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Anthology of Concrete Poetry (2013, limited edition)
A faithful facsimile of the 1967 first edition
Emmett Williams, editor
Primary Information, Brooklyn, 2013
£35.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Limited Editions | First thus
Christmas at Hilton Hall & Coker's Cousin Caffyn
A fine leather binding of facsimile Magnet issues 1401 to 1412
Frank Richards
Howard Baker (Assumed), London, n.d.
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Childrens | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
Alonzo the Strong & Christmas at Wharton Lodge
A fine leather binding of facsimile Magnet issues 1341 to 1351
Frank Richards
Howard Baker (Assumed), London, n.d.
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Childrens | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
The Man from the Congo, Magnet facsimile issues 764—778
Finely bound in red quarter leather
Frank Richards
Howard Baker, London, n.d.
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Childrens | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
The Making of Harry Wharton (Signed, limited edition)
Volume 3 of the Greyfriars Book Club, signed by Howard Baker
Frank Richards
Howard Baker, London, 1975
£40.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Limited Editions | First thus | Slipcase
The Worst Boy at Greyfriars, First Wharton-Rebel Series (Signed copy)
Signed by Howard Baker, limited to 400 copies and volume 1 of the Greyfriars Book Club (GBC) facsimile series
Frank Richards
Howard Baker, London, 1975
£40.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Limited Editions | First thus | Slipcase
The Far Cry (2002, signed by Emma Smith)
with an original watercolour of the author by Sue Kendall
Emma Smith, with watercolour by Sue Kendall
Persephone Books, London, 2002
£50.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | First thus | Original Artwork
Digging Dinosaurs (1990, signed first thus)
Signed by John R Horner, his account of the excavation of dinosaur nesting sites in Montana
John R Horner, and James Gorman, foreword by David Attenborough. Illustrated by Donna Braginetz and Kris Ellingsen
Harper & Row, New York, 1990
£15.00
History | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First thus
The Poems of Ossian (1805, first Laing edition, two volumes)
Contianing Malcolm Laing's line by line examination of Ossian / James Macpherson's poems
Ossian, and James Macpherson, notes and introduction by Malcolm Laing
James Ballantyne, 1805
£150.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
Sketches of Spain
A new edition of Federico Garcia Larcia's first book, illustrated by Julian Bell
Federico Garcia Lorca, translated by Peter Bush, illustrated by Julian Bell
Serif, London, 2013
£30.00
Travel & Exploration | Soft Cover | First thus
The Gentle Art of Cookery, with 750 Recipes (1929)
A fair copy only but perfectly usable
C F Leyel, and Olga Hartley
Chatto & Windus, London, 1929
£10.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First thus
Ordeal (The Sisters, 1918, and Bleak Morning)
1953, Alexei Tolstoy's momumental epic complete in three volumes
Alexei Tolstoy, translated from the Russian by Ivy & Tatiana Litvinova. Illuminations and tailpieces by V Sveshnikov
Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1953
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
Undertones of War (1930, first revised edition)
Edmund Blunden's classic Great War memoir
Edmund Blunden
Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1930
£12.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First thus
Berlioz and his Century (Signed by pianist Alexander Kelly)
1956, the first condensed edition of Barzun's important study
Jacques Barzun
Meridian Books, Lonfon & New York, 1956
£20.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | Association Copy | First thus
The Book of Margery Kempe, A Modern Version
The life of a 15th century laywoman, widely considered to be the first autobiography written in the English language
Margery Kempe, edited by W Butler-Bowdon, introduction by W R Chambers
Jonathan Cape, London, 1940
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
George Orwell, non-fiction and selected essays & journalism (1980, first thus)
Containing Down and Out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia, Selections from Essays and Journalism 1931 to 1949 (including Such, Such Were the Joys and The Lion and the Unicorn), and The Road to Wigan Pier. Complete and Unabridged
George Orwell
Secker & Warburg / Octopus, London, 1980
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
The Complete Works of Shakesperare
1954, with a signed Christmas card from Ursula and Ralph Vaughan Williams
William Shakespeare, edited by W J Craig
Geoffrey Cumberlege / OUP, Oxford, 1954
£50.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy | First thus
Nausea, The Wall and other stories
Jean-Paul Sartre's 1938 novel and short fiction
Jean-Paul Sartre, introduction by Hayden Carruth, translated by Lloyd Alexander
MJF Books, New York, 1998
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
The Conquered (1927)
Naomi Mitchison's first book, a tale of the Roman defeat of Gaul
Naomi Mitchison
Jonathan Cape, London, 1927
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
En Campagne 1914–1915, Impressions d'un Officier de Legere (1918)
Marcel Dupont WW1 memoirs, this edition for English students
Marcel Dupont, edited by G-C Bosset
George G. Harrap, London, 1918
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
Armand Rassenfosse, 30 colour plates for Les Fleurs du Mal
1930, limited edition, Trente Compositions aux Crayons de Couleur de Rassenfosse pour Les Fleurs du Mal de Charles Baudelaire
Armand Rassenfosse
Dorbon-Ainé, Paris, 1930
£180.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Limited Editions | First thus | Illustrated | Slipcase
Thais (1948, in a unique leather binding)
With 10 colour lithographs by Suzanne Ballivet, and from the library of Gordon R Smith with a signed Lynn Paula Russell bookplate
Anatole France, illustrated by Suzanne Ballivet
Aux Editions du Livre, Monte Carlo, 1948
£120.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | First thus | Illustrated | Slipcase
Cesare Pavese, Selected Poems (Signed copy)
This copy signed and dedicated by translator and editor, Margaret Crosland
Cesare Pavese, edited and translated with a foreword by Margaret Crosland
Penguin Books, London, 1971
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Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy | First thus
The Turmoil (First thus, 1915)
From Louis Conard's Standard Collection of British and American Authors series
Booth Tarkington
Louis Conard, Paris, 1915
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
Oeuvres de Maistre François Villon
1969, full leather, with illustrations by Émile Bernard. Printed with ink mixed with gold powder.
Francois Villon, illustrated by Émile Bernard
Jean de Bonnot, Paris, 1969
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus | Illustrated
