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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. Reprint. xii, 308pp. Unread copy. Contents very fresh and clean. In red laminated pictorial hardcover binding, very bright, fresh and sharp. Lovely copy. Fine.

Price: £60.00

Manchester University Press, 1990. First edition. xvi, 224pp. Ownership name to front free endpaper. Small nick to edge of half-title and some rumpling or creasing of the prelims and first few text pages: contents otherwise clean, most of the book appearing unread. Firm, in the original black cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, bright and sharp. In the protected ochre dust jacket, fresh and bright, with a small scuff to the head of the lower joint, and the top edge slightly knocked. Good hardback copy of a title scarce in any form. Very Good in very good+ dust-jacket.

Price: £85.00

Pretoria: Femina, 1983. First edition. [xx], 251pp, illustrated with photos, and with map endpapers. Contents unmarked and very clean. In the original grey cloth-textured binding titled in white, clean and bright, corners sharp, head of spine blunted. In the protected pictorial dust jacket, generally clean and bright, but with slight fading to red spine title and a couple of 1cm closed tears. Very nice copy. Near Fine in very good dust-jacket.

Price: £48.00

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2005. First edition, first impression. viii, 152pp, illustrated. Contents fresh and unmarked, appears unread. Author's signature on title page. In the original black cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, bright and firm. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket: very fresh and bright with a small nick near the top of the front flap fold. Very nice copy. Fine in near fine dust-jacket.

Price: £50.00

New York: Syracuse University Press, 1999. First edition. xxix, [3], 167pp. Very fresh unread copy. Pages very clean, and faintly cockled. In the original binding of grey cloth, spine titled in black, very sharp, bright and clean. In the protected black and blue dust jacket. The front inner flap has a small crease to its bottom corner: the jacket is otherwise as new. Near Fine in near fine dust-jacket.

Price: £120.00

London: Bloomsbury, 1992. First edition. [iv], 220pp. Very fresh, unread copy, with author's note on title page thanking the recipient, and signed 'love, Stephen'. In the original blue cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, bright and firm. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, very bright and fresh. Lovely copy. Near Fine in near fine dust-jacket.

Price: £30.00

London: Macmillan 1984. First edition. viii, 272pp. Contents very clean and fresh, appears unread. Faint marks to endpapers offset from former jacket protector tape. In the original binding of orange cloth, spine titled in gilt: very bright and fresh, with a small bump to the bottom corners. In the protected unclipped bright orange pictorial dust jacket: very fresh, with light knocks to extremities and spine sunned. Very nice copy. Near Fine in very good+ dust-jacket.

Price: £24.00

London: Gollancz, 1980. First UK edition. 376pp. Very fresh, unread, unmarked copy. In the original navy cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, bright, firm and sharp: a few mm at base of spine are slightly faded. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket: tiny scuffs to corners. An extremely fresh copy. Near Fine in near fine dust-jacket.

Price: £40.00

London: Davis-Poynter, 1975. First edition. 166pp. Contents clean, fresh, and unmarked. In the original black cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, bright, firm and sharp. In protected clipped pictorial dust jacket carrying the publishers' price sticker on the flap. Bright and clean with minimal knocks to edges. Near Fine in very good+ dust-jacket.

Price: £18.00

London: W. H. Allen, 1974. First edition. 190pp. With a rambling signed gift inscription from the author on the front free endpaper, as well as his signature 'Thom' to the title page. Contents otherwise clean. In the original bright yellow cloth-textured binding titled in red, clean, bright and firm, with very slight blunting to spine ends. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket: bright and clean, with some fading to the red title on the spine, and top edge slightly knocked. Very Good+ in very good dust-jacket.

Price: £25.00

Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1971. First edition. [vi], 212pp. Ex-library copy, so the copyright page is stamped and the front free endpaper is prettily bedecked with labels and stamps. Contents very clean. Book knocked to upper fore-edge, denting edge of jacket and boards, and buckling the outer edges of the pages throughout. In the original binding of green cloth titled in gilt: unmarked, bright and firm. Small surface puncture to both front and back boards. In the protected green dust jacket. This is bright and clean, with two small marks to the front panel (one of which is a puncture), and slight darkening near the foot of the spine where a label was. Minor scuffs at extremities. Very nice ex-library copy with a knock. VG.

