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BATES, H. E.
Something Short and Sweet. 1937
£85
First edition, first impression. The colours on jackets of this edition are highly fugitive, but this copy retains its pink and green, particularly on the bright upper panel.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper, spine faded, ends somewhat rubbed, with... Read more
BROOKE, Rupert.
The Complete Poems. 1941
£85
An attractive volume. Contains a variety of bookmarks, loosely inserted, most made from newspaper clippings, one printed with a quotation from the Pilgrim's Progress, and one with...
Octavo (183 × 128 mm). Contemporary blue half-calf, blue, white and silver patterned boards, spine gilt in compartments, two red morocco labels, marbled... Read more
BATES, H. E.
The Flying Goat. 1939
£85
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and upper board in blue. With the dust jacket. Spine a little tanned, with some rubbing to ends. An excellent copy in... Read more
AWDRY, Rev. W.
Enterprising Engines. 1968
£80
First edition, first impression. Twenty-third of the Rev. Audry's railway books.
Duodecimo. Original blue boards, titles and illustration to upper board in yellow. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Gunvor and Peter Edwards. Near fine, dust... Read more
AWDRY, Rev. W.
Small Railway Engines. 1967
£80
First edition, first impression. Twenty-second of the Rev. Audry's railway books.
Duodecimo. Original grey boards, titles and illustration to upper board in white. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Gunvor and Peter Edwards. Near fine, dust jacket... Read more
(SYMONS, A. J. A. [Ed.]) W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley et al.
An Anthology of "Nineties" Verse. 1928
£75
First edition, first impression. Symons's anthology was an attempt to rehabilitate a literary group that was, as he states in the introduction, "condemned as over-daring in its own...
Octavo. Original yellow cloth-backed boards, printed in black in imitation of the bindings used on "The Yellow Book", beige paper to covers with a design by Aubrey... Read more
GRAVES, Robert.
Ann at Highwood Hall. Poems for Children. 1964
£75
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Edward Ardizzone. two small bumps to spine. An excellent copy in... Read more
THOMAS, Lowell.
Count Luckner, The Sea Devil. 1927
£75
First edition. Inscribed by the author. "Carry on by Jove - To Mr Marion Cartright from Felix Count Luckner March 14 [19]30". The colourful life story of Count Felix von Luckner, a...
Octavo. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Map end papers. Frontispiece, and a further 11 illustrations. Spine a little crumpled and lettering somewhat... Read more
KERR, Mark.
Land, Sea, and Air. 1927
£75
First edition. Inscribed by the author: 'To Paul Warsley & his wife - who gave me charming entertainment followed by a meeting really organised in excellent style at Loughton - I...
Octavo. Original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Frontispiece, 30 other illustrations and 1 folded drawing in colour. Spine sunned and slightly crumpled,... Read more
WARRE CORNISH, Francis T.
Letters and sketches of Francis T. Warre Cornish 1902
£75
First edition. Francis Warre Cornish was a school master and author, educated at Eton College, and King's College Cambridge. He returned to Eton as an assistant master, and...
Octavo. Quarter skiver, original green cloth with spine in gilt and rule, errata slip inserted in front free end paper. Portrait frontispiece and 1 further plate, a... Read more
LUMSDEN, Peter, & George Elsmie.
Lumsden of The Guides. 1899
£75
First edition. Victorian biography of Sir Harry Lumsden, that includes an extensive number of letters, written mostly to his father, never otherwise published. "Lumsden's letters...
Octavo. Original oatmeal cloth with gilt lettering to spine and amorial family crest in block and gilt to upper board. Photogravure frontispiece and one other similar... Read more
STEICHEN, Edward.
The Family of Man. 1955
£75
First edition, first printing, the original MOMA issue which was followed by the trade paperback.
Quarto. Original white boards, black cloth backstrip, titles and geometric design to upper board blocked in gilt. With the dust jacket. Lightly rubbed at extremities,... Read more
RADIGUET, René
The Making of A Modern Army 1918
£75
First edition. Signed and dated [18/3/18] by the author on the front free end paper. Book is a study of experiences of 3 years on the French Front from 1914-17 by the...
Octavo. Original green combed cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper board. Bookplate of Gilbert MacSwiney to front paste down. Portrait frontispiece, 15 plates,... Read more
HARRISON, Tony.
V. 1985
£75
First edition, first impression. Harrison's long poem V. was written after he visited his parents' grave in the cemetery on Beeston Hill, Leeds, to find that it had been graffitied....
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, light blue endpapers. WIth the photographic dust jacket. 15 monochrome photographs in the text. A fine copy in the... Read more
BOLESLAVSKI, Richard & Helen Woodward.
Way of the Lancer. 1932
£75
First edition. Signed and dated [1932] by the author. Personal reminiscences of Boleslavski when serving in the Tzarist Russian Army as a lieutenant in the Polish Lancers in 1916,...
Octavo. Original red combed cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper board, blind rule to upper board. Map end papers. Red top edge. Spine a little crumpled,... Read more
HOWARD, Francis.
Reminiscences 1848-90. 1924
£65
First edition. The military experiences of Maj-Gen Howard, featuring time spent at Sandhurst, in Canada, India, the 2nd Afghan War in 1878-80 and in Upper Burma in 1887-89. Previous...
Octavo. Original green cloth with gold lettering to spine, family crest embossed in gold block to upper board. Photogravure frontispiece. Spine relined, corners... Read more
DAHL, Roald.
More Tales of the Unexpected. 1980
£50
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine lightly bumped otherwise near fine in near fine dust jacket. Read more
DAHL, Roald.
More Tales of the Unexpected. 1980
£50
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine lightly bumped otherwise near fine in dust jacket with one small mark to front panel. Read more
LISLE, Beauvoir de.
Reminiscences of Sport and War. 1939
£50
First edition. Author has written "With the author's best wishes 4th October 1950" on front end paper. Autobiography of General Beauvoir de Lisle, a General in the British Army,...
Octavo. Original green cloth with white lettering to spine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Portrait frontispiece and 11 other plates. Spine a little sunned, text... Read more
CAMUS, Albert.
The Collected Fiction. 1960
£50
First edition thus, first impression, published after Camus's death in the same year.
Octavo. Original green and red boards, titles gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the lightly tanned and torn dust jacket. Read more
