[Bristol]: Society of Socialist Clergy and Ministers (S.S.C.M.), (1946). First Edition. Staple bound pamphlet. 12mo (19cm); printed paper wrappers; 13pp. Mild toning and corner-creasing; Very Good. On the role of the Church of England in post-War world affairs. Outlines a Christian Socialist approach to pacification following the "Fascist hangover." The..... More
London: The Fabian Society, 1884-1905. Thick octavo. Publisher's brown buckram, gilt; variously paginated, with individual titles ranging from 2pp to 50pp. Tight and straight, with scattered foxing to contents; Very Good. The Society issued bound collections of its tracts more or less annually, compiling whichever titles were still in-print or..... More
New York: G.W. Carleton & Co, 1877. First American Edition. A novel of Jewish life in London by the extraordinarily prolific Farjeon, who published more than sixty novels between 1868 and his death in 1903, a number of which were on Jewish themes. The London edition was published the same..... More
Bristol: Burleigh Press, n.d. [1957]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); original simulated cloth in grey decorative dust jacket printed in blue and red; 288pp. Some faint soiling to jacket spine, extremities a bit toned; gift inscription to front free endpaper, else Near Fine. "[A] miniature history of the last 100 years"..... More
London: Hutchinson, [1966]. First Edition. Octavo (20.25cm.); simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 172pp. Minor shelf wear, corners rather bumped, else Very Good or better. More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1920. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's blue buckram, upper cover lettered and double-ruled in black, gilt-lettered spine; [10],369pp.; photographic frontispiece, 7 leaves of plates. Two faint white marks across upper cover, light soil to textblock extremities, else Very Good or better. More
Oxford: Berg, 2007. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 358pp; illus. Includes bibliography. Tight, clean, unmarked copy, Near Fine. More
![Text in Cyrillic] Moe Puteshestvie v Evropy. Perevod s antgliyskogo P. Okhrimenko [Russian...](/pictures/medium/26039.jpg?v=1529353483)
Mosvka: Akts. Izdat. O-vo "Ogonek" 1926 [but 1927]. First Thus. First Russian edition (abridged) of Charlie Chaplin's memoir My Trip Abroad (1922), recounting the Hollywood actor's return to his native England and travels through Europe after 10 years in the United States. Describes the (by then) universally recognized movie star's..... More
London: Elkin Mathews, 1905. First Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); original blue gilt-lettered wrappers; 45pp. Wrappers quite fragile with long shallow loss along upper wrapper fore-edge not affecting text, upper wrapper starting to separate, spine toned; interior about fine. About Very Good. The author's first book, comprised of two short pieces inspired..... More
East Barnet: R.E. Fitzgerald, 1949. Staple-bound pamphlet; 24pp. Front cover split at bound edge; nearly detached. Text clean and sound; Good. Single issue of this independent radical journal. Contributions by R. Bhavan, J.D. Cornbluth, Paul Mattick, others. More
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[Bromley, Kent: Solidarity, 1970]. First Edition. Quarto (25.25cm.); original blue printed staplebound wrappers; 17pp.; printed mimeographed. A bit worn from handling, else Very Good. Solidarity Pamphlet no. 32. Blue wrapper issue priced at 6d. Study of the General and Municipal Workers' Union (today known as GMB, Britain's General Union). More
![GMWU: Scab Union [cover title]. Mark FORE](/pictures/medium/30120.jpg?v=1529353625)
[London: Solidarity, n.d., ca. 1970]. First Edition. Quarto (25.25cm.); original green pictorial staplebound wrappers; 17pp.; printed mimeographed. Near Fine. Solidarity Pamphlet no. 32. Green wrapper issue with price of 5p obscured with manuscript price cancel of 10p. Later (1975) publisher's bifolium catalog laid in, this title listed with the new..... More
