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À BECKETT, Arthur William, 1844-1909 : THE À BECKETTS OF "PUNCH" : MEMORIES OF FATHER AND SONS. London : Archibald Constable, 1903. First edition. Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811-1856) and his sons - with reminiscence of Charles Dickens, Richard Doyle, Douglas Jerrold, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, W. M. Thackeray, etc. SOLD | |
AIKEN, Joan (Joan Delano), 1924-2004 : ALL & MORE. London : Jonathan Cape, (1971). First collected edition, combining all thirty-three of the stories originally published in "All You've Ever Wanted" (1953) and "More Than You Bargained For" (1955). £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31070 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
AIKEN, Joan (Joan Delano), 1924-2004 : TALE OF A ONE-WAY STREET AND OTHER STORIES. London : Jonathan Cape, (1978). First edition. Eight stories, with striking illustrations by Jan Pienkowski. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31071 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
ALDERMAN, Geoffrey, 1944- & HOLMES, Colin, 1938- - editors : OUTSIDERS & OUTCASTS : ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF WILLIAM J. FISHMAN. London : Gerald Duckworth & Co., (1993). First edition. Essays by various hands, mainly on immigration, unemployment, religion and politics in the East End of London - the social territory that Professor Fishman has done so much to define. SOLD | |
AMBLER, Eric (Eric Clifford), 1909-1998 : INTRIGUE : THE GREAT SPY NOVELS OF ERIC AMBLER. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First collected edition of four of the earliest Ambler titles. Inscribed, signed and dated (1943) by Eric Ambler on the front free endpaper. The volume includes "Background to Danger" - first published in the UK as "Uncommon Danger" in 1937 ; "Cause for Alarm" - first published in the UK in1938; "A Coffin for Dimitrios" - first published in the UK as "The Mask of Dimitrios" in 1939; and "Journey into Fear" - first published in 1940. The present collected edition, with a perceptive preface by Alfred Hitchcock, had no UK equivalent, the 1965 Hodder & Stoughton publication also called "Intrigue" having a different selection of three novels only. £50 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31567 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
ANDERSON, Norman (Sir James Norman Dalrymple), 1908-1994 : AN ADOPTED SON : THE STORY OF MY LIFE. Leicester : Inter-Varsity Press, (1985). First edition. Anderson recalls his life as missionary to Islam, wartime liaison officer to Arab guerillas, professor of oriental laws, etc. A presentation copy, inscribed and signed with forename by Norman Anderson to the late Barry Bloomfield. Loosely inserted is the Order of Service for the memorial thanksgiving in honour of Anderson at All Souls, Langham Place, in 1995. SOLD | |
"ANDOM, R." - [BARRETT, Alfred Walter, 1869-1920] : WE THREE AND TRODDLES : A TALE OF LONDON LIFE. London : Tylston & Edwards, [1894]. First edition. The author's first book - the first of the Troddles titles - and an oblique homage to Jerome's Three Men in a Boat - "There were four of us all healthy, able-bodied young men, and we must have presented a unique and even picturesque appearance as we sat smoking ...". Tales of How We Figured in the Lord Mayor's Show, Christmas Day in London, How We Saw the Boat Race, Stirring Times in the Suburbs, How We Experienced the Influenza, Our Cricket Club, etc. SOLD | |
ARNOLD, Ralph (Ralph Crispian Marshall), 1906-1970 : SKELETONS AND CUPBOARDS. London : William Heinemann, (1952). First British edition. A murder mystery with an English country-house setting. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 32969 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
ARNOLD, Ralph (Ralph Crispian Marshall), 1906-1970 : JENKIN'S GREEN. London : William Heinemann, (1953). First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed, signed and dated (1953) by Ralph Arnold. A murder mystery in the world of publishing. SOLD | |
ARROWSMITH, J.W. : ARROWSMITH : 1854-1954. Bristol : J. W. Arrowsmith, (1955). First edition. A brief centenary history of the Bristol printing and publishing house founded by Isaac Arrowsmith and long known under the name of his son and successor, James William Arrowsmith. SOLD | |
ATKIN, G. Duckworth (George Duckworth) : HOUSE SCRAPS. London : by the Author at the Stock Exchange, 1887. First edition : printed for private circulation only (with the subscription list limited to 200 names). A collection of Stock Exchange anecdotes, incidents, jokes and illustrations, the latter by Lucien Davis, Francis Carruthers Gould (before he left the Exchange to become a full-time artist), etc. SOLD | |
ATKINSON, Alex, 1916-1962 & SEARLE, Ronald, 1920- : THE BIG CITY : OR, THE NEW MAYHEW. London : Perpetua, (1958). First edition. Atkinson and Searle examine nocturnal life and the new categories of poor in 1950s London - an actress of advancing years, a nobleman in reduced circumstances, a lady of the streets, etc. SOLD | |
AUDEN, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 : THE ENGLISH AUDEN : POEMS, ESSAYS AND DRAMATIC WRITINGS 1927-1939. London : Faber & Faber, (1977). First edition. The poems and writings that established Auden's reputation, together with some previously unpublished or uncollected material. Edited by Edward Mendelson. From the collection of the late B. C. Bloomfield, Auden's bibliographer. SOLD | |
AUDEN, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 : JUVENILIA : POEMS 1922-1928. Princeton : Princeton University Press, (1994). First edition. A collection of over 200 early poems, most previously unpublished, with full biographical and critical notes. Edited by Katherine Bucknell. SOLD | |
AYCKBOURN, Alan (Sir Alan), 1939- : THE NORMAN CONQUESTS : A TRILOGY OF PLAYS. London : Chatto & Windus, 1975. First edition. The texts of Ayckbourn's celebrated theatrical success, with an interesting preface on the "crosswise" writing of the interlocking plays. SOLD | |
