London: The Cresset Press, 1949. First British Edition. First Impression in publisher's original dust jacket. The dust jacket has some age toning amd foxing, and a very small closed tear to the back. Boards are clean and tidy. The pages inside are clean and tidy, with sporadic foxing to a few pages. Overall a good copy. 133 pages. 190 x 125 mm (7½ x 5 inches).

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).

Sneek: Van Druten S. Bleeker, 1853. First Dutch Edition. Original brown buckram with gilt titles and decoration to the front board and spine. (Slightly bumped and with a slight lean to the book. Owner's ink inscription to the inside front board. There is a faded library stamp and quite a few small perforated stamps throughout to the bottom edge (not affecting text). 7 lithographed plates (by Steen & P.W.M. Trap). Plates are in good condition. The pages are a little darkened to the edges, but overall a decent copy of this scarce first edition. VIII, 346, [ii] pages. 190 by 120mm (7½ by 4¾ inches).

London: The Medici Society, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. Original cream dust wrapper, with red decoration to the front cover. There was a limited presentation edition in 1910. This was the first trade edition. Printed at the Curwen Press. 256 pages. 215 x 140 mm (8½ x 5½ inches). Dust wrapper has a tiny amount of nicking to the head and tail of the spine. A couple of spots / marking to the cream, otherwise in very good condition. Dust wrapper is neatly clipped. Clean and tidy pale cloth. Internally very nice condition throughout.

Wymondham: Brewhouse Private Press, 1975. Limited edition of 80 in hardback cloth boards, with gilt stamped decoration. The poem is sometimes referred to as 'A Pathetic Ballad', this version is illustrated by Rigby Graham. It was published for private distribution at Christmas 1975. In the original work, the 42nd Foot refers to what was later known as the Royal Highland Regiment or Black Watch. Just light foxing to verso of marbled endpapers. Overall in good clean shape inside and out. 215 x 120 mm (8½ x 4¾ inches).

Eastcote, Middlesex: The Grail, 1947. First edition. With 11 full page woodcuts by B. De Bezier. Hardback cloth backed boards, the cloth now faded. A touch of foxing to the covers. A light paper flaw at the lower margin of the title, else a good copy. 47, (i) pp. Eleven full page woodcuts. TOGETHER WITH: 8 page programme for the performance of this at the Royal Albert Hall on Maundy Thursday 1951

London: L-13 Press, 2012. An immaculate limited, numbered and signed First Edition of this work (limited to 113 copies). This is copy #19/113. Signed with Childish's Hangman signature to the front board. Half black cloth with pale green boards and a tipped on title illustration. Frontis photograph of Childish. Introduction by Harold Rosenbloom. Designed to accompany the exhibition at Chatham Dockyard rather than illustrate it, this beautifully produced book presents cycles of oil paintings, watercolours and studio photographs made during Childish's residency at Chatham Dockyard, 2011 - 2012. As new condition. 176 pages. 215 x 245 mm (8½ x 9¾ inches).

Durham: The Memoir Club, 1999. Hardback in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed to the title page, and inscribed by the author to 'My Mentor Douglas' to the front endpaper. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust jacket.
The author's own telling of his thirty four years in the Coldstream Guards, (retiring as Major Quartermaster). Later he became Staff Superintendent at the House of Lords. Full of anecdotes - including some involving Margaret Thatcher, and members of the British Royal Family. With b/w and colour photos, and cartoons by Bill Tidy. 240 pages. 240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches).

London: Faber & Faber, 1980. Very nice copy of this first edition. Clean and tidy dust wrapper, Fractional handling only. Neatly price clipped Clean and tidy red hardback boards with minor bumping only. 276 pages.

. Très bel exemplaire de cette première édition. La jaquette est propre et en bon état, avec une légère manipulation. Les planches de la couverture rigide rouge sont propres et en bon état et ne présentent que de légères aspérités. 276 pages.

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'.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1929. First edition. Bound in rust / orange cloth, and in its original dust jacket. The book cloth is looking a little faded. The dust jacket is age-toned, and has some very minor chipping to top and bottom of spine. Internally, the book has virtually no foxing. A very good copy. 288 pages. 190 x 130 mm (7½ x 5 inches).

Louis Marlow was the pseudonym for Louis Umfreville Wilkinson, a British author, lecturer and biographer.

At the time, The Observer's reviewer thought this story, turning on the protagonist's self-imposed celibacy, was an inadequate vehicle for the book's more serious injunctions against warmongers and literary censorship.

Hove: Codex, 1997. Scarce limited first edition. This is #96 - written to rear board by Childish - limitation of 100 signed copies. Frontis b/w woodcut by Childish. Quarter mustard yellow cloth and grey cardboard hardback covers - in near fine condition. Semi-autobiographical work by the outspoken and unorthodox British poet, artist and songwriter. Contents unread and in as new condition. 190 pages. 215 x 145 mm (8½ x 5¾ inches).

London: G.P. Putnam's, 1912. Scarce First Edition in dust wrapper. Signed to the front end paper by the author, and dated April 1914. Olive green wrapper with coloured vignette to the front of the wrapper, adverts for Putnam fiction to the rear. The author's first novel.
Wrapper is clean, but with a little chipping to the edges, and with a touch of loss to the head and tail of the spine. The boards of the book are spotless, with just a touch of bumping to the edges. Internally clean and tidy, with a little foxing to the end papers. 376, iv pages. 190 by 130 mm (7½ by 5 inches).

London: William Heinemann, 1912. First edition. 8vo. Original tan card wrappers, titles to spine and upper cover in brown. Slight creasing to spine and minor chip to bottom edge. Separation to bottom inch of front cover. Slight foxing to the cover and title page. The rest of the book is clean. [vi], 214 pp. 180 x 130 mm (7 x 5 inches).