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London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1904-1909. [Complete Novels] FINELY BOUND COLOUR PLATE EDITION, later printings. Complete in 10 volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 24cm), pp.xxxii; 163 [3]; pp.[6] 218 [2]; pp.x; 191 [3]; pp.[2] 210 [2]; pp.viii; 245 [3]; pp.[6] 249 [3]; pp.[2] viii; 245 [3]; pp.[6] 258 [2];..... More
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1921. [Travel and Diplomacy] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[2] xiv; 215 [6]. With 29 double-sided black and white photographic plates, as well as a frontispiece, and two maps bound in. Also with the two folding maps loose in pouch to rear. In..... More
London: Bantam Press, 2018. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 307 [7]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and red endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket, priced at £20.00. Edges very slightly toned. A fine..... More
London: faber and faber, 2013. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 348 [12]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. Edges very slightly toned, with a promotional sticker..... More
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1886; 1879. [Philosophical Essays] FINELY BOUND, new editions. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] viii; 492; pp.iii-xii; 445 [3]. Lacking half-title to volume II. Contemporary brown full calf by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to black label and further..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[2] vi; 175 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed. Black ink ownership to first blank. Light toning throughout, and somewhat cocked. Spine toned, with moderate rubbing to cloth. Very good. A collection..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. [Poetry and Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8] 201 [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Edges untrimmed. Bookseller's blind stamp to fly-leaf. Light toning throughout, and somewhat cocked. Spine toned, with light rubbing to cloth. Very good. Including the title..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Verse Anthology] FINELY BOUND. Two volumes. Octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.[16] 387 [5]; pp.[16] 279 [5]. With a vignette title page to each volume. Very fine contemporary red full crushed morocco by RIVIERE AND SON of London, with raised bands, gilt titles to spines, and..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906 and 1907. [British Political Biography] FINE PRIZE BINDING, later impressions. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] vi; 239 [1]; pp.viii; 301 [3]. Contemporary burgundy full calf for Berkhamsted School, with raised bands, gilt titles to orange label and further gilt decoration..... More
Cambridge: The Minority Press, 1930. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (20 x 14cm), pp.34 [2]. With a loose leaf listing other publications, and another loose leaf folded twice, from 'The New Statesman and Nation' December 9, 1933, containing a short piece by Powys titled 'Jesus' Walk.' Publisher's grey paper..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1946. [Irish Drama] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 104. Plain grey paper covers. Light rubbing and handling to covers and edges. Near fine. More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1889. [History and Philosophy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a later edition. Three volumes bound as one. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.iv, 252; pp.iv; 260; pp.iv; 300 [2]. Contemporary red full calf for Clapham Middle School, with raised bands, gilt titles to green label and further gilt decoration..... More
Belfast: Festival Publications, 1965. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, an early reprint. Octavo pamphlet (20 x 13cm), pp.[16]. Publisher's green card covers, showing advertisements for the first and second series of poetry pamphlets, including reprints, to back cover priced at 3s. Light wear to corners. Almost as-new. Mahon's very first publication... More
London: Workers' International Press, 1940. [Marxism, Trotskyism, and Communist Revolution] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.[4] 218. Type-written and duplicated. Original blue cloth spine, hand-titled in red ink to labels, with plain green card covers. Some toning to edges and handling to covers. A few bumps to spine;..... More
Boston, MA: James Loring, 1828. [Music] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Duodecimo in half-sheets (15 x 10cm), pp.138. Publisher's red quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine, and pain pasteboards. Plain small bookplate to front pastedown. Black ink ownership to half-title. Light occasional spotting. Moderate wear to binding, with marks and stains..... More
London: Bloomsbury, 2017. [Drama] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 120 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's soft covers, priced by hand to sticker on back cover at £10.99. A fine, as-new copy. A political comedy from the writer of 'x+y' (2015)..... More
London: Four Corners, 2019. [Sound Recordings] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.160. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated soft covers, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10. Also with a publisher's bookmark loose to preliminaries. A fine, as-new copy. More
Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1905. [Political Essay] LIMITED EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.[10] 90 [8]. One of just 600 copies finely printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Publisher's plain card boards with grey paper over. Black titles to spine, and red and black titles to upper. All..... More
London: Evans Brothers, 1954. [Drama] FIRST UK EDITION, PRODUCER'S COPY. Two volumes; one working copy, and one ring-bound 'Producer's Copy.' Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.94 [2]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's green paper covers with black titles to spine and front cover, priced at 5s. Producer's Copy..... More
Athens: Graphopress, 2004. [Greek Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.71 [7]. All text in Greek. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf, dated 8th October 2005. Publisher's soft covers with a newspaper from March 1985 loose at rear. Very light handling. Near fine... More
London: Printed for C. Smith, 1827. VINTAGE MAP, seven miles to the inch, (48 X 53cm), being 12 segments backed onto linen, with details coloured in pink and green, and numbered references to Lathes and Hundreds. Folds into a contemporary green paper-coverd slipcase with a plain paper label (13 x...... More
UK: 007 Magazine and Archive Ltd., 2011. Magazine format in pictorial glossy card wraps, stapled at spine. Pp.34. 'A Deluxe Limited Edition Publication' with colour photographs throughout. Fine / as new. Includes a tribute to the James Bond cover artist Raymond Hawkey by Edward Milward-Oliver, SIGNED by contributor Jon Gilbert..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004. [Fantasy] Signed First Edition. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[10] 782 [8]. SIGNED by both the author and the artist in black ink to title page. Contains several rather haunting illustrations, including frontispiece, by Portia Rosenburg. Publisher's white cloth with black titles to spine. With the white..... More
London: Printed for the author, by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakspeare Press, and Sold by Payne and Foss, Longman, Hurst and Co., 1821. [Bibliographical Travel] FIRST EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (27 x 18cm), pp.[6] xxxii; 462; lxxx [2]; pp.[6] 555 [3]; pp.[6] 622; lxii [2].With a total..... More