Search Results: Titles starting with A from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

Hampton's railway guide of the 1850's reproduced as miniature facsimile in January 1929. 62 printed pages (a few leaves with corner tips creased; printing quality is not sharp). Includes advertisements for Hotels Cecil, Great Northern Hotel, Liverpool Street Station, Belgravia, Metropole, Grand, Majestic, &c. On the inside rear cover is an ad for the National Provincial Union Bank. On the inside front, ads for Aertex Cellular and the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co. Along the spine it advertises Schweppes Table Waters. 12 x 20 mm. 0.5 x 0.75". Original tan card cover (slightly rubbed). Replica copy of one specially produced for Queen Mary's Doll's House. Photographic reproduction. Bondy calls it scarce in 1981. Spielmann says it is "a curiosity, of considerable rarity" (1961). Bondy, 153. Bromer, 114(photo). Spielmann, 1. Welsh, 8. WorldCat locates just 2 copies worldwide (Pierpont Morgan and University of Virginia).

Duckworth, 1973 160 printed pages. 8 duotone pages of family photographic illustrations & 8 pages of illustrations of paintings. Woodblock illustrated chapter headings throughout. Signed in ink by Kyffin Williams in flourishing hand on half-title page. Printed map endpapers. 16.5 x 25.5 cm. Original red cloth. Gilt lettering along spine. Dustwrapper very slightly shelf worn. Price excised from lower corner of inner dustwrapper. Sir Kyffin Williams (1918-2006) was a Welsh painter best known for his depictions of the Welsh countryside, shepherds and their sheepdogs, livestock, and small villages. Williams paintings were primarily made with impasto palette knife marks and few brushstrokes, employing a limited palette consisting of gray and subtle greens that emanate the color found in the rocks and foliage of Wales. He went to the Slade School of Fine Art in London, also spending time painting in the Welsh settlement of Y Wladfa in Patagonia, Argentina in 1968, thanks to the Winston Churchill… Read More

East African Standard Limited, 1918 Broadsheet on thin paper (folded creases and patches of foxing; some edges slightly worn). 21 x 34 cm. The African Standard, the oldest newspaper in British East Africa or Uganda, was established as a weekly by Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee, a very rich Parsee contractor, general merchant, & immigrant businessman in 1902. In 1905 Jevanjee, sold the paper for £50 to Maia Anderson (1874-1936) & Rudolf Franz Mayer (1874-1934), who changed the paper's name to the East African Standard. On Aug. 19, 1905 it became a daily paper and in 1910 moved its headquarters from Mombasa to Nairobi. The East African Standard declared strongly colonialist viewpoints & spent the first few months of the First World War proclaiming the need to keep peace in the colonies & not encourage Africans to seize the opportunity to revolt. Mayer, arriving in East Africa in 1900 from Germany with nothing but an old hand printing press and five pounds, had become by 1914… Read More

MHF Memorial Foundation Foligno, 2009 184 printed pages, many illustrations mostin colour some in b/w. Italian and English language. 24.5 x 29.5 cm, Artificial silk pictorial upper cover with white lettering on brown cloth. This bilingual book is an investigation into a unique and original iconographic invention by Andrea Mantegna: "Our Lady of Tenderness with the dreamy Child" who, as a devotional image, had inexplicably not yet found widespread recognition. This particular iconography of the "sleeping baby", in the nativity on the lap of the Madonna, now represented in the style of the "Glycophilousa"(Tenderness, which normally underlines the mutual, intimate relationship between mother and child), becomes here instead one-sided - Jesus sleeping: there is no precedent to Mantegna's unique and lasting iconographic creation. The research starts from the direct study of a well-known but unpublished painting with its original "Mantegnesca" in comparison with… Read More

Henry Frowde., 1896 2 volumes in one. Oxford Press Series/Oxford Miniature Editions. 452 & 418 printed pages in 6-point type. Printed on fine India paper. Portrait frontispiece and 4 full page engraved illustrations. All edges gilt. No inscriptions. A few corners creased or nicked, title page and preliminaries slightly browned. 43 x 52 mm. Original publisher's black morocco. Gilt titling on upper cover. Blind ruled borders. Very slight rubbing. Bondy describes this series of miniature books as "issued in various bindings in cloth, suede, leather and morocco with gilt edges or red edges gilt.The highlights of this finely printed series are undoubtedly the Bunyan, Goldsmith and Walton all of which are scarce". Bondy, 117. Welsh, 1516.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Manchester: Co-operative Union., 1923 103 printed pages. Photogrpahic portrait frontispiece and 6 black and white plates on three leaves. All edges gilt (slightly fading). Inner gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Original paper label on rear paste-down endpaper, "Bound by Co-operative Printing Society, New Mount Street, Manchester". Additional illuminated manuscript dedication leaf pasted in, reminiscent of the earlier Arts and Crafts era, which in turn harked back to the art form's medieval origins; privately commissioned by the Central Board of the Co-operative Union of Great Britain and Ireland as a presentation to Alderman F. Hayward in June 1927 at the 59th Annual Co-operative Congress held at Cheltenham at which Hayward was Vice-President. 13 x 18.5 cm. Contemporary, full, presentation, signed, burgundy morocco binding. Spine with central compartment of gilt lettering, blind and gilt fillets and gilt tulip with twisting stems and leaf decorative gilt tooling at head and tail.… Read More

