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K.K.K. Sketches. Humorous and Didactic. Treating the more important events of the Ku-Klux-Klan movement in the South. With a Discussion of the Causes which gave rise to it, and the Social and Political Issues emanating from it.
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1877. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, rubbed and frayed, with gilt titles to spine and upper; brown end papers. Contents very good. More
The Golden Fluid.
London, Ward Lock and Co. 1935. FIRST EDITION, later state. Octavo. In the secondary binding of mid-green cloth, lettered in black, in original jacket repriced at 5/- and with publisher's book number overprinted to spine. The striking dust-wrapper depicts a burning city, a flask (presumably of said fluid, apparently the... More
Ode to LA while thinking of Brian Jones, deceased.
Los Angeles; Western Lithograph Co. [?] for J.D.Morrison. [July] 1969. FIRST EDITION (and the only separate edition). 500 copies only, privately distributed to concert-goers. Bifolium, 4-page pamphlet, (unpaginated). Pale yellow textured paper, printed in dark green, unbound as issued. Approx. dimensions 9.5 x 6 inches. With Linweave Textra watermark, 'Made... More
The Hound of the Baskervilles.
London: George Newnes, 1902. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.359. Illustrated with 16 plates by Paget. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and front, with a stylised hound in black to front. Internally clean with just a little toning to the page edges. No inscriptions or bookplates. Cloth... More
The Baker Street Journal. An Irregular Quarterly of Sherlockiana.
New York, Ben Abramson 1946-7. The scarce first eight numbers (two years) of the famous journal which has been in print ever since it first appeared in 1946. Named after the original Irregulars, a group of street urchins whom Holmes would employ for a shilling a day (plus expenses), with... More
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.
John Murray, London, 1929, First 'Cheap' edition [FIRST EDITION, Second Impression]. 8vo., pps. 320. Publisher's brown cloth, titled to spine in gilt, in pictorial dustwrapper. Some edge spotting, gilt to binding toned else binding is fine, 3/6 wrapper with minor wear/creases and a couple of short tears. A most attractive... More
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.
London: John Murray, 1929. FIRST CHEAP EDITION, third impression. Crown Octavo, pp.320. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind decoration to upper board. With original pictorial dust jacket. Text block heavily browned; spine lightly sunned, with some marks to cloth. Losses to head and tail of... More
His Last Bow. Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes.
London: John Murray, 1917. Detective short stories. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK-FORM. Octavo, pp.305; [6], ads. Elegantly bound in red full morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, marbled endpapers, original spine bound in at rear. Light occasional spotting within; recent leather binding is unmarked. An attractive copy. Includes... More
The Hound of The Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1905. COPYRIGHT EDITION, later impression. Duodecimo. pp. viii, 270 [32]. In publisher's paper covers with black titles. Final gathering (adverts) loose. Wear and browning to spine, otherwise very good. More
The Lost World. Being an Account of the Recent Amazing Adventures of Prefessor George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee, and Mr. E. D. Malone of the "Daily Gazette."
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1912. First Edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on label. Octavo. pp. vii, 319. With 5 monochrome plates featuring illustrations of dinosaurs and landscapes. Also featuring the clipped signature of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle affixed to the front pastedown. In maroon morocco leather binding of W. Perkins... More
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. With illustrations by Sidney Paget.
London: George Newnes, 1894. FIRST EDITION. Quarto. Frontispiece, half-title, title, pp.279. Elegantly hand-bound in full blue calf decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Internally clean (often foxed), top right corner of text block a little bumped, exterior fine. The second of the five original Sherlock Holmes story cpollections... More
The Valley of Fear. A Sherlock Holmes Story. With a frontispiece by Frank Wiles.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1915. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo; pp.306 plus 6 pages of ads. Publisher's red cloth with gilt tiles to spine and upper. Some spotting, flyleaves toned, covers with some soiling, backstrip sunned; a used copy but with no major defects. The fourth and final full-length Sherlock... More
![The Works of Arthur Conan Doyle [set of writings/novels including the Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four]. DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan.](/pictures/thumb/47917.jpg?v=1493311041)
The Works of Arthur Conan Doyle [set of writings/novels including the Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four].
London: Smith Elder, 1903. AUTHOR'S EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, LIMITED to 1000 sets of which this No 372, SIGNED by Conan Doyle in first volume. 12 volumes. Octavo. In fact only 510 sets were issued in 1903 (randomly numbered), all being bound by Smith Elder. The dormant 490 quires were reissued... More
Dylan In Woodstock.
