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A Village Tragedy.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1889. Second edition. In original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. 'The story is set between the deadly slums of London and the threatening fields, ponds and railway lines of the Oxfordshire countryside.' (Times Literary Supplement). Has a slight lean. Some moderate foxing throughout. 229 pp. 175 x 125 mm (7 x 5 inches).
Book ID: 2099More details Price: £20.00 -
The Ship of Stars.
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1899. First edition. Red cloth cover with gilt title to spine. Top edge gilt. The story of a Cornish childhood. Cloth on spine is slightly sun faded. Foxing throughout. 312 pp. 200 x 140 mm (7¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2094More details Price: £20.00 -
Battles and Enchantments.
Retold from Early Gaelic Literature.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. Scarce. Author signed. First Edition. In original blue cloth with gilt decoration to front board and title to spine. Original brown unclipped paper dust jacket. Dust jacket has some marks and is nicked to the head of the spine. Inside the book is clean, just basic shelf wear. Author signed dedication to FFEP. Norreys Jephson O'Conor was an Harvard educated American poet, literary critic, and scholar born in New York City on 31 December 1885. 168 pages. 200 x 145 mm (7¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2093More details Price: £60.00 -
To be a printer
London: The Bodley Head, 1980. First edition. In original dust jacket. 191 pages. Both book and jacket are in a very good condition.
Book ID: 2086More details Price: £15.00 -
Ryhme Stew
London: Jonathan Cape, 1989. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue paper covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. Contains 80 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. 78 pp. 245 x 195 mm (9¾ x 7¾ inches). Small gift inscription to the front free end paper. Very good condition book, in good condition unclipped dust jacket. In archive acetate film protection.
Book ID: 2069More details Price: £40.00 -
'Fit to be Styled a Typographer' A History of the Society of Typographic Designers 1928-1978
London: Eva Svensson / Westerham Press, 1978. First edition. Copy # 411 of a limited edition of 500 cloth bound copies, signed by the president of the society David Plumb. Gilt title to black label on front board and gilt title to spine. In its original dust jacket. With many colour illustrations. 65 pp. 275 x 195 mm (10¾ x 7¾ inches). In an excellent condition, looks almost unread. Dust jacket is price clipped, but otherwise in a fine condition.
Book ID: 2054More details Price: £30.00 -
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 -
Twelve Summer Poems of 1962. A limited, signed copy
Edition: First Edition
London: Privately printed: 1962. A lovely copy of this privately printed collection of poems. Spotless yellow card wrappers (now protected in a translucent glassine wrapper). One of ten copies numbered and signed by Sitwell for friends. This is copy 1/10. Internally clean and tidy throughout. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 1981More details Price: £48.00 -
Makamen en Ghazelen. Proeven Oosterscher Poezie.
Edition: Reprint
Aalst: De Seyn-Verhougrstraete: 1894. 3rd edition. With frontis portrait of the author. Original softback binding, but rebound in recent marbled boards. Leather label to spine. Bookplate to inside front board. The binding is in excellent condition. The contents are in good clean condition, with a touch of darkening to the page edges. Original covers bound in. 164 pages. 230 x 160 mm (9 x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 1964More details Price: £48.00 -
The Wife Hunter, by the Moriarty Family.
Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1838. First edition. An uncommon Irish novel, written by William J. O'Neill Daunt under the pseudonym Denis Ignatius Moriarty. Two volumes, as issued. Red cloth spine, and cream card boards. A little fading to the labels on the spine, and slight rubbing to the boards only. Internally clean and tidy, but the text block is quite darkened. Adverts to the front of Volume 1. (18), 198, 191 (i). pages. 130 x 100 mm (5 x 4 inches).
Book ID: 1860More details Price: £300.00 -
Lucian and the Tragic Performances in his Time.
Edition: First Edition
Athens: A. Sideris and Co: 1961. First edition. Soft cream covers. Stapled. Handwritten note to the top of the cover "For review in the Classical Review". Printed from ΠΛATΩN Vol XII. 1960 Fasc. A. A very nice clean copy. Soft cream wrappers. The staples are a little rusted. Otherwise in excellent condition. author [ MINΩΣ KOKOΛAKHΣ ] was a Greek author and academic who specialised in the work of Lucian. 45 pages.
Book ID: 1283More details Price: £12.00 -
Sacred Drama: JOAN OF ARC Written in commemoration of the Beatification of Blessed Joan of Arc, Low Sunday 1909.
Edition: First Edition
Barnet: St Andrew's Press, 1909. First edition. Pink paper covers, stapled. The cover of this slim paperback states that it receives "Blessing of Holy Father Pius X on Literary Work". Mainly clean pink paper, with a little nicking to the edges and slight marking. Internally clean and tidy, with a touch of darkening. A little rusting to the staples. 16 pages.
COPAC cites only the BL copy of this work. Sheila Agnes Turk was the pseudonym of Sarah Ann Agnes Turk (1859–1927). A Catholic writer, buried in Nottingham Cemetery.Book ID: 1203More details Price: £38.00



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