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Marpessa.
London: John Lane, 1901. [Poetry]. EARLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (15 x 12cm), pp.47 [1]. With seven wood engravings by Philip Connard, including a frontispiece and a tailpiece. In publisher's green limp latticed morocco-covered card covers, with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Black ink ownership inscription..... More
Murder is Incidental.
London: for the The Crime Club by Collins, 1955. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 10s 6d to front flap. Faint offset to covers from jacket protector else a clean, fresh copy. Almost as-new..... More
The Man Died.
London: Rex Collings, 1972. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED by the author "For Harry Saltzman / and the 'universal /communication ideal'" / Wole Soyinka / Jan '73 /. Octavo, pp.315; [5], blank. Publisher's black cloth with typographic dust-jacket. A fine copy. An autobiographical account of the author's imprisonment during the Nigerian..... More
Maria and Some Other Dogs.
London: Methuen, 1949. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii, 126. With in-text illustrations by Somerville. In publisher's yellow cloth with blue titles to spine and blue dog motif to upper board. With original orange pictorial dust jacket. Chipping to jacket edges; one particularly large chip from front cover bottom edge. Good overall..... More
The Sweet Cry of Hounds.
London: Methuen and Co., 1936. FIRST EDITION. Foolscap Quarto (22x18cm). pp. x, 132. With 4 full-page illustrated plates including frontispiece, and 17 further in-text illustrations by the author, Edith Somerville. In publisher's mauve cloth with gilt titles to white cloth label on spine. With original orange and white dust jacket..... More
The Poems of Robert W. Sterling.
London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1915. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 68. With a tissue-guarded frontispiece of the author and a two-tone folding plate. Publisher's deluxe limp navy leather, gilt titles to upper and spine. Top edge gilt. With the original bookmarking ribbon. Light toning internally. Some..... More
The Return of Sherlock Holmes [and] Dixon's Return [and] The Ebony Box [and] Eyes of Terror [and] Gervais of Blois [and] The Iron Maiden [and] The King and I [and] The Land Ironclads [and] Lawyer Quince [and] Liar and an Elephant [and] The Phoenix and the Carpet [and] Point of Law [and] The Country of the Blind [and] Dialstone Lane [and] Echo [and] Golden Bars [and] Sadi the Fiddler [and] Billy the King [and] The Diver's Story [and] The Girl on the Sands [and] An Irish Gentleman [and] The Messenger in Mufti [and] The Mistress of the Chateau [and] The Ring and the Lamp [and] A Splendid Rogue [and] The Temptation of Samuel Burge [and] That Brute Simmons [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 26, 27 and 28, complete.
London: George Newnes, July 1903 to December 1904. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three volumes. Octavo (24 x 27cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 724; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations, including Paget's famous illustrations for the Holmes stories. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and..... More
The Adventure of the Dying Detective [and] The Horror of the Heights [and] How it Happened [and] The Poison Belt, Chapter 6 [and] To the South Pole: Captain Scott's Own Story [and] Back to Back [and] Keeping Watch [and] The Weaker Vessel [and] Bits of Life [and] The Journal of Aura Lovel [and] Keeping it from Harold [and] The Torch [and] Wet Magic [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 46, complete.
London: George Newnes, July to December 1913. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.iv; 802; viii. With frequent black and white, and occasional dichromatic, illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Ink library stamps of..... More
Jubilee.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. [Historical Fiction] EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. First edition, third printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[14] 497 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine and upper, maps to endpapers. Blue ink gift inscription from Attlee's daughter Janet (1923-2019) to half-title: 'Daddy | with..... More
"Wooden Heart" from the Hal Wallis Production "G.I. Blues," A Paramount Picture, as recorded by Elvis Presley on RCA Victor.
New York, NY: Gladys Music, 1960. [Movie Music Songsheet] ORIGINAL SONGSHEET. A4 magazine format (31 x 23cm). Musical notation and words to the song 'Wooden Heart' from the musical comedy film 'G.I. Blues' directed by Norman Taurog and starring Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse, and Robert Ivers. A single sheet folded..... More
Aurora Dawn. Or the True History of Andrew Reale, Containing a Faithful Account of the Great Riot, Together With the Complete Texts of Michael Wilde's Oration and Father Stanfield's Sermon.
London: James Barrie, 1947. [Modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.264. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 9/6 to front flap. Interior bright and clean, minor offsetting to endpapers. Some wear and chipping to dust-jacket extremities. Very good..... More
The 'Caine' Mutiny.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1951. [WWII novel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 494. Publisher's bright red cloth, cartographic endpapers, top edge red. With pictorial wrapper designed by Jean Main and David Cobb, priced at 15s. net. Gift inscription to half title. A near fine copy of the book..... More
The Caine Mutiny. A Novel of World War II.
New York: Doubleday, 1952. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, also described as 'DELUXE EDITION' to front panel. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo (23 x 16cm), p.494. Colour illustrations by Lawrence Beal Smith. Publisher's hardcover in pictorial dust-wrapper. Book is fine, price-clipped jacket has a little toning and edgewear and one chip..... More
Youngblood Hawke.
New York, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1962. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED TO C.P. SNOW, First Edition. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[8]; 783; [1]. INSCRIBED: 'For Sir Charles and Lady Pamela Snow - | a too-long momento of | a too-brief voyage, | from | Herman Wouk | "Queen Mary" NY-Cherbourg |..... More
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