I am the Only Running Footman
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 1986. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 206. Minor edgewear to d.j., very good in like d.j.
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 1986. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 206. Minor edgewear to d.j., very good in like d.j.
Melbourne: N. Wentworth-Evans, 1932. Octavo, original cloth boards (imitation crocodile hide) stamped in gilt, pp 141. Edges lightly rubbed. Very good condition. A 'lost race' novel. "Being the account of a five weeks' captivity in an unknown natural fortress, situate in the N.W. of Australia."
Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1987. Original boards elaborately decorated with pictorial silver-gilt falcon, all edges silver-gilt, decorated endpapers, decorated chapter headings, pp 188. Near fine condition. Classic mystery novel, illustrated with black and white scenes from the famous 1941 Bogart film.
Port Lauderdale, Florida: Horizon, 2012. 1st ed., octavo, pp.(vi), 375, pres. inscr. signed by author, orig bds in d.j. Near fine condn.
London: Macmillan, 1930. Scenes Selected and Edited by J.H. Fowler. Repr., crown 8vo., pp xvii 121, b/w fronts. Port., or. Cl. Bds., rubbed, sunned, marked, good condn.
London: Macmillan, 1978. Five volumes (complete thus), all in original boards with gilt vignette upper board, dustjackets, publisher's tint green upper edge. 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' has a very small closed tear upper edge of d.j. Near-fine condition in near-fine dustjackets. In original slipcase (lightly scuffed). An excellent, clean set.....
London: Arthur Barron. Octavo, original papered boards with paper title label, quarter cloth, frontis portrait plate of the author, pp 113. N.d. [1937]. Very good condition. Scarce collection of poetry by Edward Harrington. "Widely described as the last of the bush balladists - a term which undervalues the range of.....
Middlesex: Frank Marcham, 1927. 1st ed., Royal octavo, pp.20, ex-lib with usual stamps and stickers, b&w plates, loose ffep with presentation inscription signed and dated "Frank Marcham, June 1931", faded cloth backed bds. sl. warped, bumped, good condn. Frank Marcham, author of 'William Shakespeare and his Daughter Susannah', describes Roderigo.....
Melbourne: Arcadia, 2022. 1st ed., octavo, wraps, pp 176. Fine condition. Novel set in South America. " A contemporary artist is out to win a portrait prize by sketching a Che Guevara rebel from the old Australian colony in Paraguay. The artist's brother is troubled by doubts about the rebel's.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp xv, 225, viii. Previous owner's signature. Very good condition in good d.j. Literarary criticism.
Chichester: T. Cadell, 1817. George Romney (after). 12mo, pp.xii, 166, colour frontis. by T.B. Brown, prev. owner's inscr. dated 1823 to f.f.e.p., marbled e.p.s., and edges, 1cm x 1cm loss to upper spine, full calf, cnrs bumped with small stain to front bd., gilt borders, v.g. condn. The poem by.....
London: Folio Society, 2010. Illus, Becca Thorne. Original quarter-leather binding with Celtic decoration stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, text illus, pp xxviii, 218, in original slipcase. Previous owner's signature halftitle page, otherwise near fine condition in like slipcase. Seamus Heaney's acclaimed translation of the epic Old English poem, with.....
London: Jonathan Cape & Reprint Society, 1963. Octavo, original cloth boards, some chipping to upper spine of dustjacket, pp 415. Near-fine condition in like protected d.j. Classic satire of war and society.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. Hans Tisdall (dust-jacket illus.). Octavo, original cloth boards with gondola decoration, dustjacket with gondola design (dustjacket by Hans Tisdall), pp 254. Near-fine condition in like d.j. Novel set in Venice just after the war.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1952. Hans Tisdall (dust-jacket illus.). 1st UK ed., fifteenth impression, octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp.(iv), 443. Dust-jacket illustrated by Hans Tisdall. Previous owner's signaure front free endpaper, dated 1953. Foyles bookseller ticket corner of front endpaper. Dustjacket has very minor wear head and foot of spine.....
London: Collins, 1970. Octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, endpaper maps, pp 398. Spine of dustjacket sunned with some loss to upper d.j. Very good condition in like price-clipped d.j., protected. Postumously published novel, in three parts, set in the Bahamas, Cuba, and at sea.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. Octavo, decorated cloth boards [fisherman and shark design), pp 127. In the colourful wraparound pictorial jacket, small tape mark to rear flap. Near-fine condition in like clipped d.j., protected. Hemingway's classic novel, his last major work of fiction.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. 1st ed., eighth impression. Octavo, original blue cloth covered boards with stamped design (man and fish) in red to upper board, red decoration spine, dustjacket, pp 127. Near-fine condition in like d.j. Hemingway's classic novella, his last major work of fiction.
1986. Selected and introduced by David Hughes; illus. Ian Beck. Octavo, original cloth-backed illustrated boards, b&w plates, pp xvi, 273. Near fine condition in like original slipcase.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, c. 1955. Johannes Troyer (Illus.). Octavo, original cloth boards with gilt dec title spine, dustjacket , pp viii, 499, small mark to fore-edge. N.d., c. 1955. Very good condition in lightly chipped d.j. illustrated by Johannes Troyer. Includes 'Hills Like White Elephants', 'The Snows of.....
Melbourne: Alexander McCubbin. Octavo, original boards, pp 202. N.d. (1923?). Previous owner's name stamp. Very good condition. A novel of outback life.
St Lucia (QLD): University of Queensland Press, 1993. Octavo, wraps, b&w plates, pp xx, 284. Printed front cove: "publisher's advance copy", etc.Edges of front cover insect nibbled. Fair condn. The story of the famous 'Ern Malley' 'modernist poet' hoax in the 1940s.
New York: Something Else Press, 1969. 1st ed., octavo, original boards with gilt, all edges red. b&w illus, pp 320. Lower corners lightly bumped. Near-fine condition. The author was an artist, poet, composer, art theorist,, publisher, printmaker, and a co-founder of Fluxus. The preface states that the title was originally.....
London: Thriller Book Club, 1969. 8vo, original red cloth boards, pp 192. Ink stamp to title and last page, o/w very good condn. The author's second novel, scarce in hardcover. Published by arrangement with Hodder & Stoughton in year of first publication.
London: Eldon Press. 8vo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 192. Gift inscription ffep o/w very good condn, in chipped and worn d.j., protected. A Western.