- Category = Classics,Modern First Editions,Performing Arts,Poetry,Pre First World War
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1 off the rist:
new poems.
London: 2016. Scarce. Limited edition, number 84 of only 100 copies. Published by Tangerine Press. Book is hardback in hand sewn and handmade marbled paper covered boards with a Japanese Silk spine. The front cover artwork is embossed in black with Heritage book white archival quality, Fourdrinier made, acid-free text paper on the inside and Hahnemuhle Ingres endpapers. 24 pages. The limitation is numbered in red, and signed by Billy Childish in blue pencil, with Hangman gallows stamp. In fine / as new condition.
Book ID: 3902More details Price: £280.00 -
12 Books That Changed The World
Book ID: 2073More details Price: £10.00
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A Book of Modern Ballads.
London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, 1892. First edition. Brown cloth binding with gold and silver blocked design and titles to front. Fully illustrated with charming chromolithographs, some full-page. All edges gilt. Boards a little bumped and scuffed, pages age toned and with some foxing, but overall in good shape. Features poems by (among others) Rossetti, Swinburne, Browning, Shelley, Weatherly, and Gilbert.40 pp. 250 x 190 mm (9¾ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 2497More details Price: £20.00 -
A bound collection of The Literary Miscellany.
Book ID: 3516More details Price: £360.00
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A Chair for the Prophet.
London: Faber & Faber, 1959. First edition of this novel, the title of which derives from an old Jewish legend. Set in the newly established state of Israel, it follows the story of a young couple, who have gone to search for oil. Original dust wrapper. A little nicking and bumping to the top edge. Slight darkening to the edges. Green boards - these have an old damp stain to the spine and boards - also visible to the inside boards, but doesn't affect the wrapper or the rest of the book. Rest of book is clean and tidy, with just a touch of darkening / foxing to the closed page edges. This is Claude's third novel. 223 pages. 190 by 130mm (7½ by 5 inches).
Book ID: 4020More details Price: £40.00 -
A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
With Illustrations by John Leech.
Book ID: 4047More details Price: £2,500.00
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A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Yule-Tide
Book ID: 4139More details Price: £900.00
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A Dark Lantern.
A Story with a Prologue.
London: William Heinemann, 1905. First edition. This novel was turned in to a (now lost) silent film in 1920. Bound in green cloth, with black and silver decoration to the front. Silver title to spine. 368 pages. 200 x 130 mm (7¾ x 5 inches).
Elizabeth Robins was an American actor, playwright, novelist, and important suffragette. For a time Robins wrote under the name C. E. Raimond in an attempt to keep her acting and writing careers separate. Covers lightly rubbed, spine very slightly faded. Prelims are moderately foxed, page edges also. Otherwise a good copy.Book ID: 2711More details Price: £40.00 -
A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar.
In Two Volumes. The Tenth Edition, Corrected and Revised.
Book ID: 4068More details Price: £400.00
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A Gentleman of France.
Being The Memoirs Of Gaston De Bonne Sieur De Marsac
London: Longmans Green & Co, 1894. New edition. Blue cloth hardback beveled boards with gilt title to front and spine. From the library of the author Maarten Maartens. Black end papers. Frontis with tissue guard, illustrated title page. Book is in a fair condition only, as it is foxed throughout. Text is in English. 412 pages. 190 x 130 mm (7½ x 5 inches). Nouvelle édition. Plats biseautés cartonnés en toile bleue avec titre doré au recto et au dos. De la bibliothèque de l'auteur Maarten Maartens. Feuilles de garde noires. Frontis avec garde en tissu, page de titre illustrée. Le livre est dans un état passable seulement, car il est entièrement recouvert de rousseurs. text en Anglais. 412 pages. 190 x 130 mm (7½ x 5 pouces).
Book ID: 2857More details Price: £15.00 -
A Man of No Moon.
Book ID: 4208More details Price: £25.00
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A Philosophical Investigation.
The Mind of a Killer - the Heart of Murder.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1992. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. Clean and tidy dust wrapper. White is still bright! Book itself is clean and tidy. A little darkening to the pages only. Neatly signed. 330 pages.
240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches).Book ID: 2306More details Price: £25.00 -
A Soggarth's Last Verses
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1201More details Price: £20.00 -
A Window in Thrums.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1892. First edition. Illustrated with 18 etchings by William Hole. Limited edition. This copy is 450/550. By the creator of Peter Pan. Original blue cloth with gilt titles. Very nice clean copy with almost no bumping or edgewear. Internally spotless, with a foxing to the end papers only. xiv, 217 pp. 270 x 190 mm (10¾ x 7½ inches).
This copy was owned by Mrs Van der Poorten Schwartz - the wife of Dutch author Maarten Maartens. Almost certainly given to her by William Robertson Nicoll, who wrote anecdotes of 19th Century Literary history with T.J. Wise, and edited 'The Expositor' for Hodder & Stoughton.
Book ID: 2380More details Price: £120.00 -
Again, Dangerous Visions.
Book ID: 3957More details Price: £50.00
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Airborne - The New Dance photography of Lois Greenfield.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998. Softback first edition. Clean and tidy white covers. Internally in excellent condition. Dance photography. 112 pages. 265 by 265mm (10½ by 10½ inches).
Book ID: 3249More details Price: £20.00 -
All on the Irish Shore.
Irish Sketches
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1903. First edition. Eleven short stories of rural Irish life, with illustrations by Somerville. Frontis with tissue guard, and nine other full-page illustrations. Original grey cloth, lettered in black and gilt. This copy was a gift from the author Philip 'Henry' Gosse, the English naturalist, to Ada (the daughter of the author Maarten Maartens ). Dedication to FFEP is dated 1905. [viii], 274, [6] pp. 200 x 135 mm (7¾ x 5¼ inches). Spine cloth is starting to split at the head, and there are signs of tiny water splashes to tail of spine. Foxing throughout, but overall this is a reasonable copy.
Book ID: 2817More details Price: £30.00 -
Alle de werken van Publ. Ovidius Naso. [3 vol.]. In de Nederlandse Taale overgebracht, Door Abraham Valentyn. Met Verklaaringen, en Uitleggingen verrijkt, Door Lud. Smids M.D. en met omtrent driehonderd printverbeeldingen door de vermaarde Le Clerc
Book ID: 4585More details Price: £400.00
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Alphabet van Viervoetige Dieren.
Met 24 gekleurde plaatjes
Gouda: G. B. van Goor Zonen, 1844. First edition. Softback with paper covers. 24 letters of the alphabet (the letters Q and X being the exceptions) are assigned an animal illustration, examples of how to write that letter, and a short verse of poetry about the animal in Dutch. Illustrations are hand coloured. A charming children's book. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Condition: The covers are detached, but present. These are fragile, with some loss to the lower corners on one side. This damage follows throughout the inside of the book as a closed tear. Otherwise the internal pages are in a good condition and the illustrations are bright and clean.
Book ID: 2545More details Price: £40.00 -
Amadis de Gaule.
Le tiers livre de Amadis de Gaule, contenant les guerres & dif.
Book ID: 3227More details Price: £2,050.00