BABB, Paul & OWEN, Gay : BONZO : THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE STUDDY. Shepton Beauchamp : Richard Dennis, 1988. First edition. An amiable and well-illustrated survey of the life and work of George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948), creator of the immortal Bonzo. Includes checklists of books, postcards, cartoon films, etc., and with a foreword by Beryl Cook. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 29500 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
BACON, G.W. (George Washington), 1830-1922 - publisher : BACON'S LARGE SCALE PLAN OF THE CITY OF LONDON. London : G. W. Bacon, [1947]. Revised edition. A clearly worked map of the City of London - extending west to Kingsway and Aldwych, north to the Charterhouse and the Artillery Ground, and east to include Spitalfields and the Royal Mint - on a scale of twelve inches to the mile. All the City streets and the public buildings are named and this immediate post-war edition shows the swathes of blitzed areas of the City in a special colour. SOLD | |
BAEDEKER, Karl, 1801-1859 : LONDON AND ITS ENVIRONS : A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS. Hamburg : Karl Baedeker / London : George Allen & Unwin, 1951. Twentieth edition. The first post-war edition of this ever-useful and comprehensive guide, thoroughly revised and updated (by Edward Francis Peeler) to take account of the bomb damage, etc., and with a new feature - eighty thumbnail sketches of the principal buildings by G. Gronwald. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 20993 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
BARKER, Gilbert (Gilbert Welch), 1906- : SEXTET. Oxford : George Ronald, (1951). First edition. Six short stories - "enchanting prose vignettes, echoes of Boucher and Watteau, memories of the lovely country of poplars and rivers in the Ile de France and touches of pure comedy on the smallest and most elegant scale". £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 34132 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
BAXT, George, 1923-2003 : THE DOROTHY PARKER MURDER CASE. London : William Collins Sons & Co. (The Crime Club), (1985). First British edition. A witty murder mystery, bringing in some of the real-life characters of the Dorothy Parker set in 1920s New York. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 24598 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
BAYNES-COPE, A.D. (Arthur David), 1928-2002 : CARING FOR BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS. London : British Library, (1989). Second edition : amplifying the section on relative humidity and adding an appendix on the storage of electronic data. A guide to the materials, ideal conditions, the enemies of books, etc. Originally published in 1981. SOLD To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 25390 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
BENN, Ernest (Sir Ernest John Pickstone), 1875-1954 : HAPPIER DAYS : RECOLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS. London : Ernest Benn, (1949). First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed to the theatre-manager and historian Walter Macqueen-Pope (1888-1960) - "whose 'Twenty Shillings in the Pound' spurred me to write this", signed and dated (1949) by Ernest Benn. The publisher and libertarian looks back over a life rich with incident and quirky individualism. SOLD | |
BENTLEY, Nicolas (Nicolas Clerihew), 1907-1978 : ANIMAL, VEGETABLE AND SOUTH KENSINGTON : A BOOK OF NICOLAS BENTLEY'S PICTURES. London : Methuen & Co., (1940). First edition. Wartime humour from Nicolas Bentley. SOLD | |
"BERKELEY, Anthony" - [COX, Anthony Berkeley, 1893-1971] & OTHERS : ASK A POLICEMAN. London : Macmillan London, (1983). An anniversary reissue of a jolly murder mystery concocted by various members of the Detection Club and first published by Arthur Barker in 1933. The story is kicked off by John Rhode and then passed in turn to Helen Simpson, Gladys Mitchell, Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L. Sayers and Milward Kennedy. The writers use each other's detectives (Anthony Berkeley does Peter Wimsey, Dorothy L. Sayers does Roger Sheringham) - and all reach different conclusions before Milward Kennedy provides the answer. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31571 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
[BETHELL, Victor (Albert Victor), 1864-1927] : TEN DAYS AT MONTE CARLO AT THE BANK'S EXPENSE : CONTAINING HINTS TO VISITORS AND A GENERAL GUIDE TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. BY V. B. London : William Heinemann, 1898. First edition. An amiable tale of touring the neighbourhood, dining well, and persistent success at the tables - but "I quite recognise the fact that my system is of no use to gamblers". £40 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31699 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
BETJEMAN, John (Sir John), 1906-1984 : A NIP IN THE AIR. London : John Murray, (1974). First edition. Twenty-seven poems from the period 1967-1974, including The Costa Blanca, A Wembley Lad, A Mind's Journey to Diss, etc. SOLD | |
BLAKE, William, 1757-1827 : SONGS OF INNOCENCE. London : Ernest Benn, (1926). An attractively produced facsimile of the British Library copy of the rare original edition of 1789. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 30487 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
BLAKE, William, 1757-1827 : THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL. London : Oxford University Press in association with the Trianon Press (Paris), (1975). A most attractive facsimile of the Fitzwilliam Museum copy of Blake's illuminated book, reproduced at original size and with commentary and analysis by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. SOLD | |
BLAKELOCK, Denys (Denys Martin), 1901-1970 : ELEANOR : PORTRAIT OF A FARJEON. London : Victor Gollancz, 1966. First edition. A memoir of Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965). SOLD | |
BLOOMFIELD, B.C. (Barry Cambray), 1931-2002 : AN AUTHOR INDEX TO SELECTED BRITISH 'LITTLE MAGAZINES' 1930-1939. London : Mansell, 1976. First edition. An exhaustive finding list to the wealth of material - some 11,000 entries - poems, prose, reviews and illustrations - hidden in the "little magazines" of the pre-war period. SOLD | |
