Rare books from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

J.-M. Simon, Paris, 1966 Complete deck of 78 + 2 gilt edged cards, with glossy coloured fronts and glossy black backs with a central star burst decoration in gold, 6 3/5 x 3 inches. Limited and numbered 4145. Cards all in fine condition. In original red velvet lined box,with gold and black abstract design on outside. Preserved in original glassine paper and original grey patterned box (lid has red edges and strengthened corners, possibly non original). Together with 72 page booklet in French that has some very mild handling wear.. 1st Edition. No Binding. Fine/No Jacket.

[Roto-Sadaq, Geneva for] Editions du Seul Album Petite Planete 1 & Photography Magazine, France & London, 1956 First Edition. 192 printed pages of full-page duotone photographic illustrations. The 14 page, staple-bound, satirical, promotional, pamphlet bookmark -attached by the original short length of black cord- is present (some mild creasing at bottom and slight toning). 22.5 x 28.5 cm. Original blackcloth. Gold lettering on spine (slightly faded) and on upper cover. Very slightly worn at head of spine, but overall in very good condition. One of the most scarce, most important, & most sought after titles in photographic literature of the late twentieth century, it is regarded as one of the most influential and groundbreaking photo-books. Published in 1956, its visual energy captured the rough-and-tumble streets of New York, a city Klein once described as "the world capital of anguish", like no photo-book had done before or since. Robert Capa famously declared that if your… Read More

Leadenhalle Presse, 1884 146, [18] printed pages, many unopened. Illustrations. Printed in Pearl type on bank note paper of the highest quality. At head of title: Midget folio .The miniature book is embedded in the hollowed out blank leaves at the end of the enlarged edition. The larger book has 94 printed pages- some very occasional spotting, four blank leaves with contemporaneous newspaper cuttings pasted in (Mark Twain with the Typothetae, c. 1886), followed by 2 pages of publisher's adverts. 12 x 15 cm, original vellum, lacking ties; on the upper cover, below the gilt titling is the helpful advice "In unlocking this Forme see that the QUADS do not drop out" (priced "7/6"). The miniature book is 27 x 40 mm. Original gilt titled vellum (priced "2/6")with long silk ties (all but one intact). Quads are small metal blanks used by printers to fill up any gaps. The text contains English and American printer's jokes from the Paper and Printing Trades Journal, such as, Figures won't lie! Yes they will if… Read More

Paris, chez Boulanger, rue du Petit Pont, mm de M. Petit, à l'image N. Dame., 1784 62pp. (pp. 21-44 bound after pp.45), 10 blank. Engraved title-page (drapery held by cupids in front of a column on which another cupid writes: Drawn and engraved by Queverdo). 2 folding engraved calendars. 12 engraved copper plates bearing the names of the months of the year at the top and the following legends at the bottom: Janvier, La bonne année sans politique. Février, Le Seigneur bienfaisant. Mars, Les Rivaux blessés. Avril, La Dame bienfaisante. Mai, Le Mai ou la fête de la dame du château. Juin, La Rosière ou le prix de la vertu. Juillet, L'Incendie. Août, La Récompense du bon cultivateur. Septembre, Braconnier. Octobre, Les Vendanges. Novembre, La double récompense. Décembre, Le Retour du mari. Text composed of songs whose title is the same as the legend of each engraving. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Inner gilt dentelles. 1789 remarks for the present year pasted onto verso of title. 10 blank… Read More

Hogarth Press, 1922 1922 second impression, one of 2,000 copies. With this book (her 6th), the decision was taken to establish the Hogarth Press as a business concern & in future to publish all Virginia Woolf s works. Inscribed in ink on front free endpaper "Gabriel Atkin from S.S. [Siegfried Sassoon] June 1923 Antibes". Page 154 "Children ran across the road" underlined in pencil, with marginal annotation "At 10pm" [unknown contemporary hand]. Light foxing throughout. 14 x 19.5 cm. Original crocus-yellow cloth boards (handling marks and a few creases). Top edges trimmed, others partially trimmed. Cream printed label at head of spine (slightly browned and rubbed). Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) poet and novelist, best known for antiwar poetry, such as The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918). Sassoon conveyed the brutality of war with shocking realism. Twice wounded, he received the Military Cross for bravery, but he wrote of hurling it into the River Mersey. He underwent psychiatric treatment… Read More

