ASH RARE BOOKS – ANTIQUARIAN RARE AND FINE BOOKS – FIRST EDITIONS – ANTIQUE MAPS AND PRINTS
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“A MEMBER OF THE ARISTOCRACY” : MANNERS AND RULES OF GOOD SOCIETY. London : Frederick Warne & Co., (1955). First Joan Storey edition. An endlessly reprinted Victorian guide to etiquette, which had reached its forty-eighth edition by 1929, but is here fully revised and updated by Joan Storey to take cognizance of the post-war world. With chapters on the hostess; introductions; accidental meetings; hand-shaking; invitations; cards; parties; luncheons; dinners; bridge and cocktail parties; garden parties; tennis; children’s parties; balls; engagements; weddings; christenings; anniversaries; mourning; present giving; special points of etiquette for men; travelling by air, and much else besides. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 19289 – or simply click on the button
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ALLEN, Glen : OPERATION JET. London : Curtis Warren, [ca.1950]. First edition. “There was something wrong with the old box of tricks that was stooging around way up in the blue there” – a title in the Curtis Warren “Aero Fiction” series. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43583 – or simply click on the button
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“ANDOM, R.” – [BARRETT, Alfred Walter, 1869- ] : IN FEAR OF A THRONE. London : Stanley Paul & Co., (1911). First edition. “He’d need a long arm who wanted to crown Troddles ... this Prisoner of Zenda story gone wrong” – from the introduction by William Reginald Hodder, who appears also to have co-written the story. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27053 – or simply click on the button
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ARNOLD, Ralph (Ralph Crispian Marshall), 1906-1970 : DESPAIR AND DELIGHT. London : Constable & Co., (1939). First edition. “Old Miss Grierson had had her social flowering in the days when a man was a man and was properly rated as such by the ladies. In the year 1908, or thereabouts, one man, however weedy and inefficient, was considered the equal of at least three highly gifted and beautiful women ...”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27026 – or simply click on the button
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ASHTON, Charles (Charles Henry), 1884-1968 : STONE DEAD. London : Mellifont Press, [1944]. Second edition. A country-inn mystery from photographer, war-hero, silent movie star and ultimately crime-writer Charles Ashton. Originally published by Robert Hale in 1939. SOLD |
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AUMONIER, Stacy (Stacy James), 1877-1928 : ODD FISH : BEING A CASUAL SELECTION OF LONDON RESIDENTS ... London : William Heinemann, (1923). First edition. “There is a small boy, with a large head, enjoying himself in a dusty attic ... he comes across an old, faded copy of this book ... and goes steadily through to the end. When he has finished he sighs and says : ‘Well, well, so that is what people were like in the old day!’” – an amusing social satire on typical London types across all classes – the fishmonger, the professional singer, the professional drinker, the businessman, the parlour maid, the bachelor, the duke, the American, the police constable, the naval officer, the artist (in fact, George Belcher as described by Aumonier, and Aumonier, as depicted by Belcher), etc. SOLD |
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AUSTER, Paul (Paul Benjamin), 1947- : THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES. New York : Henry Holt & Co., (2006). First American edition. Inscribed and signed by Paul Auster, “To Michelle, One for the book club, best Paul Auster x”. The accidental redemption of Nathan Glass, a long-lost nephew working in a bookstore, his colourful employer, a forgery, etc. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44014 – or simply click on the button
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AVIS, F.C. (Frederick Compton), 1908-1999 : TYPE FACE TERMINOLOGY. London : F. C. Avis, (1965). First edition. An attractive and convenient pocket dictionary of type face terminology, from ‘alignment’ to ‘x-height’, with each of the entries illustrated. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25363 – or simply click on the button
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AXELROD, George, 1922-2003 : BLACKMAILER. Sydney : Original Novels Foundation, (1953). First Australian edition. Small-time publisher offered an unknown manuscript by a dead but famous (and very Hemingwayesque) author: plot thickens. A wise-cracking mystery from Axelrod originally published in New York in 1952 – the same year that his “Seven Year Itch” first played on Broadway. Phantom Book 532. SOLD |
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BALLARD, J.G. (James Graham), 1930-2009 : “STORM-WIND” contained in NEW WORLDS SCIENCE FICTION : VOL. 37. NOS. 110-111. SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 1961. London : Nova Publications, 1961. Two consecutive issues of the magazine containing both parts of Ballard’s “Storm-Wind”, which later appeared as his subsequently disavowed first novel, “The Wind from Nowhere”, first published as a paperback in the USA in 1962. No. 111 also contains a profile of Ballard, with a photograph – “anyone wondering why I’ve chosen to destroy London quite so thoroughly should try living there for ten years ...”. Other contributors include Lee Harding, Colin Kapp, John Kippax, George Langalaan, David Rome, James White, George Whitley, Lan Wright, etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41515 – or simply click on the button
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BARRY, Jerome (Jerome Benedict), 1894-1975 : LADY OF NIGHT. London : T. V. Boardman & Co., [1949]. First British paperback edition. A stylish New York mystery – “a best-selling novel, a perfume and a woman with a butterfly birthmark, were all called Lady of Night ... one of the best of the new books in the clipped dialogue style for which the States is justly famous”. Originally published by Doubleday, Doran & Co. in New York in 1944, and by Boardman in hardback in 1945. SOLD |
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BARTHOLOMEW & SON, John – publishers : CENTRAL LONDON ATLAS-GUIDE. Edinburgh : The Geographical Institute, John Bartholomew & Son, 1956. Second edition. An attractive pocket atlas of London, with coloured sectional maps extending north to Highbury, eastwards to Greenwich and the Isle of Dogs, south to the Oval, and westwards to Hammersmith, on a scale of something over three inches to the mile. Complete with historical notes, notes on place names, population, museums and galleries, theatres, cinemas, clubs, hotels, restaurants, sports grounds, etc, etc. Also with plans of several major buildings, general maps of the Greater London area, the major approach roads, underground railways, and an extensive street index, etc. First published in 1951. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42613 – or simply click on the button
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BATES, H.E. (Herbert Ernest), 1905-1974 : NOW SLEEPS THE CRIMSON PETAL AND OTHER STORIES. London : Michael Joseph, (1961). First edition. A dozen short stories, including “Lost Ball”, “The Place Where Shady Lay”, “Daughters of the Village”, etc. Later published in the USA as “The Enchantress and Other Stories”. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44054 – or simply click on the button
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BEARD, Geoffrey, 1929-2015 : CRAFTSMEN AND INTERIOR DECORATION IN ENGLAND 1660-1820. Edinburgh : John Bartholomew & Son, 1981. First edition. A handsome and scholarly survey, thoroughly illustrated. With sections on masters, men and materials; the magnificent houses; a dictionary of over 700 craftsmen and their known commissions, with a glossary; bibliography, etc. SOLD |
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“BECK, Christopher” – [BRIDGES, Thomas Charles, 1868-1944] : THE BRIGAND OF THE AIR. London : C. Arthur Pearson, 1920. First edition. “Christopher Beck has brought the pirate story abreast of the times, for it is an air pirate and his ultimate defeat by two plucky young British airmen, that this story is concerned. Airships, seaplanes and motors send the narrative hurtling along at a breathless pace” (The Scotsman, 9th December 1920). £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43520 – or simply click on the button
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“BELL, Josephine” – [BALL, Doris Bell Collier, 1897-1987] : A FLAT TYRE IN FULHAM. London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1963). First edition. A Jaguar car is stolen at London airport, but a flat tyre in Fulham disrupts a planned wage-snatch in Wandsworth. The abandoned car is impounded – and then the body is found. SOLD |
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BENNETT, Arnold (Enoch Arnold), 1867-1931 : MR. PROHACK. London : Methuen & Co., (1922). First edition. A Treasury civil servant suddenly finds himself immensely wealthy – money and the 1920s. “Like an oyster waiting the pearler’s knife the whole of idle London lies ready to Mr. Prohack’s – and to Mr. Bennett’s – attack. And that attack when it comes is leisured, penetrating, ruthless in its gentle laughing effectiveness ... In and out of the story weave the strands of Mr. Bennett’s effective humour, subtle in its apparent superficiality; ironic in its low-toned laughter; satiric in its finely pointed epigram ...” (Yorkshire Evening Post, 6th May 1922). SOLD |
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BENTLEY, Nicolas (Nicolas Clerihew), 1907-1978 : THE TONGUE-TIED CANARY. London : Michael Joseph, (1948). First edition. His first thriller – a Buchanesque search for vital missing papers. “I happen to know a little bit about the way certain investigations of this kind were carried out during the war” (Nicolas Bentley). £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 36198 – or simply click on the button
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BETJEMAN, John (Sir John), 1906-1984 : VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN LONDON FROM OLD PHOTOGRAPHS. London : B. T. Batsford, (1971). Third impression of the original 1969 edition. Over 200 early photographs of London, with introduction and commentary by Betjeman. The City; Westminster; Street Traders; Entertainers; the Rich; the Parks; the East End; the Less Rich; South of the River; the Railways; the Thames; Markets; and the Suburbs, south, west and north. SOLD |
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BLOOMFIELD, B.C. (Barry Cambray), 1931-2002 : AN AUTHOR INDEX TO SELECTED BRITISH “LITTLE MAGAZINES” 1930-1939. London : Mansell, 1976. First edition. An exhaustive finding list to the wealth of material – some 11,000 entries – poems, prose, reviews and illustrations – hidden in the “little magazines” of the pre-war period. SOLD |
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BOYD, William, 1952- : THE BLUE AFTERNOON. London : Sinclair-Stevenson, (1993). First edition. “His name is Salvador Carriscant and thus begins Kay Fischer’s journey into the past of this beguiling and seductive older man who claims to be her father ...”. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42756 – or simply click on the button
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BOYD, William, 1952- : STARS AND BARS. London : Hamish Hamilton, (1984). First edition. Henderson Dores – shy, English, self-conscious and nearly forty – stands worrying in the middle of Park Avenue, New York City. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44053 – or simply click on the button
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BRIGGS, Susan (Susan Anne), Lady, 1933- : KEEP SMILING THROUGH. [London] : Fontana/Collins (1976). First paperback edition. A richly illustrated study of the Home Front 1939-1945, an extraordinary story told via posters, advertisements, cartoons, film-stills, propaganda photographs, ephemera and much else. With a foreword by Vera Lynn. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43479 – or simply click on the button
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BURKE, James Lee, 1936- : IN THE ELECTRIC MIST WITH CONFEDERATE DEAD. New York : Hyperion, (1993). First edition. Signed by James Lee Burke on the title-page. “A movie crew has come to New Iberia, Louisiana, and star Elrod Sykes just can’t seem to keep his lavender Cadillac on the road. Under threat of a drunk-driving charge, he offers Detective Dave Robicheaux information ... he leads him to the skeletal remains of a black man whose murder Robicheaux witnessed in the summer of 1957 as a college freshman”. Filmed in 2009 with Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Mary Steenburgen, etc. SOLD |
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BURKE, Thomas (Sidney Thomas), 1886-1945 : OUT AND ABOUT : A NOTE-BOOK OF LONDON IN WAR-TIME. London : George Allen & Unwin, (1919). First edition. “The sun is shining. The sky is bland. There are seven hundred square miles of London in which Adventure is shyly lurking for those who will seek her out” – Burke explores the wartime London of 1917 – Back to Dockland; Chinatown Revisited; Soho Carries On; Vodka and Vagabonds; Saturday Night; Tragedy and Cockneyism, etc., etc. SOLD |
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BURKE, Thomas (Sidney Thomas), 1886-1945 : SON OF LONDON. London : Herbert Jenkins, [1946]. First edition. A wonderful evocation of growing up in South London in the 1890s and Burke’s early days trying to make a living as a writer in the early 1900s, with much on reading, theatre, etc. SOLD |
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BUTLER, Gwendoline, 1922-2013 : COFFIN IN THE BLACK MUSEUM. London : William Collins Sons & Co. (The Crime Club), (1989). First edition. Coffin in Docklands. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 22412 – or simply click on the button
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BUTLER, W.E. (William Elliott), 1939- & BUTLER, D.J. (Darlene J.) : MODERN BRITISH BOOKPLATES. Cambridge : Silent Books, (1990). First edition. A general introduction to the topic, notes on collecting and commissioning, and an extremely useful list with biographical notes of over forty designers then currently working. Loosely inserted is the separately printed leaf, often missing, giving all the names and addresses and making a correction to the text. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43540 – or simply click on the button
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“CAREY, Donnell” – [LAKE, Joe Berry, 1909-1961] : KISSES CAN KILL! [New York] : Hanro Corp., (1951). First edition. “The amazing story of a birthmark that solved a savage murder”. Phantom Book No. 501. SOLD |
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CARTER, John (John Waynflete), 1905-1975 : BOOKS AND BOOK-COLLECTORS. London : Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. First edition. Essays from one of the masters – including studies of the book-collectors Thomas J. Wise (with two additional pieces on his forgeries), Michael Sadleir, Lord Rothschild and others, the typographers D. B. Updike and Stanley Morison, as well as essays on collecting detective fiction, collecting off-subject books, collecting A. E. Housman, fashions in book-collecting, nineteenth-century English books, etc. SOLD |
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CARTER, Sebastian, 1941- : TWENTIETH CENTURY TYPE DESIGNERS. London : Trefoil Publications, (1987). First edition. Loosely inserted is an autograph note, signed with forename, from Sebastian Carter. Well illustrated studies of Frederic W. Goudy, Bruce Rogers, Rudolf Koch, William Addison Dwiggins, Eric Gill, Victor Hammer, Stanley Morison, Hans Mardersteig, Jan van Krimpen, Georg Trump, Joseph Blumenthal, Robert Hunter Middleton, Jan Tschichold, Berthold Wolpe, Roger Excoffon, Hermann Zapf and Adrian Frutiger. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26080 – or simply click on the button
