
General Literature
SHAKESPEARE, William
The Comedies of William Shakespeare
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1899
4 vols., large 8vos. Original blue-grey three-quarter boards, spine labels to white spines. Original unprinted blue-grey dustwrappers on... [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]
SAYERS, Dorothy L.
Why Work?
London: Methuen & Co., 1942
Small 8vo pamphlet, pp. 24. Original salmon pink wrappers, printed in black to front panel.
First edition.
Text of a... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BUCHAN, William
John Buchan: A Memoir
London: Buchan & Enright, 1982
8vo, pp. 272. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Red endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper, photographic portraits of John Buchan... [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]
ATTENBOROUGH, David
Life on Earth
London: Readers Digest Association/William Collins/BBC, 1980
Oblong 4to, pp. 368. Original laminated photographic boards. Grey endpapers. Lacking the... [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]
MURRAY, John G.
A Gentleman Publisher's Commonplace Book
London: John Murray, 1996
8vo, pp. 120. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, second reprinting. ALS FROM HALLAM ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
CALDER, Nigel
Einstein's Universe
London: BBC, 1979
8vo, pp. 178. Original tan boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, author's photographic portrait to rear panel.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[illus. HIRSCHFELD, Al] PERELMAN, S. J.
Westward Ha!
London: Reinhardt and Evans, 1949
8vo, pp. 159. Original pink boards, title panel to spine, design panel to front board. Top edge green. Illustrated dustwrapper. Small... [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]
[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]
MUIR, Frank and NORDEN, Denis
You Can't Have Your Kayak and Heat It
London: Eyre Methuen, 1973
8vo, pp. 96. Original laminated boards, photographic portraits of the authors to rear panel.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHORS TO ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
NICHOLS, Beverley
Cats' ABC
London: Cape, 1960
8vo, pp. 124. Original illustrated boards, endpapers and dustwrapper.
First edition.
High cat content.
[WALLACE, Edgar]
Papers and Correspondence Concerning the Publication by J.W. Arrowsmith of Angel Esquire (1908) and The Melody of Death (1915)
V.p.: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1925-1959
A small quantity of contracts, correspondence and related materials, housed in a manila folder.
A DETAILED PUBLISHER'S ARCHIVE CONCERNING THE PUBLICATION OF TWO NOVELS BY EDGAR WALLACE: ANGEL ESQUIRE.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[COWAN, Ian B.]
A Collection of Papers from the Archive of Publisher Victor Gollancz, Relating to the Publication History of The Scottish Covenanters 1660-1688 by Ian B. Cowan
N.p. [London]: N.p., V.d.
A small quantity of typed and holograph correspondence, and associated materials, between and concerning Ian B. Cowan, his publisher, and interested parties, relating to the publication of The Scottish Covenanters 1660-1688.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[MacDONALD, George] [LEWIS, C.S.]
A Collection of Papers from the Archive of Publisher Victor Gollancz, Relating to the Publication of the Gollancz Edition of Phantastes and Lilith
V.p.: N.p., V.d.
A small quantity of typed and holograph correspondence, and associated materials, between and concerning C.S. Lewis, his publisher, and interested parties, relating to the publication of Phantastes and Lilith, various sizes and dates, the whole housed in a manila folder..... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
TREASE, Geoffrey
Red Comet
Moscow: Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R., 1936
Small 8vo, pp. 211. Original cream boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Maps to endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition.
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