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London: Putnam, 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First UK Edition. Foxing to the page edges and the right hand corner of the FFEP cut off otherwise a bright, clean and attractive near fine copy in like price-clipped D/W. Inscribed by the Author: Best Wishes/ Yours Sincerely/ Fred./ (F.W. Hobden). Uncommon inscribed in nice condition.
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THE ART OF SPRINGBOARD DIVING
by HEBDEN F W
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English Period Furniture
by ROE F GORDON
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London, 1946. (London: John Tiranti Ltd 1946). First UK Edition. A softback (issued without a D/W). A VG copy.
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PANTOMIME PICTURES - A POP-UP BOOK
by WEATHERLY F E
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London: Nister, 1895. First Edition. Hard Cover. A Novel Colour Book for Children (London: Ernest Nister n.d. circa 1895). First UK Edition. Issued without a D/W. Introduction and poems by Weatherly and a story by E Nesbit. Tall 4to. Pictorial boards showing a glorious fairyland. A VG copy with several pages beginning to loosen and some finger marks to the margins. Contains five, fine double-page, chromolithographed POP-UPS of humanised cats, children, circus lions etc that emerge as the page is turned. Scarce
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The Crimson Petal and the White
by Faber, Michael
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Edinburgh: Canongate, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First UK Edition. Publisher's black boards with copper lettering to the front board and spine and with marbled end-papers with maroon book-mark. A DOUBLE-SIGNED COPY. A fine copy in like D/W. Signed on the title page by the Author and by Romola Garai who starred in the BBC adaptation. The book was signed at an event at Waterstone's Piccadilly (An Evening with Michael Faber and Romola Garai) held on Wednesday 27th April 2011. The book was originally purchased on the same day at a book shop on Charing Cross Road. Scarce with these attributes. Photographs/scans available upon request.
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Bulldog Drummond Stands Fast
by Fairlie, Gerard
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1947. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's blue cloth titled in black to the spine. Boards exceptionally bright and clean, minor offsetting to both sets of end-papers; dusty top edge otherwise a VG+ copy in a bright and clean VG+ D/W with the lightest of wear to the head and tail of the spine. No inscriptions. A fragile wrapper in better condition than usually seen. Great cover art. Photographs/scans available upon request.
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Hands Off Bulldog Drummond
by Fairlie, Gerard
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's blue cloth with black lettering to the spine and front board. A bright and clean near fine copy (just a hint of foxing the page block) in a dust wrapper that is VG indeed with just a touch of wear at the spine tips. A fragile wrapper this copy shows well. A much nicer copy than normally seen. Photographs/scans available upon request.
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Birds of Prey
by Fairlie, Gerard
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's cornflower blue boards with black lettering to the front board and spine. Boards exceptionally bright and clean. A contemporary gift inscription to the front free end-paper otherwise a near fine copy (or better) in like dustwrapper priced 3/6 net (as called for). At the top right-hand corner of the front panel: This is an entirely NEW BOOK now first published 3/6 net. A lovely copy. Wonderful dustwrapper artwork by HASTAIN. Photographs/scans available upon request.
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Calling Bulldog Drummond
by Fairlie, Gerard
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's red cloth with black spine lettering. A bright and clean near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper with the movie photo of Walter Pidgeon and Margaret Leighton to the back panel. The dust wrapper is VG indeed with just a touch of rubbing/minor fraying to the head and tail of the spine. A fragile wrapper this copy shows well. Photographs/scans available upon request.
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Bulldog Drummond Stands Fast
by Fairlie, Gerard
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1947. First Edition. Hard Cover. First UK Edition. Publisher's blue cloth titled in black to the spine. Boards bright and clean, slight pushing at the head and tail of the spine; and a contemporary gift inscription to the front free end-paper. No dust wrapper (but certainly good enough to take one). Photographs/scans available upon request.
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Copper at Sea
by Fairlie, Gerard
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's original blue cloth lettered in black to the front board and spine. Boards exceptionally bright and clean just the merest hint of fading to the edges of the spine (hardly worth mentioning). Overall a lovely near fine copy. In the rare dustwrapper priced 7/6 net to the spine (as called for). The dustwrapper has no wear, tears or pieces missing and is a lovely example with just a little minor soiling to the white portions thereof Great cover art of two men (wearing old-fashioned swimming costumes) sitting on a wooden raft in deep and meaningful conversation with another older man - in the sea - listening in to the conversation. A Detective-Inspector Bruce novel. Rare (especially in such outstanding condition). Photographs/scans available upon request.
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Captain Bulldog Drummond
by Fairlie, Gerard
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's oatmeal cloth titled in black to the spine and blind-stamped to the front board. Just a hint of foxing to the page block edges otherwise a VG+ copy in a bright and clean near fine D/W with a1 cm closed tear (with associated crease) to the top edge of the back panel. A fragile wrapper in better condition than usually seen. Great cover art. Photographs/scans available upon request.
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The Man with Talent
by Fairlie, Gerard
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1931. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (London: Hodder & Stoughton nd [1931]). First UK Edition. Publisher's original blue cloth lettered in black to the front board and spine with the Author's initials to the bottom right-hand corner of the front board. Boards exceptionally bright and clean just the merest hint of browning to the tip and tail of the spine (hardly worth mentioning). Overall a lovely near fine copy. In the rare near fine dustwrapper priced 7/6 net to the spine (as called for). The dustwrapper is complete with just a couple of tiny chips to the extremities. A lovely example. Great period cover art. NB: Copies listed elsewhere on the web in red boards are NOT first editions. Rare (especially in such outstanding condition). Photographs/scans available upon request.
