- Category = Classics,Modern First Editions,Performing Arts,Poetry,Pre First World War
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An Awkward Lie. The third detection featuring Bobby Appleby together with his father, Sir John Appleby.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1971. First UK edition. Publisher's red cloth. In an unclipped dust jacket. 192 pages. 205 x 140 mm (8 x 5½ inches). Both book and dust jacket in a very good / near fine condition. The preceding books are: 'A Family Affair' and 'Death at the Chase', in which Bobby Appleby played only a minor part. This time he does most of the detecting; and even finds the corpse!
Book ID: 2556More details Price: £15.00 -
An Old Olive Tree.
Edinburgh: M. Macdonald, 1971. First edition. Softback with original card dust jacket. The dust jacket is very slightly sun faded in spine area. Neat ex libris to front endpaper. Otherwise the book and contents are spotless.
Joseph Todd Gordon Macleod (1903–1984) was a British modernist poet, actor, playwright, theatre director and historian, and also a BBC newsreader. He sometimes published poetry under the pseudonym Adam Drinan. Whilst studying at Rugby School, Macleod was a close friend of Adrian Stokes, and at Oxford he was a close friend of Graham Greene. This is his final poem sequence, entirely autobiographical, containing poems which meditate upon his friendships and familial ties, and the process of aging.
37 pages. 220 x 150 mm (8¾ x 6 inches).Book ID: 3865More details Price: £50.00 -
Anglo-Indian prize poems, by native and English writers, in commemoration of the visit of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to India.
London: Published for the Crown Perfumery Company by Hamilton Adams & Co, 1876. First Edition. Hardback, in the publisher's original cream cloth binding, which is grubby and stained. Crown Perfumery Company advertisements pasted to front endpaper, plus more advertisements to the last few pages. Pages clean and fresh. All edges red. Poems in English, Sanskrit, and Hindustani. vi, [ii], 117, [3] pages. 160 x 115 mm (6¼ x 4½ inches).
Book ID: 4687More details Price: £60.00 -
Ar Fanc Siôn Cwilt: Detholiad o Ysgrifau Sarnicol
Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer, 1972. Argraffiad cyntaf. Prin. Llyfr clawr caled mewn siaced lwch wreiddiol. Llun blaen o Sarnicol. Mae rhai geiriau wedi'u tanlinellu mewn ar dudalen neu ddwy. 100 tudalen. Mewn cyflwr da. 220 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3803More details Price: £30.00 -
Ariel
Book ID: 4085More details Price: £475.00 -
Aritoteles' Poetik Ubersetzt un Eingeleitet Mit Einer Abhandlung: Wahrheit Und Irrtum in Der Katharsis-Theorie Des Aristoteles
Book ID: 4591More details Price: £80.00 -
Belfast Story, A Novel.
Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear: Erdesdun Pomes: 1976. Published in Conjunction with Ostrich by Erdesdun Pomes. Original yellow illustrated wrappers. Slightly soiled - a very good copy. The novel was produced as a fund raiser for the Tyneside Socialist Centre. O'Doherty is a writer, broadcaster and journalist from Donegal. He is based in Ulster. Raised as a Catholic, he has written for a variety of publications in Northern Ireland, and was a regular on Radio Ulster. Belfast story is not listed on his own website bibliography. 56 pages.
Book ID: 1811More details Price: £30.00 -
Berlin Game
Book ID: 4268More details Price: £26.00 -
Billets-doux. Being an exquisite Nosegay, or Posy, now newly pluckt from popular Letter-writing Manuals of Yore, that is to say, the early Nineteenth Century. Here offered as an edifying Guide to affairs of the heart for the Amorous, the Pestered, or the merely Confused. And lovingly embellished with numerous ingenious Decorations, cunningly wrought.
[New Haven, Conneticut]: Prickly Pair Editions, 1998. First edition. Bound in gold cloth hardback boards with inset cover decoration and label. Lovely colour illustrations. Decorated title page, frontispiece, and page decorations. Titles printed in red. Printed in an edition of only forty-five copies. The type is Walbaum, machine-set by Michael & Winifred Bixler. Decorations and binding by Coriander Reisbord; typography and printing by Asa Peavy. With compliment slip from Coriander Reisbord loose inside. Boards and pages water stained to bottom third, hence low price. Boards and 21 pages. 235 x 185 mm (9¼ x 7¼ inches).
Book ID: 3761More details Price: £30.00 -
Biography.
Cambridge: 1978. An attractive slim volume of poetry. Printed by the National Poetry Centre for Lobby Press. Green paper covers. Clean and without edgewear, but a touch of fading to the spine. Internally clean and tidy throughout. 19 poems by the Greek author Nasos Vayenas. 200 by 140mm (7¾ by 5½ inches).
