Search Results: Authors starting with P from finecopy ltd

London for the author 1787. later edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Third Edition 1787, complete with all 100 engraved plates, contemporary owner's inscription to rear blank, period calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, 8vo, 1787 (ii)+iv+18+ii+54 pp. Plates numbered 1--94 plus 6 in bis. (complete). Plates notably fresh and free of spotting.Note full title - The builders golden rule, or the youths sure guide: containing the greatest variety of ornamental and useful designs in architecture and carpentry With the most ready practical Methods of executing the same, from the Plan to the ornamental Finish, in the most prevailing modern Taste. The whole correctly engraved, on 100 copper-plates, with a full explanation in letter-press. To which is added, a list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only, with References to the respective Designs. By William Pain, Author of the British Palladio.

A. Chais, Paris, 1869. . First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition 1869. Portrait frontispiece, ownership inscription to front pastedown, one front blank with ghost marks of erased pencil notes, front blanks and frontis foxed. Period full green morocco, gilt, lightly rubbed to extremities. Very square and sound. xxxv 513pp. 4to

Centro de Arte Moderna Lisbon 1989 and Tate London 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Fine/No Jacket. Two Exhibition catalogue of Caulfield's works. 1. Serigrafias, Exhibition catalogue, Lisboa, 1989 Original ink drawing of vase of flowers to front end-paper after his own image of a vase on the front cover, inscribed to 'Paul & Yvonne Love Patrick' [1989] AND 2. Patrick Caulfield. Paintings 1963 – 81. Exhibition catalogue, inscribed by the artist on photographic portrait frontispiece, The Tate Gallery,The Walker Art Gallery, 1981, original wrappers, 4to.Both Fine

Secker & Warburg, London, 1946. First Edition. Softcover. Fine/No Jacket. The Graveyard by the Sea, number 166 of 500 copies signed by Cecil Day-Lewis, original marbled wrappers, paper label to front wrapper, Martin Secker & Warburg, 1946. Printed by Hans Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni, Verona, on paper made by Fratelli Magnani of Pescia. Autumn Mcmxlvi Signed by Author

Published by Lawlor and Quick, London, 1823. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition 1823 8vo (190 x 108mm.) Half title, excellent engraved frontispiece of 'La Roulette' with hand-colouring, 2 related newspaper articles lightly tipped-in to preliminaries. Contemporary maroon morocco over marble papered boards, t.e.g. edges rubbed, spine sunned. Collates half title; forntis; viii [9]-310pp not including pages311-438 which seem to have been expurgated from all copies, hoever this copy also excludes 439-456ppwhich is usually bound in at the end.Provenance: John Gerard Heckscher (bookplates to front pastedown and front-free endpaper).

Cuchet, Paris, 1787.. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition, 2 vol., with fold-out table in vol. 2., contemporary polished calf, later lettering and volume number labels to spines. Cuchet, Paris, 1787. Very light wear to extremities but close to Fine set. Bound with half titles in both volumes and original blanks all present. [6] iv 340pp & [4] 377pp [3] Kress B-1314Peyssonnel was the son of an eminent antique dealer. From c. 1750 he concerned himself with navigation and trade in the Black Sea. He was the Consul-General of France in Smyrna in the Crimea from 1753-62

The Fortune Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. The North Ship, first edition, super copy in original black boards, gilt titling, dust-jacket price-clipped, spine supplied in excellent facsimile, neat repairs and restorations to joints and foot of upper panel with slight show-through, an excellent example overall, 8vo, The Fortune Press, 1945. A very presentable example of Larkin's first published collection of poetry, one of fewer than 500 copies.

Simon and Schuster 2009. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. First Edition thus, Signed in gold ink to title, the limitation number crossed through as often with this edition, otherwise mint.

