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Ludmila's Broken English.
London: Faber and Faber, 2006. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[8] 318 [10]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's cream paper-covered boards with black titles to spine. Black endpapers. With the orange dust-jacket designed by Ghost. A fine..... More
Oswald Bastable and Others. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock and H. R. Millar.
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1905. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; [vii-viii], seemingly misbound; 1-369; [1], blank; [9], ads; [1], blank. Text in first state. Publisher's burgundy cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, t.e.g. Illustrated with plates (all present) and one drawing..... More
The Story of the Treasure Seekers. Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; [2]; 296; [2]; [2 of advertisements]; [8 of publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's blue-green cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, all edges gilt. Illustrated with seventeen plates. Contents clean, owner's stamp to flyleaf, binding shows..... More
[ALPINE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM].
[Hand-made], [c.1930]. HAND-MADE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM. Large Quarto (38 x 28cm), unpaginated. Twenty two thick leaves with official tourist black and white photographs pasted to both sides. Eight leaves blank to rear, with one loose photograph showing vendor's stamp to reverse. Most images neatly labelled in black ink, from the late..... More
Oiling The Wheels.
London: A. White and Co., 1957. [Oil Industry Advertisements] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 29cm), pp.[26]. A full page colour illustration by Kneebone to face every page of text. Publisher's pink illustrated paper over boards, showing a mustachioed gentleman with an oil can against a pink background to upper; rear..... More
Contribute [to THE STRAND MAGAZINE]; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Volumes I to VI.
London: George Newnes, 1891-1893. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six volumes. Large octavo (24 x 18 x 25cm). Illustrated throughout. Original half-yearly volumes, recently re-bound in tan half calf, with gilt titles and decoration to spines, marbled paper over boards and all edges speckled red. Moderate spotting throughout. An attractive set..... More
An Army Woman In The Philippines. Extracts from Letters of an Army Officer's Wife, Describing Her Personal Experiences in the Philippine Islands.
Kansas City, Missouri: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., 1914. [Military Letters] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, dated 1914 only (some remaindered copies were over-stamped with the date 1916). Octavo, pp.183, with full-page photographic plates inserted. Handsomely bound in recent half red calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over..... More
The Way to Dusty Death.
London: Collins, 1973. [Grand Prix thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.222; [2]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by John Constable, priced at £2.00. A clean, fine copy in near fine jacket which is a little rubbed at crown and with a few creases..... 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
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
Geyserland. Empiricisms In Social Reform. Being Data and Observations Recorded by the Late Mark Stubble, M.D., Ph.D.
Washington, DC: printed for R. Hatfield, 1908. [Science Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.451 [1]. Publisher's cream cloth with titles in gilt and decoration in green to spine and upper. Top edge gilt. Lacks front free endpaper. Edges toned, with a little spotting to frontispiece and..... More
Flying and Soldiering.
London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1936. [Airforce Memoir] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. With seven black and white photographic illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's pale blue cloth stamped in red to spine. With the mottled blue and white dust jacket, priced at..... More
Keepers of the House.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.183 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Jenny Tylden-Wright, priced at £6.95. Very slightly faded to jacket..... More
The Impudent Comedian and Others.
London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 243 [5]. With numerous engraved illustrations by Sauber. Publisher's dark red illustrated cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and black. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Endpapers quite heavily toned, with light spotting to..... More
My Sporting Holidays.
London: Edward Arnold, 1904. [Hunting and Fishing] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 367 [17]. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. A large black ink ownership dated Xmas 1904 to..... More
L'Envers Du Theatre. Machines et Decorations.
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie., 1888. [Backstage Production] Third edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 294 [2]. All text in French. Illustrated by the author with 60 wood engravings of theatrical machinery. Contemporary brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and papier tourniquet over boards..... More
The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1959. [Wartime naval history] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 138. Illustrated with maps. Publisher's blue cloth titled in silver to the spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at $3.50. Contents clean, owner bookplate to pastedown, jacket with a few small nicks and..... 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
"Smooth Log" kept for Actions at Sea between 1943 and 1945 for Convoy UGS-43.
May 1943 to February 1945. [Second World War at Sea] ORIGINAL SHIP'S LOG. Three volumes. Folio (36 x 21cm). Two oblong cloth-bound ledger volumes with alphabetic tabs to fore-edge. Along with a similarly outwardly unprepossessing calf spined volume with annotated tabs to fore-edge (Strategy, Gunnery, Seamanship etc.) which proves to..... More
North.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1975. [Poetry] FIRST PRINTING. Softcover version (issued simultaneously with the hardback). Slim octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.73; [5] blank. Publisher's typographic wrapper priced £1.25. With Poetry book Society newsletter (Summer 1975) tucked in, which includes an article written by Heaney. Some scholarly pencil annotations to..... More
Death of a Naturalist.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1969. [Poetry] FIRST PRINTING of this 'Faber Paper Covered Edition' (softback). Slim octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.57; [7] blank. Publisher's typographic wrapper priced 7s / £0.35. Neat ink name, two Heaney poems published in a contemporary newspaper tipped-in to rear blank, covers are near fine..... More
Maude. A Story For Girls. With an introduction by William Michael Rossetti.
London: James Bowden, 1897. [Children's Literature] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. One of just 500 copies thus. Small octavo (18cm x 12cm), pp.xii; 81 [3]. Publisher's green buckram, with gilt titles to spine and a gilt facsimile signature to upper. All edges untrimmed. Black ink gift inscription to fly-leaf. A nice clean..... More
From Russia, With Love (a James Bond novel)
London: Jonathan Cape. 1957. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.253 [3]. Publisher's black cloth-effect material over boards, blocked in silver and red metallic foil to spine and upper. With loose card stating that this was a copy retained by the printer. One of two small marks..... More
'The Case of Mr. Fleming' by Bernard Bergonzi, contained within Twentieth Century magazine, March 1958.
London: Printed at the Whitefriars Press, [1958]. [Literary Critique] FIRST APPEARANCE of this famous, controversial essay on the morality of Ian Fleming's novels. Magazine format. Pp.193-288. Original price 2s 6d. Some handling and toning; near fine. Bibliographer Jon Gilbert's copy, with his pencilled ownership signature. Professor Bergonzi's landmark piece concerned..... More
Ian Fleming's Life Story: The Man With The Golden Pen, appearing in Woman's Mirror (two issues, extracted complete text).
London: Fleetway Publications, [1966]. [Literary Biography] Loose leaves, extracted from the publication, 18pp., 22pp., stapled to top left. Some browning, minor edge wear. Signature and pencil note of bibliographer Jon Gilbert. This is a serialisation of Gant's biography of Fleming, in two magazine appearances [April 23rd 1966 & April 30th..... More