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Shadowheart
London: Gollancz, 2003. 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. 240 by 160mm (9½ by 6¼ inches). 421 pages
Book ID: 2356More details Price: £15.00 -
Sous La Colline
Paris: H. Floury, 1908. First edition. One of a thousand copies (not numbered) on Velin paper. Grey boards with minimalist titles to the spine and front board. There is a little rubbing to the edge of the spine. Front board is a little bowed. Contains 2 portraits, 11 plates by Beardsley and 2 cul de lamp. Internally a very nice clean copy. 129 pages. Plates have glassine guards. The spine is darker than the boards and has possibly been neatly re-laid. 26cm x 20cm.
Book ID: 2919More details Price: £75.00 -
Tales of Mean Streets. Lizerunt, Squire Napper, Without Visible Means, Three Rounds, and Others.
London: Methuen & Co, 1895. Second edition. 301 pages followed by 32 pages of publisher's advertisements dated January 1895. From the library of the author Maarten Maartens. He has written his real name inside on the FFEP. Boards are bumped and rubbed, and there is sun fading to the spine. Page edges are spotted, but inside not so much. 190 x 135 mm (7½ x 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 2858More details Price: £30.00 -
The American Express No. 85 in The Traveller's Companion Series.
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1961. Green paperback. Has green decorative border on title page. Previously owned by Julian Mitchell, the British playwright, screenwriter and occasional novelist. Best known for his play 'Another Country'. B/w illustrations by the author are also in text. 241 pages. 175 x 110 mm (7 x 4¼ inches).
Condition: Very small closed tear to title page. Previous owner's signature to front (as detailed). Also some handwritten poetry to the back blank end paper. Possibly also in Julian Mitchell's hand? Overall a very good copy, with added interest!
Book ID: 2713More details Price: £60.00 -
The Atrocity Exhibition. New Revised Edition. Annotations & Commentary by the Author - Never before in Print. Four Additional Stories. Illustrations & Photos.
San Francisco: Re/Search Publications, 1990. First thus. Large paperback. Colour illustrated covers. Front cover and all illustrations by Phoebe Gloeckner; back cover and all photographs by Ana Barrado. Preface by William S. Burroughs. Editors V. Vale and Andrea Juno. 127 pages + catalogue. 280 x 215 mm (11 x 8½ inches). RE/Search Publications is an American magazine and book publisher, based in San Francisco. It was founded by its editor V. Vale in 1980. In several issues, Andrea Juno was also credited as an editor.
Condition: Book appears almost unread, but there are signs of handling to outer corners, but the book is free from notes or marks. A good copy.
Book ID: 2854More details Price: £30.00 -
The Bell
Edition: First Edition
London: Chatto & Windus / Book society, 1958. First edition, original wrappers, original green cloth. This was Murdoch's fourth novel. It is set in Imber Court, an eccentric lay Religious community in Gloucestershire. 320 pp.
Condition: The wrapper (now protected in a removable archival cover) has a little nicking to the top and bottom edge of the spine. There are a couple of small closed tears also. Slight darkening / marking to the wrapper only. Not clipped, with the original 15s net. price. The cloth is clean and tidy, without marks. The book itself is clean and tidy throughout, with a touch of darkening to the end papers only.
Book ID: 1420More details Price: £40.00 -
The Buried Giant
London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 2015. First Edition, first printing. Hardback. Signed in black ink on the title page by Kazuo Ishiguro. Publisher's original grey boards with gilt stamped title to spine and dark green endpapers. In original dust jacket. 240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches). Kazuo Ishiguro is also the author of the book Remains of the Day.
Condition: Both the book and unclipped dust jacket are in a very good condition; now in removable protective archival covering. Publishers number sequence 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 confirms that this is a first printing.
Book ID: 2877More details Price: £50.00 -
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 Death of Satan.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1955. UK first edition, first impression. Hardback in unclipped dust jacket. 110 [1] pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Condition: The dust jacket is still bright, but has some very light signs of handling. Some small areas of loss. Head of the spine in particular. Inside the book is crisp and spotless, except for the following: over what was once the details of how to inquire about performance rights of the the play, there is a label reading Eric Glass Ltd.
Book ID: 2714More details Price: £20.00 -
The Diary of a Nobody With illustrations by Weedon Grossmith
Book ID: 2450More details Price: £425.00 -
The Green Helmet, and Other Poems
Edition: First Edition
Condition: 15cm by 21.5cm. The binding is holding firmly, the original backstrip darkened and with title details and library code in manuscript, some general browning/fingermarking, edges a little rubbed and corners bumped. Textblock holding firmly, contents generally in good condition, a little toned and with some occasional minor spots, creases or marks from handling. There is a closed tear to page 27 / 28 to the top edge. No loss of paper. Library markings as noted above, with residue of various labels to the lower endpapers. Original grey endpapers.
Book ID: 1052More details Price: £220.00 -
The Invasion of 1910: with a full account of the Siege of London.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1906. First edition. Original red cloth with gilt titles and blind embossed Prussian eagle to the front boards. Bookplate for W.H. Smith Library to the front paste down.
xiv. 550. pp.