BOUMPHREY, Geoffrey & OTHERS : BERKSHIRE. London : Shell-Mex & B.P., (1963). First edition. A guide to the county in the Shell "Shilling Guides" series, with an introductory essay, a gazetteer, etc. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 26516 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
BOWIE, Archibald Granger : THE ROMANCE OF THE BRITISH POST OFFICE : ITS INCEPTION AND WONDROUS DEVELOPMENT. London : S. W. Partridge & Co., 1897. First edition. A lively illustrated account of the development of the postal and communications services, with chapters on the early history, Rowland Hill and the penny post, transport, St. Martin's le Grand, stamps, ocean postage, telegraphs and telephones, administration and staff, etc. The author was an accountant at the GPO. SOLD | |
BRYANT, Mark, 1953- : DICTIONARY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH CARTOONISTS AND CARICATURISTS. Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing, (2000). First edition. An illustrated dictionary, with an extensive bibliography, etc. SOLD | |
"BUTLER, Joan" - [ALEXANDER, Robert William, 1905-1979] : THE OLD FIRM. London : Stanley Paul & Co., [1947]. First edition. "The happy laughter of Miss Guinevere Whipple, popular novelist, rings through Swype Hall like the cry of some marsh-hen to its mate ...". £40 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31119 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
"BUTLER, Joan" - [ALEXANDER, Robert William, 1905-1979] : ALL CHANGE. London : Stanley Paul & Co., (1955). First edition. Amnesiac private eye arrives at Cardew Castle, chaos, confusion and the usual Butler mix. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31117 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
CAMPBELL, Patrick - [GLENAVY, Patrick Gordon Campbell, Third Baron, 1913-1980] : HOW TO BECOME A SCRATCH GOLFER. London : Anthony Blond, (1963). First edition. "A birdie of a book" from the late lamented Paddy Campbell. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. SOLD | |
"CANNAN, Joanna" - [PULLEIN-THOMPSON, Joanna Maxwell Cannan, 1898-1961] : ANOTHER PONY FOR JEAN. London : Collins, (1938). First edition. An uncommon early Cannan children's book. £50 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 30599 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
CARBERY, Mary (Lady Mary Toulmin), 1867-1949 & GREY, Edwin : HERTFORDSHIRE HERITAGE : OURSELVES AND OUR WORDS. London : John Green & Co., 1948. First edition. General historical matter on the county, followed by over 100 pages of a glossary of Hertfordshire dialect words. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 21248 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
CARTER, John (John Waynflete), 1905-1975 : VICTORIAN FICTION : AN EXHIBITION OF ORIGINAL EDITIONS AT 7 ALBEMARLE STREET, LONDON ... ARRANGED BY JOHN CARTER WITH THE COLLABORATION OF MICHAEL SADLEIR. [London] : Cambridge University Press for the National Book League, 1947. First edition : one of the copies issued in cloth, with the plates not included in the wrappers issue. A major exhibition catalogue, with a foreword by Sadleir and an introduction by Carter. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 29078 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
CARTER, John (John Waynflete), 1905-1975 & POLLARD, Graham (Henry Graham), 1903-1976 : THE FIRM OF CHARLES OTTLEY, LANDON & CO. : FOOTNOTE TO AN ENQUIRY. London : Rupert Hart-Davis / New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First edition. Four further Thomas J. Wise forgeries unmasked - a group of four Swinburne pamphlets dated 1887 and produced under the fictitious imprint of "Charles Ottley, Landon & Co." - and Wise now seen not just a forger but as a malignant bully as well. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 20281 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
CASSELL & CO. - publishers : CASSELL'S GUIDE TO LONDON : WITH 18 MAPS AND PLANS. London : Cassell & Co., 1919. The 1919 edition of this useful guide which began publication in 1896. Chapters include - how to get about, how to spend a week, how to spend a day, theatres and galleries, the streets and sights, up the Thames to Hampton Court, down the Thames to Gravesend, other suburban sights, etc. The text is accompanied by a general map, a folding coloured map of the underground, sectional plans of the central area, plans of the principal buildings, etc. SOLD | |
CHAMBERS, William, 1800-1883 : STORY OF A LONG AND BUSY LIFE. Edinburgh & London : W. & R. Chambers, 1882. First edition. The autobiography of the distinguished Scottish publisher William Chambers, partner with his brother Robert in "W. & R. Chambers", founder of "Chambers's Journal", "Chambers's Encyopaedia", etc. Contains material on many of the leading writers and public figures of the day. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 20517 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
CHANCE, John Newton (John Richard Newton), 1911-1983 : THE MAN IN MY SHOES. London : Macdonald & Co., (1952). First edition. "An unseen menace stalks him through the shadowed streets of Cambridge, tracks him across the broad empty crown of Maiden Castle, lurks in the dark backwaters of Newhaven ...". £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 21975 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
CHERRY, Bridget : THE BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES : A SHORT HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. Henley : Penguin Collectors' Society for the Pevsner Memorial Trust, (1998). First edition : one of 100 copies (of 1,000) numbered and signed by both Bridget Cherry and John Newman, who provides a memoir of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983). The story of the Pevsner guides, etc. SOLD | |
CHICHESTER, Francis (Sir Francis Charles), 1901-1972 : CHICHESTER'S PICTURE MAP OF LONDON. London : Francis Chichester, 1955. A revised version of the original 1951 edition - an attractive map of central London on a scale of a little under six inches to the mile, with the principal buildings shown in elevation. The area shown extends north to the Zoo, east to the Tower, south to the Oval, and west to Earl's Court. On the reverse of the map are separate underground and bus maps, along with details of all-night chemists, petrol stations, theatres, cinemas, etc. There is also a separate 36pp index of street-names. £40 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 32551 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
