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London: Jarrolds Publishers Limited, 34 Paternoster Row, E.C.4, No Date [circa 1931]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in black; pictorial design in black on spine panel. 234 pp., colour frontispiece (Biplane and Airship!). Front free endpaper lacking; some scattered foxing. A very good..... More
New York: Popular Library, [1979]. First Paperback Edition (& 1st printing). Paperback. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers (paperback format). 192 pp. US Edition. Issued as Popular Library 0-445-04363-6 ($1.75). Faint corner crease to upper front cover, trifling rubbing / wear at spine tips; still, a fine, bright, unread copy with..... More
New York, London and Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1896. First American Edition. Octavo. Original red cloth titled in gilt and black and with a design of a snake in green on spine panel, front panel lettered in gilt upon a decoration of a shield and swords in black surrounded..... More
New York: G.W. Dillingham Company, Publishers. [1906]. First Edition. Octavo, original pictorial brown cloth stamped in black & brown, spine panel lettered in black. 310 pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard and five additional full-page black & white plates by Grunwald. Small bookseller's ticket on rear endpaper (Paul Elder & Company..... More
Philadelphia & New York: Chilton Books, 1965 (but later). First Edition, Later Issue. Hard Cover. Octavo, original red boards lettered in white on spine panel. 412 pp., map, Appendixes at rear. Stated "FIRST EDITION" on the copyright page, but this is a later issue / printing, with the code "567890..... More
Scarborough, On: Signet / The New American Library of Canada Limited, 1979. First Canadian Edition. Paperback. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers (paperback format). 212 pp. Canadian Edition, identical to the American Edition issued by Signet / NAL but with the Canadian Imprint on title and copyright page. Issued as Signet..... More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company. 1935. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original black cloth stamped in red. 226 pp., frontispiece map, illustrations. Previous owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper, a very good copy, clean and sound. ¶ Purported to be written from a previously undiscovered manuscript of..... More
Lakewood, Colorado: Centipede Press, 2022. First Hardcover Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo, original black cloth stamped in metallic red and green, pictorial endpapers, red silk bookmarker bound in, top page edges stained red. 333 pp, Illustrated throughout. Issued in an edition of 500 numbered copies, this being copy No. 310, signed..... More
London: Longman's, Green and Co., 1896. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, two volumes. Original blue-gray boards with linen shelf backs, printed paper labels on spine panels, all edges untrimmed, double flyleaves at front and rear of each volume. 378 + 279 pp. Printed by C. Whittingham & Co. at..... More
Boulder, Colorado: The Aspen Press, 1976. First American Edition. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, stapled at spine. 43 pp., frontispiece portrait. 500 copies printed. A fine copy in wrappers. ¶ Originally published by James Hogg, London, 1888. Queen's Quorum No. 13, a melodramatic Victorian tale of theft and attempted murder. The..... More
London: The Detective Magazine, 1923. First Printing. Large octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Single issue of this fiction magazine. Paginated pp 201-300. Dampstain affecting the top corner and the top of the page edges and front cover. Some rubbing to front panel, wear and fraying near top of spintop 1-inch of..... More
London: Longman's, Green, & Co., 1899. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original pictorial brown cloth blocked in black & titled in gilt on spine & front panel, black coated endpapers, top edges gilt. 308 pp. Frontispiece by William Reader plus eleven additional full-page black & white plates, all in..... More
Ashcroft, BC: Ash-Tree Press, 2007. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original brick-red cloth, spine lettered in gold. 375 pp. Dust jacket artwork byJason Van Hollander. 400 copies printed. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Fine is our highest grade; as new. ¶ Anthology of 30 strange &..... More
London: Howard Baker, 1970. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original dark blue boards lettered in gilt on spine panel. 190 pp. Very mild spine lean, a very good to near fine copy, bright and attractive, in the oiginal colour pictorial dust jacketthat has very mild rubbing / wear at..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company. [1931]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. 319 pp. Blue cloth lettered in black on spine & front panel. Ink name on front free endpaper; spine panel tanned (lettering still bright). A clean very good copy. ¶ Lost Race novel. Mayans & Atlantis. The "House of..... More
New York: A Signet Book / New American Library, 1976. First Edition (& 1st printing). Paperback. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers (paperback format). 202 pp + [8] pp black & white photos bound in near the centre of the text. Canadian Edition, with PRINTED IN CANADA on copyright page, correct..... More
London: Associated Newspapers Ltd, No Date [1936]. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Large crown octavo, original black cloth titled and decorated in green on spine & front panel, decorated endpapers. 320 pp. With 12 b/w illustrations by Norman Keene. Anonymously edited by Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (a.k.a. John Gawsworth), this..... More
London: Printed For Longman, Huest, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row. 1805. First Edition (& 1st printing). Small 12mo; bound in contemporary half calf over marbled paper boards, leather title label on spine lettered in gilt. 203 pp., binders blank & half title precede title leaf. Small heraldic device blindstamped to upper..... More
London: Strange Attractor Press. 2018. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, light brown paper-covered boards with black crowned serpent design by Ania Goszczynska, patterned endpapers. xl + 320pp., black & white illustrations. The hardcover edition,limited to 500 signed copies, this copy SIGNED on the half-title page by David Tibet. Also..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1979. First Paperback Edition (& 1st printing). Paperback. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers (paperback format). 275 pp. US Edition. Issued as Bntam Book 12626-1 ($2.50). Double front cover (not a cutaway, but with a second cover underneath that carries a blurb advertising the book). Minute wear..... More
New York: Avon, 1982. First Edition (& 1st printing). Paperback. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers (paperback format). 406 pp. US Edition. Issued as Avon 80275 ($3.50).. Embossed cover art. A fine, bright, unread copy with no creasing, writing, names or stamps. Basically an 'as-new' copy. ¶ Paperback original, the true..... More
![Item #312496 THE LORD OF THE RINGS comprising THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING [with] THE TWO TOWERS...](/pictures/thumb/312496.jpg?v=1674369654)
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954-55. First Editions (& 1st printings). First Edition, First Impressions of All Three Volumes, comprising 'The Fellowship of the Ring', 'The Two Towers' and 'The Return of the King'. Octavo, bound in full red morocco leather, the spines with five raised bands lettered, ruled..... More
![Item #312750 LONDON SOCIETY. THE CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 1886 [with] BELGRAVIA ANNUAL, CHRISTMAS, 1886....](/pictures/thumb/312750.jpg?v=1674369676)
London: Various Publishers, 1886. First Editions of Both Items. Octavo, bound in plain red cloth, front panel lettered in gilt, spine panel ruled in gilt and lettered simply "The Christmas Number" in gilt. 100 + 127 pp. Bound with the colour front wrapper for the London Society Christmas Number present;..... More
London: Arco Publications. 1963. First Edition in English. Octavo, original dark brown (looks black) cloth lettered in gilt on spine panel. 190 pp. Slightly knocked at head of spine, but still a fine copy in a near fine fine dust jacket, small internal stain to verso at spine head, minor..... More
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, Dated 17 VII 1956, on the author's printed letterhead, return address "21 Adelaide Crescent, Hove, Sussex". 80 words, signed in initials ""E.H.V.". "My Dear John, You may have wondered at my silence about my Milton proofs. The explanation is thatthe publication has been postponed until february, and..... More