Manchester : Co-Operative Union Limited, 1920 107 pages. All edges gilt.Inner gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Original paper label on rear paste-down endpaper, "Bound by Co-operative Printing Society, New Mount Street, Manchester". Additional illuminated manuscript dedication leaf pasted in, reminiscent of the earlier Arts and Crafts era, which in turn harked back to the art form's medieval origins; privately commissioned by the Co-operative Union Limited (Scottish Section) as a presentation to Lord Provost Duke on behalf of the Royal Burgh of Brechin. Signed by the Chairman J. Downie and Secretary W.T. Laing. 14 x 21 cm. Contemporary, full, presentation, signed, forest green morocco binding. Spine with gilt lettering in 2 compartments and four compartments of Lotus flowers arranged in arabesque around central marigold gilt tooled decorations within pointille and single line gilt fillet borders, & the date at the bottom (very lightly rubbed at top of spine). Bevelled boards with… Read More

London : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan,, 1816 96 printed pages. Includes index. Pages bright and with good margins. 12.5 x 18.5 cm. Contemporary half calf. Chipped red morocco label with gilt lettering along the spine. Both hinges cracked, leather missing from the top and bottom of the spine, that has general wear. Boards covered in marbled paper- some wear, particularly to the corners. The church was completed in 1817, at an overall cost of £80,000 & is one of the handsomest structures of the kind in the metropolis. It was designed by Thomas Hardwicke, a follower of Sir William Chambers. The Rectory district is bounded on the south, by Oxford Street from Vere Street to Orchard Street ; on the west, by and including the east sides of Orchard Street, Portman Square, Baker Street, and Park Road ; on the north, by and including the south side of Primrose Hill Road; and on the east, in part by the parish of St. Pancras, and by the south-east quadrant of the circle in the Regent's… Read More

Methuen, London., 1962 FIRST UK EDITION. 62 printed pages of colour printed cartoons (evenly toned in margins). Pictorial blue printed endpapers. 23 x 30.5 cm. Original printed colour paper-covered boards (some marks, and wear, corners rubbed), with original red paper spine (slightly faded, two closed tears mid-way down, very slightly worn at hinges, head and tail). Following The Red Sea Sharks (1958) and its large number of characters, Tintin in Tibet differs from other stories in the series in that it features only a few familiar characters and is also Hergé's only adventure not to pit Tintin against an antagonist. Themes in Hergé's story include extrasensory perception, the mysticism of Tibetan Buddhism, and friendship. Translated into 32 languages, Tintin in Tibet was widely acclaimed by critics and is generally considered to be Hergé's finest work and the author's personal favourite; it has also been praised by the Dalai Lama, who awarded it the Light of Truth… Read More

1738 Excellent condition. Copper-plate engraving. Extremely light age toning. Hoizontal fold. Small marginal tear not affecting image. 315mm x 207mm. Other spellings of Philipp Cluver include Cluverio and Cluverius. Many of his maps were engraved by Peter Bertius-this is unsigned. 1738 is an estimated date but this map appears to have been published pre-1750. An interesting map of Malta, Southern Sicily & part of the Mediterranean coast of Northern Africa showing Carthage and ancient Roman African provinces. It includes a very decorative title cartouche depicting a Roman solider, Roman palace,its inhabitants &, in the background, an attacking army watching a city burn. Clüver was a German geographer, who was given a special appointment at Leiden as geographer and in charge of the university's library, but his life's project was a general study of the geography, based not only on history & classical literary sources, but, and this was his ground-breaking contribution,… Read More

Springer, 2006 Very tiny chip of damage on top edge of cover towards the fore-edge. Otherwise in overall good condition. This volume reflects the multi-dimensional nature of the interplay between logic and science. It presents contributions from the world's leading scholars. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

xiv, 1472 printed pages -four volumes in one; separately and concurrently paginated (some corners slightly creased). Each of the four sections (Poems; Princess and Maud; In Memoriam and other Poems; Idylls of the King and other poems) opens with a black & white illustration and there are other additional black & white illustrations. 1924 tiny inscription of former owner on front free endpaper. Earlier owner's tiny stamp on recto of blank preliminary page. 34 x 53mm. Original orange cloth with lettering and spine decoration in silver (inner hinge cracked; slightly age-darkened and hint of a vertical crease in the spine's centre; page block slightly dust-toned). Provenance: L. and V.L. Davies (no further information available). Bryce published in 1905 a four-volume edition of Tennyson, which was followed by, or published simultaneously with, this one-volume edition. Bondy refers to this edition as "rare." Garbett only refers to copies in green cloth, blue roan or morocco and says that it is often found… Read More

