Harrisburg: Stackpole Company, (1954). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; (x),218pp; illus. Mild rubbing to board edges, else clean, tight and unmarked, Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped, lightly rubbed at extremities; Very Good+. A quite attractive copy. More

Boston: Dutton & Wentworth's Print, 1847. First Edition. Contents only include the poems, not the musical compositions, which Dempster performed during his soirées. This series includes pieces by Longfellow, G.P. Morris, Alfred Tennyson, and others. BAL 345 and BAL 594. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's blue wrappers printed within decorative border; [24]pp.;..... More

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1946]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in red decorative dust jacket; [2],359pp.; photographic frontispiece, five leaves of plates. Jacket extremities lightly chipped and a shade darkened, white spine lettering additionally toned, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown, else Near Fine in Very Good..... More

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1960. First American Edition. 8vo. 21cm x 14cm. Publisher's red cloth boards. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated in black to spine and front board, in a bright clean example of the dustjacket. A fine copy. 288pp. Internally clean. Kennedy Martin's first and only novel, as..... More

Mazenod, Basutoland: Catholic Centre, [1966]. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound card wrapeprs; 116pp. A hint of shelf wear and dust-soil, else Fine. Sesotho-language play first published in 1950, though the author is best known for his novel "Mopheme," addressing problems that arise from polygamy while based on the story of..... More

Westport: Greenwood Press, [2001]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); original cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; viii,[2],343pp. Tiny blemish to jacket gloss, minor edge wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page in English and Greek. Contributions to the Study of Music and..... More

New York: Morrow, 1989. First Edition. First printing. Large quarto (35cm.); grey paper boards backed in black publisher's cloth, in glossy red dust jacket with embossed metallic title; 272pp. Roddy McDowall's b/w photography accompanies individual celebrity commentaries of their professional peers; 116 total. Text block has very intermittent yellowing and..... More

Moskva: Galart, 1995. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 368pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light wear to jacket extremities including a few tiny chips and closed tears to rear panel, else Very Good or better. Text chiefly in Russian, with captions in Russian and English. Monograph chiefly..... More

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1963. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in blue photo-illustrated dust jacket designed by Thomas Ruzicka; 311pp. Some wear to jacket extremities and surfaces, else Fine/Very Good. Memoirs of a Black South African actor. More

Chatham: Sagarin Press, 1976. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed by the author (but not by Wallenda) on front endpaper: "To Bill Noble / remembering a jolly weekend - Happy Trails," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Fine copy in Near Fine, unclipped dustwrapper. More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. First edition. Chamberlain (1878-1966) authored some 40 books and screenplays in a career that spanned 5 decades. Among his many Hollywood credits were "White Man" (1924), a silent adventure film which was one of the earliest vehicles for Clark Gable, and "The Red House"..... More

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1952. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in green and black price-clipped pictorial dust jacket; vii,[1],306pp. A hint shelf-wear, old pencil price to front flap, else a Near Fine, quite brilliant copy. Fifth volume of the author's autobiography. AYLING & DURKAN A30a. More

New York: Random House, [1942]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white and black decorative dust jacket, black topstain; [10],242pp. Dampstain to jacket verso only just bleeding into cloth and exterior of rear panel, some general light shelf wear, spine rather toned, else Near Fine in a...... More