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CHAMBERS, E.K. (Edmund Kerchever), 1866-1954 : THE HISTORY AND MOTIVES OF LITERARY FORGERIES : BEING THE CHANCELLOR’S ENGLISH ESSAY FOR 1891. New York : Burt Franklin, (1970). A facsimile reprint of the original 1891 edition of this elegant monograph. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20169 – or simply click on the button
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“CHASE, James Hadley” – [RAYMOND, René Brabazon, 1906-1985] : THE DEAD STAY DUMB. London : Jarrolds (Publishers) London, [ca.1944]. His second book, first published in 1939 and here in an early paperback edition advertising that the book had already reached 190 thousand copies. “A nightmare tale of the life and death of Dillon, American gangster ... This book is all it should be: fast, tough, sexy and exciting. I give him full marks” said the publisher’s reader. Not everyone agreed: “Too rough a story to hold any pleasure except perhaps for one of Hitler’s S.S. troopers”, reported the “Birmingham Daily Post” (16 January 1940). SOLD |
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CHEYNEY, Peter (Reginald Southouse), 1896-1951 : LADIES WON’T WAIT : A NOVEL. London : Collins, 1951. First edition. “She was standing under the awning outside Maxime in the Rue Royale, young, beautiful, English, a woman of extraordinary grace and strange allure ... Kells never saw her again – alive”. SOLD |
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CHEYNEY, Peter (Reginald Southouse), 1896-1951 : YOU CAN CALL IT A DAY : A NOVEL. London : Collins, 1949. First edition. Johnny Vallon is a tough egg, just returned from war service in the east to team up with Chennault’s Investigations of Long Acre. It begins with a Bacardi and a woman wearing Narcisse Noir perfume – and then Joe Chennault is found dead. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43836 – or simply click on the button
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CLARKE, Donald Henderson, 1887-1958 : THE REGENERATE LOVER [YOUNG AND HEALTHY]. New York & Chicago : Diversey Publishing Corp., (1948). First edition under this title. “Dick Raynor was a hellion with the girls. This handsome New England chap had time, money – and the youth to go with them ... a headstrong son of a staid family sowed his wild oats as no son of that family had ever sowed them before”. Originally published as “Young and Healthy” in 1931, but here in a revised edition for the Novel Library. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43855 – or simply click on the button
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CLEARY, Brendan, 1958- : TEARS IN THE BURGER STORE. Newcastle upon Tyne : Jackson’s Arm, (1985). First edition. Signed by Brendan Cleary on the title-page. The Antrim-born poet’s first collection – fourteen poems, including “Buying an Orange”, “Abattoir”, “Truant”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11087 – or simply click on the button
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CLEVELY, Hugh (Hugh Desmond) 1897-1964 : THE NIGHT CLUB MYSTERY. London : Amalgamated Press, [1953]. First edition. Greedy solicitor, rich innocent, cocaine-addicted actress, London night-club, Sexton Blake. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 284, issued in March 1953. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 37412 – or simply click on the button
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CONNELLY, Michael, 1956- : THE BRASS VERDICT : A NOVEL. New York : Little, Brown & Co., (2008). First edition. Signed by Michael Connelly on the title-page. The second Mickey Haller (the Lincoln Lawyer) novel – in charge of a high profile case, he reluctantly needs the help of Harry Bosch. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42331 – or simply click on the button
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CONNELLY, Michael, 1956- : CITY OF BONES. London : Orion, (2002). First British edition. Signed by Michael Connelly on the title-page. The eighth Harry Bosch novel – “When the bones of a twelve-year-old boy are found scattered in the Hollywood hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up the darkest memories from his own haunted past”. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42325 – or simply click on the button
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COX, J. Randolph, 1936- : MASTERS OF MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE FICTION : AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. Pasadena : Salem Press, (1989). First edition. An exhaustive bibliography of the available biographical and critical material relating to over seventy British and American authors – with commentary on content. In the Magill Bibliographies series. SOLD |
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COX, John Edmund, 1812-1890 : THE ANNALS OF ST. HELEN’S, BISHOPSGATE, LONDON. London : Tinsley Brothers, 1876. First edition. A full-scale history of the famous old church, compiled by the then vicar from materials collected by the wine-merchant William Meade Williams (1799-1869), who was baptised at St. Helen’s in December 1799. Illustrated with wood-engraved plates, etc., mainly by Richard Knight – some from the drawings of Percy William Justyne. SOLD |
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CREASEY, John, 1908-1973 : THE MISTS OF FEAR. London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1955). First edition. A Doctor Palfrey thriller – “against an enemy who moved in a white, insidious mist, the vapour that brought death to all but one”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 35077 – or simply click on the button
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CREASEY, John, 1908-1973 : THE TOFF AND THE KIDNAPPED CHILD. London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1960). First edition. A husband disappears – and then the sixteen-year-old daughter. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38686 – or simply click on the button
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CROMBIE, Alexander, 1762-1840 : THE ETYMOLOGY AND SYNTAX OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED. London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1843. Fifth edition. A clearly-written and long-popular study of the language in general and the alphabet, with separate chapters on noun, article, pronoun, adjective, verb, participle, adverb, preposition, conjunction and interjection, with a second section on syntax and the canons of criticism. Compiled by the Scottish schoolmaster and minister, the Reverend Doctor Alexander Crombie and originally published in 1802. SOLD |
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“CUNNINGHAM, E.V.” – [FAST, Howard Melvin, 1914-2003] : THE CASE OF THE ONE-PENNY ORANGE. London : André Deutsch, (1978). First British edition. Stamp-dealer found murdered – karate, roses and zen. A Masao Masuto mystery – “here he is at his incomparable best” (Louis Untermeyer). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29496 – or simply click on the button
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“CYNICUS” – [ANDERSON, Martin, 1854-1932] : THE SATIRES OF CYNICUS. London : Cynicus Publishing Co. / Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1892. Second edition. The first and best of Anderson’s volumes of assaults on Victorian hypocrisy – mordant caricature with telling captions and verses – dedicated to the “dear deceitful world”. Originally published in a larger format in 1890. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 17820 – or simply click on the button
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DANGERFIELD, Elma (Elma Tryphosa), 1907-2006 : BEYOND THE URALS. London : British League for European Freedom, [1946]. First edition. A grim and factual exposé of the persecution and deportation of over a million Polish citizens by the Soviet authorities between 1939 and 1941 – one of the first accounts of the Gulags. With an introduction by Rebecca West. SOLD |
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DARK, Sidney, 1874-1947 & GREY, Rowland : W. S. GILBERT : HIS LIFE AND LETTERS. London : Methuen & Co., (1923). First edition. A thorough and handsome biography of Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911). £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 23642 – or simply click on the button
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DAVIS, Dick (Richard), 1945- : WHAT THE MIND WANTS. Florence (KY) : Robert L. Barth, (1984). First edition : one of 150 ordinary copies (of 200) – but this copy inscribed and signed by Dick Davis. A collection of sixteen poems. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 10859 – or simply click on the button
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DEAN, Elizabeth, 1901-1985 : MURDER A MILE HIGH. London : T. V. Boardman & Co., (1948). First British edition. The third and last of Dean’s entertaining murder mysteries featuring antique-dealer cum private-eye Emma Marsh – murder at the Mile High Festival in Colorado. First published in New York in 1944. SOLD |
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“DEL MARTIA, Astron” : DAWN OF DARKNESS. London : Gaywood Press, (1951). First edition. Flying saucers come ever closer – and retaliate with radiation rays when attacked. “It’s a pity their rays hadn’t been aimed at Gaywood Press before this book was published” (Harbottle & Holland A91). £30 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43537 – or simply click on the button
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DIXON, Alan (Alan Michael), 1936- : THE EGOTISTICAL DECLINE. Hatch End : Poet & Printer, 1978. First edition : [one of 380 copies]. A collection of nineteen poems, including “Drunken Breton Sailor”, “The Wild Yorkshire Pudding”, “The Art Teacher”, etc. Loosely inserted are three items of printed press ephemera (bookmark, slip and flyer), and a short, signed typed letter on press notepaper from the publisher-printer, Alan Tarling. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31362 – or simply click on the button
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DOWSON, Ernest (Ernest Christopher), 1867-1900 : THE COMPLETE LYRICS OF ERNEST DOWSON. Mount Vernon : Peter Pauper Press, [1942]. First edition. An attractively produced edition, the titles of the seventy or more lyrics printed in orange-yellow, the type and paper specially made for the press. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 35640 – or simply click on the button
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DUNMORE, Helen, 1952-2017 : THE SEA SKATER. Newcastle upon Tyne : Bloodaxe Books, (1986). First edition. Inscribed and signed by Helen Dunmore on the title-page. A collection of forty-two poems, including “The Bride’s Nights in a Strange Village”, “The Parachute Packers”, “Mary Shelley”, “Bewick’s Swans”, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 13576 – or simply click on the button
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DYSON, Anthony, 1931- : PICTURES TO PRINT : THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGRAVING TRADE. London : Farrand Press, (1984). First edition : a subscriber’s copy of the regular edition, signed by both the author and the publisher, R. A. Farrand. An exemplary account of the London engraving and printselling trades in the nineteenth century, particularly strong on the technical side. With chapters on the plate-printer; collaboration and competition; engravers and their earnings; workshops and equipment; the rolling-press; engraving and printing; inks, inking, colour; paper, etc. SOLD |
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“ENGLISH, Isobel” – [BRAYBROOKE, June, 1920-1994] : FOUR VOICES : A NOVEL. London : Longmans, Green & Co., (1961). First edition. A review copy, with the publisher’s slip loosely inserted. The vagaries of the human heart and the four viewpoints of Penry Crendon (forgotten author and vagrant), his first wife Elizabeth (the devout Catholic), Mona his third (whose weaknesses are vulgarity and the bottle), and Blanche (the woman of sensibility engaged to his son). “She has helped explode the dying myth that the novel is becoming extinct” (John Betjeman). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26232 – or simply click on the button
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FAIRFAX, John, 1930-2009 : WILD CHILDREN. Newbury : Phoenix Press, 1985. First edition. Inscribed and signed by John Fairfax on the title-page. A collection of twenty poems, including “Bloodflowers”, “Ghost Dance”, “Wolf Child”, etc. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 13726 – or simply click on the button
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FANNING, Gerard, 1952-2017 : EASTER SNOW. Dublin : Dedalus Press, 1992. First edition : the hardback issue. The Dublin poet’s first collection – thirty-four poems, including “The Road to the Skelligs”, “Geographers”, “Orienteering with Elizabeth”, etc – “some of the finest and most artful poems of his generation, not just here but across the globe” (Gerald Dawe). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 19278 – or simply click on the button
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FELMINGHAM, Michael, 1935- : THE ILLUSTRATED GIFT BOOK 1880-1930 : WITH A CHECKLIST OF 2500 TITLES. Aldershot : Wildwood House, (1989). First paperback edition. A well-illustrated survey, with much on Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac, Jessie M. King, Phil May, William Morris, Arthur Rackham, Heath Robinson, etc., with a checklist of all the major illustrators and their work. First published in 1988. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29063 – or simply click on the button
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FLETCHER, Geoffrey (Geoffrey Scowcroft), 1923-2004 : LONDON’S RIVER. London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), (1966). First edition. “A treasure-house for the serendipitist ... the off-beat, the eccentric, even the bizarre” – Fletcher in words and pictures in Greenwich, Deptford, Rotherhithe, Wapping, the Bankside, Battersea Park, Chelsea, the pubs of Hammersmith, Kew, Richmond, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 36315 – or simply click on the button
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FLETCHER, J.S. (Joseph Smith), 1863-1935 : THE SAFETY PIN. London : Herbert Jenkins, [ca.1926]. The third printing of the original 1924 edition. Stranger found dead near the house of Mrs Champerowne the mayor – with one of her safety-pins. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21691 – or simply click on the button
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FORD, Frank (Frank Wallis), 1906-1970 : YOU NEEDN’T LAUGH! London : Methuen & Co., (1935). First edition. Forty pre-war cartoons on the topics and preoccupations of the period from the irrepressible Frank Ford, many of which originally appeared in “The Bystander”. SOLD |
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FRAYN, Michael, 1933- : MY FATHER’S FORTUNE : A LIFE. London : Faber & Faber, (2010). First edition. Frayn’s poignant, haunting, funny and deeply moving quest for the truth about his father, his mother, and his own suburban childhood. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43506 – or simply click on the button
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FRY, Herbert, 1830-1885 : LONDON (THE COMPLETE GUIDE). London : Love & Malcomson, [1924]. The forty-fourth edition of Fry’s perennially popular guide, published more or less annually from 1880, but here completely revised and updated, while retaining its defining feature – the splendid bird’s-eye views of the principal thoroughfares designed by Thomas Sulman (1832-1900) and George William Ruffle (1838-1901). £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44110 – or simply click on the button
