Literature
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Mr Sammler's Planet.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. [Modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 314. Publisher's blue cloth, silver titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at £1.75 to front flap. Blue endpapers. Interior lightly toned to margins. Toning to top of cloth. Sunning to jacket backstrip, minor..... More
The Baby's Opera [and] The Baby's Bouquet. A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses, the Music by the Earliest Masters [and] A Fresh Bunch of Old Rhymes & Tunes: A Companion to the "Baby's Opera" The Tunes Collected & Arranged by L.C.
London: George Routledge and Sons [and] Frederick Warne and Co., no dates [circa 1878 and 1900]. [Nursery Rhymes] FINE COLOUR PRINTING, early printings. Two volumes. Small quarto (19 x 19cm), pp.56; pp.56. Both volumes with fine colour illustrations designed by Crane and printed by Evans, accompanying printed music and words..... More
Between The Woods and The Water. On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to The Iron Gates.
London: John Murray, 1986. [European Travel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, an advance or review copy with errata slip. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 248 [2]. With a map printed on turquoise paper. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. With a printed errata slip loose to preliminaries. Publisher's..... More
The Violins of Saint Jacques. A Tale of the Antilles.
London: John Murray and Andre Deutsch, 1977. [Modern fiction] FOURTH IMPRESSION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.139;[1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, endpapers illustrated with maps, pictorial dust-wrapper price clipped. Inscription of owner's name to front flypaper. Spotting to textblock top edge, slight wear to spine edges, minor..... More
Don Juan, A Play in Three Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1926. LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.xiv, 160. With a frontispiece photograph of the author. Number 150 of 380 copies printed on hand made English paper. In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spine sunned; good overall. Flecker was inspired to write..... More
Lawrence Durrell. A Study.
London: Faber and Faber, 1968. [Literary criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 30s to front flap. Interior and edges bright and clean if a little toned. A bit of wear to cloth spine extremities. Dust-jacket..... More
Planet of Light.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, 1953. [Science fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xi [1] 211 [1]. Publisher's green cloth, red titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Alex Schomburg priced at $2.00 to front flap. Pictorial endpapers, also designed by Schomburg. Light toning and..... More
Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets: Poems in Transit.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1945. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 75 [1]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's black cloth with white titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, titled in red and black. A nice crisp, clean..... More
The Doomsters.
London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., A Crime Connoisseur Book, 1958. [Detective Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.[vi]; 225; [1], blank. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket priced 12/6. A crisp, fine example in like jacket with one creased tear to upper. Near fine- appears unread. Another case for the..... More
The Underground Man.
London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1971. [Crime Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Roy Belcher, priced at £1.50. Spotting to edges. Jacket quite heavily rubbed to edges with a few small chips. Very..... More
Mungo's Mansion: A Play of Galway Life in Three Acts.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1946. [Irish Drama] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 104. Plain grey paper covers. Light rubbing and handling to covers and edges. Near fine. More
Garnered.
London. Methuen. 1904. Short stories, some criminous. First Colonial Edition. 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth titled in gilt to spine, lightly worn to extremities with tape residue to rear panel. Essentially clean, strong and bright. A collection of Marsh stories including a couple of weird and fantastic ones; A Little..... More
Marpessa.
London: John Lane, 1901. [Poetry]. EARLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (15 x 12cm), pp.47 [1]. With seven wood engravings by Philip Connard, including a frontispiece and a tailpiece. In publisher's green limp latticed morocco-covered card covers, with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Black ink ownership inscription..... More
Maria and Some Other Dogs.
London: Methuen, 1949. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii, 126. With in-text illustrations by Somerville. In publisher's yellow cloth with blue titles to spine and blue dog motif to upper board. With original orange pictorial dust jacket. Chipping to jacket edges; one particularly large chip from front cover bottom edge. Good overall..... More
The Return of Sherlock Holmes [and] Dixon's Return [and] The Ebony Box [and] Eyes of Terror [and] Gervais of Blois [and] The Iron Maiden [and] The King and I [and] The Land Ironclads [and] Lawyer Quince [and] Liar and an Elephant [and] The Phoenix and the Carpet [and] Point of Law [and] The Country of the Blind [and] Dialstone Lane [and] Echo [and] Golden Bars [and] Sadi the Fiddler [and] Billy the King [and] The Diver's Story [and] The Girl on the Sands [and] An Irish Gentleman [and] The Messenger in Mufti [and] The Mistress of the Chateau [and] The Ring and the Lamp [and] A Splendid Rogue [and] The Temptation of Samuel Burge [and] That Brute Simmons [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 26, 27 and 28, complete.
London: George Newnes, July 1903 to December 1904. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three volumes. Octavo (24 x 27cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 724; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations, including Paget's famous illustrations for the Holmes stories. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and..... More
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
Jubilee.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. [Historical Fiction] EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. First edition, third printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[14] 497 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine and upper, maps to endpapers. Blue ink gift inscription from Attlee's daughter Janet (1923-2019) to half-title: 'Daddy | with..... More
Aurora Dawn. Or the True History of Andrew Reale, Containing a Faithful Account of the Great Riot, Together With the Complete Texts of Michael Wilde's Oration and Father Stanfield's Sermon.
London: James Barrie, 1947. [Modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.264. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 9/6 to front flap. Interior bright and clean, minor offsetting to endpapers. Some wear and chipping to dust-jacket extremities. Very good..... More
The 'Caine' Mutiny.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1951. [WWII novel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 494. Publisher's bright red cloth, cartographic endpapers, top edge red. With pictorial wrapper designed by Jean Main and David Cobb, priced at 15s. net. Gift inscription to half title. A near fine copy of the book..... More
The Caine Mutiny. A Novel of World War II.
New York: Doubleday, 1952. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, also described as 'DELUXE EDITION' to front panel. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo (23 x 16cm), p.494. Colour illustrations by Lawrence Beal Smith. Publisher's hardcover in pictorial dust-wrapper. Book is fine, price-clipped jacket has a little toning and edgewear and one chip..... More
Youngblood Hawke.
New York, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1962. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED TO C.P. SNOW, First Edition. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[8]; 783; [1]. INSCRIBED: 'For Sir Charles and Lady Pamela Snow - | a too-long momento of | a too-brief voyage, | from | Herman Wouk | "Queen Mary" NY-Cherbourg |..... More
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