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The English Sense of Humour. An Essay.
London: The Dropmore Press, 1946. [Essay on Humour] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[4] 70 [6]. Number 202 of 550 copies thus, letterpress printed on handmade paper by J. Barcham Green of Maidstone. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to upper. All edges..... More
Paul Verlaine.
London: Constable, 1921. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.viii; 271 [1]. Publisher's navy cloth, gilt titles to upper and spine. Edges untrimmed. Interior bright and clean, toning to endpapers and edges. Some leaves still uncut. A few marks to boards, some gentle wear and fraying to extremities..... More
Public Faces.
London: Constable, 1932. [Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[viii]; 350; [26], advertisements. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in green to backstrip. No inscriptions, minor edges spotting, small hole (ash burn?) to a few leaves of first gathering, minor stain to top edge, spine and extremities lightly sunned. Very good..... More
Public Faces. A Novel.
London: Constable, 1932. [Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[viii]; 350; [26], advertisements. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in green to backstrip. photographic dust-wrapper showing an aerial view of London, priced at 7/6. No inscriptions, edges gently toned, jacket with a little wear to crown. Very good indeed. Rare in..... More
Little Innocents: Childhood Reminiscences.
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1932. [Childhood Anthology] DELUXE FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii, 124 [4]. In contemporary full vellum with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Binder's label for Leighton Straker Bookbinding Co. to copyright page. A little toning to edges, and some light marks and discolouration..... More
The Vane Sisters [and] The Pleasures of Knowing Rose Macaulay [in] Encounter Magazine. Vol. XII, No.3.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1959. [Literary Magazine] FIRST UK APPEARANCE. Magazine (26 x 19cm), pp.88. With a black and white photographic plate of Rose Macaulay by Cecil Beaton. Publisher's paper covers. Covers lightly toned and handled. Near fine. Including the first UK appearance of a short story by Nabokov, and..... More
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