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GARRETT, Albert, 1915-1983 : A HISTORY OF [BRITISH] WOOD ENGRAVING. London : Bloomsbury Books, (1986). Second edition. A well-illustrated study, originally published under the longer title in 1978. With much on Thomas Bewick, William Blake, John Buckland-Wright, Edward Gordon Craig, John Farleigh, Robert Gibbings, Eric Gill, David Jones, Clare Leighton, George Mackley, Iain Macnab, Paul Nash, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 35840 – or simply click on the button
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GASKELL, Mrs (Elizabeth Cleghorn), 1810-1865 : CRANFORD. London : Macmillan & Co., 1891. First Macmillan and first Hugh Thomson illustrated edition – the book that led to the ever-popular 1890s Macmillan “Cranford” series of classics in elaborately gilt covers. A perennial favourite, first published in Dickens’ “Household Words” 1851-1853, and here with charming illustrations by Hugh Thomson (1860-1920), and with an introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1837-1919). SOLD |
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GILBERT, Michael (Michael Francis), 1912-2006 : THE DUST AND THE HEAT. London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1967). First edition. Unscrupulous young post-war officer starts to rebuild a pharmaceutical company – his past re-emerges. Later published in the USA as “Overdrive”. SOLD |
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“GLYDER, John” – [ROPER, Allen George, 1888-1957] : SHE STAYED THE NIGHT. London : Herbert Jenkins, (1936). First edition. Valentine Vernon misses a train, finds a blonde in his bed, and the trouble begins. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31133 – or simply click on the button
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“GODEY, John” – [FREEDGOOD, Morton, 1912-2006] : THE BLUE HOUR. London : T. V. Boardman & Co., (1949). First British edition. Ad-man Harry Calvert has problems – his wife has run off, his drinking is placing his job in jeopardy – and the man with a crewcut starts following him. Originally published in New York in 1948. Godey is best-known as the author of “The Taking of Pelham 123”. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41715 – or simply click on the button
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GORDON, E.O. (Elizabeth Oke), 1837?-1919 : PREHISTORIC LONDON : ITS MOUNDS AND CIRCLES. London : Covenant Publishing, 1932. Third edition. A wide-ranging survey covering the religion, race, language and literature of pre-Christian Britain in London and further afield; circles, mounds and druids; open-air sanctuaries; holy hills; Arthurian traditions; the kinship of Trojans and Britons; Troy towns or mazes in London; druidic circle at Westminster; Merlin’s cave; Lludd Gate, and much else besides. With appendices by John Aneurin Grey Griffith. First published in 1914. SOLD |
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GRAHAM, Henry, 1930- : GOOD LUCK TO YOU KAFKA / YOU’LL NEED IT BOSS. London : Rapp & Whiting, (1969). First edition : one of 100 numbered copies signed by Henry Graham. A collection of forty-five poems from the Liverpool poet, including “Egg Plant in Paradise Street”, “Ten Samuel Palmer Paintings”, “Goldfish Room”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11287 – or simply click on the button
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GRAHAM, Rigby, 1931-2015 – illustrator : THE POPPY AND THE POMEGRANATE : THE STORY OF DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE OR THE ORIGIN OF THE SEASONS. Leicester : Grange Fibre Co., 1962. First edition. Illustrated in colour throughout and with a stunning colour cover design by Rigby Graham. Loosely inserted are (1) an autograph single-page 1977 note from Graham to Peter [Hoy?] – “Have heard damned all from David Chambers ...” on the publication of the latest Private Press Books, etc. Signed simply “Rig”, the note is scribbled on the back of an extracted portion of the invitation to the private view of the 1977 Rigby Graham exhibition at the Victoria Galleries in Harrogate, with a small Graham illustration, and (2) a 1983 New Broom Press postcard with a Rigby Graham drawing of Breedon Quarry, Leicestershire, printed in black. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 23739 – or simply click on the button
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“GRIDBAN, Volsted” – [TUBB, E.C. (Edwin Charles), 1919-2010] : DE BRACY’S DRUG. London : Scion, (1953). First edition. “De Bracy’s drug destroys all disease, but causes spiritual death as a side effect by eliminating most emotions. A minority group – the Freedom Army – refuses to take the drug ...” (Harbottle & Holland A209). SOLD |
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(HACKNEY CARRIAGES) : HACKNEY CARRIAGES : TABLES OF DISTANCES MEASURED BY AUTHORITY OF THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS; AND OF THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE OF THE CITY OF LONDON; ALSO, MEMORANDUM RELATING TO THE FARES, HIRING, &C., OF HACKNEY CARRIAGES, &C. London : for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, [1901]. The bulky 1901 issue of the official cab distance tables for the whole of the London area, cross referencing almost every conceivable location – Lord’s Cricket Ground to the Kennington Oval – 4 miles 934 yards; the “Angel” Islington to Putney Station, 7 miles, 592 yards, etc. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21281 – or simply click on the button
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“HALE, Laura” – [HELLER, Lawrence, 1909-1987] : KISS OF FIRE. New York : Magazine Productions, (1952). First edition. “A warmly human story of a group of lovable, wryly humorous Florida ‘crackers’ who pit their wiles against a vicious gang of smugglers and killers” – hot dames – hot money – hot blood! Rainbow No. 118. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41746 – or simply click on the button
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HAMBURGER, Michael, 1924-2007 : IN FLASHLIGHT. Leeds : Northern House, (1965). First edition. Signed by Michael Hamburger on the title-page. A collection of eleven poems, including “The Jackdaws”, “Oxford”, “Brixton”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11373 – or simply click on the button
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HAMILTON, Hamish, 1900-1988 – publisher : SILVER JUBILEE 1931-1956 : A COMPLETE LIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BY HAMISH HAMILTON. London : Hamish Hamilton, [1957]. First edition. A full listing of the entire early output of the distinguished publishing house, listed initially by author, with dates, price, size, etc., and then by title and lastly by subject (fiction, plays, poetry, children’s books, foreign language editions, law, medicine, periodicals), etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21036 – or simply click on the button
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HAMMETT, Dashiell (Samuel Dashiell), 1894-1961 : HAMMETT HOMICIDES. New York : Lawrence E. Spivak, (1946). First edition. A collection of six short stories (four featuring the Continental Op, including “The Girl with the Silver Eyes”) all previously unpublished in book form, edited and introduced by Ellery Queen. Bestseller Mystery B81. “Who doesn’t read him misses much of modern America” (Dorothy Parker). SOLD |
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HAMMETT, Dashiell (Samuel Dashiell), 1894-1961 : THE RETURN OF THE CONTINENTAL OP. New York : Lawrence E. Spivak, (1945). First edition. A collection of five short stories (including “The Whosis Kid”) previously unpublished in book form, edited and introduced by Ellery Queen. Jonathan Press Mystery J17. SOLD |
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HARDINGE, Rex (Charles Reginald), 1902-1990 : THE MAN FROM SPACE. London : Amalgamated Press, [1952]. First edition. A Sexton Blake tale from Rex Hardinge – the Cold War, espionage, and the recovery of a golliwog with a secret from the repressed Baltic state of Litona. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 265, issued in June 1952. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 36172 – or simply click on the button
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HARDWICK, Michael, 1925-1991 : A LITERARY ATLAS & GAZETTEER OF THE BRITISH ISLES. Newton Abbot : David & Charles, (1973). First edition. An absorbing guide, arranged by county and town, tabulating who lived and died where. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31216 – or simply click on the button
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HAWORTH-BOOTH, Mark, 1944- : E. McKNIGHT KAUFFER : A DESIGNER AND HIS PUBLIC. London : Gordon Fraser, 1979. First edition. A handsome, illustrated survey of the life and work of Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954), the most stylish and distinctive illustrator and designer working in England between the wars. With a bibliography, a checklist of published works, etc. SOLD |
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HEAL, Sir Ambrose, 1872-1959 : THE SIGNBOARDS OF OLD LONDON SHOPS ... London : Portman Books, (1988). A facsimile reprint of the original 1947 edition. A masterly and fully illustrated review of the London shop signs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled from Heal’s extraordinary collection of trade-cards and billheads (now in the British Museum). SOLD |
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HEANEY, Seamus, 1939-2013 : DISTRICT AND CIRCLE. London : Faber & Faber, (2006). First edition. A collection of over fifty of the later poems – “With more relish and conviction than ever, Heaney maintains his trust in the obduracy of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals”. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42874 – or simply click on the button
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HEANEY, Seamus, 1939-2013 : ‘ROOM TO RHYME’. Dundee : University of Dundee, 2004. First edition. A “Greatest Minds Lecture” given by Heaney at Dundee University in July 2003 – Heaney on the making of poetry, with some striking coloured illustrations by Brigid Collins. SOLD |
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HENTY, G.A. (George Alfred), 1832-1902 : BERIC THE BRITON : A STORY OF THE ROMAN INVASION. London : Blackie & Son, [ca.1900]. An undated reprint of the original 1893 edition, dating from about 1899-1900. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39137 – or simply click on the button
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HENTY, G.A. (George Alfred), 1832-1902 : CONDEMNED AS A NIHILIST : A STORY OF ESCAPE FROM SIBERIA. London : Blackie & Son, [ca.1920]. An undated reprint of the new and popular edition, with an attractive pictorial cover, probably by John Hassall. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 24249 – or simply click on the button
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HERVEY, Michael, 1915-1979 : DEATH AT MY HEELS AND OTHER SHORT STORIES. London : Mitre Press, [1945]. First edition. Nine of Hervey’s very short stories – flashes and glimpses of a world now lost. Printed throughout on a curious khaki-coloured wartime paper shortages stock. SOLD |
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HILL, Janet McKenzie, 1852-1933 : SALADS SAVORIES AND DAINTY DISHES MADE WITH KNOX GELATINE. Johnstown : Charles B. Knox Co., [1909]. An attractively produced promotional pamphlet, originally published some fifteen years earlier (and still titled on the cover) as “Dainty Desserts for Dainty People”, but here expanded by its new author to include a few salads and savouries – everything made with Knox Sparkling Gelatine (both the plain and the acidulated versions). Recipes include various fruit jellies, figs in claret, chartreuse of jelly; coffee jelly; snow pudding; peach snowballs; various blancmanges and creams; royal pudding; various charlotte russes; various ice creams, sherbets and mousses; Knox salad; perfection salad; aspic à la financiere; lobster salad; turkish delight, marshmallows, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43512 – or simply click on the button
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HILL, Reginald (Reginald Charles), 1936-2012 : THE DEATH OF DALZIEL. London : HarperCollins, (2007). First edition. Signed by Reginald Hill on the title-page. A huge Semtex explosion, Dalziel at death’s door, Pascoe wants to know about the shadowy Knights Templar. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43841 – or simply click on the button
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HOBSON, Eleanor : THE OTHER GIRL. Manchester : T. A. & E. Pemberton, [1945]. First edition. Robin Garston takes the beautiful Gerda home to meet his people – she has agreed to marry him. An early title in the Pembertons’ “Thrilling Love” series. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44040 – or simply click on the button
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HOLMES, Michael, 1931- : THE COUNTRY HOUSE DESCRIBED : AN INDEX TO THE COUNTRY HOUSES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Winchester : St. Paul’s Bibliographies, in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, (1986). First edition. An alphabetical listing of more than 4,000 country houses, with full listings of the literature relating to them culled from books and magazines. With illustrations and a bibliography. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44108 – or simply click on the button
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HOME-GALL, Edward R. (Edward Reginald), 1896-1974 : THE HUMAN BAT. London : Mark Goulden, [1950]. First edition. “The ‘hero’ is The Human Bat, a costumed psychotic who makes Batman appear almost normal” (Harbottle & Holland A235). The first of Home-Gall’s two Human Bat titles, the first in the “Caught in the Spider’s Web” series, and No. 1 in the Goulden Fantasy Library. The Human Bat takes on a robot spider criminal mastermind. SOLD |
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HORLER, Sydney, 1888-1954 : THE CAGE. London : Robert Hale, (1954). First paperback edition. Beauty queen gets desperately involved in London’s dark world of crime. Originally published in hardback the previous year. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41804 – or simply click on the button
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HUGHES, Ted (Edward James), 1930-1998 : FIVE AUTUMN SONGS FOR CHILDREN’S VOICES. Crediton : Richard Gilbertson, (1968). First edition : one of 312 ordinary numbered copies (of 500). A collection of five poems. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43998 – or simply click on the button
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“HUNT, Gill” – [HUGHES, Denis Talbot, 1917-2008] : ELEKTRON UNION. London : Curtis Warren, [1951]. First edition. Newly opened space-route between Earth and Tanus, ships disappearing, convoy lands on alien planet – “Another of the atrociously-written space operas by Hughes, essentially a transplanted western” (Harbottle & Holland). £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43505 – or simply click on the button
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HUNTER, John (Alfred John), 1891-1961 : THE CASE OF THE DOPED FAVOURITE. London : Amalgamated Press, [1952]. First edition. “It is often the innocent who suffer most from the operations of cunning racecourse doping gangs, today’s greatest menace to the sport of kings” – Sexton Blake on the case. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 263, issued in May 1952. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 37416 – or simply click on the button
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HUNTER, John (Alfred John), 1891-1961 : THE THIEVES OF ALEXANDRIA. London : Amalgamated Press, [1953]. First edition. The death of a seaman in Alexandria, the death of an old lady in Dorset – a Sexton Blake tale featuring Captain James Dack. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 301, issued in December 1953. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 36191 – or simply click on the button
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“INNES, Michael” – [STEWART, John Innes Mackintosh, 1906-1994] : CARSON’S CONSPIRACY.
