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Item #11599 Princess and Priest and Mademoiselle Etienne. A S. F. Hardy

A.S.F. Hardy

Item 11599Princess and Priest and Mademoiselle Etienne

London: Downey & Co., 1895. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Slight pushing to the spine tips, a light reading lean. From a contemporary Spectator review: "Any attempt to reproduce for the readers of the nineteenth century the social life and civilisation of Ancient Egypt deserves consideration. That.....

Price: £75.00

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Item #12894 Moss is the Stuff. Adrian Alington

Adrian Alington

Item 12894Moss is the Stuff

London: Chatto & Windus, 1937. First / First. Hardback. Very good condition. Some offsetting to the free endpapers. Spine tips a little bumped. The jacket has some short closed tears and chips along the edges, and a little rubbing but a presentable copy overall.

Price: £100.00

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Item #13744 Yesterday. Anna Costantini

Anna Costantini

Item 13744Yesterday

London: Greening & Co., 1912. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. Very good condition. In the uncommon jacket. An Edwardian romance with the backdrop of the Italian aristocracy. No copies located in commerce. The wrapper is toned, with a few short tears and chips. Some rubbing to the lettering on.....

Price: £200.00

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Item #12846 When the Bells Rang - a Tale of What Might Have Been. Anthony Armstrong, Bruce Graeme

Anthony Armstrong & Bruce Graeme

Item 12846When the Bells Rang - a Tale of What Might Have Been

London: George G.Harrap, 1943. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Author's book plate on the front pastedown, whether this indicates that it was his copy is anyone's guess. The jacket has some edgewear and fading to the spine. A small hole on the spine of the jacket which.....

Price: £275.00

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Item #11140 The Shadow of Drumcarnett. Archibald Willam Kerr

Archibald Willam Kerr

Item 11140The Shadow of Drumcarnett

London: Alexander-Ouseley, n.d. [1929]. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy, in the uncommon jacket. A romance of modern life in Northern Ireland with which the tradition of a curse, dating from the misty past is curiously interwoven. Some tanning to the jacket spine, and a little toning elsewhere.....

Price: £250.00

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Item #9030 The Quest for Bloods: A Study of the Victorian Penny Dreadful. Arthur Edward White

Arthur Edward White

Item 9030The Quest for Bloods: A Study of the Victorian Penny Dreadful

London: Privately Printed, 1997. Limited Hardback. A fine copy. An out of series copy. Fine condition, just a touch sunned to the spine. The numbered / signed copies came with an original penny number; the present copy does not come with such.

Price: £100.00

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Item #9407 The Grand Seigneur. Arthur George

Arthur George

Item 9407The Grand Seigneur

London: Methuen, 1913. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Uncommon, no copies located in auction sales or on the market. Some creasing to the wraps, spine creased with a couple of chips. A little dusty.

Price: £100.00

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Item #9937 The Amazing Epilogue. Barbara Wingfield-Stratford

Barbara Wingfield-Stratford

Item 9937The Amazing Epilogue

London: Lovat Dickson, 1933. Roland Pym. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Uncommon in the dustjacket. A pastiche of London life and Woolf's Orlando, according to Pike (in Metropolis on the Styx). The jacket has been reinforced to the reverse with tape. A little dusting and tanning to.....

Price: £125.00

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Item #10553 Nothing Serious. Barry Pain

Barry Pain

Item 10553Nothing Serious

London: The Black & White Publishing Co., 1901. First / First. Paperback. A good copy in the original wraps. Chipping and splitting to the spine, but intact. Half title a little soiled, but bright internally. Rare.

Price: £235.00

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Item #10548 The Light and the Dark. C P. Snow

C.P. Snow

Item 10548The Light and the Dark

London: Faber, 1947. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Some tanning to the jacket, insect damage to lower edge and some scuffs to the spine. Tips a little bumped, some offsetting and an owner's label. A couple of spots to the top edge.

Price: £300.00

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Item #9609 The Elder MacGregor. Charles Hannan

Charles Hannan

Item 9609The Elder MacGregor

London: R.A. Everett, n.d. [1904]. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. An uncommon edition, no copies located in commerce, two in institutions. It appears to be a collection of 12 light-hearted, pastoral Scottish stories. Spine is a little rubbed, toned and torn.

Price: £100.00

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Item #8926 The Essays of Elia. Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb

Item 8926The Essays of Elia

London: J.M. Dent, 1915. Ninth Hardback. A near fine copy. Bound in half morocco by Riviere. A nice copy illustrated by Charles Brock. Introduction by Augustine Birrell. Marbled endpapers, TEG.

Price: £125.00

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Item #13249 King Edward's Ring: A West African Yarn of Adventures More or Less True. Charles...

