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JAIL & FAREWELL.

JAIL & FAREWELL.

by "SHANE, Mark" - [NORWOOD, Victor (Victor George Charles), 1920-1983] :

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London : Alexander Moring, [ca.1956]. [Second edition]. Red Miller, reformed con-man turned private eye, witnesses an old pal fall to his death in a police siege. In a secret pocket inside the dead man's shirt is a book - "I had more than a vague idea that the book was old, very old - and maybe valuable". Bookseller gets murdered. Some other "guys claimed to be antiquarian booksellers, but didn't know Aristotle from a hole in the ground". Originally published in 1953 under Reg Carter's earlier Comyns imprint, but here under the Moring imprint he acquired on his release from prison in 1955. Crown 8vo (19cm). 143,[i]pp. Original pictorial wrappers; some minor wear; upper wrapper with some creasing and a repaired 4cm tear, but otherwise a very good and clean copy. No copy of this Moring edition located in any major library worldwide.
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JAM SAUCE : A HUMOROUS NOVEL.

JAM SAUCE : A HUMOROUS NOVEL.

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London : Stanley Paul, [1947]. First edition. Three young men, beautiful young woman found bound and gagged, missing jewel, crazy crooks, maharajah, opera-loving policeman, etc. His first novel. Crown 8vo (20cm). 224pp. Original stone cloth, lettered in red; a touch of sunning at foot; a few faint edge spots, but a very good copy in the original pictorial Thompson dust-jacket - a little worn and slightly chipped at extremities.
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JAMES WATSON : A MEMOIR OF THE DAYS OF THE FIGHT FOR A FREE PRESS IN ENGLAND AND OF THE AGITATION...

JAMES WATSON : A MEMOIR OF THE DAYS OF THE FIGHT FOR A FREE PRESS IN ENGLAND AND OF THE AGITATION FOR THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER.

by LINTON, W.J. (William James), 1812-1897 :

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New York : Augustus M Kelley, 1971. A facsimile reprint of the original 1880 edition. A memoir of James Watson (1799-1874), radical printer and publisher, champion of free speech and a free press. In the "English Book Trade" series. Demy 8vo (23cm). [xii],(54),[vi]pp. Portrait. Original cloth gilt; faint marking to lower cover, but otherwise a very good, bright and sound copy.
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JAPAN : EUROPEAN PRINTED MAPS TO 1800.

JAPAN : EUROPEAN PRINTED MAPS TO 1800.

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London : Map Collectors' Circle, 1967. First edition. A chronological cartobibliography, listing and describing 83 early western maps of Japan, with twenty-eight plates. Map Collectors' Series No. 36. Crown 4to (25cm). 22,[ii]pp. Plates. Original stapled wrappers; a few faint marks, but a very good copy.
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JEEVES IN THE OFFING.

JEEVES IN THE OFFING.

by WODEHOUSE, P.G. (Sir Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975 :

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London : Herbert Jenkins, (1960). First British edition : the second issue, with the corrected fly title. The eighth Jeeves novel - Aunt Dahlia, Sir Roderick Glossop, Anatole, Bobbie Wickham the one-girl beauty chorus, etc. Originally published a few months earlier in the USA as "How Right You Are, Jeeves". Crown 8vo (20cm). (206),[ii]pp. Original red boards, blocked in blind on lower cover and lettered across spine in gilt; a touch bruised; some spotting and browning to edges and prelims, but a good copy in the original pictorial dust-jacket - the jacket lightly worn and used, with a short tear to the back panel, but also good.
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JIGGER MORAN.

JIGGER MORAN.

by ROEBURT, John, 1909-1972 :

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Redhill : Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., (1948). First British edition. The first of the much-admired Jigger Moran books, originally published in New York in 1944 and which also appeared as "The Case of the Tearless Widow" and "Wine, Women and Murder". Roeburt won the Edgar Allan Poe award in 1948. Crown 8vo (18cm). 126,[ii]pp. Original pictorial wrappers - a design by Reginald Mills; spine and edges smoke-blackened; slight discolouration of rear wrapper, but a sound copy. Just a single copy (British Library) of this edition located in major libraries worldwide.
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JIM THE PENMAN : THE LIFE STORY OF ONE OF THE MOST ASTOUNDING CRIMINALS THAT HAVE [sic] EVER LIVED.

