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Black Colossus, copyright 1933 in the United States and Great Britain by Popular Fiction Publishing Company for Weird Tales, June 1933
Shadows in the Moonlight, copyright 1934 in the United States and Great Britain by Popular Fiction Publishing Company for Weird Tales, April 1934.
Beautifully illustrated throughout by Ned Dameron

Very rare copy of this popular boys' story. Undated, but school prize plate dated 1893 (8 years after 1st publication). Pictorial cloth boards with gilt title band to front board. Pictorial design to spine. Floral design to pastedowns. Frontispiece. 392pp + several pages of ads. CONDITION: boards worn and grubby (particularly back and spine). Dusting to edges. School gift plate to front pastedown, with corresponding making on ffep. Light tanning and foxing to prelims. Occasional age marks internally but text block mostly clean.

Early edition of a novel written by the celebrated comic writer Thomas Anstey Guthrie, who wrote under the pseudonym F. Anstley.

Original blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front and spine. First British edition, first reprint (1926) First edition "A" to the otherwise blank first leaf. "First Published March 1926" stated on the copyright page.

c. 1888 facsimile of a much earlier publication of this classic fishing book. With colour frontispiece taken from the original, this copy now earns 'antiquarian' status for itself. Would make a lovely gift for a keen freshwater fisherman/woman.

Undated but probably c. 1920. Original red boards with design and lettering in black on front cover and spine. 310pp + ads. Illustrated with b/w plates by MIP.

A humorous account of the relationship between a parrot and a cat.

First cheap edition, published in 1933. Early classic Science Fiction

Very rare, early edition of a charming children's book. Adventure, readership age 10 - 16yrs. Red cloth pictorial boards and spine. All edges gilt. 240pp.

Undated - c. 1925. Pictorial cloth boards with illustrations in green, blue, beige, black to front and spine. Lettering black. Author's copyright edition. Colour frontispiece 'The Sea began to Spread over The Country'. 264 pp + ads.

Classic Weird Fiction, with undertones of reincarnation. First US 1918 Edition, Second printing. Green cover. First US 1918 Edition, Second printing. Green cover. Original green cloth boards with black text to front and spine and edge design to front.

Collectable children's adventure story from the early Twentieth Century. Original blue pictorial boards.

Abridged Edition. Blue cloth boards with gilt inlaid design to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Frontispiece. 756pp. Esoteric study of Man's understanding and enactment of religious and magic rituals.

Third edition. Original black cloth boards. Size: 16x11x1.5 cm. No dust jacket issued; with vingette of 'The Brilliant Company was Arranged about the Board' with tissue guard. Illustrated with 24 illustrations b/w photographics of previously drawn or painted scenes, unprinted on backs of illustrations. 171pp.

Classic textbook about human reproduction and other aspects of marriage. With line drawing illustrations. Used by the medical profession as well as lay-people.

Deluxe 1979 Edition. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Dean Morrissey. Lovely collector's item.

3rd edition 1947; small 8vo; 122pp. Dust jacket same on back as front. Original blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine.

Illustrated by Edward Read. First edition, first printing. No DJ issued. Blue cloth boards with bevelled edges. Gilt text to front board and spine. CONDITION: external wear and bumping, sunning to spine, damage to spine ends, remains of a sticker on front board. Edges grubby. Prelims heavily tanned. Pencil notes on condition of book on front pastedown. Ownership inscription, dated 1901 of ffep. Prelims finger smudged. Some foxing and age marks internally.

Collectable children's arctic adventure. original blue pictorial boards.

Old text book.
Original publisher's green cloth boards. Fascinating, with numerous b/w illustrations and old-fashioned diagrams.