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A Pocket Full of Rye. [A Miss Marple story].
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1953. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.191; [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the red and black illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 10s 6d. No inscriptions, contents clean, crease to rear cover, bookseller's discreet ticket to..... More
Cat Among the Pigeons.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1] blank. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, in typographic dust-jacket priced at 12/6. No inscriptions, jacket with minor toning to edges, a few tiny nick and one neat (stabilised)..... More
Spring Fever.
London: Herbert Jenkins, no date [1948]. [Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Frank Ford priced 8/6. A stunning, as-new copy. Fine. A typically-Wodehousian farce set at the Earl of Shortlands' Beevor..... More
The Sleeping Beauty: A Modern Version. The "Bairnie" Series of Dainty Books for Children.
London: Jarrold & Sons, 1900. [Children's Illustrated] LEATHER BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.97 [48]. With 10 wood engraved illustrations by Barry, including a frontispiece. With a large section of advertisements at rear. Recently rebound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
The Scapegoat [with a Typed Letter Signed].
London: Victor Gollancz, [and] Menabilly, Cornwall, 9th March 1957. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION with a TYPED LETTER SIGNED. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.368. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to spine. With the yellow typographic dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Together with a typed letter on headed notepaper addressed to Ivor Brown..... More
The Manners of the Ancient Israelites; Containing an Account of their Peculiar Customs, Ceremonies, Laws, Polity, Religion, Sects, Arts and Trades, Division of Time, War, Captivities, Dispersion, and Present State. With a Short Account of the Ancient and Modern Samaritans. The Whole Much Enlarged from the Principal Writers on Jewish Antiquities.
London: Sold by William Baynes, 1809. [Jewish History] FINELY BOUND, the third edition thus. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] 389 [5]. With a frontispiece etching of the author after Gobert. In later tan half calf, circa 1900, with raised bands, gilt titles to a black label, Masonic gilt tooling to..... More
You Only Live Twice. Press Book [Exhibitor's Campaign Book].
United Artists. Printed In USA, 1967. [Promotional material] ONLY PRINTING. Large-format/small poster sized 12-page stapled booklet providing cast and credits, editorial comment, plus advertising and promotional lists for soundtracks, book sales, toiletries, etc. Without cuts or folds- unusual thus. A little browning to spine else a near fine copy... More
Catriona. A Sequel to 'Kidnapped' Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad.
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1893. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[x]; 371; [18], catalogue dated 8/93. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, floral-patterned pale green endpapers. Ads partially unopened, some foxing within, pencil signature of respected Brighton architect Gilbert Murray Simpson (1869-1954), cloth with..... More
Phantasmion, a Fairy Tale. With an Introductory Preface by Lord Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
London: Henry S. King & Co., 1874. [Fantasy Novel] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 348 [44]. A very early issue, with the publisher's catalogue dated February 1874. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine and upper, and a silver urn decoration stamped to upper. Brown-coated endpapers, with..... More
Showcase presents Doctor No.
Sparta, IL: DC Comics, National Periodical Publications, Inc., March-April 1963. [Comic book] Published as issue 43 of the Showcase anthology series by DC Comics, with artwork by Norman Nodel. The front inside cover shows five stills from the United Artists film adaptation, and the rear inside cover prints a biography..... More
The Best Man to Die.
London: John Long, 1969. [Crime Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.184. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. A ticket to the Soho Theatre event 'Ruth Rendell and PD James, Head to Head' September 2012, attended by a well-known bookseller, suggests provenance..... More
Clovis Dardentor.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1897 [1898]. [Romantic Adventure] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, third issue. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 320. With 45 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and grey, black and orange decoration to spine and upper..... More
Mistress Branican.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [circa 1902]. [Mystery Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 360. With a selection of Benett's engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and polychrome decoration to spine and upper. Black ink church choir..... More
Keraban the Inflexible: The Captain of the Guidara.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1884 [1886]. [Ottoman Adventure] FIRST UK EDITION, a later issue. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 223 [33]. Publisher's catalogue dated October 1886. With 49 engraved plates, including a frontispiece, by Benett. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and..... More
Their Island Home. The Later Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson.
