Search Results: Titles starting with S from Sky Duthie Rare Books

WĂĽrzburg: Christian Weiss., [1838-1843]. First edition. Parts 11, 20-22, 29, 33-34, 36-37, 41, 45, and 47-48. Folio (38 x 27cm). Publisher's original quarter grey cloth over paper-covered boards with elaborate decorative titles and vignette illustration to the upper board. Each part illustrated with between 5 and 12 splendid tipped-in hand-coloured lithographs highlighted in albumen, with titles and publisher's blindstamp beneath - 82 in total - plus two further hand-coloured 'schema' plates. A very good set indeed, the bindings square and firm with minor marking to the boards and a touch of wear to the extremities. The contents with the odd mark or nick to page margins, the occasional spot of paper adhesion to a handful of the plates (a little more so to a couple), and a loose rear endpaper to one volume, are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. The plates remain bright and the colours vivid. An excellent set. A large group of original parts from Eckert and Monten's magnificent series… Read More

London: Harper Collins., 2004. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Octavo. Publisher's original dark blue cloth with titles in silver to the spine, in dustwrapper. 326pp. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight with just a touch of pushing to the spine ends and a very minor indentation to the upper board; the contents remain clean and crisp throughout. Complete with the very good dustwrapper which has a little fading to the spine panel, a 4cm closed tear to the joint of the upper flap, and a couple of minor nicks to the extremities. Not price-clipped. Signed in black ink on the title page by Boris Johnson. The first edition of former prime minister Boris Johnson's first novel, a semi-autobiographical political satire in which an MP not unlike Johnson seeks to foil a terrorist plot in order to distract from his own personal scandals.

1944-1961. Original typed letter from Eleanor Roosevelt on headed notepaper dated March 8, 1961, signed in blue ink to the foot, to Adlai Stevenson regarding the visit of the Indian journalist Hitindra Malik to the USA. 18 x 15cm. WITH: A TLS from Pierre Salinger, Press Secretary to President Kennedy, to Malik on White House headed notepaper, dated January 24, 1961, regarding a meeting between the pair; two TLS from Sir George Cunningham, Governor of North West Frontier Province, India, to Malik on headed notepaper, providing a letter of recommendation; an Indian government permit to send messages from government telegraph offices in India to 'Newsweek', New York, with charges paid by the recipient; and a newspaper clipping regarding Malik's marriage to an American woman - Hope Spingarn of Amenia, NY - in Bombay in 1957. The Roosevelt letter with a horizontal mailing crease to the centre and a diagonal crease just below the signature is otherwise in very good order. The other items are similarly in… Read More

London: Brentano's Ltd., 1928. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's original light-blue cloth with a vignette of a fairy and a lamb beneath a tree in silver to the upper board, and titles in silver to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with 4 full-page colour plates and numerous black and white head-pieces by Daphne Allen. A very good copy, the binding firm with a touch of cracking to the rear hinge. The contents with a contemporary owner's ink inscription to the front free endpaper, some occasional light foxing, a 1cm tear to the blank bottom margin of the contents page, and with one plate with a minor nick to the blank margin and standing very slightly proud of the textblock, are otherwise in very good order. Complete with the original dustwrapper, which has some chipping and loss to the spine ends and tips of the joints. Not price-clipped ("3/6 net" to the front flap). A scarce fairy story collection beautifully illustrated by the Edwardian child artist Daphne Allen (1899-1985),… Read More

[Original photographs]., [1946].. Sixty-six gelatin silver print photographs relating to refugees residing in LĂĽbeck in 1946, following the Second World War. The largest measuring 17 x 13cm, with some smaller. All uncaptioned but with a contemporary envelope bearing a British military government stamp dated 18th July 1946 and reference "512 P DET" and additional manuscript tag "508 DET LĂśBECK". Condition is very good indeed. An unusual group of photographs, apparently originating from the British administration in Germany during the immediate post-war period, depicting the experiences of refugees from the former eastern territories of Germany, annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union following the end of the war, displaced and now residing in LĂĽbeck. The result of Germany's eastern border being redrawn was a mass influx of displaced persons, predominantly into Schleswig-Holstein, causing an economic and humanitarian crisis which formed one of the biggest difficulties faced by Germany during the… Read More

[Germany]., [c.1880].. Set of twenty-five wooden cubes with six dissected chromolithographed scenes depicting the story of Snow White and Seven Dwarves to each side, 21 x 21cm when assembled. Contained within its original wooden box with hinged lid and decorated paper sides (24 x 24cm). The set with with five chromolithographed guide sheets (the sixth mounted to the lid of the box). The cubes with a little wear to the edges and occasional minor loss to the paper image. The guide sheets with chips, tears and old paper repairs verso. The box with a horizontal crack to the lid and a little wear and chipping to the paper covering. Overall, however, the set remains in a good state preservation. A nice example. An attractive and uncommon late nineteenth-century block puzzle depicting the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Printed in vibrant chromolithography, the puzzle would have been manufactured in Germany to supply the burgeoning middle-class toy market of Europe and North America.

North Adelaide: Corkwood Press., 1998. Facsimile edition, limited to 400 copies, this being no. 246. Two volumes. Octavo. Publisher's original orange-red cloth with camel decoration and titles in blocked in black to the upper board and spine. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and drawings. The portfolio volume containing four folding maps. Small bookseller's label to the front pastedown of each volume. A very good set, the bindings square and firm with a touch of fading to the spines. The contents remain clean and crisp throughout. A nicely produced facsimile of Carnegie's account of his 1896-97 expedition exploring the interior deserts of Western Australia, during which he covered some 3,000 miles, leading a party of five men (including an Aboriginal guide, Warri) and nine camels from Coolgardie across the Gibson Desert and Great Sandy Desert to Hall's Creek in the East Kimberley and back again. The present edition reproduces the 1898 first edition published in London by C.… Read More

Roma: Studio di Folo, Piazza di Spagna., [c.1808].. First edition. Large folio (41 x 54cm). Lacking boards, but with remnants of calf spine, originally issued in plain paper wrappers (here with the upper wrapper present). Engraved title page followed by 31 plates of drawings by Vincenzo Camuccini, engraved by Giovanni Folo, after the original painting by Raphael. Printed on laid paper. WITH: Fifteen accomplished contemporary pen and ink drawings after the engravings (twelve in black ink, three in brown ink and wash), three of which are annotated in manuscript by a contemporary English hand. The majority measuring 38 x 55cm. Several sheets watermarked "Turkey Mills J. Whatman 1818". The book itself with its subsequent binding lacking, with the front wrapper detached and chipped at the edges, and with the last three plates coming loose. The contents with scattered foxing (a little heavier to a couple of plates), mostly confined to the margins, and with the odd minor mark. The additional drawings with… Read More

Birmingham: Pinkerton Press., 2002.. First edition. Publisher's original navy blue cloth with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs in black and white, plus a few in colour. 500pp. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm; the contents with a previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown and a couple of light marks to the edges of the textblock are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. The near fine, unclipped dustwrapper has just a few light scratches and a touch of shelf wear to the extremities. The history of Sunbeam cycles as told through their illustrated catalogues issued between 1887 and 1957.