London: Maurice Temple Smith, 1979. First UK edition. Hardcover. [vi], 247pp. Very fresh bright copy, like new. Unmarked. In the original plum cloth, spine titled gilt: corners sharp, spine ends slightly blunted. In the protected unclipped white dust jacket. This has a slight knock to the head of the spine..... More
Towpath Books, 2016. First and only edition. Paperback. Paperback, >200pp (unpaginated), and illustrated with photographs. Contents clean and fresh, inscribed to a friend by Jane Harrison. Margaret grew up in a remote village in Yorkshire, while Will worked in Nigeria and Ghana for the Colonial Survey Service. Margaret had to..... More
[London]: National Coal Board, Education Branch, [1949]. First edition. Booklet. Stapled booklet, 22x14cms, with 28pp, illustrated with a few photographs, in thin blue card covers printed in maroon. Staples rusting slightly but firm. Covers clean and slightly knocked to the edges: contents clean and unmarked but for a small correction..... More
Wimbledon: Rural Industries Bureau, [1946?]. Apparently first printing. Booklet. Stapled booklet, 20pp, in illustrated covers of green card, 21.5x13.5cms. A list of the Bureau's publications is laid in, marked in ink by the previous owner. Card covers clean, corners good, slightly toned. New staples have replaced the rusty ones; pages..... More
London: [Davies], n.d. [c.1930]. Booklet. Stapled catalogue in card covers: 47pp, 24x15.5cms, printed on glossy paper, with more than forty photographs of posh prams with full descriptions and prices. Pages clean, no creases. The silk-effect beige card covers are in good order, with a little light soiling, slightly knocked edges..... More
London: National Council of Social Service, for the Women's Group on Public Welfare, 1964. Revised edition. 72pp, plus four pages of photographs. Pages unmarked, clean and firm, upper corners up to p.32 faintly bent. A thoughtful study, with earnest recommendations: the first edition was published in 1957. In the thin..... More
Bognor Regis: New Horizon, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. The author's first book, on Pioneer Farming, 'was never published because the editors considered it contained too little sex. He vowed if he wrote another book it would consist of nothing but sex and this is the result.' 127pp. Contents very fresh..... More
London: Jarrold & Sons, n.d. [1853]. Second edition. Hardcover. xvii, 361, [1] adverts. With the vignette of Lunar Mountains and Plains to the title page, and many illustrations in the text. The frontis plate of Lunar Shadows is supplied by a copy (thanks, Sally!), and the front free endpaper is..... More
London: New Fiction Press, distributed by Gaywood Press, [1953]. Apparently First Edition. Paperback. 142pp, +[ii] ads. pp137-142 are taken up with 'A personal letter to his readers' from Janson. 7"x4.75" stapled text block with thin pictorial paper covers. Fresh, original, early copy from long storage. Staples bright. Pages bright, with..... More
London: New Fiction Press, distributed by Gaywood Press, [1952]. Apparently First Edition. Paperback. 125pp, +[2] ads. 7"x4.75" stapled text block with thin pictorial paper covers. Fresh, original, early copy from long storage. Appears unread: pages good, with slight tanning to edges: no tears, creases, soiling, or foxing, to either the..... More
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London: Allen & Unwin, 2004. First UK edition. Paperback. 255pp. Very clean and fresh copy, appears unread. Half title with warm inscription by the author. Paperback: covers also as new. More
[Oxford]. 1998. Softcover. A4, c.30pp, printed recto, with white card covers and in plastic spine binder. The scurrilous lowdown on about 120 teenagers, with photos of most of them, almost every entry actionable: but they look a happy lot. The 'Foreword' on the front cover reads: 'I wonder what you..... More
London: Temple Lodge, 1992. First printing of this translation. Paperback. [viii], 183pp. Very fresh clean unmarked paperback: appears unread. Large format, pink covers, spine slightly faded. More
n.d. [1952]. Presumed first and only edition. Paperback. 59pp, illustrated with photographs and line drawings, printed in sepia and pale blue. Unused Enquiry Form at back. Stapled booklet, 8x5ins, charmingly produced and packed with sensible advice. 'Robin' is used throughout as the toddler's name in the scenarios described, this being..... More
Baltimore, Waverly Press, Inc.:, 1931. First edition in English. Hardcover. A very neat copy of this little book. ix, [i], 130pp. 14.5x10cms. Original decorated endpapers, with an ownership name. Written in 1859, not published until 1883. The prelims consist of an enthusiastic prefatory letter from M.Henri Martin to M. Georges..... More
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1914. Fourth edition, revised throughout and enlarged. Hardcover. xii, 564pp + xxxii adverts, and with advertisement front endpapers. An unblemished vista of the prospects for the young immediately before the first World War, with much fascinating detail of training required, pay, prospects, where to apply..... More
Lowestoft, F.Robinson & Co, n.d. [1914]. Hardcover. Presumed first edition. viii, 147pp, plus a guarded portrait frontis. With a foreword by the Rector of Lowestoft. In original green cloth binding, upper board lettered in gilt: cloth mottled and bubbling. Some staining to endpapers. Contents clean, binding firm. Very uncommon. More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, Ltd, 1905. Fourth edition (revised and enlarged). Hardcover. xxxi, 426pp. Contents clean and unmarked. In the original series binding of green cloth decorated and titled in gilt. Boards clean but for a small mark, gilt fairly bright, top corner of upper board knocked..... More
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1903. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 331pp. Endpapers browned: armorial bookplate to front pastedown. First and last few pages have some browning or foxing. Contents otherwise clean, faintly toned at edges. In the original binding of dark green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Firm..... More
London: Alfred Holness; and John Kensit, [1901]. Twentieth Edition. 'The Red Edition'. Hardcover. 96pp. Passionate advocacy of retention of seed. Text clean and in good order. Title page has considerable soiling and an eroded corner. 19.5x12.5cms, in a new binding of grey paper-covered boards, ruled to the front, on which..... More
London: Sands and Company, 1898. First British edition. Hardcover. vi, 166, +6 adverts. Some foxing to endpapers: text very clean. 1905 ownership name to front free endpaper. In the original binding of green cloth, decorated and titled in black. Firm, with some soiling to cloth. Good copy of a scarce..... More
Rugby: George E. Over, The Rugby Press, 1898. Paperback. 15pp. Booklet 210x140mm: upper staple rusty, lower staple gone. Contents clean and in good order. Laid into the original but now detached printed grey paper covers, which are soiled, with the spine split and chipped at the head. Scarce. More
London: Blackie, [1893]. Presumed first edition. Hardcover. viii, 436pp +(4), 8 adverts: illustrations in the text: lacks title page. Contents clean and fresh, with minor soiling to a few pages. In original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Firm and bright, some marks to lower board. A comprehensive, if rather..... More
