
General Literature
MUIR, Frank and NORDEN, Denis
You Can't Have Your Kayak and Heat It
London: Eyre Methuen, 1973
8vo, pp. 96. Original laminated boards, photographic portraits of the authors to rear panel.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHORS TO ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WHITEHOUSE, Mary
Whatever Happened To Sex?
London: Wayland, 1977
8vo, pp. 224. Original mauve boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO BOB 'BLOCKBUSTERS' HOLNESS: 'To Bob ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[illus. HIRSCHFELD, Al] PERELMAN, S. J.
Westward Ha!
London: Reinhardt and Evans, 1949
8vo, pp. 159. Original pink boards, title panel to spine, design panel to front board. Top edge green. Illustrated dustwrapper. Small... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[St. Jerome]
Vita De Sancto Hieronymo
Cambridge: Cygnet Press, 1928
Small 8vo, pp. 36. Illustrated with woodcuts. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on black spine. Paper label lettered in black to front... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
YOUNG, Filson
Venus And Cupid
London: Elisina Grant Richards, 1906
8vo, unpaginated. Original quarter vellum, blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine, title label to front panel in black and red. Partially ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HARRIS, Joel Chandler
Uncle Remus: His Songs And His Sayings,
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1881
8vo, pp. 231, 8 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original green cloth illustrated in black and gold.
First edition, first issue, with no mention of this book in the... [more]
ORBEN, Robert
Three Vintage Joke Books
New York: Robert Orben/Louis Tannen, V.d.
3 8vos, bound in illustrated wrappers.
First editions, various printings.
Robert Orben [b. 1927] is an... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BRISLEY, Joyce Lankester
Three Little Milly-Molly-Mandy Plays
London: George Harrap, 1938
Small 8vo, pp. 64. Original tan coarse grain illustrated wrappers, lettered in black to front panel.
First edition, softbound issue.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
PHILLPOTTS, Eden
Thoughts In Prose And Verse
London: Watts, 1924
8vo, pp. 135. Original green boards, lettered in black on front panel and spine.
First edition.
A minor title in the prodigious output of 'The Dartmoor Scribe', but a particularly nice copy.
MANN, Thomas
This Peace
New York: Knopf, 1938
Small 8vo, pp. 38. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine, and with Mann's initials embossed in blind to front panel.
First US... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MANN, Thomas
This Peace
New York: Knopf, 1938
Small 8vo, pp. 38. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine, and with Mann's initials embossed in blind to front panel.
First US... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SCOTT, Sir Walter
The Two Drovers
Westwood: Kindle Press, 1971
8vo, pp. 35. Original grey and green boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Slipcase.
Kindle Press edition, printed to commemorate the... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
DESMOND, Shaw
The Tale Of A Coat
Manchester: Burberry's, N.d. [?1937]
12mo, pp. 26. Original oversized stiff paper wrappers, title label to front panel.
First edition. Burberry's directors'... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[illus. HIRSCHFELD, Al] PERELMAN, S. J.
The Swiss Family Perelman
London: Reinhardt and Evans, 1951
8vo, pp. 152. Original orange boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First UK edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[contrib. DOYLE, Arthur Conan]
The Strand, Christmas 1920 Issue
London: George Newnes, 1921
8vo, [pp. 1-84 advertisements] pp. 463-580 [pp. 85-136 advertisements]. Illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. CHRISTMAS 1920 ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SOMERVILLE, E. OE
The States Through Irish Eyes
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930
Large 8vo, pp. 200. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Edges uncut.
First edition. One of 375 copies SIGNED BY THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[trans. FITZGERALD, Edward]
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
London: George Harrap, N.d. [c.1925]
8vo, unpaginated. Original burgundy leather boards, title in gilt to spine. Ivy leaf design to both panels, illustrated in green and gilt ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[AUDEN, W.H.]
The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard
New York: David McKay, 1952
Small 8vo, pp. 225. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated endpapers. No dustwrapper, as issued.
First edition,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
