Search Results: Titles starting with D from Bath and West Books (PBFA)

London: Puffin Books for The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, 2021. Limited Ed. . Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blake, Quentin . No.807 of a Limited Numbered Edition of 1000. In mint condition as received directly from the publisher. Bound in full green cloth with a design in black and gold by Quentin Blake. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. 'Danny the Champion of the World' was first published in 1975. This Limited Edition was produced for The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in 2021 and includes early extracts from the book (including the first appearance of the BFG) as they were written by Roald Dahl himself. There is also a four-page story that didn't make it into the final version of the book. It is a bedtime story told by Danny's dad - a fantasy where father and son are taken in their caravan, by four white ghost horses, to meet Her Majesty the Queen. A fine, unread, copy. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders… Read More

London: George Bell and Sons, 1899. First Edition, First Impression First Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. First edition in the rare dust jacket. Binding and dust jacket designed by Laurence Housman. xxiii, 270pp. Numerous plates and illustrations including tissue-guarded photogravures. Buff paper jacket with Housman's design in dark blue to front and spine. General wear and soiling to jacket including offsetting from cloth binding, tanning to spine and top edges, chips to edges and corners, short tears to flap joints and across middle of spine, small hole to front, and losses to spine tips which were previously reinforced with tape. Binding of dark blue cloth with matching Housman design in gilt to upper board and spine: generally clean and bright with some wear, rubbing and bumping. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Light age-toning to paper. Light spotting to endpapers. Contents clean. Gutter cracked in several places and two plates detached but… Read More

Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2011. Softcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover copy in excellent condition. Covers clean and bright with uncreased spine and minimal rubbing. Previous owner's blind stamp to bottom corner of title page but contents clean and white without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. x, 130 pp. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

Holp Shuppan / The Bodley Head, 1981. First Edition Thus . Printed Card Wrappers. Fine. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Card slipcase containing two facsimile editions reproduced from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books in Toronto Public Library. Printed card wrappers; fold-over textured card wallets; slipcase. 'The Death and Burial of Cock Robin' is unpaginated with reproductions of the original hand-coloured plates throughout. The Moving Adventures of Old Dame Trot and Her Comical Cat is unpaginated with reproductions of the original uncoloured plates throughout. Two lovely little volumes in wallets and slipcase, all of which are in fine condition with light marking to the back of the slipcase. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. The slipcase bears the name of publisher The Bodley Head but publication details at the back of the books state Published by Holp Shuppan, Publishers, Tokyo 1981. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured. Read More

London: The Hakluyt Society , 1999. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A fine copy in fine unclipped dust jacket. Clean, crisp, tight and bright without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. Appears as new and unread. xvi, 341 pp. 2 colour and 14 b/w plates + 3 maps + 8 line drawings. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Heavy/oversize book. U.K. postage at default charge but overseas buyers may be asked for a little extra. Enquiries welcome. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

London: Folio Society, 2021. First Edition, Second Impression Second Printing. Hardcover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Pasternak, Leonid. New copy in the publisher's eco-wrapping (not shrink wrap), as received directly from The Folio Society. Unwrapped to check condition and to photograph, then rewrapped. First edition, second impression of this Folio Society collector's edition. This Folio Society production of 'Doctor Zhivago' brings together the creative brilliance of three generations of the Pasternak family for the first time. Commissioned exclusively for Folio, the author's nephew, Nicolas Pasternak Slater, wrote what is coming to be regarded as the pre-eminent translation of Boris Pasternak's novel. The author's niece, literary critic Ann Pasternak Slater, has crafted an absorbing introduction that examines the remarkable poetic structure of the book, while the eloquent poems of the novel's protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, are presented in English with… Read More

London / Manchester: Blackie & Son Limited / Sherratt & Hughes, 1900. First Edition . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Crane, Walter. First edition dated 1900. Retold by Judge Edward Abbott Parry and illustrated by Walter Crane. xii, 245 pp + 2 p publisher's ads. Colour frontispiece and 10 other colour plates, colour title page, 19 half-page b/w illustrations, all as called for. Attractively bound in terracotta cloth with lettering and decoration to spine and both boards. Fore and bottom page edges untrimmed/deckle. Binding a little worn, corners rubbed, spine tips pushed and rubbed. Ex Libris book plate and some markings to front endpapers, spotting to front and back eps. Light age-toning to paper. Toning and spotting to page edges, creeping onto page margins in places. Contents o/w clean with only a few minor marks. Overall a good copy of this delightfully illustrated book. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Additional photos can be sent… Read More