CHRISTIE, Agatha (Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa), 1890-1976 : ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE. London : Collins for The Crime Club, (1958). First edition. The murderer already tried and dead - but did he do it? SOLD | |
CHRISTIE, Agatha (Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa), 1890-1976 - contributor : THE BIG BOOK OF DETECTIVE STORIES. London & Beccles : William Clowes & Co., [ca.1935]. First edition. A collection of twenty-seven short stories - with three each from Agatha Christie and Edgar Wallace, five from J. S. Fletcher and others from Marjorie Bowen, Alice Campbell, G. D. H. & M. Cole, George Dilnot, Grant Edwards, Sydney Horler, Lennox Kerr, Maurice le Blanc, Elliot O'Donnell, Arthur B. Reeve (2), James Ronald, H. de Vere Stacpoole (3) and H. G. Wells. SOLD | |
CHUTE, Marchette (Marchette Gaylord), 1909-1994 : SHAKESPEARE OF LONDON. London : Martin Secker & Warburg, (1951). First British edition. Shakespeare as actor and man of business - and his London. First published in New York in 1949. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 30722 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
CLAIR, Colin, 1899-1984 : A CHRONOLOGY OF PRINTING. London : Cassell & Co., (1969). First edition. A compendium of the best available and most useful information on the history and spread of printing, from the reputed invention of paper in China in 105 to the death of Stanley Morison in 1967. SOLD | |
COBB, Gerald, 1899-1986 : LONDON CITY CHURCHES 1951 : A BRIEF GUIDE. London : Corporation of London, 1951. First edition. A survey of the surviving City churches, with notes on bomb damage, etc. £10 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 34381 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
COLLINS, Clifford & OTHERS - editors : POLITICS & LETTERS : A QUARTERLY SURVEY OF INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND. London : Critic Press, 1947-1948. A complete set of this post-war periodical - comprising number 1, the double number 2/3, and the final number 4. Acting as a continuation of the earlier "The Critic" and including articles, etc., by G. H. Bantock (on Koestler), Grattan Freyer, F. R. Leavis (Literary Criticism and Politics), Wolf Mankowitz, George Orwell (Critic and Leviathan), Jean Paul Sartre (Commitment in Literature), Raymond Williams, etc. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 29540 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
COLLINS, Wilkie (William Wilkie), 1824-1889 : IOLÁNI ; OR, TAHÍTI AS IT WAS : A ROMANCE. Princeton : Princeton University Press, (1999). First edition. The celebrated "lost" book - his first novel, rejected both by Longmans and Chapman & Hall in 1845 - never published and the manuscript long thought to have disappeared. Edited and introduced, with full scholarly apparatus, by Ira Bruce Nadel. SOLD | |
COMFORT, Alex (Alexander), 1920-2000 & BAYLISS, John (John Clifford), 1919-1978 - editors : NEW ROAD 1943 : NEW DIRECTIONS IN EUROPEAN ART AND LETTERS. Billericay : Grey Walls Press, (1943). First edition. An impressive anthology, with poems from David Gascoyne, Sidney Keyes, Nicholas Moore, Nornan Nicholson, Tambimuttu, Henry Treece and a host of others, an essay from George Orwell (Looking Back on the Spanish War), plates from Blair Hughes-Stanton, John Minton, Ceri Richards, etc., and an interesting Surrealist section, with contributions from Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Toni del Renzio, etc. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 34550 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
"CRISPIN, Edmund" - [MONTGOMERY, Robert Bruce, 1921-1978] : THE MOVING TOYSHOP : A DETECTIVE STORY. London : Victor Gollancz, 1946. First edition. Gervase Fen and an Oxford mystery - dedicated to Philip Larkin (who makes a brief appearance on p.107). £50 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31909 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
"CRISPIN, Edmund" - [MONTGOMERY, Robert Bruce, 1921-1978] : SWAN SONG : A DETECTIVE STORY. London : Victor Gollancz, 1947. First edition. "There are few creatures more stupid than the average singer ..." - murder, music and Gervase Fen. Later published in the USA as "Dead and Dumb". £50 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31908 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
"CRISPIN, Edmund" - [MONTGOMERY, Robert Bruce, 1921-1978] : BURIED FOR PLEASURE : A DETECTIVE STORY. London : Victor Gollancz, 1948. First edition. The sixth of the Gervase Fen series. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31910 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
"CROSS, Mark" - [PECHEY, Archibald Thomas, 1876-1961] : MURDER IN BLACK : BEING THE TWENTIETH EXPLOIT OF DAPHNE WRAYNE AND HER FOUR ADJUSTERS. London : Ward, Lock & Co., (1944). First edition. The delightful Daphne Wrayne of Conduit Street and her four knights errant solve a murder in Buckinghamshire. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 21712 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
CUMMING, Primrose (Primrose Amy) : SPIDER DOG. London : Country Life, (1936). First edition. A Sussex tale of children, horses, dogs, gypsies, diddicoys and the weird wise woman. Illustrated by Barbara Turner. £40 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 28497 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
CUMMING, Primrose (Primrose Amy) : THE SILVER EAGLE RIDING SCHOOL. London : A. & C. Black, (1938). First edition. Three sisters start a riding school - "the whole idea is pure nonsense" explodes Uncle Manfred. £40 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 28965 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
"CURRY, Avon" - [BOWDEN, Jean, 1925- ] : DERRY DOWN DEATH. London : W. H. Allen, 1960. First edition. Her first book - Charing Cross Road bookseller investigates the murder of a collector of folk-songs. SOLD | |
