University of Manchester Annual Rag Magazine Manchester, Rag Rag Board, The University Union, Manchester; C. Nicholls & Co. Ltd., Philips Park Press [&c.], 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932 & 1933.5 issues. Large 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.An attractive group of these wonderful University of Manchester Annual "rag mags", issues 5, 7, 8, 9 & 10 respectively. Each features satirical and comedic elements, including humorous articles, advertisements and illustrations, with excellent cover artwork by illustrators including the well-known illustrator and painter, Karl Hagedorn (1889–1969). A fascinating insight into the Mancunian culture of the period, with articles on subjects as diverse as local public transport, the weather, the 'Indian Question', Chinese myths, detective fiction, the Nazis & Mussolini, and an Irish Free State.

London, , 1871-93.

A near complete run of the single All The Year Round Christmas issues plus 2 Easter issues. 8vo. Original wrappers, all complete with front & back wrappers present.

Charles Dickens' weekly periodical (1859-95) published serial fiction, journalism and the famous Christmas supplements. The near-complete run of Christmas & Easter numbers offered here includes works by Dickens, Wilkie Collins and others. Such runs are valued for their Victorian literary significance.

London, Skeffington, [1932].

First UK edition, early impression (stating '7th thousand' on title and jacket). 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, with price sticker '2/-' to spine.

The murder of "Handsome Harry" Borden, a lecherous and unethical stock promoter leads Detective Sergeant McMann to uncover the true identity of the killer.

London, Readers Library, n.d. [c.1933].

Small 8vo. Advertisements. Original gilt-stamped red cloth. Dust-jacket, stating Readers Library No.385.

Two homicide investigations and the detectives who solve them become entwined.

...illustrated with scenes from the photo-play
London, Readers Library, n.d. [c.1928].

Small 8vo. Orginal gilt-stamped red cloth. Dust-jacket.

A novelisation of Draycot Dell and Walter W. Ellis's hit farce. Bashful clerk Bertram Tully tries to retrieve a compromising letter, triggering mistaken identities, jealous husbands and door‑slamming chases.

A shtudium fun dem ershaynen, leben und thetigkayt fun dem Musulmanishen gezets-geber un die rezultaten fun zayn religyon New York, M. Chinsky, 1898.First edition. Printed in Yiddish. 8vo. Contemporary green cloth.First edition of this Yiddish study of the Prophet Muhammad, written by the prolific journalist, novelist, and translator D. M. Hermalin (1865–1921). Beyond a biography of Muhammad and an outline of the Qur'an and Islam, the work includes chapters written from a distinctly Jewish perspective, such as on the Jewish communities of Mecca and Medina and on the Prophet's conflicts with them. Hermalin, who also produced popular accounts of Jesus of Nazareth and Sabbatai Zevi, was a central figure in the intellectual life of New York's Yiddish-speaking immigrant community, where he strove to place Jewish readers within a broader world culture. His choice of subject reflects both the fin-de-siècle vogue for comparative religious biography and Yiddish modernism's cosmopolitan ambitions, which sought to introduce global figures, from Mohammed to Goethe, to an audience often excluded from such literature by language barriers.

and other poems
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1919.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Title printed in red & black. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.

The first published book by Oman, an author best remembered today for her retelling of the Robin Hood story and a biography of Nelson. The collection of poems draws upon her war work as a probationary VAD nurse in Oxford, Dorset, London and France in 1918–1919. Scarce in the jacket.

and other stories
London, Crimetec...by Polybooks, 1946.

First edition thus. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2s6d.

This 1946 collection gathers short mysteries and detective puzzles by the Coles, featuring both amateur and professional sleuths.

London, Vallancey Press, 1945.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2s6d.

1945 Cole mystery, set on holiday in a southern resort, where a murder exposes simmering resentments among British expatriates.

The Saga of the Flying Men London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1936.First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-.Aviation writer Harry Harper's 1936 volume combines biography and adventure, recounting exploits of pioneering aviators from the Wright brothers to inter-war record breakers.

London, Hurst & Blackett, [1924].

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

Romantic melodrama about two lovers separated by social barriers who endure hardship before finding happiness. A bestseller in its day, it is rarely seen now.

London, Heinemann, 1955.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 13s6d.

Set in French-occupied Vietnam, this Greene novel centres on jaded British journalist Thomas Fowler and idealistic American aid worker Alden Pyle, who vie for the affections of Phuong.