Search results for: 'the works'
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HAMMETT, Dashiell (ed.); H. P. Lovecraft, & others. Creeps by Night: Chills and Thrills.New York : 1931
First edition, first printing, in the rare dust jacket; preceding the UK edition published by Gollancz as Modern Tales of Horror in 1932. Bleiler comments that "the circumstances of the following anthology are not known, but Hammett was a very well-read man, and it is entirely possible that he assembled it". Recent research reveals that Arkham House... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 132150
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BLAKE, William; ELLIS, Edwin John, & W. B. Yeats (eds.) The Works of William Blake.London : 1893
First edition, one of 150 large paper copies in the deluxe binding; there were also 500 copies in cloth. Yeats had "marked down William Blake as a master early on, and with Edwin Ellis produced a large-scale commentary on Blake's prophetic writings in 1893. While often erratic and idiosyncratic, it helped establish the importance of Blake's esoteric... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 136158
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MACDONALD, George. Works of Fancy and Imagination.London : 1871
First collected edition of the works of George MacDonald, a friend and mentor of Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and a pioneering figure in the development of English fantasy writing. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 132658
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HODGSON, William Hope. The Ghost Pirates.London : 1909
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy of Hodgson's landmark work, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "N. Rendall, Esq. from William Hope Hodgson - 'May we be friends e'en though we disagree'. Sept. 21st '09." Rare inscribed, with no other copies traced. Hailed as one of the best novel-length works of supernatural fiction... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 101607
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LAWRENCE, Margery. The Rent in the Veil.London : 1951
First edition, first impression. Margery Lawrence (1889-1969) was a prolific author and self-proclaimed Bohemian whose interest and adventures in Spiritualism influenced almost all of her output of short stories, poetry, detective, fantasy, and romance novels. Her first work, a book of poems, Songs of Childhood, and Other Verses was published by her... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 84684
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DICK, Philip K. The Collected Stories.Los Angeles, CA, Columbia, PA : 1987
First edition, first impression, signed limited issue, number 64 of 100 copies with the author's signature mounted to the limitation leaf of Volume 1, this example cut from a cancelled cheque. A further 400 numbered copies were also released. This posthumous collection of Dick's works include a preface by the author adapted from a letter written in... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 131750
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DUNSANY, Edward Plunkett, Lord. Time and the Gods.London : 1922
Signed limited edition, number 61 of 250 copies, signed by Sime on each plate and by Dunsany on the preface. Only the first edition of 1906 and this 1922 edition contains illustrations by Sime. A close collaborator with Dunsany, Sime illustrated Dunsany's first book The Gods of Pegāna (1905) as well as a number of his later works. Time and the Gods,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 128456
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CURTIES, T. J. Horsley. St. Botolph's Priory; or, the Sable Mask.London : 1806
First edition of this Gothic novel, set on the Isle of Wight at the time of the English civil war, published by James Fletcher Hughes, the black sheep of the contemporary publishing world, whose output in the years 1806-7 outstripped even the Minerva Press, though he was bankrupt by 1811, having fallen out of step with a new taste for "proper" novels.... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 131950
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CHAMBERS, Robert W. The King in Yellow.Chicago & New York : 1895
First edition of this collection of short stories, the second book from American author Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933). Bleiler called The King in Yellow "a mind destroying book" (Bleiler) and "one of the most important works of supernatural horror between Edgar Allan Poe and modern horror fiction" (Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction Writers, p. 739). Of... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 139919
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L'ENGLE, Madeleine. [The Time Quintet:] A Wrinkle in Time;New York : 1962, 1973, 1978, 1986, 1989
First editions, first impression, inscribed and signed set, of the complete Time Quintet. A Wrinkle in Time, with a signed slip laid in, in the second state jacket (Newbery Prize sticker residue to front panel), together with signed or inscribed first impressions of the four sequential Time Quintet titles (an assembled set, with inscriptions to different... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 111206
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TIMLIN, William M. Untitled illustration for "The Building of a Fairy City".Kimberley, South Africa, : 1939
This magnificent signed illustration appears to be from Timlin's watercolor cycle The Building of a Fairy City, left unpublished upon his death in 1943. Timlin's "most significant expression of the world of fantasy, which formed a considerable part of his output, is to be found among his studies for The Building of a Fairy City, which flowed forth from... Learn More£20,000.00Stock Code: 44516
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DUNSANY, Lord. Selections from the Writings.Dundrum : 1912
First edition thus, first impression, one of 250 copies. Lord Dunsany, "unquestionably one of the most important writers of heroic fantasy of the century", was a friend of W. B. Yeats's through their mutual involvement in the Abbey Theatre, where Dunsany's first contribution to the to the Irish theatre movement, The Glittering Gate, was performed in... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 139300
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BRADBURY, Ray. Two manuscript poems, inscribed: "So Run the Sands Back up the Glass" and "The East is Up".[Los Angeles : 1961 & 1980]
Presentation copies of two original manuscripts, both inscribed by the author to his old friend Douglas Menville, the science fiction and fantasy writer.