200 by 130mm (7¾ by 5 inches).Condition: The boards have spotting / areas of paleness, and a touch of bumping, but still in good shape. Slight weakness / cracking to the front hinge. Owner's signature to the title page. Foxing / darkening to the initial pages. Overall in very nice condition.
Book ID: 2113More details Price: £120.00 -
The Kickleburys on the Rhine [and] Rebecca and Rowena, A Romance upon Marriage.
London: Smith, Elder / Chapman & Hall, 1850. Two First editions, bound together in a contemporary full leather binding. All edges gilt. Both by Titmarsh, a pseudonym for Thackeray. The 15 full page illustrations to the Kicklebury's are unsigned, the 8 plates in Rebecca & Rowena are attributed to Richard Doyle. These were two of the 'Christmas books' written by Thackeray. 88, viii, 102 pages. 185 by 140mm (7¼ by 5½ inches).
Condition: Clean full leather binding. A touch of rubbing. Spine is somewhat dulled. Internally clean, binding is firm but slightly shaken.
Book ID: 2453More details Price: £80.00 -
The Lady Who Loved Insects. Translated from the Japanese. Dry-points by Hermine David.
London: The Blackamore Press, 1929. This is limited edition # 98 of 550 copies. In Japanese style cream coloured silk binding over bevelled hardback boards. Top edge gilt. 33 pages. 215 x 155 mm (8½ by 6 inches). From the 12th century Japanese short story about a Heian court lady who defies social convention. It was one of ten short stories told in the collection Tsutsumi Chūnagon Monogatari.
Condition: Complete. Cream covers are grubby from handling, but internally the book is clean and tidy. Minus the slipcase.
Book ID: 2598More details Price: £90.00 -
The Life and Death of Mr Badman With Decorations by the Brothers Rhead
London: William Heinemann, 1900. One of 200 deluxe copies printed on Van Gelder paper. Cream boards with gilt design. Featuring the illustrations of the Brothers Rhead (George Woolliscroft and his brother Louis). The illustrations are each in two states. 330 x 260 mm (13 x 10¼ inches).
Condition: A little darkening and nicking to the edges of the book. Darkening to page edges. Toning to blank endpapers. Good + copy overall.
Book ID: 2506More details Price: £100.00 -
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. 97 pages. 260 x 170 mm (10¼ x 6¾ inches).
Condition: 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.
Book ID: 2853More details Price: £18.00 -
The Mary Deare
London: Collins, 1956. First Edition; signed by the author, in its original dust jacket. Very good book, in green cloth. 256 pp. 210 x 140 mm (8¼ x 5½ inches). Ralph Hammond Innes CBE, was a British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as children's and travel books.
Condition: Simply signed by the author to the title page. Dust jacket unclipped with price shown as 12s. 6d - but the head and tail of spine are chipped, and lesser so to corners. Now in removable clear protective wrapping. Owner name to the front endpaper. Lightly age-toned pages. One or two small spots to prelims.
Book ID: 2348More details Price: £120.00 -
The Patriots. An historical novel
New York: Benziger Brothers: Benziger Brothers, 1928. Original green cloth with blind stamped shamrock to the front board, and gilt titles and shamrock decorations. Original dust wrapper (nowprotected in mylar) with an illustration of an Irish map to the front cover, and a list of other novels to the rear panel. First issue. "Taking the town of Druninara as a setting, he presents with the accuracy of an eye witness vivid and poignant scenes of that futile (1916) uprising that nevertheless was the beginning of the end of British ascendancy in Ireland." (Publisher's blurb). The Reverend Joseph Cannon Guinan was a parish priest in Ardagh, County Longford. 332 pages. 19 cm x 13 cm.
Condition: Both book and wrapper are in excellent condition. The wrapper is fractionally darkened, and has a few minor nicks to the edges, but overall a very presentable wrapper. The boards are clean and bright - without flaw. Internally clean and tidy with a touch of foxing to the closed page edge only.
Book ID: 1840More details Price: £250.00 -
The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb with illustrations by the Author
London: J.M. Dent, 1962. A corrected proof, bearing printers / proof reading corrections. Paper covers (front cover detached but present). Slight staining to covers. Includes Peake's own illustrations.
44 pages
230 by 140mm (9 by 5½ inches).Book ID: 2148More details Price: £110.00 -
The Story of Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight With Eight Colour Plates by Hope Bourne
Leicester: Edmund Ward, 1944. Limited numbered edition. 93/200. Quarter green leather with vellum boards. Gold pentagram to the front board. Held in a slipcase. Eight coloured illustrations. Top edge gilt with rough cut other edges.
96pp.
195 by 135mm (7¾ by 5¼ inches).Condition: The book and slipcase are overall in excellent condition. The only flaw is that the dark green binding has faded to a brown, and there is some rubbing to the spine edges. Internally excellent.
Book ID: 2268More details Price: £60.00