Children's Books
or The Story of Mr. Fox and Brer Rabbit
Leicester & London, Raithby, Lawrence, [1939].
Illustrated edition. Small 4to. Title printed in red & black. Original pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket with mounted illustration.
Classic of American children's literature, here illustrated by Harry Rowntree and René Bull.
Travel
London, John Murray, 1926.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 21/-.
A travelogue written by Angus Buchanan, a Scottish explorer and naturalist, and was published in 1926. The book documents Buchanan's extensive travels across the Sahara Desert, covering his journey from Morocco to Egypt.
Modern Literature
London, John Lehmann, 1951.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, with publisher's promotional belly-band.
The second novel by the author of the novella Cheerful Weather for the Wedding.
New York, International Universities Press, 1948.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.50.
Gisella Perl was a Romanian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped hundreds of women as inmate gynecologist without the bare necessities to perform her work. She survived, emigrated to New York and was one of the first women to publicize these experiences in English in this memoir.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Jonathan Cape, 1982.
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author, 'J.G. Ballard: "El Supremo"', to title-page. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, publisher's price-sticker of £7.95 to inside flap.
Signed first edition of this collection of ten short stories originally written for magazines in the late '70s and early '80s.
Detective Fiction
featuring Miss Marple
London, Collins Crime Club, 1964.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Dust-jacket, priced 16s.
Miss Marple travels abroad, but inevitably trouble still finds her.
Art & Architecture
London, Batsford, 1954.
First edition. Small 4to. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket.
An attractive period guide to interior design by English book designer, editor, publisher, and the founder of Puffin Books, Carrington.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1900.
First edition. 8vo. Original tricolore cloth.
Being sketches based on personal observation during a few weeks' residence in Cape Colony.
War, Invasion & Spy
Told by an Eye-Witness
London, Robert Hale, 1937.
First edition. Publisher's file copy. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Scarce Spanish Civil War title.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1960.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original burgundy cloth lettered in silver. Dust-jacket, priced 18s.
Inspiration for the 1963 Steve McQueen film.
...with an introduction by Hilaire Belloc
London, Jonathan Cape, 1930.
'New Edition'. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 21s.
Mountaineering in East Africa, accompanied by numerous collotype photographic plates.
Filming Big Game from Cape to Cairo
London & Glasgow, Blackie & Son, 1939.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d.
A car journey from Cape to Cairo by two enterprising Scotsmen to film the wild animals they saw along the way.
...edited by William Garnett Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1881.First edition, later state (advertisements dated July 1886). 8vo. Original cloth.An important work on electricity by an author praised to this day for his discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.
American Literature
...With the author's final revisions and a preface by Malcolm Cowley
London, The Grey Walls Press, 1953.
First UK edition of the revised text. 8vo. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
An important, and attractive, edition of Fitzgerald's famous, tragic romance; the revised text adopts a more linear chronology of the narrative (cf. Bruccoli A14.4).
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Modern Literature
Viewed from Three Angles
London, Heinemann, 1933.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
Comprising a prologue, three books and an epilogue. The three books have no direct connection with each other, but instead form three separate short novels with a common theme.