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— Mark Twain
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Poems.
Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1935. [Poetry]. FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.x; 98; [4]. One of five hundred copies printed for presentation of the Ratcliffe Hicks Prize at Brown University, this copy being awarded to Frederick Annis Hellman of the class of 1937. handsomely bound by... More
Soldier Tales.
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1896. [Literature]. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 172. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spin, gilt motif to upper board. all edges gilt, blue coated endpapers. Illustrated with twenty-one plates. Embossed presentation copy stamp to title page. Some light spotting... More
The Shadowy Waters.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1900. [Drama]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.57; [3]. Publisher's dark blue ribbed cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt floral motif with dropped petal to upper board, top edge gilt others untrimmed. Bookseller's ticket and a discreet date inscription to pastedown. Some light spotting to... More
Autobiography.
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873. [Biography]. FIRST EDITION. First issue with no errata at rear. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.vi; 313; [1]; [2 of Publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's green pebble grained cloth, gilt titles to spine, brown coated endpapers. Binder's ticket to rear pastedown. Neat ownership to flyleaf. Text... More
Rene Magritte. Beyond Painting.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. [Art]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 238; [2]. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, bright blue endpapers, photographic dust-jacket. Illustrated with numerous black and white images in text and a suite of colour images. A fine copy. More
Eastern Approaches.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1949. [Military history]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.543; [1]. Twelve half-tone plates and three folding maps. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted red, typographic dust-jacket priced at 15s. Internally clean, some spotting to edges. Cloth shows well, slightly rubbed to extremities... More
The Ingoldsby Legends. Or Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1855. [Literature]. FINELY BOUND. Eleventh edition. Three volumes, octavo (21 x 14 x 9cm). Illustrated title pages and a further nineteen plates, plus occasional in-text vignettes. Beautifully bound by Bickers and Son in full polished tan calf, gilt titles to contrasting labels to spines, extra gilt to... More
A Room With A View.
London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1908. [English Literature]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 324; [8], advertisements. 2000 copies only. Publisher's burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper. Contents shaken within the case, some thumbing, a few preliminary leaves frayed at fore-edge, binding rubbed, darkened to spine... More
The History of Don Quixote.
London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, circa 1880. DORE ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 27cm), pp. xxviii, 737. With 118 full-page engraved illustrations by Gustave Dore, as well as numerous in-text illustrations. Original half black morocco, gilt, over green cloth sides, marbled endpapers, All edges gilt. Mostly clean within, title page... More
Thieves' Picnic.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937. [Thriller]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.316; [4 of publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in black to spine and upper, blue endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket. Textblock clean and bright, faint creases where a couple of page corners have been folded over, some toning to... More
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1979. [Horror/Macabre]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.157; [3], blank. ADVANCE COPY FOR REVIEW. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket by Malcolm Ashman, priced at £4.95. Top edge a little dusty otherwise unread in a fine jacket, lightly marked to spine. With Gollancz's... More
The Caterpillar Cop.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1972. [Thriller]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket. Armorial bookplate to flyleaf, slight creasing to top edge of the dust-jacket. Fine. More
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The Thirty-Nine Steps [39 Steps].
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. [Espionage thriller]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13), pp.253; [blank]; [2 of publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's mid blue cloth, titles in darker blue to spine and upper board. Re-cased with later bright white endpapers. Textblock somewhat toned as usual. Cloth shows well, slightly... More
A Tract On Monetary Reform.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923. [Economics]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 209; [blank]; [4 of advertisements]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, brown typographic dust-jacket. Text block marginally toned, some slight offsetting to endpapers. Cloth shows very well, slightly rubbed to extremities, spine ends a little... More
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty.
London: Chapman and Hall, [1841]. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, bound with unaltered stereotype sheets from the original triple-decker; an unrecorded variant. Octavo (26 x 17cm). With textual engravings by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Brown ('Phiz'). Smith's later issue with Piccadilly address shown on an undated title page. In our copy... More
Adonis Attis Osiris. Studies in the History of Oriental Religion.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Religion]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 339; [blank]; [4 of publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Internally fine. Remains of a small label to top of spine, spine head very slightly chipped, cloth lightly rubbed to extremities. Near fine. More
The Shetland Plan.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. [Wartime espionage]. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by the author. Crown Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.352. Publisher's dark blue cloth, blocked in white, in full-colour dust-wrapper illustrated by Bip Pares, priced at 7/6. Presentation note to flyleaf "Signed / for / Eileen M. Cond / by the... More
The Writings of George Washington. Being his Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and other Papers, Official and Private, selected and published from the Original Manuscripts. With A Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations by Jared Sparks.
Boston: American Stationers' Company; Boston: Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf, and Hilliard, Gray, and Co.; Boston: Russell, Shattuck, and Williams, and Hilliard, Gray, and Co. 1834-1837. [American History]. First Sparks Edition, also The First Collected Edition, large paper copies. Twelve volumes,quarto (26 x 18 x 52cm). All first issues except volume... More
Drawing Blood: Forty-Five Years of Scarfe Uncensored.
London: Little, Brown for Time Warner Books, 2005. [Political Cartoons]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.352. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. SIGNED by Scarfe in black ink to the half-title. Publisher's black cloth with red titles to spine and upper board. With the red illustrated... More
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In Seven Parts.
London: George G. Harrap, 1910. [Illustrated Poetry]. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 24cm), unpaginated. With 19 mounted chromolithographic plates, a chromolithographic title page and numerous further dichromatic wood engraved illustration, all set amidst sumptuous dichromatic text pages with elaborate border decoration. Number 19 of just 525 copies SIGNED by... More
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Factory, Homestores, Studio, Outdoor, Live on Tour, Backstage, Solo.
Berlin: Schwarzkopf und Schwarzkopf, 2003. [Rock Photography]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 25cm). Publisher's burgundy cloth with the colour illustrated dust-jacket. Still in the original shrinkwrap. Fine as-new. More
Goodbye Mickey Mouse.
London: Hutchinson, 1982. [Wartime air adventure]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.395; [5], blank. Publisher's red cloth hardcover in illustrated dust-wrapper. As new. A remarkably fine copy. A popular read and certainly not a scarce book, but increasingly uncommon in anything approaching fine condition. Milward-Oliver; Len Deighton Annotated Bibliography p.43. More
Black Beauty.
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1915. [Children's Illustrated]. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 24cm), pp.[4] x; 226 [2]. Number 225 of 600 copies SIGNED by the illustrator (150 copies reserved for the American Market). With 30 mounted chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by Kemp-Welch, and numerous in-text wood... More
XPD.
London: Hutchinson, 1981. [Post-war spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 397; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth hardcover, red endpapers, in photographic dust-wrapper. Minor spotting to top edge else a fine copy in a fine unfaded wrapper. A popular read and certainly not a scarce book, but increasingly... More
The Story of Loopy and Loo. Especially Written for Children of All Ages.
Tunbridge Wells: The Tunbridge Wells School of Art and Crafts, 1945. [Children's Illustrated]. PRIVATELY PRINTED PAMPHLET. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.[12]. Illustrated throughout with striking red, blue and green lino-cuts by Minnie Sutton. In original blue and red illustrated card covers, sewn. The very lightest of wear; near-fine. No copies... More