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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
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 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
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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