"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
Magazines & Periodicals
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
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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.
London: Horizon, 1948. FIRST APPEARANCE - predates the first edition in book form. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.60. Publisher's card covers, decoratively printed in black and orange, 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..... More
A Young Novelist Who has "Arrived": A Chat with Mr. H.G. Wells. [A loose leaf from 'The Sketch' magazine].
London: Illustrated London News Company, 15th September 1897. [Literary Interview] ORIGINAL ARTICLE. A single folio leaf (36 x 25cm), pp.317-318 of the issue. An interview with the author, then aged 31, about his early career and education, books then in progress (including The Invisible Man), and the significance of bicycles..... More