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Don Juan, A Play in Three Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1926. LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.xiv, 160. With a frontispiece photograph of the author. Number 150 of 380 copies printed on hand made English paper. In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spine sunned; good overall. Flecker was inspired to write..... More
Yachting round the West of England.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1865. FIRST EDITION WITH TIPPED-IN INSCRIPTION. Octavo, pp.vi; 313; [1]; [12] of adverts. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration, professionally rebacked. Coloured frontispiece and black and white title page vignette. Some light spotting, mostly to prelims, occasional marking to the text-block, with an..... More
The Doomsters.
London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., A Crime Connoisseur Book, 1958. [Detective Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.[vi]; 225; [1], blank. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket priced 12/6. A crisp, fine example in like jacket with one creased tear to upper. Near fine- appears unread. Another case for the..... More
Garnered.
London. Methuen. 1904. Short stories, some criminous. First Colonial Edition. 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth titled in gilt to spine, lightly worn to extremities with tape residue to rear panel. Essentially clean, strong and bright. A collection of Marsh stories including a couple of weird and fantastic ones; A Little..... More
Marpessa.
London: John Lane, 1901. [Poetry]. EARLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (15 x 12cm), pp.47 [1]. With seven wood engravings by Philip Connard, including a frontispiece and a tailpiece. In publisher's green limp latticed morocco-covered card covers, with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Black ink ownership inscription..... More
Maria and Some Other Dogs.
London: Methuen, 1949. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii, 126. With in-text illustrations by Somerville. In publisher's yellow cloth with blue titles to spine and blue dog motif to upper board. With original orange pictorial dust jacket. Chipping to jacket edges; one particularly large chip from front cover bottom edge. Good overall..... More
The Sweet Cry of Hounds.
London: Methuen and Co., 1936. FIRST EDITION. Foolscap Quarto (22x18cm). pp. x, 132. With 4 full-page illustrated plates including frontispiece, and 17 further in-text illustrations by the author, Edith Somerville. In publisher's mauve cloth with gilt titles to white cloth label on spine. With original orange and white dust jacket..... More
The Caine Mutiny. A Novel of World War II.
New York: Doubleday, 1952. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, also described as 'DELUXE EDITION' to front panel. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo (23 x 16cm), p.494. Colour illustrations by Lawrence Beal Smith. Publisher's hardcover in pictorial dust-wrapper. Book is fine, price-clipped jacket has a little toning and edgewear and one chip..... More
Youngblood Hawke.
New York, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1962. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED TO C.P. SNOW, First Edition. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[8]; 783; [1]. INSCRIBED: 'For Sir Charles and Lady Pamela Snow - | a too-long momento of | a too-brief voyage, | from | Herman Wouk | "Queen Mary" NY-Cherbourg |..... More
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