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Hilda Wade.
London: Grant Richards, 1900. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. A used copy with some shelfwear,rubbed to extremities, gilt illustration rubbed to upper, discreet owner stamp to flyleaf, inside paper joint cracked. Very good. Illustrated throughout by Gordon Browne..... More
Captain Bulldog Drummond.
London; Hodder and Stoughton. 1945. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's oatmeal cloth titled in black to spine. Lightly bumped to extremities, very good indeed. In a dustwrapper that has been somewhat misused, possibly by dastardly enemies of a foreign power. Tape has been used to reinforce the extremities and inner hinges..... More
They Found Each Other.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1946. [WWII Thriller] FIRST EDITION, Ex Libris OTTO PENZLER. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Burgundy publisher's cloth with black titles to spine and upper. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Bip Pares, priced at 8/6. Minor toning to edges. Jacket shows some wear to edges and..... More
They Found Each Other.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1946. [WWII Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Burgundy publisher's cloth with black titles to spine and upper. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Bip Pares, priced at 8/6. A lightly used copy, jacket with a few nicks and tears, small amount of colour bleed..... More
Hornblower and The Atropos.
Boston: Little Brown and Company. 1953. [Naval Adventure] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION, from the Forester Family Archive. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 325 [3]. INSCRIBED by Forester in black ink to his wife, Dorothy, on the front flyleaf. Bookplate of the Forester, Troughton-Smith family archive to pastedown. Publisher's green cloth..... More
The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1959. [Wartime naval history] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 138. Illustrated with maps. Publisher's blue cloth titled in silver to the spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at $3.50. Contents clean, owner bookplate to pastedown, jacket with a few small nicks and..... More
The Sky and the Forest.
London: Michael Joseph, 1948. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.219. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket. Book is fine; jacket near fine with one short tear to crown. A most attractive copy. More
A Moveable Feast.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Modern Literature] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY in oversized PROOF-ONLY dust-wrapper designed by Hans Tisdall, priced at 18s. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's lime-green softcovers in jacket with bold 'PROOF ONLY' text to rear flap with provisional publication date printed below. Proof copies feature the mis-print 'movable'..... More
Juan in China.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1937. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.383 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to a burgundy title square on spine, typographic dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Black ink ownership to title page, textblock toned to edges, light rubbing to cloth. Jacket heavily rubbed to..... More
Night on The Devil's Pathway. [Night on the Pathway]. A Master Thriller.
London: The World's Work, 1938. [American Crime Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo. Publisher's light green cloth titled in black to spine and upper. With the colour illustrated dust-jacket. Very light wear to spine ends. dustwrapper, bright, sharp and clean with very slight wear to head and tail of spine. Trifling..... More
Slide Rule. The Autobiography of An Engineer.
London: Pan Books 1968. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.222; [2], advertisements. With four black and white photographic plates. Lightly handled; a crisp, fine copy. More
London Toy Books: Aunt Louisa's Sea Side.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [1867]. [Children's Illustrated] FINE CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS. Quarto (27 x 23cm), six leaves of text printed to recto only, with six very fine chromolithographic plates. Publisher's brightly illustrated pink card covers, with titles to front cover and advertisements to back cover. Some light browning and..... More
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