. Un petit volume de poésie attrayant. Imprimé par le Centre national de poésie pour Lobby Press. Couvertures en papier vert. Propre et sans usure des bords, mais avec une légère décoloration du dos. L'intérieur est propre et bien rangé. 19 poèmes de l'auteur grec Nasos Vayenas. 200 x 140 mm
Book ID: 4173More details Price: £30.00 -
Birthday Wishes card
London: Marcus Ward & Co, 1878. First Edition. Small colour birthday card, with gilt full-page illustrations, to front and back. These are the same illustrations as the Spring and Summer seasons of the calendars attributed to the illustrator Kate Greenaway, but we are not sure these illustrations are hers. They are beautiful though! Circa 1878. Inside is a hand written birthday message, dated 1879, and a printed poem by Horatius Bonar. In fine condition. 100 x 70 mm (4 x 2¾ inches)
Book ID: 4235More details Price: £80.00 -
Book of Ballads.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1884. Fourteenth Edition. Hardback in green cloth with red title and gilt illustration to front board and spine. Some minor spine and edge rubbing and light soiling. Complete with full page frontis and many b/w in text illustrations. 292 pages. 175 x 120 mm (7 x 4¾ inches).
Book ID: 2846More details Price: £20.00 -
Brave et Poltron Comédie en deux parties
Book ID: 5093More details Price: £30.00 -
Brochure promotionnelle - Un Film de Pierre Étaix 'YoYo'
Book ID: 2561More details Price: £60.00 -
Cardboard Castle.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First edition. No dust jacket. Orange boards faded to front and spine. Ex library, with a few stamps to front blank pages. Overall good reading copy. 311 pages. 195 x 130 mm (7¾ x 5 inches).
P.C. Wren is best known for his work Beau Geste. This story involves a woman, who thought herself a widow because her husband was officially declared dead, remarrying only to meet her 'dead' husband alive many years later. The invention of a fictional South-American country called Boruela, and its wicked dictator, only add to a strange plot.Book ID: 3868More details Price: £30.00 -
Caribbean Folk Tales and Legends
London: BLP Bogle L'Overture Press, 1992. Very nice copy of this soft back first edition. Clean and tidy pictorial covers. Compiled and edited by Salkey, this is full of folk stories of the caribbean. Black and white illustrations accompany the stories. 136 pages. 205 by 130mm (8 by 5 inches)
. Très bel exemplaire de cette première édition à dos souple. Couvertures picturales propres et soignées. Compilé et édité par Salkey, cet ouvrage est rempli d'histoires folkloriques des Caraïbes. 136 pages. 205 x 130 mm.
Book ID: 4276More details Price: £26.00 -
Characters from Dickens
Book ID: 4900More details Price: £100.00 -
Chill Factor
Garden City, New York: The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1978. First Edition. Part of the Matt Erridge murder mystery series. Hardback, with signed author dedication to FFEP. Dated 1978. In original dust jacket. Jacket is a little foxed, but otherwise in very good condition. Inside clean and fresh. 177 pages. 215 x 145 mm (8½ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 4798More details Price: £30.00 -
Chimes: A Benedictine Quarterly Review Volume III (3) Number XI. July 1923
Edition: First Edition
Buckfast, Devon: Buckfast Abbey, 1923. First edition. A very nice copy of this Benedictine Quarterly Journal. Full of period Catholic adverts, articles, book reviews and poetry. Front illustration of Buckfast Abbey in 1829. A decent copy. The paper covers are a little darkened and marked. The yapped edges are slightly nicked and have a few small closed tears. Internally clean and tidy throughout. [viii], 141-208., [vi] pp.
Book ID: 1102More details Price: £30.00 -
Chimes: A Benedictine Quarterly Review Volume III Number 3. New Series July- September 1929
Edition: First Edition
Buckfast, Devon: Buckfast Abbey, 1929. First edition. A very nice copy of this Benedictine Quarterly Journal. Full of period Catholic adverts, articles, book reviews and poetry. Pale blue paper covers with silver decoration to the front cover. Frontis illustration of the Bishop of Plymouth (Bishop Barrett) Articles include a translation of the original document of "The Surrender of Buckfast Abbey". There is also a photograph of detail from the Buckfast choir stalls tipped in. To the rear is an attractive colour illustrated folding advert for a clerical outfitters in Exeter. A decent copy. The paper covers are a little faded to the edges. The yapped edges are slightly bruised. Internally clean and tidy throughout. 111-162., [xi] pp.
Book ID: 1103More details Price: £12.00