RATTIGAN TERENCEThe Sleeping
Prince. An Occasional Fairy Tale. pub.
Lond. Hamish Hamilton 1954 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.
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RATTIGAN TERENCESeparate Tables.
Two plays. Table by the Window and Table Number Seven. illus. with frontis. pub. Lond.
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Price: $75.00
RAVEN SIMONThe Roses Of
Picardie. A Romance. pub. Lond. Blond &
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little worn to top & price clipped. Price:$35.00
READ C.A. - The Cabinet Of Irish Literature
Selections from the works of the chief poets, orators, and prose writers
of Ireland. With Biographical sketches & literary notices. illus. with
32 portrait mesochrome plates (tinted lithographs). pub. London; Blackie
& Son, 1880 4 vols Original green cloth, profusely decorated with
bright gilt & black Celtic designs on top boards and spines. The 4
vols. pp. 336, each vol. A very handsomely bound national treasury of
representative extracts from Ireland's poets, dramatists, orators,
historians, theologians, etc. arranged chronologically from 1600 to the
mid 19th century. Fine bright set Price:
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REID FORREST Forrest Reid: A Portrait and
Studyby Russell Burlingham, (De la Mere, Walter, intro.:)
frontispiece and 1 plate, 2 facsimile manuscripts; pub. London, Faber and
Faber 1953 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.260. very small nick in d/w. at spine
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REINHARD JOHN REVELLMedieval
Pageant. One hundred & fifty tales garnered by
John Revell Reinard. Author has assembled the most
lively, audacious, and poignant
stories of medieval times.
illus. with title page vign. pub. Lond.
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RENAULT MARYNorth Face.
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RICHARDS FRANK - Billy Bunter's
Bodyguard. illustrated By Chapman C.H. line drawings,
coloured frontispiece; pub. London, Cassell, 1962. 1st
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board, small rubber stamp impression to f/free e/paper
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ROHMER SAXEgyptian Nights. Some
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ROTH PHILIPWhen She
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ROTH PHILIPWhen She Was
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ROTH PHILIPOur
Gang. Starring Tricky and his Friends.
pub. Lond. Jonathan Cape 1971 1st.ed.
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ROTH PHILIPPortnoy's
Complaint. pub. Lond. 1969 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.274. Portnoy's
Complaint, a disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually
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RUSSELL BERTRANDThe
Collected Stories Of
BertrandRussell. Compiled &
Ed. by Barry Feinberg. illus. with pp.X of The Good
Citizen's Alphabet & History of the World
in Epitome by Franciszka Themerson pub. Lond.
Allen & Unwin 1972 1st.ed. or.blu.cl. 8vo. pp.350. Price: $35.00
SACKVILLE-WEST V.The
Garden. with illus. e/papers pub. Lond.
M.Joseph 1946 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.135.
fine in sl. spotted & chipped d/w. Price: $110.00
SACKVILLE-WEST V.The
Letters Of Vita Sackville-West toVirginia
Woolf. (ed. by De Salvo and Mitchell A.
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SALINGER J.D.Franny
And Zooey. Stories. pub.
Lond. Heinemann 1962. 1st.ed.
or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.201. d/w. rubbed, one closed tear to front of wrapper. Price: $45.00
SALINGER J.D.Raise
High The Roof Beam, Carpenters And
Seymour. An Introduction. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1963
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e/paper, few pages sl. creased, d/w. a little stained & chipped. Price: $40.00
SAROYAN WILLIAM I
Used To Believe I Had Forever Now I'm
Not So Sure. pub. Lond. Cassell 1969 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.234. 52 short
stories, little plays, poems, articles and reviews.. much never published before, Small crease
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SAYERS DOROTHY L.The
Just Vengeance. The Lichfield
Festival Play for 1946. pub. Lond. Victor
Gollancz 1946 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.80.
lacks f/free e/paper, d/w. sl. spotty, sl. chipped to edges; loosely inserted
programme from the performance. Very good otherwise. Price:
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SCUDAMORE PAULINESpike Milligan.
A biography. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. pub.
Lond. Granada 1988 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.318. Price: $35.00
SEARLE RONALDSouls, In Torment.
The Doom of St. Trinian's and fresh fields
cultivated in one hundred new drawings. pub.
