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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1938. 8vo, pp. 238, 5pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Illustrated endpapers, top edge black. Illustrated dust jacket. Front endpapers a little marked, otherwise a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, with a little light edgewear and some darkening to the (white) rear panel. Frontispiece and dust jacket design by Milton Marx. First edition. Hubin lists four Smith titles, but this isn't one of them. An excellent copy.
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The G-Men in Jeopardy
by SMITH, Lawrence Dwight
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Gallowglass
by [pseud. RENDELL, Ruth] VINE, Barbara
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London: Viking, 1990. 8vo, pp. 296. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. A near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper with just a little wear to top edge and head of spine. First edition, third printing, INSCRIBED BY RENDELL TO HER NEIGHBOUR DOUGLAS BROWN: 'To Doug with love from Ruth'. Douglas Brown [1917-2003] was the BBC's first religious affairs correspondent, and held that position until his retirement in 1977. He and his wife Pat were Ruth Rendell's neighbours in the village of Polstead, Suffolk. Much of her work is set in the county, and on becoming a life peer she took the title Baroness Rendell of Babebergh, of Aldeburgh, in the County of Suffolk. The fourth novel Rendell wrote under the Vine pseudonym.
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Gazette of the Grolier Club
by [AUDEN, W.H.]
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New York: 1947. 12mo, pp. 207-267. Stapled offprint. First edition. Contains the text of Auden's Address on Henry James, given to coincide with the Grolier's Henry James exhibition. Bloomfield & Mendelson C312
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Ghastly Good Taste
by BETJEMAN, John
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1933. 8vo, pp. 136. Fold-out map to rear. Original pink three-quarter boards, letter in black to front panel. Printed spine label. Bottom edge uncut. Errata slip. Contemporary ownership signature to ffep., wear to spine label, some bumping to corners. Fold-out illustration by Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh. First edition. A very nice copy of the author's second book.
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The Ginger Man
by DONLEAVY, J.P
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Paris: Olympia, 1955. Small 8vo, pp.353. Original green stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to panels and spine. Light edgewear, corners and spine ends a little worn, small pencilled ?price to front panel alongside author's name. About very good plus. First edition of the author's first novel. The Ginger Man had been rejected by upwards of thirty publishers on the grounds of obscenity before finding a home in Paris with Maurice Girodias' Olympia Press, for whom its obscenity was its chief appeal. Donleavy was delighted to have found a publisher, and delighted to have found one who had recently published work by Beckett, Bataille and Genet. He was less delighted when The Ginger Man appeared in 1955, on a list including books called White Thighs, The Whip Angels, and The Sexual Life Of Robinson Crusoe -- all of which were advertised in the back of his book. Massive litigation and counter-litigation followed, conducted in a number of countries and over two decades, and when the dust finally…
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The Ginger Man
by DONLEAVY, J.P.
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Paris: Olympia Press, 1955. 8vo, pp. 353. Original green stiff card wrappers, lettered in black to panels and spine. Very light indentations to rear panel (see below), otherwise an absolutely fine, unread copy. First edition, first issue of the author's first novel, without the green border to title page, and with the earlier price ('Francs: 1.500') to rear panel. The Ginger Man had been rejected by upwards of thirty publishers on the grounds of obscenity before finding a home in Paris with Maurice Girodias' Olympia Press, for whom its obscenity was its chief appeal. Donleavy was delighted to have found a publisher, and delighted to have found one who had recently published work by Beckett, Bataille and Genet. He was less delighted when The Ginger Man appeared in 1955, on a list including books called White Thighs, The Whip Angels, and The Sexual Life Of Robinson Crusoe -- all of which were advertised in the back of his book. Massive litigation and counter-litigation followed, conducted in a…
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Giration
by [ed. DAEW, Boris]
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Paris: Boris Daew, 1939. 8vo pamphlet, pp. 20. Original wrappers. Contents age-toned, slight discoloration to leading edge, not affecting text. First edition. No. 1. All published. Short-lived review with a distinguished cast list: Paul Eluard, Franz Kafka, Jean Carrive, Georges Hugnet, Fernand Marc, Suzette Ramon and Christian Senechal. Well preserved example of a fragile publication.
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The Girl On The Boat
by WODEHOUSE, P.G.
