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J. Garnet, Windermere., N.D. [c 1870?]. Oblong octavo. Pictorial title-page, followed by twenty-six engraved views by W. Banks & Co, Edinburgh. Original red cloth decorated in gilt and blind. All edges gilt. The title on the front cover is given as ''Views in the English Lakes''. Some of the captions attribute the drawings from which come the engravings to T.L. Aspland.A few spots of foxing. Small spot to front cover. Covers slightly rubbed at corners. Very good indeed.
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Views of the English Lakes.
by LAKE DISTRICT. BANKS, W. (engraves).
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An Important Collection of Some of the Rarer Works of Charles Lamb together with some 'Lambiana'.
by LAMB, Charles. No author given.
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James Tregaskis, London., 1927. First edition. The 932nd Caxton Head Catalogue. Royal octavo. pp [ii], 21. Marbled wrappers with title-label. A bookseller's catalogue listing 24 items and with thirteen reproductions. 250 copies printed. Publisher's compliments slip loosely inserted.Spine a bit rubbed. Covers slightly creased at the edges. Very good.
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Lysis. A Dialogue of Plato
by LAMB, Lynton (illustrates). Matthews, K.A. (translates).
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Fulcrum Press, London., 1930. First thus. Octavo. Thirty-three pages of text, preceded by a three page introduction by the translator. Frontispiece, title-page design and six wood-engravings in the text by Lynton Lamb. Full black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. Top edge gilt. Patterned endpapers also designed by Lynton Lamb.Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. Near fine.
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The Slide Area - Scenes of Hollywood Life.
by LAMBERT, Gavin.
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Hamish Hamilton., 1959. First edition. Octavo. 223 pages. Still one of the best books written about the Hollywood scene. Puff on the dustwrapper (''How I wish I had written this book!'') by Christopher Isherwood.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the title-page: ''to Andrew (from Cheltendale) - Gavin Lambert''. The recipient is Andrew Wickham who worked in Los Angeles during the sixties finding musical talent for Warner Brothers. Lambert and Wickham were both alumni of Cheltenham College, so the reference in the inscription must be some kind of in-joke.Fine in fine dustwrapper with a hint of fading to the spine.
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The Leopard.
by LAMPEDUSA, Giuseppe di.
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Collins and Harvill Press, London., 1960. First U.K. edition. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. Octavo. 255 pages. Brilliantly filmed in 1963 by Visconti with Burt Lancaster in the main role.Very slight spotting of edges. Near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper slightly rubbed at tail of spine and only a hint of the usual fading to the spine.
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Classical Landscape with Figures.
by LANCASTER, Osbert.
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John Murray, London., 1947. First edition. Royal octavo. 224 pages. Illustrations by the author in colour and black-and-white.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the half-title page: ''To John and Myfanwy with love from Osbert.'' The recipients are his friends John Piper and his wife. Lancaster and Piper worked together on creating the centrepiece for the Festival Gardens on the South Bank in 1951 and it was through their association that Lancaster became a stage designer.Head and tail of spine slightly dusty. Very good indeed in very good indeed, slightly nicked dustwrapper.
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Progress at Pelvis Bay.
by LANCASTER, Osbert.
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John Murray, London., 1936. First edition. Octavo. pp vi, 68. Endpapers, covers and numerous black and white drawings, some full-page, by the author. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. The author's first book, a satire. Fine in very good marked dustwrapper a little defective at head of spine.
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The Pleasure Garden. An Illustrated History of British Gardening.
by LANCASTER, Osbert (illustrates). SCOTT-JAMES, Anne.
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John Murray, London., 1977. First edition. Quarto. 128 pages. Illustrated with drawings by Osbert Lancaster. Presentation copy from the husband-and-wife team, inscribed on the title-page: ''For Billa with much love from Anne and Osbert. 18.9.77''. Scott-James has made the inscription, while Lancaster has signed. The recipient is Wilhelmina ''Billa'' Harrod, the pioneer conservationist. Her bookplate, designed by Osbert Lancaster, is on the front pastedown. There is a famous story of John Betjeman meeting her at Sezincote, a country house in Gloucestershire, and almost immediately asking her to marry him, even though he was already engaged to her friend Penelope Chetwode. It was at the same house a few years later that Billa met Roy Harrod, the rising young economist, whom she did marry. Billa Harrod and John Betjeman remained close friends. The Old Rectory in Holt, Norfolk, to which the Harrods retired in 1963 became celebrated not least for the garden Billa created…
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London Night and Day. A Guide to Where the Other Books Don't Take You.
by LANCASTER, Osbert (illustrates). LAMBERT, Sam (compiles).
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The Architectural Press, London., 1950. First edition. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. Numerous black-and-white drawings by Osbert Lancaster. Colour pictorial wrappers. Small ownership signature on first blank. Spine a little rubbed. Small chip to tail of spine. Very good.
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Scene Changes.
by LANCASTER, Osbert.
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John Murray, London., 1978. First edition. Royal octavo. 91 pages. Verses in three sections: "Great Houses of Fiction Revisited", "The Englishman's Profound Horror" and "Afternoons with Baedeker" with the author's black-and-white cartoons and drawings, most double-page, some full-page, some in the text, and a short series of colour cartoons. Signed by the author on the title-page.Fine in near-fine dustwrapper lightly creased at edges.
