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Faber & Faber. First edition published by Faber and Faber in 1932. A very good or better copy. The fragile wrapper has been price clipped, otherwise it is all there. The spine has browned and there is some wear to the spine ends. There is a tear to the bottom of the lower flap and this has been repaired on the reverse by archival tape. The green boards are in nice shape and the book is square. The purple top stain is visible and has not faded. There is light and sporadic foxing to the side text block. There is no writing inside and no bookplates. The Last Medici is the first of three biographies Harold Acton wrote about historical Italian families: the Medicis and the Bourbons. Acton in this first volume discusses the Medici grand dukes and in particular their final undoing. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1932.
In the Darkest Hour they may be Light - Signed by Damien Hirst by Hirst, Damien - 2006
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In the Darkest Hour they may be Light - Signed by Damien Hirst
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Serpentine Gallery. In the Darkest Hour there may be Light. Works from Damien Hirst's Murderme Collection London: Serpentine Gallery, 2006 4to., printed photographic boards showing artworks by Hirst; lettered in metallic blue and black along spine; bright blue endpapers; [unpaginated], containing Director's Forward, an interview with Damien Hirst, and full-page, full-colour photographs of art from the exhibition; light compression to extremities, else fine. First edition, boldly signed by the artist in black felt pen to the title, with three kisses. Hirst's Murderme collection began with a collection of exchanges he had with several artist friends, including Angus Fairhurst, Sarah Lucas and Mat Collishaw, and went on to develop into a wide-ranging collection which explored his own artistic interests. Ranging from Francis Bacon to Banksy and Andy Warhol, the exhibition featured more than 60 works from 20 different artists, and were displayed both in, and outside the Serpentine Gallery in London. The exhibition ran from November 2006 to January 2007. This catalogue, produced in conjunction with the exhibition, includes text by Harland Millar. The book was designed by Jason Beard. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2006.
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Reach for the Sky - Signed by Douglas Bader
by Bader, Douglas; Brickhill, Paul
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Collins. First edition published by Collins in 1954. This is a very good or better copy. The jacket is not price clipped displaying 16s. net on the inside flap. The spine is a shade toned. There is minor wear to the spine ends and corners. The blue cloth boards of the book are in very good shape. The binding is square and tight. There is a previous owner's name and date to the half title page. On the front free end paper, R.A.F pilot Douglas Bader has signed his name without dedication. The life story / biography of fighter pilot and Battle of Britain hero Douglas Bader, written by Paul Brickhill (author of Dam Busters and The Great Escape). A rare copy signed by Bader. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1954.
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The Snail and a Whale
by Donaldson, Julia
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Macmillan. London: Macmillan (2003). First edition. 4to., glazed pictorial boards in matching dust jacket; 32pp; A very good copy, the lower board with a bump to the edge, the preliminary pages with handling marks, the dust jacket with a short tear to the tail of the spine. The sixth book by the winning combination of Julia Donaldson and Illustrator Axel Scheffler. The story of a tiny snail saving the day on the back of a humpback whale - it was adapted by the BBC in 2019. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2003.
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by Dickens, Charles
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Bradbury & Evans. London: Bradbury & Evans (1858). First edition. 12mo., original publishers green paper wrappers, with an illustration of little dombey on the upper wrapper, with decorations, the title and publishing information all in black. An advertisement in black on the lower panel; pp. 121 + an advertising leaf at the rear; An about very good copy. The upper panel corners rubbed with a few preliminary pages with the corners turned over. The spine is chipped with about 2cm off loss to the bottom, sporadic patches of browning here and there. Otherwise pages and wrappers are clean and the binding is holding well. An abridged version of Dombey and Sons that Dicken's publisher would have printed after the success of his public reading tours. Bradbury and Evans produced five of these ephemeral booklets in 1858, that are referred to in Eckel as the 'reading editions'. Eckel goes on to say "Each was uniformly bound in a green, printed…
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Westering
by Kenney, Rowland
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J.M. Dent & Sons. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1939 8vo., burgundy publisher's cloth ruled and lettered in gilt to spine, with publisher's name in blind to foot; upper edge stained; in the publisher's printed dust jacket (10s. 6d. net); pp. [vi], vii-viii,[ii], 3-356; with a black and white frontis photograph of Kenney facing title; seven additional photographs spaced sporadically throughout the text; spine ever-so-slightly faded, touched more by sun at tips; endpapers very lightly offset; otherwise a lovely example in the very good dust jacket which is lightly sunned along the backstrip and some chips and closed tears, particularly to head of spine. First edition. With two pieces of related ephemeral articles loosely inserted. The autobiography of an Yorkshire-born Intelligence officer during the Second World War. Rowland Kenney (1882-1961) was a British diplomat, author and editor who served in both world wars as a director of propaganda in both…
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Faber & Faber. First edition published by Faber and Faber in 1932. A very good or better copy. The fragile wrapper has been price clipped, otherwise it is all there. The spine has browned and there is some wear to the spine ends. There is a tear to the bottom of the lower flap and this has been repaired on the reverse by archival tape. The green boards are in nice shape and the book is square. The purple top stain is visible and has not faded. There is light and sporadic foxing to the side text block. There is no writing inside and no bookplates. The Last Medici is the first of three biographies Harold Acton wrote about historical Italian families: the Medicis and the Bourbons. Acton in this first volume discusses the Medici grand dukes and in particular their final undoing. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1932.
