The English Woodland - April to April. With 73 engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Pp. 142, pictorial title page and numerous text illustrations (8 full page); narrow cr. 4to; edges of boards lightly rubbed; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges rubbed and chipped, with closed tear at foot of backstrip; edges..... More
With a chapter on the economic background by Guy Chapman. Pp. xx+360, bibliographies, index; bottom fore-corner of upper board faintly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, small surface graze near top fore-corner of front panel, small mark from sticker removal on front flap; The Cresset Press, London, 1962. Third..... More
Translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt. Pp. [viii]+132+[2](blank, colophon), frontispiece; qr. grey cloth, spine lettered in silver, grey papered boards, with tiny bruise to bottom edge of upper board; dust wrapper, slightly foxed on reverse, faint signs of sticker removal from head of front flap; minor production fault (2..... More
Pp. 182; boards a trifle soiled and creased, the fore-corners lightly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and scuffed, edges lightly worn and split; outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; The Book Club, London, 1946. Book Club edition. *Originally published in German in 1943; a sequel to Baum's best-selling Grand Hotel..... More
Studies in the Contemporary American novel. Pp. [xvi]+174(last blank), selective bibliography; boards very lightly spotted; dust wrapper, edges a trifle worn, lower panel lightly soiled; Peter Owen, London, 1966. First U.K. edition. *A study of nine contemporary novelists: Robert Penn Warren, Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Ralph Ellison, Flannery O'Connor, Bernard..... More
Pp. 250; dust wrapper, slightly foxed on reverse; text block slightly browned, the first couple of leaves faintly creased, a little light foxing; Victor Gollancz, London, 1991. First edition. More
With sixteen photographics. Pp. 192, 16 plates, index; cloth a trifle bubbled; dust wrapper; free endpapers a trifle offset; Phoenix House, London, 1951. First edition. *Includes a chapter entitled Edward Thomas: Critic and Poet (pp. 177-188, with portrait); also studies of W. B. Yeats, "A.E.", Arnold Bennett, Havelock Ellis, Aleister..... More
A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Literature. Volume 1, Numbers 1 to 4 (October 1922 to July 1923). Number 1: Pp. [iv](advertisements)+48, erratum slip tipped-in before title page; October 1922. *Contributors include Ford Madox Hueffer, Havelock Ellis, and E. L. Grant Watson; with illustrations by John Austen, Robert Gibbings, John..... More
A novel. Specially illustrated with fifteen original drawings by Arthur Boyd. Pp. 220, frontispiece plus 14 full page illustrations; upper board featuring an Arthur Boyd illustration in gilt (repeat of dust wrapper), the boards lightly bruised at edges, with a small frayed section near bottom fore-corner of upper board; dust..... More
A personal anthology. Pp. xxxiv+190(last blank), text decorations, index of authors; red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly soiled; Continuum, London, 2001. First edition. *An annotated compilation of those passages of poetry and prose which have meant the most to the distinguished literary critic, culled from a...... More
Pp. [viii]+156(last blank); pictorial green paper wrappers with flap folds, slightly soiled and worn, edges and backstrip faded to brown, the backstrip quite brittle and chipped; hinges cracking, a little light foxing and soiling; Duckworth, London, 1902. First edition, paper wrappers. The Greenback Library series. Miller & Macartney p. 55;..... More
Or the story of Venus and Tannhauser, in which is set forth an exact account of the manner of state held by Madam Venus, goddess & meretrix, under the famous Horselberg, and containing the adventures of Tannhauser in that place, his journeying to Rome, and return to the loving mountain..... More
Contained in Encounter, Vol. XXVII, No. 4, October 1966. Edited by Frank Kermode and Melvin J. Lasky. Pp. 96(printed double column)+[2](coloured central advertisement sheet), the Beardsley article comprising pages 3-16 and including 2 illustrations; small cr. 4to; pictorial paper wrappers printed on both sides, slightly worn; several leaves faintly creased;..... More
Pp. [viii]+374; dust wrapper, edges lightly creased; Fourth Estate, London, 2001.First edition. *A novel set in wartime Britain. More
Pp. [x]+68, frontispiece; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Mulini Press, Canberra, 2002.First separate edition. Small Tales of Early Australia, No. 6. *Story about smuggling on the New South Wales coast near Port Macquarie, originally included in The Settlers of Karossa Creek and other Stories of Australian Bush Life(c. 1907). More
Pp. 202+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece, title page with decorative border, a couple of text decorations; cr. 12mo; light green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and dark green, a trifle canted, slightly soiled and foxed, corners faintly bruised, the cloth occasionally slightly bubbled; t.e.g.; endpapers slightly offset, hinge tender at..... More
Decorations by Douglas Hall. Pp. 192, pictorial double title page printed in orange & black, pictorial headpieces; edges of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper, lightly foxed, edges a trifle rubbed and split; top edges of leaves lightly foxed; Hutchinson, London, 1971. First edition. *Autobiography, set in the years between the..... More
Decorations by Douglas Hall. Pp. 174(last blank), pictorial double title page, text illustrations, vocabulary; bottom edges and top fore-corners of boards bruised; dust wrapper, faintly soiled and foxed, edges a trifle rubbed; text block browned, a little light foxing; Hutchinson, London, 1975. First edition. More
Decorations by Douglas Hall. Pp. 192, pictorial double title page, text illustrations; dust wrapper; Hutchinson, London, 1978. First edition. *The seventh book about the Hebridean village of Bruach and its inhabitants. More
A novel. Pp. [vi]+216, title page vignette; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; the free endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Hutchinson, London, 1967. First edition. More
Decorations by Douglas Hall. Pp. 192, pictorial double title page printed in green & black, text illustrations; boards a trifle sprung; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip slightly discoloured; endpapers faintly offset, a couple of spots of foxing; Hutchinson of London, London, 1973. First edition. *The author's fifth..... More
Decorations by Douglas Hall. Pp. 182, pictorial double title page, printed in orange & black, pictorial headpieces; lower board a trifle tape marked and with 2 small surface chips to bottom edge; dust wrapper, 2 closed tears to bottom edge of back panel tape repaired on reverse; a couple of..... More
Illustrated by Douglas Hall. Pp. 192, pictorial double title page, printed in green & black, pictorial headpieces; upper board decorated in gilt; top edges turquoise; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and chipped; free endpapers faintly offset, a couple of spots of foxing; Hutchinson, London, 1967. Eighth impression. *The author's..... More
Decorations by Victor Ambrus. Pp. 96, pictorial double title page, full page illustrations; pictorial boards; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled; Hutchinson, London, 1974. First edition. More
