Search Results: Titles starting with B from Lucius Books

London: later published by J. M. Dent and Co. 1907. Pen, ink and watercolour on paper. The image measures 22 x 14.5 cms. Mounted, framed and glazed. With the artist's handwritten title label (and address) and the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours exhibition label from July 1909 with the purchaser's details and price paid retained on the original backboard. In fine condition. This piece is illustrated as a full page colour plate opposite page 356 in the 1907 revised and enlarged edition of The Ingoldsby Legends, published by J. M. Dent (and re-issued by William Heinemann). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Barrie and Jenkins. 1973. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in the Osbert Lancaster illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean and bright and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the original dustwrapper which is a little rubbed, nicked and creased at the edges. Not price-clipped. (£1.95 net to the front flap). A lovely copy. (McIlvaine A96a). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: The Hogarth Press. 1962. Third printing. Publisher's original grey cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Vanessa Bell illustrated dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding clean and firm with a very slight lean, the contents toned to the text block edge and with the pencilled ownership inscription of James Booth (former Professor of English at the University of Hull and biographer, editor and former colleague of Philip Larkin) are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which is toned to the spine and panel edges. Repriced by the publisher with a label over the original printed price on the front flap. A novel about a soldier returning home after WWII only to find that his lover has died. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Lonon: Percival Marshall. 1949. Fist edition, first printing. Fist edition, first printing. Original red cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings by Edward Ardizzone. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the near fine lightly rubbed and nicked, price-clipped dustwrapper that is a touch faded to the spine. A beautifully illustrated observation of London Pubs by the Irish journalist Maurice Gorham. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Richard Bentley and Son. 1877. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Three volumes. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to the spine. An excellent better than very good set, the bindings firm with a little bumping at the spine tips and corners, the cloth and gilt uniformly bright with just a few light marks to the boards. The contents, with an ownership signature to the front free endpaper of each volume are otherwise clean throughout. Inner hinges cracked but holding firm in volume one. An attractive example of a scarce title. A romance, leading to a murder mystery and courtroom drama. The author (1829-1924) was a barrister and, at the time of publication, British Consul at New Orleans. He is the nephew of the journalist Albany William Fonblanque (1793-1872) (Wolf 2277; Bassett, Troy J.: "At the Circulating Library": A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837—1901). Further details and images for any of the items listed are… Read More

London: Ernest Benn Limited. 1961. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original grey cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout in black and white. A near fine copy, the binding tight and clean. The contents, with a little spotting at the text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the light rubbed, nicked and spotted dustwrapper which has a short closed tear to the front flap fold and a very tiny closed tear to the rear panel. Price-clipped. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: John Murray. 1941. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Evelyn Waugh's copy. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with line drawings by the author throughout. A very good copy, the binding firm with some bumping at the spine tips and corners, the cloth a little marked and darkened. The contents, with the ownership inscription of Evelyn Waugh to the front endpaper and some toning to the page edges are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the supplied very good first printing dustwrapper that is a little rubbed and nicked, with small chips at the head of the somewhat faded spine. Not price-clipped (5s net to the front flap). Inscribed in blue ink on the front endpaper "Evelyn Waugh / Ardrossan / June 1942". An autobiographical volume of the war artist's experiences with the ill-fated British Expeditionary Force in France, 1940. At the time of his ownership inscription, Evelyn Waugh was… Read More

London: Printed for the Bibliopolists. 1892 [c.1930]. Later printing than stated. Original plain card wrappers. Page edges untrimmed, title page uncut. A very good copy, the binding firm with a little cracking to the inner hinges and minor rubbing to the extremities. The contents with a small splash mark to the fore-edge are otherwise clean throughout and free from any previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. A nice example of a clandestine reprint of a classic Victorian erotic novel. Provenance: from the library of Martin Stone. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Faber and Faber. 1941. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original grey cloth with purple titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth with a little light spotting, rubbing and discolouration to the spine and extremities. The contents, with a previous owner's inscription to the front free endpaper, light offsetting to the half title from a newspaper clipping, and a few pencil notes to the margins, are otherwise clean. Complete with the original dustwrapper which is toned to the spine, has some minor chipping to the spine tips and flap folds, a few tiny closed tears to the edges, and a longer, 4cm closed tear to the front panel. Not price clipped (6s. net to the front flap). Signed by Vernon Watkins in blue ink on the half title. The author's first book. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Enitharmon Press. 1979. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Kathleen Raine. Publisher's original tan cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Ceri Richards illustrated dustwrapper. With an introduction by Kathleen Raine. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth clean, the contents clean and bright throughout. Complete with the original lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper which has some fading to the spine and a couple of spots to the front panel. Inscribed by Kathleen Raine in blue ink to the front free endpaper "To Elisabeth & Cecil / from Kathleen / Christmas 1978". The recipients are Raine's close friends the artists Cecil and Elisabeth Collins, with whom she shared a house in Chelsea for many years. Raine wrote a biography of Cecil Collins, 'Cecil Collins: Painter of Paradise', in the same year this title was published. This posthumous collection was selected by Watkins' wife Gwen from the many… Read More

