
General Literature
[LARKIN, Philip] Bloomfield, B. C.
Brought To Book
Edinburgh: The Friends of Edinburgh University Library, 1995
8vo, pp. 17. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers, lettered in red to front panel.
First edition... [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]
SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
Notions In Garrison
London: Methuen, 1941
Square 8vo, pp. 134. Original orange boards, lettered in black to spine. Leading and bottom edges uncut.
First edition, SIGNED BY EDITH... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
A Certain World
London: Faber, 1971
8vo, pp. 452. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Dustwrapper.
First UK edition, preceded by the US edition of the previous... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GREEN, Michael
The Art Of Coarse Acting
London: Hutchinson, 1964
8vo, pp. 143. Original black boards, lettered in red on spine.
First edition.
Hilarious dismantling of the acting profession which... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[illus. VICKY] [pseud. SCHAEFFAUER, Herman George] SAGITTARIUS
Let Cowards Flinch
London: Turnstile Press, 1947
Large 8vo, pp. 39. Original illustrated boards.
First edition.
Scarce in the dustwrapper.
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]
[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]
ZOLA, Emile
The Dram-Shop
London: Chatto & Windus, 1887
8vo, pp. 410, 2pp. and 32pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at front and rear respectively. Original deep red boards, lettered in gilt to... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BUCHAN, William
John Buchan: A Memoir
London: Buchan & Enright, 1982
8vo, pp. 272. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Red endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper, photographic portraits of John Buchan... [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]
MURRAY, John G.
A Gentleman Publisher's Commonplace Book
London: John Murray, 1996
8vo, pp. 120. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, second reprinting. ALS FROM HALLAM ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[AUDEN, W.H.]
Gazette of the Grolier Club
New York: 1947
12mo, pp. 207-267. Stapled offprint.
First edition. Contains the text of Auden's Address on Henry James, given to coincide with the... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
DOUGLAS, Norman
Paneros
London: Chatto & Windus, 1931
8vo, pp. 103. Original three-quarter decorated boards, lettered in gilt to blue spine. Top edge gilt, leading and lower edges uncut. Printed... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[ed. ANSTEY, Sandra] THOMAS, R.S.
Selected Prose
Bridgend: Poetry Wales Press, 1983
8vo, pp. 187. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Dustwrapper.
First edition. With an introduction by Ned... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[illus. OXENBURY, Helen] CUTLER, Ivor
Meal One
London: Heinemann, 1971
8vo, unpaginated. Original illustrated boards, lettered in black on front panel and spine.
First edition.
An early example of the work ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WERFEL, Franz
Class Reunion
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929
Small 8vo, pp. 204. Original yellow boards, lettered in blue and red on front panel and spine. Top edge stained blue.
First US... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
