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Very good with minor corner creases. No inscriptions. Advanced Reading Copy. Advance Copy in blue / white wrappers. Correct numberline 1-10 to reverse of title page.

True UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing, with intact numberline 1-10 to copyright page. Very Good+, clean, tight, unread condition. No inscriptions. In Very Good original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (Published price £12.99). The Gathering centres around the nine surviving children of the Hegarty family who come together in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother. Initial modest sales of the book were boosted when the novel won the Booker prize in 2007.

Single volume containing the 3rd Edition (1872) of "An English-Welsh Pronouncing Dictionary" and 4th Edition (1889) of "A Dictionary of the Wesh Language with English Synonyms and Explanations". Good condition. with a little bumping to lower corners, with associated wear/loss to the cloth. 1890 previous owner's inscription to the front endpaper "J Arthur Evans. 1890. Given me by my father". Stain to lower front pastedown and endpaper (?ink). A little spotting to prelims, but generally in Good or better condition.

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing, 2021 with correct numberline 10-1 to copyright page. Unpaginated. Very Good, clean, tight condition, with no inscriptions.

Signed by author. Signed to the half-title page "John Atchley from George". No other inscriptions. Clean and tight.

1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1995. Booklet on the George and Vulture Tavern, as featured in The Pickwick Papers. Inscribed in blue pen to the inside front cover ; "Michael with best wishes Hot off the Press. No 115/500 Cedric Charles Dickens". Further signature in blue to page 11 "Cedric". Very Good condition with minor marks to the covers.
The George and Vulture is mentioned at least 20 times in the 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, who frequently drank there himself. It has been the headquarters of the City Pickwick Club since its foundation.

1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1924. 506 pages + 8-page Publisher's catalogue bound to rear bearing the correct number code 10 24. Very Good condition with a little lean to the text block, minor edge wear/corner bumping, some darkening to the spine and toning to endpapers. No inscriptions. Clean and brght intermally.
A scarce first World's Classics edition of this collection of stories concerning ghosts and the supernatural. An anthology of some popular spooky tales by various authors, compiled by V. H. Collins. With an introduction by M R James, known for his ghost stories, which are considered among the best in its genre. Comprising numerous tales concerning the mysterious, supernatural, and the marvellous.The first edition of this work, published in 'The World's Classics' series by Humphrey Milford at Oxford University Press. Comprising fifteen of the most popular among their genre, including stories by authors such as Daniel Defoe, Sir Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe George Eliot, and H G Wells among others.

Very Good condition with neat previous owners inkstamp to front endpaper. In original near Very Good edge-chipped/torn dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (Published price 24/- net). Illustrated. 107 pages.

1st thus paperback edition, 2011. Complete numberline 1-10 to copyright page (which only bears the date 2006, though advertisements date the book to 2011). Handsigned by the author to the title page "To Bebhinn Best Wishes Sophie McKenzie". No other inscriptions. Short, exclusive abstract from the sequel "Sister, Missing" to the rear. Very Good condition.Sophie McKenzie's award winning young adult thriller novel was first published in 2006.

Covers separating at spine with nibble to leading edge, otherwise particularly clean and bright. No inscriptions. Woodcut to title page. "Lord Gregory" (Page 5) has been attributed to Robert Burns (catalogue of the G Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns).

24pp. Illustrated with photographs of cast in scenes from the play. Rare original 1931 His Majesty's Theatre programme for 'The Good Companions' - Adapted by J.B Priestley and Edward Knoblock from J.B.Priestley's novel . Printed date code "Aug 31" to corner of centre page. Good+ condition. The first West End London staging of J.B Priestley's play which Premiered at His Majesty's Theatre on 14th May 1931. Cast; Beatrix Feilden-Kaye, Frank Pettingell, Clive Morton, Jack Clewes, Edward Chapman, Edith Sharpe, William Heilbronn, Ellen Pollock, John Gielgud, Deering Wells, Adele Dixon, Lawrence Baskcomb, Constance Anderson, Mark Turner, Alexander Field, Larry O'Brien, James Stadden, Nat Lewis, Edwin Ellis, Bernard Dudley, Viola Compton, Margaret Yarde, Gerald Hornby, Walter W. Langford, Doris Rogers, Betty Hardy, Dorothy Seacombe, Harry Terry etc.

Good+. Minor marks to boards. No inscriptions. Very Good internally. 170pp.

First edition. 1st Printing of author's first novel. Very good condition. Signed by author. Inscription signed by the author and dated May 1995, to front endpaper. No other inscriptions or writing. 178pp.

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1925. Colour frontispiece + black/white photographic plates (and occasional text illustrations). Very Good condition, with no inscriptions. In scarce original dustwrapper which is not price clipped (Published price Twenty Shillings). The dustwrapper has edge tears with minor loss, mainly to the folds. A nice copy in a protected wrapper. Chapters include :"The greatest book in the world."The ghosts of Gough square.Shakespeare and the "Old Vic".Dialogue between father and son."Change cars at Paoli."A royal book-collector.A "divine" and his works.London in the eighteen-eighties.Are comparisons odious?Colored-plate books.Sporting-books.Skinner street news.The greatest little book in the world.The last of his race.A. Edward Newton is already well-known for his "The Amenities of Book Collecting," "A Magnificent Farce," and "Doctor Johnson," his play in which eighteenth century men and women live again. "The Greatest Book in the World and other Papers," deals in part with the… Read More

406pp. 1st Edition / 1st Printing, with correct numberline "001" to copyright page. Very Good+ condition, with no inscriptions. In Very Good original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (Published price £20.00).

True 1st Edition / 1st Printing with '001' to copyright page. Handsigned by the author to a "Signed First Edition / Marian Keyes 2020 / Michael Joseph" tipped in title page. With 'Signed Copy' sticker to front panel of dustwrapper which has a little shelf 'bumping' to the upper edge. No dedication and no other inscriptions.

Rare early appearance - Wole Soyinka contributes the 12 page short story "Madame Etienne's Establishment" (illustrated by Roger Dickinson) to the Autumn 1957 issue of "The Gryphon". Printed notes on the contributors describes him thus "Wole Soyinka plays the guitar and is a veritable repository of the more unprintable folk-songs".
Very Good condition, with no inscriptions.

32pp + 4pp publisher's advertisements. Illustrated in black/white with photographs and centre-fold map. Good+ condition with no inscriptions. Closed tear to lower rear cover edge.

1936/7 Edition of this illustrated guide to 'The Fairyland of the British Isles'. No previous editions mentioned.

Foreword by Jeremy Sandford. Afterword by Juliet Jeffery. This first edition has been signed by the illustrator, Juliet Jeffery, who has provided all the original art for the poems by the gypsy poet, Lavengro. Her art captures the spirit and her delight in the gypsy life style.