Lond. Perpetua Books 1953 1st.ed. or.cl.
d/w. 4to. pp.96 d/w. front of d/w. intact
only, rear missing internally sound and clean. Price: $30.00
SEARLE RONALDMerry England,
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SEARLE RONALDThe St
Trinians Story. And the pick of the Searle
cartoons. Compiled by Kaye Webb. illus. t/out. pub.
Lond. Perpetua Books 1959 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to.
pp.118. almost fine copy. Price: $45.00
SEARLE RONALD - Which
Way Did He Go? profusely illus. with drawings t/out.
by Ronald Searle many full page pub. Lond. Peretua Books
1961 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.128. short closed to
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SEARLE RONALDFrom
Frozen North To Filthy Lucke. With
remarks by Groucho Marx
and commentaries by
Jane Clapperton. with illus. in b/w.
& col. t/out. pub. U.S.A. 1964 1st.ed.
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SHAFFER PETERThe Royal Hunt Of
The Sun. (play) pub. Lond. Hamish Hamilton 1964 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.84. Play
about the conquest of Peru. Light foxing to top edge, price clipped otherwise near fine.
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SHAKESPEARE W. - Mary Cowden Clarke. The Girlhood
of Shakespeare's Heroines in a Series of Tales. 5 vols. illus. with
frontis. in each vol (litho from photographs of heroines after paintings.)
Publisher: London: Hutchinson & Co. 1891; or. decorative gilt on
boards and spine cl. 8vo. approx. pp.320 per vol.. spines darkened
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SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM
Shakespeare:
The Early Writings. by John
Arthos pub. Lond. Bowes & Bowes 1972
1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.264. Author finds early
Roman and Plautus influence very important to later plays. Fine. Price: $30.00
SHAKESPEARE WILLIAMAngel With Horns.
And Other Shakespeare Lectures. by A.P.
Rossiter Edited by Graham Storey. pub. Lond. Longmans 1961 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.
pp.XII.316. "A.P. Rossiter's lectures on Shakespeare were an experience that few of his
audience-whether in the Cambridge English Faculty of the Shakespeare Summer School at
Stratford-are likely to forget. " Graham Storey, who bears witness to the compelling power of
Rossiter's lectures. A near fine copy. Price: $60.00
SHAW BERNARD The Adventures
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John Farleigh some full page. pub. Lond. Constable 1932 1st ed. or. black & white illus. bds.
cr.8vo. pp.76. The triumph is the book's design. Shaw worked together with John Farleigh to
produce a little masterpiece of book production. Farleigh, now recognised as one of the greatest
of British engravers, made his name with the wonderful woodcuts in this book, and also designed
the covers and the fabulous endpapers. So controversial was Shaw's 'Black Girl' when it first
appeared in 1932 that it provoked a public outcry, with Shaw described as a blasphemer. fine
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SHAW BERNARDIn Good King
Charles's Golden Days. A History Lesson. illus.
with frontis. 11 full page seipa
tinted dwgs. and numerous text by
Feliks Topolski pub. Lond. Constable
1939 1st.ed. or.crem. illus. bds. cr.8vo. pp.120. sl.
soiled to bds. & spine, paper
cover to front bd. lifting at
spine. Price: $50.00
SHAW BERNARDEverybody's
Political What's What. pub. London Constable &
Company 1944 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.380. d/w.
chipped. Price: $25.00
SHIP REUBENThe
Investigator A Narrative in Dialogue. with frontis. b/w. illustrations
within text by Ronald Searle. pub. London Sidgwick & Jackson 1956 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.
118. spine is browned, child’s writing (gift inscription) on f/free e/paper, very shor closed
tear to d/w. lower spine overall a good copy. Satire on McCarthyism. Was first a radio play and
bootlegged into the USA. Price: $45.00
SHULMAN MAXI
Was A Teenage Dwarf. "Dobie Gillis
Loves Again." pub. Lond. Heinemann 1960
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chipped d/w. Price: $35.00
SILLITOE ALANA Tree On
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SILLITOE ALANMen Women
And Children. Nine stories. pub. N.Y.
Charles Scribner's & Sons 1973 1st.ed.
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SINCLAIR U. Singing Jailbirds.