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by Bader, Douglas; Brickhill, Paul
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Collins. First edition published by Collins in 1954. This is a very good or better copy. The jacket is not price clipped displaying 16s. net on the inside flap. The spine is a shade toned. There is minor wear to the spine ends and corners. The blue cloth boards of the book are in very good shape. The binding is square and tight. There is a previous owner's name and date to the half title page. On the front free end paper, R.A.F pilot Douglas Bader has signed his name without dedication. The life story / biography of fighter pilot and Battle of Britain hero Douglas Bader, written by Paul Brickhill (author of Dam Busters and The Great Escape). A rare copy signed by Bader. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1954.
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Macmillan. London: Macmillan (2003). First edition. 4to., glazed pictorial boards in matching dust jacket; 32pp; A very good copy, the lower board with a bump to the edge, the preliminary pages with handling marks, the dust jacket with a short tear to the tail of the spine. The sixth book by the winning combination of Julia Donaldson and Illustrator Axel Scheffler. The story of a tiny snail saving the day on the back of a humpback whale - it was adapted by the BBC in 2019. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2003.
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Bradbury & Evans. London: Bradbury & Evans (1858). First edition. 12mo., original publishers green paper wrappers, with an illustration of little dombey on the upper wrapper, with decorations, the title and publishing information all in black. An advertisement in black on the lower panel; pp. 121 + an advertising leaf at the rear; An about very good copy. The upper panel corners rubbed with a few preliminary pages with the corners turned over. The spine is chipped with about 2cm off loss to the bottom, sporadic patches of browning here and there. Otherwise pages and wrappers are clean and the binding is holding well. An abridged version of Dombey and Sons that Dicken's publisher would have printed after the success of his public reading tours. Bradbury and Evans produced five of these ephemeral booklets in 1858, that are referred to in Eckel as the 'reading editions'. Eckel goes on to say "Each was uniformly bound in a green, printed…
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J.M. Dent & Sons. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1939 8vo., burgundy publisher's cloth ruled and lettered in gilt to spine, with publisher's name in blind to foot; upper edge stained; in the publisher's printed dust jacket (10s. 6d. net); pp. [vi], vii-viii,[ii], 3-356; with a black and white frontis photograph of Kenney facing title; seven additional photographs spaced sporadically throughout the text; spine ever-so-slightly faded, touched more by sun at tips; endpapers very lightly offset; otherwise a lovely example in the very good dust jacket which is lightly sunned along the backstrip and some chips and closed tears, particularly to head of spine. First edition. With two pieces of related ephemeral articles loosely inserted. The autobiography of an Yorkshire-born Intelligence officer during the Second World War. Rowland Kenney (1882-1961) was a British diplomat, author and editor who served in both world wars as a director of propaganda in both…
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Timeless Treasure,: Exploring Miniature Libraries and their Bookcases (1800-1932).
by Burley, Jason
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24 printed pages. 11 colour photgraphic illustrations. Index and Bibliography. 'Introduction', 'The History of Small Antique Bookcases', 'Caring for Your Mini Bookcases', 'Notable Examples', 'Investment Value' and 'Conclusion'. 15 x 21 cm. Perfect bound with colour pictorial card wrappers. Newly published in June 2024. This approaches collectable miniature books through the perspective of their original bookcases and draws from a number of different academic and reference sources, as well as on the author's own current stock. Jason Burley has worked in antiquarian bookselling since 1979, when he joined Francis Edwards, 83 Marylebone High Street, W1 as a Trainee Bookdealer. He opened his first independent bookshop in 1984 in Camden and jointly founded the multiple award-winning Burley Fisher Books in 2015. Jason has campaigned with Lord Bird to reduce Business Rates on UK bookshops and has sold miniature books since the mid 1980s -exhibiting 750 miniature books at Firsts London 2024 in the Saatchi…
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A diáspora da palavra: obras de autores portugueses impressas fora de Portugal, 1521-1550. Guia da exposição.