DE HAMEL, Christopher & LINENTHAL, Richard A. - editors : FINE BOOKS AND BOOK COLLECTING : BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS ACQUIRED FROM ALAN G. THOMAS AND DESCRIBED BY HIS CUSTOMERS ON THE OCCASION OF HIS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY. Leamington Spa : James Hall, 1981. First edition. Essays by Nicolas Barker, Christopher de Hamel, Mirjam Foot, Lotte Hellinga, Anthony Hobson, Bernard Middleton, Sir Karl Popper, Lord Wardington and others on an eclectic selection of material acquired from the noted bookseller, Alan Gradon Thomas (1911-1992). £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 20175 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
DEHN, Paul, 1912-1976 : QUAKE, QUAKE, QUAKE : A LEADEN TREASURY OF ENGLISH VERSE. London : Hamish Hamilton, 1961. First British edition. A collection of forty-four parodies - updating the classic poems and rhymes for the nuclear threat era - "Geiger, geiger, ticking slow ...", "Ring-a-ring o'neutrons ...", etc., illustrated by Edward Gorey. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 29420 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
DICKENS, Charles (Charles John Huffam), 1812-1870 & OTHERS : MRS. LIRRIPER'S LODGINGS. THE EXTRA CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND. London : Chapman & Hall, 1863. First edition. A tale in seven chapters - the first and last by Dickens. £40 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 34618 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
DICKENS, Charles (Charles John Huffam), 1812-1870 & OTHERS : DOCTOR MARIGOLD'S PRESCRIPTIONS. THE EXTRA CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND. London : Chapman & Hall, 1865. First edition. A tale in eight chapters - the first, sixth and last by Dickens. SOLD | |
DICKENS, Charles (Charles John Huffam), 1812-1870 & OTHERS : MUGBY JUNCTION. THE EXTRA CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND. London : Chapman & Hall, 1866. First edition. A combined effort - four chapters on the fictional railway station and the Gentleman for Nowhere from Dickens, and four more from Andrew Halliday, Charles Collins, Hesba Stretton and Amelia B. Edwards. £40 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 34616 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
DOWSON, Ernest (Ernest Christopher), 1867-1900 : THE POETICAL WORKS OF ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON. London : Cassell & Co. & John Lane, The Bodley Head, (1934). First Cassell edition. A major edition of Dowson, including forty or so previously unpublished poems culled from his notebook. Edited and introduced by Desmond Flower. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31359 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
DOYLE, A. Conan (Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan), 1859-1930 : THE SIGN OF FOUR. London : George Newnes, 1894. "New edition" - although in fact the fourth impression of the original 1890 edition. "Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case ...". £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 34611 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
DREYFUS, Alfred, 1859-1935 : FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE. London : George Newnes, 1901. First edition in English of "Cinq Années de Ma Vie, 1894-1899" (first published in Paris earlier the same year) translated from the French by James Mortimer. The sensational Dreyfus affair - the first two trials, Devil's Island, etc., in his own words. Dreyfus was not finally exonerated of the trumped-up charges of treason until 1906. £50 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 32398 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
DUNCAN, Ronald (Ronald Frederick Henry), 1914-1982 : SAINT SPIV. London : Dennis Dobson, (1961). First edition. Very much a London novel - starting in Stockwell and recounting the satirical tale of a spiv who suddenly finds himself possessed of the power of healing. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 29880 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
DURRELL, Gerald (Gerald Malcolm), 1925-1995 : THREE SINGLES TO ADVENTURE. London : Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. First edition : in a variant binding. His second book - Durrell in pursuit of sakiwinkis, red howlers, crab-dogs and carpenter-birds in British Guiana. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 34019 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
EDWARDS, Joan : VISITOR'S BOOK. London : Epworth Press, (1960). First edition. A charming collection of poems and illustrations recording a trip from New Zealand to London and elsewhere - "West End", "The City", "Piccadilly", "Regent Street", "London Transport", etc. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 32367 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
EDWARDS, Lionel (Lionel Dalhousie Robertson), 1878-1966 : HORSES AND PONIES : A BOOK OF SKETCHES. London : Country Life, [1938]. First edition. Lionel Edwards pictures ponies, hunters, point-to-point, Newmarket, the horse in war, etc. £40 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31562 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
ELMES, James, 1782-1862 : METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS : OR, LONDON IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY : DISPLAYED IN A SERIES OF ENGRAVINGS OF THE NEW BUILDINGS, IMPROVEMENTS, &C. BY THE MOST EMINENT ARTISTS, FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, TAKEN FROM THE OBJECTS THEMSELVES EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK, BY MR. THOS. H. SHEPHERD ... New York : Arno Press, 1978. A reprint of the facsimile edition published by Benjamin Blom in 1968. Originally published in parts between 1827 and 1830 - a sequence of delightful engavings of the newer London buildings made from the drawings of Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (1793-1864) accompanied by Elmes' occasionally acerbic descriptions. £40 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 30563 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
