UFOs Over Devon
Launceston: Bossiney Books, [2000]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 40pp. Near Fine condition. History of UFO sightings in Devon. More
Launceston: Bossiney Books, [2000]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 40pp. Near Fine condition. History of UFO sightings in Devon. More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1895. First Edition. First printing. Crown octavo (19cm). Publisher's dark blue-green cloth-covered beveled boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; half-title; frontispiece with tissue-guard. viii,[1]-346,[2]pp + 24pp publisher's catalogue. Tiny nick to cloth at crown of spine; faint foxing to frontis tissue guard..... More
Boston: New England Sabbath School Union, 1852. Reprint. Octavo (15.5cm); deep blue decorative cloth, stamped in blind and gilt; 138pp, frontis., 2 plates. Spine tanned, mild chipping to heel and crown; moderate rubbing and wear to boards, with spots of soil and bleaching; leading corners bumped. Textblock foxed; gift inscription..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1971. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white pink decorative dust jacket; [8],110pp. Jacket extremities a bit shelf-worn, panels show some dust-soil, corners very gently bumped, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Review copy with slip laid in. Short novel describing..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1927. First American Edition. Octavo (22.5cm); dark blue cloth, ribbed, stamped in blind and gilt (on spine); 208pp. Spine sunned, gilt dulled; boards mildly soiled, rubbed and worn, with some material loss to leading corners and spine extremities. Binding shaken; ex libris on front pastedown; mild reading..... More
London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1928]. First Edition. Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 155. Small octavo (19.5cm.); original tan cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; 126pp. Light shelf wear, faint gluestains to front pastedown from previously removed bookplate, some internal foxing, else Very Good and..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1969. First American Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 248pp. Tight, clean copy; brief ownership inscription to front pastedown, else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap), slightly edgeworn with a bit of sunning to spine panel, Very Good. A quite nice..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1962. First Thus. First American hardcover printing. Octavo (21cm). Original blue cloth, titled in orange; plain endpapers; 266pp; publisher's ads to jacket rear panel and rear flap. Straight and bright, free of notable wear and very Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. First Edition. First impression. Octavo; canary-yellow cloth, dustjacket, 79pp. Fine in a crisp, bright dustwrapper, price-clipped and with a touch of sunning to spine panel, Near Fine. More
London: Turret Books, 1972. First, Limited Edition. No. 113 of 226 copies, signed by both author and illustrator on colophon. Small quarto; stiff pictorial card wrappers; unprinted acetate dustwrapper; [20pp]; illus. Touch of rubbing at bottom wrapper edges, else Fine in original acetate jacket. Printed bookplate of Richard Emeny to..... More
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1967. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth, titled in silver on spine; dustjacket; 89pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in slightly rubbed but unclipped dustwrapper, Very Good. More
London: Verso, 1987. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 145pp. Fine, unmarked copy in Near Fine dustjacket. More
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1935. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (22cm). Blue cloth gilt; dustjacket; [vi],[14]-404,[4]pp; folding map inserted between end of text and index. Tight, clean and unmarked, Near Fine; in the original printed dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 16s. at base of front flap); jacket lightly worn, still Very..... More
London: John Fairburn, 1820. First Edition. First printing. Octavo in fours (22cm). In nineteenth-century half brown calf with marbled paper over boards, seven double gilt rules to spine, with blind ornament in compartments, titled in gilt on brown leather spine label, all edges sprinkled brown; plain endpapers; [iv], 480pp. 1944..... More
London: Enitharmon Press, 1978. First Edition. First impression. Cloth issue. Octavo; green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 50pp. Fine, tight, unmarked copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced £2.85 at base of front flap), very Near Fine. An uncommon late collection by the noted British painter, illustrator, and poet; many of the..... More
London: Faber & Faber, [1931]. First edition. 12mo. Sewn illustrated wrappers; [4 pp]; illus. Single poem, issued as Ariel Poems No. 35; one of 2000 copies so issued. Not issued separately in the US. Drawing by E. McKnight Kauffer. Printed at the Curwen Press. A clean, unworn copy, minimally toned..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, edition of 20,000 copies. First state of text, with error, line 2 up,p.7. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 135,[1]pp. Some evidence of use, with a touch of discoloration to boards, upper edges slightly sunned;..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. First U.K. Edition. A play written in verse, one of Eliot's final "drawing room dramas." First Impression. Slim octavo; red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 109pp. Touch of rubbing to lower board edges, else Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket..... More
London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928. First Edition. First impression; edition of 1500 copies. 12mo. Blue buckram with printed paper spine label; xii,13-143pp. Small chip to spine label (not affecting title); endpapers darkened front and rear; still a straight, sound copy, Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Neat ownership signature of George..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1942. First Edition. First printing. Second issue, in wire-bound wrappers. Octavo (23cm). Staple-bound, printed mauve wrappers; 16pp. A clean and attractive copy, with typical sunning at bound edge and extremities of wrappers. There is a faint impression, presumably from postal cancellation, to upper forecorner of rear..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1933. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm.); publisher's red cloth, titled in gilt on spine; top edge gilt; viii,[2],149pp. Spine cloth and lettering a trifle dull, else a tight, Near Fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Ink ownership signature (American literary scholar Maurice B. Cramer) to..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. First U.K. Edition. First Impression (15,000 copies). Slim octavo; red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 109pp. Neat ink ownership signature to front endpaper, dated 1961. A tight, Fine copy in a crisp Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced 12s. 6d. net at..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. First Edition. Anthropological study of the Twi people of the Gold Coast (now Guinea), based on Ellis's observations as a British army officer during and after the Third Anglo-Ashanti War (1873-1874). Octavo. Publisher's maroon cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; floral endpapers; vii,[1]-343pp; map..... More
New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Ellison's first novel, a picaresque romance of a young, starving artist on the road in the Great Depression. Ellison (1908-1981) would publish one more well-received novel ("The Dam," 1941), then went on to a long and distinguished career as a magazine editor and..... More
London: Women's Voice and the International Socialists, n.d., ca. 1972. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original orange photo-illustrated staplebound card wrappers; 32pp.; illus. Textblock very gently toned, else Fine. More