Search Results: Titles starting with P from Ash Rare Books

London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1927. First edition. "A running commentary on the greatest surviving treasure of medieval glass in existence". Demy 8vo (23cm). xvi,(254),[ii]pp. Plates, some in colour. Illustrations. Original cloth gilt; some spotting of edges, but a very good copy. York Minster Choir School inscription to Miss M. R. O'Hara dated 1930.

London : Phoenix House, (1957). First edition. An extended exploration of the caves and prehistoric cave art of France and Spain - "may be described as a book of archaeology, a book of art, as a book of travel and experience, but it is the fusion of all three which Mr. Grigson alone could have written". Demy 8vo (23cm). (224)pp. Plates, maps, plans, text illustrations. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt; top edge green; mild spotting of edges, but a very good copy in the Dodie Masterman dust-jacket - price-clipped, but with only the faintest wear. Small bookseller's label of Sweetens Bookshops of Preston.

New York : George H. Doran Co., (1925). First edition. Published a month earlier than the London edition and retaining a textual integrity which the British publication did not - two separate libel actions having necessitated changes in the names of characters in the latter, as well as the substitution of the fictional place-names of Tching-Yen, Pleasant Vale, and The Mount, for the real places of Hong Kong, Happy Valley, and The Peak. "Like many other of Mr. Maugham's stories, the scene of his latest - and best - book is laid 'East of Suez'. The theme, a loveless marriage and its disastrous aftermath, though old as the hills, is invested with modernity and freshness by means of a photographic realism" (Nottingham Journal, 21st May 1925). Filmed in 1934 (Greta Garbo), and in 2006 (Naomi Watts). Crown 8vo (192 x 127mm). (290)pp. Bound in an attractive recent half red morocco, banded and gilt; a handful of minor marks and spots, but a very good copy.

[London : Jones & Co., 1830]. An antique print - a pleasant view of the richly decorated entrance to the old Hall, destroyed by bombing in 1940. Engraved by James Tingle (1801-1858) from an original drawing (now in the Museum of London) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-century London. From Shepherd's series "London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1829-1832). Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 110 x 65mm (approx 4-1/4" x 2-3/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/088.

[London : Fisher, Son & Co., 1833]. A pleasant antique print - workmen in the foreground repair a railing. Engraved by Samuel Lacey (1786-1859) from an original study by the gifted Thomas Allom. Originally produced for the part-work "Northern Tourist" series (London : 1832-1835). Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 104 x 155mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 6-1/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

[London : Fisher, Son & Co., 1833]. A pleasant antique print - workmen in the foreground repair a railing. Engraved by Samuel Lacey (1786-1859) from an original study by the gifted Thomas Allom. Originally produced for the part-work "Northern Tourist" series (London : 1832-1835). Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 104 x 154mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 6"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

London : Bush Publications, 1948. First edition. "From the torrid atmosphere of Palm Beach, to the warm Atlantic seaboard, she was known as the PLAYGIRL. This strange being was the cause of many tragedies, and broken hearts". The first novel published by the firm that went on to become Brown, Watson Ltd. Crown 8vo (19cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; lightly rubbed and a little worn; lower wrapper damp-stained; staples rusted; a few leaves slightly soiled; uneven tanning of text; a reasonable copy of an uncommon title. No copy located in any major library worldwide.

Petersfield : Enitharmon Press, 1991. First edition : one 500 regular copies (of 525) in wrappers. Inscribed, signed and dated (1991) by Michael Henry. Demy 8vo (22cm). 62,[ii]pp. Original white wrappers, lettered in blue and with a colour illustration from a Stephen Farthing painting; very good.

Petersfield : Enitharmon Press, 1991. First edition : one of twenty-five copies copies in cloth (of 525), signed by both poet and publisher, and with one of the poems repeated in holograph by the poet. A collection of over fifty poems. Demy 8vo (22cm). (64)pp. Original black cloth, lettered down spine in gilt and with pictorial onlay on upper cover; very good in the original acetate dust-jacket - the jacket slightly defective on lower panel.

London : Pleiades Books, 1947. Second edition : the British issue of the American sheets. A revised and much enlarged version of the original 1943 publication - the best edition of the essential text. A richly illustrated worldwide overview of the subject, based on a lifetime's research - from ancient times to the modern era, with chapters on papermaking in China and Japan; the hand-mould; maceration; early methods; European and American papermaking; ancient watermarks and mystic symbols; later watermarks; materials; the paper-machine; new fibres; forgery; modern hand-made papers; a chronology; a bibliography, etc. Medium 8vo (24cm). xxiv,(612),(xxxviii),[4]pp. Over 300 illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Folding diagram. Folding map. Original blue buckram, ruled and lettered in gilt; top edge blue; some very minor rubbing; a few spots to top edge and endleaves, but overall a very good copy. Additional postage on account of weight.