EWART, Gavin (Gavin Buchanan), 1916-1995 - editor : THE BATSFORD BOOK OF CHILDREN'S VERSE. London : B. T. Batsford, (1976). First edition. An eclectic mix of poems for children by a disparate group of authors. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31285 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
EWART, Gavin (Gavin Buchanan), 1916-1995 - editor : THE PENGUIN BOOK OF LIGHT VERSE. London : Allen Lane, (1980). First edition. An extensive selection - over 350 poems from the English-speaking world - never serious or solemn. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 30010 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
FARR, Michael, 1953- : TINTIN : THE COMPLETE COMPANION. London : John Murray (Publishers), (2001). First edition in English of "Tintin : Le Rêve et la Réalité : L'Histoire de la Création des Aventures de Tintin" - with an absorbing account of the real life sources of the plots and pictures. SOLD | |
FENN, Amor : DESIGN AND TRADITION : A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPLES AND HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE APPLIED ARTS. London : Chapman & Hall, 1920. First edition. A handsomely illustrated history of architecture and design, with sections on mouldings, architectural proportions, surface division, conventional ornament, design treatment, mythology and symbolism, ways and means, etc. In the Universal Art Series. £40 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 10305 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
"FFOLKES, Michael" - [DAVIS, Brian, 1925-1988] : FFUNDAMENTAL FFOLKES : AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Tunbridge Wells : D. J. Costello, (1985). First edition. Autobiographical notes and a wealth of favourite cartoons and caricatures from ffolkes. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 29998 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
FITZGERALD, Percy (Percy Hetherington), 1834-1925 : PICKWICK RIDDLES AND PERPLEXITIES. London : Gay & Hancock, 1912. First edition. A jovial hunt through all the unanswered questions and complete non-sequiturs in Charles Dickens' "Pickwick Papers". £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 34613 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
FLETCHER, J.S. (Joseph Smith), 1863-1935 : THE MYSTERY OF THE LONDON BANKER : BEING ENTRY NUMBER SEVEN IN THE CASE-BOOK OF RONALD CAMBERWELL. London : George G. Harrap & Co., (1935). A reprint in Harrap's "Double Cross Mysteries" series of the original 1933 edition. Published in the USA as "Murder of a Banker". SOLD | |
FORSTER E.M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970 : THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH PROSE BETWEEN 1918 AND 1939. Glasgow : Jackson, Son & Co., 1945. First edition : [one of 1,000 copies]. The fifth W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture - Forster on Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Rose Macaulay, D. H. Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, etc. SOLD | |
"FRANCE, Anatole" - [THIBAULT, Jacques Francois-Anatole, 1844-1924] : THE RED LILY. London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908. First edition in English of "Le Lys Rouge" (1894), a translation by Winifred Stephens, prepared as the first volume in the Bodley Head edition of the works of "the greatest and most daring student of humanity now living", the series to be edited by Frederic Chapman. "Ugly and yet attractive, slightly ridiculous and altogether exquisite, Miss Bell lived at Fiesole as an aesthete and philosopher, while in England she was renowned as the favourite English poetess ...". £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 10718 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
FRANCIS, Dick (Richard Stanley), 1920- : IN THE FRAME. London : Michael Joseph, (1976). First edition. Art, racing, wine, women and murder in Australia and New Zealand. £40 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 34364 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
FREEMAN, R. Austin (Richard Austin), 1862-1943 : THE MAGIC CASKET. London : Hodder & Stoughton, [1927]. First edition. "It was in the near neighbourhood of King's Road, Chelsea, that chance, aided by Thorndyke's sharp and observant eyes, introduced us to the dramatic story of the Magic Casket ..." - a collection of nine stories. SOLD | |
FREEMAN, R. Austin (Richard Austin), 1862-1943 : THE RED THUMB MARK : A DETECTIVE ROMANCE. London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1931). A reprint of the 1911 second edition. One the classics of the genre and the first appearance of Dr. Thorndyke - originally published in 1907. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 27603 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
FRY, C.B. (Charles Burgess), 1872-1956 : CRICKET (BATSMANSHIP). London : Eveleigh Nash, 1912. First edition. A guide to batting with thirty-two action photographs from the Olympian Fry - published in the National Library of Sports and Pastimes series. As a batsman who topped the first-class averages six times and the first batsman to hit six consecutive centuries (as well as being an international footballer and holding the world long-jump record), Fry was perhaps uniquely qualified for the task - he was a top-class writer too. SOLD | |
FULLER, Roy (Roy Broadbent), 1912-1991 : THE SECOND CURTAIN. London : Derek Verschoyle, (1953). First edition. An intellectual thriller - "in the manner of the early Graham Greene". £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 29244 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
FULLER, Roy (Roy Broadbent), 1912-1991 : THE WORLD THROUGH THE WINDOW : COLLECTED POEMS FOR CHILDREN. London : Blackie & Son, (1989). First edition. A collection of over 100 poems, some previously unpublished, with illustrations by Nick Duffy. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 29258 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
[FULLER, Roy (Roy Broadbent), 1912-1991] - "MEMBERS, Mark" : IRON ASPIDISTRA. Oxford : Sycamore Press, (1985). First edition. Fuller's spoof poem produced to honour Anthony Powell's eightieth birthday and his fictional creation - complete with a biographical note on Mark Members, a facsimile of the original mansucript, etc. £50 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 34268 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
