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

New York: Oxford University Press., 1951 vii, 230 printed pages. Signed by Rachel Carson in ink on title page just above her printed name. Green frontispiece (preliminaries slightly spotted, pages evenly toned). Previous owner's ink name and address on front free endpaper. Pictorial map endpapers. 15 x 22 cm. Original green and black paper covered boards (slightly worn at edges and a few spots). Complete with original similarly decorated dust-jacket- sixth state: $3.50 on bottom corner of front flap, biographical text on rear flap mentions Burroughs Award & New York Zoological Society Medal & mention of the Guggenheim Fellowship has been removed from rear flap (small piece missing from lower front panel and smaller losses from head of spine section; slight wear and some spotting on rear panel). An early and uncommon signed variant printing of the 1951 winner of the National Book Award in non-fiction, most likely issued by a small natural science book club (identified by the H. Wolff on… Read More

George Routledge & Sons, London & New York, 1885 210 printed pages. LIMITED EDITION, numbered copy, number 428 out of 550 copies. Profusely illustrated with 12 full-page, tissue-guarded photogravure plates ("by the Goupil process") and 220 line drawings throughout the text by Maurice Leloir. Printed by H. Launette, Librairie Artistique, Paris. Top edges gilt, other edges uncut. Sumptuously marbled endpapers. Scattering of very light foxing. Original chromolithographed front cover bound in at the rear. 24.5 x 32.5 cm. Contemporary half Levant blue morocco binding. Spne with six compartments, gilt lettering and central foliate star-burst tooling withing gilt borders. Top and tail of the spine have worn down by 1 mm and there has been general very slight abrasion to the raised bands and the tooling. Hinges cracked but still intact. Covers are leather over marbled paper boards, with similar slight wear and abrasion. Corners very slightly worn. However, this copy does present very well… Read More

GEORGE LEDWELL TAYLOR & EDWARD CRESY, 1829 FIVE IMPRESSIVE, ORIGINAL, ANTIQUE, STEEL-ENGRAVINGS AGAINST WHITE GROUND (WITH PRINTED TITLES): Elevation and section of the Leaning Tower or Campanile and of the Pisa Baptistry, and the West elevation/façade of Pisa Cathedral. 28 x 36 cm (mounts). Matted, mounted and in a transparent protective cellophane. These three structures are located in the Piazza dei Miracoli, formally known as Piazza del Duomo, in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy & are among Europe's best known landmarks. Taylor and Cresy's publications brought technically accurate images of the most celebrated surviving Italian buidings of Antiquity to a wider public and their publications influenced many European architects of the Victorian period with a mini Classical Roman architectural revival.. 1st Edition. No Binding. Very Good.

Duckworth & Co, London, 1915 Unpaginated [50] printed pages. Illustrated with 24 full-page half-tone plates, with captions and a small black & white silhouette on the proceeding pages. Endpapers have double-page silhouette illustrations of "Lighting Back" (an exploding artillery gun) and "The Free Lance" (a shrapnel-ridden German Monoplane). Some very light finger marks to page margins. Front hinge cracked but still very firm. 25 x 37.5 cm. Original printed decorative paper covered boards. Publisher's red cloth spine, very slightly worn at head and tail and with a few minor horizontal creases. Upper board with red and black caricature of grenade juggling German officer within black lettering. Rear cover withred and black caricature of German soldier lying on his back and artillery shell heading down towards him. Corners, edges and rear board very slightly worn. Front board with short horizontal thin broken line of white paint- not especially noticeable. William Heath… Read More

Full contemporary calf, rebacked c.1900, spine gilt, corners worn.

John Bell, 1850 Full contemporary calf, rebacked c.1900, spine gilt, corners worn.. Hardcover. Good.

Sampson Low No date. 24 plates, contemporary 3/4 black morocco. This is an especially attractive copy, beautifully bound about 1920 by Eric Wilfred Dickens, bookbinder, (born 24/9/1888) of 46 Mordaunt St. Stockwell, London. This copy was used as a sample of Mr Dickens bookbinding skill & was purchased by us directly from the bookbinders grandson in its original book cabinet.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Ashgate, 2008 viii, 154 pages, in unread condition. According to scientific realism, the way the world is does not depend on our beliefs about it. The existence of a mind-independent world is a core-tenet of the scientific realist, explaining how genuine and reliable knowledge of a mind-independent reality is possible.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

1943 This is an internal security booklet produced by the Ministry of Food in 1943 and signed (in facsimile?)by the Secretary to the Minister for Food H.L. French. It gives a list of rules and regulations by which to prevent dissemination of information from the ministry to enemy agents. It is marked CONFIDENTIAL on the cover. 'FOR RETENTION' is also written on the cover, in an unknown hand. From the library of Sir G.S. Bishop, youngest ever Deputy Secretary who was at the Ministry of Food 1945-9. This ephemeral document is very scarce. The association with a very senior member of the civil service during the war, someone who took many decisions to achieve the best food security possible for the British people during WW2, is highly appropriate and adds to the academic and collector's interest.. Soft cover. Good.

Harper & Bros., 1902 Frontispiece & photographic text illustrations, preliminary pages slightly Spotted, contemporary 3/4 green morocco, spine sunned. This is an especially attractive copy, beautifully bound about 1920 by Eric Wilfred Dickens, bookbinder, (born 24/9/1888) of 46 Mordaunt St. Stockwell, London. The spine has a leather label and five raised bands & is densely tooled in gilt. This copy was used as a sample of Mr Dickens bookbinding skill & was purchased by us directly from the bookbinders grandson in its original book cabinet.. Hardcover. Very Good.