"JIM THE PENMAN" : THE LIFE STORY OF ONE OF THE MOST ASTOUNDING CRIMINALS THAT HAVE [sic] EVER LIVED.

by "DONOVAN, Dick" - [MUDDOCK, James Edward, 1843-1934] :

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London : George Newnes, 1901. First edition. "Leave me woman; for heaven's sake, leave me; do not taunt me into madness ..." - a taut thriller from the enduringly popular Southampton-born writer who also went by the name of Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock. Crown 8vo (20cm). vi,378pp. Original decorative cloth gilt; lightly rubbed and marked; endpapers lightly tanned, but still an attractive copy. Partially removed contemporary school prize-label on front paste-down. Hubin p.120.
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JITTERY DAME.

JITTERY DAME.

by "VOGEL, Hans" - [AMBLER, Dail, 1919-1974 & LOWE, Herbert Victor, 1916-1991] :

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London : Scion, (1953). First edition. Chicago gangland boss has a stunning new girlfriend - but his colleagues haven't been told. Although earlier "Hans Vogel" titles had mainly been written for the Glasgow publisher John Watson by Norman Lazenby, after Watson sold the rights in the name to Scion in 1952 authorship becomes less clear. In this instance, a contemporary American copyright registration attributes the work to Dail Ambler and Herbert Victor Lowes (i.e. Lowe) - Dail Ambler was the regular pseudonym of Betty Williams, also known by her married name of Betty Uelmen, who under her "Dail Ambler" and "Danny Spade" personas, became one of the most successful of all of the British pulp-writers. Crown 8vo (19cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers - brunette, gun, bed - a design by Roger Davis; lightly worn and a little creased; short nick to upper wrapper; a few faint marks and spots; text lightly tanned; faint stamp of a Vancouver bookseller on title-page, with American copyright stamp… Read More
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JOHN BETJEMAN'S COLLECTED POEMS.

JOHN BETJEMAN'S COLLECTED POEMS.

by BETJEMAN, John (Sir John), 1906-1984 :

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London : John Murray, (1960). A handsomely bound reprint of the first collected edition of Betjeman, originally published in 1958. Also contains a number of poems not previously published in book form. Some 120 poems, including most of his most famous, compiled, edited and introduced by the Earl of Birkenhead. Crown 8vo (184 x 105mm). (xxviii),(280)pp. Bound in a smart contemporary half green morocco, banded and gilt; top edge gilt; just a touch sunned, but otherwise a very good copy.
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JOHN CALDIGATE.

JOHN CALDIGATE.

by TROLLOPE, Anthony, 1815-1882 :

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London : Chapman & Hall, 1879. First edition. A scarce late Trollope, featuring on Sadleir's "A"-list of rarities (XIX Century Fiction, 1951). Disinherited son makes good in the goldfields of Australia, returning home a wealthy man to marry Hester Bolton, but the delightfully wicked Euphemia Smith turns up to claim a prior marriage. Trollope makes interesting use of his Post Office experience to hinge the story on a forged postmark. "Mr Trollope has perhaps never hit upon a story that more strongly arouses the reader's attention and sympathy, and never told one with more mastery of the whole situation, in small things no less than in great" (The Graphic, 26th July 1879). Three volumes. Crown 8vo (181 x 120mm). vi,290; vi,296; vi,302,[ii]pp. Bound, complete with half-titles and final blank, in a most handsome later half morocco, gilt on wide bands and decorated with small onlay flowers, by Zaehnsdorf; all edges gilt; marbled sides and matching endpapers; just a hint of rubbing; a few minor internal… Read More
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JOHN PALMER AND THE MAILCOACH ERA.

