
DUFF, Charles
A Handbook On Hanging
London: Grant Richards and Philip Sainsbury at the Cayme Press, 1928
Small 8vo, pp. 128. Original pictorial boards with a gallows design. Printed paper label to... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WILLIAMS, Kit
Masquerade
London: Cape, 1979
4to, unpaginated. Original illustrated boards, no dustwrapper, as issued.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE: 'To ---- fair... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
COOPER, Susan
The Dark Is Rising
London: Chatto & Windus, 1973
8vo, pp. 216. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First UK edition, published a month after its US counterpart... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MILLIGAN, Spike
The Goon Show: Series Six Number Twelve: The Terrible Revenge Of Fred Fu Manchu (announced as Fred Fu Manchu And His Bamboo Saxophone)
London: N.p. [BBC], 1955
23 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition. Series Six, Number Twelve, first broadcast on 6 December 1955.
[EROTICA] [illus. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey] ARISTOPHANES
The Lysistrata Of Aristophanes:
Paris: Privately Printed [?Vendôme Press], 1931
Large 8vo, pp. 61. Loose signatures laid in to stiff paper wrappers, lettered in red on front panel and spine. Unopened. Card... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[HANCOCK, Tony] GALTON, Ray and SIMPSON, Alan
Hancock's Half Hour: Series 1, Episode 14, 'The Sheikh'
N.p. [London]: N.p. [BBC], 1955
36 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition.
Episode 14 of the first series of the peerless radio... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
STRUTHER, Jan
Mrs. Miniver
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1940
8vo, pp. 288. Original red boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION:... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SYKES, Eric; MILLIGAN, Spike; BISHOP, Michael; PARK, Phil
Cinderella
London: N.p.[Moss Empires Ltd.], 1953
Mimeographed playscript, bound with brown ribbon in outsize red card covers.
First edition. ERIC SYKES' COPY, WITH HIS NAME TO TITLE PAGE.
This version of Cinderella was staged at the London Palladium at Christmas in 1953. It was the making of Julie Andrews, who on the strength of her work in this show was cast in the Broadway production of The Boy Friend, a huge hit which launched her international career. Also among the cast were Max Bygraves, Richard Hearne (Mr. Pastry), and the future Dr. Who Jon Pertwee, who played one of the Ugly Sisters. The reception for the show was generally good, although some critics questioned the its occasional forays into offbeat, off-colour humour. (Step forward, Milligan....).
A unique copy.
[ed. CHIGNON, Niles]
The Camp Followers' Guide
New York: Avon, 1965
8vo, pp. 124. Original pictorial stiff paper wrappers. Yellow text block edges.
First edition.
'Camp is coming in like King Kong, so... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
PERELMAN, S. J.
The Ill-Tempered Clavichord
London: Max Reinhardt, 1953
8vo, pp. 211. Original green boards, lettered in black on spine.
First UK edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
MACLAREN-ROSS
The Funny Bone
London: Elek Books, 1956
8vo, pp. 184. Original dark green boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
A collection of essays, short stories and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
De FORREST, Michael
The Gay Year
New York: Woodford Press, 1949
8vo, pp. 267. Original black cloth, lettered in yellow on spine.
First edition.
While use of the word 'gay' to denote homosexuality can be traced back at least to the 1920s and... [more]
LOGAN, Anne M.
Wine And Wine Cooking
Richmond: Media General 1972
Large 8vo, pp. 328. Original red boards, lettered in gilt on front panel and spine.
First edition.
AUDEN, W.H.
The Ballad of Barnaby
New York: G. Schirmer, 1970
4to, pp. 53. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front and rear panels.
First edition.
In his... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
O'BRIAN, Patrick
Clarissa Oakes
London: Harper Collins, 1992
8vo, pp. 256. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO TITLE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
DOYLE, Arthur Conan
The Valley Of Fear
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1915
8vo, pp. 306, 6pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original read boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine. Edges... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