96 printed pages. Printed by Richard Clay & Sons. Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Inner gilt dentelles. Complete with contemporary marbled paper covered slipcase. De luxe binding signed by Riviere & Son. A selected anthology of English poetry, originally selected for publication by Francis Turner Palgrave in 1861; it was considerably revised, with input from Tennyson, about three decades later. WorldCat lists four copies. Both WorldCat and Welsh only describe copies published by Siegle, Hill & Co. London. This Leopold B. Hill imprint is an unlisted variant. 60 x 90mm. Original crimson calf. Stylised honeysuckle cornerpieces and decorative triple fillet gilt borders on front and back covers. Spine with 6 gilt pointille bands within horizontal gilt borders, quatrefoil hand-tooled decorations and gilt titling. Minor foxing on endpapers. Not in Bondy, nor Spielmann. Welsh, 5445. OCLC, 562731171 for Siegle edition. WorldCat locates 4 copies worldwide of the Siegle edition but none… Read More

A cura di Lorenzo Buccella Festival del film Locarno, 2014 682, (5) pages, yellow endpapers, black and yellow silk bookmark. Profusely illustrated with colour photographs throughout. 125 x 155mm. Black cloth covers extremely slightly marked. The history of the Locarno International Film Festival in the period between the celebrations of the 50th, in 1997, and the departure of the artistic director Olivier Père in 2012. In Italian.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

China Architecture and Building Press, 219 printed pages, 25.6 x 25.6cm. Profusely illustrated in colour throughout. signed on half-title in neat ink hand "To Rachel, 23 Sept '03, Juhani".. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine.

George Allen, London., 1902 The Complete Edition: (Fifty-sixth Thousand). xxxvi, 228 printed pages. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Former owner's signature on blank preliminary page, dated "The Study, 1904". First and last few leaves lightly foxed. 13.5 x 19.5 cm. Contemporary half vellum binding signed by Riviere and Son. Spine with inlaid gilt-lettered, brown morocco panel with pointille and leaves in gilt tooling surrounded by single fillet curved border. Below lies a similar rhomboid design of tulip flowers that extends above and below in stylish naturalistic gilt tooled design (very slightly rubbed and dust stained in some places). Green cloth boards a trifle marked and extremely slightly worn on the leading edges). Includes index. Contents: Lecture 1. Of king's treasuries. -- Lecture 2. Of queen's gardens. -- Lecture 3. The mystery of life and its arts. { Subject: Social problems. Conduct of life. Books and reading. Women } Provenance:-Marjorie Brown Douglas (1890-1947)… Read More

Werner Laurie No date. 16 plates, contemporary 3/4 green calf, includes Chapter on Billy the Kid. This is an especially attractive copy, beautifully bound about 1920 by Eric Wilfred Dickens, bookbinder, (born 24/9/1888) of 46 Mordaunt St. Stockwell, London. The spine has a leather label and five raised bands & is densely tooled in gilt. This copy was used as a sample of Mr Dickens bookbinding skill & was purchased by us directly from the bookbinders grandson in its original book cabinet.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Heinemann, 1906 14 plates, 7 of 9 maps only, contemporary 3/4 green morocco, spine faded. This is an especially attractive copy, beautifully bound about 1920 by Eric Wilfred Dickens, bookbinder, (born 24/9/1888) of 46 Mordaunt St. Stockwell, London. The spine has a leather label and five raised bands & is densely tooled in gilt. This copy was used as a sample of Mr Dickens bookbinding skill & was purchased by us directly from the bookbinders grandson in its original book cabinet.. Hardcover. Very Good.

F. Bennett & Co, 1922 1919-22. Michaelmas 1919 to Summer 1922 bound in one volume. Original blue cloth with gilt crests on covers. Edges of covers slightly damp stained, not affecting contents. Sherborne School is a British independent boys' school, located in the town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset, England. Former pupils include Jeremy Irons and John le Carré.. Hardcover. Good.

Yale University Press, 2012 This book is new. There is some slight scuffing at the top of the dust jacket.. Hardcover. New/New.

1812 12mo. Title in manuscript and the Book of Common Prayer in shorthand. ll edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Inner gilt dentelles. Faded ink, cracked hinges, headband loose. 7 x 11 cm. Contemporary straight-grained burgundy morocco, gilt, upper cover with contrasting black morocco oval inlay with author's initials within floral scrolling border & lower cover with date within identical hand-tooled decoration in gilt (rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities). George Kirkby Junior (1773-1857) was the owner of the Kentish Gazette along with Charles Petman Rouse, and James Lawrence. James Hervey (1714-1758), Calvinist Anglican divine (and former Oxford Methodist), following several minor clerical appointments in 1740 he became the curate of Bideford, North Devon, where he started work on the drafts of his famous Meditations and Reflections. The latter works appeared in 1745-1746, to be followed in 1747 by his Contemplation upon the night and other works. His popular Meditations Among the… Read More

John Murray, 1904 Frontispiece & 24 plates, contemporary 3/4 red morocco, spine slightly spotted. This is an especially attractive copy, beautifully bound about 1920 by Eric Wilfred Dickens, bookbinder, (born 24/9/1888) of 46 Mordaunt St. Stockwell, London. The spine has a leather label and five raised bands & is densely tooled in gilt. This copy was used as a sample of Mr Dickens bookbinding skill & was purchased by us directly from the bookbinders grandson in its original book cabinet.. Hardcover. Good.