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Giles Sunday Express and Daily Express Cartoons [Giles Annual]. Twenty-third Series.
London: Beaverbrook Newspapers, 1968-9. [Cartoon Annual] FIRST THUS. Oblong octavo (20 x 26cm), unpaginated. Captioned cartoons to every page. Publisher's colour illustrated card covers. Trivial wear at crown; fine. More
Darkness Visible.
London: Faber and Faber, 1979. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Publisher's blue soft back as issued. Small stain to upper; fading to spine; internally clean. A sound copy. William Golding won the 1979 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the 1980 Booker Prize and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983..... More
The Black Orchid.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1931. [Crime Thriller] YELLOWBACK EDITION. Octavo, pp.128. Bound in publisher's trademark yellow paper wraps, with illustration by Hastain to front panel. Advertisements to inner of wraps. In excellent condition. Wraps appear clean and bright, textblock in like excepting some minor spotting to flyleaves. Lean to spine..... More
Tiger Mark.
London: John Hamilton, n.d [c.1928]. Octavo. pp. [7], 224. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. Pictorial dust wrapper shows a corpse lying at the foot of a man seated on a throne, and titles in black and red to front cover, attributed to Bert Wardle, titles..... More
Angell, Pearl and Little God.
London: Collins, 1970. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.380; [2]. Publisher's black and white speckled cloth, gilt titles to spine, in typographic dust-jacket designed by Julian Willett. Top edge slightly dusty, head cap slightly rolled. A fresh, near fine copy. 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
Un Autre Monde. Transformations, Visions, Incarnations, Ascensions, Locomotions, Explorations, Peregrinations, Excursions, Stations, Cosmogonies, Fantasmagories, Reveries, Folatreries, Faceties, Lubies, Metamorphoses, Zoomorphoses, Lithomorphoses, Metempsycoses, Apotheoses, et autre Choses.
Paris: H. Fournier, Libraire-Editeur, 1844. [Surrealism] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[6] 295 [3]. All text in French. Extensively illustrated with wood engravings by the author throughout, including a frontispiece and decorated title page, as well as 36 hand-coloured plates. Recent quarter brown morocco with gilt titles and decoration..... More
Brewster's Millions
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1903. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[x]; 325; [3], blank; [1], imprint; [3], blank. Elegantly bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full burgundy morocco with gilt ruling and raised bands to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Discreet initials stamped to third blank..... More
The Circular Study.
New York: McLure Phillips. 1900. First US Edition. Publisher's decorated bottle green ribbed cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board and decorated with a swirling art deco device surrounding an embossed key. Slight scuffing to extremities and spine ends, essentially a clean, tight copy. Page edges untrimmed, internally..... More
The House of the Whispering Pines.
London, Eveleigh Nash, 1910. 8vo. Uncommon British First Edition. Publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt to spine and to upper with colour illustration within a gilt frame. Slight rubbing to extremities. Edges dusty. A sound, attractive copy. Anna Katharine Green was one of the first writers of Detective Fiction..... More
The Filigree Ball.
America, The Bobbs Merrill Co. 1903. 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine, decorative title in red with the subject of the title, the Filigree Ball, stamped in gilt to upper board. One illustration as frontispiece by C.M. Relyea. 21 pages advertisements to rear of text. Gentle..... More
Almanack for 1895.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1895. ORIGINAL ALMANACK. (8 x 10cm), with frontispiece, pictorial title, twelve illustrations with inset text, and four further illustrations depicting the seasons. Includes two pages on the subject of postage in the UK towards rear of text. Neatly bound in publisher's cream cloth with illustrations..... More
The April Baby's Book of Tunes. With the Story of How They Came to be Written.
London: Macmillan and Company, Limited. 1900. FIRST EDITION, CLEAN COPY of Greenaway's final book. Octavo, pp.35. Bound in publisher's light brown cloth blocked in colour, all edges coloured deep red, large title to spine and matching red title to front board, with caption 'By the Author of 'Elizabeth and her..... 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
The Bear Fell Free.
London: Grayson and Grayson, 1935. [Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Slim octavo (22 x 15cm). One of the titles in "The Grayson Books" series, a collection of signed limited editions by notable authors. Publisher's gilt decorated green-brown cloth, illustrated endpapers, cream and blue dust-wrapper. Boards a little bowed, jacket with..... More
The Bear Fell Free.
London: Grayson and Grayson, 1935. [Modern Literature] PROOF COPY. Slim octavo (22 x 15cm), unpaginated. Bound in plain brown paper wraps, titled in ink to upper. Minor wear to spine, light handling; near fine. Published in an edition limited to 250 copies, yet only a handful of softcover proofs would..... More
The Complaisant Lover. A Play.
London: Heinemann. 1959. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.77. Publisher's blue cloth in pale green printed dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. A fine, unread copy in similar jacket with some accidental rubbing to the edges of the front panel. A bright example of this Graham Greene comedy, the third..... More
The End of the Affair.
London: William Heinemann, 1951. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 237 [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the white and grey dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Endpapers browned; some sunning to head and tail of spine. Jacket browned to spine, with losses to head..... More
The Living Room. A Play in Two Acts.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1953. FIRST EDITION: Octavo. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, neat ownership to flyleaf. Original pictorial dust jacket; lightly worn,with a few small chips. Now rather elusive. Graham Greene's first play, a melodrama. WOBBE, R.A, "Graham Greene - A Bibliography and Guide to Research"..... More
May We Borrow Your Husband? And Other Comedies of the Sexual Life.
London: The Bodley Head, 1967. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY in publisher's printed yellow wraps. Clipped at first flyleaf. Externally fine, with minimal creasing to spine. Remarkably clean throughout. Twelve entertaining short stories from Greene, which were received with acclaim. More
A Sense of Reality.
London: The Bodley Head, 1963. [Short stories]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.140. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket. Minor handling; a very good copy. Greene's only fantasy collection; a selection of unusual tales, two of the stories which take their 'reality' from the dream state; 'Under the..... More
A Sense of Reality. Short Stories.
The Bodley Head, London, 1963. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.140. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket. A clean, bright, near fine copy. Greene's only fantasy collection; a selection of unusual tales, two of the stories which take their 'reality' from the dream state; 'Under the Garden' and 'Dream of a...... More
The Tenth Man.
London: The Bodley Head and Anthony Blond, 1985. Uncorrected Proof. Octavo. pp158. Publisher's yellow paper covers with titles in black to front cover and spine. Nominal rubbing to corners, internally pristine; in sum, a very attractive copy. An utterly gripping story of a wealthy French lawyer being held prisoner by..... More
The Tenth Man.
New York, NY: Simon And Schuster, 1985. [Thriller] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.155; [1], blank. Publisher's printed yellow wraps with price and publication date written on upper. Very good, with dampmark throughout. An utterly gripping story of a wealthy French lawyer being held prisoner by the Germans during..... More
The Tenth Man. Contained within a supplement to 'You' (The Mail on Sunday magazine).
London: 1985. FIRST APPEARANCE. Thriller. A 2-part periodical. Publisher's fragile pictorial softcovers, magazine format. Complete in two issues. Near fine. An utterly gripping story of a wealthy French lawyer being held prisoner by the Germans during World War II. Precedes the Bodley Head book-form edition, which was published in March..... More