A Drama in Four Acts. pub. Pasadena, Calif.
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SINCLAIR UPTONLetters
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SINGER ISAAC BASHEVISIn
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SINGER ISAAC BASHEVISThe
Seance. Stories. pub. Lond.
Jonathan Cape 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.276. fine
copy. $45.00
SINGER ISAAC BASHEVISThe
Golem. illustrated by Uri Shulevitz published.
London, Deutsch 1982 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.85. a
fine copy. Price: $30.00
SINGER ISAAC
BASHEVIS Collected Stories Of.
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SINGER ISAAC BASHEVISLove
And Exile. The Early Years-A Memoir. Including A
Little Boy in Search of God. A Young Man in Search of
Love. Lost in America and a new Introduction. The
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SINGER ISAAC BASHEVISThe Image
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Straus Giroux 1985 1st.ed.
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SITWELL EDITHThe
Pleasures Of Poetry. A Critical Anthology. The Romantic Revival. pub. Lond.
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SITWELL EDITHBath. illus.
with frontis. and 15 full page plates t/out.
pub. Lond. Faber 1936 3rd.imp. or.cl. 8vo.
288. A very good copy. Price: $30.00
SITWELL EDITHEnglish Women.
(Britain in Pictures Series.) illus. with 8
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pub. Lond. Collins 1942 or.cl. d/w. sm.4to. pp.48.
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SITWELL EDITH The
Song Of The Cold. pub. Lond. Macmillan 1945 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.116. A
collection of poems including 'Poems of the Atomic Age', '12 early poems.' Review Copy slip
dated '27th Nov. 1945; inside. Slight chipping top and lower spine at d/w. otherwise
fine. Price: $75.00
SITWELL EDITHFanfare For
Elizabeth. illus. with frontis. and 3
full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Macmillan
1946 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.202.
d/w. little chipped & spotted. Price: $65.00
SITWELL EDITHTaken
Care Of. Edith
Sitwell's Autobiography. with illus. e/papers
and 15 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Hutchinson 1965
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SITWELL EDITH
Selected Letters. Edited by John Lehmann and Derek Parker illus. with
frontis. & 2 full page plates t/out. with index. pub. Lond. Macmillan 1970 1st.ed. or.cl.
d/w. 8vo. pp.264. Letters range in date from 1919 when she was preparing Wilfred Owen's poems
for publication until 1964, just a few months before her death. Include comments on poets and
poetry and entertaining, and sometimes malicious, anecdotes about friends and enemies. Over two
hundred letters, recipients including Dylan Thomas, Denton Welch, and T.S Eliot. Very sl. faded
to spine else fine. Price: $45.00
SITWELL OSBERTLeft Hand Right
Hand! An Autobiography. five vols. consisting
of: Vol.I. Left Hand Right Hand; Vol.II The
Scarlet Tree; Vol.III. Great Morning; Vol.IV.
Laughter In The Next Room; Vol.V. Noble
Essences. all vols. illus. with frontis.
& several full page plates t/out.
folding chart at rear of Vol.I. pub.
London Macmillan 1948-1950 or.cl.
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SITWELL OSBERTThe Scarlet
Tree. An Autobiography. Being the second
volume of Left Hand Right Hand! illus.
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Lond. Macmillan 1946 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.
pp.VIII.320. price-clipped sl. spotty. Price: $40.00
SITWELL OSBERTGreat Morning.
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SITWELL OSBERTLaughter
In The Next
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plates t/out. pub. Lond.
Macmillan 1949 1st.ed. or.cl.
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SITWELL OSBERTCollected
Stories. pub. Lond. Gerald
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pp.XVIII.542. d/w. has tape marks to top of spine
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SITWELL OSBERT The Four
Continents. illus. with frontis. & 14 full
page plates t/out. pub. Lond.
Macmillan 1954 1st.ed. or.cl.
d/w. 8vo. pp.X.282. small closed tear
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SITWELL SACHEVERELLMonks.
Nuns, And Monasteries. illus. with 98
full page plates t/out. four col.
pub. Lond. Weidenfeld &
Nicholson 1965 1st.ed. or.cl.
d/w. 4to. pp.XIV.206. very sl. chipped d/w.
