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Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1930. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small square 8vo. vii, 215pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board and with a blind-stamped border. Corner tips gently rubbed, with a trace of toning to the free endpapers, and the binding a little tender at three gatherings. Careful erasure of several inked notations. A nice crisp copy. No dust wrapper..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1994. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, fondly inscribed by the author on the title page and dated the year of publication. 8vo. 288pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with eight monochrome reproductions. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Herbert Jenkins Ltd., London, 1925. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 280pp + [viii] publisher's advertisements. Green boards lettered and bordered in black at the spine and upper board. With a frontispiece and thirty-one illustrated plates. Edges spotted with two small nicks to the head of the backstrip. A shade of very light partial toning to the free endpapers. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. A book of humour and anecdotes by the noted English crime writer Anthony Berkeley Cox, published the same year as his anonymous crime novel debut, 'The Layton Court Mystery' which first introduced his regular amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham (both 'The Layton Court Mystery' and his other book of humour 'Brenda Entertains' appear in the rear advertisements). Includes his Conan Doyle pastiche 'Holmes and the Dasher'..

Herbert Jenkins Ltd., London, 1925. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 280pp + [viii] publisher's catalogue. Green boards lettered and bordered in black at the spine and upper board. Edges, endpapers and a dozen preliminary and concluding leaves lightly spotted. A lovely crisp copy. No dust wrapper. A book of humour and anecdotes by the noted English crime writer Anthony Berkeley Cox, published the same year as his anonymous crime novel debut, 'The Layton Court Mystery' which first introduced his regular amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham (both 'The Layton Court Mystery' and his other book of humour 'Brenda Entertains' appear in the rear advertisements). Includes his Conan Doyle pastiche 'Holmes and the Dasher'..

Faber, London, 1957. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 64pp. Paper-covered boards, exhibiting some fox-spotting. Endpapers browned, but thereafter a nice crisp copy internally, housed in a slightly spotted, tanned and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's second collection of verse: a selection from his limited edition debut collection 'Pedasus' (1955), plus a selection of new poems including the thirteen-part Homeric title sequence..

Heinemann, London, 1925. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 263pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettered at the spine. Some fox-spotting to preliminary leaves. A very bright copy in dusty and slightly marked dust wrapper..

Libraries Board of South Australia, 'Bibliographies of Australian Writers' series, Adelaide, 1968. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. 48pp. Stapled card wrappers, with a closed tear to the front wrapper. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Putnam, London, 1958. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 31pp. Cloth-backed marbled paper boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted and with some fairly light fox-spotting throughout. A good, bright copy in lightly spotted, faded and rubbed non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Contemporary former owner name and date inked to the head of the front free endpaper. Thirty-three poems, the third and final collection of verse published in the author's lifetime..

Privately printed for the author at The Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1979. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 105 numbered copies (this being #24). Slim 8vo. Unpaginated [6pp], sewn into orange wrappers with a title plate pasted to the upper wrapper. A fine copy of this recollection of John Tessimond, penned by Frances Richards, the wife of Ceri Richards. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Privately printed and bound for the author by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd, Eton College [1926]. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition - a presentation copy, identified at No. 1 [from an edition of circa 44 copies] and inscribed: "Robert Rawstorne d.d. E.A.B., Eton July 1926". Slim 8vo. 35pp. Half morocco, gilt lettered at the spine with two raised bands, marbled endpapers and a gilt top edge. Some quite light spotting throughout. A very good copy. A dedicatory verse precedes various poems, sonnets, rhymes and Latin translations, plus a ten-page dialogue. Laid-in is a five-part manuscript poem also by Bell which references the recipient of his inscription. Edward Allen Bell, brother of the Bishop of Chichester, was educated at Westminster and Oxford, and later was a master at Giggleswick School (he penned a history of the school in 1912). He taught history at Eton for several years before moving on to become the headmaster of St. Bees School… Read More

