Arabic Calligraphy in Manuscripts
Published by King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Riyadh, 1986. Tall 4to.pp 267.English text, 151 Full page colour plates.Some very minor bumping to corners.Quality softcover. Very Good copy.
BOOK ARTS
Asia: a Bibliography for Secondary Schools. Volume II. East Asia; China & Japan
Canberra, Australian Government Printing Service, 1976. Original card cover. pp.x + 80. spine sunned else very good.
COLLECTING THE NEW NATURALISTS.
William Collins,London, 2015. 4to.pp.352, many colour illustrations.Pictoial laminated boards, no dust wrapper as issued. Fine New hardcover,
CAXTON: England's First Publisher
London, Published by Osprey, 1976. 8vo. pp. xii+220, frontispiece, with black & white illustrations notes, index lower front bottom corner bumped. Original pale green cloth, hardcover the spine blocked in red titled in gilt.In very good dustwrapper.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMIC BOOKS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS
California, Published by Greenwood, 2010. 4to Two Volumes. Volume One;xxii + 375 with black & white illustrations. Volume Two; pp.xix +377 with black & white illustrations. original laminated pictorial hardcovers, no dust wrappers as issued. A Fine Set.
A HISTORY OF LONGMANS AND THEIR BOOKS 1724-1990. Longevity in Publishing.
The British Library & Oak Knoll Press , London, 2008. 4to.pp.xii+ 587. Very Good hardcover in Very Good dust wrapper. ISBN 9780712348737 'Early nineteenth-century Longman authors included William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, and Sir Walter Scott, and by the middle of the century they had become a publishing "Leviathan." Late Victorian.....
THE LIBRARY. A World History.
London, Thames & Hudson, 2013. 4to. pp.320 + 392 Illustrations,mostly in colour. Black cloth hardcover, blocked in gilt, in pictorial dustrapper. Fine Copy, As new in original publishers shrink wrap.
THE SEVEN LIVES OF JOHN MURRAY.The Story of a Publishing Diary.
John Murray,London, 2008. 8vo.pp.xiv+370 index, illustrations, very good hardcover in very Good dust wrapper. ISBN 9780719565328 For more than 200 years John Murray has published challenging and innovative books This is the gripping history of the venerable publishing housenand behind its scenes from Byrons memoirs to Jane Austens clipped manner.....
TOWARDS TODAYS BOOK,
Farrand Press, London, 1997. 4to.pp.xi + 233 + 82 illustrations, Original red cloth in pictorial dust wrapper, tipped in errata slips.A fine copy in fine dust wrapper.
JUST MY TYPE. A Book About Fonts.
London, Profile Books, 2010. First Edition. 8vo. pp.352. index. Illustrated in black & white. Original blue cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Fine.
A BOOK FOR COOKS. 101 Classic Cookbooks.
Merrell, London & New York, 2012. 4to.pp.224. profusely illustrated throughout in colour and black and white,index.bibliography. Original decorated, pictorial hardcover, no dust wrapper as issued. A gorgeous collection of 101 cook books selected by the author and illustrated and described. At the end there are a number of cooks who.....
PALM LEAF AND PAPER ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPTS OF INDIA AND SOUTH EAST ASIA.
Published by The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1982. 4to,pp.96 with black & white nd colour illustrations + a map,A Very Good Copy in a quality pictorial softcover binding. ISBN 0724100857.
SLIP-SHOD SIBYLS. Recognition, Rejection and The Woman Poet.
Viking,London, 1995. 8vo.pp.xxiv + 517. Illustrations. a small mark on the foredge.else Very Good hardcover in Very Good protected dust jacket. In this provoctative collection Greer argues that the problem is not that women who wrote poetry before 1900 were ignored but that, when most women were unable to express.....
THE FORGERS SHADOW.How forgery changed the course of literature.