JOHN PALMER AND THE MAILCOACH ERA.

by DAVIS, Sally, 1953- :

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Bath : Postal Museum at Bath, 1984. First edition. An illustrated study of John Palmer (1742-1818) and the development of the first modern postal delivery service. Foolscap 4to (21cm). 24pp. Portraits. Illustrations. Facsimiles. Original stapled wrappers; just slightly bruised, but a very good copy.
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JOHN THORNDYKE'S CASES. RELATED BY CHRISTOPHER JERVIS, M.D. AND EDITED BY R. AUSTIN FREEMAN ...
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JOHN THORNDYKE'S CASES. RELATED BY CHRISTOPHER JERVIS, M.D. AND EDITED BY R. AUSTIN FREEMAN ...

by FREEMAN, R. Austin (Richard Austin), 1862-1943 :

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London : Chatto & Windus, 1909. First edition. Dr Thorndyke, first of the modern forensic detectives, here appearing in eight stories, including "The Anthropologist at Large" and "The Blue Sequin". Introduced in Freeman's preface as "a somewhat new departure in this class of literature" - as indeed it was, with illustrations to back up the forensics. A Haycraft-Queen "cornerstone" of detective fiction. Crown 8vo (20cm). (xii),288pp + 32pp inserted catalogue dated September 1908. Ten plates - six atmospheric studies by Henry Matthew Brock (1875-1960) and four "micro-photographs" of the evidentiary specimens. Plan. Facsimiles. Original pictorial cloth; a few faint marks; some very mild rubbing and wear; endpapers lightly tanned, but a very good copy of a major contribution to the field.
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JOHNSON'S ENGLAND : AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE & MANNERS OF HIS AGE.

JOHNSON'S ENGLAND : AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE & MANNERS OF HIS AGE.

by TURBERVILLE, A.S. (Arthur Stanley), 1888-1945 - editor :

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London : Oxford University Press, 1933. First edition. A distinguished, literate and well-illustrated survey of all aspects of eighteenth-century life, with authoritative essays by G. M. Trevelyan, Dorothy George, G. D. H. Cole, R. W. Chapman and others - the period; the church; the navy; army; exploration and discovery; travel and communications; London; town-life in the provinces; industry and trade; agriculture and rural life; poverty, crime and philanthropy; manners, meals and domestic pastimes; sports and games; costume; taste; painting and engraving; sculpture; architecture and the garden; interiors; drama and theatre; music; education; science; medicine; the law and lawyers; authors and booksellers; newspapers, etc. Two volumes. Medium 8vo (24cm). (xxiv),(406),[ii]; (x),404pp. Numerous plates. Original cloth gilt; a very good and bright set in the dust-jackets - price-clipped but with only minimal wear.
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JOHNSON'S TABLE-TALK: CONTAINING APHORISMS ON LITERATURE, LIFE, AND MANNERS; WITH ANECDOTES OF...

JOHNSON'S TABLE-TALK: CONTAINING APHORISMS ON LITERATURE, LIFE, AND MANNERS; WITH ANECDOTES OF DISTINGUISHED PERSONS: SELECTED AND ARRANGED FROM MR. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.

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London : for C. Dilly, 1798. First edition. "No, Sir; we had talk enough, but no conversation ..." - the essential Johnson distilled (with Boswell's entire approbation). Johnson on conversation, wine, marriage, children, education, conduct, manners, London, trade, travelling, life, death, religion, politics, and much else. Demy 8vo (213 x 130mm). [iv],446,[ii]pp. Bound in a smart modern sprinkled calf, richly gilt in period style; marbled endpapers; some spotting, mainly to outer leaves; a few minor marks, but a very good copy.
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JORROCKS'S JAUNTS AND JOLLITIES : THE HUNTING, SHOOTING, RACING, DRIVING, SAILING, EATING,...

JORROCKS'S JAUNTS AND JOLLITIES : THE HUNTING, SHOOTING, RACING, DRIVING, SAILING, EATING, ECCENTRIC AND EXTRAVAGANT EXPLOITS OF THAT RENOWNED SPORTING CITIZEN MR. JOHN JORROCKS OF ST. BOTOLPH LANE AND GREAT CORAM STREET.

by SURTEES, Robert Smith, 1803-1864 :

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London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1903. A handsome and lavishly produced edition of Surtees' classic of sporting humour, produced for the Trübner Sporting Library series. John Jorrocks originally surfaced in the "New Sporting Magazine" in 1831, and first appeared in book form in 1838, but here appears with the original illustrations from all the various early editions - by Henry Alken, "Phiz" and William Heath - including an Alken illustration previously unpublished. With an interesting introduction on the history of the book and its illustrations by Joseph Grego (1843-1908), noted authority on illustration and its techniques. Super royal 8vo (258 x 172mm). xxii,(356)pp. Frontispiece, extra pictorial title, twenty-nine tissue-guarded plates - twenty-two with original hand colour - and nine illustrations in text. Bound in an elegant contemporary half red crushed morocco for Hatchard's; banded and gilt; top edge gilt; marbled endleaves; a few very minor signs of age and use; some spotting to… Read More
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JOURNAL OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD.

