The Two Quail Pattern: 300 Years of Design on Porcelain.
Buckingham: Louvic Publications, 2004. First edition. fine. 112 glossy pages, illustrated in colour. Large format, 30x21cms, in pictorial card covers. All very fresh, like new. More
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![Item #20202040 Tiaras: Chaumet - Divine Jewels. [With Slipcase]. Natasha Cavassoni Chaumet: Clare...](/pictures/thumb/20202040.jpg?v=1650467351)
Tiaras: Chaumet - Divine Jewels. [With Slipcase].
London: Thames and Hudson, 2020. First edition. Hardcover with Slip-case. 256pp. Extraordinary jewellery of the past two centuries. About a dozen pages of introductory text, preceded and followed by rich colour photographs of tiaras, mostly full-page, of which only a few are shown worn, with minimal text. There are a...... More
Forget all the rules about Graphic Design. Including the ones in this book.
New York: Watson Guptill, 1985. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 168pp. A collection of Gill's witty and effective solutions to commission specifications. A4 glossy paperback, unmarked, clean and firm, corners good, all very bright. The only damage is a 4mm snag (closed tear) to the foot of the back cover. A...... More
The Flowers of Milton.
Faversham, privately published, 1846. First edition. Hardcover. 30 tissue-guarded pages. Apart from the dedication to the Queen, which is printed in plain script, the book consists of Giraud's hand-coloured floral plates either illustrating passages from Milton, or serving as decorative title pages to the sections - Paradise Lost, Poems on..... More
The Titanic and Silent Cinema. Number nine in a series of monographs on pre-cinema and early film.
Hastings, UK: The Projection Box, 2000. First edition. #265 of an edition of 500. Paperback. 191pp, illustrated. 21x14.7cms paperback. Glossy pages fresh and clean: perhaps 6pp have dog-ear creases to the upper corners. Previous owner's pencil notes on final blank leaf. Glossy blue pictorial covers bright and clean, with scuffs..... More
The Two Quail Pattern: 300 Years of Design on Porcelain. A History of the Pattern and a Catalogue of Porcelain Factories from the East and the West. Exhibited at Stockspring Antiques in London, and The Museum of Worcester Porcelain in Worcester.
London: Louvic, 2004. First edition. Softcover. 112pp, with many illustrations in colour. Contents clean and unmarked. 29.5x21cms (A4), in glossy blue pictorial thin card covers. Bright and fresh, head of spine slightly bumped and snagged. Very nice copy. Scarce. More
![Item #19950040 War Games. Revised Final Draft, September 7, 1982. [Screenplay]. Walter F. Parkes...](/pictures/thumb/19950040.jpg?v=1586306148)
War Games. Revised Final Draft, September 7, 1982. [Screenplay]
Xerox print. 108pp, in bright fresh condition. A4, in a plastic comb binding with transparent front cover and thin card back. Excellent copy. More
![Item #20080030 Invaze 68. [Text in Czech]. Josef Koudelka](/pictures/thumb/20080030.jpg?v=1584735678)
Invaze 68. [Text in Czech].
Praha / Prague: Torst, 2008. First edition. Softcover. 296pp. Glossy production, stark full page and double page photographs and text, an extraordinary and powerful record of the Soviet Invasion of Dubcek's Czechoslovakia in 1968 as experienced and resisted by the people. 32x24.5cms, in the printed covers of heavy flexible card..... More
Amadeus. Screenplay, final draft, December 1982.
London: Hollywood Scripts, Reprint. 165pp, in very bright fresh condition. Later xerox of the 1982 typescript, printed recto, with thin cream card covers. 11x8.5ins, firmly secured through the upper and lower of three ringbinder holes with split pins passing through washers. The previous owner has neatly covered and protected these..... More
Old Leaves Turning. Chinese Album Leaves and Fan Paintings of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Two volumes in slipcase.
London: Sydney L. Moss Ltd., 1995. First edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. The two volumes consecutively paginated: 377pp, + 2 maps. Quarto, with many plates. In the original maroon boards, with dustjackets. In fine condition in the red cloth slipcase. All as new. [EXTRA Heavy Item]. More
Britten's Suffolk Heritage Coast. A photographic tribute to the man and the coast that he loved.