Zagreb, Croatia: Amaranthine Books, 2019. Limited . Hardcover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Klemens, Vedran . Sumptuous limited edition of Bram Stoker's classic 19th-century vampire novel, Dracula. Published by the Croatian fine press, Amaranthine Books, in a limitation of 666 copies, this being #561. Removed from publisher's shrink wrap but as new o/w and will be sent in publisher's protective packaging. Draped in blood red, velvet-like fabric, featuring glow-in-the-dark covers, spine and illustrations; housed in a coffin-like slipcase with wood motif, and including a stake-shaped bookmark for protection, everything about this unique edition screams vampire. To complete the experience, there are sixteen coloured and glow-in-the-dark illustrations by Vedran Klemens; black, bat-themed endpapers; black page edges; small illustrations for every entry type and several hidden design details. 666 pages plus afterword. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.… Read More

London: The Folio Society, 2022. First Edition, Second Impression Second Printing. Hardcover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Barrett, Angela. This stunning Folio Society collector's edition of Dracula is a fitting tribute to a gothic masterpiece. Introduction by John Banville. Lavishly illustrated by Angela Barrett with 15 intensely atmospheric colour plates, a set of elaborate hand-drawn borders in gold, black and white, plus 10 black-and-white tailpieces. The illustrations accentuate the sense of foreboding and despair in Stoker's narrative, while the metallic-blocked binding and blood-red marbling on the slipcase complete this sumptuous edition of the classic 19th-century horror. 10" x 6¾". Printed on Abbey Wove paper at Graphicom, Vicenza, Italy. Top page edges coloured red. Black ribbon marker. New copy as received directly from The Folio Society. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heavy/oversize book. U.K. postage at default charge but… Read More

Sangrail Press, 2024. Limited Edition . Printed Card Wrappers. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Edward, Les; Gosling, Sharon. #42 of a limited edition of only 250 copies, with a signed and numbered print by Sharon Gosling laid in. The book also features a specially commissioned frontispiece illustration by the World Fantasy Award-winning artist, Les Edwards. This is a new and unread copy as received directly from the publisher. "Their combined time on screen is barely more than a minute. They remain entirely silent. Their names do not appear in the credits. And yet, for any viewer of Tod Browning's classic 1931 film it is impossible to deny the impact of Dorothy Tree, Geraldine Dvorak and Cornelia Thaw as the brides of Dracula. This book is a celebration of those characters, and the lives and careers of the forgotten actresses who brought them to (undead) life. With rediscovered interview quotes, more than 60 rare photos and illustrations, and new research: never… Read More

London: The Piccadilly Gallery Ltd; Hartnoll & Eyre Ltd, 1971. First Edition . Printed Card Wrappers. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Burne-Jones, Edward. Catalogue to accompany the exhibition at the gallery of Hartnoll & Eyre, in June 1971. Terracotta card wraps. Contents: Biographical Details of Burne-Jones; details of the 39 exhibits, most of which are illustrated here. We have the remaining stock of these exhibition catalogues, all in fine condition. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

San Francisco, CA. First Edition . Printed Card Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red card wrappers with reproduction of artist's initials to front. 25 b/w drawings and 10 poems by Hassel Smith. Introduction by Mag Dimond, dated 1999. No publication details stated but this was the only edition. Minor handling wear to wraps but o/w clean, bright and tight. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hassel Smith (1915-2007) was an American painter and an influential teacher at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. He is best known for his experiments with calligraphic imagery and fragmented geometry, as well as for the way he incorporated his love of jazz onto the canvas. "To put it very briefly," Smith once said, "as far as I'm concerned I'm bringing the painting into much closer relation with music, the dance with verse, and the various discursive art forms in which rhythmic sequences play a role." All orders… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Complete set of three first edition volumes. Part First dated 1904; 1st edition, 2nd issue of 1000 copies. Part Second dated 1906; 1st edition, second state of 1500. Part Third dated 1908; 1st edition, 1st impression of 1500. In both First and Second Parts, [a]3 is a cancel, as called for. Uniformly bound in publisher's olive-green cloth blocked in gold with TH monogram medallion to upper board, and titling in gold to spine. Deckle edges. Single leaf of publisher's ads to Parts First and Second. Good copies in original cloth with light wear, faded spines, and a few bumped corners. Age-toning, spotting and dust soiling to page edges and onto top margins in some places. Spotting to eps and prelims and occasional minor spotting to contents. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Heavy/oversize set. U.K. postage at default charge but overseas buyers may be… Read More