Translated from the Spanish by William C. Atkinson. Vinyl-cuts by John Lawrence. Pp. 154+[2](colophon, blank), pictorial title page, text illustrations, endpaper maps; qr. burgundy leather, lettered & ruled in gilt, pictorial beige cloth, the boards a trifle sprung; top edges burgundy; within card slipcase; The Folio Society, London, 1977. First...
Pp. 80; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, edges and backstrip faintly faded, corners a trifle rubbed; WAH publications, Bangor, 1989. First edition. *The author's first book, signed by him on the title page. After leaving school at the age of 16, Bateman joined the County Down Spectatoras a junior reporter, eventually...
Pp. [vi]+410; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Headline, London, 2005. First edition. *A Dan Starkey book.
Pp. [vi]+310(last blank); med. 8vo; dust wrapper with UK price sticker on front panel; text block slightly browned, tiny surface graze to top edge of upper pastedown, top edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Headline, London, 2003. First edition.
Pp. vi+314(last blank); dust wrapper with UK price sticker on front panel; top edges of leaves faintly foxed; Headline, London, 2004. First edition. *A Dan Starkey book.
Pp. 512; med. 8vo; bottom fore-corner of upper board bumped; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned, top edges of leaves lightly foxed; HarperCollins, London, 1997. First edition.
Pp. vi+282(last blank); med. 8vo; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned; Headline, London, 2002. First edition. *A Dan Starkey book.
With illustrations by John McCloskey. Pp. [vi]+536(last blank), half-title and title page decorations, 5 pages of illustrations; med. 8vo; faint bruise at foot of spine; dust wrapper, a trifle marked; Headline, London, 2007. First edition. *'Murder, extortion & carrot cake' [wrapper blurb].
Pp. [vi]+314; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; top edges of leaves faintly foxed, the lower free endpaper slightly soiled; Headline, London, 2005. First edition.
Pp. [vi]+406; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Headline, London, 2009. First edition. *Bibliomystery, set in a Belfast bookshop.
Pp. 334; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned, top edges of leaves lightly foxed; HarperCollins, London, 1996. First edition. *A Dan Starkey book.
Pp. 64(last blank), the title page border, headpiece decoration and pictorial endpapers printed in brown; black cloth, lettered and decorated in silver, faintly scuffed; dust wrapper, edges rubbed and split, with a couple of tiny chips; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, a couple of spots of foxing Michael...
With 40 photographs in colour by A. F. Kersting. Pp. 128, coloured frontispiece and 39 plates (within pagination); cr. 4to; bottom fore-corner of upper boards faintly bruised price-clipped dust wrapper with coloured pictorial onlay on upper wrapper, the wrapper a trifle soiled and lightly rubbed at edges, with a couple...
Pp. 324+[8](publisher's catalogue); green cloth, spine and upper board lettered in blue, bottom fore-corner of lower board slightly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and scuffed, edges lightly rubbed and split, with the Daily Mail Book of the Month wrap-around (slightly soiled and browned); bottom edges uncut; edges of leaves lightly...
Pp. 304(last blank); brown cloth, spine and upper board lettered in green, fore-corners faintly bruised; bottom edges uncut; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, small number stamp at foot of back panel, the backstrip faded and slightly browned; last couple of pages slightly cropped, edges of leaves...
Stories. Duplicate Proof for Retention. Pp. 288; printed paper wrappers, a trifle soiled, edges lightly rubbed, tiny snag at foot of backstrip; a little light foxing; Jonathan Cape, London, 1937. Proof copy. See Eads A28.
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...
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...
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...
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.....
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.
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...
A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Literature. Volume 1, Nos. 1 to 4 (October 1922 to July 1923). No. 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...
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...
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....
