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Murder Off Broadway.
London, John Hamilton Ltd. c 1930. 8vo. Publisher's bright orange cloth, lettered in black, in pictorial dust jacket. Minor bumping to extremities with slight fading to spine, trivial spotting to page edges, dust to top edge, very good. Attractive, rather fragile dust jacket with some chips and small losses, including..... More
Cave birds. An Alchemical Cave Drama.
London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1978. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Oblong octavo (23 x 29cm), pp.64. With line illustrations by Baskin to every other page. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Baskin. Internally bright and clean. Moderate edgewear to jacket. Very good. Hughes'..... More
Djibouti.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop / Harper Collins, 2012. [Crime novel] DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Number 98 of 100 copies thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[x]; 279; [1], blank. Publisher's gilt-stamped blue leather-cloth over marbled paper covered sides, light grey endpapers. Fine / as new. Suspense novel..... More
Get Shorty.
New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1990. [Gangster crime caper] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 292; [2], blank. Publisher's quarter white cloth, black sides, pictorial dust-jacket priced at $18.95. Just a touch of light A clean, near fine copy. Debt-collecting shenanigans set in Hollywood. Basis for the entertaining 1995..... More
Helen Oxenbury: a life in illustration.
London: Walker Books, 2018. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.264 [24]. Illustrated throughout with a mixture of fine colour photographs and reproductions of Oxenbury's artwork. Publisher's photographic cloth with blue and maroon titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £30. Some..... More
Ticehurst: The Story of a Sussex Parish.
Tunbridge Wells: "Courier" Co., 1925. [Village History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.197 [3]. With 15 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to upper only. Black ink ownership to flyleaf, dated 1963. A nice clean copy, with light wear and bumping..... 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
The Collected Papers.
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1931. [Chemistry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.368. Publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt to spine. With the buff paper dust-jacket, priced at 10s to spine. Internally bright and clean, showing just a touch of spotting and toning to edges and jacket spine. An..... More
Scott's Last Expedition. Vol. I being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O., Vol. II being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. Arranged by Leonard Huxley. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. [Polar Exploration] FIRST COLONIAL EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 497; [11]; pp.x; 431; [1]. With eight photographic plates including a frontispiece to each volume, and a folding map at the rear of each volume. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles and..... More
The Hotel. A Play.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1939. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.104. Publisher's pink cloth, blue titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 5s to front flap. Interior mostly clean, some spotting and offsetting to preliminaries and rear few leaves. Jacket toned, marked, and spotted. Bumping to..... More
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