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Chill Factor
Garden City, New York: The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1978. First Edition. Part of the Matt Erridge murder mystery series. Hardback, with signed author dedication to FFEP. Dated 1978. In original dust jacket. Jacket is a little foxed, but otherwise in very good condition. Inside clean and fresh. 177 pages. 215 x 145 mm (8½ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 4798More details Price: £30.00 -
Come to the War.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. First American edition, first printing. Signed to the half-title by Thomas. In unclipped dust jacket, which states: Author of "The Virgin Soldiers." This was his fourth novel, and is set in Israel. Fine book in a a good dust jacket, with a small tear to the front of the dust jacket. This was the author's own copy. 254 pages. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2810More details Price: £20.00 -
Double Nought.
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).
Book ID: 3522More details Price: £43.00 -
Driftkopje verloofd.
Naar het Duitsch. Met platen.
Amsterdam: H.J.W. Becht, 1915. Beautiful Art Nouveau / Jugendstil cover design on cream percaline, by Cornelia van der Hart. Third edition of this 'story for girls'. With b/w illustrations by E.C. Leegstra, and text in Dutch. 274 pages. Boards are a little darkened. Previous owner's name in neat ink handwriting to from blank endpaper. A very good book. 235 x 15 mm (9¼ x 0½ inches).
Book ID: 2654More details Price: £20.00 -
Ecce Homo.
Vertaling van Ed. Coenraads. Met een Studie van Is. Querido.
Amsterdam: Erven Martin G. Cohen, 1910. Scarce First Dutch edition of this work. Half vellum, half buckram. Boards slightly rubbed and a little darkened. Some spotting inside, but overall clean. Previous owner's signature and date to the title page. 140 pages plus index. 225 x 185 mm (8¾ x 7¼ inches). OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 63851019
. Schaarse Nederlandse uitgave van dit werk. Half perkament, half buckram. Platen licht geschaafd en iets verdonkerd. Wat vlekken binnen, maar over het algemeen schoon. 140 pagina's plus index. 225 x 185 mm. OCLC Nummer/unieke identificatie 63851019
Book ID: 4164More details Price: £100.00 -
English Books 1475 - 1900. A Signpost for Collectors.
With one hundred illustrations. Volume I: Caxton to Johnson. Volume II: Gray to Kipling.
Book ID: 5106More details Price: £50.00 -
Expecting someone taller
Book ID: 4273More 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 -
Follies Of The Year.
A Series of Coloured Etchings from Punch's Pocket Books, 1844-64. With some Notes by Shirley Brooks.
London: Bradbury, Evans & Co, 1864. Hardback, three quarter red leather boards, with blue cloth boards. Gilt title vignette to front and back boards. Circa 1864 - but no date. Hand coloured title vignette, and 21 hand coloured plates. Caricatures and descriptions. Spine with light rubbing. Internally very clean and fresh. 51 unnumbered pages. 220 x 320 mm (8¾ x 12½ inches). Livre relié, trois quarts en cuir rouge, avec des planches en tissu bleu. Vignette de titre dorée sur les planches avant et arrière. Circa 1864 - mais pas de date. Vignette de titre coloriée à la main, et 21 planches coloriées à la main. Caricatures et descriptions. Le dos est légèrement frotté. Intérieur très propre et frais. 51 pages non numérotées. 220 x 320 mm
Book ID: 4723More details Price: £120.00 -
Fontes Melusinae. Ein Menschheitsmärchen.
Mit Bildern von G. Kampmann.
Altenburg: Stephan Seibel Verlag, 1904. First edition. Green cloth hardback boards, with gold titles and design to front board. All page edges red. 76 pages; including five full-page illustrations, and several headers and designs by Gustav Kampmann. Text in German. All in very good, clean condition. 245 x 195 mm (9¾ x 7¾ inches).
