Lays of The Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems
by [Fine Binding - Ramage] Aytoun, William Edmonstoune; Joseph Noel Paton (illustrator) and Waller H. Paton (illustrator)
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1865. Later printing. Fine. Bound in a 20th-century full straight grain red morocco with gilt crest on front panel, gilt fluer-de-lis, and decorative gilt foliate and blue inlaid borders on front and back boards, with raised six-compartment spine with gilt fleur-de-lis and title. Red marble endpapers with decorative gilt inner dentelles... Read More
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Vanity Fair
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Thackeray, William Makepeace
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition. Near Fine. First issue with the suppressed woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on page 336, with "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on page 453, and the rustic heading on page one. Octavo (8 5/16 x 5 1/8 inches; 210 x 130 mm.). xvi, 624 pp, with thirty-eight black and white... Read More
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Fifty "Bab" Ballads [together with:] More "Bab" Ballads
by [Fine Binding] Gilbert, W.S.
London & New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1878. Third? edition. Near Fine. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 190 mm x 133 mm.). 255, [1, imprint] pp. Engraved frontispiece (included in pagination) with original tissue-guard and numerous illustrations in the text. Light foxing throughout, otherwise near fine. Bound ca. 1920 in full red crushed levant morocco,... Read More
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Bobby Fischer's Game of Chess
by Fischer, Bobby
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. First edition. Very Good +/Very Good. Publisher's gray cloth with chess motif. 97 pp. Contemporary ink gift inscription to upper pastedown and some contemporary ink marginalia, otherwise a clean copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with spine sunned. Some small tears to edges of jacket and amateur tape reinforcement to inside of jacket at... Read More
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Fitzgerald, Edward; Illuminated by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
London: Siegle, Hill & Co, 1910. First trade edition. Near Fine. Bound in tan cloth with a lovely full gilt peacock design to the front board. A lovely, Near Fine example of the first trade edition. This edition reprints the famous Sangorski and Sutcliffe, illuminated edition, with both Sangorski and Sutcliffe signing on the limitation page. Complete with... Read More
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Fitzgerald, Edward (translator) and Frank Brangwyn (illustrator)
London & Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1919. First Edition. Near Fine. One of 350 specially bound and numbered copies. Publisher's full vellum binding with some mottling and wear. Overall Near Fine with all fifteen of Brangwyn's tipped in illustrations. Housed in a custom quarter morocco slipcase with cloth slipcover. Inscription on the front end paper from Harry D.... Read More
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by [Fine Binding - Unknown] Edward Fitzgerald
Stratford-Upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1927. Later edition. Near Fine. Exquisitely bound, apparently by an amateur binder, although possibly an apprentice at Sangorski. Full maroon crushed morocco with an elaborate peacock design in gilt and inlaid morocco on the front board. Rear board in a more muted style, reminiscent of the Dove's Bindery. All edges gilt, with silk... Read More
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and the Salaman and Absal of Jami
by [Fine Binding - Zaehnsdorf] [Edward Fitzgerald]
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1879. Fourth edition. Near Fine. Full green crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf. Elaborately stamped in gilt on the front and rear covers with a floral border and intricate vine patterns in the central compartments. Orange silk end papers and paste-downs, top edge gilt. With the Zaehnsdorf gilt exhibition stamp on the rear paste-down. Spine faded to... Read More
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The Vegetable
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy in a Very Good+ dust jacket. A tight, square copy with bright gilt to spine. Dust jacket with minor rubbing and wear at the spine ends and one small chip from the lower spine fold. Front flap fold splitting at the lower edge (about 2.5"),... Read More
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Tender is the Night
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First edition. Near Fine. First printing, with pages 401-408 poorly opened, but this only affects the blank margins. Bound in publisher's ribbed green cloth, front cover bordered in blind, spine lettered in gilt, fore edge untrimmed. The bare minimum of rubbing to extremities. An excellent copy with none of the foxing or... Read More
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The Man With the Golden Gun
by Fleming, Ian
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First impression, second state binding without the gilt gun to the upper board. A nearly Fine copy in like dust jacket. Book with a bit of foxing to the top-edge of the text block, otherwise a lovely example overall. Published a year after Ian Fleming’s death, The Man... Read More
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Matthew Flinders Narrative of His Voyage in the Schooner Francis
by Flinders, Matthew
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. First Thus. Limited to 750 numbered copies (this copy being 547). Folio (12 1/4 x 7 7/16 inches; 310 x 189 mm.). Publisher’s full green buckram. Front cover pictorially stamped in gilt with a schooner designed by John Buckland Wright, spine stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Small... Read More
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Churchill Lecture: An Address by Gerald R. Ford at the English Speaking Union, London England November 30th, 1983 (Signed limited edition)
by Ford, Gerald R.
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1984. First edition. Fine. Presentation copy, outside of the 350 signed numbered copies (250 bound in linen & 100 in vellum), signed by Ford on second half title. A Fine copy bound in red boards with beige linen backstrip, with gilt title on spine and gilt 'signature" on front cover. Interior as new. ... Read More
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A Vision for America (Signed limited edition)
by Ford, Gerald R.
