New York: St. Martin's Press, [1980]. First American Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original boards in black dust jacket lettered in white and silver; 176pp. Signed by the author on title page. Fine. The author's first book. More

London: British Film Institute, 1986. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 446pp; illus. Review copy, with publisher's slip. Spine slightly faded, else Fine. More

London: Women's Co-Operative Guild, N.d. [ca 1927?]. 12mo (18cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 8pp. Bit of staining to covers; creased at upper margin; Very Good. The Women's Co-Operative Guild was founded in 1883 and, while never extensive in terms of membership, bore an outsize influence on British politics, being..... More

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1983]. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original boards in pictorial dust jacket; [4],236pp. A couple of soil spots to spine, else Fine. More

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1928. First, Limited Edition. Number 341 in an edition of 380 signed and numbered copies, with an extra signed plate in rear pocket. White, beveled cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; AEG; 49 mounted, b/w plates on heavy paper, with facing text..... More

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 206pp. Fine, in lightly rubbed, Near Fine jacket. Analysis of the role of religion in the newly de-colonized African countries. By a long-serving Methodist Missionary. More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. First American Edition. Little-known (and apparently little-read) British social novel, chronicling a working-class carpenter's rise to prosperity. Southwold/Bell is best remembered as a prolific science fiction writer, especially for his "Gas War" series (1930-31). Octavo. Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; red..... More

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., n.d. [1892]. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's terra-cotta cloth, lettered in gilt on front cover; folding frontispiece; 70pp + [18]pp publisher's catalog. Minor external wear, small white stain to rear cover, but still a tight, VG copy in original cloth. More

Philadelphia: Oswald Train, 1972. First American Edition. 12mo (19cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket by William Dixon; 156pp. Jacket spine a bit toned, small paper flaw to spine crown verso not visible to exterior, else Very Good or better. Short novel first serialized in the Windsor Magazine, 1903..... More

New York: Macmillan Company, 1933. Third Printing. Octavo (19.25cm.); original cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, dark blue topstain; xvii,[3],396pp. Spine lettering significantly dulled else Near Fine. Front jacket flap laid in. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Novel first published in England in 1929. More

Garden City: Doubleday, 1947. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Black cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine with decorative vignette to front cover; dustjacket; 185pp. Straight, tight copy, Near Fine but for some uneven toning to front endpapers, probably from a laid-in clipping; brief ownership signature in blue ink..... More

New York: Viking Press, (1961). First Edition. Small octavo (19cm.). Gray cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 87pp. Board corners tapped, else a Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped, lightly rubbed, still Very Good or better. In America, Greene's love-triangle comedy opened on Nov 1, 1961 at..... More

London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1969. First Edition. Post-war British poet's memoir of a strict Victorian upbringing and his dissipated later youth. The "clip of steel" of the title refers to a device inflicted upon the child by his father, designed to "deter nocturnal erections and to prevent the loss of..... More