
General Literature
YOUNG, Filson
Venus And Cupid
London: Elisina Grant Richards, 1906
8vo, unpaginated. Original quarter vellum, blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine, title label to front panel in black and red. Partially ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BRISLEY, Joyce Lankester
Three Little Milly-Molly-Mandy Plays
London: George Harrap, 1938
Small 8vo, pp. 64. Original tan coarse grain illustrated wrappers, lettered in black to front panel.
First edition, softbound issue.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[illus. HIRSCHFELD, Al] PERELMAN, S. J.
The Swiss Family Perelman
London: Reinhardt and Evans, 1951
8vo, pp. 152. Original orange boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First UK edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[contrib. DOYLE, Arthur Conan]
The Strand, Christmas 1920 Issue
London: George Newnes, 1921
8vo, [pp. 1-84 advertisements] pp. 463-580 [pp. 85-136 advertisements]. Illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. CHRISTMAS 1920 ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SOMERVILLE, E. OE
The States Through Irish Eyes
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930
Large 8vo, pp. 200. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Edges uncut.
First edition. One of 375 copies SIGNED BY THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[trans. FITZGERALD, Edward]
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
London: George Harrap, N.d. [c.1925]
8vo, unpaginated. Original burgundy leather boards, title in gilt to spine. Ivy leaf design to both panels, illustrated in green and gilt ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
CUDLIPP, Hugh
The Prerogative of the Harlot: Press Barons and Power
London: Bodley Head, 1980
8vo, pp. 304. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper, author's photographic portrait to rear panel.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SAYERS, Dorothy L.
The Lost Tools of Learning
London: Methuen & Co., 1948
Small 8vo pamphlet, pp. 30. Original salmon pink wrappers, lettered in black to front panel.
First edition in book form of an address... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[AUDEN, W.H.]
The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard
New York: David McKay, 1952
Small 8vo, pp. 225. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated endpapers. No dustwrapper, as issued.
First edition,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
ATTENBOROUGH, David
The Living Planet
London: Reader's Digest Association/William Collins/BBC, 1985
Oblong 4to, pp. 368. Original photographic boards, lettered in silver on black to spine. Grey endpapers.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
JACOBS, W.W.
The Lady Of The Barge
London: Harper & Brothers, 1902
8vo, pp. 300, 8pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at rear. Original orange illustrated boards, lettered in black to front panel and gilt... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AMIS, Kingsley
The King's English
London: Harper Collins, 1997
Large 8vo., pp. 270. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
[intro. SITWELL, Sacheverell] BEAUMONT, Cyril W.
The History Of Harlequin
London: C. W. Beaumont, 1926
Large 8vo, pp. 156. Original illustrated boards, vellum spine lettered in gilt. Pages uncut.
First edition, no. 25 of 325 copies published by the author. With a preface by Sacheverell Sitwell to whom, with his brother Osbert, the book is dedicated.,
Cyril Beaumont was one of the pre-em
KING, Jessie M.
The Grey City Of The North
Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1910
Small 8vo, pp. 51. Original boards with oversized dustwrapper, colour illustrations to front and rear panel, spine lettered in grey. Publisher's ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
FRAENKEL, Michael
The Genesis of the Tropic of Cancer
London: Village Press, 1973
Tall 8vo, pp. 24. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
First UK edition. First published in the US by Bern Porter in 1946.
ZOLA, Emile
The Dram-Shop
London: Chatto & Windus, 1887
8vo, pp. 410, 2pp. and 32pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at front and rear respectively. Original deep red boards, lettered in gilt to... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WALTON, Isaac
The Complete Angler
London: Strahan & Co., 1844
8vo, pp. 445. Original boards, vellum tips, lettered in gilt on vellum spine. Tissue guards to engravings. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Bookplate... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