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SITWELL SACHEVERELLFor
Want Of The Golden City. pub. Lond.
Thames & Hudson 1973 1st.ed. or.cl.
d/w. lge.8vo. pp.464. associated clippings
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SPARK MURIELThe Public
Image. pub. London 1968 1st.ed. or.cl.
d/w. cr.8vo. pp.192. An ethical shocker about a film star - an English girl - who
makes the mistake of believing her public image. Neat name to f/free e/paper, little spotty to
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SPARK MURIELNot To Disturb.
pub. Lond. Macmillan 1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.160. "In the staff quarters of the
big house near Geneva the servants are putting the finishing touches to their personal
preparations for the tragedy." In this gruesomely funny Spark novel from her Roman period, a
Swiss baron keeps his lunatic brother in the attic. name neatly inked to front free e/paper,
else very fine. Price: $35.00
SPARK MURIELThe Abbess Of
Crewe. pub. Lond. Macmillan 1974 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.128. A modern
morality tale about a very unusual Abbey - steeped in tradition, but full of modern technology -
including the fact that the entire Abbey is bugged. Author also wrote "The Prime of Miss Jean
Brodie". Fine. Price: $35.00
SPARK MURIEL The
Takeover. pub. Lond. Macmillan
1976 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.266. very small
tear in dustwrapper, otherwise good copy. Price: $30.00
STEAD CHRISTINAMiss
Herbert. (The Suburban wife). pub. N.Y.
Random House 1976 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.
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STARK FREYAA Winter In Arabia.
illus. with frontis. & 70 full page
plates t/out. pub.
Lond. 1940 1st.ed.
or.lt.grn.cl. 8vo. pp.XII.332 fore-edge
& tail pages rough-trimmed.
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STARK FREYAEast Is West.
illus. with frontis. & 64 full page
plates t/out. one map pub. London, John
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cloth slightly rubbed at edges, a good copy otherwise. Price: $55.00.
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STARK FREYATraveller's Prelude.
An Autobiography. illus. with 24 full page plates t/out.
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STARK FREYAThe Coast Of Incense.
Autobiography 1933-1939. illus. with map
& 22 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond.
John Murray 1953 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp. rough-trimmed to fore-edge & tail, XIV.286
some pages uncut. very fine copy. Price: $85.00
STARK FREYA - The Lycian Shore. illus.
withphoto plates (66) and drawings by the author, title page
engraving by Reynolds Stone, one folding map; pub. London, John Murray,
1956. 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.204, a fine copy, prior owner’s
bookplate to paste-down e/paper. The second of her travel books on Asia
Minor. Price: $115.00
STARK FREYAAlexander's Path.
From Caria to Cilicia. with title page vign.
& 64 full page plates t/out. & two
maps one folding pub. Lond. John Murray 1958
1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.284. d/w. has short closed tear. Price: $65.00
STEIN GERTRUDE
Everybody's Autobiography illus. with frontis. & 7 Carl Van Vechten black and
white photographs; pub. London 1938 1st. ed. or. red cl. 8vo. pp.278. Preparations for going to
America; America; back again. With anecdotes about "everybody" such as Salvador Dali, Carl Van
Vechten, Thornton Wilder and Jay Laughlin. Cloth has short closed tear to top of spine, prior
owner's book-plate of verse to past down e/paper, otherwise very good. Price: $45.00
STEIN GERTRUDE
Paris
France illus. with 5 b/w plates & 3 full page plates in colour; by Juan Gris,
Picasso and other famous artists of the period; pub. New York/London, Charles Scribner's Sons
1940 1st. ed. (April 1940) and imprint of printer William Clowes on the copyright page, or.cl.
d/w. (pictorial dust wrapper designed by Sir Francis Rose) 8vo. pp.122. Stein's homage to Paris.
