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Pere Jean and other Stories
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1194More details Price: £18.00 -
Poems New & Old
London: Faber and Faber, 1940. Second impression. In original price clipped dust jacket. Hardback in publisher's brown boards. This anthology of poems Dust jacket has light edge wear and age toning Slight offsetting to endpapers from dust jacket, and neat Christmas gift inscription to half title; otherwise clean and tidy inside. 190 x 125 mm (7½ x 5 inches).
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Book ID: 4221More details Price: £25.00 -
POHÁDKA O NADŠENÍ. SATIRICKÝ ŽERT
Book ID: 2379More details Price: £275.00 -
Portrait of a Man with Red Hair.
London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1925. First Edition (Indian and Dominions Edition - simultaneous with First). Beautifully coloured hardback rebind, with each colour made from inlaid coloured cloth. Good clean condition, with a touch of handling only. No titles to spine. Internally clean and tidy throughout with just a touch of darkening to the pages. xii, 264 pages. 190 by 130mm (7½ by 5 inches).
Book ID: 3338More details Price: £40.00 -
Rawdon's Roof.
London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928. Signed limited edition. This is one of 530 copies signed to limitation by D.H. Lawrence. Copy 342. Hardback boards in original dust jacket. Jacket has small closed tear to base of spine (now repaired with archival tape). Offsetting from dust jacket to both front and rear endpapers. Overall in great shape. 32 pp. 205 x 150 mm (8 x 6 inches).
Book ID: 3824More details Price: £450.00 -
Revolt.
London: B M Marvel, 2010. Signed First Edition. In hardback cream cloth, under original unclipped dust jacket. The UK's Guardian newspaper said of this novel: Welcome to the satirical sledgehammer of small-mindedness that is Revolt. Robina Hood is apparently the pseudonym for one of Britain's best known, best loved television and radio presenters - and this tale of distopian England is their first novel. In very good condition. Signed to half title by the author. 190 pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3997More details Price: £24.00 -
Rose O' The River.
London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd, 1905. First edition. Second impression. Red cloth boards with gilt stamped title and decoration. Tissue-guarded colour frontispiece, plus nine other colour plates illustrated by George Wright. Signed and dedicated by the author to the FFEP, dated 1909. Boards lightly bumped to edges. Pages and tissue age toned, with some foxing. 224 pages + publishers advertisements. 190 x 130 mm (7½ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 2637More details Price: £20.00 -
Seventeen Reasons: An Essay of Contingent Acts. Or, Short Theoretical Stories.
Book ID: 2505More details Price: £250.00 -
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 -
Six of Them.
London: W. Collins Sons& Co Ltd, 1929. First edition. Blue hardback boards. The story of six sisters, narrated by their mother, and written by Cecily (Ullmann) Sidgwick. Undated but circa 1929. Boards are slightly handled. Inside book is in good, clean state; with some light foxing throughout. From the library of the author Maarten Maartens. Small stamp to top of half title: Het Maarten-Maartens Huis. 249 pages. 160 x 105 mm (6¼ x 4¼ inches).
Cecily was a British novelist, born to German Jewish parents. She published 45 novels, mostly about the Jewish experience in England and Germany; with subjects including Jewish family life, anti-Semitism, interfaith marriage, and suicide.
Book ID: 4014More details Price: £25.00 -
Small Island.
London: Headline / Review, 2005. Signed first edition thus. The first edition was in 2004, this limited signed edition followed a year later. This was issued without dust wrapper in a red hardback with tipped in photograph & gilt titles. In addition to the author's signature, this special edition includes additional material: An interview with Andrea Levy; Material on the Empire Windrush; Reading Group discussion questions; and a short story. The red paper covered boards have a touch of rubbing to the corners, but are in very good condition. Internally, the book is in excellent condition. [x], 534, [32]. pp. 205 by 135mm (8 by 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 3281More details Price: £60.00 -
Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs. Illustrated by Fritz Wegner
London: The Bodley Head, 1973. A scarce First Edition hardback of this Bodley Head Fairy Tale Picture Book. In original unclipped dust jacket. Edited by Kathleen Lines. Colour illustrated throughout. Classic tale for children. Book and dust jacket are in a very good condition. 48 pages. 240 x 170 mm (9½ x 6¾ inches).
Book ID: 2880More details Price: £50.00 -
Some essays and passages by John Eglinton; Selected by William Butler Yeats.
Book ID: 3713More details Price: £150.00 -
Southern Harvest
London: Victor Gollancz, 1943. First edition. Blue cloth hardback. Lacks dust jacket. Boards a little sun faded and lightly rubbed. A collection of short stories, written and engraved by Claire Leighton. Illustrating her love of America, its land and its people. Full of gorgeous woodcuts. Fall in love with the USA all over again! 124 pages. 250 x 190 mm (9¾ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 3772More details Price: £35.00 -
Stars Were Born.
London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1934. First edition. Hardback in original unclipped dust jacket. Barbara Lucas wrote this novel aged just 21. Lucas was the granddaughter of the British poet and essayist Alice Meynell. This novel tells the story of two sisters, the daughters of artists, who resolve to not lose sight of their own talents, and become like their mother - a plodding middle-class housewife. Dust jacket has some chips and creases, with a little loss to head of spine. Book clean and tidy inside. A scarce slice of 1930's fiction! 314 pages + 24 pages of adverts to rear. 190 x 130 mm (7½ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 4005More details Price: £25.00 -
Tales From the Womb
london: Survivors' Press, 2006. First Edition. A collection of poetry, produced as part of "Survivors' Poetry" a mental health charity to promote writing. Clean dust wrapper, with a little marking to the front cover only. White soft covers are spotless. Inside, the work is also spotless. 38 pages. 210 by 150mm (8¼ by 6 inches)
. Première édition. Un recueil de poèmes, produit dans le cadre de "Survivors' Poetry", une organisation caritative de santé mentale visant à promouvoir l'écriture. La jaquette est propre, avec une petite marque sur la couverture avant seulement. Les couvertures souples blanches sont impeccables. A l'intérieur, l'ouvrage est également impeccable. 38 pages. 210 x 150 mm
Book ID: 4274More details Price: £20.00 -
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). 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 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 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