Somerset Places & Legends
Felinfach: Lannert Publishers, 1991. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial stiff card wrappers; 131pp; illus. Fine copy with minimal evidence of use. More
Felinfach: Lannert Publishers, 1991. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial stiff card wrappers; 131pp; illus. Fine copy with minimal evidence of use. More
Ditchling: Douglas Pepler, 1918. First Edition. Apparently a mixed issue: covers are Gill's third variant (without the crossed-out price), but title page (rules) and pagination (p.5) conform to the earlier state. Since the wrappers on our copy are undersized by about 1/4", it seems plausible that this copy may have..... More
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1940. First Edition. Small octavo (20cm.); publisher's cloth in grey dust jacket printed in red, red topstain; 197pp.; frontispiece, full-page illus. throughout. Light wear to jacket extremities, brief archival tape repair to spine crown verso not visible to exterior, spine a hint toned, else..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: S. Dominic's Press, 1921. First Edition. Variant binding (a). 12mo (18cm.); publisher's linen-backed grey paper-covered boards; [6],46pp. A hint of wear and toning to board extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. GILL 8, describing the first state binding as sewn cream wrappers in glassine dust jacket. More
New York: Viking Press, [1972]. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in cream pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; [6],185pp. Some light dust-soil to jacket, a few tiny chips, else Very Good or better. Review copy with slip and author photograph laid in. Short story collection by the English-born..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1965. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); green paper-covered boards over brown cloth backstrip, titled in blind on cover and gilt on spine; yellow topstain; yellow dustjacket by Lawrence Ratzkin; 190pp. Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.95) with evidence of price sticker removal on the..... More
London: Trigram Press, 1972. First Edition. Limited issue. 12mo (16cm); cloth boards stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [60]pp; printed on blue paper. Fine, in publisher's unprinted acetate jacket. One of 100 signed and numbered copies; there were simultaneous trade issues in both paper and cloth. More
London: Quartet Books, [1984]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; xiii,[1],306pp.; 8 leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light wear, front free endpaper has compression from previously-removed paperclip, else Very Good to Near Fine. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1967. First Edition. First impression. Small octavo; cloth boards; dustjacket; 217pp. Fine copy in a crisp, attractive dustwrapper, price-clipped on front flap with a few age-spots on rear panel, Near Fine. Nobel laureate's sixth novel, following The Spire (1964). Jacket illustration by Leonard Rosoman. More
London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, [1929]. First Thus. Quarto (25.5cm.); original black decorative cloth embossed in gilt, top edge gilt; 231pp.; color frontispiece, 11 plates, text illus. throughout, green pictorial endpapers. Extremities a bit rubbed, paper flaw to front pastedown from previously removed bookplate, unobtrusive library pressure stamp..... More
[London]: University Grouop on Defence Policy, 1962. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 19pp. Mild external wear; contemporary ownership signature, else clean, tight and unmarked within - Very Good or better. Published as Pamphlet Number 3 of the University Grouop on Defence Policy, a British pacifist and anti-nuclear..... More
London: J.M. Dent, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 205pp. Fine, unmarked copy in lightly rubbed and edgeworn dustwrapper, VG to Near Fine. First-hand account of expatriate communities in Hong Kong and mainland China during the first half of the Twentieth Century, by a life-long British resident. More
London: Edward T. Whitfield, 1854. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); removed; 57pp. Occasional brief contemporary corrections and marginalia (some trimmed), else Very Good or better. Critique of the articles on John Calvin and William Ellery Channing, both written by Scottish churchman William Lindsay Alexander and which, according to Gordon, "amounts to..... More
London: Office of the New Leader, 1925. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (31.5cm). Orange paper wrappers printed in black; 28pp; 15 loose plates, black and white relief blocks in text. With a subscription slip laid in. Rubbed at edges, spine half split, edges of portfolio split, mild foxing to text..... More
V.p. 1891-1899. 1. Henry George. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth. - The Remedy. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1889. x,406pp. 2. Robert Blatchford. Merrie England. London: Clarion Office, 1894. "Cheap Edition." 206pp. Facsimile illus..... More
London: D.I. Eaton, 1795. First Edition. Petition composed while the author, known today as "the Father of Reform," was "confined, in the condition of a cripple, to the house," to be read at a meeting with the sheriff of the County of Lincoln regarding two bills proposed by Lord Grenville..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1952. Reprint. Small octavo (19cm.); original two-toned cloth in red dust jacket lettered in white; [2],196pp. Jacket a bit dust-soiled, rear panel light foxed, short closed tear to bottom edge of upper panel, minor edge wear, else Very Good and sound. Novel set in London before..... More
New York: Hastings House Publishers, Inc., 1982. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [ii],[4],5-126pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $9.95), showing light shelfwear, and a faint diagonal crease to lower right..... More
London: Frederick Warne, n.d. [circa 1940s]. Reprint. Small octavo (16.5cm); glazed pictorial paper over boards, quarterbound in green cloth; 52pp. Comprehensive toning and foxing; boards and dustwrapper soiled; dustwrapper extremities and hinges chapped, with some chips to top edges; inner wrapper price-clipped with ownership signature; sticker on ffep; else Very..... More
London: Frederick Warne & Co., n.d., ca. 1931. Slim quarto (24.75cm.); publisher's green cloth-backed pictorial boards; 24pp.; color illus. throughout, sheet music printed in brown. Boards rubbed with a few small dings to extremities, the whole rather dust-soiled, textblock a hint shaken and lightly foxed throughout. About Very Good only..... More
London: Heinemann, [1959]. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm.); original cloth in green price-clipped dust jacket printed in red and black; [8],77pp. Jacket spine faded, a few shallow chips along top edge, else Very Good or better. More
New York: Viking Press, 1952. First American Edition. First printing, from British sheets. Octavo (22cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; yellow top-stain; 191pp. Tight, straight, Near Fine copy, with top-stain even and unfaded, in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 on front flap), spine sunned and with some foxing to rear panel..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., (1930). First Edition. First impression. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth over boards, titled in gilt in spine; 344pp. With ownership signature in pencil of Raymond Greene to front free endpaper. Slight rubbing to board edges; scattered faint foxing within, still a sound, Very Good copy. Greene's scarce..... More
London: Heinemann, [1958]. First Edition. Slim 12mo (19cm.); original cloth in olive dust jacket (minor soil spots); [8],76pp. Jacket extremities rubbed with a few short closed tears; Fine in About Very Good dust jacket. More
London: Max Parrish, 1953. Library issue. Small quarto; full blue linen over boards, with gilt decoration on front cover; dustjacket; 36pp; illus. Tight and fine but for the expected offsetting to endpapers. In the pictorial dustwrapper, which has been clipped at both upper and lower corners of front flap, otherwise..... More