GALSWORTHY, John, 1867-1933 : A MODERN COMEDY. London : William Heinemann, 1929. First edition : the first issue, with the "beed" and "birn" misprints on p.141. The first collected edition of the second part of the Forsyte Chronicles, comprising three complete novels, "The White Monkey" (1924), "The Silver Spoon" (1926) and "Swan Song" (1928). SOLD | |
GALSWORTHY, John, 1867-1933 : ON FORSYTE 'CHANGE. London : William Heinemann, 1930. First edition. The last of the Forsyte Chronicles, dedicated to his bibliographer, H. Vincent Marrot. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 10139 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
GARDNER, Fitzroy, 1855- : MORE REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD BOHEMIAN. London : Hutchinson & Co., [1926]. First and sole edition. Further reminiscences from the author of "Days and Ways of an Old Bohemian" (1921) - ranging in extraordinary variety across the Victorian law courts, newspaper men, the stage, travels in the Far East, and service in the Great War ("lying largely about my age"). £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 23520 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
GASSON, Andrew : WILKIE COLLINS : AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998. First edition. A complete illustrated A-Z guide to who's who and what's what in the life and work of Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) - "My life has been rather a strange one". £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 29504 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
GATHORNE-HARDY, Jonathan, 1933- : ONE FOOT IN THE CLOUDS. London : Hamish Hamilton, (1961). First edition. His first book - a novel set on the rarer fringes of London literary society. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 32183 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
GILBERT, Michael (Michael Francis), 1912- : THE DUST AND THE HEAT. London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1967). First edition. Later published in the USA as "Overdrive". £35 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 30015 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
GILBERT, Michael (Michael Francis), 1912- : THE NIGHT OF THE TWELFTH. London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1976). First edition. £40 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 29882 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
GLYDER, John : UNLUCKY DIP. London : Herbert Jenkins, (1936). First edition. "Marooned miles from anywhere, clad only in a bathing costume, with the sea on one side of him and the marsh on the other. Then he met the girl with flame-coloured hair ...". £50 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31134 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
GLYDER, John : FLAMING JUNE. London : Herbert Jenkins, (1949). First edition. Crime writer rents seaside cottage - and finds more than he was looking for - a typical Glyder farce. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 27051 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
GOODCHILD, George, 1888-1969 : Q33. London : Odhams Press, [1933]. First edition. "Q33 was the nom-de-plume of England's most efficient spy" - beautiful women, plans in cypher, German secret service, etc. SOLD | |
GRAVES, Robert (Robert von Ranke), 1895-1985 : POEMS 1938-1945. London : Cassell & Co., (1946 [i.e. 1945]). First edition. A collection of forty poems. Printed at the Curwen Press. £35 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31719 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
GRAVES, Robert (Robert von Ranke), 1895-1985 - translator : THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF LUCIUS OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE GOLDEN ASS : BY LUCIUS APULEIUS. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1950 [i.e. 1951]. First edition of this translation : this issue limited to 2,000 numbered copies, signed by Robert Graves. SOLD | |
GREENE, Graham (Henry Graham), 1904-1991 : TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT : A NOVEL. London : Bodley Head, (1969). First edition. "I met my Aunt Augusta for the first time in more than half a century at my mother's funeral ...". SOLD | |
GREENE, Hugh (Sir Hugh Carleton), 1910-1987 - editor : THE RIVALS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES : EARLY DETECTIVE STORIES. London : Bodley Head, (1970). First edition. A collection of thirteen stories featuring London detectives from the 1891-1914 period - by Clifford Ashdown, Guy Boothby, Ernest Bramah, William le Queux, Arthur Morrison, Baroness Orczy, Max Pemberton, etc. Selected and introduced by Sir Hugh Greene. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31924 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
GREENE, Hugh (Sir Hugh Carleton), 1910-1987 - editor : THE CROOKED COUNTIES : FURTHER RIVALS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. London : Bodley Head, (1973). First edition. A collection of thirteen stories from before the Great War - crime in the shires - by M. McD. Bodkin, Ernest Bramah, Dick Donovan, J. S. Fletcher, Jacques Futrelle, Fergus Hume, Arthur Morrison, Victor L. Whitechurch, etc. Selected and introduced by Sir Hugh Greene. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 21807 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
GRIEST, Guinevere L. (Guinevere Lindley), 1924- : MUDIE'S CIRCULATING LIBRARY AND THE VICTORIAN NOVEL. Newton Abbot : David & Charles, [1971]. First British edition. A valuable study of the interaction between the shape, form and content of fiction and the demands of the libraries and publishers, with material on George Bentley, John Blackwood, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, George Gissing, William Heinemann, Charles Edward Mudie, Anthony Trollope, etc. First published in the USA in 1970. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 27265 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
