Edinburgh: William Oliphant, 1830. First edition. Hardcover. 131pp, including a lengthy preface. Slight browning to endpapers, ownership name on ffep. contents otherwise clean. 12mo, in the original purple pebble-grain cloth, boards firm, paper spine label darkened, spine ends fraying a little. Greville was a notable biologist and mycologist, besides campaigning..... More

London: Andrew Dakers Ltd, n.d. [1941]. Revised edition. Paperback. 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..... More

Amboise: Martine Le Coz: (Imprimerie Pinçon), 1987. First edition. Softcover. 75pp, printed mostly in blue, and illustrated with five of the author's exquisite coloured drawings. Author's signed title page inscription to The City of London Freemen's school - 'These singing kids.. Elsewhere.. Higher... with deep sympathy'. This is the earliest..... More

London: William Pickering, 1825. First edition thus. Hardcover. c.300pp per volume: each 3.5 x 2.1 ins / 9 x 5 cms. Previous owner's small green name label on pastedown of each vol. Contents very clean. In the original bindings of maroon cloth, spines sunned to russet, beautifully restored and with..... More

London: Hollywood Scripts, Reprint. 165pp, in very bright fresh condition. Later xerox of the 1982 typescript, printed recto, with thin cream card covers. 11x8.5ins, firmly secured through the upper and lower of three ringbinder holes with split pins passing through washers. The previous owner has neatly covered and protected these..... More

Xerox print. 157pp, in bright fresh condition. A4, in a plastic comb binding with transparent front cover and thin card back. Excellent copy. More