London : Victor Gollancz, 1984. First edition. Sir John Appleby has retired to the country, but a near neighbour is planning to disappear on the back of an extravagant fraud. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43842 – or simply click on the button
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“JANSON, Hank” – [FRANCES, Stephen Daniel, 1917-1989] : BROADS DON’T SCARE EASY. London : New Fiction Press, [1951]. First edition. The first of the “silver” Jansons – all that can be seen of the original Reginald Heade cover design is a splash of purple sheet, the tip of a shoe and a few hairs from the top of the half-naked brunette’s head. The original artwork (saucy even by Heade’s standards) was silvered over prior to publication on account of increasing attention from the authorities. Later republished under the Alexander Moring imprint as “Don’t Scare Easy” in 1958. “One of the three or four best books by Janson” (John Fraser). £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31463 – or simply click on the button
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“JANSON, Hank” – [FRANCES, Stephen Daniel, 1917-1989] : SUSPENSE. London : New Fiction Press, [1952]. First edition : a bibliographically complex title – the text appearing in at least three different settings, of which this appears to be the earliest, with the present title still listed as “in preparation” on the verso of the title-page, but in an evidently later printing of the wrappers, listing forty-eight numbered Janson titles and three specials on the lower wrapper – six titles marked as being in preparation. “I replaced the receiver, dug down in my desk drawer for the bottle of rye that helps prevent a guy get moody when everyone else is tucked up nice and comfortable in their warm beds, drew the cork with my teeth and hygienically sloshed the raw liquor around my teeth and gargled with it ...”. The book was subject to seventeen destruction orders by various local authorities (Holland p.323). £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 32908 – or simply click on the button
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JOHNSON, Diane, 1934- : THE LIFE OF DASHIELL HAMMETT. London : Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press, (1984). First British edition. A full-length and definitive life and study of Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 22662 – or simply click on the button
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JONES, James A. (James Alfred), 1902- : THE ROMANCE OF LONDON’S RIVER. London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), (1935). First edition. A delightful, knowledgeable and beautifully illustrated evocation of the tidal Thames – “Here are all the contrasts. The stark walls of Battersea Power Station, floodlit in the night, speak of modernity, and beyond Northfleet a wilderness of crumbled cliff and melancholy weeds is the memorial of the gaiety that once was Rosherville Gardens ... the turbid waters and bleak banks of Bow Creek are oppressive as a nightmare ... The docks boast with the gigantic pride of the greatest port in the world; the wall of Foulness Island encloses loneliness and peace; jazz beats rhythmically from Eel Pie Island. The tide ripples impartially past them ...”. SOLD |
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JORDAN, B. : CRICKET : A CONCISE GUIDE FOR ENTHUSIAST AND NOVICE. London : Universal Publications, [1938]. First edition. A concise and sensible guide, with chapters on the game itself; bowling; fielding; batting; captaincy; umpiring; scoring; equipment; rules and regulations; jargon, etc. SOLD |
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JOWETT, John (John Aves), 1921-1960 : TRAVELLERS’ JOY. London : Herbert Jenkins, (1950). First edition. “It was unwise of Sally to suggest to Woolcott, her husband, and Spencer, his life-long crony, that the two of them should go off on a golfing holiday without her ...” – a novel based on the radio serial. SOLD |
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KANER, H. (Hyman), 1896-1973 : AN ALIBI TOO MUCH. Llandudno : Kaner Publishing Co., [1946]. First edition. “I am quite certain,” the beautiful lady said, “that my husband did not commit suicide, no matter what the police say” – a case for the saturnine Meredith Jordan. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43097 – or simply click on the button
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KANER, H. (Hyman), 1896-1973 : THE SUN QUEEN. Llandudno : Kaner Publishing Co., 1946. First edition. “In a flash the Instantaneous Flight Machine was gone ...” – Roger Marshall and his girlfriend Joan Lorimer teleport themselves into a sunspot and find the Sun Queen engaged in a terrible war against the Black Knights and the evil superstition of the Rock God. “Many novel theories and ideas”. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42277 – or simply click on the button
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KAY, Gordon : FORMULA FOR MURDER. Birmingham : Thomas Publications, [ca.1945]. First edition. An exploding landmine on the road from Blackpool interrupts the progress of three ex-servicemen turned private detectives. A Boys’ S.O.S. Library title. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43466 – or simply click on the button
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KEYNES, Florence Ada, 1861-1958 : GATHERING UP THE THREADS : A STUDY IN FAMILY BIOGRAPHY. Cambridge : W. Heffer & Sons, 1950. First edition. A history of the distinguished Keynes family, with much personal reminiscence – on Cambridge, on her husband John Neville Keynes, and on her sons, Geoffrey Langdon and John Maynard. SOLD |
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KIPLING, Rudyard (Joseph Rudyard), 1865-1936 : THE JUNGLE BOOKS. Lunenburg (VT) : for the Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1968. First Limited Editions Club edition : limited to 1,500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator, David Gentleman. Mowgli and the others enchantingly brought to life in Gentleman’s exquisite illustrations. With a perceptive introduction by Bonamy Dobrée (1891-1974). SOLD |
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KOEHLER, Robert Portner, 1905-1988 : THE ROAD HOUSE MURDERS. London : T. V. Boardman & Co., (1948). First British edition. Triple murder – rancher strangled, neighbour shot, opponent stabbed – but one of the victims must have done it. Originally published in the USA in 1946. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30371 – or simply click on the button
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LANE, Charles : BRITISH RACING PRINTS : 1700-1940. London : Sportsman’s Press, (1990). First edition. Combines a history of racing with material on publishers and engravers, details of engraving methods, and a full-scale artist catalogue of racing prints. SOLD |
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“LE BRETON, Thomas” – [FORD, Thomas Murray, 1854-1932] : MRS MAY : SOME CHAPTERS FROM THE LIFE OF A CHAR-LADY. London : Herbert Jenkins, 1922 [i.e.1921]. First edition. The second of the Mrs May books – the combative and comical Cockney char – originally a music-hall turn played by the first Fred Emney (1865-1917) – and who later had signal success both on screen and in book form. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31142 – or simply click on the button
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“LE CARRÉ, John” – [CORNWELL, David John Moore, 1931- ] : A PERFECT SPY. London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1986). First edition. British spy Magnus Pym goes missing – and the whole story of his con-man father emerges – the author’s most autobiographical novel. “The book that is and may always be Le Carré’s masterpiece” (Matthew Bruccoli) and “the best English novel since the war” (Philip Roth). SOLD |
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“LE PAGE, Rand” – [BIRD, William Henry Fleming, 1896-1971] : WAR OF ARGOS. London : Curtis Warren, (1952). First edition. “A story by the modern French master of Science Fiction” runs the strapline, although the eight or so “Rand le Page” titles produced by Curtis Warren all appear to have been written by British authors, in this instance by William Bird. The planet Argos has been under the Earth’s control for centuries, but now there is an uprising fuelled by telepathy. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30580 – or simply click on the button
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LE QUEUX, William (William Tufnell), 1864-1927 : SECRETS OF MONTE CARLO. London : George Newnes, [1927]. An attractive paperback edition in Newnes’ sixpenny series. Tales from the tables – “There are a good many secrets of Monte Carlo which are never allowed to reach the public”. First published in 1899. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42800 – or simply click on the button
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LEE, Charles E. (Charles Edward) : ST. PANCRAS CHURCH AND PARISH. London : St. Pancras Parochial Church Council, 1955. First edition. A thorough history of both church and parish, with chapters on the introduction of Christianity, the parish in the Middle Ages, the Reformation and the Civil War, the Restoration and the growth of the parish, the new church, the chapels of ease, Canon Weldon Champneys and other notables, the twentieth century, registers, records, fees, tithes, rectors, vicars, etc. SOLD |
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LEONARD, Elmore (Elmore John), 1925-2013 : BANDITS. New York : Arbor House, (1987). First trade edition. Signed and dated (January 1987) by Elmore Leonard on the title-page. “Come down to New Orleans and meet the bandits: Lucy Nichols, ex-nun, daughter of a rich right-wing oilman; Jack Delaney, an ex-con who thinks he’s gone straight; and Roy Hicks, an ex-cop whose career was cut short when he got sent to prison”. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43905 – or simply click on the button
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LEONARD, Elmore (Elmore John), 1925-2013 : MAXIMUM BOB. New York : Delacorte Press, (1991). First trade edition. Signed by Elmore Leonard on the half-title. Someone introduces a live ten-foot alligator into the backyard of redneck judge “Maximum Bob” – and then shots are fired in Florida. Filmed for television in 1998, with Beau Bridges, etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43904 – or simply click on the button
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McEWAN, Ian (Ian Russell), 1948- : THE INNOCENT. London : Jonathan Cape, (1990). First edition. “It is 1955 and post-war Berlin is crawling with subterfuge” – a young British technician involved in electronic surveillance encounters a beautiful young German called Maria. SOLD |
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McEWAN, Ian (Ian Russell), 1948- : ON CHESIL BEACH. London : Jonathan Cape, (2007). First edition. Signed by Ian McEwan on the title-page and with a Pan Bookshop “Signed First Edition” wraparound band. His poignant novella of love and fear in young marriage, adapted by himself for the film version with Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle. SOLD |
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McGONAGALL, William (William Topaz), 1825-1902 : MORE POETIC GEMS SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF WILLIAM McGONAGALL POET AND TRAGEDIAN ... Dundee : David Winter & Son / London : Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1962. First edition. Over fifty new poems from the Great McGonagall discovered in Dundee Public Library. With his own biographical sketch and reminiscences. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38997 – or simply click on the button
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McINTYRE, Ian, 1931-2014 : HESTER : THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF DR. JOHNSON’S ‘DEAR MISTRESS’. London : Constable, (2008). First edition. Hester Thrale (1741-1821) of Streatham Park, Johnson’s favourite, but to Boswell “a little artful impudent malignant devil” – “I have read Ian McIntyre’s ‘Hester’ with sustained pleasure at its calm narrative nicely spiced with the hot stuff of Mrs Thrale’s ups and downs ... the clever accumulation of detail; the spirit of adventure in Georgian life, and its breadth of cultured reading, suggests an England at once more rugged and more cultured than today’s” (Frederic Raphael). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43504 – or simply click on the button
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MALLINSON, Allan (Allan Lawrence), 1949- : THE NIZAM’S DAUGHTERS. London : Bantam Press, (2000). First edition. Fresh from the battle of Waterloo, Matthew Hervey departs on a secret mission to India. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 40633 – or simply click on the button
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MARSH, Ngaio (Dame Edith Ngaio), 1895-1982 : LIGHT THICKENS. London : William Collins Sons & Co. (The Crime Club), (1982). First edition. Her last novel – Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn and Detective Inspector Fox in theatreland – and the Scottish play. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 22316 – or simply click on the button
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MASSINGHAM, H.J. (Harold John), 1888-1952 & MASSINGHAM, Hugh, 1905-1971 – editors : THE GREAT VICTORIANS. London : Ivor Nicholson & Watson, [1932]. First edition. Essays by various well-chosen hands on forty Victorians – including Edmund Blunden on Matthew Arnold, Rebecca West on Charlotte Bronte, G. K. Chesterton on Charles Dickens, Neville Cardus on W. G. Grace, Laurence Housman on Florence Nightingale, Hugh Walpole on Anthony Trollope, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 37945 – or simply click on the button
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MASTERS, John, 1914-1983 : FAR, FAR THE MOUNTAIN PEAK. London : Michael Joseph, (1957). First edition. One of the most powerful of Masters’ Indian tales, commencing in 1902 and charting the career of Peter Savage, administrator, mountaineer, soldier and a man of “ruthless will and stupendous ambition”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38534 – or simply click on the button
