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Dangling Man.
London: John Lehmann, 1946. [Modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.191 [1]. Publisher's yellow cloth, brown titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 8s 6d to front flap. Light toning internally. Faint ownership inscription pencilled to front flyleaf. Gentle toning to cloth at..... More
Mr Sammler's Planet.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. [Modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 314. Publisher's blue cloth, silver titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at £1.75 to front flap. Blue endpapers. Interior lightly toned to margins. Toning to top of cloth. Sunning to jacket backstrip, minor..... More
The Croucher: A Biography of Gilbert Jessop.
London: London Magazine Editions, 1974. [Cricket] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.[6] 239 [1]. With three suites of two double-sided black and white photographic plates, as well as a frontispiece, and numerous in-text illustrations. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to recto of frontispiece. Publisher's green..... More
The Baby's Opera [and] The Baby's Bouquet. A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses, the Music by the Earliest Masters [and] A Fresh Bunch of Old Rhymes & Tunes: A Companion to the "Baby's Opera" The Tunes Collected & Arranged by L.C.
London: George Routledge and Sons [and] Frederick Warne and Co., no dates [circa 1878 and 1900]. [Nursery Rhymes] FINE COLOUR PRINTING, early printings. Two volumes. Small quarto (19 x 19cm), pp.56; pp.56. Both volumes with fine colour illustrations designed by Crane and printed by Evans, accompanying printed music and words..... More
Flora's Feast: A Masque of Flowers.
London: Cassell & Company, 1889. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.40 [10]. With fine colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's catalogue dated August 1889. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards with green cloth to spine and endpapers patterned in orange. Light repair to split upper..... More
Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1905. [Book Illustration] THIRD EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xiv; 341 [1]. With numerous engraved illustrations, including frequent head and tail pieces, as well as 11 facsimile plates on glossy paper at rear. Publisher's green cloth with white titles and decoration to spine and..... More
The Sleeping Beauty: A Modern Version. The "Bairnie" Series of Dainty Books for Children.
London: Jarrold & Sons, 1900. [Children's Illustrated] LEATHER BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.97 [48]. With 10 wood engraved illustrations by Barry, including a frontispiece. With a large section of advertisements at rear. Recently rebound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
Between The Woods and The Water. On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to The Iron Gates.
London: John Murray, 1986. [European Travel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, an advance or review copy with errata slip. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 248 [2]. With a map printed on turquoise paper. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. With a printed errata slip loose to preliminaries. Publisher's..... More
A Time of Gifts. On foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube.
London: John Murray, 1977. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.291. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with crane in gilt to front board, titles in gilt to spine. Pictorial dust wrapper depicts Fermor striding past ruins and castles into the sunset, continued to spine, blue rear cover with crane..... More
The Violins of Saint Jacques. A Tale of the Antilles.
London: John Murray and Andre Deutsch, 1977. [Modern fiction] FOURTH IMPRESSION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.139;[1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, endpapers illustrated with maps, pictorial dust-wrapper price clipped. Inscription of owner's name to front flypaper. Spotting to textblock top edge, slight wear to spine edges, minor..... More
Don Juan, A Play in Three Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1926. LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.xiv, 160. With a frontispiece photograph of the author. Number 150 of 380 copies printed on hand made English paper. In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spine sunned; good overall. Flecker was inspired to write..... More
Lawrence Durrell. A Study.
London: Faber and Faber, 1968. [Literary criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 30s to front flap. Interior and edges bright and clean if a little toned. A bit of wear to cloth spine extremities. Dust-jacket..... More
Philip Henry Gosse: A Bibliography.
Folkestone: Wm Dawson & Sons Ltd., 1980. [Natural History Bibliography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 148 [2]. With six black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and white dust-jacket, priced at £12.00. A crisp, clean copy..... More
Invitation to Die.
London: Robert Hale, 1970. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Harry Saltzman's copy INSCRIBED by the author "To Harry and Jacqueline / with love from the author / Fergus French", dated 4 November 1970. Octavo, pp.189; [3], blank. Publisher's brown cloth with photographic dust-jacket. Some fading, near fine. With a loose handwritten..... More
[Dr. No, United Artists, 1962] TLS., to Wolf Mankowitz.
London, 20th June 1961. Typed letter SIGNED by Saltzman to screenwriter Mankowitz. A detailed letter discussing various matters, including a note on the status of the fledgling Bond picture Dr No; "James Bond is jumping and Cubby and I have just to decide which distributor to make a deal with."..... More
Planet of Light.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, 1953. [Science fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xi [1] 211 [1]. Publisher's green cloth, red titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Alex Schomburg priced at $2.00 to front flap. Pictorial endpapers, also designed by Schomburg. Light toning and..... More
Yachting round the West of England.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1865. FIRST EDITION WITH TIPPED-IN INSCRIPTION. Octavo, pp.vi; 313; [1]; [12] of adverts. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration, professionally rebacked. Coloured frontispiece and black and white title page vignette. Some light spotting, mostly to prelims, occasional marking to the text-block, with an..... More
Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets: Poems in Transit.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1945. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 75 [1]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's black cloth with white titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, titled in red and black. A nice crisp, clean..... More
The Doomsters.
London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., A Crime Connoisseur Book, 1958. [Detective Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.[vi]; 225; [1], blank. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket priced 12/6. A crisp, fine example in like jacket with one creased tear to upper. Near fine- appears unread. Another case for the..... More
The Underground Man.
London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1971. [Crime Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Roy Belcher, priced at £1.50. Spotting to edges. Jacket quite heavily rubbed to edges with a few small chips. Very..... More
Mungo's Mansion: A Play of Galway Life in Three Acts.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1946. [Irish Drama] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 104. Plain grey paper covers. Light rubbing and handling to covers and edges. Near fine. More
Garnered.
London. Methuen. 1904. Short stories, some criminous. First Colonial Edition. 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth titled in gilt to spine, lightly worn to extremities with tape residue to rear panel. Essentially clean, strong and bright. A collection of Marsh stories including a couple of weird and fantastic ones; A Little..... More
The Crucible.
London: Penguin, 1996. [Drama] FILM TIE-IN EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp. XXVII; [1], blank; [3]; 32; [6], photographs of 'The Crucible' being performed; 33-96. Black publisher's cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dustwrapper picturing Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder. Very slight bumping to spine, 1.5cm tear to dustwrapper..... More
Resurrection Blues.
Minneapolis, MN: Guthrie Theater, 2002. [Drama] INSCRIBED PLAY-SCRIPT. Octavo (22 x16cm), pp.[6] 136. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to front cover: 'To William | from Arthur | August.' Pictorial white pamphlet lettered with grey and black, bound with black paper to spine. Slight scuffing; small price label to..... More
A View From The Bridge. Two One-Act Plays.
New York: The Viking Press, 1955. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.vii [1] 160. Red quarter cloth, patterned red paper over boards. Lettered in white to spine, illustrated dust-jacket designed by Robert Hallock with printed price of $3 to front flap. Top edge of textblock red. Toning and..... More