Literature
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The Burning Question.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1957. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Randell, priced at 10/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (31 x 25cm)..... More
Long Shadows.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1958. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by William Randell, priced at 10/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (29 x...... More
'The London Magazine'. Edited by John Lehmann, Complete Vol.6, in 12 issues, 1959.
London, William Heinemann Ltd, Printed at the Shenval Press. 1959. [Literary magazine] Bound volume collecting twelve issues (the complete year, 1959), with the general index not included in the single issues. Octavo (22 x 15cm). Red buckram, lettered in gilt to spine, institutional blind-stamp to rear cover. Contents clean, one..... More
Clutch of Constables.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1968. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.253; [3], blank. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated endpapers showing map of the river, typographic dust-jacket by Kenneth Farnhill priced at 21s. A particularly fine copy. Murder-mystery aboard a canal boat..... More
Scales of Justice.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1955. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated endpapers showing map of Swevenings, pictorial dust-jacket by priced at 6s. No inscriptions, page edge toned, contents clean. Jacket bright and fresh with some minor..... More
An Adventure.
London: Faber and Faber, 1934. [Paranormal Activity] FOURTH EDITION, third impression thus. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.118 [2]. With four folding maps at rear. Publisher's light green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Blind ex-libris stamp of Alan H. Hooker to fly-leaf. A touch of light spotting to endpapers, otherwise..... More
The Enchanted Castle.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1907. [Children's Fantasy Adventure] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.352 [2]. With 47 engraved illustrations by Millar, including a frontispiece. Recently re-bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original publisher's gilt-decorated red cloth over boards. Top edge..... More
Oswald Bastable and Others. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock and H. R. Millar.
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1905. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; [vii-viii], seemingly misbound; 1-369; [1], blank; [9], ads; [1], blank. Text in first state. Publisher's burgundy cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, t.e.g. Illustrated with plates (all present) and one drawing..... More
The Story of the Treasure Seekers. Being the Adventures of the Barnstable Children in Search of a Fortune.
London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1899. [Children's classic]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; [2]; 296; [2]; [2 of advertisements]; [8 of publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's blue-green cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, all edges gilt. Illustrated with seventeen plates. Slight reading lean, contents shaken within case. plate..... More
The Story of the Treasure Seekers. Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; [2]; 296; [2]; [2 of advertisements]; [8 of publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's blue-green cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, all edges gilt. Illustrated with seventeen plates. Contents clean, owner's stamp to flyleaf, binding shows..... More
The Marriage of Meggotta.
London: Macmillan, 1979. [Romantic fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's green cloth titled in silver to spine, endpapers illustrated with family trees, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Claire Davies, priced at £5.50 net. Slight dustiness to top edge, otherwise a fine copy. Based on Margaret de Burgh, daughter..... More
The Grass Widow's Tale.
London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1968. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket designed by Brian Russell with printed price of 18s to front flap. Minimal splitting to hinges, light toning to edges of textblock, bumping to base..... More
Gold Coast Customs.
London: Duckworth, 1929. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[63 [1]. With a black and white portrait frontispiece of the author. Publisher's black cloth lettered in red to spine and upper. With the illustrated orange dust-jacket, priced at 5s to front flap. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise internally..... More
The Shadow of Cain.
London: John Lehmann, 1947. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.18 [6]. Publisher's cyan paper-covered boards titled in black to upper. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at 3/6. Light toning and spotting. Jacket a little rubbed and toned to edges. Near fine. More
The Song of the Cold.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1945. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 116. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green and purple decorated dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Toning to jacket spine, with losses to head and tail, and light rubbing and chipping to edges. Very..... More
Poor Young People.
London: The Fleuron, 1925. [Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.[10] 60 [2]. With illustrations, many coloured, by Rutherston, including a frontispiece. Number 284 of 375 copies thus, printed at the Curwen Press, Plaistow. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Fore and lower edges untrimmed..... More
Sitwelliana. 1915 * 1927. Being a Handlist of Works by Edith, Osbert and Sackeverell Sitwell and of their Contributions to Certain Selected Periodicals.
London: Duckworth. 1928. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. pp. x, 24. No. 33 of just 50 copies printed for the Double Crown Club. In paper covered boards with title to upper board. Internally clean and crisp, with noticable browning to spine. Very good overall. Together with an introduction and notes on..... More
The Joy of Living. (Es Lebe Das Leben) A Play in Five Acts.
London: Duckworth & Co., 1903. [German Drama] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, INSCRIBED BY MRS PATRICK CAMPBELL. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 185 [3]. Publisher's cream vegetable parchment over boards, with gilt titles to spine and upper, and green decoration to upper. All edges untrimmed. With a hand-written invitation to..... More
[The Trial of Madame Laffarge for Poisoning her Husband], The Mystery of Marie Lafarge.
London: Clerke and Cockeran, 1840 and 1951. [Original news clippings scrapbook] First Use of Forensic Evidence, contemporary newspaper reports, with a first edition of the 1951 biography by Edith Saunders. Quarto (29 x 24cm), and octavo (22 x 15cm), 31 leaves with newspaper clippings pasted to recto only in two..... More
The Monthly Chapbook: Twenty-Three New Poems by Contemporary Poets. Number One, Volume One.
London: The Poetry Bookshop, July 1919. [Poetry Periodical] ORIGINAL PERIODICAL. Octavo (23 x 18cm), pp.iv; 32; v-viii. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, sewn, and priced at 1s. Original subscription form bound in at rear. Covers and contents page toned, with a crease to front cover, and some rubbing and chipping to..... More
Stalky and Co. [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume 9.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1898 to May 1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.vi; 754. With numerous photogravure illustrations. Publisher's green cloth over boards, with gilt and brown titles and decoration to spine and upper. Floral-patterned endpapers. Pink 'Book Fund' book plate to front pastedown..... More
The Fruit of the Tree.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. [Ethical Romance] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 633 [7]. With three black and white half-tone plates by Kimball, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Fore-edge untrimmed. A small black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Gently..... More
Madame de Treymes.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 147 [5]. With a colour frontispiece and one further colour-illustrated plate. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and gilt decoration to upper. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Heavy pencil ownership..... More
A Son at the Front.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.426. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and upper board, fore-edge untrimmed. Spine slightly sunned and gilding dulled; otherwise very good indeed. More
Certain People.
London, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1930. FIRST EDITION from a Pulitzer prize-winning American novelist. Octavo, pp.232. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with a floral border in gilt along top edge of front board and spine, repeated floral motif in gilt, title and author's name to front board and..... More
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