcase showing moderate edge-wear. Limited to 526 copies of which this is copy XV of XX copies with a suite of progressive states of one plate..... More
London: Bensley for Cromek, 1808. William Blake. First Folio. Three quarter morocco. Folio, xiv, 36, (4) pp. marbled endpapers, a.e.g., with an etched portrait frontispiece after Phillips printed on India paper and an etched title-page (both moderately foxed), typographical title page, dedication to the Queen, List of Subscribers, the poem..... More
Clairvaux: Trianon Press, 1977. Quarter morocco. Quarto, 155pp. Original quarter brown morocco, slipcase. Bookplate for Elaine Harwood Klemen at the front pastedown. Limited to 26 copies for the Trustees, of a total edition of 562 copies, with this being 94. Fine in Fine slipcase. More
Paris: ACR Édition, c. 2001. Hardcover. Quarto (285 x 260 mm.), 588 pp., ill, portraits, bibliography, paper covered boards in illustrated dustjacket with matching heavy card slipcase, ribbon placemarker. As new, upper spine corners slightly bumped. Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968) was a Japanese painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan, who..... 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
![Junkie; Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict [with] Narcotic Agent. BURROUGHS, William LEE,...](/pictures/thumb/844_Junkie-2.jpg?v=1567131636)
New York: Ace Books, 1953. The Ace Double First Edition (D-15). First edition of Burroughs' first novel. Trade paperback, 16.3 x 10.6cm, pp.149 (Junkie) 4 (Ads) 169 Narcotic Agent. A clean, bright copy. Now considered a classic of the Beat generation, Junkie was first published as a trade paperback intended..... More
Roseville East: Craftsman House, 1995. Octavo, 29 x 26cm, apricot canvas boards with brick red title on spine, illustrated dust jacket ("Memory of Temple Downs" 1992), 160pp, 40 colour plates and 31 black and white figures. Robert Grieve (1924 - 2006) made significant contributions to the Australian contemporary art scene..... More
Eindhoven: Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, c.1992. Glossy pictorial cover. Octavo (263 x 216 mm.), 116pp, ill., bibliography, pictorial glossy paper covered boards. Very good, boards lightly scuffed and marked, top edge soiled, top back fore edge corner bumped, top of spine with light wear. Published on the occasion of an exhibition..... More
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In mylar pockets. **Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this archive contains images of people who have died. Small archive of thirteen photographs (12 x black and white, 1 x colour). Eight 1500 x 1600mm images (seven desert crossing images and one homestead image) and four 500x500mm taken..... More
Hong Kong: communion w ltd, 2005. Custom. Large octavo (32cm x 25cm), white boards, stitched natural fabric cover, with title printed on front and spine, 288pp (including endpapers), lavishly illustrated with sketches, still photographs and performance photos. A beautiful record of costume designer Wada’s works in the decade leading up..... More
London: Paul Hamlyn, 1967. Folio (34.7 x 26.7 cm), 320 pages, printed in Italy, hard cover in dark blue cloth with raised designs, colour pictorial dust jacket price clipped, more than 1,100 photographic illustrations including a colour frontispiece, 52 colour Plates, b&w endpapers illustrating Robert Adam’s Garden Room ceiling at..... More
New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1975. First English Language Edition. Jean Boisselier, Professor of the Sorbonne and Director of the French Archaeological Mission in Thailand, with commentaries by Jean-Michel Beurdeley and photographs by Hans Hinz. First English language edition translated by James Emmons from the original French edition of 1974..... More