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1980. First edition. Fine. Number 25 of 100 copies specially bound (of 500 copies total, signed by the 38th President of The United States, Gerald R. Ford). Large octavo (9 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches; 251 x 162 mm.). [16] pp. Title-page printed in blue and gilt, portrait frontispiece. Publisher's full blue calf,... Read More
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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacrament, According to the use of the Church of England..
by [Fore-edge painting] [Martin Frost, artist]
London: Printed by T. Davidson for L. Wayland, 1792. First thus. Near Fine. Handsomely bound in contemporary full dark blue straight-grained morocco. Small quarto (250 x 155 mm.), collating complete with thirteen fine engraved plates (including frontispiece). Geometric gilt design to boards, gilt spine with five raised bands, and turn-ins with gilt floral roll. With a very fine... Read More
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The Seasons
by [Fore-Edge Painting]; Thomson, James
Edinburgh: James Ballantyne, 1809. Twelvemo (6 3/8 x 3 3/4 inches; 163 x 95 mm.). [iv], [i]-xxii, [2, contents, verso blank], [1]-262 pp. Including engraved vignette title. Bound ca. 1809 in the style of or possibly by Taylor & Hessey. Full green straight-grain morocco, covers elaborately bordered in gilt with gilt floral pieces. Spine with three wide raised bands,... Read More
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The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham
by [Fore-Edge Painting] Young, Lyman (artist); Robert Southey
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. Seventh edition. Two volumes bound in one. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 214 x 133 mm.). [i]-viii, [1]-376; [i]-viii, [1]-316 pp. Volume one with an engraved portrait frontispiece and additional vignette title; Volume two with an engraved view of the islet which he had often forded when the river... Read More
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Evenings at Haddon Hall, A Series of Romantic Tales of the Olden Time
by [Fore-Edge Painting] Currie, Miss C.B. (artist); Catherine Ball
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1848. First edition. Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 219 x 143 mm.). [viii], [1]-453, [1, blank] pp. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page and twenty-four fine engraved plated by George Cattermole. Bound ca. 1910 by Rivière & Son in full maroon straight-grain morocco, covers elaborately bordered in gilt and blind, spine with five raised... Read More
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The Forsyte Saga
by [Fore-Edge Painting] Currie, Miss C.B. (artist); John Galsworthy
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1933. Later printing. Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 180 x 117 mm.). [ii, Miss Currie signed limitation, verso blank], [i]-xvi, [1]-1104 pp. Including folded "Forsyte Family Tree". Inserted limitation leaf at front "This is No. 172 of the Books/with Fore-edge Paintings/by/Miss Currie/The Painting under the gold/is a view from/Richmond Hill./Signed/ C.B. Currie". Bound... Read More
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A Modern Comedy
by [Fore-Edge Painting] Currie, Miss C.B (artist); John Galsworthy
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1929. First edition. Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 180 x 117 mm.). [ii, Miss Currie signed limitation, verso blank], [i]-xxvii, [i, blank], [1]-1088 pp. Inserted folded "Forsyte Family Tree" (small neat repair to one fold). Inserted limitation leaf at front "This is No. 160 of the Books/with Fore-edge Paintings/by/Miss Currie/The Painting under the... Read More
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith
by [Fore-Edge Painting] Currie, Miss C.B. (artist); Oliver Goldsmith
London: Macmillan and Co, 1902. The Globe edition. Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 180 x 121 mm.). [ii, Miss Currie signed limitation, verso blank], [i-v], vi-lx, [ii], [1]-695, [1] pp. Inserted photogravure portrait frontispiece of "Mr. Quick as Tony Lumpkin". Laid-in is the original catalog description and receipt from Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, Los Angeles, dated March... Read More
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Scott and Scotland
by [Fore-edge painting] [Scott, Sir Walter] Ritchie, Leitch
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1835. First edition. Very Good. Featuring a pretty double fore-edge painting with two charming views: when viewed one way, an isolated estate in a field foregrounded by a river and a bridge; the other way, the steeple of a church rising over a riverwalk and a grove of trees. Contemporary... Read More
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Miscellaneous Poems
by [Fore-Edge Painting] Scott, Walter
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1820. First edition, third printing. Octavo (8 7/16 x 5 5/16 inches; 215 x 135 mm.). [i]-viii, [i]-xii, [1]-448 pp. Contemporary ink inscription on first blank "J.G. Smyth/from his friend Broderick/on leaving Eton/March 18th 1831." Loosely inserted is a small card from Mrs. Rudolph Max Kauffmann presenting the book to her son on his graduation from... Read More
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A Passage to India
by Forster, E. M.
London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1924. First edition. Near Fine. A Near Fine copy in the original publisher's red cloth with black stamping on the spine and front board. A previous owner's bookplate on the front paste-down (Edward J Roleson). Slight separation to the text block at the title page and very minor foxing to the preliminary and... Read More
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The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox
by [Reynard the Fox]
London: T. Ilive, 1701. Early English editions. [Bound together with:] The Most Pleasant and Delightful History of Reynard the Fox. The Second Part. Containing Much Matter of Pleasure and Content. Written For the Delight of young Men, Pleasure of the Aged, and Profit of all. To which is added many Excellent Morals. London: Printed by A.M. and R.R.... Read More
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