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London : Frederick Warne & Co., (1955). First Joan Storey edition. An endlessly reprinted Victorian guide to etiquette, which had reached its forty-eighth edition by 1929, but is here fully revised and updated by Joan Storey to take cognizance of the post-war world. With chapters on the hostess; introductions; accidental meetings; hand-shaking; invitations; cards; parties; luncheons; dinners; bridge and cocktail parties; garden parties; tennis; children's parties; balls; engagements; weddings; christenings; anniversaries; mourning; present giving; special points of etiquette for men; travelling by air, and much else besides. Crown 8vo (20cm). x,(198)pp. Original cloth; mild tanning of endpapers, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket - the jacket just lightly used and slightly spotted on flaps.

New York : Universal Publishing & Distributing, [1952]. First edition. "Whirling in a maelstrom of sex and bloody intrigue ... Ruthlessly hunted through the byways of Manhattan, the subways of Brooklyn, the alleys of Coney Island". Uni-Book No.24. Foolscap 4to (20cm). [ii],125,[i]pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers - a design attributed to Walter Popp (1920-2002); wrappers a little creased; chip at foot; lower wrapper nicked; text spotted in places and a little tanned, but a good copy. No copy located in any major library worldwide.

London : Library Association, (1983). First edition : limited to 1,000 numbered copies. The essential reference book for any collector of illustrated books on London - wise, witty, and massively detailed descriptions of over 230 books - and offering far more riches than the somewhat dry title might suggest. Post 4to (27cm). (xxxiv),586pp. Plates. Original cloth; lower edge a touch dusty, but a very good copy in a lightly sunned but otherwise very good dust-jacket.

New York : Ace Books, (1955). First edition. "He is far and away the best writer of the hard-boiled school" (Vincent Starrett). His last novel, completed by Robert Leslie Bellem. Published as an "Ace Double", bound tête-bêche in "two books in one" format, with the first edition of "One Got Away" by paperback king Harry Whittington (1915-1989). Foolscap 8vo (17cm). 185 + 135pp. Original pictorial wrappers, the Shady Lady design attributed to Harry Barton, the other to Robert Emil Schulz; some rubbing, light wear and minor creasing; short split at head; text somewhat tanned; a good copy. Ownership stamps of W. A. Farek, Jr. on inside front covers.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1946. First edition. Essays on Asser, literacy in England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, mediaeval education, etc. Demy 8vo (23cm). [viii],(168)pp. Two plates. Original cloth; a very good, bright and sound copy in a lightly worn, slightly nicked and partly tanned dust-jacket. With the ownership inscription of the late B. C. Bloomfield.

London : William Collins Sons & Co. (The Crime Club), (1980). First edition. Signed by Catherine Aird on the title-page. The ninth Inspector Sloan mystery. Motiveless murder at the flower show. Post 8vo (21cm). 202,[ii]pp. Original red boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; slight marks on lower edge, but a very good copy in the original Colin Thomas dust-jacket - price-clipped and just slightly nicked at one corner, but also very good.

London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1971). First edition. Signed and dated (1991) by Brian Aldiss on the title-page. The second Horatio Stubbs novel - the unforgettable Forgotten Army in India and Burma - a wildly funny but wholly serious attempt by Aldiss "to recreate it exactly as it was, whether heroic, bawdy or downright bloody unspeakable". The book's publication in January 1971 led to a newspaper spat between the bookseller turned author and Mark Kahn, reviewer for the "Sunday Mirror" - "Chuck It, Mr Aldiss", began the review - "I'm sorry that Mr Kahn (last Sunday) found my new novel ... tedious and nasty. War often is tedious and nasty", came the lofty response, but it is noticeable that only one further Horatio Stubbs novel appeared, not the four that Aldiss originally intended. Post 8vo (21cm). 272pp. Original green boards, lettered in gilt; just a touch bruised; a few faint edge-spots; mild discolouration to pastedowns beneath the jacket flaps (evidently a manufacturing fault in the adhesive),… Read More

London : Faber & Faber, (1954). First edition : in the variant and almost certainly primary binding of orange-brown cloth, blocked and lettered in maroon. Absent-minded and dotty old autocrat, bright young godson, endless muddles, mismanagement of the village fête, charming young woman - "Everyone will agree they are in good company from beginning to end". Crown 8vo (20cm). (214),[ii]pp. Original cloth; just a hint of sunning; light spotting to edges and endpapers; erasure mark from front free endpaper, but a very good and sound copy in the original yellow, blue, black, red and white dust-jacket - just lightly used and with slight fraying of inner flaps, but still very good.

