Magazines & Periodicals
The Boy's Own Paper. No. 107, Vol. III and No. 108, Vol. III.
London: The Leisure Hour, 29th January 1881, and 5th February 1881. [Sherlock Holmes Source] ORIGINAL MAGAZINES. Two A4 magazines (29 x 21cm), pp.281-296; pp.297-312. Paper covers with wood engraved illustrations; stapled. Lightly browned, chipped and rubbed to edges; staples bent out of shape. A pair of remarkable survivals. Very good..... More
The £10 Adventure [The Case of the City Clerk] [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume LXXXIV, number 503.
London: George Newnes, November 1932. [Literary Magazine] FIRST UK APPEARANCE. Octavo magazine (25 x 17cm), pp.[32] 443-554 [33-44]. With a suite of four double-sided black and white photographs of Cedric Hardwicke, and numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 1s. A nice clean copy with a little wear..... More
Letters from Evelyn Waugh [in] Encounter Magazine. Vol. XXXI, No.1.
London: The Continental Publishers & Distributors, July 1968. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Magazine (25 x 18cm), pp.96. Publisher's colour paper covers, priced at 5s. Light wear only to covers. Near fine. An illuminating selection of letters from Evelyn Waugh to Winston Churchill's son Randolph, exchanged between 1941 and Waugh's death..... More
Escape [and] According to the Altar Boy [in] Argosy.
London: Fleetway Publications, January 1963. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[2] 136. With occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's red and black soft covers. Heavily browned throughout. Rubbing to covers; a little chipping to head of spine. Very good. 'Escape' is an extract taken from 'My Early Life' (1930)..... More
Guardian Angel [and] The Secret People [in] The Fantastic Mysteries.
Kokomo, IN: All-Fiction Field, April 1950. [Fantasy / Science Fiction Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.123 [7]. With occasional engraved illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 25c. Moderately browned throughout. Heavy chipping to covers, with a large tear to front cover, recently repaired with archival tape. Covers..... More
The Tragedy of the Korosko [and] Glimpses of Nature [and] The Strange Experience of Alkali Dick [and] Silenced [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 13 and 14, numbers 77 to 84.
London: George Newnes, May to December 1897. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Eight octavo magazines (27 x 19cm), pp.xxviii; 481-600; xxix-xxxvi; pp.xxxii; 601-804; xxxiii-xlviii; pp.xxxii; 120; xxxiii-xliv; pp.xxiv; 121-240; xxv-xxxii; pp.xxiv; 241-360; xxv-xxxii; pp.xxxii; 361-480; xxxiii-xl; pp.xxxii; 481-600; xxxiii-xlviii; pp.xl; 601-804; xli-lx. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers..... More
The Return of Sherlock Holmes [and] Dixon's Return [and] The Ebony Box [and] Eyes of Terror [and] Gervais of Blois [and] The Iron Maiden [and] The King and I [and] The Land Ironclads [and] Lawyer Quince [and] Liar and an Elephant [and] The Phoenix and the Carpet [and] Point of Law [and] The Country of the Blind [and] Dialstone Lane [and] Echo [and] Golden Bars [and] Sadi the Fiddler [and] Billy the King [and] The Diver's Story [and] The Girl on the Sands [and] An Irish Gentleman [and] The Messenger in Mufti [and] The Mistress of the Chateau [and] The Ring and the Lamp [and] A Splendid Rogue [and] The Temptation of Samuel Burge [and] That Brute Simmons [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 26, 27 and 28, complete.
London: George Newnes, July 1903 to December 1904. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three volumes. Octavo (24 x 27cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 724; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations, including Paget's famous illustrations for the Holmes stories. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and..... More
Round the Fire Stories [and] The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings [and] Miss Cayley's Adventures [and] Glimpses of Nature [and] Safety Match [and] Smoked Skipper [and] Clochette [and] The Gray Parrot [and] The Madness of Mr. Lister [and] Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation [and] The Stolen Body [and] Underground Passages and Trap-Doors [and] Where the Air Quivered [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 15 and 16, complete.
London: George Newnes, January to December 1898. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Clean internally, with moderate..... More
The Adventure of the Dying Detective [and] The Horror of the Heights [and] How it Happened [and] The Poison Belt, Chapter 6 [and] To the South Pole: Captain Scott's Own Story [and] Back to Back [and] Keeping Watch [and] The Weaker Vessel [and] Bits of Life [and] The Journal of Aura Lovel [and] Keeping it from Harold [and] The Torch [and] Wet Magic [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 46, complete.
London: George Newnes, July to December 1913. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.iv; 802; viii. With frequent black and white, and occasional dichromatic, illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Ink library stamps of..... More
Three of Them [and] Jeeves and the Chump Cyril [and] The Film that was Never Shown [and] The Magic Plus Fours [and] Billy Bones [and] The Forbidden Subject [and] First Aid for Dora [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 55, 56, 64, and 66; numbers 328, 331, 332, 366, 384 and 392.
London: George Newnes, April, July, August, and December 1918, December 1922, and August 1923. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.44; 265-344; 45-52; pp.20; 76; 21-32; pp.16; 77-152; 17-34; pp.64; 361-484; 65-82; pp.84; 487-628; 85-118; pp.48; 105-212; 49-64. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's..... More
In Honour of William Shakespeare [in] The Bookmark. Vol. X, No.37.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, Winter 1934. [Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo pamphlet (24 x 16cm), pp.28. With four double-sided black and white photographic plates, and occasional in-text illustrations, including woodcuts by Eric Gill. Stapled twice and priced at 3d. Light toning and spotting to covers. Near fine. An occasional..... More
The Happy Husband: A Thrilling Story of Love and Passion. [in] The Strand Magazine. Issue Nos. 342 and 343. Volumes 57 and 58.