Charles Partridge [as Peregrine Atbush)

Item 13249King Edward's Ring: A West African Yarn of Adventures More or Less True

London: East Anglian Daily Times, 1908. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed by the author, with additional letter from the author tipped in. Original wrappers bound to the rear. Partridge (1872–1955) was a British colonial administrator and anthropologist who served in Nigeria. He documented the customs and.....

Price: £250.00

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Item #10725 Six Lives and a Book. Claude Houghton

Claude Houghton

Item 10725Six Lives and a Book

London: Collins, 1943. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed by the author to Grant Richards. The jacket is a little nicked to the top of the spine and has a 15mm tear there also, a couple of punctures to the lower panel. Book itself in nice shape.....

Price: £275.00

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Item #13601 The Golden Hawk. Clive Holland

Clive Holland

Item 13601The Golden Hawk

Or, the Wanderings of John Malcom

London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1888. W.J. Warren. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. Very good condition. Inscribed by the author at the verso of the front endpaper. Some markings to the cloth, a little bumping to the spine tips and corners, slight lean.

Price: £65.00

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Item #11396 The Glasgow Diary. Donald Saunders, inc. Alasdair Gray

Donald Saunders [and others inc. Alasdair Gray]

Item 11396The Glasgow Diary

Edinburgh: Polygon Books, 1984. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Signed by Saunders and Gray (there were 12 contributors in total). Bump to the lower spine tips, and some light rolling elsewhere.

Price: £80.00

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Item #13674 Wisdom While You Wait [A Sammelband of Satire]. E V. Lucas, Saki Charles L. Graves,...

E.V. Lucas & Charles L. Graves, Saki, Sidney Stephen and Leslie Lee

Item 13674Wisdom While You Wait [A Sammelband of Satire]

London: Isbister & Co., 1903. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. Very good condition. A sammelband of five Edwardian works of satire and parody, including: Lucas and Graves's Wisdom While You Wait: Being a Foretaste of the Glories of the 'Insidecompletuarbritanniaware...' by Lucas and Graves (1903) Lives of the 'Lustrious.....

Price: £125.00

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Item #11969 What a Life! E V. Lucas, George Morrow

E.V. Lucas & George Morrow

Item 11969What a Life!

London: Methuen, 1911. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. No jacket. An important book helping ushering the surrealist movement. A fictional autobiography plotted from the illustrations in a department shop catalogue. A little rubbing to the boards, but nice overall. Small ownership symbol [MP?] on the front endpaper.....

Price: £475.00

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Item #12853 Bottom Dogs. Edward Dahlberg

Edward Dahlberg

Item 12853Bottom Dogs

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1930. First US / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Introduction by D.H. Lawrence. Some chipping / wear to the jacket, a little fading to the spine, the top and bottom edges of the jacket have been reinforced with tape. A little dusty to the.....

Price: £80.00

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Item #13235 Ann Lee's & Other Stories. Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen

Item 13235Ann Lee's & Other Stories

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1926. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Lacking the dustjacket. Some bumping to the spine tips and corners, a little shaken. Collects 11 short tales, her second book. Top edge a little dusty. Some tanning to the endpapers and a little separation at the.....

Price: £75.00

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Item #12895 Red Strangers. Elspeth Huxley

Elspeth Huxley

Item 12895Red Strangers

London: Harper & Brothers, 1939. First / First. Hardback. Very good condition. First US edition. "An account of the arrival of European settlers to colonial Kenya told through the eyes of four generations of Kikuyu tribesmen in Kenya." Some offsetting to the front pastedowns and free endpapers with a small.....

Price: £120.00

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Item #13589 Hot Pot: or Miscellaneous Papers. Francis Francis

Francis Francis

Item 13589Hot Pot: or Miscellaneous Papers

London: The Field Office, 1880. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed "with the author's compliments." Collects 23 short pieces. A little bumping to the spine tips and corners.

Price: £125.00

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Item #12536 The Machine to Kill. Gaston Leroux

Gaston Leroux

Item 12536The Machine to Kill

London: Macaulay, 1935. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Some chiping and wear to the jacket edges, a little loss, reading lean and some dustiness to the top edge. Price-clipped.

Price: £100.00

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Item #8349 Rosamund: A Dramatic Poem. George Sterling

George Sterling

Item 8349Rosamund: A Dramatic Poem

San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1920. Limited Paperback. A very good copy. One of 500 copies. An association copy inscribed by Sterling to fellow author Owen Rutter. The inscription reads: For Owen Rutter from his friend George Sterling, San Francisco, May 28th, 1921. Wraps a little worn, but largely and excellent.....

Price: £100.00

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Item #13258 Love and the Freemason. Guy Thorne

Guy Thorne

Item 13258Love and the Freemason

London: T. Werner Laurie, nd [1915]. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. No jacket. A little toning to the spine, reading lean, top edge a bit dusty and fingered. A little marked internally, with a collector's plate. A few marks to the boards.

Price: £75.00

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