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Bulldog Drummond Attacks
by Fairlie, Gerard
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's red boards with gilt lettering to the spine. The usual offsetting to both sets of end-papers and some foxing to the fore-edge overall VG indeed. In the rare first issue D/W priced 7/6 net to the inside flap (as called for). The VG D/W is creased, frayed at the spine ends and with some foxing to the verso of the spine but overall in nice condition. Photographs/scans available upon request.
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Alone in Berlin
by Fallada, Hans
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London, 2009. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition Thus. Translated by Michael Hofmann. SIGNED & DATED BY THE TRANSLATOR. A very fine copy in like D/W. Signed and dated 26 ii 2009 by the translator. This book was signed by Michael Hoffman at the "Poems Upstairs and Upstairs-Poetry Club" in Dublin on March 4, 2020. From the D/W blurb: "An Astonishing Wartime Thriller and a Rediscovered Masterpiece". Originally published in Germany in 1947 it was inspired by a true story and is the gripping story of an ordinary man's determination to defy the tyranny of Nazi rule. It contains facsimiles of the original Gestapo files which inspired the novel. Alone in Berlin was filmed in 2016 directed by Vincent Perez and starred Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Bruhl and Mikael Persbrandt. Signed copies are uncommon. Photographs/scans available upon request.
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Experimental Researches In Electricity VOL 2 ONLY
by Faraday, Michael
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London, 1844. First Edition. Hard Cover. (Richard and John Edward Taylor 1844). First UK Edition in publisher's original green cloth titled in gilt on the spine. viii & 302 pages, including the half-title, illustrated with 5 textual illustrations and 5 plates, including 2 folding plates. Yellow coated end-papers. First edition of volume 2 of the collected edition of Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity", complete in itself. About VG for its age (all 4 corners are bumped; there is pushing and surface loss at the spine ends; both hinges are weak exposing the underlying webbing; a former owner's name and date to the front paste-down). Clean interior. Gilt to the spine still bright and visible. The original mustard yellow end-papers are still present with all five plates (two gatefold) still attached at the rear. Foxing is almost non-existent apart from being present on the plates due to a different paper composition used. Boards are reasonably firm, binding…
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Lend Me Your Pack - Novel Experiments with Borrowed Cards
by Farelli, Victor
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London. (Edward Bagshawe & Co., n.d. [circa 1936]). A Softcover issued without a D/W. A picture of a pack of cards being passed from one hand to another is printed on the half-title page and is visible through a circular cut-out on the front cover. A VG copy. A former owner (a practising magician) has written in fountain pen his observations on several of the card tricks on a few pages. Uncommon.
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Exit John Horton
by Farjeon, J Jefferson
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London: Collins Crime Club, 1939. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (London: Published for THE CRIME CLUB by Collins 1939). First UK Edition. Publisher's orange boards with black lettering to the spine. Boards exceptionally bright and clean. No inscriptions. Slightly dusty top-edge and the lightest of foxing to the fore-edge. Overall a VG++ copy. The first issue VG dustwrapper is price-clipped to the inside flap with a slither of loss at the head of the spine and creasing/fraying at the tail of the spine. Decidedly uncommon. Great cover art by Lowen. Photographs/scans available upon request.
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The Little Bookroom
by Farjeon, Eleanor
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London: Oxford University Press, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Eleanor Farjeon's short stories for children chosen by herself. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Publisher's brown boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Spine a slightly lighter hue otherwise a near fine copy in in a D/W with minuscule fraying to the head and tail of the spine which is a touch darker. With the VERY SCARCE WRAP-AROUND BAND announcing "CARNEGIE MEDAL/ WINNER 1955/ for/ 'an outstanding children's book of the year'". The Wrap-Around Band is complete but slightly darkened to the spine. Eleanor Farjeon was that girl, who was so enchanted by her little bookroom that she recreated it by writing this wonderful collection of short stories selected by the author from stories published earlier in her career. Most were in the fairy tale style. This charming book was the winner of the prestigious Carnegie Medal (recognising the little bookroom as the year's best children's book by a British…
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A Man from Elsewhere
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London: New Authors, 1963. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (London: New Authors Limited - an imprint of the Hutchinson Group - 1963). First UK Edition. Publisher's black boards with white lettering to the spine. A near fine copy (tip and tail of the spine a little pushed; a hint of dustiness to the top edge) in a VG+ D/W with a tiny chip from the top right hand corner of the front panel and a hint of rubbing to the extremities. First book and quite uncommon. Photographs/scans available upon request.
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The Fury
by Farris, John
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London: Macdonald, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (London: Raven Books in association with Macdonald and Jane's Publishers 1977). First UK Edition. Top edge of text block somewhat foxed, spine tips a little pushed (neither defect affecting the D/W on either side) else near fine in a fine D/W. No sun-fading to the red lettering on spine, pigmentation the exact shade as on front panel. N.B: basis for the 1978 paranormal thriller directed by Brian De Palma starring Kirk Douglas. De Palma's follow-up to Carrie and very much a similar plot to this and Firestarter before King actually penned the latter (girl with psychic powers unbeknown to her being hunted by nefarious government secret agencies). A nicer copy than normally seen. Photographs/scans available upon request.
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