. Erste Ausgabe. Grüner Leineneinband, mit goldenen Titeln und Design auf der Vorderseite. Alle Seitenkanten rot. 76 Seiten, darunter fünf ganzseitige Abbildungen und mehrere Kopfzeilen und Entwürfe von Gustav Kampmann. Alles in sehr gutem, sauberem Zustand. 245 x 195 mm.
Book ID: 4190More details Price: £35.00 -
Gedichten en Rijmen
Groningen: W. van Boekeren, 1836. First Edition. Hardback in embossed cloth boards. Engraved title page. Jan Jacob Antonie Goeverneur was a Dutch poet, writer, and translator. Sometimes his writing for children used under pseudonyms Oom Jan, or Jan de Rijmer. Boards a little faded to spine. Clean and fresh inside. iv, 164 [3] pages. 170 x 105 mm (6¾ x 4¼ inches).
. Première édition. Couverture rigide en toile gaufrée. Page de titre gravée. Jan Jacob Antonie Goeverneur était un poète, écrivain et traducteur néerlandais. Ses écrits pour enfants sont parfois utilisés sous les pseudonymes Oom Jan ou Jan de Rijmer. Les planches sont un peu décolorées au niveau du dos. Intérieur propre et frais. iv, 164 [3] pages. 170 x 105 mm (6¾ x 4¼ inches).
Book ID: 4814More details Price: £30.00 -
Graham Greene: A Bibliography And Guide To Research
New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1979. First Edition. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, volume 173. Ex-library book, hardback in green cloth covered boards. Expected library marks and stamps. Cloth and closed page edges slightly darkened by smoke damage, but internally clean and in good condition. 440 pages. 225 x 150 mm (8¾ x 6 inches).
. Première édition. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, volume 173. Livre sorti d'une bibliothèque, couverture rigide en toile verte. Marques et tampons de bibliothèque habituels. La toile et les bords des pages fermées sont légèrement assombris par la fumée, mais l'intérieur est propre et en bon état. 440 pages. 225 x 150 mm
Book ID: 4381More details Price: £40.00 -
Grammaire allemande à l'usage des commenc̨ans
Book ID: 5550More details Price: £50.00 -
Hunter of the Moon.
Poems of John Loveridge.
Sharrington, Norfolk: Clement (Publishers) Ltd, 1983. First edition. In original unclipped dust jacket. Protected in protective clear wrap. Light rubbing to the covers of the dust jacket, some small areas of loss. Inside a neat previous owner's name to FFEP. Otherwise clean pages, no other markings. Sir John Warren Loveridge (9 September 1925 – 13 November 2007) was a British Conservative M. P. He was also a published poet and an abstract sculptor. 150 pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2887More details Price: £38.00 -
Images in Winter - signed
London: Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1979. First Edition. Ted Hughes said 'On a first reading I enjoyed every poem' (taken from a letter from Ted Hughes in September 1980). Hardback in publisher's unclipped dust jacket. In fine condition. Signed by Traynor to the front FFEP. Appears unread. 41 pages. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
. Première édition. Ted Hughes a déclaré : "A la première lecture, j'ai apprécié chaque poème" (extrait d'une lettre de Ted Hughes datant de septembre 1980). Livre relié avec jaquette de l'éditeur. En très bon état. Signé par Traynor sur la page de garde. Ne semble pas avoir été lu. 41 pages. 220 x 140 mm
Book ID: 4944More details Price: £20.00 -
Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises. First series.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886. Scarce edition. Hardback in dark green / grey cloth, with black floral decoration to border of boards. Gilt title to spine. Top edge gilt. In good condition, inside and out. iv, 603 pp. 265 x 180 mm (10½ x 7 inches).
Book ID: 3945More details Price: £30.00 -
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 -
Kristus Mysterium Díl první
Book ID: 3917More details Price: £20.00 -
La Femme et le Pantin.
Book ID: 2571More details Price: £50.00 -
Le livre de sa vie.
Book ID: 3152More details Price: £130.00






















