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MERCER, Eric (William Eric John Barbour), 1918-2001 : ENGLISH VERNACULAR HOUSES : A STUDY OF TRADITIONAL FARMHOUSES AND COTTAGES. London : Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, (1979). A reprint of the original 1975 edition. A monumental county-by-county study of the smaller rural houses, from the Middle Ages through to the nineteenth century – the study supported by close analysis of over 500 buildings, over 500 line-drawings and plans, plus over 500 photographs. “One of the most profound and thought-provoking studies of historical architecture that has ever been published” (Journal of the British Archaeological Association). £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43796 – or simply click on the button
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MERRIFIELD, Ralph, 1913-1995 : LONDON : CITY OF THE ROMANS. London : B. T. Batsford, (1983). First edition. A masterly and fully illustrated study of the history and remains of Roman London from “the father of London’s modern archaeology”. Chapters on London before the Roman Conquest; the Claudian Invasion; the first Londinium; its transformation; its heyday; the hinterland; Londinium in the Antonine and Severan Periods; Londinium in the Third Century; the Fourth; from Londinium to London, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43649 – or simply click on the button
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MIDDLESEX COUNTY COUNCIL – PLANNING COMMITTEE : MIND YOUR OWN MIDDLESEX. London : Middlesex County Council, [1949]. First edition. “The building over of Middlesex should never have happened. But it is useless to cry over spilt suburbs ... the central cogwheel represents metropolitan commerce and industry grinding into Middlesex, which was at one time a green and pleasant land”. An attractive booklet outlining the County Council’s planning objectives – character, population, open space, social and economic balance, roads, industry and commerce, schools, London Airport, etc. SOLD |
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MINNS, Raynes, 1946- : BOMBERS AND MASH : THE DOMESTIC FRONT 1939-45. London : Virago, (1980). First edition. “A fuelless, meatless and sugarless world”- a thoroughly-researched study of “the deprivations and dramas of the women’s war”, commencing with a woman’s chronology of the war and extremely well illustrated from contemporary sources – photographs, advertisements, recipes, posters, etc. SOLD |
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MITCHELL, Gladys (Gladys Maude Winifred), 1901-1983 : COLD, LONE AND STILL. London : Michael Joseph, (1983). First edition. Comrie and Hera embark on a long Scottish walk to test compatibility prior to marriage – corpse soon found – and then another. Dame Beatrice investigates. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43024 – or simply click on the button
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MITCHELL, Gladys (Gladys Maude Winifred), 1901-1983 : WRAITHS AND CHANGELINGS. London : Michael Joseph, (1978). First edition. A very mixed group – believers, sceptics, hoaxers, and at least one criminal – go ghost-hunting in Norfolk. Manifestations, quarrels and murder – Dame Beatrice investigates. SOLD |
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MITFORD, Jessica (Jessica Lucy), 1917-1996 : HONS AND REBELS. London : Victor Gollancz, 1960. First edition. “Whenever I see the words ‘Peer’s Daughter’ in a headline”, Lady Redesdale once commented rather sadly, “I know it’s going to be something about one of you children”. A sparkling and witty memoir from Decca Mitford – home life in the Cotswolds with the six Mitford girls, finished in Paris, presented at court, elopement to Spain with Esmond Romilly, bohemian life in Rotherhithe, etc. SOLD |
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MOORE, Brian, 1921-1999 : LIES OF SILENCE. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, (1990). First edition. Hostages, terrorists, car-bomb and the Troubles. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43827 – or simply click on the button
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MOORE, Reginald, 1914-1990 – editor : SELECTED WRITING. [NO. 1]. London : Nicholson & Watson, (1941). First edition. The first of Moore’s occasional wartime anthologies of new writing – with short stories by Kay Boyle, Gerald Kersh, Storm Jameson, Sidney Keyes, Marghanita Laski, William Saroyan, V. S. Pritchett, etc. – and poems from G. S. Fraser, David Gascoyne, Alun Lewis, Norman Nicholson, Anne Ridler, Alan Rook, Vernon Watkins and others. Edited by Moore (with assistance on the poetry from Tambimuttu). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 12541 – or simply click on the button
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MOORE, Reginald, 1914-1990 – editor : SELECTED WRITING : NUMBER TWO. .London : Nicholson & Watson, [1942]. First edition. The second of Moore’s occasional wartime anthologies of new writing – with short stories by Elizabeth Bowen (The Demon Lover), Rhys Davies, Gwyn Jones, Gerald Kersh, Howard Spring, etc. – and poems (selected and introduced by Henry Treece) from Alex Comfort, J. F. Hendry, Robert Herring, Emanuel Litvinoff, Norman Nicholson, Herbert Read, Anne Ridler and others. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 22936 – or simply click on the button
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“MORAC, Jules-Jean” : PLAYING WITH FIRE. London : Harborough Publishing Co., (1953). First edition. Marie Guillon plays fast and loose with French railway regulations, finding the first-class passengers more “interesting” than those in third. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43510 – or simply click on the button
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MORRISON, Arthur, 1863-1945 : ZIG-ZAGS AT THE ZOO. London : George Newnes, 1894. First edition. “The camel is very largely a fraud” – or, for the Zig-Zag Marsupial – “When an animal is more than usually a fool for its size, Nature indulgently permits it to go about with a pouch that it may not lose its family”. Meandering through London Zoo in the 1890s, with similar observations on both animals and their keepers. An amusing but also highly informative collection of all twenty-six of the “Zig-Zag” articles originally published in the Strand Magazine between 1892 and 1894. Wittily illustrated throughout by the well-known animal cartoonist James Affleck Shepherd (1867-1946). SOLD |
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MUIR, Percy (Percy Horace), 1894-1979 : VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. New York : Praeger Publishers, (1971). First edition : the American issue. A well illustrated and wide-ranging survey, by one of the best of antiquarian booksellers, of (mainly British) illustrated books of the nineteenth century – with chapters on chapbooks; Thomas Bewick and George Cruikshank; line engraving; the periodicals; the Dalziels; the advent of colour; fin-de-siècle; foreign influence; America, etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 24799 – or simply click on the button
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[NIXON, Howard M. (Howard Millar), 1909-1983] : BOOKBINDINGS FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN GROLIER. London : Trustees of the British Museum, 1965. First edition. A full-scale catalogue of the 1965 loan exhibition, which apparently incorporated every known and genuine Grolier binding to be found in the British Isles. The 138 fully described and illustrated books are grouped under the headings of Italian bindings; the single velvet binding; early French bindings; Claude de Picques; bindings with no significant tools; the Cupid’s Bow binder; other binderies, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20791 – or simply click on the button
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OPPENHEIM, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips), 1866-1946 : THE EVIL SHEPHERD. London : Hodder & Stoughton, [1930]. First paperback edition. A legal tale of a satisfied barrister – “a triumph in the mode of high make-believe” (Barzun & Taylor). Originally published in 1922 – and here in Hodder’s pre-war large format yellow Ninepenny series, with a striking cover design by Bip Pares. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42799 – or simply click on the button
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“ORWELL, George” – [BLAIR, Eric Arthur, 1903-1950] : THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GEORGE ORWELL : VOLUME THREE. A CLERGYMAN’S DAUGHTER. London : Martin Secker & Warburg, (1997). A definitive edition of Orwell’s second novel, originally published in 1935, restoring for the first time a number of previously censored readings, and indicating other passages known to have been “toned down”. Edited, and with a lengthy textual note by Peter Davison. First published in this form in 1986. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30585 – or simply click on the button
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OSBORNE, A.L. (Arthur Leslie) : A DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE. London : Country Life, (1954). First edition. A neatly worked dictionary of architectural terms, attractively illustrated with explanatory drawings. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 34736 – or simply click on the button
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OUSBY, Ian (Ian Vaughan Kenneth), 1947-2001 : BLOODHOUNDS OF HEAVEN : THE DETECTIVE IN ENGLISH FICTION FROM GODWIN TO DOYLE. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, (1976). Third printing of the original 1976 edition. A thoughtful study of the early fictional detectives – with much on Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Emile Gaboriau, William Godwin, Edgar Allan Poe, William Russell (Waters), Eugène-Francois Vidocq, etc. SOLD |
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PACKER, Peter, 1906-1987 : BITTER FRUIT [WHITE CROCUS]. New York : Popular Library, (1952). First paperback edition. The London-born writer with a first novel – soldier home to London from the Great War, wife gone to the bad, daughter desperate, etc. First published in the USA as “White Crocus” in 1947, with a London edition in 1948. Popular Library 433. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41863 – or simply click on the button
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PATON, Maggie Whitecross (Margaret Whitecross) -1905 : LETTERS AND SKETCHES FROM THE NEW HEBRIDES. London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1894. First edition. An extraordinary sequence of letters home to Scotland from Aniwa in the New Hebrides, dating from 1865 to 1889. Maggie Whitecross Paton was the second wife of the well-known missionary John G. Paton and the letters provide another slant on his own well-known autobiography. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 19775 – or simply click on the button
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PEARCE, Michael, 1933- : DEATH OF AN EFFENDI : A MAMUR ZAPT MYSTERY. London : HarperCollins (Collins Crime), (1999). First edition. The twelfth in the Mamur Zapt series – shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Award for best historical crime novel. Cairo in 1909, the murder capital of the world, Tvardovsky, an effendi and a foreigner is shot at a gathering of financiers. Gareth Owen investigates. SOLD |
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PEARSALL, Ronald, 1927-2005 : VICTORIAN SHEET MUSIC COVERS. Newton Abbot : David & Charles, (1972). First edition. A fully illustrated survey of this pervasive and ever-popular art form, with material on John Brandard, Alfred Concanen, R. J. Hamerton, Louis Jullien, George Leybourne, G. H. Macdermott, Alfred Vance, etc. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27168 – or simply click on the button
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PHILLIPS, J.F.C. (John Francis Charles), 1943-1996 : SHEPHERD’S LONDON. London : Cassell & Co., (1976). First edition. A study of Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (1793-1864) and his family – and their contribution to the recording of the London landscape of the nineteenth century. £30 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27304 – or simply click on the button
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PIPER, David (Sir David Towry), 1918-1990 : ARTISTS’ LONDON. New York : Oxford University Press 1982. First American edition. A most attractive study – a richly illustrated survey of London as seen by the great artists down the ages. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21323 – or simply click on the button
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POLLETT, Geoffrey (Robert Geoffrey), 1908-1937 : SONG FOR SIXPENCE. London : Longmans, Green & Co., 1936. First edition. A fascinating account of a poet’s tramp across the south of England trying to peddle his rime-sheets – calling particularly on writers and other “public faces in private places” – and recording their reactions. The dust-jacket maps his journey with the names of those he called on – W. H. Davies, Warwick Deeping, E. M. Delafield, Walter de la Mare, Ethel M. Dell, Lloyd George, Eric Gill, Laurence Housman, A. G. Macdonell, Sir Henry Newbolt, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Michael Sadleir, A. G. Street, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 35401 – or simply click on the button
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PRENDERGAST, Thomas, 1806-1886 : THE MASTERY OF LANGUAGES ; OR, THE ART OF SPEAKING FOREIGN TONGUES IDIOMATICALLY. London : Richard Bentley, 1864. First edition. An interesting early work on the theory of language learning, recently reprinted in the Foundations of Foreign Language Teaching series. Prendergast analyses how children acquire language and draws lessons and techniques. He had formerly been a civil servant in Madras and part of the work relates to the structure of Hindustani. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 34761 – or simply click on the button
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PRICE, Anthony (Alan Anthony), 1928- : SOLDIER NO MORE : A NOVEL. London : Victor Gollancz, 1981. First edition. Spy thriller set in 1957 – a double agent sets out to recruit Dr Audley. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27581 – or simply click on the button
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PRITCHETT, V.S. (Sir Victor Sawdon), 1900-1997 : COLLECTED STORIES. London : Chatto & Windus, 1956. First edition. A collection of thirty-seven stories from the “complete short-story writer” – an East End funeral; the colonel’s daughter seduces a sailor; two clergymen and a bottle of whisky in a bombed church; a loss of faith while punting, etc. SOLD |
