The Great Impersonation
London: Hodder & Stoughton. 9vo, original orange cloth boards, pp 318. N.d., early edition. Faint marking to boards, faded gift inscription fep, good condn. Set during WWI and filmed three times (in 1921, 1935 and 1942).
London: Hodder & Stoughton. 9vo, original orange cloth boards, pp 318. N.d., early edition. Faint marking to boards, faded gift inscription fep, good condn. Set during WWI and filmed three times (in 1921, 1935 and 1942).
London: Left Book Club, 1937. Foreword by Victor Gollancz. Octavo, original original orange limp cloth, b&w plates, pp xxiv, 264. Spine creased, some marking cloth, front free endpaper chipped to top corner, last pages creased edges and corners, light marks to the outside edge of the textblock not affecting text.....
Massachusetts: The Figures, 1990. Original side stapled wraps, unpag. One of 500 copies. Worn to inner edge. Very good condition. Poetry.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1912. Original cloth boards, octavo, pp 359. Boards worn and marked, foot of spine fraying, previous owner's signature, fair condition only.
London: Philip Lee Warner, 1913. Limited edition one of 1000 copies, this copy unnumbered, 8vo, Volume I: pp. x, 146; Volume II: pp. viii, 134; previous owner's inscription both vols., front hinge weak volume I, endpapers tanned, two edges untrimmed, original cloth backed papered boards, chipping to spine, light foxing.....
New York: Random House, 1948. 8vo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 341. Attractive dustjacket (wraparound cover art Mimi Korach) with closed tear to upper right corner (repaired) and small chips to head and foot of spine. Very good in a good dustjacket.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1962. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 286. Very good in edgeworn, price-clipped dustjacket, protected. "A Novel of Detection with Chief-Inspector Sam Birkett and Sergeant Saunders, the Scotland Yard pair who made their debut in The Nose on My Face" (half-title page). Set in a film studio.....
Berkeley: The Garlic Press, March 1990. 1st ed., octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 190, i. Limited to 1000 copies. Near-fine condition. Collection of poetry, including John Ashbery, Ray Ragosta, Clark Coolidge, Jean Day, Elizabeth Robinson, Ray DiPalma.
New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1965. Octavo, original printed wraps, pp 52. Previous owner's signature top corner of wrap. Text clean. Good condition. Pinter's play The Dwarfs, with eight brief sketches. Designed for performance.
New York: Weathervane Books, 1978. Illus. Edmund Dulac. Quarto, cloth boards with blind-stamped decoration, 10 colour plates (including the frontis) by Dulac, illus endpapers. N.d. (1978). Bottom corners and head of spine bumped and rubbed. No dust-jacket. A good clean copy. A reproduction of the Dulac-illustrated Hodder and Stoughton edition.....
London: Richard Butterworth, c. 1900. Early issue, octavo, original green cloth boards with blindstamped decoration and gilt title, cnrs bumped, fraying to upper spine, pp 256. N.d., c.1900. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Front free endpaper removed, pages browned, some staining to fore-edge, price and light marking boards. Good condition.....
New York: Tudor Publishing, 1936. Illus. Harry Clarke. Quarto, original cloth boards with illustrated plate front board, colour frontis plate tipped-in, eight colour plates tipped-in, 24 woodcut b&w plates, many engraved text illus, illus, title page,publisher's tint top edge, pp 412, i. Previous owner's signature reverse of halftitle page, dated.....
London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1891. 3rd ed., octavo, pp.viii, 557, (x, adverts), b&w fronts. port of E.A. Poe, prev owner's name to t.p., tape marks along inner hinge of fronts and across upper page (not affecting image), ink stain pp.514, orig bds., spotting to rear, recased retaining orig bds......
London: Cassell & Company, 1907. Octavo, pp.(vi), (7)-190, b&w fronts port of Poe, prev. owner's inscr verso title page, bookseller's ticket (Thos. Avery) front paste-down, eps grubby, contents clean, some loss to upper spine, a.e.g., bound in dark green suede wraps, gilt titles to spine. Very good condn.
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1927. Octavo, original cloth boards, frontis illus, pp lxxii, 250. Pencilled notes throughout, previous owner's bookplate, inscription, good condition.
London: Blackie & Son Limited. Illus Leo Bates. 8vo, original cloth boards, b&w plates, pp pp 264. Cloth slightly marked, good condn.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1965. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 232. Previous owner's signature. Very good condition in like d.j. Short stories, set from Victoria to Venice.
London: Heinemann, 1927. 8vo, original dark blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine, pp 304, i. New impression December 1927 (first published October 1927). Slight rubbing to corners and head and foot of spine. Small area of discolouration to rear board, few minor marks. Previous owner's inscription ffep, some.....
London: ( 1921). W. Heath Robinson (Illus). Privately printed, 2 vols, octavo, pp.xvi, 474; xvi, 462, b&w fronts to each vol and b&w illustrations throughout by W. Heath Robinson, previous owner's inscr and stamp with bookseller's ticket to each vol, uncut, top edge gilt, some darkening to outer top edge.....
London: Cassell, October 1958. Octavo, original cloth boards with gilt to spine, dustjacket, pp 244. Second cheap editon. Gift inscription front free endpaper. Some staining to dustjacket with some chipping to edges and two small closed tears top edge. Contents clean. Very good condition in good d.j. Ayn Rand's first.....
London: Cassell & Company, 1929. 8vo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp. viii, 334. A little spotting to rear board, o/w very good, in good dustjacket (dustjacket is fraying to edges, small chip top of spine and rear edge, protected.).
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1928. 8vo, original cloth boards, pp 314, vi. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed, o/w very good condn. Mystery set in Cornwall.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1933. 8vo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 320. A little spotting to outside edge of textblock, o/w very good condn. Illustrated wraparound dustjacket has large chip to bottom edge of front panel (removing most of author panel), protected. 1st UK edition, same year as US edtion.....
London: Privately Printed, 1896. Original patterned cloth boards, decorative vignette title page, octavo, pp vii, 88. Privately printed for subscribers. Ex-library markings. Lacks front free endpaper. Spine heavily rubbed, Fair condition.
DAW Books, 2007. First edition, first impression, with the full numberline/ In the scarce 'Green Man' variant dustjacket, with original price and advance quotes on rear of d.j. Original cloth boards' dustjacket, double-page map, pp 662. Head of spine lightly bumped, tiny line of light fading to edges, some edgewear.....