Fairy & Folktales
London, Chapman & Hall, '1878' (manually added in ink).
'New Edition'. 8vo. Full green calf, gilt roll borders with cornerpieces to covers, spine elaborate gilt compartments with contrasting leather title label.
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) was an Irish songwriter, composer, novelist, and portrait painter, chiefly in miniatures. He first published Legends and Stories of Ireland in 1832, illustrated by himself, drawing on his knowledge of rural Ireland, its customs and characters. A fine binding.
Detective Fiction
London, Chapman & Hall, 1904.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
A collection of adventure stories featuring Don Quebranta Huesos, a fearsome Spanish bandit who operates as a kind of antihero.
Detective Fiction
London, Chapman & Hall, 1904.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
A collection of adventure stories featuring Don Quebranta Huesos, a fearsome Spanish bandit who operates as a kind of antihero.
Victorian Literature
Dickens (Charles); Edwards (Amelia) and others. Mugby Junction,
The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round
London, Chapman & Hall, 1866.
8vo. Original printed wrappers.
A composite work in which a disenchanted man pauses at a railway junction and experiences a series of encounters and ghost stories. The frame story is by Dickens; the interior tales were contributed by various authors including, notably, 'The Engineer' by Amelia Edwards and Dickens himself ('The Signalman' appears here in its first publication). Uncommon in the original wrappers.
Weird & Supernatural
A Chapter from a Family Chronicle
London, Chapman & Hall, 1889.
One-shilling edition. 8vo. Original pictorial boards, priced one shilling.
An early edition, originally published the previous year, of this ghostly tale about a family curse, written by the Rector of St Alban's, Manchester and later Canon of Worcester Cathedral, author also of The Broken Vow (1887). Scarce in the original boards.
Detective Fiction
London, Chapman & Hall, 1962.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Modern Literature
London, Chapman & Hall, 1942.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A novel of wartime dislocation and personal awakening set during the Second World War, exploring emotional and moral strain on relationships. Comfort was of course later famous as the author of The Joy of Sex, something he came to resent slightly as it overshadowed his other writings, such as the present work.
Victorian Literature
or the romance and reality of the London streets. An unfashionable novel
London, Chapman & Hall, 1858.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth, spine gilt.
Descriptions of life on the streets of London, the habits & customs of donkey-drivers, the peculiarities of trampdom & vagrancy, etc., drawn apparently from long and patient inquiries among the individuals themselves. A lively insight into London lower-class life in Victorian times.
Modern Literature
London, Chapman & Hall, 1932.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A romance set against the Parisian film industry.
Modern Literature
London, Chapman & Hall, 1932.
First edition, trade issue. 8vo. Original patterned cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Waugh's famous satirical novel set in the fictional African island nation of Azania. The young emperor, Seth, educated in England, endeavors to modernise his kingdom with the assistance of his English friend, Basil Seal.
![Alternative view of Kauffer (E. McKnight, jacket artist); Onions ([George] Oliver) Peace in Our Time](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/85004_2-300x400.jpg)
London, Chapman & Hall, 1923.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Stunning jacket artwork by one of the greatest 20th century jacket artists, E. McKnight Kauffer. Given the condition of the book compared to the jacket we have to presume this is either a marriage or a case of the book and the jacket being kept apart, with the jacket filed away safely...
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Chapman & Hall, 1955.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 12s.6.
A very good first edition of the second book in Waughs' Sword of Honour trilogy, loosed derived from the author's own wartime experiences.
Modern Literature
London, Chapman & Hall, 1927
First edition, second impression. Large 8vo. Tipped-in slip. Plates. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Inscribed by the author E.H. Bostock, most famous for the Glasgow Zoo and Circus on New City Road, as well as cinema and variety house interests in Paisley, Hamilton and Wishaw; he opened a cinema in the Zoo and Circus. His animals were internationally famous and appeared in such films as The Rajah's Sacrifice (1916).
The foreword notes: "Mr. Bostock has been called the Barnum of Britain. Judged by the magnitude and multitude of his enterprises, he may well claim the title, for he has been a pioneer of modern entertainment as well as a practitioner of older forms."