London: Seeley Service & Co, 1948. Reprint. Hardcover. 144pp, illustrated with 7 plates in colour of the author's work (including a foldout), 48 plates in monochrome, being examples of famous portraits by various artists, and with a few illustrations in the text. Contents clean and unmarked, with some light foxing..... More

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

London: Geoffrey Bles, printed at the Morland Press, 1924. First, limited edition. Hardcover. 269pp, with 100 guarded plates, consisting of 147 tipped-in photographs. Unnumbered copy, signed on the limitation page by Joseph Bles. Contents in fine, fresh, unmarked condition. 330x260cms, in the de Luxe three-quarter binding of navy morocco with..... More

Xerox print. 157pp, in bright fresh condition. A4, in a plastic comb binding with transparent front cover and thin card back. Excellent copy. More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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