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,
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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 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.....
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for this Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures
London, . Published by William Collins. 2017. Royal 8vo. pp.xiv + 401 illustrations and maps in black & white, index. Black hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Fine copy. ' The search for this 'African El Dorado' cost the lives of many explorers but Timbuktu is rich beyond its legends. Home.....
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.....
84 CHARING CROSS ROAD.
London, Published by Andre Deutsch, 1971. 8vo. pp.viii + 96 Second Impression of the First English Edition. Original red cloth hardcover in pictorial price clipped dustwrapper. A Fine Copy. 84, Charing Cross Road is about the twenty-year correspondence between the author and Frank Doel, chief buyer of Marks.....
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.....
SAMUEL JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY : Selections from the 1755 Work that Defined the English Language
London, Published by Atlantic Books. 2004. First UK Edition. Royal 8vo. pp.vii + 646 , index, notes. Original hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Near Fine.
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.
THE FELTON ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA.
4to. pp. 440, illustrated in colour throughout. Index, Bibliography, Glossary. Original green cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Fine copy. Heavy May Require Extra Postage. “This scholarly publication ‘The Felton illuminated manuscripts in the National Gallery of Victoria’ celebrates the Gallery’s small but distinguished collection of illuminated manuscripts.....
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.....
A COMPANION TO CRIME FICTION.
Wiley Blackwell, 2010. Large thick 8vo.pp.xviii + 629 Original laminated pictorial hardcover. ISBN 978-1-4051-6765-9.
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