The Tenants of Dirt Street.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, (1971). First edition, 8vo, 233, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine with mild sunning, very good. Cook was later to be better known as Derek Raymond. More
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A Far Sunset.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1967). First edition, 8vo, 188, (4) pp. Owner's small label to the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., small chip to the lower edge plus some very slight loss to extremities. More
The Lord Falcon. The Making of a Legend. (Volume I. The Repositors - Azon the Youth).
(Lewes): The Book Guild Limited, (1991). First edition, 8vo, 220 pp. Small piece cut from the corner of the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, mild bumping to spine ends otherwise a fine copy. More
Voices of Doom.
New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Robert Hale, 1980. First edition, British issue. 8vo. 190, (2) pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. Very good. The UK and US editions appear to have been published simultaneously, possibly from the same sheets, with both..... More
Time in a Blue Prison.
London: The Fortune Press, [1947]. Sole edition. 8vo. 64 pp. Publisher's faux snakeskin backed boards, illustrated dust jacket. Tanning to the jacket which is also slightly worn at the foot, else very good. More
The Chocolate War. A Novel by...
[New York]: Pantheon Books, (1974). First edition, 8vo, (vi), 253, (3) pp. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, spine slightly sunned, with a few wrinkles in the lamination of the upper wrapper. More
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The Cornhill Magazine. Vol. I. January to June, 1860 [to] Vol. XX. July to December, 1869.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860-1869. Twenty volumes. 8vo. Contemporary brown half morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels, endpapers and all edges marbled. Numerous black and white illustrations. Even fading to the spines, rubbing to the extremities, four volumes with neat joint..... More
The Cornhill Magazine. New series. Vols XXV. July to December 1908.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1908. 8vo. Later ink stamp to the paste down. Original cloth, damp stained. Including three book reviews by Virginia Woolf (then Stephen) under the heading "The Book on the Table" - "A Week in the White House with Theodore Roosevelt", a life of Louise de..... 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
Sharpe's Revenge. Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814.
London: Collins, (1989). First edition, 8vo, 348 pp. Marginal browning throughout. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, a very good copy. More
The Works of... Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed: and Those which he Design'd for the Press, Now Published out of the Author's Original Copies. To this Edition are added several Commendatory Copies of Verses on the Author, be Persons of Honour. [bound with] The Second and Third Parts of the Works of... The Second containing What was Written and Published by himself in his younger Years... The Third containing his Six Books of Plants, Never before Published in English...
London: Printed by J.M. [John Macock] for H. Herringman [and] Printed for Charles Harper, 1688, 89. Two works bound in one, folio, (l), 41, (1), 80, (4), 58, 61-70, 154, 23, (1), 148; (xiv), 161, (1), (xx), 166, (2, 8) pp, complete despite some erratic pagination, and with the 8..... More
Table Talk, and Other Poems.
London: Printed for John Sharp, 1817. 12mo, (ii), 204 pp. Engraved title and 6 plates, marbled endpapers and sides. Contemporary calf, blind tooled spine with gilt bands and a morocco label, light wear to extremities. Originally published in 1782. More
Autograph Poetry in the English Language. Facsimiles of Original Manuscripts from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century. Compiled and Edited with an Introduction, Commentary and Transcripts by...
London: Cassell, 1973. No. 739 of 1,500 sets. 4to. Two volumes. Publisher's green cloth backed speckled boards, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. Black and white facsimiles of original manuscripts throughout. Slight mottling to the cloth bindings, a little tanning and spotting to the slipcase, else very good. More
Poems to Pavlova. With... illustrations of Madame Pavlova in her most famous dances.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1913. First edition, 8vo, 62 pp. 8 photographic plates, partly unopened, later inscription to fly leaf. Original green cloth, decoration in white to the upper cover, slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. More
The Enormous Room. With an Introduction by Robert Graves.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1928). First edition, 8vo, 332 pp. Brief owner's inscription to fly leaf, "Times Book Club" label to the foot of the rear paste down. Original cloth, spine a little sunned with some wear to the ends. More
Play Me Fair.
London: Michael Joseph, (1956). First edition, 8vo, 287, (1) pp. Handsomely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in dark blue full morocco, a.e.g., spine and a narrow strip to the outer edge of the lower cover sunned otherwise a handsome copy. 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
Fifth Annual Report of the Dante Society. May 18, 1886. Appendix I. Dante: James Russell Lowell. Appendix II. Dante, and the Launcelot Romance: Paget Toynbee.
Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, 1886. 8vo, 74 pp. Foxing at the beginning and end, marbled endpapers. Handsomely bound in full green crushed morocco, t.e.g., gilt title plus fleurs-de-lis to the corners. More
Time Travellers. A Tramps Opera in Three Acts. With Decorations by William Nicholson.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1923). First edition, 8vo, (vi), 52 pp. Frontispiece and 4 plates. Original printed boards, d.w. browned with light soiling, slight loss to the top of the spine. More
The Connoisseur, and other stories.
London: W. Collins Sons & Co., (1926). Limited edition, no. 174 of 250 copies signed by the author, 8vo, 357, (1) pp. Attractive contemporary bookplate, slightly later inscription to fly leaf. Original lined backed boards, spine with mild browning, morocco label with an old repair. More
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders. With Illustrations and Decorations by John Austen and an Introduction by W.H. Davies.
London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, (1929). First edition thus, large 8vo, (xii), 333, (1) pp. 16 plates. Original gilt titled black cloth, some of the gilt slightly tarnished, d.w. in excellent condition, overall a handsome copy. More
Caledonia: A Poem in Honour of Scotland, And the People of that Nation...
London: Printed for W. Owen... and sold at the Pamphlet Shops at the Royal Exchange,... 1748. Third edition. 8vo. (vi), 9-58 pp. Later printed marbled wrappers. Very good. Cf. Moore, 129, with slightly different pagination, though this copy matches those listed on ESTC. First published in 1706 in Edinburgh in..... More
Mexico Set.
London: Hutchinson, (1984). Uncorrected proof copy, 8vo, 381, (1) pp. Paperback, d.w. with some wear, particularly to the top edge due to the wrapper being slightly taller than the book. More
The Seven Deadly Sinnes of London.
London: Printed at the University Press, Cambridge & Published at the Cambridge University Press... 1905. Limited edition, one of 250 copies. 8vo. 92, (2) pp. Original vellum backed drab boards, paper title label to the upper board, later ownership inscription to the front pastedown. Some soiling to the binding, very..... More
Dramatic Poems, comprising the following Tragedies: Gunilda, Usurper, Matilda and Abdalla.
Lewes: W. & A. Lee, 1803. First edition, 8vo, (iv, 7 List of Subscribers, 5), 295, (1) pp. Contemporary maroon half morocco, extremities with some wear, spine darkened with gilt tooling, slight loss to foot, marbled sides, edges stained yellow. Four unacted plays. "The author of numerous works long since..... More