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COMPTON-BURNETT, Ivy.
A House and Its Head. 1935
£475
First edition, first impression. Quite uncommon.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the nicked dust jacket with some small loss at the foot of the spine panel. Read more
NAIPAUL, V. S.
A House for Mr. Biswas. 1961
£650
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Spine rolled, lightly rubbed at extremities, light... Read more
CARY, Joyce.
A House of Children. 1941
£475
First edition, first impression. The dedication copy with the author's signature to the title page and his inscription under the dedication to his sister-in-law Elsie Maxwell...
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Boards a little rubbed and marked, spine rolled, spotting to edges and very... Read more
WILDE, Oscar.
A House of Pomegranates. 1891
£2,250
First edition, first impression of the book that Wilde said was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public."
Quarto. Original green cloth backed tan boards, titles and decoration to spine and upper board in gold and orange, pictorial endpapers. 4 plates, engravings... Read more
BATES, H. E.
A House of Women. 1936
£275
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original light green cloth, titles to spine and upper board in dark green. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled, light spotting to edges and occasionally to... Read more
(STEPHANIDES, Palamas) PALAMAS, Kostes.
A Hundred Voices. 1976
£85
First English language edition, first impression. Originally published in Greece in 1902. Inscribed by the translator, Theodore Stephanides, on the front free endpaper, "To Margaret...
Octavo. Original cream wrappers printed in black. Wrappers a little rubbed and marked, tanning to corner of upper wrapper, contents a little toned. An excellent copy. Read more
MARKINO, Yoshio.
A Japanese Artist in London. 1911
£325
This copy inscribed "To Sir Robert Baden Powell from Mr. Chaloner" with Baden-Powell's armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Subsequent pencilled gift inscription from Olave B-P...
Octavo. Original blue cloth with title gilt to spine, title and Japanese calligraphy in black to the upper board, top edge gilt, others uncut. Tissue-guarded colour... Read more
SLEEMAN, Sir W. H.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, in 1849-1850; 1858
£200
First edition. "In 1841 Sleeman was offered the post of resident at Lucknow, but he refused to accept this lucrative appointment so that it might be retained by an officer who, as he...
2 volumes, octavo (186 × 113) modern half calf on plum linen boards, paper labels to the spines, plum silk page-markers. Folding map frontispiece to Volume I,... Read more
FREEMAN, R. Austin.
A Journey to Bontúku in the Interior of West Africa. 1893]
£1,250
Offprint from the Supplementary Papers of the Royal Geographical Society, volume III, 1893, pp. 119–144, with a separately printed title page. The author's first published work....
Octavo (240 × 150 mm). Contemporary tan wrappers, typed paper label to upper wrapper. Engravings throughout, colour folding map. Wrappers tanned and lightly... Read more
HARDY, Thomas.
A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stacys. A Story of To-Day. 1881
£1,500
First edition.
3 volumes, octavo (185 × 115 mm). Near contemporary blue half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spines gilt in compartments, blue cloth sides, marbled endpapers, ruling to... Read more
(STEVENSON, Robert Louis) OSBOURNE, Lloyd.
A Letter to Mr. Stevenson's Friends. 1894
£225
First edition. Account of Stevenson's death and funeral written by his stepson, who had collaborated with RLS on The Wrong Box, The Ebb-tide and The Wrecker. Uncommon, COPAC lists...
Duodecimo (180 × 110 mm) Wire-stiched in the original printed wraps. Housed in quarter red morocco on red linen slip-case, title gilt to the spine, in matching... Read more
BRENAN, Gerald.
A Life of One's Own, Childhood and Youth. 1962
£30
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original red and green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Foxing to endpapers, spine bumped, dust jacket lightly foxed, corners and head of... Read more
LEGGE, Janie.
A Little Book of Legends for Children. 1925
£125
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original brown boards, white paper label with titles and pictorial design printed in blue to upper board. With the dust jacket. Illustrations by John Guthrie... Read more
WAUGH, Evelyn.
A Little Learning. The First Volume of an Autobiography. 1964
£875
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the title page. A pencil note on the front pastedown records this book to have been purchased from Harrods in July 1965 and...
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt, pink top-stain. With the dust jacket. Harrods blind stamp to rear pastedown, few spots to fore edge, very light... Read more
WAUGH, Evelyn.
A Little Learning. The First Volume of an Autobiography. 1964
£800
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the title page.
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Spine faded, some light spots to boards. An excellent copy in the jacket with slightly... Read more
FORD, Ford Madox [Ford Hermann Hueffer].
A Little Less Than Gods. 1928
£350
First Edition, First Impression. Scarce in this condition.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. A superb copy in the lightly tanned dust jacket. Read more
BOWLES, Paul.
A Little Stone. 1950
£500
First Edition, First Impression. Bowles's second novel.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt on a green ground. With the Keith Vaughan dust jacket. Very light partial browning to the endpapers as always but... Read more
PENNELL, Joseph.
A London Reverie. 1928
£75
First edition, first impression, US issue.
Quarto. Original tan cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 56 plates. Corners bumped, spotting to edges, faint partial... Read more
TAYLOR, Peter.
A Long Fourth and Other Stories. 1948
£250
First edition, first printing of the Pulitzer Prize winning author's first book. With an introduction by Robert Penn Warren.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. A superb copy in the dust jacket with a little faded spine panel. Read more
MCKAY, Claude.
A Long Way From Home. 1937
£450
First edition, first printing, in the second issue green cloth binding. An autobiographical work by one of the most important intellectuals associated with the Harlem Renaissance....
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in yellow. With the dust jacket. Contents a little toned, an excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with chips from... Read more
MARTIN, Ralph G.
A Man for All People: Hubert H. Humphrey. 1968
£125
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Humphrey on the front free endpaper "To William T. Buckley with best wishes, Hubert Humphrey". Buckley was a member of the Democratic...
Large octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in white, red endpapers. With the dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. Very slight bump to top... Read more
GARNETT, David.
A Man in the Zoo. 1924
£75
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "David Garnett for Denis Hardinge".
Octavo. Original red and black cloth, printed paper label to spine, top edge gilt. Illustrated throughout by R. A. Garnett. Spine a little faded, light partial tanning... Read more
MIDDLETON, Stanley.
A Man Made of Smoke. 1973
£125
First edition, first impression, wrappers issue. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Peter, with every good wish, Stanley Middleton".
Octavo. Original red wrappers, titles to spine and upper board with crest in white. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly toned jacket. Read more
(TURKEY)
A Manual on the Turanians and Pan-Turanianism. 1918
£625
First edition. "The present Manual has been written with a view to supplying the information which is essential to a thorough understanding of the character and ims of...
Octavo, original blue cloth, title gilt to the spine, double ruled blind panel to the boards. Large folding coloured map in end-pocket. Spine sunned, boards a little... Read more
(WOOLF, Virginia) SPATER, George & Ian Parsons.
A Marriage of True Minds. 1977
£45
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, cream endpapers, maroon top-stain. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. Read more