London: George Newnes, Ltd., June and July 1919. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Two octavo magazines (27 x 19cm), pp.[50] 457-546 [51-66]; pp.[48] 100 [49-64]. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's red and blue paper covers, stapled twice, and a special summer number with colour-illustrated covers. Presented in a black fleece-lined clamshell..... More
Playboy Magazine. Vol. 16, no. 11.
Chicago, IL: HMH Publishing Company, November 1969. [Men's Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.298. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, with three staples to the spine, priced at $1. Fairly light general handling, with some scraps of cloth glued to rear cover, as well as a few patches..... More
Northern Numbers, being representative selections from certain living Scottish Poets. First Series.
Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, 1920. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 130 [4]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and brown titles to grey paper over boards. Top edge toned; others untrimmed. Black ink gift inscription dated Christmas 1921 to flyleaf. Some weakness to binding..... More
[An Archive of Books and Papers from the Library of Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin].
1907-1988. [Physiology and Biophysics] ORIGINAL FELLOWSHIP DISSERTATION, NOTEBOOK, OFF-PRINT COLLECTION, AND INSCRIBED BOOKS. A remarkable collection of books and papers associated with the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, including the original typescript of the dissertation which won him a research Fellowship at Trinity College in 1936 and a year's study at the..... More
Nasty Tales. No. 5.
London: Meep Comix Group, no date [circa 1973]. [Adult Comic] ORIGINAL COMIC (28 x 21cm), pp.52. Several black and white comic strips, with the colour illustrated covers priced at 20p, and stapled twice. Light toned, as expected, and very light handling to covers. Near fine. A collection of satirical counterculture..... More
Punchard's Agency [and] Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest [and] The British Campaign in France [and] Uneasy Money [and] The Man-Trap [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 53, numbers 315, 316 and 317
London: George Newnes, March to May 1917. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.50; 209-312; 51-58; pp.50; 313-416; 51-58; pp.40; 417-512; 41-48. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's blue paper covers, titled in red and navy, and priced at 7d. Presented in a navy..... More
Stalky and Co. [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume 9.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1898 to May 1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.vi; 754. With numerous photogravure illustrations. Publisher's green cloth over boards, with gilt and brown titles and decoration to spine and upper. Floral-patterned endpapers. Pink 'Book Fund' book plate to front pastedown..... More
Nacelle [and] The Vintage Motor Cycle. The magazines of the Triumph Owners Motorcycle Club and The Vintage Motor Cycle Club.
Benfleet: The Triumph Owners Motorcycle Club, [and] Deerfield, IL: Dalton Watson Fine Books, 1986-1994. [Motorcycle Club Magazines] ORIGINAL MAGAZINES. Octavo (22 x 14cm), 61 monthly magazines, including 56 issues of Nacelle, and five issues of The Vintage Motor Cycle. Each with black and white advertisements and occasional illustrations. Each in..... More
The Spy to End Spies [and] L.B. Namier [and] Isé: Voice from a Skull [and] Louis MacNeice as Critic [in] Encounter Magazine. Vol. XXVI, No.5.
London: Rolls House Publishing Co., November 1966. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Magazine (26 x 19cm), pp.96. With a colour-illustrated advertisement insert. Publisher's colour paper covers, priced at 4s / $1. Blue ink notes to inside rear cover, otherwise light general handling to covers. Near fine. A short piece on Richard..... More
Million — New Left Writing. First Collection.
Glasgow: William MacLellan, no date [1943]. [Socialist Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.64. With two double-sided illustrated plates, one side being printed in colour. Publisher's paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 2s. The lightest of handling. A fine, almost as-new copy. A selection of Socialist..... More
The Adelphi. Vol. 1, numbers 1 to 10, and vol. 2, numbers 4 and 5.
London: British Periodicals, June 1923 to March 1924, and September to October 1924. [Literary Magazines] FIRST APPEARANCES, the first ten issues, plus two further issues. 12 volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.viii; 88; viii; 89-176; iv; 177-268; iv; 269-360; vi; 361-450; vi; 451-556; vi; 557-662; vi; 663-768; vi; 769-858; iv;..... More
The Sanctuary Club [and] Hilda Wade [and] A Master of Craft [and] The Seven Dragons [and] The "Southern Cross" Antarctic Expedition [and] The Croxley Master [and] Whereyouwantogoto: or, The Bouncible Ball [and] Kind Little Edmund; or, The Caves and The Cockatrice [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 18, numbers 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, and 108.
London: George Newnes, July 1899 to December 1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six octavo magazines (28 x 19cm), pp.xl; 120; xli-xlviii; pp.xxxii; 121-240; xxxiii-xl; pp.xxxvi; 241-360; xxxvii-xliv; pp.xl; 361-480; xli-xlviii; pp.xlviii; 481-600; xlix-lvi; pp.lvi; 601-804; lvii-lxviii [8]. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled in dark blue..... More
The Best from Playboy Number Five.
Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1971. [Anthology] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (28 x 21cm), pp.196. Illustrated in colour throughout, with central folding plate. Publisher's illustrated soft covers, priced at $2.50. Some rubbing to covers, with spotting to preliminaries, and occasionally throughout. Very good. Another round-up of notable articles published in Playboy..... More
The Vane Sisters [and] The Pleasures of Knowing Rose Macaulay [in] Encounter Magazine. Vol. XII, No.3.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1959. [Literary Magazine] FIRST UK APPEARANCE. Magazine (26 x 19cm), pp.88. With a black and white photographic plate of Rose Macaulay by Cecil Beaton. Publisher's paper covers. Covers lightly toned and handled. Near fine. Including the first UK appearance of a short story by Nabokov, and..... More