New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1934. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in red and grey dust jacket; [6],375pp.; pictorial endpapers. Jacket extremities rubbed and worn with a few shallow losses, some touching text without loss of meaing, spine faded. Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Forms..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1951]. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth-backed boards, black and blue pictorial dust jacket; [6],310pp. Jacket a bit shelf-worn with a couple short closed tears and tiny chips, none affecting text, jacket spine lettering toned; Fine in Very Good jacket. NCBEL III, p. 626..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1934. First American Edition. Forms part of the author's novels following the Alard family saga, here set during the sixteenth century's Reformation persecutions of Roman Catholics in England. NCBEL III, p. 626. Octavo (21.25cm.); original cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket printed in green..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1920]. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original green cloth lettered and ruled in dark green; v,[1],393pp. Light edge wear, else Near Fine, albeit lacking dust jacket. A "study of the human toll of all-consuming ambition" (Mary R. Reichardt, Catholic Women Writers, p. 193). NCBEL..... More
![The Three Furlongers [Three Against the World]. Sheila KAYE-SMITH](/pictures/medium/27678.jpg?v=1529353552)
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1914. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original blue pictorial cloth embossed in orange; 306pp.; frontispiece. Light rubbing to extremities, spine lettering partially perished, else Very Good. First published in Great Britain the same year as Three Against the World. NCBEL III, p. 625. More
New York: Harper and Brothers, (1944). Seventh edition. 12mo; red cloth boards; 286pp. Straigt, tight and unmarked with a bit of external wear; Very Good. A sound and attractive reading copy. A lively and diverting series of essays on Austen, by two of the leading English popular novelists of their..... More
Cambridge: University Press, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in white dust jacket illustrated by the author, grey topstain; [2],xvii,[1],195pp.; map endpapers by the author. Minor wear to jacket and cloth extremities, corners gently bumped, spine a bit toned and lightly dampstained, else Very Good or better. Autobiography by..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd, [1930]. First Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [8],328pp. Four rather large losses to extremities of jacket, including at spine ends and upper panel with loss of "MILY" in "FAMILY"; corners bumped, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good to..... More
[New York: Abrams, 1999]. First American Edition. Thick folio (31.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 613pp.; chiefly illus. Small tear towards top inch of upper jacket panel fore-edge, brief soil spot to rear panel, else Very Good or better. Selections from the Saatchi Gallery. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. First American Edition. Posthumous collection of Kettle's writings on the Great War, including his major essay, "Why Ireland Fought." Kettle (1880-1916), reputedly considered by James Joyce to be his closest friend in Ireland (see David Pierce, Joyce and Company, Lon: 2006; p152), was hailed..... More
New-York: Kirk & Mercen, 1818. First Edition. Address delivered by the Federalist Senator from New York on the Navigation Act, closing American ports to British shipping. SABIN 37833; SHAW & SHOEMAKER 44518. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; 45pp. Title page (serving as upper cover) separated but present, extremities very slightly chipped and..... More
New York: B.W. Dodge, 1909. First American Edition. Octavo (20cm). Pictorial deep blue textured cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 360pp. Publisher's presentation copy, inscribed on front endpaper: "Best wishes of the publisher (see title page) and his wife / Xmas 1909." First issue, with gilt..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original printed wrappers in custom blue cloth double slipcase, gilt-lettered spine; xii,182,[2](ads)pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Wrappers chipped and worn along extremities with several shallow losses, not affecting text, contemporary ownership signature to upper wrapper, spine quite darkened and cracked with..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. First American Edition. Quarto (25.75cm.); original blue gilt-lettered cloth, top edge gilt; xi,[1],99pp.; color illus. throughout. Extremities slightly rubbed, cloth sunned along spine and fore-edges, else Very Good and sound. More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original grey blind-ruled cloth lettered in gilt, color plate mounted to upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut; [6],80pp.; color frontispiece, 14 tissue-guarded plates. Cloth a bit soiled, extremities toned, light rubbing to spine ends, else Very Good..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. New Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in grey dust jacket, color plate mounted to upper panel, top edge gilt; vi,[2],60,73pp.; color frontispiece, 26 plates. A hint of shelf-wear to jacket extremities, spine a bit faded, else Very Good and sound. Contemporary gift inscription..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., n.d. [circa early 1900s]. Reprint. Octavo (18.5cm); red diagonally ribbed publisher's cloth, titles stamped in gilt; xxvi,268pp,frontispiece. AEG; spine sunned, bumping to crown and heel; boards mildly soiled and rubbed; ffeps partially sprung, with gift inscription on first ffep. Light foxing and soiling throughout..... More
London: Heinemann, 1903. First Edition. 12mo. Printed paper wrappers; 58pp. Mild external wear; text clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good. Late work by the Scottish minister and philosopher. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1971]. First American Edition. Octavo (20.75cm); publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket; [6],183pp. Upper jacket panel a bit soiled, spine sunned; Fine in Very Good or better jacket. Mystery novel by the Scottish author. More
London [and elsewhere]: Various Publishers, (1926). Important archive of primary documents relating to the 1926 General Strike in Great Britain which, though brief and a failure from the syndicalist point of view, would nonetheless be the only General Strike in British history. The event also established a pattern for Tory..... More
![Abortion: The Struggle in the Labour Movement [cover title]. LABOUR ABORTION RIGHTS CAMPAIGN](/pictures/medium/26470.jpg?v=1529353498)
[London]: Labour Abortion Rights Campaign, n.d. [1979]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cream pictorial staplebound wrappers; 28pp. Fine. Includes a history of abortion rights by Mary Donnelly and the essay "The 1967 Abortion Act and its opponents," by Ann Kingsbury. 3 copies in OCLC as of May, 2015, UC Davis..... More
[London]: Labour Party, [n.d., ca. 1962]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); decorative staplebound self-wrappers printed in red and black; 14pp. Light wear and a hint of dust-soil, else Very Good or better. "A Labour Party Statement" (upper cover). More
London: The Labour Party, 1941. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed paper wrappers; 11pp. Clean, Near Fine copy. War-time statement on the principles of the Labour Party regarding war victory, post-war peace, decolonization, socialisation of insurance, etc. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First American Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in blue pictorial price-clipped dust jacket by Guy Fleming, blue topstain; [6],245pp.; decorative title page printed in green and black. Light wear to jacket extremities, tiny loss at bottom edge of rear panel not quite touching text..... More
Washington DC: Reprint Company, n.d., ca. 1906. Slim folio (33.5cm.); publisher's two-toned cloth (tan and maroon), upper cover lettered in gilt, spine stamped in tan and gilt; 15pp. & [20]ll. reproducing 89 plates. Ex-University of Mary Washington with their usual markings and deaccession rubberstamp, boards rubbed with some exposure at..... More
