THE KING WAITS.
Pp. [4]+22; qr. cloth, marbled paper boards; t.e.g, others uncut; endpapers very slightly offset and foxed; price-clipped dust wrapper; Heinemann, London, 1929. One of 275 numbered copies, signed by the author. More
Pp. [4]+22; qr. cloth, marbled paper boards; t.e.g, others uncut; endpapers very slightly offset and foxed; price-clipped dust wrapper; Heinemann, London, 1929. One of 275 numbered copies, signed by the author. More
Illustrated by Adrian Feint. Pp. xvi+202(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), coloured title page vignette, and 3 full page illustrations, plus several black & white text illustrations, pictorial endpapers, bibliography; tall cr. 4to; full maroon calf over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind; uncut; patterned dust wrapper, with small publisher's..... More
Translated from the French by Erik de Mauny. Pp. 256; dust wrapper; edges of leaves foxed; Grey Walls Press, London, 1950. First U.K. edition. *First edition in English. Autobiography of the French poet. More
Pp. 288(last blank); printed paper wrappers, short closed tear to head of spine; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, closed tear to head of backstrip; half-title page lightly soiled; Hutchinson, London, 1966. Uncorrected Proof Copy. More
Pp. 264(last blank); head of spine and fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed; top fore-corner of last couple of leaves a trifle creased, edges of leaves slightly soiled; Hutchinson, London, 1979. First edition. *Gabriel Fielding was the pseudonym of Alan Gabriel Barnsley (1916-1986). More
An Australian Tale. Pp. [vi]+220(last blank)+[10](last blank); f'cap. 8vo; dark green textured cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, slightly soiled and worn, upper joint starting, light fracture across upper board below title, the fore-corners and spine extremities chipped; early binder's ticket ('bound at the Register Adelaide') at head of upper..... More
Pp. [viii]+144, pictorial endpapers; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; Omnibus Books, Adelaide, 1983. First edition. White 3232. *Helen Frances is the pseudonym of Helen Granger & Frances Pearce. More
Illustrated by Mary Stevens. Pp. 186(last blank), pictorial double title page, text illustrations (some full page); pictorial papered boards, corners bumped; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and silverfished, edges a trifle rubbed; pages browned; The World Publishing Company, Cleveland, 1960. Weekly Reader Children's Book Club edition. *Wilson Gage is the pseudonym..... More
( Pp. [ii]+[391-442+[2], printed double column, title page woodcut view of St. John's Gate, ornamental headpiece, 3 small decorative initials; post 8vo; backed with paper tape; a few stab holes visible; printed for the author and sold by F. Jefferies, London, 1733. *A single issue, disbound, of the influential monthly..... More
Illustrated by Alice Havers. Monotints by Ernest Wilson. Pp. 64, chromolithographic frontispiece and 15 plates, tinted pictorial title page, text illustrations and pictorial endpapers; cr. 4to; brown cloth backed pictorial glazed papered boards, lettered in gilt & brown, slightly soiled and rubbed, edges lightly worn; inked gift inscription (dated 1887)..... More
A Solo Malcolm thriller. Pp. 184, tailpiece decoration; boards slightly canted, edges lightly bruised; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, with a vertical crease to front panel, edges rubbed and slightly split; the free endpapers faintly offset, a little light foxing; John Long, London, 1966. First edition. *Neill Graham was..... More
Illustrations by Anne Drew. Pp. [viii]+48, pictorial title page, text illustrations; pictorial paper wrappers with flap folds, slightly soiled, edges rubbed; a little light foxing; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1943. First edition. *Inscribed and signed by the author on verso of half-title page. Kay Grant was the pseudonym of Nelle..... More
Pp. [vi]+458(last blank), endpaper map; dust wrapper; faint mark near fore-edge of upper free endpaper; SpectatorPublishing Co., London, 2008. First edition. *The second Thomas Chaloner book; signed by the author on the title page. Susanna Gregory is the pseudonym of Cambridge academic Elizabeth Cruwys. More
Pp. [viii]+488(last blank), full page map; black cloth, spine lettered and decorated in cream, top fore-corners of boards bruised; dust wrapper, top fore-corners slightly creased; Sphere, London, 2008. First edition. *The fourteenth chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew; signed by the author on the title page. Susanna Gregory is the pseudonym of..... More
Pp. 256; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed; a little light foxing; Donald I. Fine, Inc., New York, 1988.First edition. *The first book in the Steve Winslow series. J. P. Hailey is the pseudonym of mystery writer Parnell Hall, author of the Stanley Hastings series. More
Book Two of The Fourth Realm Trilogy. Pp. xii+368, pictorial double title page and headpiece decorations printed in grey & black; med. 8vo; pictorial glazed papered boards; dust wrapper, with 3 small circular die-cut holes to front panel, revealing part of the illustration on the board below; Doubleday & Company..... More
In two volumes. Translated by Christine Umeda-Leher. Illustrated by Wolfgang Grasse. Pp. vi+388(last blank)+[vi]+318, 20 coloured plates, black & white half-title and title page vignettes and headpieces, full page map; narrow cr. 4to; red papered boards, lettered in gilt, both volumes a trifle sprung, edges slightly rubbed, small faded spot..... More
The works written by himself at the age of seventy-three, and the life, with such of his philosophy as is the gift of age and experience taken down and here edited by Ethelreda Lewis. The Foreword written by John Galsworthy. In two volumes. Volume One: THE IVORY COAST IN THE..... More
Pictures by Ian Wallace. Pp. [40], illustrated in colour throughout; post 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; dust wrapper; A Groundwood Book, Douglas & MacIntyre, Toronto, 1992. First edition. *Teddy Jam was a pseudonym Canadian author Matt Cohen (1942-1999) used when writing for children. Cohen's authorship of the Teddy Jam books..... More
Pp. 350; boards flecked at edges and a trifle canted; dust wrapper, edges a trifle soiled and rubbed; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Hutchinson, London, 1970. First edition. *Third volume in the series of nautical war novels written by Douglas Reeman using the pseudonym Alexander Kent. The novels follow the..... More
Pp. 256, endpaper map; price-clipped dust wrapper; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Hutchinson, London, 1978. First edition. *A Richard Bolitho novel; one of a series of nautical novels written by Douglas Reeman using the pseudonym Alexander Kent. The novels follow the military careers of Richard and Adam Bolitho in..... More
Pp. 320(last blank), pictorial d endpapers; demy 8vo; blue boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, a couple of tiny splits to top edge of back flap rape repaired on reverse; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Hutchinson, London, 1976. First edition. *With two different publicity bookmarkers loosely inserted. One of..... More
Pp. 320(last blank), pictorial endpapers; demy 8vo; maroon boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; free endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Hutchinson, London, 1972. First edition. *One of a series of nautical war novels written by Douglas Reeman using the pseudonym Alexander Kent. The novels follow the..... More
Pp. [viii]+328, endpaper map; demy 8vo; dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, bottom edges of boards slightly shelf worn; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; free endpapers lightly offset, edges of leaves faintly foxed; Hutchinson, London, 1968. First edition. *The first (in publication order) of the Bolitho series..... More
Pp. 296, endpaper map; demy 8vo; blue boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Hutchinson, London, 1982. Second printing. *One of a series of nautical war novels written by Douglas Reeman using the pseudonym Alexander Kent. The novels follow the military careers of Richard and..... More