By Appointment To H.R.H. The Duke Of Edinburgh Booksellers


Est. 1978


HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our lovely customers.


Thank you for your custom, loyalty, enthusiasm and to many for visiting our London warehouse (open every weekday 9-5pm).


Our favourites to highlight this month include Transport and Great Britain categories and titles A Girl Aboard the Titanic (76374), Tony Husband’s dementia cartoon book Take Care, Son (76595), Michael Spicer’s Diaries (76296), London’s railway stations (76451), Thomas Gray’s A Tour of the English Lakes (76455), the Whisky Rock ‘ice cube’ Pack (76276), Dickens On Theatre (76516), the Lovejoy original mysteries, fiction from Sarah Dunant and Alexander McCall Smith, the Healthy Halogen Cookbook (76569 – our Steve is a big fan), The Fine Art of Small Talk (76556), Anne Boleyn (76463) to King Charles II (76577), and John Le Mesurier (76457) to Larry Lamb’s Mummy’s Boy (76584).


Thank you for your letters during the year and beautiful Christmas cards and good wishes to the Team.


All best wishes for 2015 - which will be my 30th year in the book business!


& the Team (plus cats)


76321 STORY OF JOAN OF ARC


by Maurice Boutet de Monvel


Our editor Annie owns a first English edition 1912 of this deluxe picture book which first appeared in 1896 with 45 atmospheric


colour illustrations. 19 year old Joan of Arc led armies into battle during the Hundred Years’ War and helped liberate France from English domination. One of the most famous children’s books ever published, this elegant work recounts Joan’s wondrous transformation from peasant girl to military commander to Christian saint and martyr. Maurice Boutet de Monvel’s simple but moving retelling features a series of imaginative illustrations that won the artist international fame. On 30th May, Joan confessed and received communion. Then she was conducted to the place of execution. When she reached the foot of the scaffold, she knelt down and invoked God, the Virgin and the Saints… All were weeping, ‘We have burned a saint’ cried the English, as they fled from the place. 44pp in softback, 5 x 8½” approx with new introduction.


£14.49 NOW £5


76720 JUST KIDS by Patti Smith


Famous for her hit single ‘Because the Night’ written by Bruce Springsteen, we are thrilled to have this Sunday Times bestseller. The book begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late 1960s and 70s, and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. It is a portrait of two young artists’


ascent, a prelude to fame. Young Patti’s partner and soul mate was Robert Michael Mapplethorpe, born 1946 who, ‘Having broken from his father, leaving his Catholic, commercial and military opinions behind in the wake of LSD and a commitment to live for art alone.’ The book is laced with references to Jim Morrison, Bob Dylan, poets and singers, art, photography and pornography. In 1979, Patti left New York City to begin a new life with Fred Sonic Smith but Robert was ever in her consciousness ‘The blue star in the constellation of my personal cosmology.’ Decorated with drawings and many photos, 306 page paperback. £8.99 NOW £4.50


www.bibliophilebooks.com 76669 GOLF COURSES OF


THE BRITISH ISLES by Bernard Darwin and illustrated by Harry Rountree


For collectors, this is one of the rarest and most sought-after books in the whole literature of golf, here reproduced in


glamorous facsimile hardback. Harry Rountree’s beautiful watercolour images are produced in full page, black and white and colour of such places as Sunningdale, Stoke Poges, Blackheath, Wimbledon Common, Sandwich, Deal, Eastbourne, Ashdown Forest, Westward Ho!, Bude, Skegness, Formby, Fixby, to North Berwick, Newcastle and Porthcawl. Organised geographically from London courses through Kent and Sussex, East Anglia, the West, Cheshire and Lancashire, Yorkshire and the Midlands, Oxford and Cambridge, St. Andrews, Fife and Forfarshire, East Lothian and Edinburgh, West of Scotland, Ireland and Wales, it is a celebration of the glorious golfing properties our country offers. Here are sand and heather, fir trees, a hidden gold mine (literally) and because the author Bernard Darwin’s soul was uniquely at one with the game of golf, the courses themselves were at one with nature. For all nostalgic collectors of fine books, here is Britain as it was in 1910 when this edition was first published. Perfect facsimile reprint, 254 large pages. ONLY £6.50


