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Weird Tales September 1951
New York, NY: Weird Tales Rockefeller Plaza, Sept. 1951. Quarto. Original pictorial wraps. Trimmed flush with page block. Clean and fresh, spine unchipped, colours bright and crisp. Contains 'Gimlet Eye Gunn' as a representative of the World War II zombie pirate vs. the Japanese genre (a wide field), with an..... More
Golfer Story [Screenplay].
Paris: Jacques-Eric Strauss and Gerard Leclery, no date [circa 1970]. A draft pre-production screenplay. pp.50, mimeographed typescript, perfect-bound in simple yellow card covers with titles printed in black brown paper covers. A few minor marks else contents and covers near fine. An exceptionally rare script for an unrealised film project..... More
Home: Social Essays.
London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1968. [Essays on Racism in America] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.252 [4]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and white dust-jacket designed by Cynthia Basil, priced at 30s. Light rubbing to jacket edges, with a small faint water..... More
The System of Dante's Hell.
London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1966. FIRST UK EDITION. Crown octavo, pp.[2], 154 [2]. In publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original purple illustrated dust-jacket. Very light wear to jacket edges; near-fine. More
An Air Fighter's Scrap-Book.
London: Nicholson and Watson, 1938. [Airforce Memoir] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.332. With 14 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's black cloth titled in red to spine, with a facsimile signature in red to upper. With the blue photographic dust jacket, priced at..... More
Dämmerung Über England.
Berlin: Internationaler Verlag, 1940. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.232. Extra-illustrated with contemporary news clippings concerning the conviction and execution of the author. All text in German. Publisher blue card wraps with black titles to spine and upper. Quite heavily browned as expected. Light rubbing to extremities, with some..... More
Bond, The Beatles and My Year With Marilyn. 50 Years as a Movie Marketing Man.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2018. [Memoir] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED COPY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 223; [1], blank. A paperback original. Signed by the author, with promotional bookmark loosely inserted. Fine/As new. Autographs obtained at the launch party held at the Bond In Motion exhibition, London Film Museum..... More
Robin Cook.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1998. [British Politics] EX-LIBRIS LORD MOYNIHAN, First Edition. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.256. With four double-sided black and white plates. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Recent bookplate detailing provenance affixed to flyleaf. A fine copy. From the Library of..... More
People of the Twilight.
Llandudno: The Kaner Publishing Company. 1946. First edition. Octavo, pp. 188. Orange publisher's cloth with black titles to spine and front. Some light wear to the covers with bumping to the corners, some marking and the spine being slightly tanned. Ownership inscription in pen on flyleaf. A fine copy. More
The Poetical Works of John Keats.
London: Oxford University Press, 1973. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxix; [1];477; [1]. Bound by Bayntun in mid-blue full calf, gilt titles on red leather square and gilt tooling to spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Internally fine, some quite heavy rubbing to the bottom corners. Very good..... More
The Case of the Transposed Legs.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, 1951. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. PUBLISHER'S FILE COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221; [3]. Publisher's black cloth, titles in white to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of 8/6 net. Publisher's file copy signified by an ink stamp to title page and paper labels to the..... More
The Game of Draw Poker.
New York: White, Stokes and Allen, 1887. [Gaming] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.iv; 84. Publisher's paper covered boards with blue linen spine. Slightly scuffed and rounded to corners, some light wear to front panel and some fairly inoffensive soiling, a very good copy of a fragile production..... More
The Wind from the Plain.
London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1963. [Modern fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.286; [2], blank. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial and photographic dust-jacket designed by Brian Russell with a printed price of 21s to flap. Occasional internal spotting; spotting to endpapers and edges..... More
Memed, my Hawk.
London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1961. [Turkish novel] FIRST UK EDITION, ADVANCE OR PROOF COPY. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.352. A proof or advance reading copy (not stated as such), original marbled card wraps, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Sheila Stratton. Slight lean to the textblock, dustiness to the top edge..... More
The Constant Nymph.
London: The Readers Library Publishing Company, no date [circa 1930's]. [Bohemian Novel] VINTAGE COPY, a later mass-market edition. Small octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.253. Very small print. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. Quite heavily toned, as expected..... More
Kennedy's Messages 1963. Edited, with a Foreword by Edwin Reischauer.
[Japan], 1963. [Politics] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.155. With three black and white photographic plates [JFK, 88th Congress and Ambassador Reischauer]. Text in English, followed by Japanese, each segment with separate title-page printed on green card. Bound in dark blue silk, blocked in silver-gilt to spine and upper..... More
In Gallant Company. [A Bolitho Novel].
London: Hutchinson, 1977. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.287; [1]. With maps to grey endpapers. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Chris Mayger, priced at £3.95. Spotting to edges. Some rubbing to cloth and some light bruising to jacket edges..... More
The Only Victor.
London: Heinemann, 1990. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 340 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Geoffrey Huband, priced at £13.95. Some browning and spotting to edges, otherwise a bright, clean copy. Very good. More
A Tradition of Victory.
London: Hutchinson, 1981. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.296. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, cartographic endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Chris Mayger. Discreet Harrods library blind stamp to rear pastedown. Some spotting to edges, slightly handled with some bumping to corners and spine..... More
The Child, The Wise Man and The Devil.
London: James Bowden, 1896. [Spiritual Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 70 [6]. Number 83 of 500 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in blue ink to the limitation page. Printed on fine handmade paper, with a photogravure frontispiece portrait of the author with tissue-guard, and a...... More
The Dharma Bums.
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1958. [Beat Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 244; [4]. Publisher's black cloth with titles in green and silver. Top edge light green. With the dust-jacket designed by Bill English, priced at $3.95. With occasional light marginal pencil marks. Light bumping to..... More
Memorial to the Duchess.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1968. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.255; [1]. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at 25s. Light spotting to edges and endpapers, Harrods Library blind stamp to rear endpaper. Jacket marginally short, some bruising to edges. Near..... More
And Hell Followed... A European Ally interprets the War for Ordinary People like herself.
London: Constable and Company, 1942. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 296. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the explosive red and white dust-jacket. Blue ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, bookseller's ticket to pastedown. Edges lightly spotted and abraded. Very light..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1920]. [Metaphysical Poetry] EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, a later printing. Text follows the second edition of Fitzgerald's English translation. Quarto (28 x 23cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac and green border decoration, all with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's gilt-stamped..... More
Wreath For A Dead Angel.
London: Clerke and Cockeran, 1951. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.193; [1] blank. Publisher's brown cloth with black titles, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Anderson, originally priced 9/6. Internally fresh and presentable, negligible spotting to front edge. Fragile dust-wrapper shows well; clean and bright, with some inevitable..... More