Literature
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Head of a Traveller.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1949. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Spine sunned; a good, used copy without the jacket. The baffling case of a headless corpse found in..... More
The Morning After Death
London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1966. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.224. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. Contents clean, edges toned, owner inscription to f.e.p., p/c jacket with some chips and tears, gummed paper to reverse side at spine ends..... More
Thou Shell of Death.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, [1937]. [Crime Mystery] VINTAGE REPRINT. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's brick red cloth with black titles to spine. An undated early printing (almost certainly the second) in exactly the same format as the dated first edition (1935); the list of other..... More
Blake's Poetry and Prose.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. [Literature] PUBLISHER'S DELUXE BINDING. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.1152. Limp binding with yapp edges, gilt tooling to front and back covers, gilt lettering to spine. Spotting to preliminaries and rear blanks, spotting to edges of textblock, sunning to spine and wear to gilt, bumping to..... More
Songs of Innocence.
London: Ernest Benn, 1926. [Illustrated Poetry] FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (26 x 19cm), unpaginated. Publisher's black cloth with gilt tooling and gilt lettering to spine. Coloured illustrations throughout. Toning to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, bumping to corners and especially to front board's upper right corner. Very good. Reproduced in..... More
Rough Husbandry.
London: Hutchinson, 1965. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.142; [2]. With a double page title illustration, occasional in-text illustrations and dust-jacket design by Blake. In publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine and red illustration to upper board. With original bright red pictorial dust-jacket. Slight reading lean. Jacket price-clipped, with very..... More
Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1994. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 20), pp. 61. Illustrative card wrapped over boards with Quentin Blake illustrations. Photographs throughout depicting the food, Blake illustrations throughout both small in text illustrations and full page illustrations. Some scuffing to boards. Near fine. Felicity Dahl married Roald..... More
Roald Dahl's Mischievous Chocolate Factory Children and Roald Dahl's Miraculous Ever-Growing Tortoise.
London: Puffin, 2018. [Children's Literature] UNOPENED, HAPPY READERS EDITION. Two volumes. Duodecimo (14 x 11). Illustrated soft card covers in unopened original bags. Unopened. As new. These books are from the Happy Readers series that were distributed by McDonald's in their happy meals. These books feature the beloved characters that..... More
The Magic Finger.
London: Viking, 1995. [Children's Adventure] FIRST BLAKE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.64. With frequent in-text illustrations by Blake; large print. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. Moderate toning to paper, as usual, jacket with a few small nicks, spine gently..... More
Matilda.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. [Children's Literature] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.240. With in-text illustrations by Blake throughout. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated jacket, also by Blake, priced at £8.50. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Jacket has a few very faint marks/spots..... More
The Sheikh and the Dustbin, and Other McAuslan Stories.
London: Collins Harvill, 1988. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.189 [3]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Quentin Blake priced at £10.95. A pristine copy. As new. The third volume of McAuslan short stories, from the creator of 'Flashman'. More
Uncle.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2]; 160; [2]. With in-text line drawings by Blake throughout. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Recently re-bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and matching cloth over boards..... More
Under Milk Wood. A Play For Voices.
London: Queen Anne Press, Enitharmon Editions, 2013. [Modern classic] FIRST EDITION THUS, Deluxe Edition. Quarto (42 x 32cm in case), pp.173. Number 54 of 100 copies SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, with a separate signed and numbered original print entitled ''The Sailor's Arms''. Publisher's original green cloth with Blake illustration inlaid..... More
Plane Tales from the Skies.
London: Cassell and Company, 1918. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.x; 182. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by G.H. Tavis. A collection of fact-based short stories about early aerial combat in WWI, mostly on the Western Front. Faint ghost of a stamp..... More
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