London : Chatto & Windus, 1934. First edition. The interwoven lives of two girlhood friends - Ann the great actress, Aurelia the homely and suffering. Crown 8vo (20cm). [viii],(412)pp. Original yellow cloth, lettered and decorated on spine in red; a few tiny marks and faint creases, but a very good, bright and sharp copy in a price-clipped dust-jacket with a single short tear.

London : Chatto & Windus, 1968. First edition. Her final book, finalised from her manuscript after her death (at her request) by her husband, Philip Youngman Carter. A young woman doctor is bequeathed a house on an Essex estuary - anonymous letters, ton-up tearaways, an angry farmer, a shifty solicitor, an aged poet - and Albert Campion. "The seedy, half-alive village explodes into violence like a fire-cracker". Post 8vo (21cm). (224)pp. Double-page map by Youngman Carter. Original violet boards, lettered in gilt; a hint of bruising and faint sunning; a few slight spots, but a very good copy in the striking Carter dust-jacket - just faintly creased but also very good.

Folkestone : William Dawson & Sons, (1976-1977). First edition. A useful supplement to STC and Wing, adding a full title-index to books sometimes otherwise difficult to locate. The first volume covers the STC period 1475-1640, the second the Wing period 1641-1700. Two volumes. Crown 4to (26cm). [ii],176; [iv],318,[ii]pp. Original cloth; top edges just a touch dusty, but otherwise a very good set.

[London : George Virtue, 1836]. A charming antique print - a fleet of yachts in the sound, the town beyond. Engraved by Matthew James Starling (1805-1889) from an original study by the gifted artist-architect Thomas Allom. Originally produced for the part-work series "Scotland Illustrated" (London : 1835-1838). Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 136 x 174mm (approx. 5-3/8" x 6-7/8"). A few faint marks to outer blank margins, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

[London : George Virtue, 1836]. An attractive attractive antique print - a view from the hills of Dunstaffnage Castle near Oban - highlanders with swords and shields in the foreground. Engraved by Elias Benjamin (1805?-1854) from an original study by the gifted Thomas Allom. Originally produced for the part-work series "Scotland Illustrated" (London : 1835-1838). Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 140 x 176mm (approx. 5-1/2" x 6-7/8"). A few faint marks to outer blank margins, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

[London : Fisher, Son & Co., 1833]. An appealing antique print of the castle - deer shelter under trees in the foreground. Engraved by William Alexander le Petit (1804?-1896) from an original study by the gifted Thomas Allom. Originally produced for the part-work "Northern Tourist" series (London : 1832-1835). Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 108 x 154mm (approx. 4-1/4" x 6"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

[London : Fisher, Son & Co., 1833]. A pleasant antique print - workmen in the foreground repair a railing. Engraved by Samuel Lacey (1786-1859) from an original study by the gifted Thomas Allom. Originally produced for the part-work "Northern Tourist" series (London : 1832-1835). Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 104 x 155mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 6-1/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

London : Fisher, Son & Co., 1833. A charming antique print, with elegantly dressed nineteenth-century visitors in the foreground. Engraved by Samuel Lacey (1786-1859) from an original study by the gifted Thomas Allom. Originally produced for the part-work "Northern Tourist" series (London : 1832-1835). Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 106 x 154mm (approx. 4-1/4" x 6-1/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

London : 1831. A most attractive antique print, originally produced for the part-work series "Cornwall Illustrated" (London : 1830-1832). Engraved by John Thomas (fl.1830-1835) from an original study by the gifted Thomas Allom. Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 155 x 99mm (approx. 6-1/8" x 3-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

[London : George Virtue, 1836]. An antique print - rugged mountains, the remote pass, Macdonalds in flight from Campbells. Engraved by W. Hill (fl.1833-1838) from an original study by Thomas Allom. Originally produced for the part-work series "Scotland Illustrated" (London : 1835-1838). Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 138 x 174mm (approx. 5-3/8" x 6-7/8"). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

[London : George Virtue, 1836]. A most attractive antique print - a view out across the loch - sheep and cattle in the foreground. Engraved by James Charles Armytage (1802-1897) from an original study by Thomas Allom. Originally produced for the part-work series "Scotland Illustrated" (London : 1835-1838). Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 136 x 172mm (approx. 5-3/8" x 6-3/4"). A few faint marks to outer blank margins, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

[London : George Virtue, 1835]. An attractive antique print - a view of the West Bow - and a lively historical scene of Covenanters being led away. Engraved by Charles Cousen (1813-1889) from an original study by the gifted Thomas Allom. Originally produced for the part-work series "Scotland Illustrated" (London : 1835-1838). Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 190 x 117mm (approx. 7-1/2" x 4-5/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.