Recent Arrivals from Paul Foster Books

Doubleday, Page and Company. New York. 1910. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION (U. S). IN PUBLISHERS DELUX LEATHER BINDING. Precedes the first U. K separate edition by 4 years. Oblong 8vo. (4.4 x 6.4 inches). 8 double leaves, uncut at the top, held in by a yellow cord tie. Each double leaf has a red rule and dot border, the text printed… Read more about this item

Macmillan and Co. London. 1897. FIRST HUGH THOMSON EDITION. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.4 inches). Illustrated with 40 full page line drawings. Publishers original burgundy cloth with decorative blind stamped floral design to both boards, the front board lettered and ruled in gilt. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Fore and lower page edges untrimmed. Aside from some browning to the… Read more about this item

Chapman & Hall, London. 1948. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.5 x 5.1 inches). With illustrations by Stuart Boyle. Publishers dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Dark blue marbled endpapers. Near fine copy with a neat previous owner's initials to the front blank endpaper, in a very good original dustwrapper with illustration by Boyle to the front panel. One… Read more about this item

Chapman & Hall, London. 1953. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8 x 5.3 inches). Publishers red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and illustration to the front board. very good copy with a neat previous owner's name to the front blank endpaper, in a very good original dustwrapper with an illustration to the front panel. A little toning and rubbing to… Read more about this item

Press of J. B. Lippincott. Philadelphia. USA. circa 1872. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (11 X 7.9 inches). 134pp. Illustrated with 16 fine albumen photographic prints of Locomotives, each mounted onto a card page with the technical details for that engine printed on the pages following each image, plus an engraved frontis of the Locomotive works building and several smaller wood engraved… Read more about this item

Chapman and Hall Ltd. London. 1938. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.1 inches). First state of the text with the incomplete number 8 in the publication date to the verso of the title page and the s present on the last word of page 88. A bright and clean copy in the red and black snakeskin design cloth with gilt… Read more about this item

Chapman & Hall Ltd. London 1942. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.2 inches). A little light foxing to the first few leaves otherwise a bright and clean copy in the publishers oatmeal cloth with dark blue lettering to the spine. In the original colour illustrated dustwrapper which has been price clipped to the front inner flap. Repair to the reverse… Read more about this item

Duckworth. London. 1930. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.9 inches). Frontispiece illustration after a drawing by Waugh, double-page route map, sketch map of Port Said and seven mono photographs on 3 leaves. Publishers purple cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Attractive illustrated bookplate to the front pastedown endpaper. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which has… Read more about this item

Duckworth. London. 1928. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.9 x 5.8 inches). Illustrated with 8 full page mono plates. Neat previous owner's initials to the front, and some offsetting to the other blank endpapers, otherwise a bright, tight and clean copy throughout. In publishers burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. A little rubbing to the very bottom of the spine… Read more about this item

Chapman and Hall Ltd. London. 1934. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.1 inches). Illustrated mono frontispiece of Hetton Abbey by J. D. M. Harvey. Some minor foxing, mainly to the fore edge and to the margins of a couple of dozen pages otherwise a very good copy in original black and red snakeskin patterned cloth, with the spine lettered in… Read more about this item

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1899. 8vo. (7.4 x 5 inches). Fifty second edition, completing two hundred and forty seventh thousand copies. Some light foxing to a few pages and previous owner neat printed bookplate on the blank pastedown endpaper otherwise clean and bright throughout. Bound in attractive amateur full tan morocco Arts and crafts style binding. Spine with five raised… Read more about this item

William Pickering. London. 1849. FIRST PICKERING EDITION. 8vo. (9 x 6 inches). xii, 354pp. A very good copy in an attractive contemporary leather binding by J. Wright of London. Full black morocco. Spine with raised bands, each ruled in gilt. Compartments double ruled, fully decorated and lettered in gilt. Elaborate gilt panelled decoration on boards. Gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers.… Read more about this item

Baynard Press. London. 1940. FIRST EDITION. Printed stapled wraps. 16pp. Some rusting to the staples and minor creasing to the page corners and edges. Browning and spotting to the wraps mean that overall this is just a good example of this fragile pamphlet. -------- Printing and the mind of Man. No.424. -- The Lion`s Voice."If the Gettysburg address is one… Read more about this item

Alfred A Knopf. New York. 1930. FIRST EDITION. 1st printing. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.4 inches). viii,268pp. A bright clean copy internally in the publishers original grey cloth with Falcon design in black to the front board, within a single black ruled line border. Blue and black lettering and symmetrical design to the spine. Publishers Borzoi books logo on rear board… Read more about this item

Faber & Faber. London. 1965. FIRST EDITION. 1st impression. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.7 inches). A little foxing to the blank endpapers otherwise generally a clean, bright copy. Red cloth with gilt ruled lines and lettering to the spine. The gilt is bright and gleaming. In a very good original colour dustwrapper. Spine a little darkened. Some light stains to the… Read more about this item

Methuen & Co. London. 1929. EARLY PRINTING. Ninth edition. 8vo. Same format as the first edition of 1926. Illustrated throughout with wonderful line drawings by E. H. Shepard. Decorative map endpapers printed in black on green paper. Top edge gilt. A very good, bright copy in the original green cloth, with gilt stamped decorations of Christopher Robin and Pooh to… Read more about this item

Methuen & Co. Ltd. London. 1925. EARLY PRINTING. Eleventh edition. 8vo. The same format as the 1924 First edition, with the addition of decorative endpapers. This is a fine copy of Milne's first children's book in the publishers blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Top edge gilt. The book looks unread. In a very good original illustrated… Read more about this item

Wm. Miller. Albemarle Street. London. 1807. FIRST EDITION. Oblong 8vo. (7 x 8.8 inches). Title page with hand coloured vignette and 16 full page hand coloured plates by Atkinson (one folding), each with an accompanying page of text opposite. The text consists of excerpts from James Beresford's The Miseries of human life (1806). An uncut copy in the original brown… Read more about this item

The Casanova Society. London. 1925. LIMITED EDITION. 8vo. One of 50 copies, this out of series but inscribed by the author to, and with two letters to, the writer Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts (known as Ephesian) and with his bookplate to the front pastedown endpaper. Two letters relating to black masses are loosely inserted, one is hand written and simply… Read more about this item

F. Lewis Ltd. Leigh-on-sea, Essex. 1946. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo. (10.6 x 7.3 inches). 44pp. Illustrated with 12 striking full page wood engraved plates, comprising the title, the ten commandments and the greatest commandment, by Braby. Limited edition of 1025 copies on mould made paper, with only 1000 for sale. Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in attractive full red polished calf… Read more about this item