"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
Magazines & Periodicals
Signature. A Quadrimestrial of Typography and Graphic Arts. New Series 2, November 1946.
London: Signature, November 1946. [Art Periodical] ORIGINAL PERIODICAL. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.52. With numerous black and white plates. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the original glassine jacket. Light toning to covers. Jacket lightly toned and spotted, with some light chipping and closed tears to edges. Near fine. Including a...... More
Playboy Magazine. Vol. 21, no. 8.
Chicago, IL: HMH Publishing Company, August 1974. [Men's Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.198. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, with two staples to the spine, priced at $1.25. Very light wear to covers. Near fine. Including a photographic article by Warhol, as well as the usual mixture..... More
![Bodyguard to Mr. Churchill [in] Lilliput Magazine. Volume 30, Number 5, Issue 180. John WATNEY](/pictures/thumb/55897.jpg?v=1589300945)
Bodyguard to Mr. Churchill [in] Lilliput Magazine. Volume 30, Number 5, Issue 180.
London: Hulton Press, May-June 1952. [Literary Magazine] EARLY APPEARANCE. Octavo magazine (20 x 14cm), pp.128. Illustrated mainly in black and white, with occasional dichromatic lithographs. Publisher's colour paper cover, stapled, and priced at 2s. Crisp and clean, with a little bumping to head of spine, and some bleeding from oxidised..... More
Playboy Magazine. Vol. 14, no. 7.
Chicago, IL: HMH Publishing Company, July 1967. [Men's Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.178. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, with two staples to the spine, priced at 75c. Light wear and a little spotting to covers. Very good. Including an interview with Michael Caine, and 'Uckridge Starts..... More
![Death by Diagnosis [and] Headless Horseman [in] Street & Smith's Mystery Detective. Vol. II, No....](/pictures/thumb/46814.jpg?v=1500288490)
Death by Diagnosis [and] Headless Horseman [in] Street & Smith's Mystery Detective. Vol. II, No. 5.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., October 1955. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 1s. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Very small chip to head of spine. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories..... More
The Loved One Published in Horizon - A Review of Literature and Art, Edited by Cyril Connoly.
Lonndon: Horizon, 1948. FIRST APPEARANCE - predates the first edition in book form. Pp. 60. 8vo, Card covers, advertisements as issued. One small stain to foot of upper else fine. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business..... More
The New Machiavelli.
London: The English Review, 1910. [Modern Literature] FIRST APPEARANCE, original magazine parts bound as one volume. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] 286-329 [2]; 532-563 [1]; 673-715 [2]; 98-136 [1]; 270-308; 477-511 [2]; 682-702 [2]. Contemporary green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to orange label, further gilt decoration to..... More
![The Man Who Disliked Cats. [An extract from The Strand Magazine]. P. G. WODEHOUSE, Pelham...](/pictures/thumb/57233.jpg?v=1609174443)
The Man Who Disliked Cats. [An extract from The Strand Magazine].
London: George Newnes, May 1912. [Magazine Extract] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 16cm), pp.507-515 [1]. With in-text illustrations by Simpson. Leaves removed from a copy of The Strand Magazine and bound recently in brown paper, with a plain printed title label to upper, stapled twice. Fine. The first appearance..... More