JOURNAL OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD.

by "MANSFIELD, Katherine" - [MURRY, Kathleen Mansfield, 1888-1923] :

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London : Constable & Co., 1927. First edition. Mansfield destroyed all but a fragment of her "huge complaining diaries" prior to 1914, but the journal - here edited and introduced by John Middleton Murry - made up of notes for stories, diary entries, unposted letters, comments and confessions, preserves all that she wished to survive for the period 1914-1922. Crown 8vo (20cm). (xvi),(252)pp. Original grey cloth, ruled and lettered in blue; endpapers a little tanned, but a very good copy in the typographic dust-jacket - lightly tanned and just slightly worn - but also very good. Bookseller's label of Edgar H. Wells & Co. of New York on rear pastedown.
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JOURNEY TO MARS.

JOURNEY TO MARS.

by TUBB, E.C. (Edwin Charles), 1919-2010 :

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London : Scion, [1954]. First edition. Verrill needs to get to Mars where a spaceship is making ready for the Big Jump to the stars, but he is stranded on Venus without money, papers or weapons. Crown 8vo (19cm). 144pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers in a design by John Richards; worn, rubbed and creased; short nick to title-page; some internal repair and tightening; a reasonable copy of a notorious rarity. Just a single copy (Liverpool) located in the major UK libraries.
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JOURNEYS THROUGH LONDON; OR, BYWAYS OF MODERN BABYLON.

JOURNEYS THROUGH LONDON; OR, BYWAYS OF MODERN BABYLON.

by GREENWOOD, James (James William), 1835-1929 :

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London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1867 (but later)]. An undesignated late Victorian reprint of these powerful sketches of London life at the extremes from the campaigning journalist, James Greenwood - "The Lambeth Casual" - At the Hospital Gate; Newgate Market; A Dog Show; Concerning Muffins; The Bones of London; Christmas Eve in Brick Lane; The Leather Market; Watercresses; The Song-Bird Market; The Gleaners of the Thames Bank; The Halfpenny Barber, etc. First published in 1867. "Mr. Greenwood gives us some thirty of his clever sketches, made on the spot and from life, in the dark recesses of the metropolis ... One word as to the style of Mr. Greenwood's narrative - it is excellent. Graphic and homely, it goes straight home" (The Globe, 14th December 1867). Crown 8vo (19cm). viii,232,16pp. Twelve lively double-page plates depicting the various markets, etc. Original decorative red cloth gilt over bevelled boards; all edges gilt; a touch sunned; some very minor wear;… Read More
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JOURNEYS.

JOURNEYS.

by BEDFORD, William, 1943- :

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London : Agenda Editions, (1988). First edition : one of fifty numbered copies in cloth, signed by William Bedford. A collection of fifty poems, including "For My Daughter", "Black Sheep", "Chemical Love", etc. Printed by the Poets and Painters Press. Demy 8vo (23cm). 64pp. Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt; mild spotting of top edge, but a very good copy indeed in the dust-jacket - just lightly bruised and faintly spotted, but also very good.
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THE JOURNEY'S ECHO : SELECTIONS FROM FREYA STARK.

THE JOURNEY'S ECHO : SELECTIONS FROM FREYA STARK.

by STARK, Freya (Freya Madeline), 1893-1993 :

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London : John Murray, (1963). First edition. A selection of the best of her travel and autobiographical writing, - Syria, Baghdad, Arabia, Ionia, etc. - introduced by Lawrence Durrell. Post 8vo (21cm). xiv,(224),[ii]pp. Plates. Original turquoise cloth, lettered in gilt; top edge blue; a very good copy in the Harvey dust-jacket, price-clipped by the publisher, with a revised price over-sticker, and just lightly rubbed and creased.
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