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£135



London, Walter Scott, 1899.

First edition. 8vo. Original red gilt-pictorial cloth.

A bright attractive copy of this mournful reflection on British society at the turn of the century, by a then well-known socialist, novelist and campaigner.

£75



London, Chatto & Windus, 1943.

First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5s.

A very good first edition of this post-war prediction that seeks to outline the difficulties Europe in particular faces once the Second World War is over.

£125



London, Warne, [1931].

First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.

The Story of Electrical Communications.

£125


From the outbreak of war with Turkey to the Armistice
London &c., Hodder & Stoughton, 1919.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

An uncommon book in the original jacket.

£150



London, Routledge for the Fabian Society, 1942.

First edition. 8vo. Original patterned boards, rebacked preserving original backstrip.

The fifth in a series of six lectures organised by the Fabian Society. Orwell was not happy that his own lecture, 'Culture and Democracy', had been included, writing in 1942: "I see that beside toning down several phrases I used you have gone all through my manuscript and altered every phrase which revealed that I was delivering a spoken lecture … it gives a quite false impression of my written style and makes me use phrases which I should never dream of using".

£125



New York, Stackpole, 1939.

First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00.

The first edition of this account of big band swing by one of the leading band leaders of all time, his concert at Carnegie Hall in 1938 described by one contemporary critic as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music." Swing began to lose favour after this time, so this book marks an interesting period in 20th century popular music.

£125



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.

£95



Aberdeen, Impulse Books, 1971.

First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced £2.00.

Uncommon account of the early days of pirate radio.

£65



London, Methuen, 1928.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue clot. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.

A nice copy of this work on conjuring, one of several titles in this field by Blyth.

£650


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.

£95



London, Putnam, 1908.

Sixth edition. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, priced sixpence.

An early edition of this classic of feminist theory, reflecting on women's economic reliance on men, first published in 1898. A landmark treatise in the struggle for gender equality.

£195



London, Philip Allan, [1927].

First edition. 8vo. Original sage boards with printed spine label. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.

An analysis of the societal need for syncopated dance as evidenced by the popularity of jazz in the 1920s, by self-described music lover Robert William Sigismund Mendl.

£95



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.