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The Iron Woman.
London: Faber and Faber, 1993. [Children's fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.87. Publisher's black cloth in black pictorial dust-jacket priced £9.99. Internally clean and free from spotting; spine-ends a touch bumped. Dust-wrapper is rubbed with minor chips and tears at spine ends. Very Good. Ted Hughes' classic of..... More
Collected Animal Poems: The Iron Wolf; What is the Truth?; A March Calf; The Thought-Fox.
London: Faber and Faber, 1995. [Poetry] FIRST EDITIONS, SIGNED TO VOLUME I. Four volumes, octavo (22 x 14 x 7cm) Publisher's black cloth, white dust-wrappers, publisher's white pictorial slipcase. Signed by Hughes, the late Poet Laureate, in Volume 1. Illustrated by Chris Riddell in volume 1 and by Lisa Flather..... More
Sunstruck.
Knotting: The Sceptre Press, 1977. [Poetry]. LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto pamphlet (16 x 15cm), pp.[8]. Number 121 of just 300 copies printed by Christopher Skelton in 'Monotype' Baskerville on Glastonbury Laid paper. Publisher's tan card covers with red titles, stapled to spine. A fine copy. More
The Iron Woman
London: Faber and Faber, 1993. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Illustrated by Andrew Davidson. Publisher's printed blue wraps. A fine, unread copy. More
Master Sleights With Billiard Balls. A series of original sleights with minature billiard balls including an explanation of the author's Ball Stand and Vanishing Apparatus and a Thirty Minute Manipulative Act.
New York, American Magic Corporation, 1914. [Conjuring] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (23 15cm), pp.31. Fifty photographs of the author demonstrating and occasional diagrams in black and white. Original pink paper pamphlet with staple binding.. Very small closed tear to top of spine. A very good copy. More
The Crime of the Crystal.
London: Digby, Long and Co. 1901. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 1 of adverts, 396, 16 of adverts. Yellow cloth with vivid design to spine and upper board. Bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, small close tear to front two pages, neat ownership inscription to the half title page, some occasional marking..... More
The Mystery Queen.
New York, G.W. Dillingham. [1913]. US First Edition. 8vo. Fine in publisher's red cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Fresh, bright and crisp. In a fine dustwrapper, illustrated by J. Hodson Redman, possibly supplied from an institutional copy or somesuch, as the jacket is a...... More
The Coinage of the British Empire: An Outline of the Progress of the Coinage in Great Britain and Her Dependencies, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
London: David Bogue, 1855. [Numismatics] PAPIER MACHÉ BINDING, the second edition. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.160. With 12 plates done in gold, silver and copper, including a frontispiece, and 11 supplemental plates at rear. Recently rebound in tough black buckram with gilt titles to spine, and the original black..... More
Life is Meeting.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1978. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp. 286; [ii], blank. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, photographic dust-jacket designed by Drummond Chapman with printed price of £6.95. Illustrated. Internally bright and clean, minor spotting to edges of textblock, binding in good condition..... More
Second Ending.
London: Constable, 1956. [Heroin literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Crown Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.384. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to the spine, original pictorial dust jacket priced at 15s. Text block toned, ink name beneath flap, wrapper lightly used with one small nick to upper. Very good indeed. A...... More
Far From The Sea.
London: Hamish Hamilton, [1983]. UNCORRECTED PROOF from American crime writer, bound in soft blue card covers. Very clean both externally and internally with extremely limited signs of wear. Black lettering on cover appears rubbed but this is possibly due to printing. Near-fine. More
A Treatise on the Venereal Disease
London; Sherwood, Neely and Jones. 1818. 'THE SECOND EDITION', with additions. Octavo, pp 569 + 5 (of 6) plates. Original half calf over marbled sides; some wear and rubbing to covers, discreetly rebacked, neat repair to lower portion of plate I (not affecting image). A serviceable copy of this landmark..... More
Image in the Water.
London: Little, Brown, and Company, 2001. [Political novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, Association copy. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 243; [5]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket. Signed and dated to the title page. Recent bookplate detailing provenance affixed to flyleaf. Edges of textblock slightly toned. Near fine..... More
Memoirs
London: Little, Brown 2003. First Edition. Royal octavo, pp.x; 534. With three suites of photographic plates. Publisher's hardcover in pictorial dust-wrapper. Signed and inscribed by the author to title-page. Minor creasing else near fine. The autobiography of the respected gentleman diplomat and former Foreign Secretary. More
The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen. Copyright Edition.
London: William Heinemann, 1906-1910. [Literature] FINELY BOUND BY ZAEHNSDORF. Eleven volumes, octavo (19 x 14 x 37cm). Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in contemporary deep blue half morocco over marbled boards, gilt and leather onlays to spines. Top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Internally fine. Binding lightly handled. A sumptuous presentation of..... More
The Pillars of Society, and Other Plays.
London: Walter Scott, 1888. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Crown Octavo, pp.xxxii, 315 [5]. In publisher's green cloth with cream paper title label to spine. All edges untrimmed. Black ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper. Blackwell's bookseller label to front pastedown. Cloth and label heavily soiled. Some loss to label; spine..... More
Et Dukkehjem [A Doll's House].
Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag (F. Hegel and Søn), 1879. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18cm x 12cm), pp.[2]; 180; [2]. Publisher's green cloth decorated in black and gilt. Coated white endpapers, all edges gilt. Pencil name to half-title, light wear to hinges which are nearly always split, minor rubbing to..... More
Four Plays: An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Lady from the Sea.
New York: Greenway Publishing Company, 1932. 8vo. Contemporary dark brown half morocco with gilt titles and gilt to spine, brown cloth boards with gilt rule, top edges gilt, marbled end papers. Binding slightly rubbed. A lovely copy. More
Peer Gynt. A Dramatic Poem.
London: Walter Scott Publishing Co., no date [1892]. [Drama] Authorised Translation by William and Charles Archer. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xxiv; 288; [16], advertisements. Publisher's mid-blue cloth decorated in gilt and blind, top edge gilt. A clean, fine copy. A handsome nineteenth century English edition of Ibsen's classic work... More
Modern Economic Life.
Tokyo: Keibundo, 1924. [Economics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 263; [3]. Publisher's dark grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. Heavily browned low-grade paper, with spotting to edges and preliminaries. Pencil annotations in Japanese to the first 20 pages or so. Very light rubbing to cloth. Very good..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1842-1847. [Strange Tales and Humour] FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS, volume I a third edition, volumes II and III first editions. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 339 [1]; pp.x; 288; pp.viii; 364. With a total of 18 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume..... More
Air Bridge
London: Collins. 1951. Post-War air adventure. FIRST EDITION, Octavo. 288pp. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper. Page edges tanned/spotted, jacket with a few chips and tears. Very good. More
Atlantic Fury.
London: Collins, 1961. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.318; [2], blank. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Michael Harvey priced at 16s., illustrated map endpapers. Very good in a slightly chipped and torn jacket. Shows well. A naval thriller set in the..... More
The Black Tide.
London: Collins, 1982. [Shipwreck adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.347; [5], blank. Green cloth with silver gilt titles to spine in pictorial dust-wrapper. With publisher's paste-over text applied to an error within the blurb on the front flap, and a cancelled (replaced) dedication leaf 'To Marjory and Ian..... More
The Conquistadors.
London: Collins, 1969. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.336, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial dust-jacket. Autographed to the half-title in black ink. A particularly sharp example, with strong red colour to the spine. A fine history of..... More