15, 876 printed pages. Additional title, "Four National Anthems [God Save the King, La Marseillaise, La Brabanconne, and Russian National Anthem]. Recessional, by Rudyard Kipling. Evening Prayer of a People, by Neil Munro". 28 full-page line-illustrations, reduced from designs by Charles Bell Birch, A.R.A. (1832-93). A reduced facsimile of the Oxford Nonpareil 16mo edition. All edges red. Original cream endpapers. 30 x 46 mm. Original khaki buckram (some light soiling; spine slightly twisted and gatherings minutely sprung out of perfect alignment; inner hinges cracked but firm). Holy Bible stamped in gilt on spine (faded). Original magnifier in a pocket at the back. Originally retailed for a shilling. This copy has been used and more likely than not, been taken to France or Belgium during the First world War. The hard-wearing dull coloured buckram was deliberately selected for camouflage and to last the length of a campaign - this miniature bible weighs one ounce and was perfectly sized to be carried… Read More

Adam & Charles Black, 1904 pp 294. Illustrated with 70 tissue guarded bright coloured plates. 4to, tan cloth. Cloth very faded, corners slightly bumped, front free endpaper creased and worn at the bottom. Top inner hinge detached, slight tear at top of outer hinge. Limited to 300 numbered copies signed by the publishers. This is number 193. Neate C100, Inman 221. This copy has the former owner's ink signature of Aileen Smiles, author of a biography of Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), doctor, and later a railway executive who became famous as the author of Self-help (1859) and many other books extolling the virtues of hard work and education.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

Springer, 2003 xvii, 368 pages. Upper top corner of binding, slightly worn.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Aperture, 1994 [132] unnumbered pages. Full page duotone photographic reproductions on high quality paper. Signed by Eugene Richards in flourishing ink hand on half title page. 29 x 28 cm. In original dustwrapper, shrinkwrapping only taken off for author to sign it, at our independent new book shop. Eugene Richards (1944- ) is an American documentary photographer. Richards has published many volumes of photography and been a member of Magnum Photos and of VII Photo Agency. In the course of his extraordinary career as a photo-journalist, Eugene Richards has seen many faces of America. From years of poignant, often riveting and sometimes controversial reporting, both on and off assignment, comes Americans We. In turn tender, funny, disturbing, and sublime, Richards's photographs and writing cohere like poetic verse. His talent for rendering the very essence of contemporary life has never before been so discernable, whether depicting a Memorial Day parade, the birth of a child, an inmate on death… Read More

Monacelli, 1999 This book is new and in mint condition, still wrapped in plastic.. Hardcover. New/New.

Alfred Jacobsens forlag, Kobenhavn, 1890 No date. Folding lithographed board game. Paper surface depicting oval course consisting of 67 steps in salmon and eight series of hazards spread over 24 steps with detailed depiction of the various jeapordies. Central to the board is a panoramic view of the sprint finish to the course. At the foot of the game is printed Alfred Jacobsen Lthogr. Inst. Købmagergade 39, Kobenhavn. 50 x 38 cm. The board game folds in half with original red cloth hinge. On the upper cover there is a lithographed competitor in antique running gear and holding the American Union standard. Gilt and black lettering above. Corners very slightly worn. Some minor abrasions but genrally in very good condition. Alfred Jacobsen was born in Copenhagen in 1853, & trained as a lithographer by art printer Thomas Berg. As early as 1874, he established his own lithographic institution in Copenhagen and soon began publishing himself. The USA Cross Country Championships was first held in… Read More

Chez Vincent, Paris., 1774 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 422 + 234 + 52 + 32 printed pages. Engraved headpieces and decorated initials (some very light age toning and a few leaves with very light historic ink staining confined to the lower margins and lower text block). Original faded silk place-marker. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers with contemporary former owner's engraved bookplate. 11 x 16.5 cm. Full contemporary emerald green morocco (slightly rubbed and corners bumped and worn). Spine with floral gilt tooling in compartments with fleuron corner-pieces within double fillet gilt borders; contrasting red lettering piece with gilt titling (faded and with some small areas of a darker hue). Upper and lower covers with scrolling gilt hand-tooled fleurons within single fillet gilt borders. Provenance: Dom. Pet. Joan Charpentier, nat. maj. ("In Parisiens. Cur. Reg. Advocati. [the court of royal advocates] 1824"). First and only edition of this historical work on China, Japan, Siam (Thailand),… Read More

1822 Collates as complete, *A-*P4. Possibly extracted from George Eyre and Andrew Strahan bible of 1822 (?). Printed in two columns on watermarked paper from 1822. Armorial engraved contemporary book-plate on front free endpaper. Same owner's stamp on final page. Contemporary ten line explanation of the Apocrypha by John Cotton of Birmingham in neat ink hand on verso of front free endpaper. Some foxing on first few and last leaves. 15 x 23 cm. Contemporary full straight-grained burgundy morocco possibly by John Rodwell of Oxford. Spine with four broad raised and gilt decorated bands. Compartments with gilt floral tooling within double gilt fillets with corner pieces (slightly rubbed). Boards with central hand-tooled gilt doves (signifying the Holy Spirit descending on Jesus), within richly tooled floreate strapwork and six blind and gilt scrolling borders and corner pieces (some slight rubbing along hinges). Inner gilt dentelles. Inner hinges very slightly cracked but firm. Provenance:- Owned by… Read More