A Guide to Post War Housing Policy
[London]: Labour Party, [1949]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's staplebound wrappers printed in purple; 31pp.; illus. Some wrinkling and faint toning, else Very Good and sound. More
[London]: Labour Party, [1949]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's staplebound wrappers printed in purple; 31pp.; illus. Some wrinkling and faint toning, else Very Good and sound. More
[London]: Conservative Political Centre, [1965]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's red pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 64pp. Light wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. More
London: Collins, 1969. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in red decorative dust jacket; 254pp. Light edge wear to jacket extremities, else Very Good or better. Collection of stories narrated by an illiterate Italian peasant, many of which appeared in the collections The Yellow Book and In His Own Image. More
London: J.M. for Henry Herringman, 1680. Sixth Edition. Quarto (30.5cm.); contemporary blind-tooled calf rebacked to style with period endpapers; mixed paginations ([*]1 a-c4 B-3C4 3D2 3E-3Y4 3Z2); engraved portrait frontispiece by William Faithorne, decorative head- and tail-pieces throughout. Boards show evidence of treatment, mid-20th century ex libris of an Andrew..... More
London: Peoples' Press Printing Society, 1949. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial wrappers; 24pp. Mild edgewear, bumps and creasing; Very Good. Tribute to the prominent British Communist journalist, first editor of the British Daily Worker. More
London: Communist Party of Great Britain, [1945]. First Edition. 12mo pamphlet. Staple-bound, pictorial self-wrappers; 8pp. Complete, clean and unmarked; Very Good or better. Transcript of a speech made to delegates at the 18th National Party Congress, November 1945. More
St. Andrews, Guernsey: Barras, 1965. First Edition. One of several self-published tracts by the former lexicographer at the Clarendon Press, Oxford. As a young man Wyllie was hired to work under William Craigie on the "New English Dictionary," though due to personal disagreements the project stalled for decades. Wyllie eventually..... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1966. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (20.5cm.); red paper-covered boards with black lettering, in red pictorial dustwrapper; 191pp. Textblock toned and soiled along edges, and toned along page margins. Evidence of damping on rear endpaper, else sound and sturdy. Boards lightly faded along upper..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1929. Very nice copy of this classic of juvenile criminal psychology. Burt achieved great eminence during his lifetime, in 1946 becoming the first British psychologist to be knighted as a reward for his research. Burt's methodologies came into question after his death, however, and..... More
London: Robert Hale, 1956. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 192pp. Tight, Very Good or better copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price clipped on front flap; slightly rubbed with a tiny chip at base of spine; Very Good+. Classic memoir of a...... More
New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1858. Octavo (19.5cm). Brown cloth stamped in blind on boards, titled in gilt on spine; pale yellow endpapers; [xii],372pp. Cancelled title page. Ownership inscription of Francis H. Smith, VMI, April 13, 1858 to front pastedown. Overall sound, though rubbed, with minor losses to spine..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1897. First Edition. FIrst printing. Octavo (20.5cm). Reddish brown cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, stamped "Redan Windham" on front board; black coated endpapers; [xii],272pp; 3pp publisher's ads at front; frontispiece portrait, black and white in-text illustrations. Large color bookplate of Leslie..... More
London: Gollancz, 1951. First Edition. First impression. 12mo (19cm). Red cloth hardcover; printed yellow dustwrapper, 224pp. A quite clean copy in the original red cloth, Very Good to Near Fine. In the original publisher's dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 9/6 net at base of front flap), slightly darkened on spine and with..... More
London: Constable, [1971]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original boards in cream pictorial dust jacket printed in red and black, yellow topstain; [10],234pp.; frontispiece, 3 leaves of plates, additional text illus. throughout. Minor shelf wear, U.S. distributor's stickers to title page and rear jacket panel. Very Good or better. Bookplate signed..... More
London: The Navarre Society, 1927. First Thus. Octavo (22cm). Publisher's blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine; i-xiv,17-194pp; portrait frontispiece and thirty-eight inserted leaves of plates (halftones). Spine cloth and rear board edges faded; scattered foxing within; still a tight, VG copy, with all plates present. More
London: "Daily News" 1900. Revised Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's drab printed wrappers; vii,[8]-175pp. Wrappers rather fragile with a few shallow chips and closed tears along extremities, textblock significantly toned and brittle due to poor paper stock. Still, a Near Very Good copy overall. Collected articles first published in the Daily..... More
Swinford: Fantasy Press, 1955. First Edition. First impression. Small octavo (20cm); staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 40pp. Slight dusting to exterior; a few very faint spots of foxing to endleaves; neat ownership signature to front free endpaper; Very Good or better. The distinguished poet/critic's first book-length collection, preceded only by an..... More
London: G. Bell & Sons, 1914. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue-grey cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xviii,267pp. Boards a bit scuffed and generally dusty, spine gilt a bit dull, else Near Very Good and sound. By a member of the Fabian Society. More
New York: Howell, Soskin, 1946. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 325pp. Tight, clean, and textually unmarked; neat ownership signature to front free endpaper; Very Good+. In the original pictorial dustwrapper by Garth Williams, unclipped (priced $2.75 on lower front flap); lightly rubbed and edgeworn, with some..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 243pp.; photographic frontispiece & 11 plates. Upper cover dampstained affecting dust jacket, jacket with some subsequent paper flaws along bottom edge of upper panel, spine and rear panel toned. Good or better. The poet's memoirs..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; 243pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, 11 plates. Jacket spine and rear panel extremities toned, else Near Fine. The poet's childhood memoirs in Ireland and London. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960]. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original two-toned cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; [2],243pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, 11 plates. Some light shelf-wear to jacket, minor dust-soiling, small abrasion to jacket verso from previously removed tape. Fine in Very Good jacket. Harper & Brothers publishing executive..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, [1962]. First Edition. Small, slim octavo (21cm.); original boards in dark green dust jacket, red topstain; 68pp. Very minor rubbing to jacket extremities, else Near Fine. More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm.); original cloth in cream printed dust jacket; [8],78pp. Jacket quite foxed, extremities a bit chipped with a few short closed tears, none touching text; textblock also rather foxed, else contents Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Study of post-WW1 poetry. Errata..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, [1953]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original paper over cloth boards, purple-blue dust jacket lettered in white; 77pp. Short closed tear to top edge of upper jacket panel, spine a few shades faded; some foxing throughout; Very Good and sound. Long poem, mostly composed from 1948-9. More