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London: Sheed and Ward, 1937. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.ix; [1]; 357; [1]. Publisher's green cloth lettered in yellow to spine, photographic dust-jacket with printed price of 7s 6d to front flap. Top edge green. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf. Dark spotting patch to flyleaf, wearing to cloth at extremities, rolling to spine, light bumping to edges, some tearing to ends of jacket backstrip, toning to jacket. Very good. Set in the ship yards of Glasgow, this novel follows the story of three men: Sannie Steuart, Nickey Rooney, and Brian. This book is rare to find in the dust jacket as it is found here, and it has been inscribed by the author. The author's message reads: 'To Eileen Black | Hoping that she will enjoy | this book. And because of my | regard for her. | Edward Shiels.'.
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Gael Over Glasgow
by SHIELS, Edward (1910-1935)
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Galahad at Blandings
by WODEHOUSE, P.G. [Pelham Grenville] (1881-1975)
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London: Herbert Jenkins, 1965. [Classic humour] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of 16-/ net to front flap. Toning to edges of textblock, very light bumping to corners and spine, dust-jacket spine a little sunned. Near fine. The ninth Blandings novel, also known under the U.S. title 'The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood'. The story surrounds Galahad or 'Gally,' brother of Lord Emsworth, as he tries to commandeer the love lives of the Blandings residents. McIlvaine, Eileen. 'P.G. Wodehouse a Comprehensive Bibliography and Checklist', A88b.
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Galapagos
by VONNEGUT, Kurt Jr. (1922-2007)
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. [Modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.269 [3]. Black publisher's cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Edward Coleridge priced at £9.50 to flap. Margins and edges toned, as usual. Very small ownership inscription in blue ink to flyleaf. Near fine. A story about a group of shipwrecked cruise-goers who become the last fertile human beings after a global financial crash and an unknown epidemic. The plot follows their descendants over the next evolutionary epoch.
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Galatea. A Novel
by PULLMAN, Philip (born 1946)
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1978. [Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.287; [1]. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Linda Garland with printed price of £5.75 net. Signed by the author to the title page. Small bump to the top of the rear board, jacket spine a little sunned, else a fine copy. The author's second novel.
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Gale Force
by TREVOR, Elleston (1920-1995)
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London: William Heinemann, 1956. [Shipwreck Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 262 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Francis Russell Flint. Blue ink gift inscription to fly-leaf. Spotting to edges, jacket price-clipped, with some light wear and creasing to edges. Very good. A merchant ship gets into trouble near Land's End in Cornwall during a big storm, and the Captain must fight to keep the ship afloat after the crew have been evacuated.
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Gallipoli Today
by PEMBERTON, T.J., [HAMILTON, Gen. Sir Iain, introduction]
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London: Ernest Benn, 1926. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 115 [1]. With 48 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt titles to spine. Black ink stamp of Queen's Westminster and Civil Service Rifles Sergeants' Mess to pastedowns and to half-title. A large blue pencil '19' to flyleaf, crossed out in black ink; 'No. 79' in black ink to front pastedown, and a publisher's advertisement loose to preliminaries. A crisp, clean copy with some light wear to cloth. Very good.
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Gallows Thief
by CORNWELL, Bernard (born 1944)
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London: Harper Collins, 2001. [Historical Fiction/Crime novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[vi]; 281 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. With a nineteenth century coloured map of London as endpapers. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £16.99. A fine, as-new copy. A fine Regency detective mystery set in London, which uses capital punishment as its backdrop.
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The Game of Draw Poker
by KELLER, John
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New York: White, Stokes and Allen, 1887. [Gaming] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.iv; 84. Publisher's paper covered boards with blue linen spine. Slightly scuffed and rounded to corners, some light wear to front panel and some fairly inoffensive soiling, a very good copy of a fragile production. Internally clean save for some soiling to the pastedown and flyleaf. A small treatise on the rules of progressive and draw poker from the first few decades of the draw's adoption into the game.
