London: Faber and Faber, 1942. In original printed mauve card stock, with sewn binding. 16 pp. 230 mm x 150 mm (9 x 6 inches). Covers show some fading / light bumping around the margins. Internally fine with only small previous owner's name in pencil to front blank.

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'.

Paris: Editions Ergé, 1946. First edition, soft back illustrated with 95 drawings by the author. This is one of 4000 numbered copies on imitation Japan. In original glassine wrappers, in good condition. Some offsetting to inside pages from illustrations. Overall a good, clean example. Text in French. 151 pages. 290 x 230 mm (11½ x 9 inches). Edition originale, dos souple illustré de 95 dessins de l'auteur. Il s'agit d'un des 4000 exemplaires numérotés sur faux Japon. Dans des emballages en verre d'origine, en bon état. Quelques décalages vers les pages intérieures des illustrations. Globalement, un bon exemple propre. Texte en français. 151 pages. 290 x 230 mm

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.

London: Aloes Books, 1978. First edition, first printing with the 60p price printed to its rear cover. This short story was first published in Epoch Magazine in 1960. Epoch was a literary magazine published by Cornell University. This stapled paperback pamphlet style edition was produced in just 1,500 copies. Front cover illustrated by Louise Nevett, from a photograph by Richard Mock. In a very good condition, with slightly age toned pages and back cover. 32 pages. 190 x 120 mm (7½ x 4¾ inches).

Athens: A. Sideris and Co: 1961. First edition. Soft cream covers. Stapled. Handwritten note to the top of the cover "For review in the Classical Review". Printed from ΠΛATΩN Vol XII. 1960 Fasc. A. A very nice clean copy. Soft cream wrappers. The staples are a little rusted. Otherwise in excellent condition. author [ MINΩΣ KOKOΛAKHΣ ] was a Greek author and academic who specialised in the work of Lucian. 45 pages.

Aalst: De Seyn-Verhougrstraete: 1894. 3rd edition. With frontis portrait of the author. Original softback binding, but rebound in recent marbled boards. Leather label to spine. Bookplate to inside front board. The binding is in excellent condition. The contents are in good clean condition, with a touch of darkening to the page edges. Original covers bound in. 164 pages. 230 x 160 mm (9 x 6¼ inches).

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1849. First Edition. Publisher's hardback boards, three quarter red morocco with blue paper covered boards. Gilt title to front and spine. With forty full-page b/w illustrations. Boards are quite rubbed. Clean and unmarked inside. Unpaginated, but complete. 220 x 290 mm (8¾ x 11½ inches).

London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. Signed gift inscription from the author. First edition. Green cloth boards, with illustrated vignette and gilt decorations to the front. Gilt title and decorations to the spine. Charming story, with b/w illustrations throughout. 200 x 150 mm (7¾ x 6 inches). Boards are a little bumped and rubbed. Light soiling. Page edges are toned, and prelims have some light foxing. Overall a good signed copy.

Knotting: Martin Booth, 1980. Small square octavo, in beige card. Stapled. Three poems. One of 125 copies - the first 50 of which were signed. This is # 55. Unpaginated. A near fine copy - no fading, tight binding, no inscriptions. 8 pp. 165 x 165 mm (6½ x 6½ inches).

London: Aloes Books, 1976. First edition. Paperback in pamphlet style with staples. This short story was first published in Epoch Magazine in 1959. Epoch was a literary magazine published by Cornell University. 24 pages. Edges of covers are slightly age toned, but inside the book is in very good condition. 210 x 145 mm (8¼ x 5¾ inches).

London: Thomas Tegg, 1840. First edition. Complete two volumes, with engraved frontis to each. Signed Morrell of London binding. Three quarters tan calf, with waxed cloth boards. Gilt to spine and boards still clean and bright. Very light rubbing to corners. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Fresh and without foxing inside. A very nice set. Contents include essays on the Duchess of Berry, Charles II, the escape of the Earl of Nithsdale, The Black Hole of Calcutta, The escape of Casanova, Daring enterprises of Spanish troops etc. etc. vi [i] 424; iv, 459 pp. 160 x 105 mm (6¼ x 4¼ inches).

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co./ The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1906. First edition. In hardback green illustrated cloth boards. Boards a little handled. Internally, eight short stories about the adventures of a boy named Nelson, told in the first person. Clean inside and out. Quite scarce. 121 pages. 195 x 140 mm (7¾ x 5½ inches).

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).

London: Constable & Co, 1973. A very nice copy of this reprint, signed by the author to the front free end paper. Burgundy boards. Book is in immaculate condition. Dust wrapper is clean and tidy, with a little rubbing to the edges of the spine. The dust wrapper of this book was the author's favourite wrapper, and he took great delight in showing me how the picture changed when you turned the book upside down. 356 pages. 210 x 140 mm (8¼x 5½ inches).

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).

Cambridge University Press, 2001. First edition. Hardback in black cloth. In original unclipped dust jacket. Shakespeare has a rich and varied performance tradition in Japan, from the Meiji era to today. This work is concentrating on modern and post-modern theatre, roughly from the 1970s to the time of publishing. Fourteen essays on key aspects, moments and personalities in performance tradition. Plus provocative interviews with four leading directors, and one leading actor of the time. Both jacket and book are in a near fine condition. 259 pages. 255 x 180 mm (10 x 7 inches).