Rare books from Gavin de Lacy Rare & Secondhand Bookseller

Octavo, frontispiece, uncommonly good in original burgundy cloth decorated and lettered in gilt.
First edition. Inscribed & signed by the author.
Wackett states that only 500 copies were printed and now very scarce.

Octavo, pale foxing on edges, green leather with silver trout vignette on front board.
First edition. One of 20 special copies, numbered and signed by the author and illustrator (and subsequently signed by the Scholes on the title-page).
One of the publisher Richard Griffin's idiosyncratic limited editions. This special issue not in Kerry White's continuation of Muir's bibliography. Rare by definition.

Octavo, bottom and fore edges uncut, very good in bright original brown cloth with pictorial dustwrapper (bit sunned on spine).
US edition of Redheap. Third Printing in year of first publication.
Redheap was banned in Australia in 1930, and Every Mother's Son was declared a prohibited import in the following year. The offending or suggestive passages identified include pp. 103-9, 244-7, 257-60, 312-24, 328-30, and 333-37 (US edition).

Octavo, contemporary name and date on front free endpaper, some spotting to early leaves but very good in original black cloth lettered in gilt (slight wear at head & foot of spine), publisher's orange top stain.
First US edition of Upfield's first novel.
Scarce.