"So Run the Sands Back Up the Glass" is a corrected typescript dated 1961, and apparently unpublished, inscribed by the author on the recto, "For Doug, with my friendliest wishes - this original... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 127474
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O'BRIEN, Flann. The Third Policeman.London : 1967
First edition, first impression, of this grimly comic "posthumous fantasy"; the protagonist of which is a murderer who, unknowingly, has himself been murdered, and finds himself in a warped alternate Ireland.
The surreal landscape, imbued with a sense of the literary weird, is signalled in the work by what Jorge Luis Borges called "games with... Learn More£800.00Stock Code: 137399
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WARNER, Rex. The Aerodrome. A Love Story.London : 1941
First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. The Aerodrome was Warner's wartime dystopia, his third novel, in which he "reverted in part to a non-realistic, expressionist technique. Generally regarded as his best novel, this deeply gloomy work also sees human values collapsing before a rising tide of nihilistic materialism"... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 136856
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NESBIT, Edith. The Story of the Amulet.London : 1906
First edition, first impression, of the concluding work in Nesbit's children's trilogy. Preceded by Five Children and It and The Phoenix and the Carpet, Nesbit's time-travelling narrative is notable for including a trip into the future, featuring Nesbit's vision of a socialist utopia in which H. G. Wells is venerated as a reformer. Nesbit was one of... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 140035
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DUNSANY, Lord. Time and the Gods.London : 1906
First edition, first impression, of this influential fantasy text, with a four-page autograph letter signed from the author to William Roughead tipped-in to the front free endpaper, and Roughead's bookplate to the front pastedown. Roughead (1870-1952) was a Scottish lawyer and popular true crime author with whom Dunsany shared a long-held correspondence... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 139315
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ČAPEK, Karel. Továrna na absolutno. (The Absolute at Large.)Brno : 1922
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the first blank to the young actress Táňa Čuprová (b.1900) and dated in the year of publication. The recipient is noted in the Czech National Theatre archives as having started work there in this year, going on to become art director from 1945. It was at the Prague National Theatre that Čapek's... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 139802
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BENSON, Edward Frederic. The Judgment Books.London : 1895
First edition. This supernatural work by Edward Frederic Benson demonstrates his ability as an "important, capable, and skilful Edwardian author of supernatural fiction" (Bleiler). Although best known for the social satires of his Mapp and Lucia novels his "stories of horror and the supernatural have remained consistently popular" (ODNB). This work... Learn More£1,450.00Stock Code: 120535
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VAN VOGT, A. E. The House that Stood Still.New York : 1950
First edition, first printing, of the author's fifth book; one of van Vogt's more elusive titles: not listed in Locke's Spectrum of Fantasy, despite his "large holding" of the author's work. Learn More£65.00Stock Code: 100477
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PRAGNELL, Festus. The Green Man of Kilsona.London : [1936]
First edition, first impression, of this "science fiction adventure story set on a world within an atom" (Locke). The work was first published in the pulp magazine Wonder Stories from July to September 1935 as The Green Man of Graypec, the same title used for the US edition released in 1950. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 113286
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DUNSANY, Edward Plunkett, Lord. The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders.London : 1950
First edition, first impression in the second issue binding (the first issue being black cloth). From the author's library, inscribed as such by Dunsany's wife on the front free endpaper, and dated 1958. In this work Colonel Polder's is put under a spell causing him to live the life of variety of animals, and a short time that of a jinn. Dunsany (1878-1957)... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 110365