76749 THE WEIMAR YEARS:


A Culture Cut Short by John Willett


The graphic design of this book is a photomontage with accompanying text to this exhilarating, maddening and finally, terrible age. The Weimar Republic established a distinctive new culture that sprang from the roots of the Modern


Movement. Tragically cut short by the rise of Hitler in 1933, it was a unique effort to bring into common use technical and artistic discoveries of the great pre-war pioneers, from the Cubists to Le Corbusier. This unprecedented ferment was closely related to the political currents of the time, and the strains of revolutionary and communist art that developed had a great influence on artists, writers, filmmakers, musicians, architects, photographers and designers. Many photographs, paintings, drawings and collages, books and film stills are here presented in an entirely novel way, as a cinematic montage of images. For those interested in Brecht, Piscator, Grosz and others from the 1930s. 160pp in outsize softback published by Thames & Hudson.


£16.95 NOW £7


76299 ARABIAN NIGHTS ILLUSTRATED


110,000 titles are published in the UK each year.


We pick the best! (and the overlooked...)


edited by Jeff Menges Edmund Dulac’s jewel-like colours, René Bull’s confident line works, Charles Folkard’s magic, Thomas Mackenzie’s Art Deco 1920s brushstrokes, Louis Rhead’s exquisite woodcuts, Charles Robinson’s gorgeous decorations to Maxfield Parrish’s otherworldly spellbinding illustrations - spanning the decades between the 1860s and the 1920s, here is the Golden Age of illustration. According to legend, a resourceful bride avoided execution by captivating her sultan husband with a series of fantastic tales and after 1001 nights, he could not bear to part with his storyteller. More than a thousand years later, readers continue to fall under the spell of the romantic adventures known as The Arabian


Nights. This original collection features rare and unusual illustrations never collected in one volume before, inspired by the traditional tales of Sinbad, Aladdin, Ali Baba, princes and fairies, sultans, enchanted horses, black slaves and a mystical Persian world. For all collectors of rare books and art illustration. 144pp in paperback, 8½” x 11". £15.99 NOW £7


76693 LOST AND FOUND: My Story


by Lynda Bellingham The quick-witted, warm and much loved Lynda Bellingham recently passed away and in her intimate and moving autobiography she told the story of searching for her birth mother only to lose her again to Alzheimer’s. She was the quick- witted panellist on Loose Women and known for her appearances in Strictly Come Dancing and on


Calendar Girls in an acting career spanning more than 40 years. She was best known of course for her many years as the Oxo Mum. After a sexless first marriage that lasted only a year, Lynda fell head over heels in love with a fiery Italian who soon became her second husband. They had two boys together but while becoming the ‘nation’s mum’ on TV, the picture was very different at home. The emotional cost of this


ISSN 1478-064X Books with the CATALOGUE NO. 328 JAN 2015 WOW Factor!


76018 VELAZQUEZ: THE COMPLETE WORKS by José López-Rey and Odile Delenda


Editor’s film review on


Light, colour and penetrating portraits from Spain's Golden Age luminary. Velázquez in Seville, Madrid and The Court, Meeting with Rubens and the First Journey to Italy, The Great Hall of the Buen Retiro Palace, Torre De La Parada, Dwarfs and Jesters, His Last Works in the Workshop are among the chapter headings of this ultimate monograph on one of the most admired European painters who ever lived. Manet called him "the greatest painter of all." Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that he painted 44 variations of it. Francis Bacon painted a study of his portrait of Pope Innocent X. Monet and Renoir, Corot and Courbet, Degas and Dalí - for so many champions of art history, the ultimate soundboard was, and remains, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599-1660). This updated catalogue raisonné brings together Velázquez's complete works, jaw-droppingly


reproduced in extra-large format, with a selection of enlarged details and brand new photography of recently restored paintings, achieved through the joint initiative of publishers Taschen and the Wildenstein Institute. The book's dazzling images are accompanied by insightful commentary from José López-Rey on Velázquez's interest in human life and his equal attention to all subjects, from an old woman frying eggs to a pope or king, as well as his commitment to colour and light, which would influence the Impressionists over two centuries later. The book is a critical biography and includes all his works including a number in relatively poor condition which were enlarged or cut down or folded to fit wall space. Over one third of his extant paintings have been exposed to pollution in the Prado's galleries as for example the Foul Ochre in the background of the portrait of the buffoon Pablo de Valladolid. At this huge size we marvel at the mastery of his portraiture, many with religious themes, eyes glowing and looking directly at us. The centre page fold-out is truly spectacular and features The Surrender of Breda (Las Lanzas) with the lances pointing heavenward and horse turning away. Queen Isobelle on horseback is one of the many reproduced in full page and also close up detail. His depictions of dogs, dwarfs, hunting, beautiful women in traditional dress, moustachioed men and clerics and of course children and clergymen are stunning to behold in detail. Concordance and bibliographies. Hardcover with fold-out, 11.4 x 15.6", 416 pages, satin page marker. Boxed with carry handle. New from Taschen. ONLY £100


