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Double Nought.
London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1927. First Edition. Red cloth hardback, in original colour illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket has one or two nicks to spine. Offsetting from dust jacket to FFEP. On the title page, Le Queux is described as 'The Master of Mystery'! Overall in good condition. 312 pages plus 8 pages of adverts to rear. 180 x 115 mm (7 x 4½ inches).
Book ID: 3522More details Price: £43.00 -
Phil May's Illustrated Annual (signed). Summer Number.
London: W. Thacker & Co. Signed by Phil May to the front free endpaper, dated July 25th 1898. Vellum look hardback, with gilt titles to front and spine. With numerous b/w illustrations - some full-page. All edges gilt. Boards are grubby and rubbed, with head of spine starting. Front endpapers age toned, otherwise clean and fresh inside. 122 pages. 250 x 170 mm (9¾ x 6¾ inches).
Book ID: 3364More details Price: £50.00 -
Literary Blunders. A Chapter in the "History of Human Error".
London: Elliot Stock, 1893. Large paper edition. On of a small (but unspecified) number of copies on superior quality paper. Half leather. The spine has cracking to the edge of this, and across the back. Has been lightly repaired with archival glue. Green buckram boards. End papers are somewhat darkened, but the rest of the book is in good clean condition. xii, 226, [ii]. pages.
Book ID: 3348More details Price: £70.00 -
Amelia. In four volumes.
London: Harrison and Co, 1780. First Thus (Harrison & Co. edition). Four volumes bound as one. In quarter leather with mottled brown card boards. Contemporary titles and gilt rules to the spine. The binding is in good, sound condition, with a little bumping and rubbing only. Frontispiece and a further four engraved plates (five in total). Internally clean and tidy throughout, in very good condition. iv, 299 pages. 230 x 140 mm (9 x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3340More details Price: £150.00 -
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 -
Seven Fugues
London: The Fortune Press, 1956. First Edition poetry book. Hardback in original light coloured dust jacket, which is age toned. Black cloth boards in very good condition. Internally quite clean, with light water stain to lower corner of last few pages.
Giovanni Baldelli (1914–1986) was an Italian anarchist theorist, best known for his 1971 work Social Anarchism he also wrote poetry, plays and philosophical works. 47 pages. 215 x 160 mm (8½ x 6¼ inches).Book ID: 3292More details Price: £60.00 -
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 -
Le livre de sa vie.
Book ID: 3152More details Price: £130.00 -
Les Etrangers à Paris; par J. Janin, Old-Nick - Stanislas Bellanger - E. Guinot, Marco Saint-Hilaire - E. Lemoine - Roger de Beauvoir - Ch. Schiller - A. Frémy - F. Mornand - P. Merruau - A. de Lacroix - A. Royer - Destigny - L. Couailhac - L. Huart - Capo de Feuillide. Illustrations de MM. Gavarni - Th. Frère - H. Emy - Th. Guérin - Ed. Frère
Book ID: 3143More details Price: £150.00 -
Londres Secret et ses Fantômes.
Paris: Editions Ergé, 1946. First edition, soft back illustrated with 95 drawings by the author. This is one of 4000 numbered copies on imitation Japan. In original glassine wrappers, in good condition. Some offsetting to inside pages from illustrations. Overall a good, clean example. Text in French. 151 pages. 290 x 230 mm (11½ x 9 inches). Edition originale, dos souple illustré de 95 dessins de l'auteur. Il s'agit d'un des 4000 exemplaires numérotés sur faux Japon. Dans des emballages en verre d'origine, en bon état. Quelques décalages vers les pages intérieures des illustrations. Globalement, un bon exemple propre. Texte en français. 151 pages. 290 x 230 mm
Book ID: 2102More details Price: £30.00 -
Mortality and Mercy in Vienna
London: Aloes Books, 1976. First edition. Paperback in pamphlet style with staples. This short story was first published in Epoch Magazine in 1959. Epoch was a literary magazine published by Cornell University. 24 pages. Edges of covers are slightly age toned, but inside the book is in very good condition. 210 x 145 mm (8¼ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3047More details Price: £30.00 -
Low-Lands
London: Aloes Books, 1978. First edition, first printing with the 60p price printed to its rear cover. This short story was first published in Epoch Magazine in 1960. Epoch was a literary magazine published by Cornell University. This stapled paperback pamphlet style edition was produced in just 1,500 copies. Front cover illustrated by Louise Nevett, from a photograph by Richard Mock. In a very good condition, with slightly age toned pages and back cover. 32 pages. 190 x 120 mm (7½ x 4¾ inches).
Book ID: 3046More details Price: £40.00 -
The Percy Society. Three publications bound in one
Book ID: 3033More details Price: £80.00 -
The Young King, and other stories.
The Folio Society, 1953. Hardback in original maroon cloth with gilt title to spine, pale blue patterned boards with matching original unclipped dust-jacket. Nice F.S. edition of the complete collection of fairy tales by Wilde is illustrated with wood engravings in colour by John Gaastra. Dust jacket has some small nicks / curled edge to top and one small closed tear. Tiny loss to jacket on back at base of spine. Inside prelims age toned, otherwise a very good, clean copy. 156 pages. 250 x 165 mm (9¾ x 6½ inches).
Book ID: 3016More details Price: £30.00 -
A Guinness Sport Folio
Guinness. Printed by John Waddington Ltd, 1952. As the slogan on the back cover says: There's nothing like a Guinness; except another! Softback colour promotional booklet, with the year divided in to various sporting activities by month. Undated, but circa 1952. First Edition. Designed for Guinness by S. H. Benson Limited. A few very small spots of foxing throughout, often barely visible. Otherwise very good. Illustrated throughout by Anthony Groves-Raines. 16 pages. 240 x 165 mm (9½ x 6½ inches).
Book ID: 3005More details Price: £50.00 -
Poems. By Thomas Townshend Esq. of Gray's Inn.
Book ID: 2950More details Price: £100.00 -
Hunter of the Moon. Poems of John Loveridge.
Sharrington, Norfolk: Clement (Publishers) Ltd, 1983. First edition. In original unclipped dust jacket. Protected in protective clear wrap. Light rubbing to the covers of the dust jacket, some small areas of loss. Inside a neat previous owner's name to FFEP. Otherwise clean pages, no other markings. Sir John Warren Loveridge (9 September 1925 – 13 November 2007) was a British Conservative M. P. He was also a published poet and an abstract sculptor. 150 pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2887More details Price: £38.00 -
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 -
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 -
Come to the War.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. First American edition, first printing. Signed to the half-title by Thomas. In unclipped dust jacket, which states: Author of "The Virgin Soldiers." This was his fourth novel, and is set in Israel. Fine book in a a good dust jacket, with a small tear to the front of the dust jacket. This was the author's own copy. 254 pages. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2810More details Price: £20.00