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1st Edition, July 1945. 12 pages + 2 photographic plates. Good condition, with minor marks to covers, early rusting to staples and unobtrusive abrasion with pencil name/date to upper right front cover.

1st UK Edition, 1961 (Previously published in the USA by the University of Nebraska Press in 1959). Very Good condition with a touch of patch fading to upper front board extending to edge of upper spine. Previous owner's name to front endpaper, and annotation to rear endpaper. In price-clipped dustwrapper.
An influential analysis of the literary art, scholarly ideas and psychologies of Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

Original, rare complete set of 52x colour playing cards in original box. Uncredited, but illustrated by the creator of Biggles - WE Johns.The cards have been used, some have minor corner creases, but are generally in Good+ condition. The original box has significant edge wear, with some early splitting and minor marks, but is complete.

The scarce third issue of Popular Flying in original Howard Leigh illustrated cover. Edited by W.E Johns, with significant contributions by him. Includes the third appearance of Biggles in the story "J-9982" (under the pen name 'William Earle', with illustrations by Howard Leigh) as well as the autobiographical section "My Most Thrilling Flight - W.E Johns" with printed photograph of him as a Prisoner of War during WW1. Near Very Good condition with minor edge dusting/wear and holes where the rusty staples have been removed. No inscriptions. William Earl Johns (5 February 1893 – 21 June 1968) was an English pilot and writer of adventure stories, usually written under the pen name Captain W. E. Johns. He is best remembered as the creator of the ace pilot and adventurer Biggles.

The scarce fifth issue of Popular Flying in original illustrated cover. Edited by W.E Johns, with significant contributions by him including a Biggles story, centrefold illustration and article on Baron von Richthofen. Includes the fifth appearance of Biggles in the story "The Blue Devil" (under the pen name 'William Earle', with illustrations by Howard Leigh). Near Very Good condition with small marks to the front cover, minor edge wear including a small tear to the lower edge and holes where the rusty staples have been removed. No inscriptions. William Earl Johns (5 February 1893 – 21 June 1968) was an English pilot and writer of adventure stories, usually written under the pen name Captain W. E. Johns. He is best remembered as the creator of the ace pilot and adventurer Biggles.

The scarce first issue of Popular Flying. Edited by W.E Johns, with significant contributions by him. Includes the first appearance of Biggles in the story "The White Fokker" (under the pen name 'William Earle'). Fair condition, with original front cover being in poor state, and rear cover having edge chips/tears. Internally, there is marginal damp staining. Text complete throughout. William Earl Johns (5 February 1893 – 21 June 1968) was an English pilot and writer of adventure stories, usually written under the pen name Captain W. E. Johns. He is best remembered as the creator of the ace pilot and adventurer Biggles.

Complete bound Volume 1 (Numbers 1-12) of Popular Flying, preserving the original covers. Edited by W.E Johns, with significant contributions including illustrations and writing by him. Includes the first appearance of Biggles in the story "The White Fokker" (as well as a further short story as 'William Earle'). A total of 10 of these 12 issues contain Biggles stories, the early stories under the pen-name "William Earle". Very Good condition internally (protected by the binding), with bumping to lower corners of pages, and early cracking to front hinge. Externally, there is significant scraping to the boards and chipping/discolouration to the spine label. It is most uncommon for bound volumes to preserve the glorious original covers of these magazines.William Earl Johns (5 February 1893 – 21 June 1968) was an English pilot and writer of adventure stories, usually written under the pen name Captain W. E. Johns. He is best remembered as the creator of the ace pilot and adventurer Biggles.

Undated (c1880-1890). Published by M.A Lambert, Berlin Wool Toy & Fancy Repository, 7&8 Middle Street, East Grinstead. 12 Full page sepia chromolithographed illustrations of East Grinstead and Neighbourhood after photographs; High Street, East Grinstead / St Swithuns Church, East Grinstead / Sackville College, East Grinstead / High Street, East Grinstead / London Road, East Grinstead / The Cemetery, West View, East Grinstead / The Cemetery, East Grinstead / Brambletye Castle, East Grinstead / Holy Trinity Church, Forest Row / The Old Cage, Lingfield / The Church, Felbridge / The Church, West Hoathly.Near Very Good condition with a chip to leading edge of the front cover.