Price: £280.00

London: Cape, 1948. First edition. 366pp. Contents clean and unmarked. In the original binding of pale yellow cloth titled in green: bright and attractive, slightly faded at the spine, with a few mm heavily sunned at the head. The protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket is bright, but slightly tanned and soiled, and with fraying and repairs to spine ends. VG+ in VG- dust-jacket.

Price: £20.00

London: Epworth Press, 1937. Second Impression. 166pp, with a frontis portrait. Front free endpaper signed diagonally 'C. Ensor Walters'. A little faint soiling to this endpaper, contents otherwise clean. In the original binding of red cloth, ruled and titled in black: bright and sharp, with slight puckering to spine ends. In the protected unclipped portrait dust jacket. Front panel good with a small chip at the corner, spine good with head scuffed and heavy scuffing to joints - the lower joint partly scuffed through. [The Bernard Shaw connection - he sat with Walters for some years on the St Pancras Vestry and, later, on the new Borough Council.] Very Good+ in G dust-jacket.

Price: £45.00

London: William Heinemann, 1931. First English edition. [4], 323pp. Lacks front free endpaper. Half-title is foxed, and bears a faint 1931 pencil gift inscription as well as a later neat ink ownership name. While the prelims are foxed, the text pages are notably clean, although towards the end of the book there is some foxing to the closed edges, which does not encroach onto the margins. In the original binding of straw-coloured cloth with a pronounced texture, spine decorated with a red tree and titled in black, in extremely fresh condition, bright and sharp. The protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket is bright and clean to the red front and white spine, rather foxed to the lower (advertisement) panel and the inner flaps. An exceptional copy. ['This novel unfolds the broad and brilliant panorama of the Great Elector of Prussia, of the Roi Soleil of France, and of William of Orange. Ambition, though on different planes, is the driving force in each group of characters, from the hunch-backed heir of the Great Elector on one side, to the two tragic lovers upon the other. Here are the wars and the statecraft, the controversies and the rebellions that lie at the foundation of the modern world. The kings, diplomats, courtiers, serfs, parsons, scholars and moods of the seventeenth century are called up in the imagination with an absorbing reality.'] VG contents, binding Fine, in very good+ dust-jacket.

Price: £40.00

London: Nisbet, 1917. First edition. [viii], 436, [3] adverts. 1920 ownership name to half title and light tanning to endpapers. Minor adhesion or soiling to pastedowns, and final blank page is soiled. Pages otherwise clean. In the original binding of dark blue-green cloth, ruled and titled in black. Firm and bright, with some pale marks: rubbed at joints and edges, and extremities blunted. Fair used copy. Good.

Price: £24.00

Newton Abbot: David & Charles (vols 2 & 3); Vol 1: Guild Publishing aka Book Club Associates: 1989, 1991, 1996. First editions (vols 2 & 3); Vol 1: reprint. Each volume with 128pp, richly illustrated. All three inscribed at the half-title by the artist (each vol to a different dedicatee), dated Duxford Sept 1996, and with the signature of Johnnie Johnson beside each. Contents are fine. Big books, 29 x 37 cms, in the original cloth-textured bindings titled in gilt, clean, bright and firm. Tiny knock to one corner, and small knock to foot of one spine. In the glossy pictorial jackets, all very bright. Exceptional set. Near Fine in near fine dust-jacket.
[EXTRA Heavy Item]

Price: £275.00

London: Andrew Dakers Ltd, n.d. [1941]. Revised edition. 111pp. Front free endpaper inscribed in spidery writing 'To Gran,/ with every good wish/ from the author/ John Middleton Murry/ Xmas 1945.' This is followed by a later gift inscription in biro. A little foxing to the endpapers and final text page, contents otherwise clean. 8vo, in the original blue paper covers with a printed paper label to the front: blue fading at spine and edges, and a small ink mark to the back. Good firm copy. Very Good.

