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The Fall of Lord Barrymore. [An extract from The Strand Magazine].
London: George Newnes, December 1912. [Magazine Extract] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 16cm), pp.603-611 [1]. With dichromatic illustrations by Brock. Leaves removed from a copy of The Strand Magazine and bound recently in brown paper, with a plain printed title label to upper, stapled twice. Light creasing and marking..... More
5 Passengers from Lisbon.
London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1946. [Murder mystery novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.192. Bound in tan cloth blocked in black, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price at 8/6. Contents clean, neat ink name to front endpaper, in a secondary or cheap edition binding, jacket with reduced..... More
Enemy in the House.
London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1963. [Historical murder mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.216; [4], blank. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine, dust-wrapper priced at 12/6. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A fine copy of the book in a near fine jacket with some..... More
The Rolls-Royce Twenty.
Abingdon, Oxon: Burges & Son, for John M. Fasal., 1988. [Motoring] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.560; [2], blank, illustrated throughout. Second Edition. Publisher's blue cloth in glossy photographic dust-wrapper. A fine copy. A comprehensive history of the Rolls-Royce marque. From the comprehensive James Bond archive assembled..... More
The African Queen.
London: Longmans, 1961. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION THUS, Longmans' Abridged Books. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 209; [1]. Pictorial softcovers. Ex-libris stamp of Trevor Hickman to front paste-down, sunning to spine and light wearing to covers. Sunning to front cover, small pencilled 'w' to front cover. Very good. Set in..... More
Collected Short Stories of E.M. Forster.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, no date [1948]. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.vii [3] 246. Publisher's teal cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 10s 6d. Toning to flyleaf, very small bookseller's sticker front-paste down, toning to edges of textblock, rolling..... More
Marianne Thornton 1797-1887. A Domestic Biography.
London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1956. [English Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 301; [3], blank. 2000 copies only. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 21s. Spine a little toned, slightly pushed to crown, one or two small nicks. Overall a near fine, fresh..... More
A Passage to India.
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. [Bloomsbury] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.325; [3], advertisements. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper. No inscriptions, contents clean and fresh with just a few minor spots, endpapers toned as usual, binding tight with one small bump..... More
Cent Proverbes. Texte par Trois Tetes dans un Bonnet. Nouvelle Edition Revue et Augmentee pour le Texte par M. Quitard.
Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, no date [circa 1870]. [Surrealist Humour] FINE HAND-COLOURED PLATES, a New Edition. Quarto (27 x 19cm), pp.[6]; 551; [3]. With many in-text illustrations, as well as 50 fine hand-coloured plates by Grandville, including a frontispiece. All text in French. Finely bound in black half calf with..... More
Kate Greenaway.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[xx]; 301; [2], advertisements. Illustrated with numerous photos, plates and in-text line drawings, including several in colour. Bound in early quarter brown calf over blue cloth sides with red morocco title label to spine, ruled in gilt..... More
War Poems of Nordahl Grieg: All That Is Mine Demand.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, November 1944. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.68. Printed on clay paper. Publisher's light green cloth with black titles to spine. With the striking colour-illustrated dust-jacket by Joseph Brown, priced at 6s. Illustrated bookplate of Margaret E. Spicer to front pastedown..... More
Annals of the Five Senses.
Montrose: Privately published by the author, 1923. [Stream-of-Consciousness] FIRST EDITION, a presentation copy. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 195 [3]. With a black and white photographic image of the author clipped from a newspaper tipped onto flyleaf, with a presentation note (possibly secretarial) in pencil stating 'from the author.' Publisher's..... More
The Serpent.
London: Faber and Faber, 1943. [Modern Literature] REVIEW COPY. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.255; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 8s 6d to front flap. Loosely inserted is a slip asking for a review. Rolling to spine, sunning to dust-jacket spine..... More
An Incident of African History [and] M.I. [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volumes XIII and XIV.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1900 to November 1901. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. In two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.vi; 754; pp.vi; 714. With frequent photogravure illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt and dark brown titles and decoration to spines and upper boards. Blue ink ownership inscription to..... More
Fairy Tales and Romances.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849. [Continental Fairy Tales] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[2] vi; 562 [2]. With a frontispiece etching of Count Hamilton. In a fine later binding of brown half crushed morocco by Roger de Coverly, with gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
Psychic Energy: Its Source and Goal.
Washington, D.C.: Published for Bollingen Foundation by Pantheon Books, 1947. [Psychology] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xvi; 497 [5]. With 10 black and white illustrated plates including a frontispiece, as well as occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's black quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and green..... More
Skating [and] Figure-Skating, with contributions on Curling, Tobogganing, Ice-Sailing [and] Bandy. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. [Winter Sports] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 464. With frequent in-text diagrams and illustrations, as well as a half-tone frontispiece and a vignette title page. Publisher's blue diced half morocco with gilt titles to spine, orange cloth over boards, and Beaufort crest..... More
Enter the Lion: A Posthumous Memoir of Mycroft Holmes.
London: J. M. Dent, 1980. REVIEW COPY. Octavo, pp.xxii; [2]; 237; [3]. With publisher's compliments slip loose to prelims. In publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear; likely unread. Near fine. A prequel to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries, in which Mycroft..... More
The Tower.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1968. [Village Farce] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.223 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Donald Green, priced at 18s. A lovely bright, crisp copy, showing just a handful of spots to top edge and a...... More
Tom Brown's Schooldays. By an Old School Boy.
London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1907. [Literature] OXFORD EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.380. With 14 black and white illustrations by Brock, 6 being full-page including the frontispiece. Publisher's quarter vellum, red cloth over sides. Spine with red label lettered in gilt, and further gilt tooling. Top edge gilt. Faint..... More
The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen
Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. 2001. [James Bond reference] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 227; [7]. Publisher's quarter black cloth over paper-covered sides, titled in silver to spine, dust-wrapper priced at $24.95. A clean, fine copy. A look at sex, race, class and other issues in the James Bond..... More
James Bond and Philosophy: Questions Are Forever.
Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 2006. [James Bond reference] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxvi; 281 [5]. With occasional black and white illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers. A lovely fine copy. A paperback original. Seventeen scholars examine hidden philosophical issues in the hazardous, deceptive and glamourous world of Double-0..... More
An Awkward Lie.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1971. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of £1.20 or 24s to front flap. Toning and spotting to top edge of textblock, rolling to spine. Very good. Michael Innes was a Scottish novelist and academic... More
The Collected Ghost Stories of M.R. James.
London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1931. [Horror and Ghost Stories] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST THUS, first impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 647 [5]. Recently re-bound in black half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, others lightly trimmed, with the original cloth..... More
An Air Fighter's Scrap-Book.
London: Nicholson and Watson, 1938. [Airforce Memoir] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.332. With 14 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's black cloth titled in red to spine, with a facsimile signature in red to upper. With the blue photographic dust jacket, priced at..... More