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The Hogarth Press. London: The Hogarth Press (1946). 8vo., slate grey cloth boards, decorated with gilt lettering to the spine, with the original dust jacket; pp. 208; A near fine copy. The jacket hasn't been price clipped displaying the correct price of 8s 6d. net. There is a triffling amount of wear to the top of the spine, otherwise the Venessa Bell designed jacket has very little handling wear at all. The book has a small previous booksellers sticker to the lower inside board. The first UK edition of the author's seventh novel about a man's experiences in dealing with change after being released from prison. According to Woolmer 5000 copies were printed. An excellent copy. [Woolmer 522] . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1946.
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by Green, Henry
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The Baddies (Signed)
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London: Alison Green. First UK edition. This is a fine / new / unread copy. There is no wear to either the jacket or book. This first print copy has been signed by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler to the title page. Rare dual signed. . New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2022.
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Banging your Head against a Brick Wall; Existencilism; Cut it Out
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Weapons of mass disruption. Banging your Head against a Brick Wall; Existencilism; Cut it Out Weapons of mass disruption, 2001 12mo., 3 vols; black softcover wraps printed in white and red; [unpaginated], Vol I printed internally in black and white, Vols II and III in colour; minimal creasing, rubbing and scratching, spine of first volume a touch rolled; £4.99 price sticker to lower cover of Vol III; very good copies. First editions. Volume I is a second issue, with the quote to the rear cover, and the ISBN printed to the inside. Presented here in a handy pocket format, these three little volumes were Banksy's first published books, and contain various photographs, quotes, and words of advice, each ending with comments from the general public. The infamous street artist and activist's identity remains a mystery even today, and has been the subject of much speculation. "A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with". . Very…
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Be Quiet and go a Angling
by B.B. (Watkins-Pitchford, Denys)
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Lutterworth Press. London: Lutterworth Press (1949). First edition. 8vo., original green cloth boards, decorated with a silver motif on the bottom right hand corner depicting a stalk within the reeds. Along with silver lettering to the spine., with the original dust jacket; pp. [viii] 9-200; A near fine copy. The jacket hasn't been price clipped displaying the correct price of 8s, 6d. net. A better than usually found copy, with the fragile jacket almost complete, barring tiny amounts of loss to the spine ends. A clean jacket with very little marks. There is a strip of browning to the front and back free end paper. An excellent example this one being signed by the author and illustrator B.B. to the title page without dedication. Written under a pseudonym, Denys Watkins-Pitchford provides the prose about his experiences in fishing, along with providing lovely black and white illustrations throughout this book. Despite the publishers best efforts…
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The Bear Fell Free
by Greene, Graham
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Grayson & Grayson. First edition part of the Grayson Books - a series of limited editions. This being 26 of 285, signed by the author. Published by Grayson & Grayson in 1935. This is a very good or better copy. The dust wrapper is not clipped and is complete. The spine is toned and there is mild wear to the extremities. The boards are a tad bowed which seems to be a common flaw with this book. There is a small booksellers label to the inside board. There is very occasional and light foxing marks to a couple of pages. A rare signed book by Graham Greene, and was number 11 out of 12 in the series edited by John Hackney that also included authors H.E Bates and James Hanley. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1935.
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Beowulf
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Faber & Faber. First edition published by Faber and Faber in 1999. This is a near fine copy. The jacket is in excellent condition with very little if any wear. It has not been price clipped and there is no fading. The blue cloth boards have no marks. The front two corners are gently pushed. The pages have started to yellow as is common with this title. Overall a near fine copy and rare to find signed by the Nobel Laureate poet, to the title page without dedication. A key Seamus Heaney title. His translation of the great anglo-saxon epic poem. It has become increasingly rare to find signed. [Brandes & Durkan A72]. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1999.
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The Beth Book
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William Heinemann. London: William Heinemann, 1898 8vo., original olive-green cloth, blocked in gilt with title and floral motif to upper board, and lettered along spine; outer edge untrimmed; pp. [ix], 2-527, [xli]; boards a little worn, particularly to the edge of the cloth; sunned along spine, which is also creased; a little shaky in the binding, which is cracked to gutter, some pages a little loose, but holding; for the most part very clean, internally, save for a previous owner's name in ink to title, who has also dashed through the page; occasionally light staining and marking, more so to the first and last few pages; the odd corner crease. First edition, with the lengthy publisher's catalogue intact to rear. An interesting example of early 19th century feminist literature. Sarah Grand is the pseudonym for Frances Clarke, the novelist and women's rights campaigner who published a series of books on the theme of women's suffrage and who went on to become President for the Union of Women's…
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Beyond Belief - Signed by Damien Hirst
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White Cube. 4to., white cloth lettered and decorated in black to spine; onlaid full-colour photographic covers; pale grey endpapers; pp. [vii], 8-182, [xiv, index of artworks]; full colour photographs throughout, some folding plates; upper corner crease; one very light brown spot to spine; light rubbing to edges of boards; a very nice copy. First edition, signed by the artist to p. [iii], accompanied by a drawing of a heart. Containing photographs of some of the artworks for which he is best known, including his infamous crystal skull, and animals in formaldehyde. Beyond Belief was a major solo exhibition which ran from the 3rd to the 7th July 2007 in Mason's Yard, London. In it, the artist confronts "the intense joy and deep-set anxiety we can all feel in hospitals, where we are surrounded by both creation and decay." In particular, the 'Birth Paintings', which show his youngest son Cyrus being delivered by cesarean section, show the brutal but tender beauty of birth in all…
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Beyond this Limit
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Jonathan Cape. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935 8vo., black cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine, with publisher's device to foot; both boards with inlaid panel of silver and yellow decorate paste-paper; upper edge black, lower untrimmed; original unclipped pictorial dust jacket (7s. 6d. net), featuring a design by Lewis; pp. [x], 11-88, [viii], with frontis and a further 20 full-page black and white images throughout; together with 11 in-text; a very good copy, the boards sound, prelims and endpapers lightly spotted; else clean throughout, the jacket with flaps and verso spotted, lightly browned, particularly along spine and folds; with some nicking and chipping, particularly to head and foot of spine, and upper edge of folds. First edition. The sole collaboration between Mitchison - author, poet, and fervent campaigner for social justice - and Wyndham Lewis - writer, painter, and co-founder of the Vorticist movement. Mitchison's first novel was published in 1923, and she went on to write a further…
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Billy Liar
by Waterhouse, Keith
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Michael Joseph. First edition published by Michael Joseph in 1959. It is in very good or better condition. There are light signs of wear to the spine ends and corners. There are tape marks to the reverse of the jacket at the spine ends. The William Belcher jacket hasn't been price clipped with the spine faded. The boards are in excellent shape as is the book with no ink or any other marks. The classic tale about Billy Fisher, an undertaker's clerk from a small town in Yorkshire, and also a pathalogical liar. A rare title. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1959.