Price: £32.00

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1930. No. 526 of the Limited Edition of 750 of the English issue. 175pp, with the 12 tipped-in plates, and with the additional engraving signed by Pogany, with a loose guard, as well as the signed limitation page. Title page printed in brown on ochre. Small prints are set into the decorations heading the text on many pages. Pogany set out to make the illustrations for this edition more sensual and 'modern' than his previous series done for the Rubaiyat. There is some light foxing, affecting chiefly some of the earlier pages, although not the engraving. Each plate is mounted on tinted paper which is in turn mounted on the page, and the bottom inner corner of some of these mounts has a small crease, where it has caught the facing page when being closed. The plates themselves are all fine. Quarto, top edge gilt, others edges uncut, in the original binding of green crushed morocco, with a floral decoration to the front in red, brown and black on gilt in a small roundel, the spine titled and dated in gilt, with four raised bands. Some spotting and discolouration to the green, but otherwise firm and clean. A rather lovely book. Very Good+.

Price: £350.00

London: Siegle, Hill & Co., engraved and printed by André & Sleigh Ltd, n.d. [1910]. First edition thus. No.453 of a Limited Edition of 550 copies, signed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. [blank], [6] prelims, 8 preface, [36] the quatrains, [18] about Omar Khayyam (numbered 1-16, starting verso), [22] notes. Reproduced from a manuscript written and illuminated by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Interspersing the 92 pages printed on handmade paper are 12 colour pages on coated paper, printed one side only, with illustrations by E. Geddes, ornate and romantic, some bearing more of the quatrains. Contents very bright, clean and firm (though with tiny marks to borders of two pages). Decorative endpapers. Top edge gilt, others uncut. 345 x 250mm, in the original full vellum gilt, with green morocco label to the spine, bright, sharp and clean. One of the most splendid productions of the era, and a beautiful copy. Near Fine.
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Price: £780.00

London: Hutchinson, 1983. First edition. 374pp. New unread copy. A tiny bit of foxing to front endpaper, contents otherwise fresh and clean. In the original blue cloth-textured binding titled in silver, clean, bright and firm, spine ends slightly blunted. In the unclipped pictorial dust jacket, very bright. Tony Parker's classic portrait of a South London High Rise estate, through the mouths of its residents. Near Fine in fine dust-jacket.

Price: £35.00

London: Methuen, 1939. First edition. xii, 140pp, with 8 plates and several genealogies, including 3 foldouts. Biography, on the eve of the second world war, of the leading figure in the 19thC movement for Jewish emancipation, Lord Mayor of London, and inventor. Contents very clean, foldouts crisp. In the original binding of brown cloth, spine titled in gilt: clean and firm, with slight puckering at spine ends, and three short scratches next to the lower joint. Very Good.

Price: £48.00

London: Danel O'Connor, 1921. First edition. xii, 270; viii, (273)-532. With many plates, including some foldout, a tissue-guarded colour frontis to each volume, and pictorial endpapers. Title pages and guards yellowed, and a little occasional foxing elsewhere, contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Vol II front endpaper joint split but glued and firm. Quarto, top edges gilt, in the original bindings of blue cloth, boards ruled in blind, spines titled in gilt, bright. Spine ends puckered and scuffed, scratch to upper board of Vol II, minor surface marks: nice firm set. Very Good.
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Price: £85.00

London: Harvey & Darton, 1828. 79pp, preceded by the decorative title page, and with the 84 illustrations (numbered to 87) on 28 plates, as called for. There are descriptions or explanations of each illustration, often cautionary, and with some verse, written for children. Title and plates in this copy are made greatly more characterful and attractive by having been hand-coloured (except illustrations 73-78). Many of the plates, though bright, are thumbed and soiled, with damage to a few corners. Pages generally clean, though a few have some minor soiling. 1887 gift inscription to front pastedown. New (yellow) free endpapers. In the original binding of brown cloth, rebacked and firm, with the original spine relaid; boards decorated with curlicues in blind, front also bears an armorial title in gilt: spine title rubbed. Very nice copy. Very Good.

Price: £480.00

Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1996. First edition. xxiv, 264pp. Contents fresh and clean, appears unread. In the original binding of mauve pictorial laminated boards, fresh, bright and firm, with very slight compression to base of spine. Very nice copy. Fine.

Price: £25.00

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Reprint. 1264pp, printed on fine paper. Contents clean and unmarked. 224x150mm in blue and red laminated boards: firm, bright and clean, spine ends and lower corners slightly blunted, and tiny surface nick at head of joint. Nice copy. Very Good.

Price: £50.00