The Lord of the Rings Diary 1994.
London: Grafton Books, 1993. Illus. Alan Lee. Oblong 8vo, pictorial boards, colour plates, b&w text illus, illus borders. Fine condn.
Literature
The Old English Baron (Clara Reeve); The Castle of Otranto (Horace Walpole); The Pirate and the Three Cutters (Marryat); The Pacha of Many Tales (Marryat); The Smuggler (G.P.R. James).
1887. Six books collected in one volume. 8vo, cloth boards, gilt titles and rule to spine. All published by Frederick Warne except The Smuggler (Routledge). Last two books dated 1887. Boards faded and rubbed, tear to cloth at rear edge of spine, several (blank?) pages apparently removed between The Pacha.....
The Quarterly Review, Vol. 110 - July to October 1861 : Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir Isaac Newton et al
London: John Murray, 1861. 1st ed., pp.586, incl Index, worn half calf marbled bds, some closed tears along edges of a few pages, contents very good condition The Quarterly Review, a literary and political periodical founded in 1809. This volume features 'Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley", "Memoirs of the Life.....
The Log of a Cowboy. A Narrative of the Old Trail Days.
Time-Life Books, 1981. Illus E. Boyd Smith. 8vo, leatherette boards with embossed design and gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, b&w frontis, b&w plates, pp 387. Publisher's leaflet and blank bookplate loosely inserted. Near-fine condn. Originally published in 1903.
The Iron Wolf and Other Stories
London: Allen Lane, 1980. 1st ed., Royal octavo, pp.142, b&w dwgs by Jennifer Campbell, col plates by Yvonne Gilbert, small stain to p.i, foxing to upper edges of pages, orig cl bds, very good in like d.j. A collection of nineteen enchanting folk-tales collected and re-told by Richard Adams. Tales.....
The Iron Wolf and Other Stories [Signed]
London: Penguin Books, 1982. 2nd ed., octavo, pp.213, (x, adverts), creasing to cnrs of prelims and latter pages, orig wraps, creased and worn, fair condn. Presentation copy signed by the author. A collection of nineteen enchanting folk-tales collected and re-told by Richard Adams. Tales from around the world including China.....
The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1862. With notes by Richard Hurd. Collected and Edited by Henry G. Bohn. Volume I only (of six). 8vo, cloth boards, frontis portrait, b&w plates, pp xvi, 538. In nineteenth century library cloth binding. Cloth marked, paper label to spine, hole in cloth to spine, inscription.....
The Fables of Aesop
London: The Folio Society, 2002. Illustrated by Edward J. Detmold. Royal 8vo, pp. xvi, 152, colour frontis, colour plates and b/w ills., original decorated cloth boards, in original slipcase. Fifth printing. Near fine in like slipcase.
The Humour of Barry Humphries
Sydney: Currency Press, 1984. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, discography, bibliography, pp 134. Previous owner's inscription (date) halftitle page. Very good condition. Uncommon. A selection of Barry Humphries' work, with illustrations by and of Humphries.
Under the Southern Cross, a Tale of the New World
Edinburgh: T. Nelson and Sons, 1890. 8vo, original embossed pictorial boards w/ gilt title, gilt decoration to spine, hand coloured frontis, dec. endpapers, pp. 356 plus publisher's adverts, piece missing lower cnr first page of adverts, not affecting text, prev. owner's inscr dated 1891, cnrs and spine bumped and rubbed.....
Expiation
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1929. 1st ed., octavo, pp. (iv) 381, (ii adverts), previous owner's inscription, ink mark along fore-edge ffep, page edges faintly yellowed, original cloth boards, edges slightly rubbed, in worn d.j. spine and edges tanned, lacks head of spine, edges frayed and chipped with few small.....
Spinster A Novel
London: Secker & Warburg, 1958. 8vo, pp. 269, light foxing top edge, orig cl bds, in d.j edges creased, lightly rubbed rear. Very good condition. A novel of a teacher of the Infant Room in a New Zealand school. Made in to a movie "Two Loves"
The Immortal Marriage
London: John Murray, 1927. Octavo, original cloth boards with gilt facsimile signature, pp v, 538. Some light markings to spine, very good condition. Novel by the American feminist author, set in Ancient Greece.
