
General Literature
[illus. BLAKE, William] MILTON, John
On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1923
4to, pp. 32. Original decorated three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to spine and with title label to front panel. Glassine wrapper, with dustwrapper featuring a Blake illustration overlaid. Leading and lower edges uncut. ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
TREASE, Geoffrey
Red Comet
Moscow: Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R., 1936
Small 8vo, pp. 211. Original cream boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Maps to endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition.
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BURTON, Richard
Meeting Mrs. Jenkins
New York: William Morrow & Co., 1966
8vo, pp. 24. Original tan three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to spine and with device in gilt to front panel. Photographic... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
REID, Forrest
Following Darkness
London: Edward Arnold, 1912
8vo, pp. 320. Original brown boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Lower edge uncut.
First edition.
A coming-of-age novel from an Ulster novelist at the beginning of the twentieth century is always going to invite comparisons with Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and comparisons are always made, but Reid is more than able to stand on his own two feet, not only because of the calibre of his writing, but because of the homosexual sensibility which permeates his work, never explicit but always there. This book is no exception. Reid was the bridge between the ornate crypticism of the Uranians and the beginning of the genre we now know as Gay Lit. He's both important and scarce -- which is why this less than beautiful copy is offered.
Meredith, George
One Of Our Conquerors
London: Chapman and Hall, 1891
3 vols. 8vos., pp. 302, 320 and 307. Original blue coarse cloth boards, tooling in black to front panels, lettered in gilt on spines, blindstamped publisher's device to rear panels. Edges uncut.... [more]
[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]
[intro. SITWELL, Sacheverell] BEAUMONT, Cyril W.
The History Of Harlequin
London: C. W. Beaumont, 1926
Large 8vo, pp. 156. Original illustrated boards, vellum spine lettered in gilt. Pages uncut.
First edition, no. 25 of 325 copies published by the author. With a preface by Sacheverell Sitwell to whom, with his brother Osbert, the book is dedicated.,
Cyril Beaumont was one of the pre-em
[MILLIGAN, Spike] HARRISON, Frederic
John Ruskin
London: MacMillan, 1903
8vo, pp. 216, 4pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Top edge gilt.
First edition, fourth... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SITWELL, Osbert
Left Hand, Right Hand! 5 vols.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1945-1950
8vos, all in original red boards, lettered in gold on spine.
First editions of Sitwell's autobiography.
A lovely set which has been together since publication.
CALDER, Nigel
Einstein's Universe
London: BBC, 1979
8vo, pp. 178. Original tan boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, author's photographic portrait to rear panel.
First... [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]
SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
Stray-aways
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1920
8vo, pp. 280. Original blue boards, lettered in white and black to front panel and black to spine. Tissue guard to frontispiece. Lacking... [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]
JACOBS, W.W.
The Lady Of The Barge
London: Harper & Brothers, 1902
8vo, pp. 300, 8pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at rear. Original orange illustrated boards, lettered in black to front panel and gilt... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
CAMUS, Albert
Lyrical And Critical Essays
New York: Albert A. Knopf: 1968
8vo, pp. 365. Original burgundy boards, lettered in gilt to spine, Camus' name in blind to front panel. Printed price-clipped dustwrapper,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HENTY, G.A.
A March On London
London, Glasgow and Dublin: Blackie & Sons, 1898 [1897]
8vo, pp. 352, 32 pp. catalogue bound in at rear. All edges gilt.
First edition, with the date 1898... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[ed. ZUCKERMAN, Lord]
Great Zoos Of The World: Their Origins And Significance
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, N.d. [1979]
Large 8vo, pp. 231. Original tan boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY LORD ZUCKERMAN:... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[pseud. CLEMENS, Samuel TWAIN, Mark]
Life On The Mississippi
London: Chatto & Windus, 1883
8vo, pp. 561, 32pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at rear. Original red cloth illustrated boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
