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Aragon, Éluard, Vercors.
Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1946. First Edition. Softback covers. Preface by Emmanuel D'Astier de la Vigerie. Published by "Conseil National de la Résistance" on BFK de Rives paper. Edges of the covers are slightly age toned. 42 [1] pages.
. Première édition. Couvertures souples. Précédés d'une préface par Emmanuel D'Astier de la Vigerie. Edité pour le "Conseil National de la Résistance" - BFK de Rives papier. Les bords des couvertures sont légèrement vieillis. 42 [1] pages.
Book ID: 3935More details Price: £30.00 -
Babar at Home.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1938. Publisher's quarter blue cloth and colour pictorial boards. Text in English. 39 [1] pp. 365 x 265 mm (14¼ x 10½ inches). In a good condition. Boards lightly rubbed / handled, and with some light scrapes (area of light pen scribble). Back board has some sun fading. Both head and tail of spine have been slightly bumped / appear restored. Some pages have been neatly repaired at the bottom (see photos).
Book ID: 2723More details Price: £80.00 -
Battles and Enchantments.
Retold from Ancient Irish Literature.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. Author signed, First Edition. In original blue cloth with gilt decoration to front board and title to spine. Original brown unclipped paper dust jacket. Dust jacket has some marks and is nicked to the head of the spine. Inside the book is clean, just basic shelf wear. Author signed dedication to FFEP. 168 pages. 200 x 145 mm (7¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2093More details Price: £50.00 -
Biography.
Cambridge: 1978. An attractive slim volume of poetry. Printed by the National Poetry Centre for Lobby Press. Green paper covers. Clean and without edgewear, but a touch of fading to the spine. Internally clean and tidy throughout. 19 poems by the Greek author Nasos Vayenas. 200 by 140mm (7¾ by 5½ inches).
. Un petit volume de poésie attrayant. Imprimé par le Centre national de poésie pour Lobby Press. Couvertures en papier vert. Propre et sans usure des bords, mais avec une légère décoloration du dos. L'intérieur est propre et bien rangé. 19 poèmes de l'auteur grec Nasos Vayenas. 200 x 140 mm
Book ID: 4173More details Price: £25.00 -
Cardboard Castle.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First edition. No dust jacket. Orange boards faded to front and spine. Ex library, with a few stamps to front blank pages. Overall good reading copy. 311 pages. 195 x 130 mm (7¾ x 5 inches).
P.C. Wren is best known for his work Beau Geste. This story involves a woman, who thought herself a widow because her husband was officially declared dead, remarrying only to meet her 'dead' husband alive many years later. The invention of a fictional South-American country called Boruela, and its wicked dictator, only add to a strange plot.Book ID: 3868More details Price: £30.00 -
Catalogue des Livres Rares et Précieux composant la Bibliothèque de M E -F -D Ruggieri
Book ID: 4363More details Price: £30.00
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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 -
Constance Trescot.
Book ID: 2226More details Price: £45.00
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Dombey and Son.
Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation.
Book ID: 2070More details Price: £225.00
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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 Little Magazines - No 12: Poetry London - Reprinted in Five Volumes
Edited By Tambimuttu. Series Edited By B.C.Bloomfield.
Book ID: 2310More details Price: £120.00
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Expecting someone taller
Book ID: 4273More details Price: £40.00
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Fabelen uitgegeven door E. Bekker, Wed. A. Wolff en A. Deken.
S`Gravenhage: Isaac van Cleef, 1784. First Edition. Half leather binding with mottled boards. 42 engravings, comprising frontispiece - portrait medallions of the authors - by A. Cardon after W. Neering, title vignette by Cardon after J. Buys and 40 unsigned pictorial headpieces by Cardon and R. Vinkeles after Buys. Fables by La Fontaine, Lichtwer and many others translated and adapted by Bekker and Deken. Boards and leather are clean, with a little rubbing. The spine label is dulled with the gilt to the label missing. Internally in very good condition. The engraved headpieces mostly have their original tissue guards. Front board is a touch loose but still holding well. Previous owner's ex libris tipped into the inside board. xxxiv, 172 pp. 230 x 140 mm (9 x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3195More details Price: £120.00 -
'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 -
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 -
Fragment of a Novel [Sanditon]
written by Jane Austen, January - March 1817. Now first printed from the manuscript.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925. First edition of this partial novel, written just before Jane Austen's death. It tells the story of Charlotte Heywood, a young woman from the countryside, as she encounters the people of a sophisticated and cynical developing British seaside town called Sanditon. In grey hardback boards with pale cloth spine. Label to spine reads Sandition. Inscription to front FFEP. In good, cleran condition. 170 pages - plus notes regarding the manuscript. 180 x 125 mm (7 x 5 inches).
Book ID: 4177More details Price: £25.00 -
Fungus the Bogeyman. Plop-Up Book.
London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1982. First edition in this format. Hardback laminated colour illustrated boards. Unpaginated. Covers are clean with minimal handling. All but one of the pop-ups are working perfectly, and showing little sign of use. One end of a string of bats has become detached. This would be easy to repair. 275 x 200 mm (10¾ x 7¾ inches).
Fungus the Bogeyman is a character created by British artist Raymond Briggs. The story follows one day in the life of this fabulous character, a working class Bogeyman with the mundane job of scaring human beings. A fantastic pre-curser to the likes of Shrek!
Book ID: 2717More details Price: £30.00 -
George Cruikshank's Omnibus.
Illustrated with one hundred engravings on Steel and Wood. Edited by Laman Blanchard, Esq.
London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842. First edition. Hardback in quarter brown leather with buckram boards, with gilt title to spine. Complete. Boards are slightly rubbed. Internally the pages are darkened, and there is some foxing. Overall fair to good. 300 pages. 230 x 145 mm (9 x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3942More details Price: £100.00