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SMITH, Edward E. The Vortex Blaster.Hicksville, NY : 1960
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to the publisher on the front free endpaper, "To my friend Marty Greenberg - with the hope that this new relationship of publisher and writer will make even deeper the friendship that has lasted so long, Edward E. Smith, PhD". Smith originally worked as a food scientist, and became... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 82267
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LONG, Frank Belknap. The Hounds of Tindalos.Sauk City : 1946
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Richard Hughes, With great admiration for the high excellence and artistry of his stories in a related medium. Frank Belknap Long, New York, February 24, 1946".
The recipient of this work is believed to be American Comic Group writer and... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 119634
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LOVECRAFT, H. P. Two books from Lovecraft's classical reference library,New York : 1898-99 & 1896
H. P. Lovecraft's own classical reference copies from his library, each volume with his ink ownership inscription to the front free endpaper: Greek Civilization with "H. P. Lovecraft, Providence, R.I.", and the Latin Literature volumes with his name and fastidious manuscript shelf marks "16:46 / 525:1" and "16:46 / 525:2". There is also an additional... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 139230
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LEWIS, M. G. Tales of Wonder.London : 1801
First edition, this copy in a handsome contemporary binding and somewhat later gifted by Lord Chandos Leigh (17911850), poet and school-friend of Lord Byron, to his nephew Frederick Leigh Colvile (18191886), author, antiquary, and Warwickshire vicar. The book has the recipient's bookplate and is inscribed, "from my uncle Chandos Leigh".
This... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 121349
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LINDSAY, David. A Voyage to Arcturus.London : 1920
First edition, first impression, of this "remarkable work". The first edition of Lindsay's classic novel was printed in a run of 1,250 copies, with around 500 to 600 copies released in the first issue binding as here, with gilt lettering and ruling to spine (Bleiler). Lindsay's most famous and influential work, A Voyage to Arcturus is "a metaphysical... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 139374
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![Looking Backward 2000-1887. [Together with:] Equality.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/137673.jpg)
BELLAMY, Edward. Looking Backward 2000-1887. [Together with:] Equality.Boston : 1888 & 1897
First editions, first printings, of Bellamy's enormously popular Looking Backward 2000-1887 and its sequel Equality. First issue of Looking Backward with the misprint "wore" in line 8 on page 210 and the J. J. Arakelyan slug on the copyright page; Equality in the rare first-issue dust jacket. Looking Backward 2000-1887 established Bellamy's utopian... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 137673
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GODWIN, William. Mandeville.Edinburgh : 1817
First edition of "one of Godwin's most extraordinary works" (Locke, p. 278). Mandeville, Godwin's fourth novel, is a gothic work set in the time of the English Civil War. Godwin wrote this, often considered his darkest novel, surrounding the time of his daughter Mary's official marriage to Percy Bysshe Shelley on 30 December 1816. Three days after the... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 139646
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MARTIN, George R. R. [A Song of Ice and Fire:] A Game of Thrones; A Clash of Kings; A Storm of Swords; A Feast For Crows; A Dance of Dragons.Atlanta, GA/Burton, MI : 2000-2015
Deluxe signed limited edition, set "K" of the rare deluxe issue of only 52 lettered sets, each title signed by the author and illustrators, and additionally remarqued (a small original illustration added by hand) by the respective illustrators on the limitation leaf, the first five works of the Song of Ice and Fire cycle. There were also 500 numbered... Learn More£27,500.00Stock Code: 137883
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EWERS, Hanns Heinz. Alraune.New York : 1929
First edition in English, first printing, inscribed by the illustrator with an original signed drawing in pencil and green pen to the second half-title, signed "for Dunninger, Mahlon Blaine 1936", depicting a demon pulling a mandrake-like woman from a hat.
