The Finger-Post.
London: W. Collins Sons & Co., (1925). First edition, 8vo, (iv), 310, (6 advertisement) pp. Signature and ink stamp to fly leaf. Original cloth, spine ends bumped, very good. More
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Brighton Beach.
London: W. Collins, (1928). First edition, 8vo, (viii), 274, (2, 4 advertisement) pp. Owner's signature to fly leaf, upper hinge slightly tender but sound. Original cloth, rubbed, small label of the Newcastle printers and booksellers Mawson, Swan & Morgan to the upper cover. Scarce. More
Puff Paste.
London: W. Collins, Sons & Co., (1928). First edition, 8vo, (vi), 239, (1, 8 advertisement) pp. Contemporary inscription to the fly leaf. Cloth, spine and edges faded, d.w., spine dull. More
Judas. Illustrated by John Piper.
London: Anthony Blond, (1960). First edition, large 8vo, (vi), 37, (1) pp. 8 plates, contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Original gilt decorated buckram, one small mark otherwise fine. More
My Family and Other Animals.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. First edition. 8vo. 255, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped (18s) and with a "Book Society Choice" label priced at "16s" affixed on top, bookplate to the front pastedown with the same owner's inscription to the opposing..... More
Cities, Plains and People. Poems by...
London: Faber & Faber, (1946). First edition, 8vo, 72 pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, light sunning spine otherwise an excellent copy. More
Mountolive. A novel.
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First edition, 8vo, 320 pp. Cloth, d.w., with a couple of small scuffs near the foot of the spine and light browning to the edges of the flaps and the lettering of the spine, but overall an excellent copy. More
Pearl Choker.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1954. First edition. 8vo. 256 pp. Publisher's red cloth, black lettered to the spine. Slight fading to the spine, a little browning to the front and rear leaves, very good overall. More
The Infinity of Lists. Translation from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.
London: MacLehose Press, 2009. First edition thus. 8vo. 408 pp. Publisher's white cloth, lettered in blind to the spine, dust jacket. Colour illustrations throughout. Some sunning to the jacket spine but mostly only noticeable on the adjacent edge of the lower panel, else very good. An extensive well illustrated essay..... More
The Name of the Rose.
London: Secker & Warburg, (1983). First English edition, 8vo, (vi), 502 pp. Map endpapers, contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Cloth backed boards, d.w., price clipped, spine sunned. More
Selected Poems of... With a Foreword by Norman Hidden.
London: Workshop Press, (1972). First edition. 8vo. 36 pp. Printed green card stapled covers. Excellent condition. More
Rhymes in the West of England Dialect. By Agrikler. Also Rhymes by Outis.
Bristol: Leech and Taylor, 1872. Second edition, 8vo, (iv), viii, (ii), 94 pp. Foxing at the beginning and end. Later cloth, mild rubbing to extremities. More
Hwiangerddi. Detholiad Gyda Rhagymadrodd gan Hazel Walford Davies wedi ei Ddarlunio gan Jac Jones.
Tregynon: Gwasg Gregynog, 1995. Limited edition, no. 190 of 250 copies. Thin 4to. (ii), 66, (5) pp. Publisher's cornflower blue cloth, red lettered to the spine and with a silver flower design extending round all sides, the original promotional broadside flyer loosely inserted, being much taller than the book it..... More
Pollen. A Novel in Black and White.
(London): Denis Archer, (1933). First edition, 8vo, xii, 312 pp. Frontispiece and black and white illustrations by the author, later bookplate. Original orange cloth, corners bumped, mild rubbing to spine ends. More
The London Apprentice, and the Goldsmith's Daughter of West Chepe; a Tale in the Times of Bluff King Hal.
London: W.S. Johnson, [1852]. First edition, three volumes bound in one, large 8vo, viii, 244, 248, 230 pp. Full page engraved illustrations, text printed in double column, some foxing, later signature to front blank, marbled endpapers. Later half calf, green cloth sides, green spine label, some light rubbing otherwise a...... More
The Golden Lotus. A Translation, from the Chinese Original, of the Novel Chin P'ing Mei, by...
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. Four volumes. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. Small, fairly inconspicuous tear to the foot of the jacket spine of volume IV, a very good set overall. The first translation into English of this masterpiece of Chinese literature, written..... More
Adam Bede.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, [c.1900]. 8vo, (x), 486 pp. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Denny in contemporary half calf, t.e.g., gilt decorated spine with Art Nouveau style tooling, outer edge of the covers with faint damp staining, top edge of the lower cover with some scuffing. More
Felix Holt. The Radical.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, [1870s]. 8vo, (viii), 430 pp. Second title and 6 plates, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary dark blue half morocco, spine sunned with mild wear. More
The Mill on the Floss.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, [c.1900]. 8vo, (xii), 486 pp. Engraved title and 6 plates, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary half morocco, spine a little rubbed. Originally published as volume II of a set of Eliot's works. More
Essays. With introduction and notes by Kazumi Yano.
Tokyo: Kenkyusha, [c.1936]. 8vo, (x), liii, (i), 424 pp. Arthur Waley's copy, inscribed to him on the fly leaf "with compliments of the Editor [Yano?], June 1936". Cloth, d.w., spine browned with loss to the ends. The text is in English, with the introduction and notes in Japanese... More
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[The Four Quartets]. Burnt Norton. East Coker. The Dry Salvages. Little Gidding.
London: Faber and Faber, (1941-42). Four volumes, "East Coker" third impression, the others first impressions, 8vo, 16 pp each. Corner torn from the fly leaf in "Burnt Norton". Original printed wrappers with some browning to spines and edges, several staples slightly rusty, foot of spines with light wear, but overall..... More
Murder in the Cathedral.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1935. First edition. 8vo. 87, (9) pp. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, early ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Dust jacket with some wear and tear to the edges with occasional small losses, else a decent copy. More
Social Distinction: or Hearts and Homes.
London: J. & F. Tallis, [c.1850]. Three volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces, engraved titles and 25 plates, a few spots. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt decorated dark blue morocco, a.e.g., spines lightly rubbed with slight loss to the tops of volumes II and II. More
Essays - First Series. Second Series. Miscellanies - Embracing Nature Addresses and Lectures. Representative Men. English Traits. The Conduct of Life. Society and Solitude. Letters and Social Aims. Selected Poems.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1882. Nine volumes, small 8vo. Owner's signature to several front blanks. Original gilt titled cloth, spines slightly darkened with rubbing to ends. More