
BETJEMAN, John
Ghastly Good Taste
London: Chapman and Hall, 1933
8vo, pp. 136. Fold-out map to rear. Original pink three-quarter boards, letter in black to front panel. Printed spine label. Bottom edge uncut. ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
THOMAS, R.S.
Destinations
Cambridge: Celandine Press, 1985
Large 8vo, pp. 30. Original threequarter marbled boards, lettered in gilt to black buckram spine.
First edition, no. 289 of 300... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
RIPSTON, Rowena
Children, For Shame!
Paris: Vendome Press, 1949
8vo, pp. 283. Original illustrated paper wrappers, lettered in red and white to front panel, and black to spine.
First edition.
DONVILLE, G. [Illus. HEROUARD, Charles]
Le Libertinage Du Retroussé
Paris: Aux Galants Passe-Temps, 1937
8vo, pp. 252. Rebound in red boards lettered in gilt on spine, original wrappers bound in.
First edition. French text. No. 495 of 2000 copies.
Lesbian spanking novel from the stable of Jean Fort, the clandestine publisher of mostly sado-masochistic erotica. Fort was active in P
[COWARD, Noel] LESLEY, Cole; PAYN, Graham and MORLEY, Sheridan
Noel Coward And His Friends
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979
4to, pp. 216. Original white boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY ALL THREE AUTHORS ON PUBLICATION DAY TO BOB HOLNESS: 'Dear Bob, with our thanks, Coley, Publication Day. Graham, + Sheridan'. ADDITIONALLY SIGNED IN FULL BY ALL THREE AUTHORS ON TITLE PAGE.<
[Roxburghe Club] FOGAZZARO, Antonio
Eden Anto
San Francisco: The Roxburghe Club, 1930
Large 8vo, pp. 29. Original green stiff paper wrappers, spine label and silk ties. Green slipcase.
No. 76 of 250 numbered... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MANN, Thomas
The Beloved Returns (Lotte In Weimar)
New York: Knopf, 1940
8vo, pp. 453. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition in English, trade issue, stated first and second printings... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GREY, Zane
Riders Of The Purple Sage
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, N.d. [1917]
8vo, pp. 335. 4 pp. advertisements at rear. Original illustrated blue-green boards, lettered in purple on front panel and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MANN, Thomas
Stories Of Three Decades
New York: Knopf, 1936
8vo, pp. 567. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine and in blind to front board. Leading edge uncut. Top edge stained red.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[ed. WIERSBE, Warren]
Teenage Rock
Wheaton: Miracle Books, 1959
8vo, pp. 32. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
First edition.
'Whether you're "solid" (according to the rock 'n roll dictionary ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
FRENCH, Allen
At Plattsburg
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917
8vo, pp. 310, uncut. Original olive green boards, lettered in blue on front panel and spine. Small patch to spine, possibly a... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
DEPEW, Albert N.
Gunner Depew
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1918
8vo, pp. 312. Original dark blue boards, lettered in gilt on front panel and spine. Two small stamped names to front pastedown and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
PULLMAN, Philip
The Amber Spyglass
London: Scholastic, 2000
8vo, pp. 550. Original black boards, lettered in gold on front panel and spine.
First edition.
The third book in Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.
BIMSON, Walter R.
O Caledonia:
N.p. 'Privately printed by Walter R. Bimson for a few of his hunting and fishing companions' February 1, 1965
20 pp. pamphlet, stiff paper wrappers.
First and only edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'Taylor Smith /... [more]
PARR, Martin
Think Of England
London: Phaidon, 2000
4to, pp. 144. Original red boards, in a photographic dustwrapper. Blue endpapers.
First edition.
A fine copy in a fine,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[intro. McEWAN, Ian] PARR, Martin
Home And Abroad
London: Cape, 1993
Oblong 4to, pp. 57. Original photographic stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. Parr's photographic study of holidaymaking, at home and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[AUDEN, W.H.]
A Tribute To Wystan Hugh Auden
Menston: Scolar Press, 1973
4to green stiff paper folder, printed in black, holding green pamphlet and 25 loose pp. printed on Amalfi, and bearing the pamphlets contents in... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SETH, Vikram
The Golden Gate
London: Faber, 1986
8vo, pp. 307. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition of the author's first book, a novel written entirely in... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
ISHIGURO, Kazuo
An Artist Of The Floating World
London: Faber, 1986
8vo, pp. 206. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, second issue (printed by Richard Clay). Winner of the Whitbread... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