by DIAS, João José Alves
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Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal / Centro de Estudos Históricos, Universidade Nova, 2021.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 110 pp., (1 blank l.), profusely illustrated, indexes of authors, places of publication, printers and booksellers. One of 500 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this excellent exhibition catalogue. Alves Dias is one of Portugal's leading historians, and a distinguished bibliophile.***
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The Butterflies Fly-Past. with illus. by Mandy Shepherd.
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Special Offers Entomology . 1st. Ed. Pub. Peregrine Books. 1994. pp.xviii, 127 with 8 coloured illus. 8vo. New hdbk. in new dw. RRP £20.00. A fascinating book describing the authors experiences of studying butterflies in the UK. All native British Butterflies are mentioned at some point in the text, which is handsomely supported by 8 watercolour plates by Mandy Shepherd.
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In Search of Nature.
by Ratcliffe, D.A
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Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Peregrine Books. 2000. pp.xii, 249 with illus. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. RRP. £27.00. The distinguished naturalist, Derek Ratcliffe, passed away in 2005 aged 75. Born in 1929, this book tells the tale of his life from boyhood, when his interest in birds, butterflies, moths and dragonflies started to develop, through to the period in his life before 1970. Ratcliffe took the opportunity presented by writing this book of paying tribute to some of the people who helped him along the way and became lifelong friends.
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Native Plums (Prunus) of Gloucestershire. The Gloucestershire Pomona Series.
by Martell, Charles
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Special Offers Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Gloucestershire Orchard Trust. 2018. pp.vi, 50 with colour photography throughout. Large 8vo. New softback.
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A History of Whaling in Brazil. From royal fish to Japanese delicacy.
by Hart, Ian & Edmundson, William
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Pequena., 2017. 1st. Ed.. pp.xxii, 234 with b/w. photos. 8vo. A new softback. This is the first book to describe comprehensively the history of whaling in Brazil, starting with traditional whaling as a Portuguese crown monopoly and culminating with the introduction of modern ships, equipped with harpoon guns in the twentieth century - an initiative led by a British company (Duder and Brother) in Brazil.
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Pears of Gloucestershire and Perry Pears of the Three Counties. The Gloucestershire Pomona Series.
by Martell, Charles
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Special Offers Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Hartpury Heritage Trust. 2013. pp.xiv, 214 with colour photography throughout. Large 8vo. New softback.
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Antarctic Magistrate. A life through the lens of a camera.
by Hart, Ian
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Pequena., 2009. 1st. Ed.. pp.303 with many photographs. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. Signed by the author, Ian Hart. This volume is a celebration of the life of Edward Beveridge Binnie, (born on the Falkland Islands in 1884) the eighth child of immigrant Scottish parents. The book traces his rise from humble beginnings through Falkland Islands Government service to becoming the first Antarctic Magistrate.
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Whaling in the Falkland Islands Dependencies 1904-1931. A History of shore and bay-based whaling in the Antarctic.
by Hart, Ian
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Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Pequena. 2006. pp.xvi, 363 with many illus. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. Signed by the author, Ian Hart. A fascinating account of the whaling industry in the Falkland Islands Dependencies. The sequence of events which led to the extension of British sovereignty in the Antarctic and the legislation & policing imposed by the Falkland Islands Government to control the burgeoning whaling industry are also discussed.
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Austral Enterprises. A History of shore, bay-based and pelagic whaling and sealing in the Southern Ocean encompassing the Southern Whaling & Sealing Company, The Kerguelen Sealing & Whaling Company and their associated enterprises at South Georgia, the Antarctic peninsula, the South Indian Ocean and South Africa.
by Hart, Ian
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Pequena., 2020. 1st. Ed.. pp.xx, 380 with b/w. photographs and illustrations throughout. 4to. New hardback in new dw. Print run of just 400 copies. Signed by author. There have been very few attempts to document British involvement in the whaling and sealing industry. This book describes, in detail, some of the major companies that undertook this trade and the profound effect this had on the whale and seal populations in the southern hemisphere.
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