Contemporary gift inscription to front endpaper; covers in excellent condition; jacket a little creased and with some minor spotting, but overall very good.
24 colour plates by Margaret Tarrant.
£125
London, Ward, Lock, c.1933.
4to. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Dust-jacket.
A very attractive example of this edition of Carroll’s classic for children, splendidly illustrated by Margaret Tarrant throughout.
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Contemporary gift inscription to front endpaper; covers in excellent condition; jacket a little creased and with some minor spotting, but overall very good.
24 colour plates by Margaret Tarrant.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Ward Lock, 1935
First edition. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket price clipped. Three digits at base of spine indicates this is an early reprint.
Hubin listed title with strong sci-fi overtones in which an Oriental cadre of secret masters aspire to immortality through imbibing an elixir of unknown provenance, and by using advanced technology to preserve themselves. They threaten the world, but are defeated in the end (Blieler p61, the only title by this author listed).
19th century literature
London, Ward & Lock, [?1860].
?First UK edition, possibly first book edition. 8vo. Contemporary half calf.
A hugely popular novel at the time of publication, originally serialised in The New York Ledger in 1859. The story centers on Capitola Black, a playful and audacious orphan girl who, after a series of circumstances, comes to live with her wealthy but unloving uncle in Virginia. Capitola is a tomboyish and adventurous heroine, often dressed in male attire, and she manages to survive numerous threats from a sinister villain named Black Donald who has connections to her mysterious past. Notable for its unusual treatment of gender and race issues for the time, presenting a strong, independent female character as its protagonist and incorporating discussion of the abolitionist movement. Southworth's portrayal of Capitola was significant during a time when the women's suffrage movement was gaining momentum in America.
We can trace no copies of this particular edition, at auction or in institutions - a reference to an edition published by Ward & Lock can be found in Bent's Monthly Literary Advertiser for September 1859. The Fleet Street imprint here suggests the edition was at least printed prior to 1878.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Ward, Lock, 1901.
First edition, full-page autograph inscription from the author to the blank recto of the frontispiece. 8vo. 4 plates, 12pp. advertisements. Original pictorial cloth.
An appreciative, borderline fawning, gift inscription from the trade unionist and Liberal-Labour politician, T.R. Threlfall, to the Sir George Alexander Cooper, 1st Baronet.
Detective Fiction
London, Ward, Lock, 1936.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A scarce book in dust-jacket. A tale of poison.
Detective Fiction
Burt (Michael, pseud. George Mattock Brookman Burt) The Case of the Fast Young Lady
London, Ward Lock, 1942.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
One of several novels by this author featuring his series character Roger Poynings.