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Games Ancient and Oriental and How To Play Them. The Games of the Ancient Egyptians, The Hiera Gramme of the Greeks, The Ludus Latrunculorum of the Romans and the Oriental Games of Chess, Draughts, Backgammon and Magic Squares
by FALKENER, Edward (1814-1896)
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London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1892. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; iv; 366; [2]. Publisher's grey cloth lettered and illustrated in gilt to boards and spine. With in-text illustrations, diagrams, and mounted plates throughout. Spotting to textblock edges, spotting to spine, severe reading lean. Very good. Falkener offers his book to readers in hopes 'that some of the amusements of past ages may take their place among the relaxations of modern times'. In the book, he attempts to lay out the practical rules and principals that will allow the reader to play these historically distant games. Throughout, there are full page and in-text illustrations that demonstrate the rules, equipment, and historical figures playing the game.
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A Games of Murder
by DURBRIDGE, Francis (1912-1998)
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. With a 'review copy' slip loose to preliminaries, as well as a bookplate detailing provenance. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Colin Andrews, priced at £2.50. Damp marks to margins throughout. Damp staining to endpapers. Jacket spine sunned, with some light bruising to edges. Very good. A police murder-mystery starring Harry Dawson. From the library of Anthony Lejeune (1928-2018), critic and writer for 'The Tablet' and the 'National Review.'.
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Gandalf's Garden Magazine. Issue One
by VARIOUS; PEEL, John; BHAVE, Vinoba, et al., [MURRAY, Muz, editor]
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London: Citadelle Press, May 1968. [Esoteric Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE, the first issue with no text printed on the egg. A4 magazine (32 x 22cm), pp.32. Printed on various alternating pastel-coloured leaves, with occasional illustrations. Publisher's white, slightly glossy, paper covers, stapled twice. Covers detached. Well-thumbed, but essentially clean and intact internally. Covers heavily rubbed, with some marks, chips, and closed tears. Fair. The most hippie publication imaginable, chock-full of cosmic eggs and spiritual gardeners. This rare first issue (the magazine only ran for a total of six issues) contains a stream-of-consiousness piece by John Peel; an interview with 'Ghandi's Successor' Vinoba Bhave; various poems and satirical cartoons; a report from the Tibetan Monastic Centre; an excoriating piece on the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam; an extract from a book on Yoga; a profile of Swedenborg and his cult; and an interview with Marc Bolan about the name of his band Tyrannosaurus Rex. In…
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The Gang on Wheels
by THOMPSON, D. Lindsay
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London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1930. [Motoring crime caper] PUBLISHER'S FILE COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.269; [3], blank. Publisher's grey-green cloth blocked in colours, dust-jacket designed by W.Edward Wigton, with printed price of 2/6s net. Publisher's file copy signified by ink stamp to title page and paper label to the upper board. With additional discreet markings of Manchester Public Library. Book is fine and essentially unused, in a lightly worn jacket with a little fraying to spine. A group of plucky youths in a dilapidated motor car are on the trail of a gang of forgers across the Australian outback. Riveting stuff.
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García Lorca
by HONIG, Edwin (1919-2011)
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London: Editions Poetry London, 1945. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] 203. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With two copies of the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Light toning to edges, otherwise a crisp, clean example. Outer jacket shows some light toning and handling, with a nick to front cover, and a large loss to the rear panel. Lower jacket fine, but for the nick to the front cover. A lovely near fine copy.
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Garden of Beasts. A Novel of Berlin 1936
by DEAVER, Jeffery (born 1950)
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 404 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at £16.99. Low grade paper somewhat toned, with a little light handling. Near fine. This copy is from the comprehensive Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled note and ownership. Winner of the 2004 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award, presented by the British Crime Writers' Association for best thriller of the year. Deaver later wrote an original James Bond novel Carte Blanche (Hodder, 2011). Gilbert, p.613-4.
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The Garden of Bright Waters. One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems
by MATHERS, E. Powys (1892-1939)
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Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1920. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.108 [4]. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with black titles to spine and black paper over boards. Untrimmed edges. Wth the typographic green dust-jacket, priced at 6s. Some leaves unopened; very light spotting and toning throughout. Light wear and toning to binding. Wear and creasing to jacket edges, with some light chipping and a larger loss to tail of spine. Rarely seen in the jacket. Very good. This collection of poems is translated by E. Powys Mathers, a renowned English translator and pioneer in cryptic crosswords.
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Garden of Beasts. A Novel of Berlin 1936
by DEAVER, Jeffery (born 1950)
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 404 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at £16.99. Low grade paper somewhat toned, with a little light handling. Near fine. A hitman is arrested and given the almost-certainly-fatal task of assassinating the Third Reich's rearmament guru, Reinhardt Ernst. Winner of the 2004 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award, presented by the British Crime Writers' Association for best thriller of the year.
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The Gardener's Kalendar. Directing what Work are necessary to be done Every Month in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure-Gardens, As also in the Conservatory and Nursery. With Accounts I. of the Particular Seasons for the Propagation of all Sorts of Esculent Plants and Fruits, With the Seasons Wherein Each Sort is Proper for the Table. II. Of all Sorts of Trees, Plants, and Flowers, With the Time of Their Flowering in Each Month
by MILLER, Philip (1691-1771)
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London: Printed by Charles Rivington, 1757. [Science and Nature] ELEVENTH EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2]; frontispiece; xviii; 352; unpaginated index. Bound in brown full calf with gilt tooling to boards and spine, raised bands and red label with gilt lettering to spine. Toning throughout, neat and small marginalia notes on 14 pages overall, toning to edges of textblock, some marking and wearing to leather, bumping to corners. Very good. The 'Gardener's Kalendar' aims to offer practical advice to gardeners in their kitchen, fruit and pleasure gardens. A previous author of the text has left very neat marginalia notes throughout. The reader particular takes notes on information about kitchen gardens. On pages 256-277, he makes notes on radishes, lettuce, and 'colliflower'. In the month of October, the reader begins thinking about his vegetables for Christmas celebrations on page 283. Although a seemingly reasonable man in these annotations, his fastidious nature is revealed on page 236 when he…
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Gareth and Lynette. etc.
by TENNYSON, Alfred Lord (1809-1892)
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London: Strahan and Co., 1872. [Arthurian Legend] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[6] 136 [10]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Yellow-coated endpapers. Contents clean, discreet ink name to endpaper, frayed at spine ends, extremities rubbed. Very good. Begun in 1859, Tennyson's classic exploration of the legend of King Arthur 'The Idylls of the King' originally consisted of four poems titled 'Enid', Vivien', 'Elaine' and 'Guinevere', building to a total of 12 poems by 1885. This collection introduces two new poems to the cycle: 'Gareth and Lynette' and 'The Last Tournament.'.
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by TENNYSON, Alfred Lord (1809-1892)
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London: Strahan and Co., 1872. [Arthurian Legend] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[6] 136 [10]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Yellow-coated endpapers. A lovely clean copy, partially unopened, with some rubbing to spine. Near fine. Begun in 1859, Tennyson's classic exploration of the legend of King Arthur 'The Idylls of the King' originally consisted of four poems titled 'Enid', Vivien', 'Elaine' and 'Guinevere', building to a total of 12 poems by 1885. This collection introduces two new poems to the cycle: 'Gareth and Lynette' and 'The Last Tournament.'.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
by RABELAIS, Francois (c.1490-1553), [DORE, Gustave, illustrator], [SCREECH, M.A., translator]
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London: The Folio Society, 2019. [Satirical Novels] LIMITED EDITION, FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Folio (38 x 28cm), pp.xxviii; 454 [6]; pp.xii; 455-949 [5]. A modern translation with Dore's original in-text wood engravings. Number 169 of 500 copies thus, typeset in Bulmer and printed on Abbey Pure Paper at Graphicom, Vicenza. Quarter-bound in burgundy Spaccato de Capra Goatskin with blocked cloth sides, presented in a matching printed cloth slipcase featuring a design by Dore for the 1873 Gerier Freres Edition. Burgundy endpapers. A lightly handled copy, essentially fine. Dore's illustrated edition was first published in 1871.
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