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The Picts and the Martyrs: or, Not Welcome at all.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.304, with illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial endpapers in colour, illustrated dust-wrapper correctly priced at 8/6. A lovely clean copy of the book; jacket with some chips, old tape to reverse side, spine age-toned; very..... More
Swallowdale.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. [Children's adventure novel] VINTAGE COPY, a later printing. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.453, with illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial endpapers in colour, with illustrated dust-wrapper. Some spotting to top edge, discreet owner name; jacket a touch dusty and handled. A most..... More
Swallows and Amazons.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Children's Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, the 34th impression thus. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.351. With 24 wood engraving by the author, including a frontispiece, and two maps illustrated by Steven Spurrier. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and blind to upper. With the green illustrated..... More
The Orchard of Tears.
London: Methuen and Co., 1936. [Modern Literature] FINE PRE-WAR DUST-JACKET, seventh edition. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 250. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine, illustrative dust-jacket designed by Frank Marston with publisher's advertisements to flaps. Toning and light spotting to edges of textblock, toning and some spotting to..... More
Virgin In Flames.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1953. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.204 [4], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of 9/6 to front and rear flaps. Toning and spotting to edges of textblock, extremely light and infrequent spotting throughout..... More
The Yellow Claw.
Lippincott's Magazine. 1915. First appearance in print, bound from the parts. 8vo. Attractively bound in recent half green morocco leather with gilt titles to spine, black title label. Green cloth boards and plain endpapers. Near fine. Bound from the parts extracted from the 1915 issues of Lippincott's Magazine predating the..... More
Goblin Market. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: George Harrap & Co., 1933. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST TRADE EDITION, printed by R. Clark of Edinburgh in 1933, not to be confused with the 1939 reissue, printed by Jarrold. A vellum-bound limited edition was released simultaneously with this edition. Slim octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.45; [3], blank. With 4..... More
Goblin Market. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: George Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1939. [Illustrated Poetry] REISSUE. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.37 [3]. With a colour frontispiece and 19 black and white drawings by Rackham. Pictorial cream paper wrappers printed in yellow, brown and black depicting goblins and fruits, with yapp edges, and pictorial end-papers. Light wear..... More
Robert Kennedy and His Times.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. [American Political Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, Ex Libris William Averell Harriman, with his annotations. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xx; 1066 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in black marker to fly-leaf: 'For Averell and Pam | with love over | the years | Arthur.' Publisher's grey..... More
The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D., Sometime Head-Master of Rugby School, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. The Minerva Library of Famous Books.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891. [Pedagogy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the fourth edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 548 [2]. With nine illustrated plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Arnold. Contemporary red full calf for Beaconsfield School by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to green label and..... More
Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey.
London: John Murray, 1868. [Architectural and Ecclesiastical History] FINELY BOUND, the Second Edition, revised. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lii; 632 [2]. With 22 illustrations including a frontispiece, as well as a title page vignette. Contemporary peach diced calf with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt crossed..... More
Don Gypsy: Adventures with a Fiddle in Barbary, Andalusia and La Mancha.
London: John Murray, 1936. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xvi, 525 [3]. With six photographic plates, a map, and a frontispiece and title-page vignette by Arthur Rackham.In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. Light spotting to prelims and edges. Spine sunned and rubbed. Good overall. More
Shadowed Victory.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1944. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.77; [3]. Publisher's green cloth lettered in red to spine. Typographic dust-jacket. Toning to edges of textblock, bumping to spine and edges, marking and wear to dust-jacket, price clipped. Very good. Arthur Stringer was a Canadian novelist..... More
A Book of Twenty Songs.
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1905. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo pamphlet (16 x 13cm), pp.34 [2]. Publisher's green paper covers, titled to upper. All edges untrimmed. Very light occasional spotting. Covers rubbed and browned to extremities; a couple of light creases. Very good. More
Notes on Joseph Conrad. With some Unpublished Letters.
London: Myers & Co., 1926. [Literary Biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.38 [4]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece portrait of Conrad. Number 143 of 250 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's white quarter buckram, with gilt titles to..... More
The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family.
London: The Gresham Publishing Co., n.d. [c.1900]. [Classic Literature]. FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxiv; 584. With six wood engraved plates by Rainey, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, along with distinctive white and green decoration. Grey endpapers. Black ink ownership..... More
Bony and the Black Virgin.
London: Heinemann, 1959. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8]; 246; [2]. Publisher's green cloth lettered in yellow to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Illustrated map to pg.[7]. Some light spotting and toning to edges of textblock, 4.5cm tear to rear jacket panel, tape applied to joints and flaps (6..... More
The Brass Bottle [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 19 and 20; numbers 109 to 117.
London: George Newnes, January to September 1900. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Nine parts in their original light blue illustrated paper covers. Octavo (28 x 20cm), pp.xliv; 120; xlv-lii; pp.xl; 121-240; xli-xlviii; pp.xl; 241-360; xli-xlviii; pp.xl; 361-480; xli-xlviii; pp.xliv; 481-600; xlv-lii; pp.xliv; 601-724; xlv-lii; pp.xliv; 120; xlv-lii; pp.xxxvi; 121-240; xxxvii-xliv; pp.xxxvi;..... More
An African Millionaire [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 12 and 13, numbers 66 to 77.
London: George Newnes, June 1896 to May 1897. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. 12 parts in their original light blue paper covers. Octavo (25 x 17cm). Presented in a navy blue quarter morocco clamshell box, with gilt titles to spine, raised bands and a fleece lining. Some spines badly abraded; some..... More
The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings [and] Miss Cayley's Adventures [and] The Story of the Beetle-Hunter [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 15.
London: George Newnes, January to June 1898. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] 804. With frequent in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with titles in black and gilt to spine, and black titles and decoration to upper. All edges speckled red. A nice crisp, clean..... More
The Bookman Christmas Double Number 1915. December 1915. No. 291. Vol. 49.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, December 1915. [Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE SPECIAL. Folio (34 x 23cm), pp.xx; 65-108; 149; xxi-xxix. Not including the special portfolio of colour plates by Bernard Partridge. With numerous in-text black and white illustrations, and occasional colour plates by various artists, including a frontispiece by Rackham. Publisher's..... More
The Bookman Christmas Double Number 1912. December 1912. No. 255. Vol. 43.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, December 1912. [Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE SPECIAL. Folio (34 x 23cm), pp.xvi; 133-196; 217; xvii-xxxv. Not including the special portfolio of colour plates by Dulac, and also lacking the frontispiece portrait of Kipling. With numerous in-text black and white illustrations, and occasional colour plates by various..... More
The Strand Magazine, volumes I to VI. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, etc.]
London: George Newnes, 1891-1893. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six volumes. Large octavo (24 x 18 x 25cm). Illustrated throughout. Original magazine parts bound in half-yearly volumes. Publisher's cyan cloth with titles in black and gilt to spines, and in black with the 'Strand' street scene to uppers. All edges speckled..... More
The Strand Magazine, volumes I to XII. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, etc.]
London: George Newnes, January 1891 to December 1896. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. 12 volumes. Large octavo (25 x 17 x 50cm). Illustrated throughout. Original magazine parts bound in half-yearly volumes. In contemporary green half calf, with gilt titles to red labels, gilt and blind ruling to spines, and matching textured..... More
The Strand Magazine, July-Dec (1926) and Jan-June (1927).
London: The Strand Magazine, 1926, 1927. [Literature] FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes. Octavos (24 x 28cm), pp.666; pp.630. Consecutive bi-annuals uniformly bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Black and white illustrations throughout (1927 edition has some coloured illustrations and title pages), double columns. All edges speckled red..... More