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Soma - June 1931
Edition: First Edition
London: K.S. Bhat: 1931. Red cloth with gilt titles and design to the front cover. #97/300 (of a total edition of 350). One of a series of four anthologies of poetry and fiction published by Bhat in 1931-32. The contibutors include T F Powys, Oswell Blakeston, Laurence Powys, John Gawsworth and Rhys Davies. 225 by 150mm (8¾ by 6 inches). Good clean condition, with a touch of fading to the spine. Internally clean and tidy, with fractional darkening to the page edges. 62 pp
Book ID: 2010More details Price: £35.00 -
The Beaux Stratagem. A comedy. Adapted for Theatrical representaton as performed at the Theatres-Royal Drury Lane and Covent-Garden.
[Bound in with]. The Constant Couple; Or, A trip to the Jubilee. A comedy......
Book ID: 5775More details Price: £75.00 -
The Blue Shawl.
Illustrations by Roger Vieillard
Book ID: 5773More details Price: £125.00 -
The British Tradesman and Other Sketches
including The Complete Builder.
Book ID: 5789More details Price: £80.00 -
The Comic English Grammar; A new an facetious Introduction to the English Tongue
London: Richard Bentley, 1840. Original dark green blind stamped buckram, with gilt design to the front board. Gilt is rather rubbed. Bumping and a touch of chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally clean, but slightly darkened with a few foxing spots. A nice, unrestored copy. 228 pages. 200 x 135 mm (7¾ x 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 2458More details Price: £75.00 -
The Conjuror's Bird.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005. Very nice copy of this first edition, signed and dated) by the author to the title page. Spotless cloth. Clean and tidy dust wrapper, now held in archival protection. 230 by 140mm (9 by 5½ inches). 309 pages.
Book ID: 2355More details Price: £15.00 -
The Dearest and the Best.
London: Methuen, 1984. First edition in dust wrapper. Signed by the author to the title page. Clean dust wrapper. Slight creasing to the laminate. Book itself is in very good condition. 422 pages. 220 by 140mm (8¾ by 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3244More details Price: £20.00 -
The Dramatic Works of John Wilson. With Prefatory Memoir, Introductions, and Notes.
Book ID: 4201More details Price: £50.00 -
The Fatal Boots and Cox's Diary. With 24 Illustrations By George Cruikshank. People's edition.
Smith, Elder & Co, 1855. First thus. Ex library book. Blue three quarter buckram. Hardback. Original soft covers bound in and reinforced. With humorous illustrations. Boards in good condition. Internally, clean but pages are age toned. A scarce item. COPAC suggests 1855. 48 pages. 315 x 220 mm (12½ x 8¾ inches).
The fatal boots was originally published under title: Stubbs's Calendar, or, The fatal boots. Cox's diary was originally published under title: Barber Cox and the cutting of his comb.Book ID: 3669More details Price: £40.00 -
The Final Square and Other Pieces.
Kettering: Woodlines Publishing, 2000. First edition. Signed dedication by the author to the half-title. Soft covers. A collection of short stories and poems. In very good condition. 90 pages. 200 x 145 mm (7¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3985More details Price: £35.00 -
The House of Warne. One hundred years of publishing.
London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, 1965. First edition. Cream decorated cloth with gilt titles. Plastic protective covering. The plastic has a couple of closed tears to it. The book is in Fine condition inside and out. X. 108. pages. 225 by 145mm (8¾ by 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2461More details Price: £15.00 -
The Lone Wolf Returns
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1923. First UK Edition. Clean yellow dust wrapper with image to the front and other titles by Vance to the rear panel. A little nicking to the top and bottom edge, and some rubbing to the front lower portion. An invisible repair to the inside top edge of the wrapper. Red cloth hardback with black titles. Fractional rubbing to the spine edge. Paper stock is very cheap and so significantly darkened throughout. Neat owner's name and date to front free end paper. Nevertheless a decent copy of this scarce UK First. "The most original cracksman since Raffles" says the dust jacket. The word cracksman was used to describe a burglar or thief. 313 pages. 180 x 115 mm (7 x 4½ inches).
Book ID: 3317More details Price: £125.00 -
The Love Beach.
Signed dedication to Thomas' second wife, Diana.
Book ID: 5099More details Price: £30.00 -
The Love of a Foolish Angel with decorations by Edmund Dulac.
London: W. Collins Sons and Co. Ltd, 1929. Cloth bound first edition. Binding is an Art Deco design by Dulac. Slightly darkened, but no significant marking. Fading to spine. Internally sound with foxing to end papers. 252 pages. 200 by 140mm (7¾ by 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2459More details Price: £15.00 -
The lyric.
London: Martin Secker, 1922. First Edition. One of 1,000 copies. In original dust jacket, which has age toning, sections of spine missing, and some chips to top of front. Boards in good shape, and book is very clean inside. Overall a decent copy. 85 pages. 195 x 120 mm. (7¾ by 4¾ inches).
Book ID: 4344More details Price: £30.00 -
The Man Who Died.
London: Martin Secker, 1931. First Edition, that was limited to only 2000 copies. Hardback in publisher's original green cloth, with the spine lettered in gilt and with the image of a phoenix in gilt to the front board. Top page edges gilt, other edges left untrimmed. Last page states that it was printed in Great Britain by the Botolph Printing Works. Minus the dust jacket. There is light sun fading to the both the front, the back and the spine. Darkening to front and back blank endpapers. Text is clean binding is tight. 97 pages. 260 x 170 mm (10¼ x 6¾ inches).
Book ID: 2853More details Price: £18.00 -
The odd-job man
London: John Murray, 1903. Scarce. First edition. Third novel by George Oliver Onions, who later wrote supernatural fiction, and the novella The Beckoning Fair One. Publisher's original green hardback boards. Boards are rubbed and stained, but binding is tight. A little foxing and finger marking throughout, and neat previous owner's name to FFEP. Last page has been partially cut, but is complete. Overall good. viii, 367 pages. 200 x 135 mm (7¾ x 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 4126More details Price: £150.00 -
The Percy Society. Three publications bound in one
Book ID: 3033More details Price: £80.00 -
The Playboy of the Western World.
Dublin: Maunsel, 1909. Third edition. Synge's most famous play. Orange cloth spine with red hardback boards. Clean with a little bubbling to cloth. Internally clean with light foxing to endpapers. Frontis illustration of Synge. vii, [i], 86 pp.
Book ID: 2100More details Price: £15.00 -
The R.B. Adam Library relating to Dr. Samuel Johnson and his era: Volume the first
Letters of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, and David Garrick.
Book ID: 4380More details Price: £100.00

















































