Literature from Rochdale Book Company

Routledge and Princeton University Press, 1969. Edited by Barbara E Rooke. Ex-library with usual labels and stamps, but still a good, clean pair in the dust jackets.

C. Arthur Pearson, 1925, reprint. original cloth, spine dull, but sound condition. With a typed letter, signed by the author dated 1937, recounting how he had been on the Windward taking relief to the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition at Vardo. He had left the ship at Vardo, and it had later retrieved Nansen from his Fram expedition.

Fortune Press, 1927, pp. 63. The preferred second edition with a new seven page preface by Alfred Douglas. Original cloth-backed boards. Spine ends rubbed, but good, sound condition.

Bradford, T. Inkersley, 1818, second edition, pp. 69, [3], engraved frontis. original roan-backed boards. Binding slightly rubbed, some slight dustiness, but a very good copy. Both first and second editions are uncommon.

London and Oxford, 1890 and 1891, two pamphlets, facsimiles of the rare originals, printed for private circulation and each limited to 300 copies. Original wrappers, ex-library, a few stamps, worn and dusty. Sold as useable working copies.

London,Erskine Macdonald,1916, first edition,pp.36,(6),original printed wrappers with yapp edges. A very nice,largely unopened copy of this early work by Blunden, published soon after he had left school.