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First Edition with publisher's seal to copyright page and dated April, 1916. Beige boards stamped in red and black with 48 black and white illustrations by Boardman Robinson.
A lovely copy, fine indeed, with bright boards, sharp text and straight edges. The only flaw is an ex-libris stamp (no other markings).
This book is Reed's recounting of his experiences traveling in Central Europe in 1915 accompanied by Boardman Robinson, a Canadian artist and frequent Masses contributor. Traveling from Thessalonki, they saw scenes of profound devastation in Serbia (including a bombed-out Belgrade), also going through Bulgaria and Romania. They passed through the Jewish Pale of Settlement in Bessarabia. In Chelm, they were arrested and incarcerated for several weeks. At risk of being shot for espionage, they were saved by the American ambassador.
Traveling to Russia, Reed learned that the American ambassador in Petrograd was inclined to believe they were spies. Reed and Robinson were rearrested when they tried… Read More

First Edition. Signed and inscribed by Aldiss and signed by Sir Roger Penrose, 2020 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics. Penrose's is an uncommon signature.
Fine in like dust wrapper.

London: Chatto and Windus 1930. First Edition. 3,000 copies printed. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 5-256. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-301. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 782. Bleiler (1978), p. 160. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Riley A21. A mixed collection of twenty-six stories including allegorical fantasies and the best of Powys's more conventional supernatural fictions. A superior, bright and fresh copy, fine in a slightly dust soiled dust wrapper.

First Edition Thus.
Limited edition, 19/140 copies signed by Kingston.
Fine in original shrinkwrap and slipcase.

First Edition.
Inscribed by Toynbee on behalf of he and his wife, Veronica, and separately signed in full by Veronica. Loosely inserted are four Christmas greetings, three signed by Arnold and one by Veronica, and an author's compliments card. All items to the same recipient.
A leading specialist in foreign affairs, Toynbee is best known for his 12-volume A Study of History, ranked as one of the top 100 nonfiction books by the Modern Library. Veronica was a frequent co-editor with her husband.
Very good, some spotting to the rear board, staining to front and rear pastedowns and free endpapers in good dust wrapper, rubbed and creased, foxing to the interior, paperclip shadow to front flap.
Christmas greetings signed by Arnold are fine, greeting by Veronica and author's compliments card are tanned.
Though a prolific author, Toynbee's is an uncommon signature.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition.
Poet Louis MacNeice's copy, signed by him in pencil on front pastedown. Books with MacNeice's ownership signature are uncommon as his archive, including books from his library, was acquired by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin in 1964, a year after MacNeice's death.
A very good copy in like dust wrapper.