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A Man of No Moon.
Book ID: 4208More details Price: £30.00 -
Señor Bum in the jungle.
Book ID: 4203More details Price: £30.00 -
The Dramatic Works of John Wilson. With Prefatory Memoir, Introductions, and Notes.
Book ID: 4201More details Price: £50.00 -
Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field. Illustrated Edition.
Book ID: 4196More details Price: £40.00 -
Fontes Melusinae. Ein Menschheitsmärchen. Mit Bildern von G. Kampmann.
Altenburg: Stephan Seibel Verlag, 1904. First edition. Green cloth hardback boards, with gold titles and design to front board. All page edges red. 76 pages; including five full-page illustrations, and several headers and designs by Gustav Kampmann. Text in German. All in very good, clean condition. 245 x 195 mm (9¾ x 7¾ inches).
. Erste Ausgabe. Grüner Leineneinband, mit goldenen Titeln und Design auf der Vorderseite. Alle Seitenkanten rot. 76 Seiten, darunter fünf ganzseitige Abbildungen und mehrere Kopfzeilen und Entwürfe von Gustav Kampmann. Alles in sehr gutem, sauberem Zustand. 245 x 195 mm.
Book ID: 4190More details Price: £35.00 -
The Rake's Progress.
London: Perpetua Ltd, 1955. Hardback black cloth boards, in original dust jacket. A series of b/w picture stories, in the tradition of Hogarth. Searle will make you laugh and, more importantly, these are some of his finest drawings. A book for Searle connoisseurs. Dust jacket has been crudely repaired, but this is only obvious if the dust jacket is removed. Very clean boards, and pages inside. 120 pages. 250 x 190 mm (9¾ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 4180More 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 -
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers.
Book ID: 4170More details Price: £30.00 -
Le siège de Calais / Histoire d'Eustache de Saint-Pierre
Book ID: 4166More details Price: £175.00 -
Ecce Homo. Vertaling van Ed. Coenraads. Met een Studie van Is. Querido.
Amsterdam: Erven Martin G. Cohen, 1910. Scarce First Dutch edition of this work. Half vellum, half buckram. Boards slightly rubbed and a little darkened. Some spotting inside, but overall clean. Previous owner's signature and date to the title page. 140 pages plus index. 225 x 185 mm (8¾ x 7¼ inches). OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 63851019
. Schaarse Nederlandse uitgave van dit werk. Half perkament, half buckram. Platen licht geschaafd en iets verdonkerd. Wat vlekken binnen, maar over het algemeen schoon. 140 pagina's plus index. 225 x 185 mm. OCLC Nummer/unieke identificatie 63851019
Book ID: 4164More details Price: £100.00 -
A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle. With a foreword by Graham Greene.
Boston, London, New York: Hudson House, 2000. First Revised Edition of Lancelyn Green and Gibson's comprehensive bibliography of Arthur Conan Doyle. Hardback in original unclipped dust jacket. Book boards and dust jacket all near fine. Inside the book is in an almost unread condition. This bibliography is divided into five sections covering fiction, plays, and belles-lettres; miscellaneous writings (histories, political pamphlets, speeches, wartime propaganda, autobiographies, and his works on spiritualism); prefaces and minor contributions; uncollected stories, letters, and articles; and a selective list of biographical sources (the major biographies, reminiscences, magazine and newspaper reports, and articles). 726 pages. 235 x 160 mm (9¼ x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 4162More details Price: £50.00 -
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 -
Manners and Customs of ye Englyshe, Drawn from ye Quick by Rychard Doyle. To which be added some extracts from Mr. Pips hys Diary. Contrybuted by Percival Leigh.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1849. First Edition. Publisher's hardback boards, three quarter red morocco with blue paper covered boards. Gilt title to front and spine. With forty full-page b/w illustrations. Boards are quite rubbed. Clean and unmarked inside. Unpaginated, but complete. 220 x 290 mm (8¾ x 11½ inches).
Book ID: 4023More details Price: £60.00 -
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 -
Six of Them.
London: W. Collins Sons& Co Ltd, 1929. First edition. Blue hardback boards. The story of six sisters, narrated by their mother, and written by Cecily (Ullmann) Sidgwick. Undated but circa 1929. Boards are slightly handled. Inside book is in good, clean state; with some light foxing throughout. From the library of the author Maarten Maartens. Small stamp to top of half title: Het Maarten-Maartens Huis. 249 pages. 160 x 105 mm (6¼ x 4¼ inches).
Cecily was a British novelist, born to German Jewish parents. She published 45 novels, mostly about the Jewish experience in England and Germany; with subjects including Jewish family life, anti-Semitism, interfaith marriage, and suicide.
Book ID: 4014More details Price: £30.00 -
The Poetical Works of John Milton in Vellucent Binding With Introductory Memoir, Notes, Bibliography Etc.
Book ID: 4011More details Price: £1,250.00 -
Lobe.
London: Allison & Busby, 1977. First Edition. Black cloth hardback in original unclipped dust jacket. Set in The Balkans and spanning a period of thirty-four years, this novel tells of the wanderings of a certain Lobe Obblemun. As World War II starts, and the Germans invade, Lobe experiences war, repression, revolution, love, politics and suffering. This is a story packed with incident, and unforgettable characters. Dust jacket has light soiling the back, and slight age toning to the edges. Inside the book is clean and tidy. 225 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
This was Tom Mallin's first book - his other published novels are: 'Dodecahedron', 'Knut', 'Erowina', and 'Bedrok'.
Book ID: 4007More details Price: £40.00 -
Stars Were Born.
London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1934. First edition. Hardback in original unclipped dust jacket. Barbara Lucas wrote this novel aged just 21. Lucas was the granddaughter of the British poet and essayist Alice Meynell. This novel tells the story of two sisters, the daughters of artists, who resolve to not lose sight of their own talents, and become like their mother - a plodding middle-class housewife. Dust jacket has some chips and creases, with a little loss to head of spine. Book clean and tidy inside. A scarce slice of 1930's fiction! 314 pages + 24 pages of adverts to rear. 190 x 130 mm (7½ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 4005More details Price: £30.00 -
An Old Coachman's Chatter, with Some Practical Remarks on Driving. With Eight full-page Illustrations on Stone, by John Sturgess.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1890. First edition. Hardback. In publisher's brown pictorial cloth boards. The eight full-page illustrations - which includes the frontispiece - each has a tissue guard that is somewhat foxed. There are other in-text illustrations, one a woodcut. The boards are lightly bumped at the corners, but overall in good condition, with a neat ink written owner's name - dated 1890 - to the half title.
304 pages. 230 x 145 mm (9 x 5¾ inches).Book ID: 4000More details Price: £60.00 -
Revolt.
London: B M Marvel, 2010. Signed First Edition. In hardback cream cloth, under original unclipped dust jacket. The UK's Guardian newspaper said of this novel: Welcome to the satirical sledgehammer of small-mindedness that is Revolt. Robina Hood is apparently the pseudonym for one of Britain's best known, best loved television and radio presenters - and this tale of distopian England is their first novel. In very good condition. Signed to half title by the author. 190 pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3997More details Price: £26.00