It was published when Paris fell to the German Army during the Second World War and is her
tribute to the "unconquerable French spirit." A little light foxing first few pages, short
closed tear to front of d/w. insect marks to top of front of wrapper and rear wrapper else very
good. Price: $175.00
STEIN GERTRUDEEverybody
Who Was Anybody. A biography of Gertrude Stein. Text
by Janet Hobhouse. illus. with 64 full page plates
t/out. 8 col. pub. New York Putnam 1975
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otherwise good. Price: $50.00
STEIN GERTRUDECharmed
Circle. Gertrude Stein & Company. Text by James R. Mellow. with e/paper
illus. & 16 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Phaidon Press 1974 or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo.
pp.528. An account of the life of the American Stein's time in Paris & France when she was at
the centre of the embryonic Modern Art Movement. Stein [ 1874 - 1946 ] was born into a rich
railroad family & lived in France from 1902 onwards. A friend of Picasso, she collected early
cubist & modernist paintings. d/w. at spine rubbed to extremities (spine lightly bumped)
otherwise v/good. Price: $45.00
STEINBECK JOHNThe Red
Pony. with col. dwgs. by Wesley Dennis
2 full page & e/papers pub. N.Y. Viking
1945 1st. illus. ed. or. beige
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cr.4to. pp.132. no slip-case, cl. sl. rubbed. Price: $60.00
STEINBECK JOHN Burning Bright
pub. London William Heinemann Ltd., 1951 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.112. A novel set
against the vivid background of a circus; drama coloured with love, jealousy, friendship, and
the longing to have a child. Dustwrapper has chipping to spine ends & corners with small loss,
return on d/w. torn. Slight foxing to front free e/paper, a very good copy otherwise. First UK
edition of this later novel by the Nobel Prize winner. Price: $55.00
STEINBECK JOHNThe Short
Reign Of Pippin IV. pub. Lond. Heinemann
1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.164. d/w. foxed
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STEINBECK JOHN The Winter
Of Our Discontent. pub. Lond. Heinemann
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STEINBECK JOHNThe Winter
Of Our Discontent. pub. N.Y. Viking
1961 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.
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STEINBECK JOHNTravels With
Charley in search of America. pub. Lond. Heinemann
1962 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.246. very sl. sunned to spine of d/w. price clipped.
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STEVENSON ROBERT
LOUIS R.L.Stevenson
Originals. A biography by E. Balantyre Simpson.
with col. frontis. & 30 tipped in plates with
tissue guards pub. London T.N. Foulis 1912 or.cl.
glt. lettering to spine 8vo. pp.213. fine copy. Price: $65.00
STEVENSON ROBERT LOUISIsland
Nights' Entertainments. Consisting of The
Beach Of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle Of Voices.
illus. with frontis. & 26 dwgs.by Gordon Browne
and W. Hatherell, one map in col. pub. Lond. Cassell
& Co. 1893 (8th. thousand) or.dk. aqu.
glt.pict.cl. gtl.ltg. to spine 8vo. pp.278,16,
pages of advts. near fine copy. Price: $85.00
STEVENSON ROBERT LOUISWeir
Of Hermiston. An Unfinished Romance. pub.
Lond. Chatto & Windus 1896 1st.ed. or.blk.cl.
glt.ltg. to spine, t.e.g. cr.8vo. pp.290,32 pages of advts. pp. rough-trimmed to fore-edge
and tail. A retelling of an old Scotch legend of murder and the supernatural, left unfinished at
RLS's death. First published edition of Stevenson's unfinished masterpiece, the last sentence of
which was dictated on the morning of his death. Stevenson believed this unfinished novel to be
his masterpiece. Name to past-down e/paper, minor shelf wear to boards, a bright almost fine
copy. Price: $150.00
STEWART J.I.M.
pseudonym MICHAEL INNESApplebyPlays Chicken. pub. Lond. Victor
Gollancz 1956 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo.
pp.222. d/w. sl. browned to edges & short closed tears at spine. Price:
$40.00
STOREY DAVIDRadcliffe.
pub. Lond. Longmans 1963 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.
8vo. pp.376. d/w. lightly creased to
edges, very sl. rubbed. $65.00
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STOREY DAVIDThe Restoration Of
Arnold Middleton. A Play. published
London Jonathan Cape 1967 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. small 8vo. pp.104. A near fine copy.
Price: $55.00
STOREY DAVIDHome. pub.
Lond. Jonathan Cape 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.79. Original London
and New York casts with John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson. Very sl. faded to spine, price
clipped, otherwise fine. Price: $45.00
STOREY DAVIDPasmore.