HALE, Kathleen, 1898-2000 : ORLANDO'S INVISIBLE PYJAMAS. London : Transatlantic Arts (Royle Publications), [1947]. First edition : the first issue, with the numbered list of nine Harlequin Books titles and the original one shilling price on the verso of the upper wrapper. £40 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31260 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
HAMILTON, Elaine : PERIL AT MIDNIGHT. London : Ward, Lock & Co., (1934). First edition. "It was half-past eleven when the girl with vivid red hair crossed the brilliantly lighted Place Blanche and sank down wearily at a little table outside the café of the Grey Rat". An Inspector Reynolds mystery. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 23116 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
HAMMOND, J. L. (John Lawrence), 1872-1949 : C. P. SCOTT OF THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN London : G. Bell & Sons, 1934. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed to Samuel Telley, signed and dated (1934) by John Hammond. A full-scale biography of the legendary journalist Charles Prestwich Scott (1846-1932), with specific chapters on women's suffrage, Ireland, the Great War, etc. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 34626 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
HARDY, Thomas, 1840-1928 : WINTER WORDS : IN VARIOUS MOODS AND METRES. London : Macmillan & Co., 1928. First edition : [one of 5,000 copies]. Hardy's final collection of poetry - 105 poems - the majority previously unpublished. Although prepared for the press before his death in January 1928, Hardy did not live to see its publication. SOLD | |
HARRIS, P.R. (Philip Rowland) : A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM LIBRARY : 1753-1973. London : British Library, 1998. First edition. A comprehensive and weighty history of the great library - staff, policy, acquisitions, the collections, cataloguing, storing, the readers, etc. £50 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 25891 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
"HOBSON, Polly" - [EVANS, Julia, 1913- ] : BROUGHT UP IN BLOOMSBURY. London : Constable & Co., (1959). First edition. An uncommon account of the child of a country parsonage thrust at the age of twelve into the bohemian world of 1920s Bloomsbury on the death of her parents. SOLD | |
HOPPÉ, A.J. (Alfred John), 1919-1999 : A READER'S GUIDE TO EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY. London : J. M. Dent & Sons / New York : E.P.Dutton & Co., (1960) [i.e. 1961]. First Hoppé edition - a completely revised and updated version of the book of the same title compiled by Robert Farquharson Sharp of the British Library in 1932. An annotated and analytical catalogue of the first 1,000 volumes in the Everyman's Library series, with introductory material, etc. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 28224 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
HORNUNG, E.W. (Ernest William), 1866-1921 : RAFFLES : THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN. London : Eveleigh Nash, 1911. The fifth impression of the original 1906 edition of this collection - combining the short stories of the "The Amateur Cracksman" (1899) and "The Black Mask" (1901). £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 25117 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
HOWARTH, Patrick (Patrick John Fielding), 1916-2004 : PLAY UP AND PLAY THE GAME : THE HEROES OF POPULAR FICTION. London : Eyre Methuen, (1973). First edition. An interesting account of the rise and fall of "Newbolt Man" - through muscular christianity, penny dreadfuls, the Ballantyne Boy, boy heroes, detectives, secret agents and more, as exemplified in the writings of Thomas Hughes, R. M. Ballantyne, Talbot Baines Reed, Rudyard Kipling, Frank Richards, G. A. Henty, Arthur Conan Doyle, Baroness Orczy, Rider Haggard, A. E. W. Mason, Edgar Wallace, John Buchan and many more. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 20383 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
[HOWE, Garfield] : OF THE MAKING OF CXXV BOOKS : A PUBLISHER'S BIBLIOGRAPHY. London : Gerald Howe, (1934). First edition. A retrospective account of the 125 books published between 1926 and 1933 by the "Gerald Howe" partnership of Gerald Bullett and Garfield Howe - with reference to authors, illustrators, jacket-designers, type, etc. - Clifford Bax, John Farleigh, Naomi Mitchison, Doris Langley Moore, John Nash, Frank Swinnerton, H. G. Wells, etc. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 34625 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
HUDSON, W.H. (William Henry), 1841-1922 : EL OMBÚ. London : Duckworth & Co., 1902. First edition : the cloth issue. Two short stories and two novellas, all set in South America. A small contemporary press portrait of Hudson has been attached to the front free endpaper. £50 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 12912 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
HYATT, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry), 1871- - editor : THE CHARM OF LONDON : AN ANTHOLOGY. London : Chatto & Windus, 1907. First edition. An excellent and extensive anthology of London prose and verse, ranging far beyond the familiar quotations. Compiled by the Enfield journalist, Alfred Hyatt. SOLD | |
JACKSON, Peter (Peter Charles Geoffrey), 1922-2003 : LONDON IS STRANGER THAN FICTION : A SELECTION OF CARTOONS ILLUSTRATING FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT LONDON AND ITS ENVIRONS SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR THE EVENING NEWS. [London] : Associated Newspapers, [1951]. First edition. The great London historian and collector in his earliest incarnation, with his deft Wednesday-night drawings and recondite knowledge of arcane London facts. The cartoons and quiz questions are interspersed with short essays by Felix Barker and others. SOLD | |
JAMES, Winifred : GANGWAYS AND CORRIDORS. London : Philip Allan, (1936). First edition. The redoubtable Winifred James - "the kind of woman who could make a home from an orange box" - with tales of prohibition and bootlegging in the USA, Isadora Duncan in Paris, Holy Week in Seville, adventures in Mexico and Central America, and much more. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31529 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail | |