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— Marcel Proust
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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales with Pictures that Spring to Life. Bookano Series.
London: Strand Publications, no date [circa 1938]. [Pop-Up Fairy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.[62]. With four colour-illustrated pop-up scenes, a colour frontispiece and vignette title page, and several line-drawn illustrations, all by Wickham, and design and arrangement by Giraud. Publisher's colour illustrated paper-covered boards, with endpapers illustrated..... More
The Big Four.
London: W. Collins and Sons. 1927. [Crime] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.v, 281; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in red to spine and upper. Some spotting to contents and edges (thick, fluffy paper is susceptible), covers fresh and bright, spine gently toned, lightly worn at tips. A very..... More
The Corrections.
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, First Issue, with the loose errata slip. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 568. Publisher's quarter navy paper with silver titles to spine, and grey paper over boards. With the dust-jacket designed by Lynn Buckley, priced at $26.00. Minor..... More
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His Dark Materials; 1. Northern Lights [Golden Compass] 2. The Subtle Knife 3. The Amber Spyglass.
London: Point, David Fickling and Scholastic Press, 1995-2000. ALL FIRST EDITIONS. First issue of first title, the remaining two books not being subject to issue points. First title with neat production crease to two leaves [pp.183-5], one of which also appears to be a cancel, spine a little sunned, other..... More
Paris.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2013. [Historical fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16]; 734; [2]. Publisher's red cloth, metallic blue titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket with printed price of £18.99. Signed by the author to the title page with a Hatchards promotional band around the wrapper. A faint..... More
The Works of William Shakespeare.
London: Archibald Constable, n.d [c.1910]. FINELY BOUND EDITION. 12 volumes. Crown octavo (19 x 14 x 40cm). Half scarlet calf by The Times Bindery, with green morocco title labels, gilt to spine, matching buckram sides, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Contents a little thumbed, bindings with the odd mark or..... More
The Man Who...
Bristol: Scorpion Press, 1992. [Detective Short Stories] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] x, 230. Number 121 of just 125 copies SIGNED by all the contributors in various inks to preliminary leaves. Also with an illustrated frontispiece tipped in. Book mark for 'Murder by the Book' bookstore in..... More
The Brading Collection.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1952. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Light offsetting to endpapers. Price-clipped jacket lightly rubbed to edges with some minor closed tears, tape to reverse. Near fine. The seventeenth of 32..... More
The Swoop! Or, How Clarence Saved England.
London: Alston Rivers, 1909. [Satire/humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 12cm). Pp. 122; [6], advertisements. With illustrations. In an elegant vintage binding of quarter native red morocco over patterned paper covered sides, leather-tipped corners, gilt titles and decoration to spine, original colour-printed wraps bound in, marbled endpapers. A lovely fine..... More
The Man With Two Left Feet.
New York, NY: A.L. Burt Company, 1933. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.283; [1], blank. Publisher's orange cloth, with black titles and decoration, top edge tinted orange, pictorial jacket by Harry Beckhoff. Contents clean, cloth fresh. A lovely fine copy in a very slightly used jacket... More
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