The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1922. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies (this copy un-numbered and marked 'Not for Sale'). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author to fellow writer Frederic Prokosch, under which Coppard has inked the final two lines of Masefield's poem 'Flesh, I Have Knocked at Many a Dusty Door'. With Prokosch's bookplate to the front pastedown. Slim 8vo. 44pp. Buckram-backed paper-covered boards with a paper spine label. Boards a little rubbed and dust soiled, and with just a little toning and spotting to the endpapers and to two or three preliminary leaves. A nice bright copy of the author's first collection of verse, and the seventh Golden Cockerel Press publication. No dust wrapper..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1931. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 296pp + a tipped-in advertisement for Coppard's 'Fares Please!' Strikingly decorated paper-covered cloth with a paper spine label. Tips of corners just a little rubbed and with a little spotting and browning to several preliminary and concluding leaves. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, somewhat tanned at the spine panel, a little dust soiled and with several slivers of loss from the spine ends and one or two other extremities. Ten short stories..

The Richards Press Ltd., London, 1937. Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Slim 8vo. 62pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Edges spotted, and with a touch of occasional further spotting throughout. Former owner gift inscription neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper, and a bookplate to the front pastedown (this last obscured by the wrapper flap). A good bright copy in slightly tanned dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the spine panel ends and corner tips. Forty-one poems, the second and final volume of verse published in Housman's lifetime..

Simon & Schuster, New York, 1957. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 220pp. Cloth-backed boards lettered and ruled in black at the spine. Publisher's dark top edge stain. Spine ends just a little rubbed and with a touch of spotting to several preliminary leaves. Some tanning to the paper stock, particularly noticeable at the margins. A good copy in slightly chafed and frayed non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with several tiny slivers of loss from the spine ends and corner tips. A novel adapted from the author's 1948 short story 'The Great Jungle'..

Hodder & Stoughton, London [1924] Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 320pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and in black at the upper board. Cloth marked and rubbed, and rear gutter splitting. Binding a little cocked and spine ends chafed. Some quote notable fox spotting to preliminary and concluding leaves, and further spotting throughout, although primarily confined to the leaf margins. About a good copy of the author's second Inspector Hanaud novel - a Haycraft Queen Cornerstone..

Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1902. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 338pp + [vi] publisher's advertisements. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and in black at the upper board. The top edge dust soiled, the backstrip cloth lightly toned and with some bruising to the ends. Some occasional sporadic fox spotting throughout. A tiny enclosed area of loss to the base of the front free endpaper. A good copy of the author's best known novel. No dust wrapper..

William Heinemann, London, 1925. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing), printed in the US. 4to. 154pp. Paper-covered cloth with an orange paper spine label and a green title label. Pictorial endpapers, plus a colour title page decoration, sixteen tinted or full-colour plates, and over one hundred drawings, headers and vignettes. A light scattering of spotting to the edges, and backstrip discoloured in several places where the dust wrapper is defective. Endpapers lightly browned and spotted. A very crisp copy housed in a defective example of the uncommon dust wrapper, chipped with some areas of edge loss and creasing, and with a lengthy tear to the front panel-spine panel join. Former owner name neatly inked to the front endpaper. An eight page introduction by McFee precedes forty-seven shanties. Edward Arthur Wilson was born in Glasgow 1886, his early childhood was spent in Rotterdam, and then in Chicago, where he received his first art instruction at the Chicago Art… Read More

Longmans, Green & Co., 'The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes' series, London, 1888. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. xiii, 429pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Original decorated cloth. With a tissue-protected frontispiece, a title page decoration and various plates, and illustrations and diagrams in the text. Backstrip ends a little chipped and the corner tips rubbed. Binding a little tender at the front and rear hinges, and at several gatherings. Some fox spotting. Discreet W.H.Smith embossed stamp to the tip of the front free endpaper. A good bright copy of this tenth volume of the celebrated Badminton series - and naturally the best..

Michael Joseph Ltd., London, 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 317pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A narrow sliver of near-invisible browning to the free endpapers . A very good copy in good non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, with a touch of toning and dust soiling to the rear panel, and with a little nicking and loss to the spine ends and corner tips..

Hutchinson, London, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. 443pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. With a frontispiece and fifteen illustrations. A little light wear to the boards and with some minor fox-spotting to the preliminary leaves, otherwise a very good copy in dust wrapper, a little tanned at the spine panel and with a little loss to head and base of the spine panel, and a larger area of loss to the lower edge of front panel..