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[illus. FORTNUM, Peggy] ROBINSON, Joan G.
When Marnie Was There
London: Collins, 1967
8vo, pp. 224. Original blue boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition.
Shortlisted... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
THOMAS, Dylan
Under Milk Wood
London: J.M. Dent, 1954
8vo, pp. 101. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper, photographic portrait of author to rear... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[JOYCE, James] ed. ROTH, Samuel
Two Worlds
New York: At the Sign of the Mocki-Grisball, 1925-6
Small 4tos, lettered in red and black to front panels and spines. Original black slipcases.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WHITE, T.H.
The Once and Future King
London: Collins, 1958
8vo, pp. 677. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper.
First compendium edition of White's epic... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
LEWIS, C.S.
The Last Battle
London: Bodley Head, 1956
8vo, pp. 184. Original blue boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition of the last... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GARNER, Alan
The Lad of the Gad
London: Collins, 1980
8vo, pp. 116. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SCHULBERG, Budd
The Harder They Fall
New York: Random House, 1947
8vo, pp. 343. Original black boards, lettered in red and lilac on spine. Top edge red.
First edition of the author's second novel.
Schulberg's exposé of the corrupt world of American prizefighting was filmed in 1956 with Rod Steiger and Humphrey Bogart (in his last film).
An extremely nice copy.
[illus. PRESTON, Chloë] BYRON, May
The Chunkies At The Seaside
London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, N.d. [1917]
Square 8vo, unpaginated. Original pictorial boards, lettered in white to front panel and in black to spine.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[MILLER, Henry] ed. PERLES, Alfred
The Booster, Christmas Special
Paris: P.p., 1937
Small 8vo, pp. 48. Original green stiff paper wrappers, printed in black to front and rear panels.
First edition.
In 1937, and for reasons best known to himself, the head of the American Country Club of France entrusted its house journal to the editorial control of Alfred Perlès, encouraging him to bring in his literary friends and turn it into 'something really good'. Perlès took him at his word. Henry Miller, William Saroyan and Lawrence Durrell were installed as Literary Editors, which was a solid start, but alarm bells must have started to ring when Michael Fraenkel opened the Department of Metaphysics and Metempsychosis, and Walter Lowenfels was appointed to the key position of Head of Butter News. The newly conceived organ was relaunched in September 1937 and followed a less than predictable orbit before crashing to earth seven issues later in April, 1939. (It was lucky to get to seven: when Durrell published a piece about an old man being fucked to death by Eskimo Nell, the name of the magazine was changed to Delta at the insistence of a management understandably fearing legal action.)
This is the third issue, which bears the seasonal title 'The Tri-Lingual Womb Number'. It features contributions from Gerald Durrell (Death), Henry Miller (How to Lead the Podiatric Life) and Perlès (Limbs Ancient and Modern), as well as Saroyan, Raymond Queneau and Anais Nin.
A scarce survivor, and a bizarre literary side street.
[trans. VIVIS, Anthony] FASSBINDER, Rainer Werner
The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant and Blood On The Neck Of The Cat
London: Amber Lane Press, 1984
Small 8vo, pp. 102. Original green laminated stiff paper wrappers.
First English-language edition, INSCRIBED BY THE TRANSLATOR: 'To... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BETJEMAN, John
St. Mary-Le-Strand
London: Privately printed, N.d. [1977?]
Single sheet broadside, 11.5" x 8" approx., printed on one side only.
First edition.
This scarce broadside was privately published from Betjeman's London home (the address of which appears at top right), and appears to have been issued as part of the fundraising campaign for the church which was launched in 1977.
Betjeman's frail and shaky signature at the foot of the poem is a facsimile - all copies we have seen are identical. The limitation is unknown but, given its very low survival rate, is presumed to be small.
FLEMING, Ian
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
London: Cape, 1963
8vo, pp. 288. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine, and with skiing design in silver to front panel. Illustrated... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GREENE, Graham
May We Borrow Your Husband?
London: Bodley Head, 1967
8vo, pp. 188. Original green and grey patterned boards, lettered in gilt to green spine.
First edition, No. 170 of 500 COPIES SIGNED BY... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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]
GRAVES, Robert
Good-Bye To All That
London: Cape, 1929
8vo, pp. 448. Original salmon boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Bookplate to front pastedown.
First edition, first issue, with the Sassoon poem ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
ELIOT, T. S.
Four Quartets
London: Faber, 1944
8vo, pp. 44. Original tan boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper. Leading and lower edges uncut.
First UK single... [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]
STEFANKO, Frank
Days of Hope and Dreams: An Intimate Portrait of Bruce Springsteen
Insight Editions, 2003
Folio, pp.136., with the Stefanko-signed silver gelatin print, all housed in the original cloth clamshell box.
Limited edition, ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
