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The Sultan's Daughter.
London: Hutchinson, 1963. [Historical fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.511; [1], advertisement. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles, dust-jacket designed by Robert Graham and priced at 21s net. Book is near fine; jacket with some chipping to spine ends and some closed tears. Shows very well. A Roger..... More
The Little Stranger.
London: Virago, 2009. [Ghost story] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6]; 501; [5]. Publisher's red cloth, white titles to spine, and debossed to upper board, patterned endpapers. Red cloth slipcase. Signed by the author, from a limited edition of 1000 copies. Still in the original shrink wrap. Fine..... More
Youngblood Hawke.
New York, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1962. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED TO C.P. SNOW, First Edition. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[8]; 783; [1]. INSCRIBED: 'For Sir Charles and Lady Pamela Snow - | a too-long momento of | a too-brief voyage, | from | Herman Wouk | "Queen Mary" NY-Cherbourg |..... 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
Kate Greenaway.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[xx]; 301; [2], advertisements. Illustrated with numerous photos, plates and in-text line drawings, including several in colour. Bound in early quarter brown calf over blue cloth sides with red morocco title label to spine, ruled in gilt..... More
The Marriage of Meggotta.
London: Macmillan, 1979. [Romantic fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's green cloth titled in silver to spine, endpapers illustrated with family trees, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Claire Davies, priced at £5.50 net. Slight dustiness to top edge, otherwise a fine copy. Based on Margaret de Burgh, daughter..... More
Something New.
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1915. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 347; [3]. With four photogravure plates after F.R. Gruger, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, green and gilt scarab devices to upper board. Textblock..... More
Admit One.
London: Putnam, 1956. [Modern fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.223; [1]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by L. Lamb [?], printed price 13s 6d net. Neat ownership to flyleaf, some spotting to preliminaries and to edges, dustiness to top edge. Spine ends..... More
The Tale of Two Bad Mice.
New York, NY: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [1904]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST US EDITION. Sextodecimo (14 x 11cm), pp.85; [1]. With a chromolithographic illustration facing every page of text. Endpapers match plate II in Quinby; publisher's address given as 36 East 22d Street. Publisher's maroon paper-covered boards with white..... More
The Curse of Lono (with fine painting of Thompson).
Köln: Taschen, 2005. [Original artwork] FIRST EDITION THUS, trade issue, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, with superb ORIGINAL PAINTING. Folio (39 x 30cm), pp.208. With numerous fantastical colour illustrations by Steadman, many double-paged. Publisher's white hardcovers screen-printed in black, colour-illustrated dust-jacket. To the half-title is a most personal painted caricature of..... More
The African Colony. Studies in the Reconstruction.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1903. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xviii; 404. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, edges untrimmed, two folding maps printed in colour, blue coated endpapers. Reading lean, textblock generally bright and clean with just the occasional mark, some tearing and..... More
The Joker and Jerry Again.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, no date [1932]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.[12]; 171; [1]. With twelve illustrations by Cecil Aldin including a frontispiece, many coloured pleasingly by a former owner. In publisher's cream cloth with red titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Black ink..... 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
Give Us This Day.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1973. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.767; [1]. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated endpapers. Top edge blue. With the dust-jacket illustrated by George Chrichard. Some page corners tuned down, some marks to edges. Price-clipped jacket spine sunned, some light..... More
An Expensive Place to Die.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. [Cold War spy thriller] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY in oversized PROOF-ONLY dust-wrapper. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.254;[2], blank. Publisher's lime-green softcovers in jacket, with traces of the bold printed word 'ENGLISH' to extreme front edge of the flap and 'PROOF ONLY' in bold to rear with provisional..... More
A Study In Scarlet, and A Case of Identity.
Chicago, IL: E.A. Weeks and Company, no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.232. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Textblock browned. Cloth rubbed to extremities, especially to joints, corners and spine ends, some scuffs and marks. Very good... More
Night Creatures (aka Captain Clegg).
No place, [1962]. An original US colour lobby card for the 1962 movie from Hammer Films, starring Peter Cushing and Oliver Reed. Condition A- (slight handling), dimensions approx. 13 x 10 inches, in a simple card mount. Ideal for framing. A harrowing tale of 19th century skullduggery and swamp phantoms..... More
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. And Other Stories and Sketches. With a Frontispiece by Lucius Hitchcock.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1900. [Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 414; [32] advertisements (dated June 1900 as called for in Johnson). Publisher's yellow cloth lettered in gilt to spine and black to upper board, blocked in black and yellow to upper board, patterned endpapers, gilt top..... More
Original Letters, from Richard Baxter, Matthew Prior, Lord Bolingbroke, Alexander Pope, Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Hartley, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Mrs. Montague, Rev. William Gilpin, Rev. John Newton, George Lord Lyttleton, Rev. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, etc. etc. With Biographical Illustrations.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; 303; [1]. Contemporary brown half calf recently re-backed, with the original marbled boards and the original spine laid over. Gilt titles and decoration to spine. Light occasional spotting. Heavy wear to boards and original..... More
The Wind Singer.
London: Mammoth, 2000. [Children's Literature]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 341 [3]. Publisher's blue paper-covered boards with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to upper board. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket by Mark Edwards. A fine as-new copy. More
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse.
New York, NY: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [1918]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST US EDITION. Sextodecimo (14 x 11cm), pp.85; [1]. With a chromolithographic plate by the author facing every page of text. No 'Ltd.' to title page; endpapers match plate XV in Quinby. Publisher's brown paper-covered boards with white..... More
Douglas Hurd the Public Servant. An Authorised Biography.
Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1998. [British Politics] EX LIBRIS LORD MOYNIHAN, First Edition. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.472; [8]. With eight doubled sided plates, in black and white and colour. Publisher's purple cloth with silver titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket priced at £20.00. Bookplate detailing provenance to flyleaf. A fine copy..... More
The Prime Ministers: From Robert Walpole to Margaret Thatcher.
London: Nationwide Book Service, 1980. [British Politics] Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.xxiv; 260; [4]. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Recent bookplate detailing provenance affixed to flyleaf. Dedicated in blue ink to Colin [Lord Moynihan] from his aunt Marjorie..... More
The Wind in the Wood.
London: Hollis and Carter, 1952. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[10]; 143; [1]. With twelve chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by the author, and wood engraved vignettes to chapter headings. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 18s. net..... More
Rupert. The Daily Express Annual 1978.
London: Express Newspapers, 1978. [Children's Annual] ORIGINAL ANNUAL. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.116. With colour illustrations by Bestall to every page. Cover art and endpapers by Harrold. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and colour-illustrated endpapers. Light browning to edges. Near fine. The first Rupert Annual to feature cover art by..... More