Address delivered on installation as Chancellor of Edinburgh University October 25, 1930. Pp. 22; cream cloth, the upper board lettered and ruled in navy, fore-corners faintly bruised; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, small name in ink at head..... More
Pp. 146, frontispiece, 4 full page illustrations, chronological list of Barrie's works, addenda, index; gilt lettered navy cloth, slightly flecked, edges a trifle rubbed; t.e.g., others uncut; free endpapers faintly offset; The Bookman's Journal, London, 1928. First edition, limited to 520 numbered copies. *With loosely inserted related ephemera. More
Pp. [x]+30; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled; faint stain to blank preliminary leaf; the author, Adelaide, 1980. *Author's first book of poetry, inscribed by him on blank preliminary leaf. More
Illustrated by the author. Pp. 208, title page vignette, text illustrations; bottom edge of boards slightly bumped; price-clipped dust wrapper, back panel a trifle soiled; a little faint foxing; Michael Joseph , London, 1946. First edition. *Satirist's autobiography. More
Pp. [vi]+238; med. 8vo; boards lightly foxed; dust wrapper with U.K. publisher's price sticker on front flap, faintly foxed, edges a trifle rubbed and split; cancel sticker on verso of title page, a little light foxing; Ashford Press Publishing, Geneva, 1987. *Originally published by Schumacher et Cie, Geneva, in 1984..... More
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..... More
Pp. [viii]+184(last blank); demy 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, a couple of faint indentations to upper board, top fore-corners a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, front panel slightly scratched; text block browned; Little, Brown and Company, London, 1995. *Murder mystery featuring an ageing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Bernard Bastable is..... More
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..... More
Pp. [vi]+410; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Headline, London, 2005. First edition. *A Dan Starkey book. More
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. More
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. More
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. More
Pp. vi+282(last blank); med. 8vo; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned; Headline, London, 2002. First edition. *A Dan Starkey book. More
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]. More
Pp. [vi]+314; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; top edges of leaves faintly foxed, the lower free endpaper slightly soiled; Headline, London, 2005. First edition. More
Pp. [vi]+406; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Headline, London, 2009. First edition. *Bibliomystery, set in a Belfast bookshop. More
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. More
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..... More
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..... 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
Contained in The Book Collector, Volume 9, No. 2, Summer 1960. Pp. 129-256(including advertisements), 12 plates, a few text illustrations; demy 8vo; printed stiff pale blue paper wrappers, a trifle soiled, the backstrip slightly faded; edges of leaves lightly foxed; The Book Collector, London, 1960. *Baughman's review of Thomas J...... More
Contained in The Huntington Library Bulletin, Number 9, April 1936. Pp. [vi]+168(last blank), one plate; small cr. 4to; brown paper wrappers, lettered and decorated in black, edges a trifle rubbed; inked correction to one word of text page 93 and small ink stain to top edge of several leaves; Harvard..... 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