Oxford: Printed at the University Press, by Samuel Collingwood and Co., 1840. Octavo (22cm.); contemporary full dark plum gilt-tooled morocco, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges gilt; 413,[3]pp. & unpaginated supplement with added title page: "A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in..... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1907. First Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's dark green gilt-lettered cloth; [8],360pp. Board extremities a bit rubbed and worn with brief exposure at corners, light foxing throughout textblock, dampstain along fore-edge of front pastedown not affecting binding or facing leaf; Near Very Good and..... More
London: Friends Home Service Committee, 1952. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; 48pp; frontispiece; 4 inserted leaves of plates; folding map. Near Fine. History and tourist's guide to Swarthmoor Hall and the surrounding areas of Furness. More
![Introduction: Remembering Cruikshank [Signed]. John FOWLES](/pictures/medium/24251.jpg?v=1529353422)
Princeton: Princeton University Library Chronicle, [1974]. Offprint. Octavo (25.25cm.); publisher's reddish-pink pictorial staplebound wrappers; xiii-xvipp. Just About Fine. Signed by the author on first page. Extracted from the Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. XXXV, nos. 1 & 2. Brief essay on the 19th-century British illustrator George Cruikshank. More
![The French Lieutenant's Woman [Signed and Dated Bookplate Laid in]. John FOWLES, Tom Adams](/pictures/medium/21260.jpg?v=1529353303)
London: Jonathan Cape, [1969]. First Edition. Octavo (20.25cm.); original boards in maroon pictorial dust jacket lettered in gilt, purple topstain; 445pp.; illustrated endpapers by Tom Adams. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, ring stain to upper jacket panel verso almost imperceptible to exterior, else Very Good. Laid in bookplate signed and..... More
London: Heinemann, [1967]. First Edition. Third title in Frankau's "Clothes of a King's Son" trilogy (preceded by Sing for Your Supper (1963) and Slaves of the Lamp (1965)). Set during World War II in the U.S., Bermuda, and Portugal and featuring a lesbian love-story subplot. DAMON et al. (2nd ed.)..... More
London: Bodley Head, [1968]. First Edition. Octavo (20.25cm.); original simulated cloth boards in red pictorial dust jacket; 236pp. Top jacket extremities very gently worn, white spine lettering a bit toned, else Near Fine. Author's last, posthumously published novel, a psychological thriller and the author's second novel to feature a lesbian..... More
London: Freedom Press, 1961. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Staple-bound thick paper wrappers; pp97-128. Gentle wear; Near Fine. Single issue of the influential anarchist periodical. Contributors to this issue include Colin Ward, George Molnar, others. Cover by H. Pisan. More
London: Freedom Press, 1961. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Staple-bound thick paper wrappers; pp225-256. Gentle wear; Near Fine. Single issue of the influential anarchist periodical. Contributors to this issue include Kenneth Maddock, Reg Wright, Nicolas Walter, others. More
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1919). First Edition. Social survey of British labourers (mainly in the city of Sheffield), undertaken immediately following the Great War. The Society was under the directorship (though not credited herein) of the prominent Fabian Socialist, anthroposophist and educator Arthur James Freeman (1886-1972), who also founded..... More
New York: Stein and Day, [1975]. First American Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; [2],271pp. Some general shelf-wear to jacket extremities, minor chipping to spine ends, light dust-soil, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Jacket is, however, about 1/3 cm. shorter than textblock. British..... More
Bilston: James Wilkes, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; [4],234pp.; author portrait frontispiece. Extremities a bit bumped and rubbed, faint soiling to textblock margins, contemporary pencil ownership inscription to front free endpaper; Very Good overall. Includes a list of Black Country dialects with glossary in rear. OCLC..... More
![Dr. Thorndyke's Discovery [alt. title: When Rogues Fall Out]. R. Austin FREEMAN](/pictures/medium/23129.jpg?v=1529353381)
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1932. First American Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins, Jr.; v,[1],312pp. Wear to jacket extremities, including several small chips and tears, tiny loss mid-spine not approaching text, old tape repair to verso, some general shelf-wear to board..... More