Suffolk: The Leiston Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. iv, 100, +[3] index: a lovingly produced book, full of magnificent colour photographs of the area, and with a number of the author's monochrome photographs of Britten and Pears from his period as the Aldeburgh Festival's photographer from its early days. Landscape..... More
The Mask of Zorro. (filmscript).
Mexico: self-published, 1996-7. Softcover. 131pages, printed recto. Reduced facsimile typescript of the movie, preceded by the title page, and a message to the cast from Doug Claybourne, the producer, printed in English and Spanish. The first two pages bear the facsimile signatures of the Martin Campbell, the director, Catherine Zeta-Jones..... More
Transforming.
London: Fine Art Society, 2013. First and only edition. Hardcover. 335pp, richly illustrated in colour. A conspectus of the couple's extraordinary work over 15 years. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at The Fine Art Society Contemporary, London, 4 October-2 November 2013. Contents fresh and unmarked: (light 1cm..... More
Filming the Boer War. The Beginnings of the Cinema in England 1894-1901. Volume 4.
London: Bishopsgate Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 340pp, illustrated. Contents very fresh, clean and unmarked, appears unread. In the original blue cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, bright and sharp, head of spine slightly blunted. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket: crisp and clean, spine very sunned. Very nice..... More
Pioneers of British Film. The Beginnings of the Cinema in England 1894-1901: Volume 3. 1898: The Rise of the Photoplay.
London: Bishopsgate Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 256pp, illustrated. Contents very fresh, clean and unmarked. In the original red cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, bright and sharp. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket: crisp, bright and clean, with some minimal fading to spine. Very nice copy. More
Lacquer Wares from the Museum Yamato Bunkakan Collection: Illustrated Catalogue Series No.3 - 1982.
1982. Presumed first and only edition. Hardcover. 112pp, illustrated throughout, including 4 colour plates. With sections of Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Thai works. Japanese text with English contents page and captions. Contents very clean, as new. Yellow endpapers. 26x18.5cms, in the original grey-green textured boards, titled in gilt and white..... More
![Item #19795100 Knitting 1920s and 30s originals. [aka 1920's & 30's]. Nancy Vale](/pictures/thumb/19795100.jpg?v=1542314949)
Knitting 1920s and 30s originals. [aka 1920's & 30's].
London: Mills and Boon, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 101pp, illustrated in colour and black and white. The back of the front endpaper is stamped 'Library File Copy', for the printer's archive, but it was not adopted, and its history is that it has been in personal storage, unread, since it..... More
A Pictorial Souvenir and History of the First Battalion, the South Staffordshire Regiment, Bombay, India, 1926.
British Historical and Art Publishing Co., n.d. [c. 1926?]. Presumed first and only edition. Hardcover. 28pp, including a history of the Battalion, followed by the 29 thick card pages on cloth hinges, with photographs mounted recto. 34 of these are 6x8ins, mounted two to a page, the other 12 being..... More
The Cabinet Maker and Complete House Furnisher. Periodical. Six 1923 issues: #1232 (May 5), #1233 (May 12), #1236 (June 2), #1237 (June 9), #1238 (June 16), #1242 (July 14).
The General and Furnishing Trade Protection Association, Ltd, 1923. Original issues. Paperback. c.96pp each, consisting of editorial material, articles, and trade news, illustrated with photographs, plus c.72pp devoted to a clamour of advertisements. Large quarto, 12.5x9.5ins, in printed paper covers, printed in ochre and black. Contents in good condition, with..... More
Catalogue of James Dixon & Sons, Cornish Place, Sheffield. Silversmiths. [cover title: James Dixon & Sons, Silversmiths, Sheffield]
Sheffield: James Dixon & Sons, n.d. [1908, 1911, 1914, 1919]. Original edition. Hardcover. xx, 498pp, incorporating Supplements of New Goods dated 1911 and 1914, with some hiccups in the pagination. The main catalogue appears to be 1908; however, 'September 1919' is printed at the foot of p.400. With wondrous thousands..... More
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