T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1937 First edition in English of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. xiii, 120 printed pages. No ownership marks nor inscriptions. Pages evenly toned; some offsetting on facing, preliminary blank leaves and rear free endpaper. 14 x 21 cm. Original tan paper covers (not price clipped), with black lettering on the spine and upper cover. Spine creased and torn at the foot of the spine (revealing original sewn and glued gatherings). Some light handling marks and very slight fading. No repairs. First editions are rare. Martin Buber's I and Thou [Ich und Du] was to have served as a prolegomenon to his five-volume project, (a project Buber abandoned) & has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged it as a landmark influence on their work. Buber tried to make religious belief and practice perspicacious in light of a general philosophical anthropology. ("The close association of the relation to God with… Read More

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1869 Two volumes; (vol. 1) xx, 332 pp.; (vol. 2) xiv, [ii], 272 printed pages. with the 30-page publisher's catalogue at the end of vol. 2, 2 folding maps [identical, as is correct]; 11 plates, illustrations in text (Vol. 1: 37 engraved illustrations, including frontispiece portrait, 5 plates, and 31 illustrations in text; one lithographic folding map by James Wyld. Vol. 2: 12 engraved illustrations, including frontispiece, 4 plates, and 7 illustrations in text; one lithographic folding map by James Wyld). Contemporary owner's signature and inscriptions on front paste-down endpapers, verso of front free endpaper and on half-title of vol. 2. (Charles Payton, 3 Crompton Road, Vechells, Birmingham. January 1882). Light foxing on preliminary and final leaves and occasionally throughout. 22 x 15 cm. Original publisher's pictorial purple cloth gilt, dark green endpapers. Spines slightly faded and rubbed with a little light historic staining; wear to head and tail of spines; corners… Read More

xii, 411 printed pages (slight age-toning and somedges very slightly smoke darkened), 22 pages publisher's adverts at back. Frontispiece & 20 tinted lithographic plates (including 3 of Hawaii). Extra illustrated with 4 original initialled pen and ink sketches by Robert Elwes (1819-78) bound in (Brazilian jungle, Kilauea -Hawaii, Manilla and Shanghai junks). All edges gilt. Some sporadic foxing. Title page, preliminaries and some plates slightly thumbed. 17 x 24.5 cm. Rebound in contemporary style half calf with raised bands, black morocco gilt lettered label & gilt tooling. 17 x 24.5 cm. Rebound in contemporary style half calf with raised bands, black morocco gilt lettered label & gilt tooling. Elwes, aged 28, left England on 20 March 1848 on board Eclipse on a voyage around the world that took two years and three months, on 10 different ships, sketching many scenes on his way. He arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from Tenerife in 30 days. He explored Brazil then sailed to Buenos Aires, Argentina. He… Read More

Samuel Rumstedt. Stockholm., 1812 Fjerde upplagan[4th edn].[2], 206pp. 32mo (gatherings in 8vo). Text in fine clarity and condition (some margins tightly trimmed). All edges speckled blue. Possibly original pink and yellow silk page-marker loosely inserted (frayed at each end). 88 x 53 mm. Contemporary quarter brown calf over embossed paper covered boards with single gilt fillet borders; spine lettered in gilt with 5 horizontal single lines (slightly rubbed, patch in upper back leather corner worn). OCLC186819777. WorldCat locates only a single copy worldwide (in Sweden). Not listed in Bondy, nor Spielmann, nor Welsh. Rumstedt published religious and spiritual books from 1812 to 1881. This is a very rare and early Swedish miniature book.. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Paris, de l Imprimerie Royale, 1740 2 volumes 4to: 1/ xvi, [12], 643 pages, 88 diagrams on [21] folded leaves of copper plate engravings :vignette text illustrations; 2/ xiv pp., [3]. Large engraved title page vignette, engraved head- & tailpieces, initials. 2, 120 pp., 222 pp. of astronomical tables, [1, unnumbered]. Illustrated with 5 folded leaves of copper plate engravings by Simmoneau. Total of 26 plates. All edges red. Wide margins. Some contemporary manuscript corrections to text. Contemporary hand-written shelf labels & new printed ex libris from Maraldiana library on front paste-down endpapers. Some old wormholes in margins not affecting text. Some leaves age toned & spotted. 21 x 26 cm. Full contemporary spotted calf, double blind-stamped fillet borders on covers. Spines with gilt tooled raised bands. Contrasting red and brown morocco lettering labels. Second volume with rubbed, faded contemporary shelf label. Compartments elaborately gilt tooled with curved pointille cornerpieces, 10 or 8… Read More