Good. Dusting / light staining to covers. Missing lower corner of front cover and 1st Advertising page (affecting margins not text) + stapled binding leaving some pages loose. No inscriptions. 38pp. Various pieces, credited to authors by their initials "CAA, AW, EP, PGB, DB, RB, AW".

Very good. Light dusting / superficial vertical creasing to covers, No inscriptions. 32pp. Most contributors identified by their initials (JFL, REB, P de la PB-P, CEW, GCH, JDRTT, KFAJ, JM, ARW, EWP and RPF). The only fully credited one is Janton Tchilneff.

Good. Stain to front cover, towards spine. Corner bumping/creases to oversize wrappers. No inscriptions. Internally clean, with 1pp working loose. 100pp. Includes: illustrations, diagrams. Extensively illustrated in both colour and black/white (including fold-out photograph of International Aero Exhibition, Olympia).

270pp + 2pp advertisements. Engraved frontispiece and illustrations throughout by Charles W. Radcliffe, steel engravings by E. Radcliffe and woodcuts by Williams and Sly. Edited and with introductory stanzas by the Reverend John Moultrie and a biography by J. Mitford. Good condition. Toning to spine and separation at front and rear hinges. Clean and bright internally. An attractive volume.

French language. Illustrated in colour and b/w throughout. A little browned with slight chipping at yapped cover edges and some splitting to head and tail of spine, otherwise sound. Previous owner's name to upper cover ("Sgt ???").

62pp.Illustrated. Original boards, re-cased, original yellow end papers. Near Very Good condition with minor marks. Neat pencil list of words to rear endpaper. A scarce and charming item. Chapters include; Day, School, The Babe, Blind Man's Buff, Nurse, Home, The Corn Fields, My Aunt, Play, The Stag, June, Night, The Wood, Shooting, The Cow and Calf, The Sailor, The Shell, Peggy, Winter, The Pantheon, The Tortoise, The Donkey, The British Museum.

Scarce Samuel French C19th ?1st? Acting Edition of 'That Nose : An original Farce - In One Act'. with Original Cast, Costumes, and all the Stage Business, correctly marked by R.M Eberle, Prompter of the Boston Museum. Generally Good condition, rather rubbed and marked, with creasing to lower corners of internal pages.

Very Good+, clean, tight condition. Handsigned to the contents page by Hawa Jande Golakai "Hawa Jande Golakai Enjoy!", and by Mark Gevisser "To Dee and Rich Mark Gevisser".

UK true 1st Edition / 1st Printing with uncorrected 'whip' on line 13, page 50. Very Good condition, with ownership name/date to front endpaper. Leading edges rough cut, as issued. In near Good original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (Published price 15s). The wrapper has loss to the lower spine affecting most of the publisher's details, closed tears (with archival tape and paper repairs mainly to folds / spine head and tail), and browning/soiling.Radclyffe Hall was well known in London literary circles and had already been published to some acclaim by Jonathan Cape. However, in August 1928 the Home Secretary (a Christian fundamentalist) was persuaded that the author's new book 'The Well of loneliness' was profane. He banned the book from sale. The publishers Jonathan Cape made secret arrangements with a French publisher, 'Pegasus Press', for the book to be sold in France. But on 3 October 1928 a warrant was issued for Customs and Excise to seize and destroy the books crossing the channel. A… Read More

UK Hardcover 1st Edition, 2019. The rare UK hardcover variant rather than the more common softcover. Very Good condition, with no inscriptions, in Very Good original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (and bears the RRP £25). The wrapper has just a little edge wear.
The author's experimental stream of consciousness novel (a single sentence over more than a thousand pages); winner of the Goldsmiths Prize and the James Tait Black Prize, and shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

293pp. With frontispiece, 5 plates and 2 maps (1 folding)-all present. Errata slip bound in. Very good condition. Foxing to blank prelims with 1877 presentation inscription to ffep. Clean and tight.

Frontispiece by the author, engraved by H Adlard. Near Very Good condition. Some bumping to edges of boards/rubbing to spine edge. Inscribed 'from the author' in ink to the title page. Ex-Westminster Library with bookplate to front pastedown/blindstamped front board, otherwise no other library markings.John Evans (1767 1827, Welsh Baptist minister).