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PUDNEY, John (John Sleigh), 1909-1977 : DISPERSAL POINT AND OTHER AIR POEMS. London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, (1943). The third impression of Pudney’s highly popular collection of twenty-three wartime poems, first published the previous year. Includes “Convoy Job”, “The WAAF Corporal”, “The Bomb Dump”, etc. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43495 – or simply click on the button
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RADIATION LTD. : TEA-TIME FAVOURITES – COOKED THE NEW WORLD WAY! [COVER TITLE]. London : Radiation Ltd., [1938]. First edition. An attractive promotional booklet publicising the New World “Regulo-Controlled” gas oven – twenty-six recipes, with four extra icings – including Orange Cake, Linze Torte, Stuffed Monkeys, Coconut Pyramids, Parisian Cake, American Layer Cake, Drop Scones, Gateau St. Honoré, etc. SOLD |
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RAMSDEN, Charles (Charles Frederick Ingram), 1888-1958 : BOOKBINDERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (OUTSIDE LONDON) : 1780-1840. London : B. T. Batsford, (1987). The 1987 reprint of the original 1954 edition of this extensive directory of the known bookbinders of the period working in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. With an introductory essay on the evaluation of the source materials, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21052 – or simply click on the button
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RAMSDEN, Charles (Charles Frederick Ingram), 1888-1958 : LONDON BOOK BINDERS 1780-1840. London : B. T. Batsford, (1987). The 1987 reprint of the original 1956 edition of this extensive directory of the some 2,000 known London bookbinders of the period. With an introductory essay on the evolution of London binding styles. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20361 – or simply click on the button
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RANKIN, Ian (Ian James), 1960- : DEATH IS NOT THE END : AN INSPECTOR REBUS NOVELLA. London : Orion Books, (1998). First edition. “Damon Mee was last seen in a blurred security video on the dance floor of a Kirkcaldy night club ...”. One of the “Criminal Records” series of novellas, edited by Otto Penzler. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 36013 – or simply click on the button
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RAVEN, Simon (Simon Arthur Nöel), 1927-2001 : BLOOD OF MY BONE : A NOVEL. London : Frederick Muller, (1989). First edition. The demise of the Provost sets off a chain of disgraceful doings. “Raven has the mind of a cad and the pen of an angel” (Guardian review). The fifth volume in “The First Born of Egypt” sequence. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43656 – or simply click on the button
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RAVEN, Simon (Simon Arthur Nöel), 1927-2001 : AN INCH OF FORTUNE. London : Blond & Briggs, (1980). First edition. His previously unpublished first novel – rejected over libel fears in 1950 and here resurrected. A semi-autobiographical tale of acting as tutor to the “erratic and erotic son of an hysterical millionairess” – London, country house, Aldeburgh, Biarritz. SOLD |
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RAYBOULD, Walter, 1864-1912 : LONDON BELLS : AND WHAT THEY TELL US. London : Blackie & Son, 1911. First edition. A delightful book about London for children – not just Oranges and Lemons and other nursery rhymes, but the origins of the city, the Romans, Boadicea, Saxon London, the Danes, Westminster Abbey, the Thames, London Bridge, the Tower, the Great Fire, St. Paul’s, London children, St. James’s Park, the Crystal Palace, the Zoo, Covent Garden, the docks, and London servants. With colour plates by Wilfrid Ball, W. L. Wyllie, Frank Brangwyn, Samuel Scott, Stanhope Forbes, Vicat Cole, and others, as well as numerous illustrations, some full-page, in the text. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44103 – or simply click on the button
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“RÉNIN, Paul” – [GOYNE, Richard, 1902-1957] : MY LIFE WITH DIANA. [Leicester] : Beacon Publishing Co., [ca.1949]. First edition. “Diana Wilton looked extremely attractive that afternoon sitting on the lounge in the smart sitting-room of her Chelsea flat and smiling across at me through the drifting smoke of her cigarette”. According to his publishers, Paul Rénin “knows women better than they know themselves” – suspicious wife, glamorous widow, famous actress, etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31452 – or simply click on the button
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RICHARDSON, Joanna : THE BOHEMIANS : LA VIE DE BOHÈME IN PARIS 1830-1914. London : Macmillan & Co., (1969). First edition. With much passing reference to Charles Baudelaire, Roger de Beauvoir, Jules Claretie, Theophile Gautier, Arsene Houssaye, Charles Monselet, Henry Murger, Gerard de Nerval, etc. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28543 – or simply click on the button
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RISDON, Marian : THE MASQUERADE. London : Fiction House, [1942]. First edition. A foggy night in a London park – “beastly murder” followed by “a second utterly heartless crime. From a quiet, uneventful life as companion to an eccentric aunt, Diana Barry finds herself precipitated into this turmoil”. Swift-moving adventure, moving to the Riviera. Piccadilly Novel No. 193. SOLD |
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ROBERTS, Denys Kilham, 1903-1976 – editor : STRAW IN THE HAIR : AN ANTHOLOGY OF NONSENSICAL AND SURREALIST VERSE. London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, (1938). First edition : the first issue, printed on slightly thicker stock and in the primary binding of yellow cloth. An engaging anthology – E. C. Bentley, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, and many more – compiled and edited by Denys Kilham Roberts. Illustrated with some arresting images by Victor Reinganum. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 10054 – or simply click on the button
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ROBERTSON, E. Arnot (Eileen Arbuthnot), 1903-1961 : THAMES PORTRAIT. London : Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1937. First Edition. An illustrated, discursive and entertaining journey down the Thames from Lechlade to the sea, by the popular novelist and critic, with atmospheric photographs by her husband H. E. (Sir Henry) Turner. £30 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42408 – or simply click on the button
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ROYER, Louis-Charles, 1885-1970 : KHAM THE DANCER. London : Harborough Publishing Co., [1953]. First edition in English. Pascal Battisti from Laos needs urgently to speak to the director of the Mining Research Company – but then he is murdered. Originally published in Paris as “Kham la Laotienne” in 1935. SOLD |
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RUNYON, Damon (Alfred Damon), 1884-1946 : SHORT TAKES : WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR BY DON IDDON. London : Constable & Co., (1948). First British edition. A selection of over seventy of the best of the short stories and articles arranged under various headings. Includes “Tripping over Trivia”, “Horse Sense”, “Larcenous Ladies”, “A Dog’s Best Friend”, “Smoking Ladies”, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43496 – or simply click on the button
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“SABER, Robert O.” – [OZAKI, Milton K., 1913-1989] : NO WAY OUT. [New York] : Phantom Books (Hanro Corp.), (1952). First edition. “A weird ritual, a reckless redhead and a killer on the loose ... young lawyer tossed into a boiling pot of evil”. Phantom 512. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41826 – or simply click on the button
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SANSOM, William, 1912-1976 : THE CAUTIOUS HEART : A NOVEL. London : Hogarth Press, 1958. First edition. A part-time jazz pianist in a small London club falls for an unusual young woman – “This one face contains his future. Why?” – an elegant novel from “one of the modern masters of English prose” (Anthony Burgess) – “His observation, wit and use of words are fresh, exciting and beautiful” (John Betjeman). £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43851 – or simply click on the button
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“SAPPER” – [McNEILE, Herman Cyril, 1888-1937] : THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES. London : Hodder & Stoughton, [1929]. An early reprint of the original 1928 edition. Bulldog Drummond has rid the world of Carl Peterson, but Irma lives on – Mrs Drummond is abducted, “hair-raising adventures in haunted houses, deserted mills, at Stonehenge at midnight, and in Irma’s fantastic room. The probabilities of the tale may be far-fetched, but that will not prevent its being hailed as worthy successor to the stories of the series that have preceded it” (The Scotsman, 16th August 1928). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38529 – or simply click on the button
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SCHREINER, Olive (Olive Emilie Albertina), 1855-1920 : UNDINE. London : Ernest Benn, (1929). First British edition : in a secondary but nonetheless striking dust-jacket – an art deco design by “Barbara” in Benn’s 3/6 Library format. Her first novel, previously unpublished but pre-dating “The Story of an African Farm” (1883) and taking up the same themes of childhood and adolescence in nineteenth-century South Africa. With an explanatory introduction by her husband, Samuel Cron Cronwright-Schreiner. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25830 – or simply click on the button
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“SCOTT, Anthony” – [DRESSER, Davis, 1904-1977] : CARNIVAL OF LOVE [MARDI GRAS MADNESS]. New York : Select Publications, (1949). First paperback edition. “All Barbara Dorn wanted was a week of fun” – “She left the dull life she knew. She left her family. She left behind the man who loved her. She left them all for one glorious mad fling ...”. Originally published as “Mardi Gras Madness” in 1934. Red Circle Book No. 13. SOLD |
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“SCOTT, Anthony” – [DRESSER, Davis, 1904-1977] : WEB OF SIN [VIRGIN’S HOLIDAY]. New York : Falcon Books, (1951). Second edition. Vergie Whidby “was known to care for only the finest things in literature” – bookshop assistant goes on holiday and discovers that passion is not confined to the pages of novels. First published in 1935 under the title “Virgin’s Holiday” and here retitled, slightly revised, and part of the Ecstasy Novel series. SOLD |
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SIMPSON, N. F. (Norman Frederick), 1919-2011 : ONE WAY PENDULUM : A FARCE IN A NEW DIMENSION. London : Faber & Faber, (1960). First edition. Simpson’s finest and best-known play – absurdity, diversions, non-sequiturs, cardless card games, talking weight machines being trained to sing the Hallelujah Chorus, etc. First performed at the Royal Court in December 1959. “I suspect Mr Simpson to be the possessor of the subtlest mind ever devoted by an Englishman to the writing of farce” (Kenneth Tynan). SOLD |
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SISSON, C.H. (Charles Hubert), 1914-2003 : COLLECTED POEMS. Manchester : Carcanet Press, (1998). First edition of the complete collected poems, adding numerous poems from three later collections to the 1984 “Collected Poems”, as well as seventeen poems previously unpublished in book form. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28511 – or simply click on the button
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SITWELL, Edith (Dame Edith Louisa), 1887-1964 – editor : WHEELS : A THIRD CYCLE. Oxford : B. H. Blackwell, (1918). First edition. The third of Edith Sitwell’s annual volumes of poetry – with poems from Aldous Huxley (6), Arnold James (4), Edith Sitwell (10), Osbert Sitwell (6), Sacheverell Sitwell (6), Iris Tree (9), Sherard Vines (9), etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27795 – or simply click on the button
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SMITH, Frederick L. – editor : HAEMOGOBLIN. NO. 1. Irvine : Alan Mackie for the Newlands SF Club, [1954]. The first issue of this shortlived Scottish science fiction fanzine. Includes short stories by Peter Hennessey and Alan Mackie, as well as contributions from J. T. McIntosh, Ethel Lindsay, Kenneth F. Slater, Matt A. Elder, Bob Lindon (on Aldous Huxley), etc., with some dramatic artwork by Brian Miller. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41921 – or simply click on the button
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SMITH, Martin Cruz (Martin William), 1942- : RED SQUARE. London : Harvill, (1992). First British edition. The third Arkady Renko book – reinstated Investigator Renko has to deal with the lawlessness of the fall of communism. SOLD |
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SNOW, C.P. (Charles Percy Snow, 1st Baron), 1905-1980 : THE CONSCIENCE OF THE RICH. London : Macmillan & Co., 1958. First edition.The seventh novel of Snow’s “Strangers and Brothers” sequence, although, as Snow notes, “This book is appearing out of place; it should really come second”. The Anglo-Jewish aristocracy in the years before Munich. SOLD |
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SOMERVELL, D.C. (David Churchill), 1885-1965 & OTHERS : THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO TONBRIDGE AND DISTRICT. Sevenoaks : Caxton & Holmesdale Press, 1950. First edition. A charming illustrated guide to the town, with chapters by Somervell on the history, the castle, the parish church, the school, etc., with further material on the Medway, the parks, local commerce, places of interest, with an array of advertisements from local business, etc. SOLD |
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SPILLANE, Mickey (Frank Morrison), 1918-2006 : I, THE JURY. Toronto : Collins White Circle Pocket Edition, (1948). The first paperback edition of his first book – the first ever Mickey Spillane – the first Mike Hammer – and something of a seismic moment in the annals of twentieth-century pulp, popular culture and the history of the paperback. Originally published in hardback in New York in 1947, the present edition precedes the New York Signet paperback edition (published December 1948) by a few months – and the first British edition by several years. SOLD |
