- Category = Classics,Modern First Editions,Performing Arts,Poetry,Pre First World War
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The Oscar Pletsch Picture Book
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1880. Children's poetry book. Colour illustrated hardback boards, red cloth spine. Boards somewhat rubbed and slightly grubby. Poems for children with charming b/w illustrations throughout. Printed at Camden Press by Dalziel Brothers. Pages are quite clean, just a few finger marks. Overall good to fair, and quite scarce. 128 pages. 250 x 195 mm (9¾ x 7¾ inches).
Book ID: 3319More details Price: £45.00 -
The Passion of Christ
Two elegies reprinted to commemorate the fourth centenary of his birth by Edgar Prestage
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1248More details Price: £18.00 -
The Patriots.
An historical novel.
Book ID: 1840More details Price: £100.00
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The Percy Society. Three publications bound in one
Book ID: 3033More details Price: £80.00
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden.
Cooke's Edition. Three Volumes.
London: Printed for C. Cooke, 1798. First Thus. Hardback in three quarter calf and marbled boards. Title in gilt on red morocco labels to spine, decorated in gilt. Each of the three volumes has two additional title pages, one engraved and one letterpress. Without date of publication, but plates are dated 1798. Embellished with superb engravings, including decorative headpieces and tailpieces. The boards are lightly rubbed at the corners, internally also in very good condition. 145 x 95 mm (5¾ x 3¾ inches).
Book ID: 3908More details Price: £125.00 -
The Queen of Sinister.
London: Gollancz, 2004. First edition in hardback. Signed by the author to the title page. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The second book in The Dark Age series. 175 pages. 240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 3585More details Price: £20.00 -
The Race of Leaves
Book ID: 4244More details Price: £300.00
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The Rats & other poems.
London: W. H. Allen, 1960. First edition, first impression. With the original dust jacket, in green boards with title to spine in gilt. Signed in ink to title page by Sillitoe. The dust jacket is darkened to top on both front and back, and spine is darkened with small closed tear to the head. The extremities are rubbed and nicked. Bookplate tipped-in to FFEP. Rubbed to verso of title - appears to be where a reference number has been removed. Page 24 has once been torn and repaired. 111 pp. 220 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2371More details Price: £40.00 -
The Recently Deflowered Girl.
The Right Thing To Say On Every Dubious Occasion.
Zürich: Diogenes Verlag, 1966. First edition. Hardback illustrated boards. Mel Juffe's tongue-in-cheek guide, in the voice of Miss Hyacinthe Phypps. The text is accompanied by Edward Gorey's wonderful b/w illustrations. Boards very good, but lightly rubbed, interior in fine condition. 40 pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3766More details Price: £40.00 -
The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb with illustrations by the Author
London: J.M. Dent, 1962. A corrected proof, bearing printers / proof reading corrections. Paper covers (front cover detached but present). Slight staining to covers. Includes Peake's own illustrations. 44 pages. 230 x 140 mm (9 x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2148More details Price: £90.00 -
The Saracen's Head
or The Reluctant Crusader.
London: John Murray, 1948. First Edition hardback in yellow cloth. In price clipped publisher's colour illustrated dust jacket. Jacket is a little age toned at spine. The story of a young knight's adventures in the crusades. For a young adult audience. With fun in text b/w illustrations, and some colour double page illustrations. Inside clean and unmarked. 68 [1] pages. 240 x 175 mm (9½ x 7 inches).
Sir Osbert Lancaster, CBE was an English author and cartoonist, known for his work in British newspapers.Book ID: 3523More details Price: £20.00 -
The Ship of Stars.
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1899. First edition. Red cloth cover with gilt title to spine. Top edge gilt. The story of a Cornish childhood. Cloth on spine is slightly sun faded. Foxing throughout. 312 pp. 200 x 140 mm (7¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2094More details Price: £20.00 -
The Song of Magdalen.
New York: Douglass Howell, 1946. First edition. Soft paper covers (same paper as book). Browned to one edge. Small split to spine. An eight page poem folded. Marked as printer's copy of this first edition, which was limited to five-hundred copies. A very scarce item, with no other copies available online. Alice Orcutt later wrote several mystical and Jungian books. The printer / publisher, was Orcutt's husband Douglass Howell. 15 unnumbered pages. 210 x 180 mm (8¼ x 7 inches).
Book ID: 2282More details Price: £80.00 -
The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany, Valombrosa, Camaldoli, Laverna: A Poem with historical and Legendary notices.
Illustrated by engravings of the Scenery from original drawings by the late Reverend Edward Bury.
Book ID: 3540More details Price: £300.00
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The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
Illustrated with thirty-seven curious engravings from the Baron's own designs, and five woodcuts by G. Cruikshank.
Book ID: 4325More details Price: £40.00
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The Vicar of Wakefield.
A Miniature Book.
London: Jones & Co, 1831. A leather bound miniature copy of this classic. Red leather binding. Gilt decoration to the spine and a working brass clasp. Good, slightly rubbed condition, with a little black marking to the rear panel. Owner's gift inscription to the front end paper. Frontis illustration of Goldsmith and an engraved title page with vignette. 252 pages. 90 x 60 mm (3½ x 2¼ inches).
Book ID: 2221More details Price: £40.00 -
The Visitors.
London: Collins, 1958. First edition, in its original unclipped dust jacket. Novel is set in a country behind the Iron Curtain, probably Poland. The story of the wife of a member of a British Mission, who has been posted to one of the major provincial cities, and finds herself in a situation that is charged with comedy, tragedy, and an ever-increasing danger for all concerned. Toning to front and rear endpapers in the shape of the fold of the dust jacket. Very light shelf wear to head and tail of spine of dust jacket. No other marks or foxing. In a very good condition. 576 pp. 220 x 150 mm (8¾ x 6 inches).
Book ID: 2350More details Price: £20.00 -
The Voice of Asia.
New York: Random House, 1951. First Edition. Stated first printing. Hardback in neatly price clipped dust jacket - now in Mylar. Dust jacket has some light edge wear. Illustrated end papers. Pages clean. Michener had travelled widely in Asia and this book is the result of him having talked to many people he encountered along the way about their opinions of their country's religious problems, economic questions, and social revolutions. A snap shot of mid twentieth century Asia. 338 pages. 215 x 145 mm (8½ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3222More details Price: £48.00 -
The Way of the Cross and Other Verses.
Edition: First Edition
London: R. & T. Washbourne Ltd, 1913. First edition. Original purple buckram with white titles and Holy Cross to the front board. Bookplate of Syon Abbey, Chudleigh to the inside front board. Overall in sound condition. The buckram is clean, but the colour has entirely faded to the spine. Internally clean and tidy, with a little darkening to the end papers only. 72 pages.
Book ID: 1241More details Price: £34.00 -
The Wife Hunter,
by the Moriarty Family.
Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1838. First edition. An uncommon Irish novel, written by William J. O'Neill Daunt under the pseudonym Moriarty. Two volumes. ( Red cloth spine, and cream card boards. A little fading to the labels on the spine, and slight rubbing to the boards only. Internally clean and tidy, but the text block is quite darkened. Adverts to the front of Volume 1.
18), 198, 191 (i). pages. 130 x 100 mm (5 x 4 inches).Book ID: 1860More details Price: £300.00