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Divided We Fall.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Trade Union Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13m), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the black and green typographic dust-jacket, not priced. Light toning to edges, with a bump to upper top right corner. Jacket..... More
Virginia Woolf.
London: Editions Poetry London, 1945. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.151 [1]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece portrait of Woolf. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the red typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Gently toned to wartime economy paper. Bumping to corners..... More
Give Us This Day.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1973. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.767; [1]. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated endpapers. Top edge blue. With the dust-jacket illustrated by George Chrichard. Some page corners tuned down, some marks to edges. Price-clipped jacket spine sunned, some light..... More
A Games of Murder.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. With a 'review copy' slip loose to preliminaries, as well as a bookplate detailing provenance. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Colin Andrews..... More
![Balthazar. [Alexandria Quartet]. Lawrence DURRELL, 1912–1990](/pictures/thumb/57518.jpg?v=1598029146)
Balthazar. [Alexandria Quartet].
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, without reviews to jacket. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.250 [6]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the grey illustrated dust-jacket. A crisp, clean copy internally, with some light chipping to jacket edges, toning to jacket spine..... More
The Black Book
Paris: Olympia Press 1969. FIRST OLYMPIA PRESS EDITION. The Traveller's Companion Series, n°77. Pp.301; [1], blank; [1], advertisement; [1], blank; [1], imprint; [1], blank. Publisher's green paper binding, glossy pictorial jacket. Minor toning to text block, trivial nicks to jacket; a clean, fine copy. The author's first novel, not published..... More
The Ikons, and Other Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp. 48. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the yellow and blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 13/6. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Jacket a little rubbed to edges, and gently toned to spine. Near fine... More
![A Persian Lady [Broadside Poem]. Lawrence DURRELL, 1912–1990](/pictures/thumb/58973.jpg?v=1612373707)
A Persian Lady [Broadside Poem].
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, no date [1963]. [Broadside Poem] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, a trial proof. A single sheet of Saunders paper (37 x 23cm), printed by Alan Anderson (1922-2016) by hand on his Crown Folio Arab Press. Apparently separate from the six copies officially printed, as per hand-written note to..... More
The Tree of Idleness, and other poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1955. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.48. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Some offsetting to endpapers. Jacket a little toned to spine, with some rubbing and a couple of small closed tears. Near..... More
Vega, and Other Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1973. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.54 [2]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at £1.40. Some light handling; a lovely fine copy. More
A Lost Season.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1944. [Second World War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.60. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain dust-jacket titled in blue. A lovely crisp copy on wartime economy standard paper. Price to jacket flap carefully removed (not clipped), with some..... More
New Poems.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1968. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.61 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the purple typographic dust-jacket designed by Patricia Davey, priced at 15s. Just a hint of toning to jacket spine, otherwise a lovely crisp copy. Near fine. More
Off Course.
London: Turret Books, 1969. SIGNED Limited Edition (First). Small Octavo, pp. 16 [1]. No. 47 of 250 copies signed by the author. In publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. As new. 15 short poems. More
The Ruined Boys.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1959. [School Story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 248 [4]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket illustrated by Peter Edwards, priced at 15s. The very slightest hint of toning to jacket spine, and a little light handling. A lovely..... More
A Dream Observed, and Other Poems. PL Pamphlets No. 2.
London: Poetry, no date [1941]. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 21 [3]. Publisher's grey typographic soft covers, stapled twice. Light handling, with some toning to edges and spine. Very good. More
South: Aspects and Images from Corsica, Italy and Southern France.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1948. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.198 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue dust-jacket designed by John Piper. Illustrated bookplate of J. Anderson to front pastedown. Light spotting to edges. Jacket price-clipped, with some light rubbing, closed..... More
Twenty Poems.
Dublin: Privately Printed, 1934. [Irish Poetry] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 14cm), pp.26 [2]. Number 103 of 300 copies thus. Separately INSCRIBED in blue ink to half-title: 'For John Slocum, | who has done so much | for Irish-American relations! | N. Sheridan.' Publisher's grey card covers, sewn..... More
Out of the Unknown.
Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., 1948. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[12]; 141; [3]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, blue endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Roy Hunt with printed price of $2.50. Six short stories each with a full page illustration by either Roy Hunt..... More
The Battle of Forever.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1972. [Science fiction]] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.191; [1]. Publisher's dark blue cloth, titles in silver to spine, dust-jacket designed by Chris Gilbert with printed price of £1.60. A few negligible marks to edges, spine ends and corners a tiny bit pushed. Wrapper..... More
Quest for the Future.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1971. [Science fiction]] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.253; [3]. Publisher's dark blue cloth, titles in silver to spine, dust-jacket designed by Michael Embden with printed price of 30s (£1.50). Internally fine. Cloth clean and bright. Wrapper shows very well, slightly rubbed to folds..... More
Rogue Ship.
London: Dennis Dobson, 1967. [Science fiction]] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 213; [1]. Publisher's dark brown cloth, titles in silver to spine, dust-jacket designed by Richard Weaver. Some spotting to first and last leaves and to edges. Wrapper price clipped, lightly rubbed and marked. Very good. A...... More
The Weapon Makers.
New York, NY: A Corwin Book, Greenberg: Publisher, 1952. [Science Fiction] SECOND REVISED EDITION, the first hardback. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[4] 220. Publisher's aqua cloth with black titles to spine. With the yellow dust-jacket illustrated by Nettie Weber, priced at $2.75. Spotting to top edge, with some light wear..... More
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The Adventure of the Dying Detective [and] The Horror of the Heights [and] How it Happened [and] The Poison Belt, Chapter 6 [and] To the South Pole: Captain Scott's Own Story [and] Back to Back [and] Keeping Watch [and] The Weaker Vessel [and] Bits of Life [and] The Journal of Aura Lovel [and] Keeping it from Harold [and] The Torch [and] Wet Magic [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 46, complete.
London: George Newnes, July to December 1913. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.iv; 802; viii. With frequent black and white, and occasional dichromatic, illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Ink library stamps of..... More
The Vivisector.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. [Australian Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.642 [2]. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge black. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Tom Adams. Blue ink gift inscription to flyleaf, dated 1970. Edges toned, with a few marks. Light handling to extremities..... More
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