London: Bodley Head, [1968]. First Edition. Octavo (20.25cm.); original simulated cloth boards in red pictorial dust jacket; 236pp. Top jacket extremities very gently worn, white spine lettering a bit toned, else Near Fine. Author's last, posthumously published novel, a psychological thriller and the author's second novel to feature a lesbian..... More
London: Freedom Press, 1961. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Staple-bound thick paper wrappers; pp97-128. Gentle wear; Near Fine. Single issue of the influential anarchist periodical. Contributors to this issue include Colin Ward, George Molnar, others. Cover by H. Pisan. More
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1919). First Edition. Social survey of British labourers (mainly in the city of Sheffield), undertaken immediately following the Great War. The Society was under the directorship (though not credited herein) of the prominent Fabian Socialist, anthroposophist and educator Arthur James Freeman (1886-1972), who also founded..... More
New York: Stein and Day, [1975]. First American Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; [2],271pp. Some general shelf-wear to jacket extremities, minor chipping to spine ends, light dust-soil, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Jacket is, however, about 1/3 cm. shorter than textblock. British..... More
Bilston: James Wilkes, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; [4],234pp.; author portrait frontispiece. Extremities a bit bumped and rubbed, faint soiling to textblock margins, contemporary pencil ownership inscription to front free endpaper; Very Good overall. Includes a list of Black Country dialects with glossary in rear. OCLC..... More
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1932. First American Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins, Jr.; v,[1],312pp. Wear to jacket extremities, including several small chips and tears, tiny loss mid-spine not approaching text, old tape repair to verso, some general shelf-wear to board..... More
![Our Corner [Vols. 1-8]. FREETHOUGHT, Annie BESANT, ed](/pictures/medium/32508.jpg?v=1529353701)
London: Freethought Publishing Company, 1883-1886. First Edition. Sizeable collection of this early proto-Fabian publication, edited by the notable socialist and women's rights activist Annie Besant (1847-1933). Contents include serialized biographies and novels, poetry, puzzles (both word and picture), and a "Young Folks Corner." Among the columns featured in each issue..... More
London: Tate Publishing, 2002. First Edition. Quarto (31cm x 26cm). Olive-green cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 240pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to corners; very slight soiling to bottom textblock corner, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Small quarto. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 208pp. Some toning to margins of textblock and interior of jacket. Mild foxing to top edge of textblock and jacket, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Jacket spine mildly sunned. Near Fine. More
New York: Macmillan Company, [1957]. First American Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 239pp. Jacket spine panel slightly toned, a hint of dust-soil to rear panel and top textblock edge, else Near Fine. Satirical novel depicting the power struggles within the upper management of a local..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896. First Edition. Future war fantasy in which, "...the American Navy intervenes on the British side, Russian revolutionaries capture the Tsar, the Indian Army storms across Persia to attack Russia, and the new Thomson Electric Rifle gives the British troops a devastating secret weapon" (Clarke..... More
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922. First American Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's green decorative cloth embossed in blind and gilt; [2],302pp. Bottom corners bumped, spine gilt quite dulled, else a Very Good or better copy. Novel of post-WW1 Great Britain by the editor of the Daily Mirror and the Daily Herald..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1927. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket, brown topstain; vii,[1],189pp. Jacket spine toned, a few very short closed tears to extremities, else Very Good or better. Collection of essays written between 1920 and 1926. Galsworthy would be awarded the Nobel Prize in..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1932]. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original cloth in silver pictorial dust jacket printed in black, top edge dyed green; [6],280pp.; title page printed in red and black. A few shallow chips and tears along jacket edges, else About Fine. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in silver dust jacket stamped in red and blue; viii,[2],287pp. Jacket edges quite rubbed and worn with numerous chips and shallow losses, none affecting text, the largest measuring approx. 3x2cm. Fine copy in Good or better dust..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1929. First Thus. Octavo (19cm.); original cloth in green decorative dust jacket; [2],xvii,[1],1088pp.; folding family tree bound in front. Jacket spine and extremities toned to tan, clean tears to bottom half of jacket flap folds with some old tape repair on verso; three small losses not..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth (rather spotted from damp) in original gilt and blue pictorial dust jacket; [10],365,[1],[6](ads)pp. Jacket mounted to later brown paper, flaps detached (lacking lower flap), the remaining flap tipped to front free endpaper; contemporary ownership inscription. A Very..... More
London: Duckworth, [1930]. First Thus. Thick 12mo (17.5cm.); original cloth in cream printed dust jacket; mixed pagings. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with very small chips and short closed tears, spine toned. Very Good or better. Each play separately paginated. More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1926]. First Trade Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original cloth in white dust jacket printed in green; viii,323,[1],7[1](ads)pp. Residue to upper jacket cover; jacket extremities a touch rubbed, uniformly dust-soiled, else Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Second book in A Modern Comedy trilogy, which served as a...... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1928]. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [10],347pp. Spine a touch cocked, jacket crown rather ragged, else a Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. Third novel in the trilogy A Modern Comedy, which served as a sequel to The Forsyte Saga..... More
London: Duckworth, 1930. First Illustrated Edition. Quarto (25.75cm.); original tan textured cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black; 104pp.; engraved frontispiece & 7 tissue-guarded plates. Some minor finger-soiling to preliminaries, a couple plates slightly foxed, else Near Fine. Handsome edition of a drama first published in 1922. More
Los Angeles & New York: Fellowship of Reconciliation, (1949). First Edition. Vignettes of travel with Mahatma Gandhi on several occasions, including the Anti-Untouchability Tour of 1934 and as his host and guide during Gandhi's visit to the United Kingdom in 1931. Signed by the author, the prominent British pacifist and..... More
Los Angeles: University of California, 1970. Reprint. Octavo (23cm). Staple-bound card wrappers; pp.317-335. Fine and unmarked. Reprinted from the British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. VIII no 3. More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1929. First American Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; [6],314pp. Some chipping and a few short closed tears to jacket extremities, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Humorous novel of the maritime exploits of Dominic William Augustine de Bouverie..... More
London: Enitharmon Press, 1980. First Edition. First printing, trade issue. Octavo; cloth boards, dustjacket; 144pp. Fine, unmarked copy in lightly rubbed pictorial dustwrapper designed by Julian Trevelyan. Gascoyne's London notebooks documenting the formative period of the London Surrealist Group and his opposition to fascism in the Spanish Civil War. There..... More
