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Two Stories. The Mare's nest [and] The Long Shadow.
London: E. Lahr, 1931. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.27 [5]. Number 147 of just 250 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear of the volume. In publisher's quarter blue cloth with cream paper-covered boards and black titles to cream paper label on spine. With..... More
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes.
London: John Murray, 1964. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.92. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine in pictorial dustjacket. Some light spotting to prelims and to the edges, dustwrapper is nice and bright with just some creasing along the top and bottom edges. Very good. More
A Changed Man: The Waiting Supper And Other Tales concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid.
MacMillan and Co., Limited, London, 1913. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. With a map of Wessex and a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth, gilt decoration to upper board, top edge gilt. In the original printed dust-jacket. Book is fine, but for some offset browning from flaps, neat ink name hidden beneath. The fragile..... 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
The History of Kent. In Five parts. Containing I. An exact topography or description of the county. II. The Civil History of Kent.... V. The Natural History of Kent.
London: Printed and Sold by D. Midwinter, 1719. [Kent Topography/Cartography] FIRST EDITION. Folio (40 x 29cm), pp.[2]; iv, Dedication; iv, Preface; ii, Ode to Kent; iv, List of Subscribers; 592; xl. Illustrated with 43 fine engravings, of which 39 are double-page and/or fold-out. Includes fine panoramas of Rochester and Tunbridge..... More
Screencraft, or the Making of a Photoplay.
New York, NY: Chalmers Publishing Co., 1916. [Early Film-Making] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.151; [1]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Simple typographic dust-jacket with titles and testimonials from well-wishing readers. Fore-edge untrimmed. Toned and a little dusty to edges. Light wear to..... More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.55.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Jarrold, 1990. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.99. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £4.25 intact. With commemorative jacket, featuring a colour poster of Rupert to reverse side. Absolutely fine/as new. Designated '70th Anniversary Edition' (Rupert..... More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.56
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Jarrold, 1991. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.99. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £4.25 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.60.
London: Express Newspapers, published by Pedigree, 1995. [Children's annual] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £5.50 intact. A very fine/as new copy. Designated '75th Anniversary Edition' (Rupert first appeared in the Daily Express in 1920;..... More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.61.
London: Express Newspapers, published by Pedigree, 1996. [Children's annual] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £5.99 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.62.
London: Express Newspapers, published by Pedigree, 1997. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £6.99 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.63.
London: Express Newspapers, published by Pedigree, 1998. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £6.99 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.64.
London: Express Newspapers, published by Pedigree, 1999. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £6.99 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.65.
London: Express Newspapers, published by Pedigree, 2000. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £6.99 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.66.
London: Express Newspapers, published by Pedigree, 2001. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £6.99 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.67.
London: Express Newspapers, published by Pedigree, 2002. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £6.99 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.68.
London: Express Newspapers, 2003. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £7.50 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.69.
London: Express Newspapers, 2004. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £7.50 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.71.
London: Express Newspapers, 2006. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £7.50 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Luck of the Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches.
Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. [Western Short Stories] FIRST EDITION, Second Issue, including 'Brown of Calaveras'. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2]; viii; 256; [2]. With the ownership inscription of Stafford Nothcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887) to flyleaf, dated 1871, Washington. Publisher's pebble grain cloth with gilt..... More
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Containing the Antient [Ancient] and Present State of it, Civil and Ecclesiastical; Collected from public Records, and other the best Authorities, both Manuscript and Printed: and Illustrated with Maps, and Views of Antiquities, Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, etc.
Canterbury: Printed for the Author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-1799. [Kentish history] FIRST EDITION. In four volumes. Folio (41 x 26cm), pp.[4]; xii; clii; 580; 42; [2]; pp.[4]; 817; [1]; 72; pp.[4]; ii; 765; [1]; 51; [3]; pp.vi; 788; 46; [2]. Complete with all 167 copper engraved illustrations, including county..... 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
Muhammad Ali. His Life and Times.
London: Robson Books, 1991. [Boxing Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.544. With 12 double-sided black and white photographic plates. INSCRIBED from the author to 'Malcolm' in black ink to half-title. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and white dust-jacket featuring a...... More
The Scarlet Letter. A Romance.
Boston, MA: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (18 x 12cm) pp.[iv]; 322, title page printed in red and black. Elegantly bound in full deep red oasis morocco, with black title labels lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt decoration to spine, marbled endpapers, top..... More
The Last Million.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d. 1919]. First Edition. Octavo. pp. xxxv, 271. In publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With rare original dust jacket showing an impressionistic scene of soldiers set against a red exploding sky. Portions of jacket lost to corners and spine head/tail;..... More