A Novel. pub. Lond. Longman 1972 1st.ed.
or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.202. 2 short closed tears to front
and rear of d/w. otherwise fine. $30.00
STRACHEY LYTTONErmyntrude And Esmeralda. A Naughty
Novella. illus. in monochromewith 17 grey and black Erté plates, pub. N.Y. Stein & Day 1969
1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.78. A satire of Edwardian England originally written in 1913 for
the entertainment of the Bloomsbury Group. Dustwrapper by Erte and an introduction by Michael
Holyrod. Very good copy. Price: $50.00
STRACHEY LYTTONErmyntrude
And Esmeralda. A Naughty Novella. illus. in monochrome with 17 grey and black
Erté plates, pub. London Anthony Blond Ltd. 1969 1st.ed. First UK edition. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.
pp.78. A satire of Edwardian England originally written in 1913 for the entertainment of the
Bloomsbury Group. Dustwrapper by Erte and an introduction by Michael Holyrod. Price clipped,
creases in d/w. previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, very good otherwise. Price:
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STRACHEY LYTTONErmyntrude And
Esmeralda. An
Entertainment. illus. with 16 full page b/w. dwgs. by
Erte. (& col. d/w.) pub. Lond. 1969 1st.ed.
or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.48.small mark to front
of d/w. (small stain) otherwise fine copy. Price: $50.00
SUARES GUYMalraux.
Past, Present, Future. Conversations with Guy
Suares. illus. with many plates
t/out. pub. U.S.A. Little Brown
& Co. 1974 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to.
pp.196. fine in the chipped d/w. Price: $30.00
SWINNERTON FRANK - Londoner's Post.Letters
to Gog and Magog. pub. London, Hutchinson, 1952 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.174. Wilfred
Whitten gave delightful informality to his human essays on books by addressing them to the twin
city giants Gog and Magog. He used the pseudonym "John o' London", and established his own
periodical as John o' London's Weekly. At Whitten's death Robert Lynd became "John o' London";
and when Lynd died Mr. Swinnerton succeeded him. Here are twenty-six fascinating letters to Gog
and Magog sl. chip at top of spine to d/w. small newspaper clipping adhered to front past down
e/paper else fine. Price: $45.00
TENNYSON HALLAM LORDAlfred Lord
Tennyson. A Memoir by his son. with b/w.
frontis. & 22 full page plates t/out. pub.
Lond. Macmillan 1897
or.cl. 8vo.
pp.Vol.I.VI.551. Vol.II.XXII.516. two Vols. Price: $125.00
TENNYSON CHARLES and HOPE DYSONThe Tennysons. Background to genius.
pub. Lond. Macmillan 1974 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.
8vo. pp.220. Price: $25.00
THACKERAY WILLIAM MAKEPEACEBallads
And Songs Illustrated By H.M. Brock including frontispiece; pub. London Cassell &
Co., 1896 1st. ed. or. maroon cloth with titles and ornate art nouveau decoration in gilt on the
spine and front cover and an embossed art nouveau emblem on the back cover. All edges gilt.
pp.XIV.276.XIV advts. Title page with brown spots from tissue-guard; The occasional spotiing
throughout, otherwise v/good and bright. Price: $100.00
THACKERAY W.M. The English
Humourists Of TheEighteenth Century.
pub. Lond. The Grey Walls Press 1949 or.cl.
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THEROUX PAULJungle
Lovers. pub. Lond. Bodley Head 1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.342. A life insurance
salesman with missionary zeal meets a messianic revolutionary in Malawi, Central Africa, their
lives become strangely interwoven and they are both forced to face the inadequacy of their
personal ideals. an almost fine copy. Price: $150.00 Convert Currency
THEROUX PAULThe Great
Railway Bazaar. By train through Asia.
illus. with e/paper maps pub. Lond.
Hamilton 1975 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.
8vo. pp.342. d/w. sl. water stained (scuff
marks). Price: $50.00
THEROUX PAULThe Family
Arsenal. pub. U.S.A. Houghton &
Mifflin 1976 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.309. Concerns
terrorists and soccer hooligans set in present-day London. d/w. v/slightly creased to top of
spine else near fine copy. Price: $45.00
PAUL THEROUX Illustrated by John Lawrence A Christmas
Card pub. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. Lost in a New
England snowstorm as they journey toward their new home, two small boys and their parents find
shelter with a mysterious old man. By morning he has vanished, leaving behind only a card, which
in its magical way guides the family to a Christmas celebration of a very special meaning for
them all. Short closed tear to d/w. else very good. Price: $45.00
THEROUX PAULThe Old Patagonian
Express. By train through the Americas. pub.
