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— Abraham Lincoln
Literature
Broken Heart Club.
London: Puffin Books, 2016. [Teen Novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[6] 307 [7]. SIGNED by the author in gold to title page. With occasional illustrations by Erin Keen. Publisher's blue and white heart-illustrated paper-covered boards (no titles), with blue endpapers and promotional bookmark loosely inserted. With the..... More
Flight into Danger. A Novel of Suspense.
London: Souvenir Press, 1958. [Aerial thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.162. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of 11/6 net. Internally clean, some spotting to edges. Cloth lightly handled. Dust-wrapper a little edgeworn and scuffed here and there, small closed tear to..... More
Moral Emblems. with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of all Ages and Nations. With Illustrations freely rendered, from designs found in their works, by John Leighton, F.S.A., the whole Translated and Edited, with Additions, by Richard Pigot, Member of the Leyden Society of Netherlands Literature.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. [Illustrated Aphorisms] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.[2] xvi; 242 [2]. Heavily illustrated with engravings by Leighton, and other artists, including a frontispiece. Fine contemporary red full morocco by RIVIERE, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
The Spanish Ladie, and two other stories from Cervantes translated from the original by James Mabbe, 1640, and newly illustrated by Douglas Percy Bliss.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1928. [Illustrated Spanish Literature] FIRST BLISS-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Small quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[8] 197 [3]. With occasional wood engraved illustrations by Bliss, some printed in colour. Publisher's salmon quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine and grey paper-covered boards, illustrated in brown to upper..... More
The Literature of Roguery.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1907. First Edition. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 14cm). Publisher's embossed green cloth, gilt titles to spines, top edges tinted green. Very light rubbing to extremities, signs of label removal to spines. Blind stamp to title page and first page of text of each volume..... More
Chandler Before Marlowe: Raymond Chandler's Early Prose and Poetry, 1908-1912.
Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1973. [Posthumous anthology] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 110. With a frontispiece of the author. Number 167 of 499 copies. Publisher's red quarter faux leather with gilt titles to spine and mottled cream paper over boards. Matching cream endpapers; all..... More
Killer In The Rain. Being: Killer in the Rain; The Man who liked Dogs; The Curtain; Try the Girl; Mandarin's Jade; Bay City Blues; The Lady in the Lake; No Crime in the Mountains. With an Introduction by Philip Durham.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1964. [Crime stories] FIRST EDITION (stated). Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.394. Publisher's blue cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Rob Howard, priced at $5.50. Contents and page edges clean, jacket with a little edgewear and a crease to the spine panel, neat tape reinforcement to..... More
Farewell, My Lovely.
New York, NY: Alfred Knopf, 1940. [Crime novel] FIRST EDITION. Small Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[viii]; 275; [1], blank; [1], 'Note'. Publisher's russet cloth blocked in blue, dark blue top edge. A clean copy of the book with no inscriptions, very faint scuff to pastedown, tiny bookplate to rear pastedown..... More
The High Window.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1943. [Detective Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp,236. Hand-bound in deep red burgundy calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. One or two minor marks within, exterior as new. A near fine copy, in an attractive recent leather..... More
The Long Goodbye.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. [Detective novel] TRUE FIRST EDITION, preceding the US edition by one year. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's maroon cloth with silver titles to spine. Minor bump to corner else a fine, fresh copy without the jacket. A classic Marlowe case, this novel was winner of..... More
Playback.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. FIRST UK EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. Octavo, pp. 208. Publisher's red cloth in original dust jacket. Some toning to flyleaf, jacket a little nicked and rubbed, one tear at fore-edge, price-clipped; very good indeed. The true first printing of the final Philip Marlowe story, which precedes the..... More
The Garter Town.
London: The Fortune Press, no date [1953]. [Topographical Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.64. With eight illustrations by Gurney. INSCRIBED in blue ink to fly-leaf: 'To the Rt Hon. C.R. attlee | with the author's compliments. | 2/1/54.' With Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate..... More
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The Specials. [Psychedelic-40].
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1965. [Dystopia] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.191 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the white dust-jacket titled in purple, priced at 15s. A small chip to top edge of the first few leaves, otherwise a nice clean copy internally. Jacket..... More
Boodle.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. [Short Stories] EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE, third printing. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.312. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and blind decoration to upper. Top edge orange; red endpapers. A new bookplate detailing provenance to front pastedown. Toned to edges. Spine heavily rubbed..... More
Count On The Saint; 'The Unsaintly Santa'.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980. [Crime caper] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.175; [1], advert. Publisher's burgundy cloth in original dust-wrapper designed by Melvyn Gill. Some bumping, jacket nicked at spine, some edgewear, not faded. A very good copy. Short episodes with the gentleman adventurer. Includes the seasonal mystery..... More
The Saint Goes West. Some Further Exploits of Simon Templar.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1942. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.222; [1], advert. Publisher's pale blue cloth in original dust-wrapper priced at 8/6. Covers mottled as usual, jacket with a few chips and tears. traces of an old inscription to flyleaf. Very good. Three Saintly US adventures in Arizona, Palm Springs and..... More
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Senor Saint [Señor Saint].
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1959. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.189. Publisher's green cloth decorated in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 12/6. A lightly used copy with a few rubs to extremities, edges dusty, creased tear to crown, old tape to reverse; remains bright and..... More
On the Black Hill.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.249; [5], blank. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-wrapper designed by Mon Mohan. Near Fine with owner's name in pen to paste down, minimal toning to edges, in Fine, bright dustwrapper. On The Black Hill..... More
On the Black Hill.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.249; [5], blank. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-wrapper designed by Mon Mohan. A lovely fine copy. On The Black Hill, the author's first novel, was awarded the 1982 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, founded..... More
The Viceroy of Ouidah.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 155; [1]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, map endpapers, photographic dust-jacket clipped and repriced with a sticker at £6.95 by the publisher. Text to spine marginally sunned. Fine. More
The Viceroy of Ouidah.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 155; [1]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, map endpapers, photographic dust-jacket clipped and repriced with a sticker at £6.95 by the publisher. A clean, fine copy. More
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
London: Bell and Daldy, n.d. (ca.1880). FINELY BOUND. Six volumes, octavo (17 x 11 x 13cm). New and Revised edition of the Aldine Poets, with a memoir by Sir Harry Nicolas. Original red calf, twin title labels, full gilt backs, marbled sides, edges and endpapers. School prize label to pastedown..... More
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Tales of Canterbury, Boece, Troilus and Criseyde, The House of Fame, The Legende of Good Women, The Romaunt of the Rose
Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press Stratford-Upon-Avon and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1928-1929. [Literature] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION. The Shakespeare Head Press edition. Eight volumes, quartos (29 x 21 x 26cm). Liberally strewn with hand-coloured illustrations. Beautifully bound by James MacDonald of New York in brown..... More
The German Conquest of England in 1875, and Battle of Dorking; Or, Reminiscences of a Volunteer.
Philadelphia: Porter and Coates. n.d. c.1871. US Edition. Octavo, pp. 62, 2 of adverts. Green cloth covers with decorative gilt titles to front, brown endpapers. Neat ownership inscription to the the recto of the frontispiece page. Front hinge has split the paper along the bottom half, rear hinge just starting..... More