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Privately printed by Marchant Singer & Co, London., 1906. First edition. Royal octavo. pp xvi, 415. 112 illustrations, mostly from photographs by Mrs McMillan, but also a number of full-page reproductions of drawings by the author. Large folding colour map in pocket at rear. Original red cloth gilt. Accounts of four hunting trips by Mr and Mrs McMillan in which the author participated. The McMillans, originally from St Louis, Missouri, had relocated to London and also owned a farm in Kenya.Gift inscription (from 1923) on front free endpaper. Front inner hinge starting to split. Endpapers a bit tanned and spotted. Very good indeed. Scarce.

John Murray, London., 1967. First edition. Octavo. pp ix, 216. Photographs. The author's third book.Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "29 Sept. '67 - For D. - Who helped so much, in many more ways than one, while this book was being written. - With much love - From Dervla." and signed in full by her on the half-title. It seems likely that this is a partial dedication copy to the Daphne in the printed dedication.Erasure from front free endpaper. Slight bump at tail of spine otherwise very good indeed in very good indeed dustwrapper slightly rubbed at edges and faded at spine.

Faber and Faber, London., 1967. First edition. Octavo. 80 pages. A novel.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: ''John and Sarah with very warm regards - Wilson''. The recipients are no doubt Sarah White and John La Rose, the couple who founded New Beacon Books, the first Caribbean publishing house in Britain. They brought out Harris's Tradition, the Writer and Society: Critical Essays in 1967.Fine in very good indeed dustwrapper slightly faded at the spine and slightly rubbed at the head of spine.

Faber and Faber, London., 1956. First U.K. edition. Octavo. 94 pages. Tipped in is the small printed slip regarding the requirements of the Lord Chamberlain.Small address label on front free endpaper. Some spotting to endpapers. Very good in very good, very slightly nicked dustwrapper with some rubbing to edges.

Cassell, London., 1922. First edition. pp viii, 226. Essays and sketches, most of which arise from the author's wartime experiences. Fine in very good indeed, slightly rubbed dustwrapper with a few nicks.

Grove Press, New York., 1954. First edition in English, paperback issue in the Evergreen series, simultaneous with the hardback. Octavo. ff 60, [6]. Pictorial wrappers.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the title-page: ''for Laz and Margaret from Sam affectionately - Paris May 1956''. The recipients are Beckett's friends the poet and economist Lazarus Aaronson and his wife. It seems that the print run for the hardbound copies was so restricted that none was sent to Beckett himself, which meant that even people close to him were presented with these paperbacks. This is a very early inscription, as those usually encountered date from the Seventies and Eighties.Some marginal (tea?) staining to four pages. Covers rubbed and tanned at the spine and edges. Good. A copy of some significance.

Faber and Faber, London., 1993. First edition. Revised text. Royal octavo. pp xxxiv, 472. Reproduced in facsimile are the author's notebooks from the mid-60's. Fine in fine dustwrapper. With the original card mailing sleeve.

Methuen, London., 1934. First edition. Octavo. pp viii, 280. 8-page publishers' catalogue, dated 634, at rear. The author examines the ills, political, cultural, scientific and philosophical, of the modern world, or at least the world during a decade of crisis.Contemporary (1935) gift inscription on front free endpaper. Fore-edge spotted. Prelims slightly spotted. Very good indeed in very good indeed dustwrapper slightly rubbed at the top edge and with the red on the spine a bit faded.

William Tegg, London., 1860. First edition. Revised and edited by the author's son, T.F. Dillon Croker. Octavo. pp xx, 256. Illustrations by F.W. Fairholt. Period binding by L. Broga of three quarter morocco-backed with raised bands, gilt decorated spine, marbled endpapers and boards. All edges gilt. Fine.

Phoenix House, London., 1950. First edition. Octavo. 192 pages. Five stories.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him to a fellow writer on the front free endpaper: ''For Alan Ross with best wishes - James Hanley 26.3.53''. Ross later wrote the introduction for another collection of Hanley's short stories, The Last Voyage and other stories (1997).Near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper slightly tanned at the spine.

Hutchinson, London., 1952. First edition. Octavo. 47 pages. The author's second book. Poems. 47 pages. Boards.Tail of spine slightly bumped. Very good in very good, slightly rubbed dustwrapper darkened at the spine and slightly creased at top edge.

The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor., 1978. First edition. Octavo. pp xvi, 112. Wrappers - there was no hardback issue. Published in the Poets on Poetry series. Six page Introduction by the author. Extracts from eleven interviews.Fine.

Morning Star, Edinburgh, and Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews., 1999. First edition. Small square octavo. pp [28]. Wrappers with flaps. Meditations and aperçus around the act of walking. Printed in red and black.Fine.

Daldy, Isbister & Co, London., 1883. Fifth edition, revised, of a book originally published in 1878. Octavo. Two volumes: pp xii, 531; vi, 557. Illustrations. Two pages of adverts at rear of second volume. On the front pastedown of each volume is the armorial bookplate of Arthur T. Winn. Evidently the set was given to him as a present, as inscribed on the title of the first volume is the date of his birthday (19 May).Spotting to edges and prelims. Small snags to head of spine of first volume. Corners of covers slightly rubbed. A very good set.

Anvil Press Poetry, London., 1987. First edition. Octavo. 31 pages. Original burgundy cloth. A long poem.One of 75 numbered copies signed by the author.Small scuff to rear cover (production fault?), otherwise fine. Lacks the glassine dustwrapper.

Country Life/George Newnes, London., N.D. [1901]. First edition. pp xiv, 177. Plates. Buckram covers with gilt decorations on the spine. On the front pastedown is the Eastbury Manor bookplate of E.S. Ellice. Free endpapers faintly tanned. Near fine.

Grant Richards, London., 1900. First edition. Octavo. pp [vi], 337. Original green pictorial cloth. The first Kai Lung novel.Small snag to head of spine. Endpapers and title-page tanned and brittle. Front free endpaper a bit chipped and with a repair tear at top corner. Very good indeed, the cover design being unusually bright.

George Routledge, London., [1889]. First edition. Oblong octavo. Twelve illustrations in colour by Walter Crane. Facing each of them is an uncoloured version of the same picture, ready to be coloured in by a child. Colour pictorial title-page and covers. The first four of the pictures have been coloured to quite a high standard, which makes one wonder whether the adults of the period were as drawn to colouring-in books as the adults of our own day seem to be.Covers chipped along the bottom edges and creased. Spine rubbed and splitting. Good.

Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London., 1934. First edition. 28 pages. Sewn wrappers. Cover design by Vanessa Bell.Covers a bit dusty and marked. Spine tanned. Very good.

Geoffrey Cumberlege for the British Academy, London., 1953. First edition. Octavo. Wrappers. The Warton Lecture on English Poetry, a 14-page offprint from The Proceedings of the British Acedemy, volume XXXIX. Some faint creasing. Near fine.