
General Literature
[pseud. DUVALIER, François] ABDERRAHMAN
Souvenirs d'Autrefois
Port-au-Prince: Presses Nationales D'Haiti, 1968
8vo, pp. 123. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper. French text.
YEE, Chiang
The Silent Traveller in Boston
New York: W.W. Norton, 1959
8vo, pp. 275. Original tan boards, lettered in blue to spine and Chinese characters in blue to front panel. Illustrated dustwrapper.
FISON, Lorimer and HOWITT, A.W.
Kamilaroi and Kurnai
Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane: George Robertson, 1880
8vo, pp. 372, folding map frontispiece. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
FITZGIBBON, Constantine
Out of the Lion's Paw
London: Macdonald & Co., 1969
8vo, pp. 128. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Black endpapers. Printed dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO ALAN WHICKER:
MOREWOOD, Samuel
A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs of Ancient and Modern Nations in the Manufacture and Use of Inebriating Liquors;
Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company, and William Carson, 1838
8vo, pp. [xii] 745. Later three quarter leather binding with pebble grain cloth by H. Ahier, lettered in gilt to spine. Binder's label to front pastedown. Red marbled endpapers, edges stained red.
[illus. SHADBOLT, Cecil V.] HARPER, H[enry].A[ndrew].
Walks In Palestine
London: Religious Tract Society, 1888
Large 4to, pp. 128 (unpaginated). Oatmeal cloth over bevelled boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine, and with gilt illustration to front panel. RTS device blindstamped to rear panel.
CALDER, Nigel
The Comet is Coming!
London: BBC, 1980
8vo, pp. 160. Original dark blue boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE ACTOR LEO 'RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY' McKERN:
MILLER, George and MATTHEWS, Hugoe
Richard Jefferies: A Bibliographical Study
Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1993
8vo, pp. 787. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition.
Bibliophile Anthony Surtees' copy,
SHAKESPEARE, William
Poems
London: Thomas Evans, 1775
8vo, (ii), viii, pp. 250, (ii). 7 1/2" x 5". Original pale blue boards, edges uncut.
An early printing of the poems, in the original boards.
LANG, Andrew
The Secret of the Totem
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1905
8vo, pp. 215. Original gilt decorated boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine. Black endpapers.
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DAVIS, Joe
How I Play Snooker
London: Country Life, 1949
8vo, pp. 176. original green boards, lettered in white to front panel and spine. Lacking the dustwrapper.
1950 reprint,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[illus. THOMSON, Hugh] AUSTEN, Jane
Emma
London: Macmillan, 1896
8vo, pp. 437. Original red boards, lettered and with design in gilt to front panel and spine. Peacock patterned endpapers, all edges... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
DICKENS, Charles
Hard Times
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854
8vo, pp. 352. Original green cloth, with blind-stamped design to both panels and lettered in gilt to spine. Yellow endpapers. ..... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[McKELWAY, St. Clair]
A Collection of Papers and Correspondence Relating to the Publication History of The Edinburgh Caper, Published by Gollancz in 1963
V.p.: N.p., V.d.
A small quantity of typed and holograph contracts, correspondence and associated materials, between and concerning St. Clair McKelway, his publisher,.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
COLLIER, Jeremy
A Defence of the Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage &c
London: Printed for S. Keble at the Turks-Head in Fleet Street, R. Sare at Gray's-Inn-gate, and H. Hindmarsh against the Exchange in Cornhil, 1699
8vo, [iv] 139 pp. [iv].... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[Literary Periodical] ed. JOHNS, Richard
Pagany: A Native Quarterly,
New York: Richard Johns, 1931
Perfect bound 8vo, grey stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front panel and spine.
Fifth issue of this influential literary... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[Literary Periodical] ed. JOHNS, Richard
Pagany: A Native Quarterly,
New York: Richard Johns, 1931
Perfect bound 8vo, cream stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front panel and spine.
Seventh issue of this influential literary ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[Literary Periodical] ed. JOHNS, Richard
Pagany: A Native Quarterly,
Connecticut: Richard Johns, 1932-3
Perfect bound 8vo, red stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front panel and spine.
Final issue of this influential... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
