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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
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
New York: League for Industrial Democracy, [1945]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue printed staplebound card wrappers; 31pp. Wrappers a bit worn and toned along extremities, faint slightly later (1963) accession rubberstamps to upper and rear covers, else Very Good, internally fine. Forms part of the L.I.D. Pamphlet Series. 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: Chapman & Hall, 1854. First Edition. Contents include "A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London," by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; and "The Twins," by Robert Browning. In the 1880s the forgers Harry Buxton Forman and Thomas J. Wise discovered a small cache of copies of this uncommon pamphlet, inspiring..... 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
Milano: Dott. A. Giuffrè Editore, 1983. First Edition. Octavo (25cm.); publisher's cream wrappers printed in red and black; xii,262pp. Wrappers a bit worn and soiled, extremities toned; a Very Good, unopened copy overall. Inscribed and signed by the author to front free endpaper. Issued as No. 2 of the series..... 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: Fortune Press, 1946. First Edition. First impression. 12mo; cloth hardcover; 62pp. Straight and tight; gilt titling on spine slightly dulled; VG+. Lacking the dustwrapper. 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
London / New York: John Lane - The Bodley Head, [1915]. First Thus. First printing of the Sheringham-illustrated edition. Small quarto (26cm). Cream buckram, titled in gilt, decoratively printed in colors on front cover; pictorial endpapers; color frontispiece and 22 inserted leaves of 2- and 4-color plates. A tight, straight..... 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
Toronto: McGill - Queen's University Press, 1986. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 396; illus. Bit of spotting to upper edge of text block, else tight, unmarked, Near Fine. 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
New York: New American Library, 1965. First American Edition. Octavo. Purple & lavender cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 209pp. Near fine in lightly rubbed and soiled dustwrapper. A satire on "racial extremism." Preceded by a London edition the same year. 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
London: Individualist Bookshop Ltd., [1941]. Second Impression. Octavo (21.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 35pp. Light wear from handling, else About Fine. Post-War Questions no. 1. 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
London: Cassell and Company, [1923]. Cheap Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's green blind-ruled cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; [6],249pp. General shelf wear, corners rather bumped, spine gilt dulled, interior clean and fine. About Very Good overall. "Chapters on the Sex-Discord" - upper cover. 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
London: Hambledon and London, 2001. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (24cm); blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,370pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, binding slightly shaken; Very Good+ or better in a VG+ dustjacket, lightly shelfworn, with price-sticker to lower rear panel. 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
London: John Murray, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); green cloth, embossed with bell pattern, stamped in gilt, in tan dustwrapper; patterned endpapers; 111pp. Dustwrapper soiled and smudged; minor chips to extremities with creasing and edge rolling. Interiors slightly toned along margins, else clean and sound. Very Good or Better, in..... 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
Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Company, n.d. (circa 1880's). Reprint. Octavo (19cm); red decorative cloth, stamped in black and gilt; yellow patterned endpapers; 432pp. Spine sunned, heel and crown bumped; mild soiling and rubbing to boards. Textblock toned; hinges cracked at title page and throughout. Else Very Good..... 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