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SPRING, Howard (Robert Howard), 1889-1965 : A SUNSET TOUCH : A NOVEL. London : Collins, 1953. First edition. A London bank-clerk pursues a strange inheritance in remote Cornwall. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38571 – or simply click on the button
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STANFORD, Derek, 1918-2008 : INSIDE THE FORTIES : LITERARY MEMOIRS 1937-1957. London : Sidgwick & Jackson, (1977). First edition. Absorbing reminiscences of John Bayliss, Roy Campbell, Ian Hamilton Finlay, G. S. Fraser, Wrey Gardiner, Robert Greacen, John Heath-Stubbs, J. F. Hendry, Nicholas Moore, Herbert Read, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Muriel Spark, Dylan Thomas, etc., with much on the London literary haunts of the period. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29639 – or simply click on the button
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STANLEY, George : MEN OF THE MIST. London : Martin & Reid, [1946]. First edition. Gangsters with identical frozen faces who bring their own mist with them appear in London to the consternation of Special Branch. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42948 – or simply click on the button
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STANNAGE, Robert : STARS BY DAY : A TOUR IN WORDS AND PICTURES OF THE BRITISH FILM STUDIOS. London : Film Book Club, Ward & Hitchon, [1947]. First edition. An interesting and richly illustrated tour of the British studios with film buff Robert Stannage – chapters on Pinewood; Denham; Shepperton & Isleworth; Islington; Shepherd’s Bush; Ealing; Welwyn; Walton-on-Thames; Elstree, and the Smaller Studios. SOLD |
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STOPPARD, Tom (Sir Tomás), 1937- : IN THE NATIVE STATE. London : Faber & Faber, (1991). First edition : the hardback issue. Stoppard’s radio play, the scenes alternating between the India of 1930 and the England of 1990. Dedicated to Felicity Kendal, who played Flora Crewe in the original BBC Radio 3 broadcast in April 1991. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43878 – or simply click on the button
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SULLIVAN, Alvin, (Alvin Delano), 1942-1991 – editor : BRITISH LITERARY MAGAZINES : THE MODERN AGE, 1914-1984. Westport (CT) : Greenwood Press, (1986). First edition. Essays, profiles and publication histories of all the twentieth-century British literary magazines – alphabetically arranged from “The Abinger Chronicle” to “X : A Quarterly Review” – with supplementary appendices giving material on the social and literary chronology, Scottish periodicals, magazines with short runs, etc. The fourth in the “British Literary Magazines” series, and forming part of the “Historical Guides to the World’s Periodicals and Newspapers” project. SOLD |
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SYMONDS, F. Addington (Francis Addington), 1893-1971 : MURDER OF ME. London : Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., (1946). First edition. “My dear daughter Pearl : By the time you get this, you will be acquainted with all the apparent circumstances of my death. You will have heard that my body was found in a ditch off the Spaniards Road on Hampstead Heath; the coroner will have returned a verdict of Death from Natural Causes ... and that will be that. Nevertheless, my death was no more due to ‘natural causes’ than was that of the victims of, say, Crippen, Mahon or Major Armstrong. It was the inevitable climax to a deliberate plot; in a word – and a very ugly word – it was Murder”. SOLD |
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TANNENBAUM, Samuel A. (Samuel Aaron), 1873-1948 : SHAKSPERE FORGERIES IN THE REVELS ACCOUNTS. Port Washington : Kennikat Press, (1966). A reprint of the original 1928 edition. The “Malone Scrap”, the “manifold mischiefs wrought by the forgeries of that learned and unprincipled scholar, John Payne Collier”, etc. SOLD |
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TAYLOR, Andrew, 1951- : FREELANCE DEATH. London : Victor Gollancz, (1987). First edition. The fifth William Dougal mystery – murder and the Jacobite guinea. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39780 – or simply click on the button
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TAYLOR, Andrew, 1951- : AN OLD SCHOOL TIE. London : Victor Gollancz, 1986. First edition. The fourth William Dougal and James Hanbury novel – Hanbury plans to marry into respectability. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39779 – or simply click on the button
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TEMPERLEY, Howard, 1932- : BRITISH ANTISLAVERY 1833-1870. London : Longman Group, (1972). First edition. The last remaining slaves in British sugar colonies were freed in 1833 – the history of the tireless British humanitarian campaign to abolish slavery worldwide from that point onwards, with much on John Bright, Lord Brougham, Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, etc. SOLD |
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TENNYSON, Alfred (Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron), 1809-1892 : LOCKSLEY HALL SIXTY YEARS AFTER ETC. London : Macmillan & Co., 1886. First edition. Tennyson’s early optimism revisited in the second of his Locksley Hall dramatic monologues, together with three further poems, including “The Fleet” and “The Promise of May”. SOLD |
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TERRY, R.C. (Reginald Charles), 1932- – editor : OXFORD READER’S COMPANION TO TROLLOPE. Oxford : Oxford University Press, (1999). First edition. A handsome companion, providing an alphabetical guide to Trollope’s work, friends, publishers, characters, topics, and anything else one might need. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29381 – or simply click on the button
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TEVIS, Walter (Walter Stone), 1928-1984 : THE HUSTLER. New York : Dell Publishing Co., (1961). First paperback edition. First published in 1959 and here in paperback form to tie in with the celebrated 1961 film, with Paul Newman, Piper Laurie and Jackie Gleason, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 40845 – or simply click on the button
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THIRKELL, Angela (Angela Margaret), 1890-1961 : PRIVATE ENTERPRISE : A NOVEL. London : Hamish Hamilton, (1947). First edition. Barsetshire in its first post-war summer – evacuees departed and a very charming young widow arrives to turn a few heads. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39512 – or simply click on the button
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THOMAS, D.M. (Donald Michael), 1935- : MEMORIES AND HALLUCINATIONS. London : Victor Gollancz, 1988. First edition. Autobiographical musings and recollections from the author of “The White Hotel”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42596 – or simply click on the button
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THOMSON, George Malcolm, 1899-1996 : MARTIN SECKER & WARBURG : THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS. A MEMOIR. London : Martin Secker & Warburg, (1986). First edition. An illustrated memoir of the distinguished publishing house – Martin Secker (1882-1978), Fred Warburg (1898-1981), Roger Senhouse, Tom Rosenthal et al. “They published what they liked and did their weeping in private” (Frank Swinnerton). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21497 – or simply click on the button
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THOMSON, Patricia (Patricia Tyler), 1921-1998 : THE VICTORIAN HEROINE : A CHANGING IDEAL 1837-1873. London : Oxford University Press, 1956. First edition. A study of the evolution of the heroine in British fiction as ideas of emancipation began to take hold. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26200 – or simply click on the button
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THORPE, James, 1876-1949 : ENGLISH ILLUSTRATION : THE NINETIES. London : Faber & Faber, (1935). First edition. A masterly survey of that rich period of illustration in the 1890s – with much on Cecil Aldin, Fred Barnard, Lewis Baumer, Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Frank Brangwyn, Gordon Browne, Tom Browne, Harry Furniss, John Hassall, Phil May, H. R. Millar, Hugh Thomson, Jack B. Yeats, and many another. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 34725 – or simply click on the button
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THURBER, James (James Grover), 1894-1961 : CREDOS AND CURIOS. London : Hamish Hamilton, (1962). First edition : precedes the American edition. A posthumously published collection of twenty-one pieces, including “Menaces in May”, “The Lady from the Land”, “The Manic in the Moon”, etc., with a preface by Helen Thurber. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28644 – or simply click on the button
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THWAITE, Anthony (Anthony Simon), 1930- : LETTER FROM TOKYO. London : Hutchinson, (1987). First edition. Signed by Anthony Thwaite on the title-page. A collection of forty-seven poems, including “Cicadas in Japan”, “At the Fox Shrine”, “Cairo”, “On Alderney”, etc. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 18057 – or simply click on the button
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TROLLOPE, Anthony, 1815-1882 : MARY GRESLEY AND OTHER STORIES. London : Folio Society, 1951. First edition under this title – five of Trollope’s best short stories, one (Katchen’s Caprices) making its first appearance in book form, the others seemingly out of print since the nineteenth century. With an introduction by John Hampden and wood-engravings by Joan Hassall. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41356 – or simply click on the button
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TROLLOPE, Anthony, 1815-1882 : TALES OF ALL COUNTRIES. London : Chapman & Hall, 1867. A reprint of the 1864 collected edition of the two series of stories originally published 1861-1863. Seventeen stories, including “An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids”, “The Mistletoe Bough”, “The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box”, etc. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41175 – or simply click on the button
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TROLLOPE, Joanna, 1943- : MARRYING THE MISTRESS. London : Bloomsbury, (2000). First edition. Signed by Joanna Trollope on the title-page. Judge abandons his wife of forty years for a barrister half his age, but neither woman behaves quite as expected. “Just as one has forgotten the intense pleasure of reading Trollope, along comes another flawless novel” (Library Journal). SOLD |
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TROW, M.J. (Meirion James), 1949- : LESTRADE AND THE BROTHER OF DEATH. London : Macmillan London, (1988). First edition. Signed by M. J. Trow on the title-page. Superintendent Sholto Lestrade is recovering from a broken leg in 1912 – but then his future father-in-law’s butler is murdered by mistake and a letter arrives reading simply, “Four for the Gospel Makers”. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43848 – or simply click on the button
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TUBB, E.C. (Edwin Charles), 1919-2010 : CITY OF NO RETURN. London : Scion, (1954). First edition. Klaglan – the ancient, mysterious and forbidden city of Mars – Halmar the Guide, Lorna the dancer from Venus, and the man called Smith try to penetrate its crystal walls. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41552 – or simply click on the button
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TURNER, Tom (Thomas Henry Duke), 1946- : ENGLISH GARDEN DESIGN : HISTORY AND STYLES SINCE 1650. Woodbridge : Antique Collectors’ Club, (1986). First edition. A richly illustrated study of English garden design, the author identifying eleven major categories – Enclosed; French; Dutch; Forest; Serpentine; Irregular; Transition; Italian; Mixed; Arts & Crafts, and Abstract – with much passing reference to Capability Brown; Gertrude Jekyll; Edward Kemp; Richard Payne Knight; Leonard Knyff; George London; J. C. Loudun; Edwin Lutyens; T. H. Mawson; Uvedale Price; Humphry Repton, etc. SOLD |
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TYLER, Anne, 1941- : NOAH’S COMPASS. London : Chatto & Windus, (2009). First British edition. A pedant adrift in his own life. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39656 – or simply click on the button
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UPWARD, Edward (Edward Falaise), 1903-2009 : THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AND OTHER STORIES. London : Penguin Books, (1988). A reprint, in the Penguin Modern Classics series, of this collection originally published by Heinemann in 1969. Signed by Edward Upward on the title-page. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 24952 – or simply click on the button
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UTLEY, Edwin, 1815?-1880 : TRIFLES. London : W. Everett & Son, 1865. [Second edition]. Journalistic sketches on aspects of London life – city beggars; a stroll through the City on Christmas Day; books and bookshops; Sunday mornings; Dirty Dick’s; promptitude; the financial press and its editors; the great Tooley Street fire; from east to west; Jews in the City; and a ride on the newly opened Hammersmith and City underground railway. Utley was a bank messenger and part-time journalist who was born and lived right in the heart of the City of London. His observation is direct, unusual and wholly first-hand. First published the previous year. SOLD |
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“VALOIS, Jean-Paul” – [WILLIS, Ernest Lister Hale (Lisle), 1919-1988] : CONFESSIONS OF CORINNE. London : Edwin Self & Co., [ca.1953]. First edition. “Throbbing, pulsating, completely alive in every part of its being, the kind of body over which empereurs have fought and kingdoms have been lost”. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30393 – or simply click on the button
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VAN EERDE, Katherine S. (Katherine Sommerlatte), 1920-2006 : WENCESLAUS HOLLAR : DELINEATOR OF HIS TIME. Charlottesville : for the Folger Shakespeare Library, by the University Press of Virginia, (1970). First edition. A thorough, extensive and richly illustrated study of Hollar and his milieu, presenting a fresh interpretation of the man himself. “He has left an invaluable record of seventeenth-century England”. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44105 – or simply click on the button
