Catalogue 300
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
LONDON PICARESQUE
ABSE, Dannie. O. Jones, O. Jones. FIRST EDITION. Hutchinson. 1970
Half title. Orig. grey boards. Pictorial d.w., unclipped; a little rubbed. Signature of Dannie Abse on titlepage. A nice copy.
RADICAL PESSIMISM
ARDEN, Jane. You Don't Know What You Want, Do You? FIRST EDITION. Polytantric Press. 1978
Half title. Orig. black cloth; a little marked & rippled. Illus. d.w., unclipped.
WAR EFFORT
AUDEN, Wystan Hugh & MACNEICE, Louis. Letters from Iceland. FIRST EDITION. Faber. 1937
Half title, plates, folding map at end detached. Contemp. drab wrappers, stamped 'Everybody's Books'.
PRESENTATION COPY
BARING, Maurice. Cat's Cradle. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated by Daphne Baring. Heinemann. 1925
Half title, front., plates. Orig. brown cloth; a little marked. Author's inscription on leading f.e.p.: 'Maurice Baring - wishes he had given this book to Margery Barker; but Alas! he didn't - October 9 1928'.
INSCRIBED TO GLADYS COOPER
BARING, Maurice. Collected Poems. FIRST EDITION. Heinemann. 1925
Half title. Orig. brown cloth. Presentation inscription from the author to Gladys Cooper on leading f.e.p. Brief note on Buck's Club headed paper loosely inserted.
ANTI-KAILYARD NOVEL
BROWN, George Douglas. The House with the Green Shutters. FIRST EDITION. John MacQueen. 1901
Half title; a little spotted. Contemp. maroon library cloth; unevenly faded & sl. marked, leading hinge cracking. Label of Mudie's Select Library on leading f.e.p.
HAND-MADE PAPER EDITION
(CARROLL, Lewis) DE LA MARE, Walter. Lewis Carroll. FIRST EDITION. Faber. 1932
Limitation leaf blank, half title. Sewn as issued in orig. blue wrappers; a little dulled. A nice crisp copy. 67pp.
'FOR JUST BEING A GOOD FRIEND'
CLARKE, Anthony F.N. Collisions. A novel. FIRST EDITION.Secker & Warburg. 1986
Half title; sl. browning to edge of text block. Orig. black cloth. White illus. d.w., unclipped; a little rubbed & marked. A nice copy. Inscribed by the author on leading f.e.p.: 'Terry, many thanks for your support & generosity & for just being a good friend! Tony', author signature on title page, dated '16th April '86'.
PRIVATE PRESS PEDLARS
CONSTANT, Samuel Victor. Calls, Sounds & Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers. With 25 wood engravings by Rosemary Covey. 4to.Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press. 1993
Half title, illus., wood engravings tipped in. Quarter red morcco on dec. blue silk. Number 27 of 200. A v.g. attractive copy.
ETONIAN LOWLIFE
COOK, Robin. The Legacy of the Stiff Upper Lip; or, The Astonishing Social Hinterland of a Lapse. FIRST EDITION. Hutchinson. 1966
Half title. Orig. black cloth. Black & white d.w., unclipped. Ownership inscription of Barry Lile on leading f.e.p. A nice copy.
WITH ALS FROM AUTHOR
DENT, J. Geoffrey. The Good Earth, and other poems. FIRST EDITION. Arthur H. Stockwell. [1938]
Orig. blue moire cloth; spine & upper edges of boards dulled. 20pp. ALS from author to Geoffrey Tillotson, in a neat hand, blue ink both sides of a single folded sheet, loosely inserted.
PRESENTATION COPY
DICKINSON, Patric. Theseus and the Minotaur. And Poems. FIRST EDITION. John Calder. 1946
Half title. Orig. bright blue cloth; corners sl. bumped. In rather marked, nicked & spotted d.w. Presentation inscription 'To Geoffrey Tillotson from Patric Dickinson' in ink on leading f.e.p. Correspondence, both typed & handwritten between author & Prof. Tillotson loosely inserted.
COALMINE MODERNISM
DOHERTY, Len. The Man Beneath. FIRST EDITION. Lawrence & Wishart. 1957
Half title. Orig. red cloth. Red pictorial d.w., unclipped; a little rubbed at head of spine. Gift inscription 'All my love, Happy Christmas, 1957' on leading f.e.p. A very nice copy.
OBSCURE EMPSON
EMPSON, William. Letter IV. Songs for Sixpence No. 1. Cambridge: Heffer & Sons. 1929
Half title. Orig. buff wrappers, sewn as issued; v. sl. darkened. v.g.
THE JOYS OF PUNCTUATION
EVERGREEN PRESS, pulisher. Punctuation. FIRST EDITION. Stroud: Evergreen Press. 2001
Half title. Orig. blue cloth, paper label. FINE. 39pp. 52 x 18cm.
