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Demon Possession and Allied Themes, being an inductive study of phenomena of our own times.
London: George Redway, 1897. [Demon Possession in China] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 520. Including the supplement to the second US edition. Publisher's yellow cloth with red titles to spine and upper. Top edge red, others untrimmed. Theosophical Society library bookplate to front pastedown, with associated inscription..... More
Master and Commander.
London: The Folio Society, 2008. [Naval Fiction] FIRST THUS. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xx; 356. With three suites of two double-sided colour plates. Publisher's illustrated blue cloth, with maps to light blue endpapers. With the matching blue paper-covered slipcase. A fine copy, with just a touch of light wear to..... More
People vs. Withers and Malone. Six Inner Sanctum Mystery Novelettes.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1963. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.254 [2]. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with mottled orange paper over boards, and black titles to spine. Top edge orange; others untrimmed. With the orange pictorial dust-jacket designed by Lawrence Ratzkin, printed price $3.50. Heavily..... More
Out of the Smoke; Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom,
London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, 1963, 1968. [Wartime trilogy] FIRST EDITIONS, COMPLETE. Three volumes, octavo (23 x 15 x 10cm), pp.xv; [5]; 310; [2]; pp.xiv; [2]; 290; [2]; pp.xx; 266. Publisher's cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jackets. Illustrated throughout. With an introduction to the first volume by van der..... More
Historical Accounting Literature. A catalogue of the collection of early works on book-keeping and accounting in the Library of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, together with a bibliography of literature on the subject published before 1750 and not in the Institute Library.
London: Mansell, 1979. [Bibliography] SECOND PRINTING. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[2] xxvi; 360. With four leaves of illustrations. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated bookplate of the Castle Bookshop, Colchester, to front pastedown. Spotting to top edge. A few spots and marks to..... More
Ian Fleming: The Notes.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2020. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION, limited issue (this copy no. 55 of 100 copies). SIGNED by the editor Fergus Fleming, to his introduction, p.9 (not called for). With publisher's erratum slip. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.375; [1], blank. Bound in dark-blue Plike paper-covered boards, red endpapers..... More
Gallipoli Today.
London: Ernest Benn, 1926. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 115 [1]. With 48 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt titles to spine. Black ink stamp of Queen's Westminster and Civil Service Rifles Sergeants' Mess to pastedowns and to half-title..... More
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of our Earlier Poets; together with some few of Later Date. Reprinted entire from the Author's Last Edition.
Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1867. [English Ballads] FINELY BOUND. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xcvi; 290 [2]; pp.viii; 318 [4]; pp.xxxvi; 340 [2]. Contemporary red full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spines and upper boards, and elaborate blind tooling all over. All edges gilt; dark brown..... More
Bubu of Montparnasse.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1952. [French Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 101 [1]. With eight illustrated plates by Rosoman, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to black backing on spine. Top edge red. With the illustrated orange dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Bookplate of Alan..... More
Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel.
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892. [Satirical Novels] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (29 x 20cm), pp.[4] xlvi [2]; 341 [7]; pp.[4] xiv; 455 [5]. With 15 photogravure illustrated plates, including a frontispiece to volume I, with tissue guards. Number 247 of 1000 copies thus. Contemporary green..... More
The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus.
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1991. [Rolling Stones] FIRST US EDITION. Folio (33 x 24cm), unpaginated. Illustrated with full-page black and white photographs throughout. Publisher's illustrated soft covers priced at $19.95. Two price stickers to fly-leaf. Spine toned, and a red remainder mark to lower edge. A little general wear..... More
Collected Poems. With an Introductory Memoir by Dan Davin.
London: Oxford University Press, 1971. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xxvi; 149 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £3.00. Some associated news clippings loose to preliminaries. A crisp, clean copy showing some light wear to jacket extremities..... More
Poems by Isaac Rosenberg.
London: William Heinemann, 1922. [Great War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 186 [2]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece of the author. Publisher's black cloth with plain printed title label to spine. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. A nice clean copy with just a little toning..... More
The Lemon Tree.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1937. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[18]; 29; [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with blue titles to spine, dust-jacket made by The Temple Press, with printed price of 2s 6d to flap. Light toning to board edges and spine, slight sunning to dust-jacket..... More
The Battle for Bond: The Genesis of Cinema's Greatest Hero.
Sheffield: Tomahawk Press, 2007-8. ['Thunderball' film reference] FIRST EDITION [together with Revised Edition]. ASSOCIATION COPIES. Two volumes, octavos. Pp.264; pp.251, with photographs and reproductions of documents. Publisher's illustrated softcovers. Fine/as new copies. The Battle for Bond is the story of the much-discussed Thunderball dispute. In late February 2008, the book..... More
The Leopold Shakespeare. The Poet's Works in Chronological Order, from the text of Professor Delius, with "The Two Noble Kinsmen" and "Edward III.," and an Introduction by F.J. Furnivall.
London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin & Co., no date [circa 1880s]. [Shakespeare's Works] FINELY BOUND, with illustrations. The thirty-second thousand. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[4] cxxviii; 1056 [2]. With a frontispiece etching of the Bard, and frequent in-text wood engravings. Contemporary tan full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, 1566-1910. A Catalogue.
Toronto: Toronto Public Library, 1975. CORRECTED EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo. pp. xxiv, 562; xii, 563-1138. With occasional illustrations, many in colour to volume one. In publisher's pictorial green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Green end-papers. A fine copy. First published in 1958, and reprinted with corrections in 1966..... More
The Seasons, Odes, Songs, and Hymns.
London: Printed for John Bumpus, 1822. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 11cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 192 [4]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author, and an introductory biography by Aikin. Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles to a black label, further gilt decoration to spine, and gilt..... More
Love Lyrics from Five Centuries.
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., printed at the University Press Oxford, 1932. [Illustrated Poetry Anthology] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.198 [2]. With five mounted colour plates, including a frontispiece, by Rosenkrantz. INSCRIBED by the editor in black ink to the half-title: 'To Charles &..... More
Five Overs & 2 Wides.
Compton Chamberlayne: the Compton Press, 1975. [Cricket Poetry] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xx; 72 [4]. With occasional woodcuts by Gili. One of just 500 copies thus. Publisher's marble-effect pastepaper over boards, with titles in black to spine. Deep pink endpapers. A fine, as-new copy. A collection of poems..... More
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945.
New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 2007. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 25cm), pp.xxxii; 278. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Grey endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at $60. Light markings to jacket. Near fine. From the..... More
The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Volumes I, II, III, IV and V, 1915-1941.
New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977-1984. [Literary Diaries] COMPLETE FIRST US EDITIONS. Five volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 16cm), pp.xxviii; 356; pp.xii; 371 [1]; pp.xiv; 384 [2]; pp.xiv; 402; pp.xiv; 402. Sketch-maps to endpapers of all volumes except I. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spines and..... More
We.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. [Dystopia] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.285 [3]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge black. With the striking purple dust-jacket designed by Stanley Chapman, priced at 35s / £1.75. A crisp, clean copy, with just a little rubbing..... More
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