New York, NY: G. Howard Watt, 1924. [Castaway Adventure] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 272 [4]. With a colour-illustrated frontispiece and two further black and white plates by Murphy. Publisher's maroon cloth with green titles to spine and upper, and a reproduction of the frontispiece laid over..... More
Christianity in its Relation to Judaism and Heathenism in Three Tracts: First—On the Winged Symbols of Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum, compared with the Cherubim of Ezekiel's Typical Prophecies. Second—On the True Historic reference of Jewish Prophecy. Third—The Rise and Progress of Idolatry considered in the relation of its predicted fall to the establishment of Messiah's everlasting Kingdom [and] The Primeval Revelation, as Taught in "The Law & the Prophets:" of, God's Will typically manifested in His Works, especially in His Ordinances of Day and Night, under a threefold Traditional instruction of Science, History, and Religion, allegorically combined, as "The Parables and Dark Sayings of Old," which represent the power of a Threefold Cord not easily broken.
London: Simpkin & Co., 1860 and 1864. [Occult Astrology] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 16; xiv; 7-177 [1]; 137 [1]; pp.xxxii; 72. Filled with astrological diagrams, tables, and lithographic illustrations, many folding. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt..... More
Old Waldorf Bar Days. With the Cognomina and Composition of Four Hundred and Ninety-one Appealing Appetizers and Salutary Potations Long Known, Admired and Served at the Famous Big Brass Rail; also A Glossary for the Use of Antiquarians and Students of American Mores.
New York, NY: Aventine Press, 1931. [Cocktails] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 242 [6]. INSCRIBED by Oscar Tschirky (1866-1950), Head Waiter at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | Judge Byron K. Elliot | with best wishes | from Oscar | of the Waldorf..... More
The Last Galley. Impressions and Tales.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1911. [Short stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 298 [14]. With a chromolithographic frontispiece by Wyeth and one further lithographic illustration by Rountree. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Contents clean, edges slightly toned, moderate handling and wear..... More
Why I am A Free Trader.
London: W. T. Stead, 3 Whitefriars Street 13th April 1905. [Politics / Economics] FIRST EDITION. Pamplet (25 x 15cm), pp.22; [2], ads. Bound in black and white photographic covers, scarce order form on green paper stock remains affixed to upper. Original price One Penny. One-page prefatory notice by editor W...... More
Golf. With contributions by Lord Wellwood; Sir Walter Simpson, Bart.; Right Hon. A.J. Balfour; M.P. Andrew Lang; H.S.C. Everard; and others.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890. [Sport] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 463; [1], blank. With numerous illustrations by Thomas Hodge and Harry Furniss. Recent dark green half morocco over green cloth sides, gilt title on red morocco labels and gilt to spine, top edge gilt. Some spotting/toning..... More
Galatea. A Novel.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1978. [Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.287; [1]. publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Linda Garland with printed price of £5.75 net. Signed by the author to the title page. Small bump to the top of the..... More
The Theological Works. The Age of Reason [and] Miscellaneous Poems.
London: R. Carlile, 1819-1826. [Collected Essays] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, a mixed issue. Part one of The Age of Reason dated 1826; all other parts dated 1819. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] 52; pp.96; pp.61 [1]; pp.71 [1]; pp.[4] 24; 25-28. Containing all four parts of The Age of Reason. Followed..... More
The Stoneware Monkey.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, blue endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 7/6. Contents very clean, neat ownership to flyleaf, jacket with trivial rubbing and wear, some discreet (frankly unnecessary) touch-up (no paper repair);..... More
Guildhall Portsmouth Sunday, 18th April: A Concert in aid of the Lord Mayor's Special Appeal for the Sir Winston Churchill Memorial. Presented by Joe Collins and Mervyn Conn. With Manfred Mann, Dave Berry, the Ivy League.
Hastings: Hastings Printing Company, April 1965. [Concert Programme] RARE PAMPHLET (27 x 20cm), pp.12. Publisher's colour printed paper covers with two staples. Very light wear. Near fine. More
The Prophetic News and Israel's Watchman. Sir Winston Churchill and the Bible. [Including 'The Federated States of Europe'].
Brighton: The Christian Herald Co., February 1962. [Political Exegesis] RARE MAGAZINE (25 x 18cm), pp.48. With advertisements and in-text illustrations. Publisher's paper covers, with a red border and an image of Winston Churchill to the front cover. Two staples. Very lightly browned, with only minimal oxidation to staples. Light rubbing..... More