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Now a Stranger
Book ID: 4227More details Price: £35.00
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On Swallowing the Anchor.
Book ID: 3190More details Price: £32.00
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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 -
Penelope. A Comedy in Three Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1912. First edition. 8vo. Original tan card wrappers, titles to spine and upper cover in brown. Slight creasing to spine and minor chip to bottom edge. Separation to bottom inch of front cover. Slight foxing to the cover and title page. The rest of the book is clean. [vi], 214 pp. 180 x 130 mm (7 x 5 inches).
Book ID: 2378More details Price: £80.00 -
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: £300.00
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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 -
Progress at Pelvis Bay.
London: John Murray, 1936. First Edition. Hardback in its original illustrated dust jacket. The detailed account of the metamorphosis of a fictitious seaside town from poverty stricken fishing village to flourishing resort. Osbert Lancaster uses his words and illustrations to enable the reader to follow the architectural changes. Dust jacket is age toned, particularly to spine. A small nick to jacket at head of spine. Illustrated endpapers with small previous owner's name to front. Inside pages very fresh and clean. Overall in good condition. 68 pages. 200 x 145 mm (7¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3359More details Price: £30.00 -
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 -
Rebecca.
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1938. First Edition, first impression. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and front board. Like many other copies, this book lacks the dust jacket. Light bumping to head and tail of spine. Slight crease to spine, and gilt on spine somewhat rubbed. Has a bookplate by Robert Gibbings for The Book Society to front pastedown. Page edges moderately browned, with small stain to top right corner of pages 131 - 146. Not affecting text. Page 47 / 48 has had a small tear at the bottom, now neatly repaired with archival tape. Overall good +. 446 pages. 200 x 135 mm (7¾ x 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 3986More details Price: £375.00 -
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 -
Robinson Crusoe: A Bibliographical Checklist of English Language Editions (1719-1979).
New York, Westport, Connecticut, London: Greenwood Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardback in publisher's green cloth with gilt stamped title to spine and front board. No dust jacket, as issued. In very good condition. 240 x 165 mm (9½ x 6½ inches).
Book ID: 3518More details Price: £45.00 -
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
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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 -
Sing Sing Nights.
London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co, [1932]. First edition. Hardback in original colour illustrated dust jacket. Unclipped. A respected war correspondent is found murdered. Inside him are three bullets; fired by three different guns. Three men are arrested, confess, are convicted and sentenced to death for his murder. Inside Sing Sing Prison a criminologist sets out to solve the mystery of which one is actually guilty. An exciting whodunit based on their three revolving stories. 255 pages. 170 x 120 mm (6¾ x 4¾ inches).
Book ID: 3517More details Price: £60.00 -
Six Fairy Tales, from the Brothers Grimm with original etchings
Book ID: 4238More details Price: £50.00
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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