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The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.66.
London: Express Newspapers, published by Pedigree, 2001. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £6.99 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.67.
London: Express Newspapers, published by Pedigree, 2002. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £6.99 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.68.
London: Express Newspapers, 2003. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £7.50 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.69.
London: Express Newspapers, 2004. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £7.50 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.71.
London: Express Newspapers, 2006. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £7.50 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Luck of the Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches.
Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. [Western Short Stories] FIRST EDITION, Second Issue, including 'Brown of Calaveras'. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2]; viii; 256; [2]. With the ownership inscription of Stafford Nothcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887) to flyleaf, dated 1871, Washington. Publisher's pebble grain cloth with gilt..... More
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Containing the Antient [Ancient] and Present State of it, Civil and Ecclesiastical; Collected from public Records, and other the best Authorities, both Manuscript and Printed: and Illustrated with Maps, and Views of Antiquities, Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, etc.
Canterbury: Printed for the Author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-1799. [Kentish history] FIRST EDITION. In four volumes. Folio (41 x 26cm), pp.[4]; xii; clii; 580; 42; [2]; pp.[4]; 817; [1]; 72; pp.[4]; ii; 765; [1]; 51; [3]; pp.vi; 788; 46; [2]. Complete with all 167 copper engraved illustrations, including county..... More
Geyserland. Empiricisms In Social Reform. Being Data and Observations Recorded by the Late Mark Stubble, M.D., Ph.D.
Washington, DC: printed for R. Hatfield, 1908. [Science Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.451 [1]. Publisher's cream cloth with titles in gilt and decoration in green to spine and upper. Top edge gilt. Lacks front free endpaper. Edges toned, with a little spotting to frontispiece and..... More
Muhammad Ali. His Life and Times.
London: Robson Books, 1991. [Boxing Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.544. With 12 double-sided black and white photographic plates. INSCRIBED from the author to 'Malcolm' in black ink to half-title. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and white dust-jacket featuring a...... More
The Scarlet Letter. A Romance.
Boston, MA: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (18 x 12cm) pp.[iv]; 322, title page printed in red and black. Elegantly bound in full deep red oasis morocco, with black title labels lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt decoration to spine, marbled endpapers, top..... More
The Last Million.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d. 1919]. First Edition. Octavo. pp. xxxv, 271. In publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With rare original dust jacket showing an impressionistic scene of soldiers set against a red exploding sky. Portions of jacket lost to corners and spine head/tail;..... More
Death of a Naturalist.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1969. [Poetry] FIRST PRINTING of this 'Faber Paper Covered Edition' (softback). Slim octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.57; [7] blank. Publisher's typographic wrapper priced 7s / £0.35. Neat ink name, two Heaney poems published in a contemporary newspaper tipped-in to rear blank, covers are near fine..... More
North.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1975. [Poetry] FIRST PRINTING. Softcover version (issued simultaneously with the hardback). Slim octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.73; [5] blank. Publisher's typographic wrapper priced £1.25. With Poetry book Society newsletter (Summer 1975) tucked in, which includes an article written by Heaney. Some scholarly pencil annotations to..... More
Music, A Joy for Life.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1976. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Square Octavo, pp.204 [4]. With numerous b/w illustrations and a colour plate section. In publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust jacket. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to front free end-paper. A fine copy... More
Catch-22.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. [Wartime satire] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x14cm), pp.443; [1]. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted green, second issue dust-jacket, with five reviews replacing the section of the text reprinted on the rear cover. Slightest sign of shelf wear to the cloth. Dust-jacket..... More
The Joker and Jerry Again.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, no date [1932]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.[12]; 171; [1]. With twelve illustrations by Cecil Aldin including a frontispiece, many coloured pleasingly by a former owner. In publisher's cream cloth with red titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Black ink..... More
The Poetical Works.
London: Frederick Warne and co., [c. 1850s-1891]. Octavo. Bound by Parkins and Gotto in full blue morocco, blind ruling to boards, raised bands and titles in gilt to spine; all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, gilt decoration to board edges. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, and several steel engraved..... More
A Moveable Feast.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Modern Literature] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY in oversized PROOF-ONLY dust-wrapper designed by Hans Tisdall, priced at 18s. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's lime-green softcovers in jacket with bold 'PROOF ONLY' text to rear flap with provisional publication date printed below. Proof copies feature the mis-print 'movable'..... More
O. Henry Authorised Edition. [Complete Works of O. Henry].
New York, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co. for Review of Reviews Co., 1913. COMPLETE WORKS. 12 volumes. Octavo (19 x 14cm). With a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's red leatherette with gilt titles to spines and gilt monograms to upper boards, brown monogrammed endpapers, top edges gilt. Some volumes with..... More
The Cat of Bubastes. A Tale of Ancient Egypt. With eight full page illustrations by J.R. Weguelin.
London: Blackie and Son, 49 and 50 Old Bailey, E.C., 1889. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.iv; [5]; 10-352; 32 of publisher's advertisements. Publisher's brown cloth blocked in gilt, red, and black. Olivine edges, dark blue coated endpapers. With eight half tone plates printed in sepia, including..... More
The Jonah.
London: New English Library, 1981. [Horror] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.253; [1]. Publisher's white boards, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by James Herbert priced at £6.50. Some light spotting to preliminaries and edges, textblock otherwise clean and bright. Cloth lightly rubbed to extremities, some marking to..... More
Jungle Trails in Northern India.
London: Methuen and Company, 1938. RARE FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[10], 278. With 24 photographic plates including a frontispiece. In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With rare original dust-jacket. Maps printed to endpapers. Some damage to head of spine. Jacket spine sunned, with loss to head and tail..... More
The Embassy Case [Publisher's retained copy].
London: Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, 1915. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.304; [1], advertisements. Frontispiece illustration by Gilbert, with tissue guard. Original black cloth decorated in red and gilt, illustrated dust-jacket. A near fine copy of the book in price-clipped wrapper, lightly chipped and rubbed..... More
The Bird of Night.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1972. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 186. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Craig Dodd with printed price of £1.95 net. Neat ownership to flyleaf, a little dustiness to top edge else a fine copy. Shortlisted for the Booker..... More
Chronograms. 5000 and more in number excerpted out of various authors and collected at many places.
London: Ellliot Stock, 1882. [Chronograms] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.xx; 569 [3]. With a lithographic frontispiece reproduction of an engraving, and 12 illustrations placed throughout the text. Publisher's green quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine and green leather-grain-effect cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed..... More