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An Awkward Lie.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1971. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of £1.20 or 24s to front flap. Toning and spotting to top edge of textblock, rolling to spine. Very good. Michael Innes was a Scottish novelist and academic... More
The Colonel's Photograph.
London: Faber and Faber, 1967. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.177 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 25s. A lovely crisp, clean copy with a slight tobacco scent. Jacket spine very slightly toned, with some light..... More
The Edge Chronicles: Vox
London: Doubleday, 2003. [Children's Fantasy Adventure] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.395; [6], blank. With illustrations. SIGNED by author-illustrator Chris Riddell in black ink to the title page. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, cartographic endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Riddell, priced at £12.99. Text block a little dusty..... More
Ian Fleming.
Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989. [Literary biography]. FIRST EDITION, octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 144. Burgundy cloth lettered in gilt, photographic dust-wrapper. A fine copy in a near fine jacket, slightly scuffed to extremities. A book-length biography of James Bond's creator, written by two history scholars from Brown University, Providence, R.I...... More
Maigret's Christmas.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976. [Crime Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 326; [4], blank. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Beverley Lebarrow, priced £4.95. A near fine copy in like wrapper with sun-lightened spine panel. Nine short stories featuring Inspector Jules Maigret..... More
November.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1970. [Intrigue] FIRST UK EDITION, translated from the French by Jean Stewart. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.155; [1], blank. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Bernard Higton, priced at £1.25 / 25s. A clean, fine copy in jacket. A domestic..... More
The Stewart Simplified Method of Mimicry and Parlour Amusement. A New and Easy Method, by which Anybody can Whistle and Imitate Birds, Fowls, Animals, Musical Instruments, Steamboat and Locomotive Whistles, etc. with Mouth and Hands. No Instrument Necessary.
New York, NY: Published by the author, 1918. [Impersonation and Mimicry] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.16. Three black and white illustrations, photograph of author to rear cover. Publisher's pink pictorial paper covers, priced at 25c. Faint markings to cover, internally clean. A very good copy. The title page..... More
By the Old Walls of Kyoto. A Year's Cycle of Landscape Poems with Prose Commentaries.
New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1981. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxv; [1]; 463; [3]. With 24 colour reproductions of nihonga by various artists. Pictorial endpapers inspired by a wall at Daitoku-ji. Publisher's red cloth, with design in black to upper and black titles to spine. With the..... More
Ludo and the Star Horse.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1974. [Children's Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.128. With occasional in-text illustrations by D'Achille. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and orange endpapers. Top edge brown. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by D'Achille. Slight surface scuffing to title page. Some bumping..... More
[Five Publishers' Sample Books]. 'Our Martyred President: The Life and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield'; 'The London Dickens'; 'The Klondike Gold Fields'; 'Canada Under the Administration of Lord Dufferin'; 'Earl Kitchener and the Great War'.
[various publishers in North America], n.d. [c.1870's - 1910's]. [Book history] RARE PUBLISHERS' SAMPLES. Five volumes, octavo (largest volume 22 x 15cm). Each in publisher's cloth, all slim volumes lacking titles to spines. Each sample is unique, some containing lined paper at the back for the salesman to record subscribers..... More
Air Force Poetry.
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1944. [Second World War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.90 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the blue and white dust-jacket designed by Foss, priced at 7/6. Cloth spine faded, with toning to jacket spine. Rubbing..... More
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