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A Tangled Web.
London: Collins, 1956. First edition, 8vo, 254, (2) pp. Contemporary signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, spine sunned, lower wrapper with light soiling. More
The Whisper in the Gloom.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, (1954). First edition, 8vo, 253, (1) pp. Bookseller's small ink stamp and a crossed out name and address to front endpapers. Cloth, d.w. with some loss to the spine ends and foxing to the lower wrapper. More
English Songs, and other small poems.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1856. 12mo, xl, 284 pp. Inscribed on the title page from the author to the Hon. William Spring Rice, marbled endpapers and edges, later owner's name to a front blank. Contemporary calf, spine sunned, joints and edges rubbed, lacking the spine label. Originally published in 1832..... More
Broome Stages.
London: Heinemann, 1931. First edition, 8vo, viii, 703, (1) pp. Title page designed by Rex Whistler. Inscribed on the fly leaf by the cast of the Old Vic's 1942 production of Laurence Housman's "Jacob's Ladder", including the author and both Lewis and Ann Casson. Original gilt titled buckram, very good..... More
After Me, the Deluge.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1972). First edition, 8vo, 189, (3) pp. Owner's name to fly leaf verso. Cloth, d.w. designed by Rex Benlow, upper wrapper slightly wrinkled otherwise a very good copy. More
And To My Nephew Albert, I leave the Island what I won off Fatty Hagan in a poker game...
(London): Hodder and Stoughton, (1969). First edition, 8vo, 191, (1) pp. Cloth, with two d.w.'s, a multi-coloured one with some light wear, and underneath photographic one in excellent condition, the latter with an essay on the writing of the book to the reverse. More
The Great Dinosaur Robbery.
(London): Hodder and Stoughton, (1970). First edition, 8vo, 191, (1) pp. Owner's name to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w. designed by Don Roberts, price clipped, browned with some marks. More
The New Gun Runners.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1928). First edition, 8vo, (vi), 270 pp. Owner's ink stamp to the fly leaf. Cloth, minor sunning to the spine ends, striking d.w. with some sunning to the spine, wear and slight loss to extremities. Scarce. More
My Lady's Garden. Planted and Grown by...
London: Watts & Co., 1921. First edition, large 8vo, (xiv), 217, (1) pp. 11 coloured plates with captioned tissues by Marjorie Raynor. Original decorative cloth, some marks. Poetry in memory of those killed in the first world war. More
The Chronicles of Crime; or, the New Newgate Calendar. Being a Series of Memoirs and Anecdotes of Notorious Characters who have outraged the Laws of Great Britain... with... Engravings... by "Phiz" [Hablot K. Browne].
London: T. Miles & Co., 1891. Two volumes, 8vo. Engraved title and 51 plates, with the booklabel of Ernest Shackleton to paste downs, later owner's bookplate also, two small bits of sellotape to paste down in volume II with signs of its removal at the back. Original gilt titled red..... More
Pictures from the Poets.
London: Gardner, Darton & Co., [1883]. First edition, oblong 8vo, (36) leaves, printed on one side only and interleaved with blanks, illustrations to each leaf, some light foxing, inscription dated 1887 to front blank, original boards, further illustration to upper cover, edges a little worn, recently rebacked. More
[Works] Pause! Little Tich. The Insiduous Dr. Fu-Manchu. The Romance of Sorcery. The Yellow Claw. The Devil Doctor. The Hand of Fu-Manchu. Brood of the Witch-Queen. The Orchard of Tears. The Quest of the Sacred Slipper. Dope. The Golden Scorpion. The Dream Detective. The Green Eyes of Bast. Bat Wing. Fire-Tongue. Grey Face. Yellow Shadows. Moon of Madness. She Who Sleeps. The Emperor of America. The Day the World Ended. Yu'an Hee See Laughs. The Mask of Fu Manchu. Tales of East and West. The Mask of Fu Manchu [second copy].
[1-2] London: Greening and Co., [3,7,11-12,14] New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, [4,6,9] London: Methuen & Co., [5] New York: McBride, Nast & Company, [8,10, 13, 15, 19] New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, [16-18,21,23,26] London: Cassell and Company, [20] New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, [22,24-25] New York..... More
The London Assignment. A Fitzroy Selection.
London: John Long, 1972. First edition. 8vo. 183, (1) pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, inscribed on the front free endpaper "For Gus and Molly with the author's Best Regards / Ken". A little light rubbing to the extremities of the jacket, very good. The..... More
Some Irish Yesterdays. Illustrated by E. OE. Somerville.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1906. First edition, 8vo, viii, 249, (3) pp. frontispiece and 24 plates plus 20 further plates, "Slipper's ABC of Fox-Hunting", slightly later inscription to fly leaf. Original cloth, spine browned, ends slightly rubbed. Cummins p256. More
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (Tom Sawyer's Comrade).
London: Chatto & Windus, 1910. 8vo, xvi, 438, (2), 32 advertisement pp. Black and white illustrations, the advertisements with marginal browning. Original gilt titled blue cloth, a lovely copy. First published in the UK in 1884, and then in America the following year. More
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. With illustrations by True Williams.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1885. 8vo, xii, 309, (3), 32 advertisement pp. Black and white illustrations. Original gilt titled decorated red cloth, spine sunned otherwise a very good copy. Originally published in 1876. More
The Baby. A video novel by...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First edition, 8vo, (x), 336, (4) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Cloth backed boards, edges slightly browned, top edge a little worn, d.w. with minor loss to the top edge. More
The Literature of Society. With an Introductory Chapter on the Origin of Fiction.
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1862. First edition, two volumes, 8vo. Original green cloth covers bound in at the end of each volume, marbled endpapers, booklabels of H. Harvey Frost. Handsomely bound by Riviere & Son in later full calf, t.e.g., gilt spines, slightly sunned otherwise near fine. More
Collingridge.
(London): Chapman & Hall, 1930. First edition, 8vo, (iv), 251, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., extremities a little worn. Scarce. More