Literature
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Biggles in the South Seas.
London: Oxford University Press, 1940 [circa 1942]. [Children's Adventure] EARLY REPRINT. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. With a colour frontispiece and six other black and white illustrations by Howard. Publisher's tan cloth with brown titles to spine and upper, and brown decoration matching the First to upper only. With..... More
Biggles Sees It Through.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1947. [Children's Adventure] Vintage hardcover. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254; [2], blank. With a colour frontispiece and six full-page black and white illustrations by Alfred Sindall. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, 'Flying Jacket' series wrapper on economy paper (another jacket..... More
Selected Poems.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1971. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.126 [2]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket. A crisp, clean copy showing some toning the spine of the price-clipped jacket. Near fine. More
An American Dream.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1965. [American Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.271 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket designed by Tom Adams, priced at 25s. Fore-edge a little toned, with some toning also to jacket spine, and rubbing and..... More
Why Are We in Vietnam?
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. [Modern novel]. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.208. Publisher's dark grey cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Holmes/Kitley Associates. Sunday Times book review by Paul Theroux loosely inserted. Cloth slightly rubbed to extremities. Dust-jacket shows well, slight lifting of the..... More
The Old Man of the Mountains. A Play in Three Acts.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1946. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.76. Publisher's orange cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 6s to front flap. Light spotting to endpapers. Toning and spotting to edges. Some mottling to the top of upper board. Rubbing to..... More
The Life of Graham Greene: Volume One, 1904-1939 [together with] Volume Two, 1939-1955 [and] Volume Three, 1955-1991.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1989, 1994, 2004. [Literary Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes, large octavo (24 x 16 x 16cm). With three suites of black and white photographs within each volume. Publisher's cloth hardcovers in jacket. Inscribed by the late Norman Sherry to title pages in blue ink 'For Edward..... 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
Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men.
London: a Panther Book by Hamilton & Co., 1960. [Beat Anthology] FIRST THUS. Octavo paperback (18 x 11cm), pp.319 [1]. Publisher's colour photographic soft covers, priced at 3/6. Heavily browned, as usual, with light wear and creasing to covers. Very good. More
The Best from Playboy Number Five.
Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1971. [Anthology] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (28 x 21cm), pp.196. Illustrated in colour throughout, with central folding plate. Publisher's illustrated soft covers, priced at $2.50. Some rubbing to covers, with spotting to preliminaries, and occasionally throughout. Very good. Another round-up of notable articles published in Playboy..... More
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