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Faithless Nellie Gray.
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).
Book ID: 3975More details Price: £30.00 -
Forth Beast!
Book ID: 5353More details Price: £100.00 -
Four Witnesses.
Edition: First Edition
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
Book ID: 1080More details Price: £20.00 -
Frozen Estuary and other paintings of the Divine Ordinary.
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).
Book ID: 2823More details Price: £275.00 -
George Cruikshank's Magazine
Numbers 1 and 2 bound together
Book ID: 5443More details Price: £1,400.00 -
Hard To Believe Too Old At Sixteen.
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).Book ID: 3296More details Price: £30.00 -
His Last Sebastian and Other Poems
Book ID: 5159More details Price: £28.00 -
Innocent Blood
Edition: Modern First Editions,
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.
Book ID: 4816More details Price: £30.00 -
La fontaine aux acanthes. Etretat, L'Isle-Adam, Taormina.
Book ID: 5202More details Price: £275.00 -
Les Tonsurés. Roman sensationnel inédit.
La niéce du Curé / La Chasse aux Héritages / Les Fiancés / La Lutte Supréme.
Book ID: 5760More details Price: £250.00 -
Little Constructions
Book ID: 4223More details Price: £80.00 -
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 -
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Book ID: 5120More details Price: £50.00 -
Love By Accident.
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.
Book ID: 2323More details Price: £60.00 -
Midnight House and other tales
Book ID: 5105More details Price: £180.00 -
Nationalfeiertag. 国庆节。
Book ID: 2142More details Price: £80.00 -
Notebooks of a Naked Youth - Signed, Limited
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).
Book ID: 3734More details Price: £600.00 -
Now a Stranger
Book ID: 4227More details Price: £35.00 -
On Swallowing the Anchor.
Book ID: 3190More details Price: £32.00 -
Palmers Green.
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).Book ID: 2499More details Price: £440.00

































