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The Black Monk
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Duckworth & Co. London: Duckworth & Co., 1903 8vo., blue cloth, ruled and lettered in black to upper cover and spine, with device to foot; pp. [v], vi-ix, [iv], 2-302, [ii]; cloth a little rubbed and darkened, with spine ends compressed; endpapers browned, offset, and slightly foxed; a few spots, marks and corner creases within the text; edges a trifle dust soiled; a very sturdy copy, nonetheless. First UK edition, translated from the Russian by R. E. C. Long, who also provides the Preface. This example in a variant publisher's cloth binding, lacking the four-page publisher's catalogue sometimes found in other examples. Born in 1860, Tchekhoff began his career as a doctor, though he published a number of comic sketches and commentaries on everyday life in journals and newspapers in St Petersburg before he completed his education. The stories included in this collection are among the longest of his short works, and include In Exile, Two Tragedies, and Sleepyhead. Most, if not all of them, originally…
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The Bloody Chamber
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London: Gollancz. FIRST UK EDITION. The jacket is excellent with only a light mark on the front panel. It is a crisp example and is not price clipped. The book is in similar condition with little to no wear at all. A very near fine copy. The author's collection of short stories loosely based on folk tales. The short story 'werewolf' was used as the basis of the 1984 film 'Company of Wolves'. A sought after title and amongst Angela Carter's best. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1979.
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The Borrowers Afield
by Norton, Mary
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J.M. Dent & Sons. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd (1955). First edition. 8vo., light blue cloth boards, lettered in red to the spine, and with an illustration of three borrowers gathering corn to the tail of the upper board. With the original dust jacket illustrated by Diana Stanley, the same illustrator provides illustrations through-out including a colour frontispiece replicating the cover; pp [viii] 1-194; A very good copy, the upper and lower boards with light spotting marks and light browning patches to the endpaper maps. The fragile jacket is unclipped displaying the correct price of 10s 6d. net. There are a number of tiny tears along the edges and wear to the spine ends. The second borrowers adventure by Mary Norton. Published off the back of publishing and critical success of the classic first novel. The Borrowers has since been adapted by the BBC as a children's tv series and as a film in 1997 starring John Goodman. The second novel…
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A Brief History of Time
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Bantam. London: Bantam Press (Transworld Publishers), 1988 8vo., blue boards lettered in gilt to backstrip; dust jacket featuring a photograph of the author by David Gamble/ Time Magazine (£14.95 net); pp. [vi], vii-x, [i], 2-198; with numerous diagrams and illustrations in the text by Ron Miller; a very good to near-fine copy, the light spotting to the outer edges of the text block and a couple to jacket verso and flaps being the only defects. First UK edition, first impression, with an introduction by Carl Sagan. Published simultaneously with the US edition in April 1988. Hawking's scientific career at the University of Cambridge included collaborative work with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems, and the prediction that black holes emitted radiation (now often referred to as Hawking radiation). At the time, his theories were considered controversial, but are now widely accepted as major breakthroughs in theoretical physics. Prompted by a desire to bring cosmology into popular…
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A British Commando [in the Strand Magazine]
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The Strand Magazine. DOYLE, Arthur Conan [Captain Philip TREVOR]. A British Commando [in] The Strand Magazine, June 1901. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1901 8vo., pale blue publisher's wraps, overprinted with classic design in navy; advertisements to verso of front cover, and to both sides of lower; pp. xlviii [ads], [iii], 604-724, xlix-lvi, [ads]; staples rusted through to lower portion, with a couple of nicks, brown spots, and the spine just beginning to split; still a very good example, holding firm in the wraps. No. 126, Vol 21 of The Strand Magazine, containing an article by Captain Trevor about Conan Doyle and a volunteer vigilante group, which comes complete with numerous photos of the members holding their weapons aloft. Conan Doyle explains how he created and organised the 'Undershaw Rifle Club' near his home in Surrey. Also included is Chapter 21 of H. G. Wells 'First Men in the Moon'. As is often the way with periodicals of this era, the numerous advertisements to front and rear also…
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