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“VANE, Roland” – [McKEAG, Ernest Lionel, 1896-1974] : THE GIRL WHO SURRENDERED. London : Phoenix Press, [ca.1950]. [Second? edition]. No earlier edition has been traced, but the book is evidently to some extent autobiographical and based on McKeag’s time in Germany in the early 1920s: an earlier edition is suspected, perhaps under another title. SOLD |
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“VANE, Roland” – [McKEAG, Ernest Lionel, 1896-1974] : WOMAN WITH A PAST. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, (1949). First edition. Muriel surveys Paris from the top of the Arc de Triomphe – “She was undeniably pretty, with her strangely bluey-greenish eyes that looked out so bewitchingly from beneath long, curving lashes; the wealth of auburn hair that cascaded like a fountain of flame over her shoulders ...”. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43982 – or simply click on the button
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VERNON, Charles : THE SWEET SHOP : A HANDBOOK FOR RETAIL CONFECTIONERS. [London : Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1939]. First edition. A comprehensive view of the world of the pre-war sweet-shop, toffee-hammers, dorothy bags and coconut ice – with material on stock, ordering, window displays (with some wonderful plates), serving, staff, accounts, fitting and layout, tax, insurance, and the additional lines (cigarettes, ice cream, biscuits and books – with eleven pages on running a library). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 23437 – or simply click on the button
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“VINCENT, Lady Kitty” – [RITSON, Lady Kitty Edith Blanche, 1887-1969] : LIPSTICK. London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1925. First edition. “The perfect example of harmony between artist and author. Lady Kitty Vincent’s portrait of Lady Carstairs is a triumph ... although she is a modern, [she] shows her direct descent from the ... mistresses of the poisoned art of innuendo ... There are some books you must not read in railway carriages unless you are prepared to be taken for a cheerful lunatic. It is one of them” (Illustrated London News, 13th February 1926). A delicious social satire, delightfully illustrated by the celebrated “Fish” – Anne Harriet Fish (1890-1964). £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44092 – or simply click on the button
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WAITT, Isabel : IT’S MURDER MISS KING. London : Claud Morris Books, [1947]. First edition. The wealthy Mrs King is murdered before she can rewrite her will – featuring Erma King, the young and beautiful heiress; the long-lost Glen King, now reappeared; Nolan King – the half mad stepson; Lola Dracut, the companion (and Glen’s childhood sweetheart); Tommy Sears, the dentist, and Douglas Robie, the chemist – both suitors of Erma; a hot-tempered cook; the family doctor, lawyer, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43467 – or simply click on the button
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WALKER, R.J.B. (Richard John Boileau), 1916-2010 : OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE : THE BRIDGE OF FOOLS. Newton Abbot : David & Charles, (1979). First edition. A fine and detailed study of the extraordinary events – faction, feud and controversy – surrounding the building of the first Westminster Bridge in the mid eighteenth century. With much on Antonio Canaletto, Sir Henry Fielding, Richard Graham, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Andrews Jelfe, Charles Labelye, Batty Langley, Thomas Lediard, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21326 – or simply click on the button
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WALPOLE, Hugh (Sir Hugh Seymour), 1884-1941 : THE KILLER AND THE SLAIN : A STRANGE STORY. London : Macmillan & Co., 1942. First edition. A Jekyll and Hyde type tale of possession – largely set in the darkened streets of wartime London. SOLD |
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WALTERS, Leonard : YELLOW STREAK. London : Martin & Reid, [1946]. First edition. There’s a puzzle about a racing driver who never wins a race. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43212 – or simply click on the button
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“WARING, Molly” – [LINDSAY, Kathleen, 1903-1973] : LOVE – AND FORGET. Manchester : T. A. & E. Pemberton, [1952]. [Second edition]. Molly Waring was one of Lindsay’s multiple pseudonyms, which also included Mary Faulkner, Mary Richmond and Betty Manvers. She was at one time recognised as the most prolific novelist in history, with over 900 known titles. Originally published in hardback by Wright & Brown in 1943. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31552 – or simply click on the button
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WARNER, Val, 1946- : THESE YELLOW PHOTOS. Oxford : Carcanet Press, (1971). First edition : one of forty special numbered and dated copies (of 600), signed by Val Warner. Her first collection – thirty poems, including “In Woolworth’s”, “Balham, Christmas”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 13205 – or simply click on the button
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WARREN, John Byrne Leicester, 3rd Baron de Tabley, 1835-1895 : A GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF BOOK-PLATES (EX-LIBRIS). Manchester : Sherratt & Hughes, 1900. Second edition. A corrected and slightly enlarged version of the original 1880 publication. A pioneering study, with chapters on the principal styles; dated bookplates; mottoes directed against borrowers; bookplates of historic interest; foreign engravers (with a tabulated list); engravers of English bookplates (with tabulated lists); foreign dated bookplates, etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43541 – or simply click on the button
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WENTWORTH-JAMES, Gertie de S. (Gertrude de Soilleux), 1874-1933 : [COVER TITLE] THE GIRL DOWNSTAIRS. Manchester : T. A. & E. Pemberton – distributors, [ca.1940]. Second edition. The educated, comely and resolute Rosabel Sayer becomes a most superior parlourmaid to a dysfunctional family in Hambledon – a thinly veiled Wimbledon. Originally published by the Federation Press in 1926. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42947 – or simply click on the button
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“WESLEY, Mary” [SIEPMANN, Mary Aline, 1912-2002] : A SENSIBLE LIFE. London : Bantam Press, (1990). First edition. A story that commences in 1926 with a family holiday in Britanny – one of her best. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39659 – or simply click on the button
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WHITE, Patrick (Patrick Victor Martindale), 1912-1990 : THE EYE OF THE STORM. London : Jonathan Cape, (1973). First edition. White’s novel of a matriarch and her impact – drawing on his own relationship with his mother. Published in the year White won the Nobel Prize. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 17794 – or simply click on the button
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WILLIAMS, “Tennessee” (Thomas Lanier), 1911-1983 : BABY DOLL : THE SCRIPT FOR THE FILM. London : Martin Secker & Warburg, 1957. First British edition. Published to coincide with the UK release of the controversial and much-banned Elia Kazan film starring Karl Malden, Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38699 – or simply click on the button
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WILLIAMS-WOOD, Cyril, 1909-1986 : ENGLISH TRANSFER-PRINTED POTTERY AND PORCELAIN : A HISTORY OF OVER-GLAZE PRINTING. London : Faber & Faber, (1981). First edition. A well-researched history, with material on the invention of transfer printing; glazed porcelain; the northern school, Liverpool transfer printers; the free-lance transfer printers; the individual potteries and factories, etc., with much passing reference to Richard Abbey, the Battersea Enamel Works, Thomas Billinge, Louis-Peter Boitard, the Bow China Works, the Derby Porcelain Manufactory, Robert Hancock, Longton Hall, Thomas Radford, Thomas Rothwell, John Sadler, Simeon Shaw, Josiah Wedgwood, the Worcester Porcelain Company, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30484 – or simply click on the button
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WILLIS, J.H. (John H.), 1929-2012 : LEONARD AND VIRGINIA WOOLF AS PUBLISHERS: THE HOGARTH PRESS, 1917-41. Charlottesville & London : University Press of Virginia, (1992). First edition. The full-length study of the extraordinary success as publishers of the central players in the Bloomsbury Group. With much passing reference to Clive Bell, Vanessa Bell, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Sigmund Freud, Duncan Grant, Robert Graves, John Lehmann, Vita Sackville-West, etc. SOLD |
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WILMOT, Eileen, 1904-1973 : LOVE IN PERIL. London : Fiction House, [1947]. First edition. “I was there when it all happened. Gradually, horror deepened and death and mystery surrounded me ... in our quiet community we saw murder as horrible and puzzling as anything written about in detective novels”. Piccadilly Novels No. 249. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43973 – or simply click on the button
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WILSON, Angus (Sir Angus Frank Johnstone), 1913-1991 : A BIT OFF THE MAP AND OTHER STORIES. London : Martin Secker & Warburg, 1957. First edition. Eight stories in which various characters seek, cheerfully or desperately, to get their bearings on the new map of post-war English society. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38988 – or simply click on the button
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WILSON, Aubrey, 1923-2009 : LONDON’S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE. Newton Abbot : David & Charles, (1967). First edition : the Readers’ Union issue, with its stickers on dust-jacket and title-page. An extraordinary pictorial record – with stunning photographs by Joseph McKeown (1925-2007) – of a lost landscape: a sewer gas lamp off the Strand; a pottery kiln in Kensington; a candle factory in Battersea; food-drying kilns in Lambeth; a margarine factory in Southall; a sealing-wax factory in Bermondsey; snuff mills at Morden; the Camden Town catacombs, and dozens of other relics of a once great hub of manufacturing. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43480 – or simply click on the button
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WODEHOUSE, P.G. (Sir Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975 : THE PARROT AND OTHER POEMS. London : Hutchinson, (1988). First edition. Twenty-eight Wodehouse poems, with introductory material by Auberon Waugh and Frances Donaldson, and illustrations by David Langdon. SOLD |
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WOODS, Macdara, 1942-2018 : THE HANGED MAN WAS NOT SURRENDERING. Dublin : Dedalus Press, (1990). First edition : the hardback issue. A collection of twenty-six poems, including “Long Day Short Night She Dances”, “The Country of Blood-Red Flowers”, “Time and the Ice-Fish”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 18219 – or simply click on the button
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WOOLF, Virginia (Adeline Virginia), 1882-1941 : THE FLIGHT OF THE MIND : THE LETTERS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF : VOLUME I: 1888-1912 (VIRGINIA STEPHEN). London : Hogarth Press, 1975. First edition. The first of the six published volumes of the letters: the formative years, letters from childhood to her marriage to Leonard Woolf in 1912. “Had she achieved nothing else, these letters would still be worth publishing as some of the best and most entertaining to survive from the years before the First World War”. Edited and introduced by Nigel Nicolson. SOLD |
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WOOLF, Virginia (Adeline Virginia), 1882-1941 : THE LONDON SCENE : FIVE ESSAYS. London : Hogarth Press, (1982). First British edition. Essays on the London Docks, Oxford Street, Great Men’s Houses, London’s Abbeys and Cathedrals, and the House of Commons. Originally written for “Good Housekeeping” in 1931-1932 and previously only published in book form in an American limited edition. SOLD |
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[WOOLRICH, Cornell (Cornell George Hopley), 1903-1968] – “IRISH, William” : SIX NIGHTS OF MYSTERY. New York : Popular Library, [1950]. First edition. Six short stories – “One Night in New York”, “One Night in Chicago”, etc. – five culled from pulp magazines, and one previously unpublished. Popular Library 258. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30854 – or simply click on the button
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WORSLEY, T.C. (Thomas Cuthbert), 1907-1977 : FELLOW TRAVELLERS : A MEMOIR OF THE THIRTIES. London : London Magazine Editions, (1971). First edition. Studies of five lightly fictionalised characters who went to fight in Spain – Martin Murray, the rebellious young novelist; Lady Esmerelda Griffiths, politically connected aristocrat; Gavin Blair Summers, undergraduate who had lost belief; ex-guardsman Harry Watson, and playboy Pugh Griffiths. SOLD |
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[“WYNDHAM, John”, 1903-1969] – “BEYNON, John” : STOWAWAY TO MARS. London : Nova Publications, (1953). [Second edition]. John Wyndham’s second foray into science fiction, first published as “Planet Plane” in 1936 and here in a revised text, published under his John Beynon pseudonym as the first in the Nova Science Fiction Novels series. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30370 – or simply click on the button
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“YATES, Dornford” – [MERCER, Cecil William, 1885-1960] : AS BERRY AND I WERE SAYING. London : Ward, Lock & Co., (1952). First edition. A conversation piece – a memoir of both Yates and his most famous creation. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38551 – or simply click on the button
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“YATES, Dornford” – [MERCER, Cecil William, 1885-1960] : B-BERRY AND I LOOK BACK. London : Ward, Lock & Co., (1958). First edition. Further reminiscence and memoir from Yates and Berry. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38550 – or simply click on the button
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