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The Ice House.
Macmillan, 1992. FIRST EDITION. A lovely fine copy in dustwrapper. Author's first full-length crime novel. Winner of the CWA John Creasey Award for Best First Crime Novel of the Year. More
The Subterranean Club.
London; Hodder and Stoughton, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. 320pp. Fine in publisher's slate blue cloth titled and ruled in black to spine and front board. Clean and tight, in a splendid, Hodder Yellow-Jacket dustwrapper, very good indeed with some light spotting and very minor edgewear. Bright and very striking... More
A walk in and about the city of Canterbury with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published.
Canterbury: Simmons and Kirkby, 1777. SECOND EDITION. Octavo, pp.[2]; 36; 402; [16]. With 24 copper plates including a frontispiece portrait of the author, a folding plan of Canterbury, and two other maps. Bound in contemporary tan calf, professionally respined to style with gilt titles on a red morocco square. Bookplate..... More
One Corpse Too Many. A Mediaeval Whodunnit.
Macmillan, London 1979. Historical crime novel. FIRST EDITION. Publisher's hardcover in original dust-wrapper. Rich red colour to spine. Price clipped else a fresh, fine copy. The second Cadfael mystery. Scarce. More
Reports on Visits to American Automobile Body Plants during the Period of 16th April - 17th May 1946.
[Issued by the Press Steel Co., Ltd., Engineering Dept.], June 1946. Folio. This report is a British post war working draft, possibly for eventual printing, concentrating on all technical aspects of the car designs and construction in the USA with a view to develop and modernise the British car industry..... More
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.
New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1958. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo.; pp. 63. Publisher's glossy pictorial boards, minor edge soiling, owner's name discreetly hidden under flap. Near Fine. In very good dustwrapper, which has small loss to the tail of spine, is rubbed and lightly creased and is chipped to..... More
Scrambled Eggs, Super!
New York, Random House. 1953. First Edition, Slim 4to. Publisher's bright blue and red illustrated boards, with matching dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by the author, including endpapers. Ownership to paste down. Owner's name stamped in ink to paste down and rear flyleaf. Some bumping and scuffing to extremities with slight..... More
Beauty and the Beast. Mark's Comic Nursery Tales.
London: William Orr and Co., no date [circa 1841]. RARE SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[2]; 51; [1]. With 12 wood engraved plates by Crowquill, as well as a hand-coloured vignette to title page. In publisher's colour illustrated paper-covered boards, recently re-backed in brown cloth. Coated yellow endpapers; all..... More
Wheels and Butterflies. New Plays.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[x]; 181; [1], imprint; [2], blank. Publisher's gilt-embossed green cloth, edges untrimmed, in original printed dust-wrapper, priced at 6/- net. Book is fine, jacket lightly worn to crown and foot. Generally a crisp, fine copy. A collection of five plays, all..... More
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The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo [and] Tootleoo Two.
London: The Nonesuch Press, n.d. [1925 and 1927]. [Children's Illustrated]. FIRST EDITIONS. In two volumes. Oblong (19 x 26cm), unpaginated. With bright colour illustrations by Elinor Darwin facing every page of text. In publisher's original paper-covered card covers, with red decoration to volume I and blue to volume II. Some..... More
When I Lived in Bohemia. Papers selected from the portfolio of Peter - esq.
Bristol, Arrowsmith. London, Simkin Marshall. [1892]. [Mystery]. First edition. Small 8vo. Publisher's terracotta cloth titled and decorated in black and gilt to spine and front board. Some soiling to the cloth, nevertheless a very good, tight copy. Internally clean, ownership to pastedown and front flyleaf. Illustrated throughout. A novel presented..... More
Sir Nobonk and the Terrible, Awful, Dreadful, Naughty, Nasty Dragon.
London: Michael Joseph, 1982. Quarto, pp. 242. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by both author and artist. Publisher's hardcovers in original dust wrapper. Illustrated by Carol Barker. Signatures in a suitably mediaeval style facing the illuminated title page. A lightly handled copy with some gentle age-toning. Near fine. More
Skin-Boats. A Study of Ancient Ships of Japan Part IV.
Tokyo; The Society of Naval Architects. 1931. First edition. 4to. 249pp. A near fine copy in publisher's deep green cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board, in a very good, clean and bright dustwrapper, sunned to spine and with some cracking to the somewhat brittle spine..... More
A Book of Designs of Deep Sea Racing Craft. Issued Under the Auspices of the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club.