Redhill : Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., (1947). First paperback edition. Never married Bay Stratton has a slightly mysterious role at the embassy in Paris - Miss Sims the mannequin tells him that "An ordinary, modern girl, who knew how to take care of herself, would make you nervous". She's right. Originally published by Collins in 1935. Crown 8vo (18cm). 190,[ii]pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers - a design by Reginald Mills; some very minor chipping, creasing and marking, but a very good copy. Just a single copy (British Library) of this edition located in major libraries worldwide.

London : Kaye Publications, [1954]. First edition. The beautiful Renate dreams of escape from her tawdry life on a tropical island. Lorenzo, a handsome visitor, offers her an opportunity. Crown 8vo (18cm). [iv],9-132pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; somewhat worn, chipped, and creased; a few internal marks, chips and spots, but a serviceable copy of an uncommon title. Just two copies (British Library, and Trinity College, Dublin) located in major libraries worldwide. The present example has been furnished with a neatly made and lettered home-produced modesty jacket.

London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1887. First edition. The major work of Browning's later years - literary and historical dialogues with Bernard de Mandeville, Daniel Bartoli, Christopher Smart, George Bubb Dodington, Francis Furini, Gerard de Lairesse, and Charles Avison. Foolscap 8vo (18cm). [viii],268,[iv]pp. Original red-brown cloth, ruled in black on upper cover, and in blind on lower cover; ruled and lettered across spine in gilt; grey endpapers; some very minor rubbing to extremities, occasional slight spotting, but a very good, bright and largely unopened copy.

London : Darton, Longman & Todd, (1960). First edition. An extensive anthology of seasonal verse and prose, with decorations by Barbara Jones and children of the Henry Fawcett School. The selection includes a Barbara Jones piece on "Traditional Joys". Demy 8vo (23cm). (196)pp. Eight colour plates by the children. Numerous illustrations and decorations by Jones. Original imitation leather, blocked and gilt in an overall pictorial design by Barbara Jones, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine in gilt; endpapers by Jones in orange and maroon; very good.

London : MacGibbon & Kee, (1967). Originally published serially in Manchester in the early 1840s and here in a slightly shortened modern edition - one of the most important documents of nineteenth-century radicalism, covering the turbulent years either side of the Peterloo massacre, in the aftermath of which the highly articulate Bamford, both weaver and poet, was charged with treason and wrongly convicted of inciting a riot - "it is a voice that England cannot afford even now to shut its ears to". With a preface by Tim Hilton. Demy 8vo (23cm). 368pp. Original boards; top edge red; very good in a just lightly used and slightly creased dust-jacket.

London : William Collins Sons & Co. (The Crime Club), (1980). First edition. Signed by Catherine Aird on the title-page. The ninth Inspector Sloan mystery. Motiveless murder at the flower show. Post 8vo (21cm). 202,[ii]pp. Original red boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; slight marks on lower edge, but a very good copy in the original Colin Thomas dust-jacket - price-clipped and just slightly nicked at one corner, but also very good.

New York : Magazine Productions, (1951). First edition. To Jessie Evans "men were like a doctor's prescription: To be taken twice daily; as needed. But when she met a rough, earthy guy named Mike, who wanted her - but who refused to be slave to her beauty - Jessie learned to love like a woman - not a tyrant queen of hearts!" No 108 in the Rainbow Romance series. Crown 8vo (20cm). [iv],(130)pp. Eight full-page photographic illustrations. Original pictorial stapled wrappers - a stylish design generally attributed to George Gross (1909-2003); wrappers a little worn and creased; split to spine; a few spots; text a little tanned, but otherwise a very good copy of an uncommon title. No copy located in any major library worldwide.

New York : Almat Publishing Corp. (Pyramid Books), (1949). First paperback edition. "Voluptuous young Franny Hayes thought she had learned everything in the book of love ... but love's sweet dream ended in disillusion". Originally published in hardback as "Brief Pleasure" earlier in 1949. Numbered Pyramid Books 11, but the first title to be published in the Pyramid series. Foolscap 8vo (17cm). 158,[ii]pp. Original pictorial wrappers; all edges red; lightly worn and slightly creased; a few slight marks; text lightly tanned, but a good copy. Just a single copy of this edition (Buffalo) located in major libraries worldwide.

Dublin : Dedalus Press, (1989). First complete edition in English of "Strasna Mera". Fifty-two poems from a major European poet, translated by Francis R. Jones. This copy signed by both Lalic and the translator. Demy 8vo (22cm). (94),[ii]pp. Original white and maroon pictorial wrappers; very good indeed.

London : Roberts & Vinter, (1960). First edition. Suicide of atomic scientist, illicit arms sales, and a modern Mata Hari with a taste for refined torture. Foolscap 8vo (18cm). 158,[ii]pp. Original pictorial wrappers; a few faint signs of age and use, but a very good copy. Old price inked to verso of front wrapper. Just two copies (British Library and National Library of South Africa) located in major libraries worldwide.