Renewed endpapers, overall internally very good; jacket price-clipped, minor creasing to extremities of jacket, overall very good.
Jacket artwork by Arthur Barbosa.
Shakespearean bookplate.
£150
London, Constable, 1935.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A sprawling novel of music, ambition, and complex relationships. It features composer Edmund Abbey, his wife, and her admirer, with interwoven flashbacks across the artistic and operatic world. In attractive Barbosa jacket.
In stock
Renewed endpapers, overall internally very good; jacket price-clipped, minor creasing to extremities of jacket, overall very good.
Jacket artwork by Arthur Barbosa.
Shakespearean bookplate.
Modern Literature
First edition, Heinemann, 1900.A pleasing first edition of this early novel by the creator of Mapp and Lucia.
Modern Literature
London, Bodley Head, 1923.First edition. 8vo. 8pp. advertisements. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, without price.Great jacket artwork by Canadian–British illustrator and commercial artist Austin Cooper (not the car).
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
London, Jonathan Cape, 1930.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt at spine. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A tale of deprivation and adversity set near the mouth of the Thames. Scarce in jacket.
Modern Literature
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1914
Hodder & Stoughton Sevenpenny library, first edition thus. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
First published in U.K. in 1889, this is the first edition where getting a jacketed example is feasible.
A long 'short' story featuring Allan Quatermain in which following his father's death, Allan fights with Zulus aides by Hans, rescues and marrow who becomes the mother of his son Harry, and eventually loses her because of the jealousy of the Baboon woman.