New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1923]. Second (1928) Printing. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth-backed decorative boards, matching printed paper spine pabel, green and cream price-clipped decorative dust jacket; [2],vii,[1],245pp. Jacket a bit darkend and dust-soiled, light edge wear, else Very Good and sound. Collection of plays including "The Compromise of the..... More
![Seven Modern Comedies [Limited Edition]. Lord DUNSANY](/pictures/medium/21648.jpg?v=1641872142)
London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1928]. First Edition. Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 155. Small octavo (19.5cm.); original tan cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; 126pp. Light shelf wear, faint gluestains to front pastedown from previously removed bookplate, some internal foxing, else Very Good and..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1969. First American Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 248pp. Tight, clean copy; brief ownership inscription to front pastedown, else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap), slightly edgeworn with a bit of sunning to spine panel, Very Good. A quite nice..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1950. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (22cm); gray cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine; 187pp. Tight and straight, but with a slight "pinch" to cloth at rear joint, apparently a binding flaw; unobtrusive, but visible. In the printed violet dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 10s. 6d.), lightly..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. First Edition. First impression. Octavo; canary-yellow cloth, dustjacket, 79pp. Fine in a crisp, bright dustwrapper, price-clipped and with a touch of sunning to spine panel, Near Fine. More
[New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1941]. 12mo (18.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 30pp. Stock uniformly toned and a bit brittle due to inferior paper quality, contemporary ownership signature to upper cover, else Very Good and sound. More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1869. First American Edition. Octavo (19cm); deep purple pictorial cloth, stamped in black with gilt titles on spine, blind on rear; 255+[8]pp, frontis., 6 plates. Boards rubbed and soiled, with minor wear to extremities; spine tanned, heel and crown chipped. Bindings shaken, front/rear pastedowns partially..... More
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1967. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth, titled in silver on spine; dustjacket; 89pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in slightly rubbed but unclipped dustwrapper, Very Good. More
London: John Fairburn, 1820. First Edition. First printing. Octavo in fours (22cm). In nineteenth-century half brown calf with marbled paper over boards, seven double gilt rules to spine, with blind ornament in compartments, titled in gilt on brown leather spine label, all edges sprinkled brown; plain endpapers; [iv], 480pp. 1944..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1942. First Edition. First printing. Second issue, in wire-bound wrappers. Octavo (23cm). Staple-bound, printed mauve wrappers; 16pp. A clean and attractive copy, with typical sunning at bound edge and extremities of wrappers. There is a faint impression, presumably from postal cancellation, to upper forecorner of rear..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1933. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm.); publisher's cloth in cream decorative dust jacket printed in green and black, top edge gilt; viii,[2],149pp. Jacket extremities a bit toned, a few tiny losses at top edge of upper and rear panels, none approaching text, else a...... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. First Edition. Anthropological study of the Twi people of the Gold Coast (now Guinea), based on Ellis's observations as a British army officer during and after the Third Anglo-Ashanti War (1873-1874). Octavo. Publisher's maroon cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; floral endpapers; vii,[1]-343pp; map..... More
![The Mine of Dreams [Presentation Copy from Havelock Ellis]. Mrs. Havelock ELLIS, Edith Ellis](/pictures/medium/51863.jpg?v=1641872649)
London: A. & C. Black, 1925. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Pale blue cloth, titled in black on spine and front cover; xx,[1]-234,[2]pp (ads). Presentation on front free endpaper: "With greetings from H.E. [Havelock Ellis]," undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Cloth faded on spine and board extremities; endpapers somewhat age-darkened;..... More
New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Ellison's first novel, a picaresque romance of a young, starving artist on the road in the Great Depression. Ellison (1908-1981) would publish one more well-received novel ("The Dam," 1941), then went on to a long and distinguished career as a magazine editor and..... More
London: Women's Voice and the International Socialists, n.d., ca. 1972. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original orange photo-illustrated staplebound card wrappers; 32pp.; illus. Textblock very gently toned, else Fine. More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1933. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; [6],359pp. Jacket spine and upper panel a bit sunned, cloth spine gilt dulled, else Very Good and sound overall. Historical novel recounting the experiences of an Englishwoman who marries a Mormon..... More
London: James J. Welsh, 1833. First Edition. Short biographical sketch of the popular German musician Charles (or Carl/Karl) Eulenstein (1802-1890), whose performances gained him celebrity in Great Britain in the late 1820s and whose preferred instrument the Jews' harp (Eulenstein also played the guitar) is described on p. [1] as..... More
London: United Kingdom Council of the European Movement, [1964]. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial paper wrappers; 19pp. Mild external wear; Near Fine. On the formation of the European Economic Community (EEC), by the Foreign Minister of the Netherlands and a chief architect of the European Union. Scarce; not separately..... More
[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
![The Co-Operative Movement [Offprint from "The Nineteenth Century and After," Aug 1934]. Edwin C....](/pictures/medium/54523.jpg?v=1641872799)
[London: 1934]. Offprint. Octavo. Staple-bound printed wrappers; 12pp. Covers slightly sunned and chipped at extremities; text clean and unmarked. A sound, Very Good copy. More
Manchester: The Co-operative Union Ltd, N.d. [ca 1933?]. Second edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 16pp. Vertical crease at bound edge; slight toning to text; a Good, sound copy. Summary of twelve lectures delivered under the auspices of the Southern Co-operative Education Association between 1932-33. 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
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