U.S.A. Houghton & Mifflin 1979 1st.ed. or.cl.
d/w. 8vo. pp.404. Price:
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THEROUX PAULThe Old Patagonian
Express. By train through the Americas.
illus. with e/paper maps pub. Lond. Hamish
Hamilton 1979 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.340. Price clipped,
fine. Price: $40.00
THEROUX PAULLondon Snow.
(Children's) illus. with wood eng. by
John Lawrence pub. Lond. Hamish
Hamilton 1980 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.50.
N.B. 1st.ed. limited to 450 copies, this copy
unnumbered being the 1st. trade ed. fine copy. Vivid
Christmas tale in snowbound London. Fine. Price: $40.00
THEROUX PAULThe Mosquito Coast.
pub. Lond. Hamilton 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.392. Allie Fox's dream of leaving
doomed, corrupt American society to establish his own Utopia in the Honduran jungle becomes a
nightmare. price clipped otherwise very fine. Price: $35.00
THEROUX PAUL Dr. Demarr.
With Illustrations By Marshall Arisman pub. Lond. Hamilton 1990 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.94.
Remainder dot on bottom edge. Fine. Price: $30.00
THOMAS CATLINLeftover Life To
Kill. Autobiography of the wife of Dylan
Thomas. pub. Lond. Putnam 1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.
pp.240. sl. spotty to edges, d/w. little chipped. Price: $65.00
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THOMAS D.M.Swallow.
pub. Lond. Gollancz 1984 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.312. Swallow is the second novel in The
Russian Quartet. Dustwrapper art by Robert Shein Near fine in dustwrapper.
Price: $35.00
THOMAS DYLANQuite Early One
Morning. pub. Lond. J.M. Dent 1954 1st.ed. or.cl.
d/w. cr.8vo. pp.182. Full stop after "sailors"
pages 3 & 11 tape marks to rear of d/w. short closed
tear. fine otherwise. Price:
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THOMAS DYLANAdventures In The
Skin Trade. pub. Lond. 1955 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.
cr.8vo. pp.116. name to f/free e/paper small mark
ro rear of d/w. fine otherwise. Price: $125.00
THOMAS DYLANThe Doctor &
The Devils. pub. Lond. Dent 1955 or.cl. d/w. 8vo.
pp.138. Price: $25.00
THOMAS DYLANCollected
Poems 1934-1952. illus. with
frontis. pub. Lond. J.M. Dent 1957 ed. or.cl.
d/w. 8vo. pp.XVI.182. a fine copy. Price: $35.00
THOMAS DYLANSelected
Letters Of Dylan Thomas pub. London J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1966 1st. ed. or.cl.
d/w. cr.8vo. pp.XII.420. Dustwrapper picture from the portrait by Augustus John in the National
Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Very slight edgewear to top and bottom of spine, previous owner's name
to f/free e/paper, shelfwear, otherwise very good copy. Price: $35.00
THOMAS DYLANThe Collected
Letters. Ed. by Paul Ferris. illus.
with frontis. pub. Lond. 1985 1st.ed. or.cl.
d/w. 8vo. pp.XXIV.982. small closed tear to d/w. at
lower spine. Price: $65.00
THOMAS DYLAN Biography
written by Paul Ferris. illus. with 14 full
page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Hodder &
Stoughton 1977 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.400. sl.
chipped d/w. Price: $35.00
THOMAS DYLAN ed. by Prof.
E.W. Tedlock. The Legend AndThe
Past. A critical symposium - 38
essays. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1960
1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.283. Price: $35.00
THOMAS DYLAN Portrait of
Dylan A Photographer's Memoir by Rollie McKennaIntroduction by John
Malcolm Brinnin; profusely illus. with plates t/out. one full page & col. pub. London -
Melbourne - Toronto, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1982 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.112. d/w. chipped
and lacks small piece top of spine, else very good. Price: $50.00
THURBER JAMESFables
For Our Time And Famous Poems.
