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Celebrity Cooking. Foreword by A. Dickson Wright.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1967. [Cookery anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.240. With vignette illustrations within the text. Publisher's black cloth hardcovers in photographic dust-jacket priced 18s. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Jacket worn, with some chips and tears. Overall very good. Despite faults this is a scarce book in..... More
A High Wind In Jamaica, within Life And Letters, Vol 3, No.15.
London: Printed by Curwen and Sons, August 1929. Historical Fiction. First appearance in print of this novel by Richard Hughes; a slightly abridged version in this monthly journal edited by Desmond McCarthy. Magazine format in original printed softcovers. Minor spine roll, discreet owner name; a very good copy indeed. The..... More
Far From The Sea.
London: Hamish Hamilton, [1983]. UNCORRECTED PROOF from American crime writer, bound in soft blue card covers. Very clean both externally and internally with extremely limited signs of wear. Black lettering on cover appears rubbed but this is possibly due to printing. Near-fine. More
Fuzz: An 87th Precinct Mystery.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1968. FIRST UK EDITION. Crown Octavo, pp.216. In publisher's blue cloth with red titles to spine. With original pictorial dust jacket. Blue ink stamps of the Athole Palace Hotel (near Pitlochry in Perthshire) to front free end-paper. Slight reading lean; occasional creases from turned over page corners..... More
Jazz 1955-1959. 61
Amsterdam: Fragment Uitgeverij, 1991. First Dutch Edition, having previously published in Japan. Square octavo, with 190 photographic plates. Bound in publisher's printed softcovers with striking pictorial jacket. A clean, fine copy, with a signature to half-title 'Joost Divend'. Ed van der Elsken was a prolific Dutch artist, photographer, and filmmaker..... 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
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