Wrappers a little worn and creased.
Illustrations and advertisements.
£275
London, Hobart Manufacturing Co., June 1935.
4to. Original pictorial wrappers. Housed in custom cloth case with colour illustration and title label to upper cover and 2 inset illustrations to lower.
A special souvenir issue relating to the French Line’s North Atlantic steamship Normandie.
In stock
Wrappers a little worn and creased.
Illustrations and advertisements.
with the one-hand gun
Edinburgh & London, Oliver & Boyd, 1942.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
A very rare first printing in an even scarcer original dust-jacket. Drawing on the authors' practical experience, Shooting to Live covers the gamut of handgun-usage, including concepts, applications, maintenance and more. Fairbairn was an Assistant Commissioner of Shanghai Municipal Police, and Sykes was the officer in charge of the Snipers Unit of the same force.
London, Gollancz, 1950.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 16/-.
A scarce first Gollancz edition of this harrowing account from the perspective of one of the black men accused of raping two white prostitutes in Alabama in 1931, written with the aid of author & journalist Earl Conrad, who had met Patterson during his time as Harlem Bureau Chief for The Chicago Defender. The title was reprinted very quickly to meet demand, and as a result first impressions are relatively scarce.
Non-Fiction
London, Fisher Unwin, 1908.
First edition. 8vo. Title printed in red & black. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt.
Not a biography of the Pornocratic Italian noblewoman of that name, but rather a collection of short stories based on the author's experiences as a war correspondent in the Balkans.
Translated from the Hebrew by Moshe M. Kohn
London, Frederick Muller, 1956.
First English edition, sixth impression. 8vo. Original red boards. Fourth impression dust-jacket,
A harrowing semi-fictionalised account of Nazi brothels, shedding further light on the atrocities of the Holocaust.
London, Jonathan Cape, 1946.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A handsome first UK edition of this important anthropological and sociological study of the African-American urban experience in the first half of the 20th century.