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

Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London: William Collins, Queen's Printer., 1864. First edition thus. Thick quarto. Contemporary half red morocco over red pebble-grained cloth boards, ruled in gilt. The spine with five raised bands, ruled in gilt and with titles in gilt. All edges gilt. Additional engraved title page and frontispiece portrait. Illustrated with 14 fine full-page engravings after the work of artists including Henry Fuseli, Joshua Reynolds, Robert Smirke, and John Opie, each with its original tissue-guard. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little cracking to the front hinge and rubbing to the spine, corners and board edges. The contents with a previous owner's pencil inscription to the front free endpaper, foxing to the preliminary pages (heavier to the half-title, title pages and frontispiece) and some occasional light foxing elsewhere are otherwise in very good order throughout. The plates remain clean and sharp. An attractive edition of Shakespeare's plays, with… Read More

London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1939.. First edition, second printing (Geneva); First edition, first printing (King Charles). Both works signed by the illustrator. Octavo. Publisher's original blue and red cloth respectively, with titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrappers. Top edges gilt. Each work with an additional illustrated title page and numerous black and white plates and in-text drawings by Feliks Topolski. Both works are in fine condition, the bindings square and tight; the contents remaining immaculately clean and crisp throughout. Complete with the original near-fine dustwrappers which have some minor marking and edge-wear, a 1cm tear to the head of the rear panel of King Charles, and a few small nicks to the head of the rear panel of Geneva. Not price-clipped (7s 6d net to the front flaps). Both works signed by Feliks Topolski in black ink on the half-title page.These two plays by Shaw, one a topical satire on Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco, the other a Restoration comedy, formed one of… Read More

London: Grant Richards., 1901.. Third edition, but first thus "newly revised", with two new prefaces published here for the first time. Signed and inscribed by the author. Octavo. Publisher's original red cloth with titles in gilt to the spine. Top edge gilt. A very good copy, the binding square and secure with a little cracking to the paper covering the front hinge and between pp.80-81, a 1cm nick to the head of the spine, dulling to the spine, and a little marking to the boards. The contents with a few spots of toning to the endpapers are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. Signed and inscribed by George Bernard Shaw in black ink on the half-title page: "To Lily Thicknesse / from G. B. S. / 4th March 1902". For this edition, Shaw has revised the text and added two new prefaces: "The Admirable Bashville", a dramatisation of the novel, and the essay "Note on Modern Prizefighting".The recipient of the present copy, Lily Thicknesse (1864-1952), was a poet and novelist who contributed to… Read More

[London]: King Mob., [2013]. First edition. Signed by Iain Sinclair. Newspaper format (37 x 30cm). 48pp. Profusely illustrated throughout with colour and black and white film-stills. A near fine copy; the rear cover with a minor abrasion to the foot, the contents remaining clean and crisp throughout. Signed by Ian Sinclair in black ink to the foot of the front cover. A programme for the writer and filmmaker, best known his work rooted in London's psychogeography, Iain Sinclair's 70x70 film season at Hackney Picturehouse. Curated to mark his seventieth birthday, Sinclair nominated seventy films (one for each year survived), chosen in conversation with Paul Smith and Chris Petit. He describes the process thus: "We had been playing with the idea of an anti-pantheon, a difficult thing to define. These were films that struck us as having energy, attack, context – but which stood outside the usual registers of excellence, either as achieved works of art or as smartly delivered industrial product. But the… Read More

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press., 1971.. Third printing. Publisher's original pictorial card wrappers. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. xxii, 364pp. WITH: 2pp. typed copy letter to Snowden from Christopher Fyfe; 3pp. manuscript ink letter from Snowden in reply, signed on the final page, on Howard University headed notepaper; three contemporary reviews of the book sent by Snowden to Fyfe (as per his letter); and three small sheets of pencil notes/page numbers by Fyfe concerning the book, all loosely laid in. A good copy, the binding firm with fading and creasing to the spine and a little wear to the extremities. The contents remain in very good order and clean throughout. The seminal work by the American historian and Distinguished Professor emeritus of classics at Howard University, Frank M. Snowden Jr. (1911-2007), best known for his studies of the lives and experiences of black people in classical antiquity.The present copy contains… Read More

Hobart, Tasmania: Melanie Publications., 1982. Facsimile edition, limited to 250 copies - this copy one of 25 copies in full golden kangaroo hide by Peter Marsh, Dove Bindery, Melbourne. Presentation copy, inscribed as such in blue ink on the limitation page and further inscribed by the editor P. Benson Walker on the front endpaper: "To Dot - / with my best wishes / P. Benson Walker / 21 July '83". Octavo. The boards ruled in gilt with embossed map of Tasmania to the upper board; the spine with five raised bands and titles in gilt. Marbled endpapers by Douglas Cockerell and Son, Cambridge. The text, printed on high-quality laid paper, comprising a full facsimile of the illustrated London edition of 1856, including the original 8 tinted plates, map and in-text wood-engraved illustrations. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight with a very minor scuff to one of the spine bands. The contents with the odd minor mark to the edges of the textblock and a tiny nick to the margin of one of the front… Read More