UK: Genesis Publications. 2000. INSCRIBED BY DYLAN to half title; to a longtime friend- / Bob Dylan /6-28-06. Also signed by photographer Elliott Landy. LIMITED EDITION, 1750 copies. Folio, bound in quarter brown suede over printed photographic boards of Dylan by Landy, the same shot that was used for 1969's... More
The Meini Hirion and Sarns of Anglesey. Considered in relation to the early hundred system.
Published by the Author at Pen-y-Bont, Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey. 1927. First (and only edition, until very recently when the printers did a facsimile). 8vo. 54pp. Publisher's brown cloth titled in black to spine and front board. Minor edgewear, clean and bright, very good indeed. Internally clean, minor toning to... More
ALS to Squire and Lady Bancroft signed by William Gillette and "Sherlock Holmes".
1902. Single sheet of plain paper dated February 11th, 1902. Hand written note to Squire Bancroft and Effie Wilton, Lady Bancroft, declining a luncheon invitation due to a previous commitment. Written when Gillette was performing 'Sherlock Holmes' at the Lyceum theatre which he had written in collaboration with Arthur Conan... More
![The Iron Man [The Iron Giant], together with The Iron Woman. Signed. Ted HUGHES, , The TOWNSEND WHO, Pete.](/pictures/thumb/39598.jpg?v=1493310872)
The Iron Man [The Iron Giant], together with The Iron Woman. Signed.
London: Faber and Faber 1985. 1985 and 1993. 2 volumes, FIRST EDITIONS thus: 'The Iron Man' signed and inscribed by both composer Pete Townsend and author Ted Hughes, and the sequel being inscribed by Hughes. Publisher's uniform hardcovers in pictorial jackets. Fine/near fine. 'The Iron Man: The Musical' based on... More
An Esotericist Looks at Cosmology. The Hermetic Journal, Issue 24.
Privately Printed, 1984. ROBERT LENKIEWICZ'S COPY. Quarto, pp. 29-36. Hand-bound by Lenkiewicz between two plain plywood boards, with cream hand-lettered cloth pasted over as a spine. In two gatherings, each pasted to a board. Text appears to be photocopied. An unspeakably rude binding, but solid and functional. Good. From the... More
Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter
London: Thornton Butterworth 1928. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp323. Publisher's black cloth lettered in green, in original printed dust-jacket. Book is near fine; worn jacket with some chips and tears, larger loss to head of spine (not affecting titles). Remains an attractive copy, now uncommon in jacket. Advertised as 'Thrilling Adventures... More
Grapefruit. Works and Drawings by Yoko Ono. Introduction by John Lennon.
London: Peter Owen, 1970. Originally published as a limited edition of 500 copies [Tokyo, 1964], this is the FIRST EDITION in the English Language, being the first with contributions from John Lennon. Issued simultaneously with the New York Sphere printing. Small, square octavo, publisher's white cloth hardcovers in dustjacket.Bumped to... More
Demonology and Witchcraft.
London: John Murray, 1830. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.402. Engraved frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth. Very minor wear, a near fine copy. Neat ownership stamp from the appropriately named 'Black Hall'. This is a series of essays by the eminent historian Sir Walter Scott on the subject of the witch-craze, demonology, and... More
Songs by George Harrison, Volume 1 and Volume 2.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1987-1992. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. 2 volumes. With additional text by Ringo Starr, Elton John, Harry Nilsson and Jeff Lynne. Quarto, with colour plates and illustrations by West. Original black half-morocco boards, gilt edges, with limited edition CD 'Songs' and 'Songs 2', the whole contained in custom-made clamshell... More
The Discovery of The Dead.
London: A.C. Fifield, 1910. First edition. 8vo. Near fine in publisher's dark blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt and white to spine and front board. Minor edgewear and scuffing to extremities. Strong, bright and sharp. A very handsome copy indeed. Internally clean, minor spotting to prelims. An extremely scarce... More
Concert Programme, 1969.
Hastings Printing Company, Sussex 1969. Original programme for their UK tour, December 1969, being the first British shows to feature excerpts from the recently released double LP 'Tommy'. A4 format, approx.10 x 8 inches, illustrated soft card covers with printed price 3/6 to upper. 16-pages, illustrated with photographs of the... More
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