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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
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Some Victorian Women. Good, Bad and Indifferent
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1923. A very good copy of the First Edition, in the original blue pictorial cloth with navy blue illustration and title to front and spine. Frontis illustration of Lillie Langtry. Women featured and illustrated in b/w line drawing include Kate Greenaway and Florence Nightingale, amongst others. 226 pages plus two page publisher's catalogue to the rear. 225 x 150 mm (8¾ x 6 inches).
Book ID: 3123More details Price: £20.00 -
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 Camomile Lawn
London: Macmillan, 1984. First edition. Slightly faded on spine of original unclipped dust wrapper. In August 1939, five cousins gather at their aunt's house in Cornwall for their carefree annual summer holiday. Soon, war will change everything. Very minor bumping to top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket in very good state with no tears. Red cloth boards in very good condition. Half title page has offsetting but otherwise clean and unmarked. 297 pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 4161More details Price: £120.00 -
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 -
The Death of Satan.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1955. UK first edition, first impression. Hardback in unclipped dust jacket. The dust jacket is still bright, but has some very light signs of handling. Some small areas of loss. Head of the spine in particular. Inside the book is crisp and spotless, except for the following: over what was once the details of how to inquire about performance rights of the the play, there is a label reading Eric Glass Ltd. 110 [1] pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2714More details Price: £20.00 -
The Drawings of Mervyn Peake
London: The Grey Walls Press, 1949. First Edition, but perhaps a later issue. Original grey hardback boards with title on spine, lettering in black. In original unclipped dust jacket. Pagination: 11, [3] + 62 pages (full-page illustrations in both colour and b/w). The dust jacket is spotted. FFEP has Sherratt Goathland written in pen at bottom right corner. 250 x 190 mm (9¾ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 2930More details Price: £60.00 -
The Final Square and Other Pieces.
Kettering: Woodlines Publishing, 2000. First edition. Signed dedication by the author to the half-title. Soft covers. A collection of short stories and poems. In very good condition. 90 pages. 200 x 145 mm (7¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3985More details Price: £35.00 -
The Forbidden Forest and other stories.
Illustrated by Raymond Briggs.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1973. First Edition. Hardback emerald green cloth with gilt stamped title to spine. In original dust jacket. Both book and unclipped dust jacket are in a very good condition, no fading, no tears or markings. A few spots of foxing to the fore edge. These ten stories are Reeves' retelling of a few of the lesser known written by the Brother's Grimm.
Raymond Briggs was famous for his illustrations in such as stories as Fungus the Bogeyman, Father Christmas, The Snowman, plus many others. 171 [2] pp. 240 x 155 mm (9½ x 6 inches).Book ID: 3548More details Price: £25.00 -
The Good Life. The Dirty Life, and other stories.
Manchester / Plumstead, South Africa: Carcanet Press / Snailpress, 1995. Signed by the author to the title page. First edition. Original softback. Poetry. As new condition. 64 pages. 215 by 135mm (8½ by 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 2252More details Price: £30.00 -
The Hite Report On Women Loving Women.
London: Arcadia Books Ltd, 2007. First Edition. Hardback in black cloth. Original photographic dust jacket. This report is an exploration of the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters, sisters, friends, colleagues, leaders, and lovers. An insight in to why relationships between women can often end in acrimony. Book and unclipped dust jacket in very good to fine condition. 213 pages. 220 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3394More details Price: £20.00 -
The Invasion of 1910: with a full account of the Siege of London.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1906. First edition. Original red cloth with gilt titles and blind embossed Prussian eagle to the front boards. Bookplate for W.H. Smith Library to the front paste down. The boards have spotting / areas of paleness, and a touch of bumping, but still in good shape. Slight weakness / cracking to the front hinge. Owner's signature to the title page. Foxing / darkening to the initial pages. Overall in very nice condition. xiv. 550. pp. 200 x 130 mm (7¾ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 2113More details Price: £120.00 -
The Isle of the Dead
or the Keeper of the Lazaretto
Edition: First Edition
London: Burns & Lambert, 1863. First edition. Original burgundy cloth with gilt decoration and titles. Lengthy gift inscription \ prayer to the front end paper from Sister Mary Clare of Syon Abbey, Devon. A touch of marking to the boards, but not too bad. Fading to the spine. Internally clean throughout, with a touch of darkening. The prayer to the front free endpaper shows the book to have been a gift from a nun to her niece / Goddaughter, for New Year 1873. An attractive volume. 72 pp + 2 pp advertisements.
Émile Souvestre (1806-1854) was a French novelist whose best known work was "Le Monde Tel Qu'il Sera"; a dystopian science fiction work full of predictions. His works often had moral messages within them. 72 pp + 2 pp ads.Book ID: 1213More details Price: £40.00 -
The Kickleburys on the Rhine [and] Rebecca and Rowena, A Romance upon Marriage.
With illustrations by Richard Doyle
London: Smith, Elder / Chapman & Hall, 1850. Two First editions, bound together in a contemporary full leather binding. All edges gilt. Both by Titmarsh, a pseudonym for Thackeray. The 15 full page illustrations to the Kicklebury's are unsigned, the 8 plates in Rebecca & Rowena are attributed to Richard Doyle. These were two of the 'Christmas books' written by Thackeray. Clean full leather binding. A touch of rubbing. Spine is somewhat dulled. Internally clean, binding is firm but slightly shaken. 88, viii, 102 pages. 185 by 140mm (7¼ by 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2453More details Price: £80.00