JAPANESE THEATRE
FENOLLOSA, Ernest & POUND, Ezra. 'Noh': or, Accomplishment: a study of the classical stage of Japan. FIRST EDITION. Macmillan. 1916
Half title, front., music. Partly unopened in orig. blue cloth. Some sl. marking to spine. v.g.
FEAR AND INDECISION
HANDKE, Peter. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick. Translated by Michael Roloff. FIRST U.K. EDITION. Eyre Methuen. 1977
Half title. Orig. black cloth. Photographic d.w., unclipped; front panel sl. browned, evidence of price sticker removal from front flap. Bookplate of Felix Dennis on leading pastedown. A nice copy.
COMPLETE RUN OF ALPHABET AND IMAGE
HARLING, Robert, ed. Alphabet and Image. A quarterly. James Shand at the Shenval Press. 1946-48
Illus. Orig. stiff card wrappers, vols I-IV spiral bound, vols V-VIII perfect bound in d.ws; spiral spine beginning to uncoil vol. IV, d.w. cut down vol. VI; some rubbing & marking. A nice set.
NOVEL OF THE ENGLISH CLASS SYSTEM
HARTLEY, Leslie Poles. The Hireling. FIRST EDITION. Hamish Hamilton. 1957
Orig. green cloth, spine lettered in silver. Red d.w., unclipped; rear panel a little dulled. A nice copy.
FEMALE U-BOAT PRISONER
HAWKINS, Doris M. Atlantic Torpedo. The record of 27 days in an open boat following a U-boat sinking by the only woman survivor. FIRST EDITION. Victor Gollancz. 1943
Orig. yellow paper wrappers; a little browned, small tear to upper rear corner of wrapper & final page. 48pp.
EDWARD BAWDEN ILLUSTRATED COOKBOOK WITH SCARCE WRAPPER
JOICEY, Magda, ed. Cook-Book Note-Book. With notes by Angela Carter. With drawings by Edward Bawden. FIRST EDITION, first impression. Westhouse. 1946
Half title, illus. Orig. cream cloth, pictorially blocked in red. Buff pictorial d.w., unclipped; sl. darkened, small closed tear at head, evidence of label removal to front panel, wear to rear panel. A good copy.
BEAUTIFUL ETON BINDING
(KNOX, Ronald.) Signa Severa. by R.A.K. FIRST EDITION. Eton College. 1906
Lightly spotted at prelims & end. Contemp. dark green full calf, elaborately blocked & bordered in gilt, spine in gilt raised bands; front board v. sl. bowed, corners v. sl. rubbed. Bookplate of Samuel Gurney on leading f.e.p., typed note regarding title laid down on leading f.e.p., two clippings of Knox poems from The Eton Chronicle loosely inserted. t.e.g. A fine copy. 63pp.
POIGNANT FAMILY DRAMAS
LEHMANN, Rosamond. The Gipsy's Baby. First collected edn. Collins. 1946
Half title. Orig. green cloth. Yellow d.w., clipped; a little rubbed & spotted. A nice copy.
SCARCE IN DUST JACKET
LEWIS, Wyndham. Blasting and Bombadiering. Autobiography (1914-1926). FIRST EDITION. Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1937
Half title, front., plates. Orig. brick-red cloth; a little dulled. Buff d.w., unclipped; sl. dulled & a little marked.
FIFTIES COURTROOM NOVEL
LIPSKY, Eleazar. The People against O'Hara. FIRST U.K. EDITION. Wingate. 1951
Half title. Orig. black cloth. Pictorial d.w., unclipped; rear panel a little marked, v. small tear to upper edge. A nice copy.
ONE OF THE GREAT SHORT STORY WRITERS
O'CONNOR, Frank. Three Tales. FIRST EDITION. Dublin: Cuala Press. 1941
Printed on thin paper. Orig. quarter white cloth on blue paper-covered boards, paper labels sl. rubbed; a little faded & sl. marked. Copy 89/250.
DAMON GAUNT - THE BLIND DETECTIVE
OSTRANDER, Isabel. At One-Thirty: a mystery. FIRST U.K. EDITION. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 1916
Half title, final ad. leaf. Leading f.e.p. removed. Orig. olive green cloth, pictorially blocked in blind & white with a clock, lettered in white; sl. rubbed. v.g.
IAN FLEMING'S EDITOR
PLOMER, William. Conversation with My Younger Self. FIRST EDITION. Ewelme. 1963
Half title. Orig. stiff card wrappers, sewn as issued. Note on titlepage in Kathleen Tillotson's hand: 'Geoffrey & Kathleen Tillotson from Simon Nowell-Smith 1963', author signature on colophon page, facsimile sample of Plomer's handwriting loosely inserted. v.g.
'THERE WAS ONCE A RATHER SCARCE BOOK...'