76010 WILLIAM BLAKE: THE DRAWINGS FOR DANTE'S DIVINE


COMEDY by Sebastian Schütze and Maria Antonietta Terzoli A spectacularly heavyweight catalogue of the line engravings, colour drawings and illustrations for the magnum opus, Homer bearing the sword and his companions, with the ancient poets, Minos, Dante running from the three beasts plus other drawings to illustrate and introduce the connection between Blake and Dante. One of our favourites is Dante and Virgil in Hell, page 45 and the fold-out of The Circle of Gluttons, with Serberus. Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the Italian language. The epic poem describes Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, representing, on a deeper level, the soul's path towards salvation. In the last few years of his life, Romantic poet and artist William Blake (1757-1827) produced 102 illustrations for


Dante's masterwork, from pencil sketches to finished watercolours. Like Dante's sweeping poem, Blake's drawings range from scenes of infernal suffering to celestial light, from horrifying human disfigurement to the perfection of physical form. While faithful to the text, Blake also brought his own perspective to some of Dante's central themes. Today, Blake's illustrations, left in various stages of completion at the time of his death, are dispersed among seven different institutions. This edition brings these works together again, alongside key excerpts from Dante's masterpiece. Two introductory essays consider Dante and Blake, as well as other major artists who have been inspired by The Divine Comedy, including Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, Eugène Delacroix, Gustave Doré and Auguste Rodin. With a close reading of Blake's illustrations, and 14 fold-out spreads to allow the most delicate of details to dazzle, this is a breathtaking encounter with two of the finest artistic talents in history, as well as with such universal themes as love, guilt, punishment, revenge and redemption. Cloth-bound hardcover with fold-outs, 11.2 x 15.6", 324 pages, with satin bookmark. Boxed with carry handle. New from Taschen. ONLY £100


76015 THE ART OF PIN UP edited by Dian Hanson With a carry case for added protection, 'The Art of Pin Up' is a truly spectacular publication, designed to the highest quality with a raised lipstick-red title embossed on the cover, a peephole with stockinged legs and high heel shoes to get you interested, and a classic Gil Elvgren see-through negligée-clad blonde beauty inviting you inside. Each chapter opens with a tipped-in colour reproduction of an original calendar or magazine cover by that artist. Deliciously erotic, clothed, semi-clad, in sheer stockings, teasingly kneeling down or cross-legged, always provocatively posed and inviting, these stylised beauties have great artistic and erotic appeal not only for the nostalgia of the era they evoke but the fun attitude to sex and their femininity and sexuality. A volume to be prized just for the tipped in illustrations alone among the hundreds and hundreds featured in this magnificent collection. Formidably sized, this comprehensive collector's edition is an impressive book. The top 10 artists are profiled in depth include Peter


Driben, Arthur 'Art' Frahm, William 'Bill' Bedcalf, Earl Moran, Zoë Mozert, George Petty IV, Alberto Vargas and others. Gil Elvgren painted 700 iconic images alone! The reproduction quality of the paintings, pastels, and preparatory sketches that follow, largely sourced from the original art, invites the viewer to trace the brush strokes, while the exquisite period calendars, vintage prints, and original model photos document the artists' creative process. Much of these ephemera were photographed on-site at the historic Brown & Bigelow Company, home to the world's largest archive of vintage pin-up calendars. Pin up drawings, paintings and pastels of an idealised female face and figure intended for public display, was produced between 1920 and 1970, for use on calendars, magazine covers and centrefolds. The majority of original paintings were discarded by publishers and calendar companies after printing, making the surviving art that much more precious. Includes thumbnail bios and representative art of 85 additional artists. 11.4" x 15.6", 546 pages. Four spectacular gatefolds. Text in English, French and German. ONLY £135


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