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BALLARD, J. G.
War Fever. 1991
£20
First US edition, first printing. Originally published in the UK in the previous year.
Octavo. Original tan cloth backed red boards, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Bump to top edge. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. Read more
YOXALL, J. H.
The Girl from St. Agneta's. A fantasia on a fugue. 1902
£21
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Contemporary dark brown half morocco, titles and decoration to spine, blue cloth boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Previous owner's bookplate to front... Read more
FOWLES, John.
A Maggot. 1985
£25
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket that is just a little creased at the edges. Read more
BALLARD, J. G.
A User's Guide to the Millennium. Essays and Reviews. 1996
£25
First US edition, first printing. Originally published in the UK in the same year.
Octavo. Original grey cloth backed blue boards, titles to spine in silver, patterned endpapers. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. Read more
PRICE, Reynolds.
A Whole New Life. 1994
£25
First edition, first printing.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. Read more
WHEELER-BENNETT, Sir John W.
A Wreath to Clio. 1967
£25
First edition. This copy elegantly inscribed on the title page; "For Nicky with warmest good wishes, John Wheeler-Bennett, September 1967." Includes essays on A.P. Hill, the Battle...
Octavo, original green cloth, title gilt to spine. Very good. Read more
BAINBRIDGE, Beryl.
Another Part of The Wood. 1979
£25
Second Edition. Signed by the author to the title-page.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Front free endpaper clipped, an excellent copy in the price-clipped dust jacket. Read more
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell.
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. [c.1858]
£25
Early printing. A group of people in a New England boarding house discuss varying topics around the breakfast table.
Small octavo (154 × 108mm. Contemporary navy calf, red morocco spine label, 4 raised bands, sides ruled in blind, all egdes gilt, marbled endpapers. Bookplate to... Read more
ANSEN, Alan.
Disorderly Houses. A Book of Poems. 1961
£25
First edition, first printing, paperback issue. From the library of the author.
Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black, pink, orange, and blue. Wrappers a little rubbed and toned, scratch and sticker residue to front cover. A very good... Read more
ANSEN, Alan.
Disorderly Houses. A Book of Poems. 1961
£25
First edition, first printing, paperback issue. From the library of the author.
Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black, pink, orange, and blue. Price sticker to rear cover. Wrappers tanned and very lightly rubbed. A very good copy. Read more
(KING PENGUIN) WEBSTER, T. B. L.
Greek Terracottas. 1950
£25
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original pictorial boards. With the dust jacket. 54 plates. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with a short closed tear at the tail of the spine... Read more
HILL, Alan.
In Pursuit of Publishing. 1988
£25
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the title page.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. 12 plates. An excellent copy in the dust jacket with slightly faded spine panel. Read more
BEADLE, William.
Jack the Ripper: Anatomy of a Myth. 1995
£25
First edition. Careful analysis of previous suspects with the inevitable suggestion of a favourite, W. H. Bury, hanged for the murder of his wife in Scotland in 1889. This copy...
Octavo, original black boards, title gilt to the spine. Embossed stamp of Jonathan Goodman to the front free endpaper. Jacket slightly rubbed, else very good. Read more
(BANSE, Ewald)
La Nouvelle Doctrine de Guerre Allemande. 1934
£25
First edition. A warning of "the shape of things to come" in the form of an analysis of the Banse's Wehrwissenschaft and Raum und Volk im Weltkriege, part of the geopolitical...
Octavo, unopened in the original fawn light card wraps, printed in brown. Wraps a little rubbed and with one or two small chips, but overall very good. Read more
(KING PENGUIN) MANN, James.
Monumental Brasses. 1957
£25
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original pictorial boards. With the dust jacket. Bookplate to front free endpaper. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed dust jacket. Read more
(WOOLF, Virginia) LIGHT, Allison.
Mrs. Woolf and the Servants. 2007
£25
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original grey boards, titles to spine in blue. With the dust jacket. A fine copy. Read more
(NELSON) NEWTON, A. Edward.
Nelson. 1928
£25
First Edition. Mainly light-hearted musings on the Hero of Trafalgar, "The last great Englishman was dead: they are always dying, - but never die.," Newton publisher, author - his...
Small octavo. Tipped-in coloured portrait frontispiece . Very good silk cord sewn in the original mid-blue light card wraps, with the envelope "of issue", split &... Read more
DURRELL, Lawrence.
Nunquam. 1970
£25
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. Read more
WARNER, Sylvia Townsend.
Selected Stories. 1988
£25
First US edition, first printing.
Octavo. Original light blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the bright dust jacket. Read more
(WARNER, Sylvia Townsend) HARMAN, Claire.
Sylvia Townsend Warner. A Biography. 1989
£25
First edition, first impression.
Large octavo. Original brown boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. 8 plates. An excellent copy in the bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Read more
BURKE, Thomas.
The Best Stories of Thomas Burke. 1950
£25
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Light spotting to endpapers, an excellent copy in the slightly tanned dust jacket. Read more
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Five Nations. 1908
£25
First published in 1903. A handsomely bound copy.
Octavo (187 × 124 mm). Bound by Hatchards in red half calf, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, matching cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt.... Read more
CHRISTIE, Agatha.
The Golden Ball and Other Stories. 1971
£25
First edition, first printing.
Octavo. Original red boards, green cloth backstrip, titles to spine gilt, red endpapers and top-stain. With the dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown.... Read more
BALLARD, J. G.
The Kindness of Women. 1991
£25
First US edition, first printing. Originally published in the UK in the same year.
Octavo. Original white cloth backed grey boards, titles to spine and floral design to upper board in green. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the dust jacket. Read more
PERELMAN, S. J.
The Last Laugh. 1981
£25
First UK edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed and partially faded dust jacket with a price sticker... Read more