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The Littlehampton Bequest.
by LANCASTER, Osbert. Strong, Roy (introduces).
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John Murray, London., 1973. First edition. Octavo. 95 pages. Endpapers and numerous full-page black and white illustrations by the author, these being of parodies of the styles of many artists, including David Hockney, John Bratby, George Stubbs, John Singer Sargent, Cecil Beaton, Mark Gertler, Millais, Munnings, Landseer, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Van Dyck, Hilliard, Augustus John etc. Buckram backed marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Comments on the portraits alternate with the portraits themselves.One of 75 numbered copies signed by the author, as well as, of course, by Lord Littlehampton.Free endpapers faintly tanned. Fine in fine printed acetate dustwrapper.
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Down to Earth.
by LANCASTER, Osbert (illustrates), SCOTT-JAMES, Anne.
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Michael Joseph, London., 1971. First edition. Octavo. 176 pages. Photographs by various people; drawings by Osbert Lancaster. A gardening book.Spine just faintly bruised at head and tail, otherwise fine in very good, slightly dusty, price-clipped dustwrapper designed by Lancaster.
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Greetings card.
by LANCASTER, Osbert.
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Printed for the artist., N.D. [c 1960?]. First edition. Folded card, the front panel printed with a view by Lancaster of his house, beneath which is printed, ''Leicester House, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon. From Karen and Osbert Lancaster''. The card is unused but has a few small marks on the front. Near fine.
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The Troubadour; Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches.
by LANDON, Letitia Elizabeth (under the initials L.E.L.).
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Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London., 1827. A new edition of a book originally published in 1825. Small octavo. pp [xii], 326. Period binding of half black calf with raised bands, gilt rules, leather title-label, marbled boards. Poems.Ownership signature on front free endpaper. Traces of bookplate removal on front pastedown. A little light foxing here and there. Covers generally rubbed. Title-label barely legible. Good. Internally very good.
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In the Forbidden Land. An Account of a Journey in Tibet, Capture by the Tibetan Authorities, Imprisonment, Torture, and Ultimate Release.
by LANDOR, A. Henry Savage.
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Heinemann, London., 1899. First single-volume edition, published a year after the two-volume edition. Royal octavo. pp xxviii, 501. Numerous illustrations, folding map. Pictorial cloth.Neat contemporary (1900) ownership signature on front free endpaper. Some light spotting to endpapers and prelims. Short tear to folding map repaired on the reverse. Bottom corner of front cover slightly bumped. Very good indeed. A bright copy.
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Accepted Addresses - From Divers Quarters Directed at the Compiler
by LANE, John (compiles). Various authors.
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John Lane, of the Bodley Head, London., 1897. First edition. 12mo. 18 pages. Wrappers.Poems poking fun at John Lane, Vigo St., Sir Thomas Bodley etc. Laid paper. Pages unopened.One of twenty-five copies printed for private circulation.Front cover slightly tanned. Small spot to rear cover. Very good indeed. Rare: Library Hub lists only two copies.
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The Book of Princes and Princesses
by LANG, Andrew (edits and introduces). LANG, Mrs.
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Longmans, Green, London., 1908. First edition. Octavo. pp xx, 361, [6] adverts. Seven page preface by Andrew Lang. Fourteen ''true'' stories, the first being that of Napoleon. Eight colour plates and numerous other illustrations by H.J. Ford. Original gilt pictorial blue cloth. All edges gilt.Free endpapers spotted. Ownership inscription on verso of front pastedown. Minor insect damage to lower edge of rear endpaper and pastedown. Very good indeed, bright copy.
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Perrault's Popular Tales.
by LANG, Andrew (edits).
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The Clarendon Press, Oxford., 1888. First edition. Octavo. pp cxvi, 153. Two frontispieces. The first half of the book comprises Lang's extensive notes on the Tales, the second being the French text of the eight contes taken from Bauer's 1697 edition. Quarter vellum with burgundy buckram sides, top edge gilt. Printed on Alton Mill laid paper. The book has the feel of a de luxe limited edition, but there is no limitation page.Some light foxing to prelims. Near fine.
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The Book of Romance.
by LANG, Andrew (edits). LANG, Mrs.
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Longmans, Green, London., 1902. First edition. Octavo. pp xiv, 384. 8 colour plates and numerous black-and-white drawings and endpapers by H.J. Ford. Original blue gilt pictorial cloth. All edges gilt. Stories of King Arthur, Roland, Robin Hood, etc.Fine. A lovely copy.
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The Brown Fairy Book.
by LANG, Andrew.
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Longmans, Green, London., 1904. First edition. Octavo. pp xiii, 350. Eight coloured plates and numerous black-and-white drawings by H.J. Ford. Bound by Brian Frost of Bath in full brown leather, raised bands, gilt decorated spine, gilt rules, outer and inner gilt dentelles, red and green title- and author-labels. All edges gilt. Batik endpapers. The original gilt decorated upper covers and spine have been preserved and mounted at the rear of the book. Fine.
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