The Tongue of the Dumb (African Writers Series, 98) by Dominic Mulaisho - 1971

Valle Crucis Abbey. Original uncoloured lithograph, R Bowyer, 87 Pall Mall. Ca 1800. Drawn by Miss Smirke, engraved by J Harriden. Sheet size 495mm x 340mm, Print size 405mm x 280mm. With wide blank margin, engraved frame and title. Two very small ink marks on title, otherwise in tight, bright and clean condition with strong plate inprint. A delightful print, empahsising the more rural aspect of this area.

Lucky You: What Science Has Done For Us J.B. Lippincott Stated First Edition. SCIENCE. Artfully illustrated by MUNRO LEAF. Good EXLIB in a Good unclipped $2.25 orig. price dust jacket. Last page states: 152 4.

Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 1988. Hardcover. First Edition (stated, actually First English-language Edition). Blue leatherette over boards with gold titles to spine and front board. Sewn binding. Sewn-in yellow silk place-marker. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Light remainder mark to top edge. Very slight edge-wear to jacket. No tears. Not from a library. Not clipped. 502 pages.Garden of Repose (憩园, Qì Yuán, 1944) and Bitter Cold Nights (aka Cold Nights, 寒夜, Hán Yè, 1947) are both critiques of China's traditional Confucian family system focusing on emotionally fragile and weak men struggling and failing to deal with family demands and social pressure. Both are set in Sichuan during the Sino-Japanese War (World War II) and both have been adapted into movies at least twice. Garden of Repose is the story of two decadent and decaying families. It follows the live of two characters: a drug addict from a rich family forced to sell his family… Read More

Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 19 April 1940. Mass Market Paperback. First printing of the First Penguin Edition, Penguin 257. "Published in Penguin Books 1940"; No additional printings listed. Orange and white card cover with black lettering. Very Good. Prior owner's name and price penciled on first page, otherwise unmarked. Tanned. Spine tight with slight tilt. One inch tear to bottom of front hinge. Reading wear to edges and corners. Laid in with the reading case label containing the author's biography. 224 pages.
Published just seven month's after Great Britain entered World War II and a few weeks after the British government introduced wartime paper rationing. Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner. A battle for a reprieve with many participants ensues: the Assistant Commissioner, high-principled and over-worked; Conrad, a paranoid clerk; Mr Surrogate, a rich Fabian; Condor, a pathetic journalist feeding… Read More

The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.

New York: D. Appleton, 1929. First American Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good DJ. 278 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. A Lightly Used Book, Gilt Still Brilliant, No Wear. Dj Front Flap With Quote From Virginia Woolf, "It Would Be Difficult To Find A Fellow To It In English. One Cannot Bring To Mind At The Moment Any Living English Writer So Intelligent, So Dextrous, So Accomplished As M. Maurois". Dj Lightly Used, Slight Browning To Spine And Rear Panel And Flap Edges, Not Price-Clipped [$2.50], 3/16" V-Chips At Top Corners Of Spine Edge, 1/8" Losses At Upper Tips, A Few Minute Holes In White Areas Of Publisher's Logo On Spine (Possibly Acidic Ink?).

Collins, Toronto, 1988. First Canadian Edition, Fine Hardcover / Very Good Dustjacket, with edgewear, otherwise clean and tight, 179 pages, 5.5" x 8.5". Inscribed by author on ffep.William Patrick "W. P." Kinsella (1935 - 2016) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, known for his novel Shoeless Joe (1982). His work often concerned baseball, First Nations people, and other Canadian issues.

Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 1988. Hardcover. First Edition (stated, actually First English-language Edition). Blue leatherette over boards with gold titles to spine and front board. Sewn binding. Sewn-in yellow silk place-marker. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Light remainder mark to top edge. Very slight edge-wear to jacket. No tears. Not from a library. Not clipped. 502 pages.Garden of Repose (憩园, Qì Yuán, 1944) and Bitter Cold Nights (aka Cold Nights, 寒夜, Hán Yè, 1947) are both critiques of China's traditional Confucian family system focusing on emotionally fragile and weak men struggling and failing to deal with family demands and social pressure. Both are set in Sichuan during the Sino-Japanese War (World War II) and both have been adapted into movies at least twice. Garden of Repose is the story of two decadent and decaying families. It follows the live of two characters: a drug addict from a rich family forced to sell his family… Read More

Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 19 April 1940. Mass Market Paperback. First printing of the First Penguin Edition, Penguin 257. "Published in Penguin Books 1940"; No additional printings listed. Orange and white card cover with black lettering. Very Good. Prior owner's name and price penciled on first page, otherwise unmarked. Tanned. Spine tight with slight tilt. One inch tear to bottom of front hinge. Reading wear to edges and corners. Laid in with the reading case label containing the author's biography. 224 pages.
Published just seven month's after Great Britain entered World War II and a few weeks after the British government introduced wartime paper rationing. Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner. A battle for a reprieve with many participants ensues: the Assistant Commissioner, high-principled and over-worked; Conrad, a paranoid clerk; Mr Surrogate, a rich Fabian; Condor, a pathetic journalist feeding… Read More

1st edition, 2nd printing binding. A collection of plays, poems and stories from avant-garde, feminist writer, Gertrude Stein. Published by The Four Seas Company, Boston, 1922. Hardcover. 419 pp. Contains Stein's experimental writing style with an introduction by Sherwood Anderson. No dust jacket. Binding has minor chipping and bumping on corners. edges and on head of spine along with some light soiling. Hinge is intact but slightly loose through the first 6-8 pages of the book. Ink name and date on FFEP. Pages are clean and unmarked. No tears!
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