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London: Herbert Jenkins, 1922. 8vo, pp. 312, 8 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original orange boards, lettered in red-brown to front panel and spine. Publisher's device to rear panel. Early ownership signature to front pastedown, which also carries a small bookseller's mark. Lettering to spine a little faded and a little wear to spine ends. First UK edition, preceded by the US edition which appeared seven weeks earlier. Both were preceded by serialisation in the Women's Home Companion in 1921.
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The Girls Of Gottenberg
by [WODEHOUSE, P.G.] CARYLL, Ivan and MONCKTON, Lionel
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London: Chapell & Co., 1908. 4to, pp. 176, 4pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at rear. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front and rear panels and spine. 12pp. 'New Number' as insert (Strolling and Patrolling). Foxing to wrappers, which are detached but intact and complete. Spine and front wrapper a little chipped, rear panel crease at spine. Foxing to front panel of insert. First edition, with the New Number insert present. The Girls of Gottenberg opened at the Gaiety theatre, London, on 15 May 1907, and ran for 303 performances before transferring to the Adelphi for a further 12 performances from 10 August 1908. Wodehouse's personal stationery of the period listed a song from this show, Our Little Way, as one of his 'recent successes', although it does not appear in the show's libretto, and Wodehouse's name does not appear as one of the lyricists on the title page of this full vocal score of the show. With the inserted new number, Strolling and Patrolling, laid in.
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The Glass Village
by [pseud. DANNAY, Frederic and LEE, Manfred Bennington] QUEEN, Ellery
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Boston: Little, Brown, 1943. 8vo, pp. 281. Original green boards, lettered in black to spine. Mapped endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with fading to spine, and some light chipping to top edge. First edition -- and the first Ellery Queen novel not to feature the detective Ellery Queen. HUBIN, p.335
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Globe-Gliding
by BROWN, Bob
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Diessen: Roving Eye Press, 1930. Small 8vo, pp. 151. Original brown stiff paper wrappers, lettered in gilt to front panel. Bookplate of Anthony Hobson to inner front wrapper. Small chip to rear panel and at spine ends, otherwise a very well preserved copy of a poorly made book. First edition of only the second book published by Roving Eye Press. Auctioneer and bibliophile Anthony Hobson's copy, with his bookplate to inner front wrapper. While everyone waited hopefully to be published in Jazz Age Paris, Bob Brown jumped the queue by setting up his own publishing house. Roving Eye Press was one of the smaller expatriate imprints, but it was also one of the more exuberant -- unsurprising, given its proprietor. Bob Brown [1886-1959] was a prolific and very successful jobbing writer who became an enthusiastic convert to Modernism after attending the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art in New York, known forever since as the Armory Show. Strongly influenced by his friend Marcel Duchamp, Brown…
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Golf Without Tears
by WODEHOUSE, P.G.
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New York: George H. Doran, 1924. 8vo, pp. 330. Original green boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. illustrated endpapers. Lacking the dustwrapper. Lettering to spine a little faded, bookseller's label to front free endpaper, which also bears a contemporary gift inscription. A very good copy. First US edition. A collection of ten golfing stories, first published in the UK under the title The Clicking Of Cuthbert.
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Good-Bye To All That
by GRAVES, Robert
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London: Cape, 1929. 8vo, pp. 448. Original salmon boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Bookplate to front pastedown. Boards a little marked, endpapers a trifle browned, but a very good copy in a very good, unclipped dustwrapper, browned at spine, chipping with slight loss to head of spine, and one or two very small closed tears. Photographic frontispiece of author by Albert Cracknell, seven illustrations through text. Illustrated dustwrapper by Len Lye. First edition, first issue, with the Sassoon poem on pp. 341-3 present. Viscount Esher's copy, with his bookplate. Sassoon's poem is missing from later copies; complaints and the threat of legal action from the poet resulted in its removal.
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The Goon Show: Series Six Number Fifteen: The Hastings Flyer
by MILLIGAN, Spike
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London: N.p. [BBC], 1955. 24 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left. Slight sunning to title page, light age-toning, otherwise a very good copy which, apart from an occasional pencilled pair of brackets in the text, carries no markings. First edition. Series Six, Number Fifteen, first broadcast on 27 December 1955. A recording of this episode of The Goon Show exists in the BBC Sound Archives, and was issued on the Goon Show 4 compilation CD in 2010.
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The Goon Show: Series Seven, Episode Four: The Macreekie Rising Of '74
by MILLIGAN, Spike; STEPHENS, Larry
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London: N.p. [BBC], 1956. 23 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left. Revisions, annotations and doodles throughout, some dampstaining to upper half. First edition. CO-WRITER LARRY STEPHENS' COPY, WITH HIS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE TO FRONT PAGE AND WITH HIS REVISIONS AND ELABORATE DOODLES THROUGHOUT. 'Larry was an ex-commando captain, who had seen some tough service in the Far East. He had a natural flair for comedy scriptwriting and shared with the Goons their irreverence and sense of the ridiculous, and also their artistic and musical leanings. He was both an able pianist and a meticulous illustrator of the definitive Goon character, with which he was wont to adorn the pages of his script.' (Jimmy Grafton, The Goon Show Companion). Larry Stephens is one of the more elusive figures in British comedy history. He and Spike Milligan were kindred spirits. Both were jazz fanatics (Stephens was a skilled pianist); both had faced the terror of war (Stephens as a Commando…
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The Goon Show: Series Six Number Five: The Case Of The Missing C.D. Plates
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London: N.p. [BBC], 1955. 20 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left. Two title pages (see below). Light age-toning, and some dog-earing to lower front corner, otherwise a very good copy which, apart from an occasional pencilled pair of brackets in the text and a pencilled tick to first title page, carries no markings. First edition. Series Six, Number Five, first broadcast on 18 October 1955. There are two title pages to this script, the first giving the title and recording and transmission details, the second carrying a cast list and synopsis. This format is usually found on BBC Transcription copies, which were edited slightly for the North American market to eliminate any references which would not travel. Usually, such copies carry the words 'TRANSCRIPTION. AMERICA: NBC NETWORK.' on the front title page. No such wording appears on this copy. A recording of this episode of The Goon Show exists in the BBC Sound Archives, and was issued on the Goon Show 3 compilation CD in…
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The Goon Show: Series Six Number Twelve: The Terrible Revenge Of Fred Fu Manchu (announced as Fred Fu Manchu And His Bamboo Saxophone)
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London: N.p. [BBC], 1955. 23 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left. Light age-toning, otherwise a very good copy which, apart from an occasional pencilled pair of brackets in the text and a pencilled tick and circling of 'Fu Manchu' to title page, carries no markings. First edition. Series Six, Number Twelve, first broadcast on 6 December 1955. A recording of this episode of The Goon Show exists in the BBC Sound Archives, and was issued on the Goon Show 3 compilation CD in 2009.
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The Goon Show: Series Six Number Thirteen: The Lost Year
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London: N.p. [BBC], 1955. 25 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left. Slight sunning to title page, a few pencilled notes to final page, light age-toning, otherwise a very good copy which, apart from a single pencilled tick to the title page and an occasional pair of brackets in the text, carries no markings. First edition. Series Six, Number Thirteen, first broadcast on 13 December 1955. A recording of this episode of The Goon Show exists in the BBC Sound Archives, and was issued on the Goon Show 3 compilation CD in 2009.
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The Goon Show: Series Six Number Three: The Lost Emperor
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London: N.p. [BBC], 1955. 22 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left. A few pencilled notes to blank of final page, a pencilled tick to title page, otherwise a clean copy. A little edgewear and light age-toning, otherwise a near fine example. First edition. Series six, Number Three, first broadcast on 4 october 1955. the title page carries transmission details only, including the words: 'TRANSCRIPTION. AMERICA: NBC NETWORK.' The second page carries the cast information, as well as a somewhat idiosyncratic synopsis of the episode. The script itself begins on p. 3. From Series Five onwards the BBC Transcription Service made its own recordings of the The Goon Show for broadcast in the United States, later deleting topical or local references which would mean nothing to an American audience. This episode, in its original domestic-consumption form, was released by BBC Audio in 2009 on the Goon Show 3 compilation CD. Very scarce.
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The Great Resorts Drinks Book 100 Recipes From America's Top Bartenders
by LAWLISS, Chuck
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New York: Gallery Books, N.d., stated first printing on verso of title page.. 4to, pp. 155. Original white boards, lettered in pink on spine. Fine in a near fine, lightly rubbed dustwrapper. Illustrated with photographs by the author throughout. First edition.
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