(POWER, A.D.) Four Score Limericks. Printed for private circulation. 1934
Half title. Orig. paper covered boards, cloth spine, paper label.
JOHN MINTON DUSTWRAPPER
REIN, Harold. Few Were Left. FIRST U.K. EDITION. Methuen. 1955
Half title. Orig. black cloth. Black pictorial d.w., unclipped; a little rubbed, rear panel sl. marked. A nice copy.
ANTI-WAR CLASSIC
REMARQUE Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. Translated from the German by A.W. Wheen. FIRST U.S. EDITION, first impression. Boston: Little, Brown. 1929
Half title. Orig. grey cloth; lower front corner v. sl. worn. Pictorial d.w., unclipped; sl. torn & a little rubbed. A nice copy.
NEW APOCALYPSE
SCHIMANSKI, Stefan. Knight and Devil. FIRST EDITION. Billericay: Grey Walls. 1942
Half title, illus. by Conroy Maddox. Orig. blue linen. Orange d.w., unclipped; edges sl. dusted. A nice copy. 36pp.
THE FOLLY OF THE MANY
SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. Satan in Goray. Translated by Jacob Sloan. FIRST U.K. EDITION. Peter Owen. 1958
The titlepage is a cancel. Publisher's grey buckram. Orange pictorial d.w., unclipped; a little marked, spine sl. browned.
PRESENTATION COPY WITH TLS
SMITH, Surrey, pseud. DINNER, William & MORUM, William. The Village that Wandered. FIRST EDITION. Boardman. 1960
Half title. Orig. blue cloth. Pictorial d.w., unclipped; rear panel a little marked, following edge sl. spotted. Presentation inscription 'To Miss C.A. Lejeune, Gratefully "Surrey Smith"'. TLS from the authors to C.A. Lejeune loosely inserted. A nice copy.
SCARCE SATIRE ON SOCIALISM
SPRING, Summer (pseud.) Backwards and Forwards. FIRST EDITION. Glaisher. 1905
A little damp affected. Orig. red cloth; a little damp affected, spine dulled, boards sl. marked. A sound copy.
UNUSUAL SIGNED COPY
TEMPLETON, Edith. The Island of Desire. 2nd impression. Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1952
Half title. Orig. red cloth; spine a little faded. Pictorial d.w., unclipped; marked & a little dulled, small nick to for-edge. Inscribed by the author 'To Roger' with a quote from Wilde on titlepage.
ARTS AND CRAFTS IN THE CLASSROOM
THE GRESHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY, pub. Handicraft in the School. FIRST EDITIONS. 5 vols. Landscape 4to. Gresham. [c.1914]
Half titles, plates, illus., front. & index, vol. V only. Orig. sage green cloth, blocked with George & dragon design, spines lettered in gilt; light marking to vols I & V. Ownership inscriptions on leading f.e.ps. v.g.
LOVE AND CYNICISM IN THE VALLEYS
THOMAS, Gwyn. The Alone to the Alone. FIRST EDITION. Nicholson & Watson. 1947
Half title; a little browned. Orig. pale grey cloth, paper label. Yellow pictorial d.w., unclipped; a little spotted, v. sl. chipped at head. A nice copy.
LOVE TRIANGLE
TONKS, Rosemary. The Bloater. FIRST EDITION. The Bodley Head. 1968
Half title. Orig. brown cloth. Black & pink pictorial d.w.; edge v. sl. rubbed, unclipped, small tape repair at tail of spine. Ownership inscription of Fergus Allen on leading f.e.p. v.g.
WALLER, Robert Ferns. The Two Natures. Poems in pamphlet series, no. IV. Aldington, Kent. Hand & Flower Press. 1951
Orig. buff card wrappers. Presentation inscription from the author to Geoffrey Tillotson in blue ink inside front wrapper, typescript letter signed from author to Geoffrey Tillotson & unsigned copy of reply loosely inserted.
EARLY WESTCOTT
WESTCOTT, Glenway. Natives of Rock: XX Poems: 1921-1922. FIRST EDITION. New York: Francesco Bianco. 1925
Half title, illus. by Pamela Bianco. Orig. purple cloth, blocked in gilt, glacine wrapper. Publisher's paper-covered box, repaired at corner. A nice copy.
WHEATLEY'S WAR
WHEATLEY, Dennis. Total War. A paper. FIRST EDITION. Hutchinson & Co. [1941]
Initial ad. leaf. Ads on e.ps. Sewn into black wrappers; spine a little worn at head & tail. 82 pp.
WEST-COUNTRY NOVEL
WILLCOCKS, Mary Patricia. A Man of Genius: A story of the judgment of Paris. FIRST EDITION. John Lane. 1908
Half title, front. & illus. by W. Story, 20pp cata. Orig. pictorial green cloth; spine sl. faded. Contemp. signature of J. Hayward on leading pastedown. v.g.
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