Ink inscription to front endpaper; cloth slightly dulled and softened at spine; jacket with some toning, chipping to head of spine, but overall very good, especially given the age.
Jacket artwork by Percy Graves.
£150
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1923.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
The author, later 1st Baron Brand of Eydon, wrote only a few fiction titles. Surviving first editions in jackets are rare.
In stock
Ink inscription to front endpaper; cloth slightly dulled and softened at spine; jacket with some toning, chipping to head of spine, but overall very good, especially given the age.
Jacket artwork by Percy Graves.
Modern Literature
London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1929].
First edition. 8vo. 8pp. advertisements. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket.
Golden Harvest is a particularly good yarn of gold discovery in Australia's wild, uninhabited Northern Territory...There is a mysterious Chinaman, abduction, rescue, a dramatic chase across the desert to the mine... (jacket blurb)
Modern Literature
London, Williams & Norgate Ltd, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced at 7/6.
An autobiographical insight into the public school traditions and ambitions from the author's youth, including a comparison with the less constricting approaches of similar schools at the time of publication.
Modern Literature
First edition.
London, Robert Hale, 1936.
A psychological thriller set in colonial India. Rare.
Modern Literature
London, Peter Davies, 1940.
First edition. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait, plates. Original cloth. Photographic dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
A scarce find in the dust-jacket. The book chronicles Anahareo's adventures with the faux apache 'Grey Owl' as they travelled along the waterways of Northern Ontario, having met in Canada when she was 19. Not to be confused with the later Devil in Deerskins: My Life with Grey Owl, which is written after she had purportedly become aware that Grey Owl was in fact an Englishman named Archibald Stansfeld Belaney... Anahareo did not achieve the same fame as Grey Owl, but she played an important role in the conservation and animal rights movement, something she had been passionate about throughout her life.
Modern Literature
First edition.
London. Philip Allan, 1925
Anthology covering amongst other things murders, mutinies, maroonings and other tales of horror on the high seas. Scarce in jacket.