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd. 1892. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original burgundy titles and elaborate decorations in gilt to the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white by Hugh Thomson. A very good copy, the binding firm, the spine with a slight lean. The contents, with offsetting to the endpapers and some foxing primarily early and late, are otherwise clean and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. A beautifully illustrated collection of poems by the English author and essayist Austin Dobson (1840-1921). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Victor Gollancz. 1938. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. The publisher's retained copy. Original blue cloth with dark blue titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents slightly spotted to the text block edges and with the publisher's "Archive Copy" stamp to the title page and with the publisher's "File Copy" stamp to the front pastedown are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the near fine original dustwrapper which has the publisher's "File Copy" stamp on the upper panel. Provenance: From the archive of the publisher Victor Gollancz. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Lazarides Photography. 2019. First edition, first printing (numbered). First edition, first printing (numbered). Publisher's pictorial card covers. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout. A fine, as new copy. The 250 pages of photographs, many unseen before this publication, document the 11 years that Lazarides worked with Banksy as his agent, photographer, and right-hand man. The images lift the veil on the secrecy surrounding the elusive artist, offering a behind-the-scenes look at some of his famous works while they were being executed. This is the true first edition, individually numbered on the title page. Several limited editions were issued later, the trade issue is now in the third edition. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: John Lane, Bodley Head. 1896. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original brown thin card covers with titles and decoration in dark green to the upper and lower covers, and spine. The front cover, title page, and key monogram (to rear panel and verso of the title-page) are by Aubrey Beardsley. All edges untrimmed. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the thin card covers are a little toned, the yapped edges nicked and creased. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Priced 'One Shilling Net' to the upper edge of the front panel. A very well-preserved copy. Triall's 'tip-top novel', is a parodic response to Grant Allen's 'hill-top novel', 'The British Barbarians' (1895), the twenty-first volume in John Lane's Keynotes series. Allen's anthropological satire of late nineteenth century mores was also published with designs by Beardsley. The designs for Traill's… Read More

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1958. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original maroon cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding firm, a slight lean to the spine. The contents, with some spotting to the text block edges, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the original lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which has some wear to the spine and flap hinges where there are a few small holes. Not price clipped (13s 6d net to the front flap). Signed and dated by the author in blue ink on the front free endpaper. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Ward, Lock and Co. 1951. First UK edition, first printing. First UK edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by both authors. Publisher's original green cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near very good copy, the binding firm and the cloth bright. The contents are heavily spotted to the prelims and toned to the poor quality paper stock. Ink correction in the hand of Harry Stephen Keeler written in black ink on page 206. Complete with the very good rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper, which has a small chips at the spine tips and fold corners and a few scuffs to the rear panel. Not price-clipped and in the first printing showing 8/6 net to the lower front flap. Later issues are priced 6/-. Inscribed by Hazel Goodwin Keeler in black ink on the front endpaper "To / Mr. Michael Monkhanoff, / with the sincere ad- / miration of the authors / Hazel Goodwin Keeler (of p.78) and" underneath which Harry Stephen Keeler has signed in full. The second novel in… Read More

London: Faber and Faber. 1963. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding clean and square, the contents entirely complete, without inscriptions or stamps with a little spotting to the text block edge. Complete with the better than very good lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which has a short closed tear to the upper panel and is price-clipped to the front flap. An attractive example. The author's first novel and winner of the AE Memorial Award. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1956. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, ruling and illustration to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. In the bright dustwrapper, rubbed to edges and corners and with a short (c. 1 cm) closed tear to the lower spine tip. Small abrasion (c. 1 x 1 cm) to the upper edge of the front panel. Not price-clipped (10s. 6d. net to the front flap). The nineteenth Tommy Hambledon thriller. "[E]verything had not gone according to plan for Eugene and his friends, because Tommy Hambledon had shared a sleeper with the dead man on the Basle Express." (from the jacket) (Hubin). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Walker Books. 1985. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Shirley Hughes' retained copy, inscribed by her. Original glossy pictorial boards. Illustrated throughout in colour by Shirley Hughes. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean and bright throughout. Inscribed by Shirley Hughes in black ink to the title page "Love from Shirley Hughes". Nursery Collection number one. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Harper Collins. 1995. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with silver titles to the spine. In dustwrapper. A lovely very near fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents, slightly toned to the margins, are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the original fine dustwrapper. Not price clipped (£9.99 to the front flap). The third book in The Starbuck Chronicles. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.