London: Ernest J. Day and Company, [1932]. FIRST EDITION. Oblong quarto, pp.viii, 116. Bound in full dark blue Morocco with gilt emblem to upper board, later respine to style. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Introduction by Malden Heckstall-Smith, followed by 116 pages of plans. Some light spotting to prelims, some..... More
The Ruhleben Bye-Election - July 1915.
Ruhleben, 1915. FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet, pp. 32. Blue pictorial wraps. Some toning to paper, wraps have detached along the spine and have some nicks along the edges. Very good, a fascinating survival. Campaign book for the election of an M.P. representing Ruhleben internment camp, just west of Berlin, which..... More
The History of Surrey, by Edward Wedlake Brayley. Assisted by John Britton and E.W. Brayley, Junior. The Geological Section by Gideon Mantell.
Dorking: Robert Best Ede, 1841-48. FIRST EDITIONS. 5 volumes as 10 parts. Octavo (26 x 17 x 28cm). Publisher's original embossed purple cloth with gilt titles to evenly faded spines, yellow endpapers, edges untrimmed. Illustrated with 127 full page steel engraved plates by Thomas Allom, Thompson and others (some folding)..... More
The Naked Civil Servant.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.217; [1]. Publisher's purple cloth titled in silver to spine, in photographic dust-jacket designed by Ivor Kaplin with the photographs by Simon Dell, Angus McBean, and Peter Hirst Smith. Light shelf wear to the cloth, some spotting to edges. Dust-jacket is slightly soiled..... More
'The Perplexing Date Line' contained within 'Holiday' magazine. Vol 28, No.5, November 1960
Philadelphia, Curtis Publishing Co. 1960. pp.226 Price 60cents. Magazine format, colour illustrated covers. Some creasing/edgewear. Very good. Contains the first appearance of this Ian Fleming article, being the original full-length essay; it was cut and re-named 'Honolulu' when published as the fourth chapter of 'Thrilling Cities' (November 1963). More
The Chase of The Golden Plate.
London: Collier and Co., 1908. First edition. Octavo, pp.224. Near fine in publisher's ribbed bottle green clothtitled in gilt to the spine and front board. Decorated in blind to front board with two pictorial inlays. Light bumping to head and tail of spine otherwise fine. Internally clean A splendid copy..... More
The Song of The Cotton Picker. With photos by Carl Julien.
Clinton, South Carolina: Jacob's Press. 1942. First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo. Publisher's red rexine, leather effect cloth with onlay photgraphic title label to front board. Bright and sharp, small square of fading to head of spine. In a very good dustwrapper, frayed and chipped to head of spine..... More
Einleitung zu der Herolds-Kunst, auff eine bequeme und deutliche Art verfasset, in zwey Theilen. Die Wapen der vornehmsten Staaten und Republiques von gantz Europa gleichsam auff einen Anblick darstellend und in dieser teutschen Ubersetzung mit einem neuen Theil von der Wapen-Kunst insgemein, laut des nohtwendigen Berichtes in der Vorrede, vermehret.
Hamburg, 1694. First Edition of the German translation of Caspar Bussing's original Latin work published the year before, containing the Arms of all the European Emperors, Kings and other Rulers. Small oblong 8vo. (95 x 150mm). Contemporary full roan with raised bands, gilt and red title label to spine. Illustrated..... More
Attack Alarm.
London: Collins. 1943. First Indian Edition. Octavo. In cream soft paper cover. Dust wrapper with titles in black to front cover and spine, and publisher's adverts for further titles to rear cover; unprice-clipped, originally priced at two rupees. Paper binding is rubbed, worn to extremities. Dust wrapper shows well, with..... More
Tales of Mean Streets.
London, Methuen. 1894. First Edition. 8vo. 301pp + 32pp ads dated October 1894. Publisher's olive green cloth titled in gilt to spine and front boards. Contemporary Rockwell Kent-designed bookplate to front pastedown. Minor wear. A bright, near fine copy. Published in the same year as 'A Child of The Jago'..... More
Night on The Devil's Pathway. A Master Thriller.
London: The World's Work. 1938. First edition. 8vo. Near fine in publisher's light green cloth titled in black to spine and front board. Very light wear to spine ends. In a near fine unclipped dustwrapper, bright, sharp and clean with very slight wear to head and tail of spine. Trifling..... More
The Yellow Claw.
Lippincott's Magazine. 1915. First appearance in print, bound from the parts. 8vo. Attractively bound in recent half green morocco leather with gilt titles to spine, black title label. Green cloth boards and plain endpapers. Near fine. Bound from the parts extracted from the 1915 issues of Lippincott's Magazine predating the..... More