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London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1857. No earlier printings listed. 61, (i), [1]; complete with frontis with folding flap. Repaired damaged copy. The plate and and most of the pages in the first half of the book each have a neat professional repair to a two-inch horizontal tear from the inner margin. The first few pages have a little minor soiling and creasing, and their bottom corners have been eroded. The plate, drawn in blue, shows a woman's profile radically transformed (when the flap is lifted) from that of an old crone to that of a beautiful woman - effected, we are told, by the use of Artificial Teeth, - supplied by himself. New yellow endpapers. All edges gilt. In the original bottle-green cloth decorated in blind, titled to the front in gilt. Some pale splash marks, and some of gilt rubbed, corner restored. Good firm copy. [The final leaf informs us that the Author is Surgeon Dentist to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury; also that he is At Home from Eleven till Four.] VG-.

Price: £60.00

[Blackie, London, 1893]. [Edition not known, as title page removed, but those listed on COPAC are all 1893.] viii, 436pp +(4), 8 adverts: with illustrations in the text. A comprehensive, if rather prescriptive and scripted, teaching aid. Minor soiling to a few pages, but generally very clean and fresh. In original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Firm, but slightly soiled and knocked. VG, but lacking title page. Scarce.

Price: £30.00

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1914. Fourth edition, revised throughout and enlarged. xii, 564pp + xxxii adverts, and with advertisement front endpapers. An unblemished vista of the prospects for the young immediately before the first World War, with much fascinating detail of training required, pay, prospects, where to apply, fares to the colonies, and much much more. In remarkably fresh condition, pages very clean and unmarked. In the original red cloth titled in bright gilt on stamped lettering-pieces to both front and spine. Spine ends slightly crimped, otherwise as new. Very Near Fine.

Price: £45.00

London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1924]. First edition. 222pp. Some tanning to endpapers, page edges foxed, page surfaces clean and unmarked. 'Good Manners, says Lady Kitty Vincent, 'are the pneumatic tyres on the motor-car of life.' Firm, in the original binding of bright blue cloth titled in gilt. Spine bright, corners sharp, boards with some pale marks. In protected dust jacket, foxed and tanned, with some wear to edges. Nice copy of a title scarce in any edition. Very Good.

Price: £80.00

n.d. [1952]. Presumed first and only edition. 59pp, illustrated with photographs and line drawings, printed in sepia and pale blue. Unused Enquiry Form at back. Stapled booklet in lovely condition, charmingly produced and packed with sensible advice. 'Robin' is used throughout as the toddler's name in the scenarios described, this being the name of the writer's own child. All very clean, but with a knock near base of spine, otherwise a fine copy. Very Good+.

Price: £28.00

London: L.N. Fowler & Co, n.d. [1956]. New and Enlarged Edition. (iv), 185pp. Some browning to endpapers. Contents otherwise very clean and fresh and unmarked. In the original blue cloth titled in gilt, gilt slightly dulled, short scratch mark on front, otherwise firm, clean and sharp. In protected unclipped dust jacket with foxing, chiefly to spine. Very Good+ in VG dust-jacket.

Price: £35.00

Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1971. First edition. [vi], 212pp. Ex-library copy, so the copyright page is stamped and the front free endpaper is prettily bedecked with labels and stamps. Contents very clean. Book knocked to upper fore-edge, denting edge of jacket and boards, and buckling the outer edges of the pages throughout. In the original binding of green cloth titled in gilt: unmarked, bright and firm. Small surface puncture to both front and back boards. In the protected green dust jacket. This is bright and clean, with two small marks to the front panel (one of which is a puncture), and slight darkening near the foot of the spine where a label was. Minor scuffs at extremities. Very nice ex-library copy with a knock. VG.

Price: £280.00

London: Quartet, 1976. First UK edition, first impression. [xiv], [110]. Small ink drawing to front free endpaper, some foxing to white pages at front and back, very little within the book. Quarto, in the original blue-grey cloth, lower corners slightly bumped, titles to front cover in silver. With the protected bright dust jacket, slightly knocked at top edge, and foxed to verso. Newton's first book, of 'erotic pictures and everyday portraits'. Near Fine in fine dust-jacket.

Price: £60.00

[Oxford]. 1998. A4, c.30pp, printed recto, with white card covers and in plastic spine binder. The scurrilous lowdown on about 120 teenagers, with photos of most of them, almost every entry actionable: but they look a happy lot. The 'Foreword' on the front cover reads: 'I wonder what you will be doing in the year 2020. I hope you will be happy, fulfilled and think well of your schooling and don't forget the appeal in 2030. DC'; 'St Edward's Prison' spoof photo on back cover. Very fresh copy. Near Fine.

Price: £25.00

Taschen, 2004. First edition. 112pp, photographs. To accompany the exhibition. Text in English, German and French. Contents fresh, clean and unmarked. Large quarto, in the original black paper-covered boards titled in blind, and in the vivid pictorial dust jacket, almost as new but very slightly knocked to the edges. Near Fine.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £40.00