The recipient Joseph Dunninger (1892-1975) was one of the foremost magicians and mentalists... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 123320
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ARABIAN NIGHTS; GALLAND, Antoine (trans.) Les mille & une nuits.Paris : 1881
Limited edition, from a stated issue of 10 copies printed on japon (this copy unnumbered); a further 170 copies were issued printed on Holland paper, 20 on China paper, and 20 on Whatman paper. The publishing company Librairie des bibliophiles was founded by Damase Jouast (1834-1893) to publish exceptional editions of the great works of French and world... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 130843
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GOREY, Edward. Gorey World.San Francisco : 1996
First edition, first printing, number 65 of 150 copies signed by Edward Gorey.
The related material includes:
1. The Fantod Pack (1995) publication flyer, with monochrome illustration on recto and publisher's information on verso.
2. American Book Collector, two issues (May/June and November/December 1985), both including a Gorey... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 141503
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LOVECRAFT, H. P. Marginalia.Sauk City, WI : 1944
First edition, first printing, of selected writings covering the author's entire writing life. The fourth title published by Arkham House, this volume "contains a good deal of work, a good deal of associational data, and a plethora of information about the late great master of the macabre" (Foreword). Included are "The Mysterious Ship", written when... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 122073
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HUGHES, Ted. Tales From Ovid.London : 1998
First edition, signed limited issue, signed by the author; this is the binder's copy, marked "0/5". The signed limited edition consisted of 310 copies, of which 10 were reserved for the author. This work was the winner of the 1997 Whitbread Book of the Year award. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 138031
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L'ENGLE, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time.London : 1963
First UK edition, first impression, of the first instalment in the Time Quintet. A Wrinkle In Time is an important and classic children's fantasy work by Madeline L'Engle (1918-2007), originally aimed at young female readers but with major crossover appeal. Upon publication, it won numerous awards, including the 1963 Newbery Medal, the Sequoyah Book... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 135806
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OPIUM FANTASY - LIGNE, Charles-Joseph de (attrib.) Voyage à Visbecq.[Brussells? : ca.1794]
Original manuscript of an extraordinary dreamlike fantasy which describes an opium-induced journey to the centre of the earth. The existence of the novel remained unknown for more than 200 years until it was discovered in a Parisian bookshop and published in 2007 with a long essay by Éric Lysøe (see below).
The text is written in the first... Learn More£8,000.00Stock Code: 139702
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HAGGARD, H. Rider. Allan Quatermain,London : 1887
First edition, publisher's presentation copy, with a leaf from a diary signed by the author, his wife Mariana Louisa, Charles James Longman, his wife Harriet Anne, and Maria and Alice Cope, and a publisher's compliments slip completed in manuscript loosely inserted. This copy is number 105 of 112 large paper copies issued of Haggard's sequel to King... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 139815
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JÓKAI, Mór. Fekete Gyémántok.Pest : 1870
First edition in the original Hungarian of Jókai's futuristic novel, translated into English in 1896 as Black Diamonds.
A prolific and popular writer, and one of the most important Hungarian novelists of the 19th century, Jókai has been compared to both Dickens and Scott. He authored more than a hundred books, not only novels, but also short... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 142757
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HEARN, Lafcadio. Some Chinese Ghosts.Boston : 1887
First edition of this stylised retelling of ancient Chinese legends by Greek-Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn. The present work is one of his earliest writings and the only one about China and its folklore. It was published the year he was sent by magazine Harper's to the French West Indies as a correspondent for two years.