Damiani 2018. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. Yellow Road pigment prints, no 8/30 Signed and numbered by the artist verso, 35 x 24 cm, with a COA issued by Damiani, accompanied by a copy of the book Hungry Years, published by Damiani, 2017. All Fine. Signed by Author

Taka Ishii Gallery, Japan 1997. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. Pretty Lies, one of 300 copies signed by Pierson on title, colour photographic plates, loose as issued in original white cloth folder, board slip-case, oblong folio, Tokyo, 1997. Signed by Author

Damiani 2017. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. Yellow Road pigment prints, no 3/25 Signed and numbered by the artist verso, 35 x 24 cm, with a COA issued by Damiani, accompanied by a copy of the book Hungry Years, published by Damiani, 2017. All Fine. Signed by Author

H. Karnac (Books) Ltd, London, 1971. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First edition 1971. Fine copy in a Fine Jacket (tiny bump to top fore-edge corner - see photo). Not clipped no ownership marks. Excellent collector's copy. In a removable acetate.

H. Karnac (Books) Ltd, London, 1971. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Near Fine. First edition thus. No. 143 of 150 signed numbered copies. Fine in the original black and red cloth with the original Mylar jacket with a small chip and tiny tear. Signed by Author

1954 S.P.C.K. : London. First Edition. Softcover. Fine/No Jacket. First and only edition 1954. A Fine copy in the original printed wrappers. Signed by Betjeman on the title. Signed by Author

Edizioni il Polifilo, 1961 Milan. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. First thus. Edizioni il Polifilo, 1961. Introduction by Mario Praz. Publisher's boards and pictorial slipcase, all in "As New" Mint condition. Elephant Folio 40 x 29 cms 21.5 x 15 inches.

Printed by Elizabeth Alsop, 1653. later edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. 2nd Edition 1653. Full title 'The Jewel House of Art and Nature: containing Divers Rare and Profitable Inventions, together with sundry new experiments in the Art of Husbandry. With divers Chymical Conclusions concerning the Art of Distillation, and the Rare Practices and Uses Thereof...Whereunto is added, a rare and excellent Discourse of minerals, stones, gums, and rosins : with the vertues and use thereof. London, printed by Elizabeth Alsop, and are to be sold at her house in Grubstreet, near the Upper Pump, 1653. Title toned and stained, in woodcut typographic border and with woodcut of an ear of summer barley to verso, woodcut illustrations, head-pieces and decorative initials, complete with [8], 232pp and mispagination as usual, pp.95/96 with small hole (approx 5 x 7mm) affecting small part of text, worm holes to inner margins of some leaves in middle of book (not affecting text), small 4to, bound in later full… Read More

Printed by Elizabeth Alsop, 1653. later edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. 2nd Edition 1653. Full title 'The Jewel House of Art and Nature: containing Divers Rare and Profitable Inventions, together with sundry new experiments in the Art of Husbandry. With divers Chymical Conclusions concerning the Art of Distillation, and the Rare Practices and Uses Thereof...Whereunto is added, a rare and excellent Discourse of minerals, stones, gums, and rosins : with the vertues and use thereof. London, printed by Elizabeth Alsop, and are to be sold at her house in Grubstreet, near the Upper Pump, 1653. Title in woodcut typographic border and with woodcut of an ear of summer barley to verso, woodcut illustrations, head-pieces and decorative initials, [8], 232pp, title page, first text leaf and final 3 text leaves toned with some marginal fraying not affecting text or printed areas, final text leaf more frayed than others mentioned and repaired and laid down to tissue paper; title page with neat reinforcement… Read More

Published by London, Heinemann Contemporary Fiction 1964. later edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Second edition, 1964 issued with her pseudonym Victoria Lucas (as was the first edition). A Fine copy with the author's real name ("Sylvia Plath") added in ink by a previous owner neatly to the title page (see photo). Dust jacket is very close to Fine and is unclipped with just a little fading to spine

Riverside Press/ Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1908. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. First Edition thus. No. 140 of 440. dark brown paper boards, paper spine-label with extra label tipped in at end, untrimmed except the top edge, 8vo, The Riverside Press, Boston and New York, 1908, lacks slipcase.

Fulcrum Press, 1930 London. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First Edition thus. No. 240 of 750 Plato, Lysis, A Dialogue, translated by K. A. Matthews, illustrated with woodcut engravings by Lynton Lamb, copy number 240 of 750, black cloth binding, lower cover slightly soiled, gilt title on spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 4to, Fulcrum Press, 1930