Picador,London,2002. 8vo.pp.x + 351.some pale tanning to foredges else Very good in original hardcover in Very good dust jacket. James Macpherson constantly at war with Samuel Johnson,who described him as a "ruffian"and an imposter for editing (or writing or indeed forging) the lost epics of a third century celtic bard.....
British Botanical & Horticultural Literature Before 1800. Comprising a History & Bibliography of Botanical & Horticultural Books Printed in England, Scotland and Ireland from The Earliest Times until 1800.
Oxford University Press, London, 1975. Three Volumes 4to. Colour & black & white plates and illustrations. A Very Good Set in a slightly scuffed slipcase. I Contains the original receipt from OUP for 70 pounds made out to the Dowager Countess of Crawford & Balcarres,Fife, Scotland. Very Heavy will require.....
THE BOOK COVER IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC.
Cologne, Taschen, 2015. In English and German parallel text.4to. pp.450. with hundreds of illustrations mostly in colour. Original decorated pictorial hardcover. Fine as new copy in original publishers shrink wrap. Book Covers in the Weimar Republic assembles 1,000 of the most striking examples from this golden age.....
A Catalogue of Select Books from the Ingleton Collection. A Library Of Antarctica & Australiana Bibliography & Cartography Hydrography & Nautica New Zealand & Pacific Voyages Travels.
Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1971. Royal 8vo. pp.vi + 982 with 2 colour plates, index, The published edition of the four catalogues which were issued in 1971, 1972, 1975 and 1977 with a foreword and afterword by Geoffrey Ingleton. The catalogues consist of 14,303 books. Original red cloth hardcover titled.....
A GUIDE TO THE HISTORY OF QUEENSLAND. A Bibliographic Survey Of Selected Resources In Queensland History.
Brisbane, Library Board of Queensland, 1985. 4to. pp.x + 241.Author,Title & Subject indexes. Original stiff quality pictorial wrappers. Very Good.
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DR ROBERT HOOKE.
Oxford ,The Clarendon Press, 1960. 4to.pp.xxiv + 116+ 12 plates and other illustrations.original cloth boards and red title label on spine.A Very Good hardcover in Very Good dust wrapper.
THE MARK TWAIN ENCYCLOPEDIA.
Garland, New York & London, 1993. 4to.pp.xxx + 848.original quarter cloth hardcover,no dust wrapper as issued spine a little rubbed.
RANDOLPH CALDECOTT. The Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing.
Francis Foster Books, New York,2013. 4to.pp.64.bibliograpy, Profusely illustrated . Fine in Fine dust wrapper.
THE BOOK OF LOVE . In Search of Kamasutra.
Atlantic Books, London,, 2007. 8vo.pp.xvi + 267 + 8p.illustrations. Very Good hardcover in Vey Good dust wrapper. ISBN 9781843543732 This is the story of the West's discovery of the Kamasutra: how the last surviving manuscripts were tracked down in India by visionary Victorian scholars and painstakingly translated The Kamasutra was.....
VICTORIAN BOOK DESIGN AND COLOUR PRINTING.
London, faber & faber, 1963. 8vo. pp.xvi + 162 + 64 black & white plates and 8 colour plates 9 line drawings. The upper flap of the dust wrapper has been cut off. There is a sellotape mark to the rear of the dustwrapper.Internally Very Good. Original red cloth in.....
OBELISK A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press.
Liverpool University Press , Liverpool , 2007. First Edition ,8vo.pp.xiv + 494..illustrations. Complete Bibliography of The Obelisk Press.,biography of each of their Authos and an extensive biographical essay on Jack Kahane. Fine hardcover in Fine dust wrapper. ISBN 9781846311017 Any book banned in the UK or the USA coulfd be.....
GRAPHIC INK. The DC Comics Art of Frank Quitely.
DC Comics, New York, 2014. 4to.pp.350 Contains dozens of never before reprinted works plus many others.Original hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. A Fine Copy in the publishers shrink wrap. ISBN 9781401248406.