Illustrated with dwgs. t/out. by author pub. N.Y. Harper
& Bros. Pub. 1940 1st.ed.
or.illus.bds. d/w. 4to. pp.124. lacking
small piece & tear to d/w. near spine,
otherwise fine. Price:
$175.00
THURBER JAMESThe
Beast In Me And Other Animals. A new
collection of drawings and pieces about human
beings and less alarming creatures.
pub. Lond. Hamish Hamilton 1949 or.cl. d/w.
8vo. pp.340. d/w. chipped. Price:
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THURBER JAMESFables For Our
Time & The LastFlower. pub. Lond.
Hamish Hamilton 1951 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.176.
fine in the torn & repaired d/w. Price: $45.00
THURBER JAMESThe 13 Clocks
illus. many distinctive colour illustrations throughout text by Mark Simont; pub. London Hamish
Hamilton, 1951 1st. ed. or. burgundy cloth with silver lettering d/w. 8vo. pp.124. A whimsical
charming and literate story for children, a fable-like tale. Price clipped, d/w. is chipped,
lacks small piece at lower spine, very good otherwise. Price: $50.00
THURBER JAMESThurber Country.
A new collection of pieces about males and
females, mainly of our own species. pub.
Lond. Hamish & Hamilton 1953
1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.238. d/w.
price clipped, small bump to corner. Price: $45.00
THURBER JAMES Further
Fables For Our Time. Illus. by author. pub. Lond. Hamish Hamilton 1956 1st.ed.
or. blue glt. cl. d/w. 8to. pp.174. Thurber's second collection of fables. Includes The Sea and
the Shore; The Lion and the Foxes; The Bears and the Monkeys; The Hen Party; The Godfather and
His Godchild; The Trial of the Old Watchdog; Tea For One; The Chipmunk and His Mate; The Lady of
the Legs; The Shore and the Sea etc.. d/w. has closed tear (repaired) to rear of d/w., two very
short closed tears to shelf edge of d/w. signature to f/free/paper. otherwise fine. Price:
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THURBER JAMESThe
Wonderful O. profusely illus. t/out by
Marc Simont pub. Lond Hamish Hamilton 1958 1st.ed.
or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.72. fine copy. Price: $55.00
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THURBER JAMESThe
Wonderful O. profusely illus. t/out by Marc
Simont pub. Lond. Hamish Hamilton 1958
or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.72. d/w shows signs of
wear. Price: $25.00
THURBER JAMESThe
Thurber Album. A new collection of pieces about people. pub. Lond.
Hamish Hamilton 1952 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.240. Word portraits and sketches of
"family, friends, teachers and colleagues" light foxing to edges & t/out. d/w. torn, worn &
price clipped. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper. Otherwise good. Price:
$35.00
THURBER JAMESAlarms And
Diversions. with illus. by author t/out. pub. Lond.
Hamish Hamilton 1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.
pp.367. sl. chipped d/w. price clipped. Price: $50.00
THURBER JAMESLanterns
& Lances. with b/w. illus. t/out. pub.
Lond. Hamish Hamilton 1961 1st.ed. or.cl.
d/w. 8vo. pp.191. sm. closed tear
to d/w. little rubbed otherwise fine. Price: $35.00
THURBER JAMESLanterns
& Lances. with b/w. line illus.
t/out. pub. Lond. 1961 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.
8vo. pp.191. d/w. sl. rubbed & price clipped. Price: $45.00
THURBER JAMESCredos And Curios.
illus. with frontis. pub. N.Y. Harper & Row 1962
1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.180 fore-edge pages rough-trimmed. small closed tear &
crease to d/w. at spine. Price: $35.00
TOLKIEN J.R.R.The
Lord Of The Rings. All in one vol.The Fellowship Of
The Ring, The Two Towers, The Return Of The King pub.
Lond. Allen & Unwin 1988 ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.
pp.approx. 500 fine. Price: $80.00
TOLKIEN J.R.R. The Letters
Of J.R.R. Tolkien. Selected & edited
by Humphrey Carpenter with
the assistance of Christopher
Tolkien. pub. U.S.A. Houghton, Mifflin &
Co. 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.463. Price: $55.00