London: C.W. Daniel Company, [1930]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original tan cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, dark brown topstain; 86,[2](ads)pp. Contemporary ownership inscription on half title, minor foxing to preliminaries and textblock fore-edge, else Near Fine. Brief study of the cities of Great Britain in the early years of the economic..... More
Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, 1845. First American Edition. Nautical tale by the prolific English sailor and author, often writing under the pseudonym the "Old Sailor." This a minor work for children, recounting the adventures of young Frank Fairfield, who becomes a cabin boy and sails to Jamaica, falls ill with..... More
![Metroland [Signed]. Julian BARNES](/pictures/medium/22404.jpg?v=1529353353)
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
Athens: Ohio University Press, 1969. First Edition. Quarto (25.75cm.); original cloth in green pictorial dust jacket; xlvii,[1],358pp.; frontispiece, 16 plates, including folding map, additional text illus. in rear. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and rubbed with a few short closed tears, spine a bit sunned, old price sticker to front..... 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
New York: Franklin H. Williams Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute, 1998. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28cm.); matte color pictorial paper wrappers; 177pp.; photo-illustrations throughout in color and b/w. Text block displays light handling wear and yellowing to margins, otherwise firm and sound, Fine. Wrappers also have light shelf wear..... 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
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: Authors and Newspapers Association, 1906. First American Edition. A semi-fantastic romance (Bleiler-listed) of Christian Science and opium addiction, set among the British upper-crust. Includes four attractive plates after watercolors by H. Richard Boehm, including the much-admired female fly-fishing plate. Extremely attractive copy in the pictorial trade binding, which..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1916. First American Edition. British feminist's first book, originally published in Great Britain in 1915, composed during the early stages of the first World War, during which time Benson worked for the Women Writers' Suffrage League and United Suffragists. Rececca West described I Pose as "the..... 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
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[Birmingham: B. Hudson, n.d., ca. 1835]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); side-stitched self-wrappers; 28pp. A few faint creases, else a Near Fine, unopened copy. Events recorded at what appears to be a meeting of the Birmingham Anti-Slavery Society (we find other B. Hudson pamphlets published explicity for that Society), attended most..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1992. First American Edition. First American printing. Quarto (26cm.); grey publisher's cloth boards with silver print on spine, in color pictorial dust jacket; 192pp. Text showcases the work of famed English garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, through over 100 full color photographs and 45 annotated watercolor..... 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
London: Socialist Workers Party, 1990. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 46pp. Clean, tight and unmarked; Near Fine. Economic analiysis of environmental exploitation. More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, [1918]. First American Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow dust jacket printed in single rule; [6],279,[1],[2](ads)pp. Shallow chips and tears along jacket extremities, the whole quite dust-soiled and a bit foxed, cloth spine slightly toned, else a Very Good copy in the..... More
Milwaukee: Verlag des "Vorwärts" 1899. First Thus. German translation of Robert Blatchford's socialist treatise Merrie England (1893), first published in a series of articles in The Clarion. This edition has been adapted for a German-American readership. Wrapper issue. Octavo (21.75cm.); original red decorative wrappers; xxiv,188pp. Lacking rear wrapper, upper wrapper..... More
London: Conservative Political Centre, 1954. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (22cm). Pictorial stiff card wrappers; 55pp. Light rubbing to covers, else clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good. Post-War study of British city planning from a Conservative viewpoint, emphasizing slum clearance, containing sprawl, and preserving agricultural properties. More