In 1890, at 30, Hearn... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 139801
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GLOAG, John. Manna.London : 1940
First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "G. L. Pilkington from the author. Mar. 1940". The recipient was Geoffrey Langton Pilkington (18851972) chairman of the glass manufacturers Pilkington, for whom Gloag worked as a board member (Sadar, p. 95). Gloag (1896-1981) was a prolific science... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 137210
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GOREY, Edward. Amphigorey Also.New York : 1983
First trade edition, first printing, signed by Gorey on the title page. This work gathers 17 of Edward Gorey's stories, including The Utter Zoo, The Epiplectic Bicycle, L'Heure bleue, The Glorious Nosebleed, and The Stupid Joke. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 141358
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ZAMYATIN, Yevgeny. We.New York : 1952
First complete edition in the original Russian, first printing, of this seminal work of dystopian science fiction. Taking its title from Bakunin's phrase - "I don't want to be I, I want to be we" - the novel takes place in the totalitarian One State of the future, and takes the form of a diary of spaceship engineer D-503, relating his struggle with... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 139693
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PORTER, Jane. Thaddeus of Warsaw.London : 1803
First edition of Porter's first acknowledged novel, a significant work that "ranks with Mrs Radcliffe's Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne as a super-rarity among Gothic Romantic novels" (Sadleir 1972). The first edition is held by only one of the six legal deposit libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland (the National Library of Scotland); WorldCat... Learn More£19,750.00Stock Code: 122901
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ČAPEK, Karel. Krakatit.London : 1925
First edition in English, first impression, publisher's presentation copy with tipped-in slip before the half-title reading "with Mr Geoffrey Bles's Compliments". Capek's science fiction novel, first published in Prague in 1924, centres on the invention of a catastrophically potent explosive, named to echo the devastating volcanic eruption of Krakatoa.... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 136864
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WARNER, Sylvia Townsend. Lolly Willowes,London : 1926
First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Lolly Willowes is Warner's first novel and rarely found signed. In the work Laura "Lolly" Willowes leaves her life as a "professional aunt" in London for independence in the village of Little Mop where "she is initiated into the local witch cult and has intellectual conversations... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 139081
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TYSSOT DE PATOT, Simon. Voyages et avantures de Jaques Masse.Bourdeaux [i.e. The Hague] : 1710 [i.e. around 1714]
First edition of this early utopian novel, "the best-known of all the radical philosophical novels of the Early Enlightenment" and which "surpassed practically every other work of philosophical fiction of the age for notoriety" (Israel, pp. liii and lvi). The novel details a Frenchman shipwrecked off South Africa - the co-ordinates are given as 60E/44S,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 123204
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POE, Edgar Allan. Tales.New York : 1845
First edition, first printing, with the New York imprint, one of 1,500 copies issued; this copy with the half-title present. Poe's Tales is "the first important book of detective fiction, the cornerstone of cornerstones in any readers' or collectors' guide, the highest of all highspots: The 1845 edition includes for the first time in book form... Learn More£27,500.00Stock Code: 136458
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HALDANE, J. B. S. My Friend Mr Leakey.London : 1937
First edition of this collection of fantasy stories for children by the eminent British scientist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1892-1964). Haldane was chiefly distinguished for his work in genetics, but also contributed to many other fields of science, ranging from cosmology to the physiology of diving. His intention in writing the book about Mr Leakey,... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 134918
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LINDSAY, David. Devil's Tor.London : 1932
First edition, first impression, of Lindsay's magnum opus, the fifth and final novel published in his lifetime. In Devil's Tor, "the central characters realise that they are the last representatives of an ancient spiritual force which must renew itself through their marriage. Lindsay here subverts the reader's novelistic expectations by revealing all... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 136486
