
CENDRARS, Blaise
Confessions of Dan Yack
London: Peter Owen, 1990
8vo, pp. 120. Original tan boards, lettered in black on spine.
First English-language edition, originally published in French by Au Sans Pareil in 1929.
A fine copy.
TEARNE, Roma
Brixton Beach
London: Harper, 2009
8vo, pp. 408. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
Longlisted for the 2010 Costa Book Awards.
YATES, Dornford
Lower Than Vermin
London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1950
8vo, pp. 325. Original black boards, lettered in blue on spine.
First edition.
YATES, Dornford
Cost Price
London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1949
8vo, pp. 286. Original black boards, lettered in gold on spine.
First edition. One of the Chandos books, written in the characteristic Yates style -- a style once described by Alan... [more]
PRITCHETT, V. S.
Books In General
London: Chatto & Windus, 1953
8vo, pp. 258. Original blue boards, lettered in green on spine.
First edition.
Essays on Gide, Gissing, W.W.Jacobs, Dickens, Stendhal and many others.
McMILLAN, Terry
Waiting To Exhale
London: Doubleday, 1992
8vo, pp. 366. Original blue boards, lettered in gold on spine. Pictorial dustwrapper.
First U.K. edition.
GEE, Maggie
My Driver
London: Telegram, 2009
8vo, pp. 321. Original black boards, lettered in black on a gold spine. In the dustwrapper.
First edition.
Longlisted for the 2010 Costa Book Awards.
[Olympia Press] O'CONNOR, Philip
Steiner's Tour
Paris: Olympia Press, 1960
8vo, pp. 170. Original green stiff paper wrappers. Pictorial dustwrapper.
First edition.
Extracts from the book appeared in the Olympia Press publication Evergreen Review,... [more]
EARLY, Eleanor
The New England Cookbook
New York: Random House, 1954
8vo., pp. 236. Original green boards, lettered in yellow and black on front panel and spine. Small bookseller's label to rear pastedown.
First edition.
SERANNE, Ann
Ann Seranne's Good Food With A Blender
New York: William Morrow, 1974
8vo., pp. 412. Original tan boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
FRANK, Dorothy C.
The Peanut Cookbook
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1976
8vo., pp.110. Original brown boards, lettered in red on spine.
First edition.
'One hundred recipes -- from soup to sweets -- including Jimmy Carter's favorite peanut... [more]
LAWLISS, Chuck
The Great Resorts Drinks Book
New York: Gallery Books, N.d., stated first printing on verso of title page.
4to, pp. 155. Original white boards, lettered in pink on spine.
First edition.
JEFFERS, H. Paul
High Spirits
New York: Lyons & Burford, 1997
Large 8vo, pp. 230. Original black and grey boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition.
[ed. NEWMAN, Charles] PLATH, Sylvia
The Art of Sylvia Plath: A Symposium
London: Faber, 1970
Large 8vo., pp. 319. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
RICHLER, Mordecai
Cocksure
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968
8vo., pp. 207. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First UK edition.
HUGHES, Richard
The Fox In The Attic
London: Chatto & Windus, 1961
8vo., pp. 352. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
O'BRIEN, Edna
Night
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972
8vo, pp. 151. Original brown boards, lettered in orange and white on spine. Dustwrapper.
First edition. A fine copy.
AUDEN, W.H.
As I Walked Out One Evening
London: Faber, 1995
8vo, pp. 147. Original pale blue stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to both panels and spine.
Uncorrected proof of this collection of... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
TENNANT, Emma
The Time Of The Crack
London: Cape, 1973
8vo, pp. 142. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition of Tennant's second book, and the first... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GLYDER, John
Flaming June
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1949
8vo, pp. 256. Original orange boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition.
