A novel. Specially illustrated with fifteen original drawings by Arthur Boyd. Pp. 220, frontispiece plus 14 full page illustrations; upper board featuring an Arthur Boyd illustration in gilt (repeat of dust wrapper), the boards lightly bruised at edges, with a small frayed section near bottom fore-corner of upper board; dust..... More
A personal anthology. Pp. xxxiv+190(last blank), text decorations, index of authors; red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly soiled; Continuum, London, 2001. First edition. *An annotated compilation of those passages of poetry and prose which have meant the most to the distinguished literary critic, culled from a...... More
Pp. [viii]+156(last blank); pictorial green paper wrappers with flap folds, slightly soiled and worn, edges and backstrip faded to brown, the backstrip quite brittle and chipped; hinges cracking, a little light foxing and soiling; Duckworth, London, 1902. First edition, paper wrappers. The Greenback Library series. Miller & Macartney p. 55;..... More
Or the story of Venus and Tannhauser, in which is set forth an exact account of the manner of state held by Madam Venus, goddess & meretrix, under the famous Horselberg, and containing the adventures of Tannhauser in that place, his journeying to Rome, and return to the loving mountain..... More
Contained in Encounter, Vol. XXVII, No. 4, October 1966. Edited by Frank Kermode and Melvin J. Lasky. Pp. 96(printed double column)+[2](coloured central advertisement sheet), the Beardsley article comprising pages 3-16 and including 2 illustrations; small cr. 4to; pictorial paper wrappers printed on both sides, slightly worn; several leaves faintly creased;..... More
Pp. [viii]+374; dust wrapper, edges lightly creased; Fourth Estate, London, 2001.First edition. *A novel set in wartime Britain. More
Pp. xvi+366, coloured frontispiece plus 16 plates (13 coloured), 5 text diagrams, index; purple cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; within purple card slipcase; The Folio Society, London, 2002. Folio 60/1110. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his book label on upper pastedown. Originally published by Weidenfeld..... More
, Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury. Based on the account of William fitzStephen his clerk, with additions from other contemporary sources translated and edited by George Greenaway. Illustrations from an early thirteenth century French verse life of Becket. Pp. 172, 8 plates, armorial endpapers, appendix, index; roy. 8vo;..... More
Decorations by Douglas Hall. Pp. 192, pictorial double title page printed in orange & black, pictorial headpieces; edges of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper, lightly foxed, edges a trifle rubbed and split; top edges of leaves lightly foxed; Hutchinson, London, 1971. First edition. *Autobiography, set in the years between the..... More
Decorations by Douglas Hall. Pp. 174(last blank), pictorial double title page, text illustrations, vocabulary; bottom edges and top fore-corners of boards bruised; dust wrapper, faintly soiled and foxed, edges a trifle rubbed; text block browned, a little light foxing; Hutchinson, London, 1975. First edition. More
Decorations by Douglas Hall. Pp. 192, pictorial double title page, text illustrations; dust wrapper; Hutchinson, London, 1978. First edition. *The seventh book about the Hebridean village of Bruach and its inhabitants. More
A novel. Pp. [vi]+216, title page vignette; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; the free endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Hutchinson, London, 1967. First edition. More
Decorations by Douglas Hall. Pp. 192, pictorial double title page printed in green & black, text illustrations; boards a trifle sprung; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip slightly discoloured; endpapers faintly offset, a couple of spots of foxing; Hutchinson of London, London, 1973. First edition. *The author's fifth..... More
Decorations by Douglas Hall. Pp. 182, pictorial double title page, printed in orange & black, pictorial headpieces; lower board a trifle tape marked and with 2 small surface chips to bottom edge; dust wrapper, 2 closed tears to bottom edge of back panel tape repaired on reverse; a couple of..... More
Illustrated by Douglas Hall. Pp. 192, pictorial double title page, printed in green & black, pictorial headpieces; upper board decorated in gilt; top edges turquoise; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and chipped; free endpapers faintly offset, a couple of spots of foxing; Hutchinson, London, 1967. Eighth impression. *The author's..... More
Decorations by Victor Ambrus. Pp. 96, pictorial double title page, full page illustrations; pictorial boards; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled; Hutchinson, London, 1974. First edition. More
Edited with a memoir by Sir Edmund Gosse and decorated by The Dance of Death of Hans Holbein. In two volumes. Pp. [ii]+xxxvi+258(last blank)+590, frontispiece portrait (lightly offset), decorated title pages & headpieces; roy. 8vo; qr. black buckram, printed label on spines (slightly discoloured, edges a trifle chipped), patterned papered..... More
Five poems. Pp. [4](last blank); printed paper wrappers; Mandeville Press, Hitchin, Herts., 1975. Trade edition. *With publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. More
Pp. [vi]+52(last blank)+[6](notes)+[2](colophon, verso blank); demy 12mo; limp parchment secured with pigskin thongs, lettered and decorated in gilt; uncut and partly unopened; within plain card slipcase, which is slightly soiled; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1928. Edition limited to 1,250 numbered copies, printed on Van Gelder hand made paper. McKitterick 54..... More
Or, an Oxford Love Story. With 80 illustrations by the author and an introduction by N. John Hall. Pp. [xxviii]+352, 18 coloured plates and numerous text illustrations, sepia pictorial endpapers; burgundy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, with the Folio Society monogram at foot of spine; top edges grey (faded);..... More
Or, an Oxford Love Story. With illustrations by the author. Pp. 228, coloured frontispiece and 7 plates, coloured pictorial endpapers; yellow cloth, spine blocked in brown and lettered in gilt, the upper board decorated in brown, small damp stain to lower board, the spine slightly faded; top edges brown; within..... More
Bibliographical Notes. Pp. xiv+122(last blank), title page vignette, 10 full page illustrations, errata, index; med. 8vo; gilt lettered navy cloth, slightly flecked and marked, the top fore-corners bumped; dust wrapper, silverfished (very heavily on back panel) and slightly soiled, edges and backstrip faded; a little light foxing; Harvard University Press..... More
A memoir. Pp. [viii]+338, 26 illustrations, mostly full page, index; med. 8vo; price-clipped dust wrapper; inked initials on upper free endpaper; Hamish Hamilton, London, 1972. First edition. *Includes memories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, W. Somerset Maugham, Arnold Bennett, Noel Coward, a.o. More
Pp. 48, notes and references, bibliography; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, backstrip a trifle creased; small stain to top edge of several leaves; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1979. First edition. Australian Writers and their Work series. *'These three novelists - Ada Cambridge, "Tasma" (Jessie Catherine Couvreur) and Rosa Praed - were..... More
