![Item #25155] Metropolis; or, The Destiny of Cities. Paul BANKS](/pictures/medium/25155.jpg?v=1641872194)
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
![Item #46790] The Fortunes of Frank Fairfield. BARKER, atthew, enry](/pictures/medium/46790.jpg?v=1641872494)
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
![Item #22404] Metroland [Signed]. Julian BARNES](/pictures/medium/22404.jpg?v=1641872154)
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
![Item #48618] Recent Trends in British Trade Unions [...] And Trade Union Congress' Interim Report...](/pictures/medium/48618.jpg?v=1641872543)
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
![Item #29365] All Our Yesterdays: 90 Years of British Cinema. Charles BARR](/pictures/medium/29365.jpg?v=1641872254)
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
![Item #54524] Through Trade to the Co-operative Commonwealth. Eleanor BARTON, J P](/pictures/medium/54524.jpg?v=1641872799)
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
![Item #49197] Sicilia e Gran Bretagna: Le Relazioni Commerciali dalla Restaurazione all'Unità...](/pictures/medium/49197.jpg?v=1641872560)
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
![Item #28525] The Ice House. Nina BAWDEN](/pictures/medium/28525.jpg?v=1641872247)
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
![Item #58497] The Problem of Reality. Being Outline Suggestions for a Philosophical...](/pictures/medium/58497.jpg?v=1658963407)
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1892. First Edition. First impression. Small octavo (19.5cm). Gray-green printed cloth, titled in gilt on spine; 177pp. Half-title and rear fly-leaf slightly darkened; mild bumps to board corners, else a tight, clean and attractive copy, Near Fine. Bax (1854-1926), a barrister, historian, and philosopher, was..... More
![Item #56672] A Romantic Miscellany. John BAYLISS, Derek Stanford](/pictures/medium/56672.jpg?v=1642555324)
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
![Item #58542] Rockaby and Other Short Pieces. Samuel BECKETT](/pictures/medium/58542.jpg?v=1658876044)
New York: Grove Press, 1981. First American Edition. First printing. Small octavo (21cm). Blue cloth (hardcover); 80pp. Board edges very mildly sunned, else Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped jacket (priced $12.95 on front flap), faintly toned at extremities. More
![Item #58375] The Faces of Justice. Sybille BEDFORD](/pictures/medium/58375.jpg?v=1656372162)
London: Collins, 1961. First Edition. First impression. Octavo; blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 255pp. Tight and fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 21s. net at base of front flap); just a trifle rubbed at extremities and a shade sunned on spine panel; still Near Fine. Bedford's fourth published book..... More
![Item #55338] Things New and Old. Max BEERBOHM](/pictures/medium/55338.jpg?v=1641872855)
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
![Item #54005] The Happy Hypocrite. Max BEERBOHM, George Sheringham](/pictures/medium/54005.jpg?v=1641872771)
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
![Item #23588] Christianity and the New Africa. T. A. BEETHAM](/pictures/medium/23588.jpg?v=1641872172)
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
![Item #50488] The Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict: the Maori, the British, and the New...](/pictures/medium/50488.jpg?v=1641872609)
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
![Item #38055] The Marriage of Simon Harper. Neil BELL, pseud Stephen Southwold](/pictures/medium/38055.jpg?v=1641872355)
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
![Item #59638] The Cruise of the "Nona" H. BELLOC, Hilaire](/pictures/medium/59638.jpg?v=1665974165)
London: Constable & Company, 1925. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (22cm. Blue vertically-ribbed cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; xiv,(1)-347pp. Trace of rubbing to joints and board corners, faint foxing to endpapers - still a tight, clean, Very Good or better copy, lacking the dustwrapper. More
![Item #30823] This Animal is Mischievous. David BENEDICTUS](/pictures/medium/30823.jpg?v=1641872264)
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
![Item #32590] Colchester Worthies. A Biographical Index of Colchester. Charles E. BENHAM](/pictures/medium/32590.jpg?v=1641872290)
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
![Item #27326] The Political Method. Ernest J. P. BENN](/pictures/medium/27326.jpg?v=1641872230)
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
![Item #21476] The Loot of Cities: Being the adventures of a millionaire in search of joy. A...](/pictures/medium/21476.jpg?v=1641872139)
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
![Item #32487] Our Women. Arnold BENNETT](/pictures/medium/32487.jpg?v=1641872288)
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
![Item #28434] Carr: Being the Biography of Philip Joseph of Carr Foot, in the West Riding of...](/pictures/medium/28434.jpg?v=1641872246)
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
![Item #45528] Churchill: A Study in Greatness. Geoffrey BEST](/pictures/medium/45528.jpg?v=1641872467)
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
