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New Arrivals
The Moon-Voyage. Containing "From the Earth to the Moon," and "Round the Moon."
London: Ward, Lock & Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Science Fiction] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.132; 7-147 [13]. With a half-tone frontispiece by Austin to each of the two parts. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and red and white decoration to spine and upper..... More
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The Steam House: The Demon of Cawnpore [and] Tigers and Traitors.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. [Science Fiction Adventure] SECOND UK EDITIONS. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (19 x 16cm), pp.viii; 262 [2]; pp.viii; 246 [2]. With a total of 98 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and..... More
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The Dram-Shop. [L'Assommoir].
London: Chatto & Windus, 1897. [French Literature] FIRST THUS, an early English translation. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 410 [34]. Advertisements at rear dated September 1897. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, black to upper, and grey and black decoration to spine and upper. Endpapers patterned in blue..... More
A Study In Scarlet. American Series of Famous Fiction, Edited by Dr. Jno. Rudd, B.A.
Deposit, NY: The A.S. Wickwire Press, no date [circa 1912]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 175 [3]. Publisher's green leather-grained half cloth with gilt titles to spine and Papier Tourniquet over boards. Grey patterned endpapers. Black ink gift inscription to first blank, dated 1912. Damp mark..... More
A Study In Scarlet.
New York, NY: Hurst and Company, no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.176. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spine. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Rear hinge badly split, with fly-leaf detached; front fly-leaf nearly detached. Extremely heavily browned and brittle throughout. Quite..... More
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A Study In Scarlet. [My Friend the Murderer and The Man from Archangel].
New York, NY: George Munro's Sons, no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.177 [1]; 20; 97-122 [2]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Binding detached and re-applied with glue quite roughly to spine, creating a tight back. Front fly-leaf detached, with some..... More
A Study In Scarlet.
New York, NY: William L. Allison & Co., no date [1899]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.188 [4]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind decoration to boards. Fly-leaf detached, with a black ink gift inscription dated 1899. Repairs to split rear hinge. Extremely..... More
Victory. War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill C.H., M.P. 1945.
London: Cassell and Company, 1946. [World War II] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 239; [1], blank. Illustrated with half-tone plates. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in typographic dust-jacket priced at 12/6. Edges dusty, jacket with some rubbing and edge tears. No inscriptions, very good. The penultimate..... More
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A Study In Scarlet. [A Case of Identity].
Chicago, MI: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.230. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to spine and black decoration to spine and upper. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Extremely browned and brittle throughout. Title page nearly detached, with chipping..... More
A Study In Scarlet.
Rahway, NJ: The Mershon Company, no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.iv; 216 [4]. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Clean and bright internally, with just a hint of browning to endpapers. Some toning and water sprinkling to spine..... More
The Sign of the Four.
New York, NY: The Federal Book Company, no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.176. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, and green and blue decoration to spine and upper. Pencil ownership to front pastedown, and purple ownership stamp to fly-leaf. Extremely browned..... More
The Sign of the Four.
New York, NY: Hurst & Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 176 [8]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and black decoration to spine and upper. Extremely heavily browned and brittle throughout. p.173/4 detached, with heavy chipping to margins. Remarkably..... More
The Sign of the Four.
New York, NY: William L. Allison Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.176. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Repairs to split endpapers. Quite heavily browned and brittle throughout. Moderate wear to cloth, with some white marks to..... More
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The Sign of the Four. [A Night Among the Nihilists and Cyprian Overbeck Wells].
New York, NY: Street & Smith, no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 176; 42 [6]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and black titles to upper. bookplate to front pastedown, and a small red ownership stamp to fly-leaf. Some light offsetting..... More
The Blockade Runners.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1876. [Historical Adventure] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION IN ENGLISH, second issue in hard covers. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 120 [16]. With 14 engraved plates by Férat and Hildibrand, and a frontispiece portrait of the author by Bertrand. Publisher's puce cloth with gilt titles..... More
Lydden: A Parish History.
Dover: Thomas Beckett Books, 1967. [Topography] FIRST EDITION and SUBSCRIBERS' EDITION with order form. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.98. With a folding map at centre, folding family tree at rear, and four black and white photographic illustrations. Publisher's glossy card covers, both copies with the matching dust-jacket. Order form consists..... More
Status of the Family Society of Prayer.
Parkminster, Cowfold: Printed by the author, 1905. [Catholic Religious Society Almanac] RARE ALMANAC EX LIBRIS DENIS HEALEY. Octavo (16 x 10cm), unpaginated. Very finely printed in several colours, including gilt, and two photogravure illustrations tipped-in. Stamped as copy number 60, of print run unlikely to have been above 100. Hand-bound..... More
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For Bond Lovers Only [The Files on that Man].
London: Panther Books, 1965. FIRST PRINTING. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.175; [1] advertisement, with 48 full-page plates. A Paperback original, with photographic softcovers. Cheap paper stock toned as expected, name and price in ink to flyleaf, reading crease to spine. Very good. A fine selection of literary and cinematic James..... More
A Journey To The Centre of the Earth.
London: George Routledge & Sons, no date [circa 1892]. [Science Fiction] VINTAGE COPY, the best early translation. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles, and black and gilt decoration, to spine and upper. All edges gilt; black endpapers. Ipswich School Board prize plate to front..... More
The Sign of the Four.
New York, NY: The Mershon Company, no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Duodecimo (17 x 12cm), pp.189 [3]. With a photographic frontispiece of the author. Publisher's tan cloth with red and green titles and decoration to spine and boards. Top edge gilt. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Moderate..... More
The Sign of the Four.
New York, NY: Optimus Printing Company, no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Duodecimo (17 x 11cm), pp.176. Publisher's cream cloth with brown titles and decoration to spine and upper. Extremely heavily browned and brittle throughout. Front fly-leaf and title page, as well as a number of internal leaves..... More
The Sign of the Four.
Chicago, MI: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.229 [5]. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles and decoration to spine and upper. Patterned endpapers. Heavily browned and brittle throughout. Front fly-leaf and title page both split along the guttering and..... More
The Sign of the Four.
Chicago, MI: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.229 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles and decoration to spine and upper. Quite heavily browned throughout, with heavy chipping to lower corner of text-block. Hinges split; front fly-leaf lost. Personal..... More
The Sign of the Four.
Chicago, MI: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.229 [5]. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles and decoration to spine and upper. Patterned endpapers. Bookseller's sales label to front pastedown. Lightly browned throughout. Slightly bowed and cocked, with some speckling..... More
A Study In Scarlet.
Chicago, MI: M.A. Donohue & Company, no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.198 [12]. Publisher's green cloth with red and green titles and decoration to spine and upper. Black ink ownership stamp to fly-leaf. Extremely heavily browned and brittle throughout. Some advertisement leaves at..... More