Fragment of a Novel, written by Jane Austen, January - March 1817, now first printed from the manuscript. (*Sanditon).
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1925. Octavo, original paper-covered boards, cloth spine, paper title label, pp vi, 170, plus the editor's notes. Ex-library, with markings (title page, base of spine, occasional stamps). Good condition. Last and unfinished novel by Jane Austen, started in 1817 not long before her death.....
Pride and Prejudice (peacock design edition)
London: Penguin, 2015. Coralie Bickford-Smith. Repr., octavo, pp.(iv), 389, ribbon marker, orig gilt peacock patterned boards by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Near fine condn. Peacock design edition.
Set of Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice. Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion
London: Collins, 1966-1970. Complete set of Jane Austen: six novels in five volumes. Blue leatherette binding with silver gilt decoration and lettering to spines, limp boards. Author portrait frontispiece each volume, dec endpapers, publisher's blue tint top edge. All published beyween 1966 and 1970. In original patterned card slipcase, rubbed.....
The Boys from Binjiwunyawunya (Les Norton Series)
Sydney: Pan, 1994. 6th ed., pp.315, (iii, adverts), orig stiff wraps, texta mark to fore-edge, pages grubby, creasing to wraps, good condn. The character "Les Norton" was based on two Sydney identities, "Ken Wills" (Willsy) and "William ( Doogza ) Davis", an amateur boxer and later waterfront worker...
Leaving Bondi (Les Norton Series)
Sydney: HarperCollins, 2001. 2nd ed., pp.308, (iv, adverts), orig stiff wraps, very good condn. The character "Les Norton" was based on two Sydney identities, "Ken Wills" (Willsy) and "William ( Doogza ) Davis", an amateur boxer and later waterfront worker.
Five Graves At Nijmegen
London: B.T. Batsford, 1945. Cover illustration John Nash. 8vo, pp. 32, occasional very minor foxing spots scattered throughout, pictorial paper wraps, edges creased, black ink notes to rear Novella set in Europe during WWII.
Murphy
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1938. 1st edition, 1st impression in first issue smooth green cloth, 8vo, green library tape to spine with handwritten title and author (misspelt)in white ink, also in same ink a numeral and letter to spine, library label to front paste-down with stamps to fep, title.....
Zuleika Dobson, or an Oxford Love Story
London: William Heinemann, 1928. New impr., octavo pp (vi) 350, foxing to edges, prelims and latter end pages, or. bds., sunned and with dark marks, no d.j. Classic comic novel.
The Terror in the Fog
Ramble House, 2005(2011). 2nd ed., octavo, pp.214, orig stiff pict wraps. Near fine condn. A Bill Hamilton mystery first published in 1938, this is one of the earliest novels by Norman Berrow.
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Edelweiss and Other Poems [Limited edition, SIGNED by poet]
Sydney: Beacon Press, 1932. 1st ed., 8vo., pp.24, remains of label to f.e.p.,, ex-lib stramp. Limited to 120 copies, this copy No.55, signed by author, orig. patterned cl bds., near fine condn The book was privately printed for Winifred Birkett, an Australian novelist and poet who won the 1934 Australian.....
Boon, the Mind of the Race, the Wild Asses of the Devil, and the Last Trump, being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, ... prepared for publication by Reginald Bliss...with an Ambiguous Introduction by H.G. Wells [1st edition]
London: T Fisher Unwin, 1915. 1st ed., 8vo., pp 342, light foxing to prelims and edges, top edge gilt,., original red cloth boards, gilt dec. on front, b&w text illus, rubbed, bumped, hinges starting to separate at front endpapers and rear endpapers, slight marking to covers. H.G. Wells writing under.....
Farewell Nikola
London, Melbourne, Toronto: Ward, Lock & Co. Octavo, pictorial front cover, b&w frontis plate, b&w advertisement endpapers, pp 124, iv. N.d.: pencilled ownership signature dated 1922. Lacks rear wrap, spine torn and chipped, lower corner creased. Acceptable condition: uncommon in this format. Boothby's final story about the criminal mastermind and.....