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The Mystic Rose. A Study of Primitive Marriage.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1902. [Anthropology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xviii; 492. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. Fore-edge untrimmed. Preliminaries and rear leaves spotted. Toning to textblock edges. Some rubbing and marking to boards, '6' penned in black ink to upper board. Crease to crown..... More
Shall I Eat You Now?
London: Macmillan, 1969. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the black and white photographic dust-jacket, priced at 25s. A slight lean, and a little toning to edges. Moderate wear to jacket, and only very slight sunning to red..... More
ABC of Plain Words. A Reference Book on the Use of English.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1951. [Official English] Second Impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 146. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to navy backing on spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 4/6. A nice crisp copy showing some toning to jacket and light wear to jacket edges. Near..... More
Plain Words.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1948. [Official English] Second Impression. Octavo pamphlet (21 x 14cm), pp.vi; 94. Publisher's typographic paper covers, priced at 2s. A nice, crisp copy, showing an ink ownership to the to right corner of the front cover, and even toning to covers. Near fine. The classic..... More
The Wind in the Willows.
London: Methuen and Co., 1931. [Children's classic] FIRST SHEPARD ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 312; 10, advertisements dated 10.[19]31. Lavishly illustrated by Shepard. Publisher's green cloth with Mole, Rat, and Mr Toad in gilt to front board, gilt titles to spine; top edge green, cartographic endpapers. Illustrated jacket..... More
Across the River and Into the Trees.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. [Modern Literature] First American Edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[12]; 308. Recent black half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt decoration to spine, and black cloth over boards. With the original publisher's black cloth cover and spine bound in at rear..... More
Across the River and Into the Trees.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. 254; [2]. Publisher's green cloth with maroon label to spine lettered in silver, red illustration of a bow to upper board, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of 9/6 to front flap. Contents clean, neat..... More
Collected Poems.
San Francisco, CA: [Pirate Edition], 1960. [Poetry] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (18 x 13cm), pp.28. Publisher's plain typographic paper covers, priced at 50c, and proudly emblazoned: 'originally published in Paris, pirated edition San Francisco, 1960'. Stapled twice. Light wear to covers, with some creasing to back cover and a little..... More
A Farewell to Arms.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. [Modern litrature] FIRST UK EDITION. Crown octavo, pp.350. Elegantly hand-bound in half burgundy morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, matching cloth sides, twin navy labels. A fine copy. Ernest Hemingway's celebrated novel about a young lieutenant and an English nurse who fall in..... More
Fiesta [The Sun Also Rises].
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. [Modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION, earliest text. Crown octavo, pp.286. Elegantly hand-bound in full red morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Contents mostly clean with a few minor spots/marks, vintage tape repairs to top corner of the first..... More
In Our Time.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1926. [American Literature] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.248; [2]. Elegantly hand-bound in half black calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands. Contents clean, some minor toning to edges of text block, exterior as new. A near..... More
Men Without Women.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. [Modern Literature] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, with a complete number '3' to p.3. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[12] 232 [8]. Recent full black morocco with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the author's signature blocked in gilt to the to upper board, with..... 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
A Moveable Feast.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's brown cloth with top edge tinted red, patterned grey endpapers, dust-wrapper designed by Hans Tisdall priced at 18s. Contents clean, top edge a little dusty/sunned, bright jacket with a tiny puncture to joint else fine..... More
A Moveable Feast.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Memoir] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. 92. Publisher's lime-green softcovers, typographic dust-jacket with 'PROOF ONLY' text to rear flap with provisional publication date printed below. 125-128 chips to edges of paper where the pages have been snipped, toning to edges of textblock, light..... More
A Moveable Feast.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Memoir] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.92. Publisher's lime-green softcovers. A clean, fine copy. Proof copies feature the mis-print 'movable' for 'moveable' to the title page and the wraps. This memoir features Hemingway's recollections and experiences of the prominent characters and personalities including Aleister..... More
Winner Take Nothing.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 244; [2]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt title panels, top edge tinted red, and the illustrated dust-jacket priced at $2.00. Some overall toning, bookplate to pastedown, top edge a little sunned, jacket with some..... More
Winner Take Nothing.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 244; [2]. Recent black full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, gilt border to sides, author's signature blocked in gilt to front cover, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., fore-edge untrimmed. With the original black..... More
Murder at Eight Bells.
London; Columbine Publishing Company. n.d. [1939]. First EDition. 8vo. Publisher's orange cloth faded to spine and extremities to an attractive poached salmon, possibly that's not a standard book colour.Tight, clean and sharp. Very good indeed (except for being sunned) in a very good, unclipped dustwrapper with corresponding fading to spine..... More
Winnie the Pooh.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; [4] 158 [2]. Profusely illustrated in-text by Ernest Shepard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to upper. Top edge gilt; pictorial map endpapers. A moderately used copy with..... More
Americans Abroad: An Anthology. With Autographed Photographs and Biographic Sketches of the Authors.
The Hague: The Servire Press, 1932. [Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xi; [1] blank; 475; [1] blank. Publisher's orange paper covered boards, grey cloth spine, titles in red to spine and upper, top edge dark blue, grey endpapers. Some spotting to preliminaries and endpapers, textblock a little shaken..... More
The Green Curve. And other stories.
London, William Blackwood. 1909. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's light brown cloth titled in black and decorated to front board with a green...well a curve, obviously.Bright and clean with minor spotting to page edges. Marginal dampmark to pages 150-170 caused by a drop of something splashed by a nervous reader. A...... More
Secret Pilot.
London: The Epworth Press, 1954. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 155 [5]. Publisher's light green cloth lettered in black to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. With the illustrated halftone frontispiece. Toning to edges of textblock, jacket price-clipped. Mild rolling to spine. Some sunning to jacket backstrip..... More
In Pursuit of Spring.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1914. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.301; [3]. With six halftone illustrations, including a frontispiece, adhered on one edge to tipped-in grey leaves with letter-pressed tissue guards. Cartographic endpapers. Publisher's blue cloth to boards, gilt titles, device, and rulings to upper..... More
Active Anthology.
London: Faber and Faber, 1933. [Poetry Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with white titles to spine. Gently toned, otherwise a clean copy internally. Lightly rubbed and bumped to boards, with heavy rubbing and toning to spine. Lower joint split; upper starting. Good. A...... More