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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
May We Borrow Your Husband? And Other Comedies of the Sexual Life.
London: The Bodley Head, 1967. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY in publisher's printed yellow wraps. Clipped at first flyleaf. Externally fine, with minimal creasing to spine. Remarkably clean throughout. Twelve entertaining short stories from Greene, which were received with acclaim. More
The Tenth Man.
London: The Bodley Head and Anthony Blond, 1985. Uncorrected Proof. Octavo. pp158. Publisher's yellow paper covers with titles in black to front cover and spine. Nominal rubbing to corners, internally pristine; in sum, a very attractive copy. An utterly gripping story of a wealthy French lawyer being held prisoner by..... More
The Encounter.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1951. Octavo. Bound in publisher's red cloth, with titles in black to spine. Front cover of dust wrapper shows abstract pattern in black, red, and white, with titles in white, likewise spine, rear cover shows publisher's advertisements for other titles; unprice-clipped, originally priced at 12s 6d..... More
The Clockmaker; or, the Sayings and Doing of Samuel Slick, of Slicksville.
London: Richard Bentley, 1843. [Canadian Humour]. EARLY EDITION, complete in three volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.xii; 297 [3]; pp.viii; 325 [3]; pp.iv; 309 [1]. With a series of etched plates by Hervieu, including a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's purple blind-decorated cloth with gilt titles to spine. Yellow coated..... More
Exit West.
London: Hamish Hamilton an imprint of Penguin Books, 2017. [Modern literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 229; [5]. Publisher's red cloth, titles in black to spine, black endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of £14.99. Signed by the author to a tipped in 'exclusive signed edition' page. Tiny..... More
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2010. [Literary Criticism] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.320. With illustrations. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'For Edward — | So good to meet you in | Chichester. Good luck with | the Friends. All my best, | Alex..... More
"My House shall be called the House of Prayer" [in] The Christmas Argosy.
London: the Amalgamated Press, January 1930. [Literary Magazine]. FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo magazine (24 x 17cm), pp.viii; 184. With one plate of colour advertisements and colour illustrated paper covers, stapled. Some chipping a creases to cover edges. Staples severely oxidised. Good. Also containing 'A Distant Relative' by W. W. Jacobs; 'The..... More
Picasso as a Book Artist.
London: Faber and Faber. 1962. First UK edition. Octavo, pp. 136. Red publisher's cloth with gilt titles to spine, yellow endpapers. Striking dustwrapper. Slight lean to the book. A fine copy. 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 Just So Song Book. Being the Songs From Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories Set to Music by Edward German.
London, MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1903. First Edition. Quarto. Publisher's pictorial red cloth, depicting scenes from the Just So Stories. With music and lyrics to twelve songs. Head and tail of spine lightly rubbed. Text is clean. Near fine. More
Yachting round the West of England.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1865. FIRST EDITION WITH TIPPED-IN INSCRIPTION. Octavo, pp.vi; 313; [1]; [12] of adverts. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration, professionally rebacked. Coloured frontispiece and black and white title page vignette. Some light spotting, mostly to prelims, occasional marking to the text-block, with an..... More
Espagne, depuis L'Expulsion des Maures jusqu'a L'Annee 1847 [Spain, from the expulsion of the Moors until the year 1847]; Iles Baleares et Pithyuses; Sardaigne; Corse: L'Univers, ou Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples, de Leurs Religions, Moeurs, Costumes, etc.
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1850. EARLY EDITION. Octavo, pp.413; 27; 49; 144. With 55 engraved plates to rear. Text in French. In contemporary quarter tan calf with gilt titles to black labels on spine. Marbled boards and end-papers. Black ink ownership inscription to title page. Gilt nearly all worn from..... More
The Law of the Streets.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1957. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 192. Red cloth with black titles to spine, in suitably sinister pictorial dustwrapper. translated by Nigel Ryan. Neat inscription to front free endpaper, slight dustiness to the top edge. Some slight chipping to the corners, light rear panel shows..... More
The Time of the Hero [The City and the Dogs].
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.409. Publisher's hardcover in original dust-wrapper. No inscriptions or price-clipping. A clean, fine copy. The Nobel-winning Peruvian writer's first novel, set among the cadets at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, which he attended as a teenager. The novel portrays the..... More
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1867. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a new edition. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.[2] iv; 556 [2]. With frequent in-text wood engravings by the Dalziel Brothers after illustrations by Gilbert, and a frontispiece etching of the author. Contemporary green full panelled calf with..... More
A History of Eton College (1440-1910).
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. FINELY BOUND, Fourth Edition. Large Octavo, pp.[4]; xxiv; 627; [5]. With 11 full-page plates, some colour, including a frontispiece. Also with 63 in-text woodcuts. In contemporary brown full morocco by SPOTTISWOODE, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. All edges and endpapers marbled. Black..... 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
An Esotericist Looks at Cosmology. The Hermetic Journal, Issue 24.
Privately Printed, 1984. ROBERT LENKIEWICZ'S COPY. Quarto, pp. 29-36. Hand-bound by Lenkiewicz between two plain plywood boards, with cream hand-lettered cloth pasted over as a spine. In two gatherings, each pasted to a board. Text appears to be photocopied. An unspeakably rude binding, but solid and functional. Good. From the..... More
Army Diary 1899-1926.
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1960. [Travel/Military] FIRST EDITION. Royal Octavo. Pp.viii; 301; [3], blank. With 39 black and white plates and 25 maps printed in colour. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial jacket. Minor shelfwear, internally very clean, jacket a little nicked and rubbed, faded to spine. Colonel Richard Henry Meinertzhagen..... More
History of the French Revolution. From 1789 to 1814.
London: David Bogue, 1846. [French Revolution] PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[xii]; 424; [2] blank. Dark green polished calf binding, with raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, gilt titles to red label on spine, gilt to boards, yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Forest Proprietary Grammar School crest to..... 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
In Strange Company [featuring] Mysterious Mr. Sabin; Pharos the Phoenician; The Scallywag; In Strange Company.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, c.1900. FOUR 'SIXPENNY NOVELS' BOUND BY THE PUBLISHER. Large octavo pp. 127; 156; 150; 80. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt titles to upper, in a decorative blindstamped border, and spine, with black endpapers. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates. Light rubbing to edges..... More
Death Mask.
London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket by William Randell. Minor toning, jacket a little edgeworn, one chip at foot of spine, price clipped. A very good copy. Edith Pargeter's..... More
Colbran's Guide for Tunbridge Wells. Being a Full and Accurate Description of The Wells and its Neighbourhood Within a Circuit of Nearly Twenty Miles, and Notices of the London and Dover Railway; Illustrated With Plates, Wood Engravings, etc., of Most of the Principle Places.
Tunbridge Wells: Printed and Published by John Colbran, 1840. [Kent] FIRST EDITION, first issue. Octavo, pp.[2] xiv; 404; xi; [33]. With sixteen engraved plates including a frontispiece, but lacking the map. Publisher's dark green cloth boards, recently re-backed with original cloth spine laid over. Gilt titles to spine and upper..... More