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode., 1946 Titus Groan. [London]: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. First edition in first issue dust jacket. Octavo. 438 pages. Publisher's dark red cloth, spine stamped in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket. Head and foot of spine very slightly pushed, very minor edgewear, gilt on spine darkened. Cream endpapers; ink owner s signature to the front free endpaper recto, penciled bookseller's notations beneath. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed; text block slightly toned along margins and edges. Dust jacket unclipped (15s), minor edgewear, chipping to head and foot of spine and corners with some losses, spine and upper edges sunned, somewhat rubbed; tear along front hinge separating the two panels, and another closed tear midway down the spine. Very good book with very good dust jacket. [Together with]: Gormenghast. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. First edition in first issue dust jacket. Octavo. 453, [1] pages. Publisher's red cloth, spine… Read More

Chromolithographed title-page and 47, [1] printed pages -including final leaf of adverts. All edges gilt. 53 x 87 mm. Original glossy black paper covers (some edges and bottom of spine extremely lightly rubbed) with gilt titling on front and publisher's advert on back. "Three pence" in gilt capitals printed down the spine. Contains "Useful Commercial Information" such as "Persons exposing fire-works [sic] for sale , are liable to a penalty of £5" & "Money won at billiards cannot be recovered" & "Ginger beer cannot be sold on Sundays, during the hours Beer-houses are prohibited from being open" or "Card-playing is not allowed in Public-houses; the law against it is very strict". Also contains "Comparative Nutriment of Food" that indicate from Dr Beaumont's tables the hours and minutes taken to digest various types of food including stewed oysters, boiled sago and venison. #2 in Kent's Royal Series. Prince Albert predeceased this almanac by three years and Queen Victoria was 45 years old in 1864. All… Read More

No date but 1788. 94 printed pages with printed twin black borders, 8 finely engraved plates with accompanying engraved titles and texts facing (lacking leaf A1 additional engraved titlepage,reading: Recueil de chansons des meilleurs auteurs, etc). Contemporary ink stamp to title-page. Bound with Le Secretaire des Dames et des Messieurs, same publisher, 48 printed pages on blue tinted paper, with similar borders and with some blank spaces for notes. Also bound with 12 page calendar at end. Bookseller's antique printed descriptions pasted to blank preliminary & frontispiece verso. Contemporary cornflower blue silk place-marker. Leather gilt stamped heraldic label of Sir David Lionel Salomons + similar label of Edward Hailstone on contemporary blue front endpapers. Imprint size 2.1 x 3.8 inches; binding 2.6 x 4.5 inches. Contemporary ruby red morocco binding (very slightly rubbed & corners very slightly bumped). Spine in compartments with scrolling gilt floral hand-tooling within double fillet and… Read More

16mo. 256 printed pages in Latin and French. Fleur-de-Lys and scrolling foliate head and tail pieces. Two decorated initials, the rest capitalized. 18 lines to each page. 7 point (smallest readable size). Linen and cotton rag laid paper as used in the 17th century. Earliest Houghton Heures de Cour is from 1682. Welsh, 3440, lists the earliest known copy as 1678. The earliest in WorldCat is a single copy dated 1677 (University of Virginia). This unrecorded copy predates all editions I can find. Very few small spots of browning. Some corners slightly creased. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt (rather worn away). Two near contemporary inscriptions on front paste-down & recto of blank preliminary facing page. Provenance: "M. St. H. H. [St. Helens or St. Helier family, possibly]" and "Samuel Salter [Master of Charterhouse, (1710-1778)], Alumnus Suttonianus Dono dedit Richardus Clarke eiusdem Scholae Alumnus 1729". A gift from Clarke to Salter, both men went to London Charterhouse (formerly owned by Thomas… Read More

18 printed pages in red and black. "Verbum Domini Manet in Aeternum" - the motto and circular engraved coats of arms of the Stationers' Company has the stamp duty marked paid at one pence. With the feasts, calendar, holidays, a table of the reign of British Kings and Queens, details of the current Royal Family,transfer days at the bank, eclipses of sun etc. May has some contemporary ink date amendments. Contemporary ink inscription on blank leaves at end, "Nat Jarman aged 44 years old when he died his pocket book now Elizabeth Blake's". Provenance: Nathaniel Jarman. 70 x 139 mm. Near miniature. Original marbled card covers. Sewn into contemporary red goatskin purse cover with serpentine front edge (very slightly rubbed at edges). Tan embossed scrolling dentelles on inner calf lining with expanding pockets back and front. Original brass escutcheons, each clasp with ringed circular motifs and key hole (some very slight damage to the catch). Six pieces of related early ephemera and a near contemporary… Read More