Miscellaneous from Duck Cottage Books

USA: Andrews McMeel, 2010. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4775 Folio. Signed copy, hardcover in slipcase, with London Review Bookshop "Signed Copy" slip. Condition notes: A little bumping to one corner of the slip case, which shows some signs of shelf wear. Book in excellent condition.

London: Adelphi Artists. First Edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 103 8vo. A collection of short pieces, most of which seem to have been written during the 1939-1945 war, arranged into: Satirical Verses, Short Articles on Several Topics, Serious Verses, and Polish Fragments. Many of the first two are on the trials and tribulations of life on the… Read more about this item

New York: J M Dent and Sons Ltd, 1926. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 273 12mo. 1926 printing of the Everyman edition of 1906. Orange cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 368 pages plus two pages about the Everyman library. Condition notes: Boards somewhat soiled, internally clean and sound, old price in pencil to front free end paper, previous… Read more about this item

The Strand, London: Jacob Tonson, 1766. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 904 12mo. Three uniform leather bound volumes, re-backed (not recently), retaining original spine strips. Top and fore-edges tinted. Volume 1 contains Poems on Several Occasions; Volume 2 includes Cato, a Tragedy; Volume 3 includes an essay, in the form of conversations, setting out what can be learned… Read more about this item

London: J. Johnson et al, 1806. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 243 12mo. Containing An Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning, followed by Essays Originally Published in 1765 (24 essays), then Life of Dr. Parnell and Life of Henry Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. Decorative leather, gilt decoration and titles. Condition notes: spine chipped with loss, leather worn and… Read more about this item

London: J. Johnson et al, 1806. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 486 12mo. Volume 2 contains letters 1 to 74 of Letters From a Citizen of the World to His Friends in the East and Volume 3 letters 75 to 123 of the same work, followed by The Bee. Decorative leather, gilt decoration and titles. Condition notes: Volume 2:… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 632 8vo. With an index of authors. The collection is divided into topics such as Nature, Religion, Design and Chance, Self-Knowledge, Money and Rank etc. Condition notes: There are slight signs of wear/soiling to the dust jacket, which is unclipped. The book is clean and bright, although with some… Read more about this item

London: Dent, 1932. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Poor. 76 16mo. Decorative covers to boards, marbled page edges. Foreward by Hugh R. Dent. A Dent Memorial Lecture. Condition notes: Some age-yellowing to front end papers, one brown spot to half title and to the blank page opposite, otherwise clean, bright and sound. Slight bumping to corners… Read more about this item

London: Dent, 1891. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 630 8vo. Selected and edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson. Limited edition, number 23 (of 150 for sale in England and 75 in the USA). With a portrait (as frontispiece) by S. Lawrence and etchings by Herbert Railton. Leather binding with raised bands, decorative end papers, top edges gilt.… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1893. 2nd edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 542 8vo. With 25 illustrations by J. Bernard Partridge. Decorative paper on boards, quarter faux vellum, gilt decoration and titles. Condition notes: Boards very rubbed at edges, bumped at corners, covers grubby. Internally, end papers somewhat chipped and creased, binding strained in one or two… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1939. First Edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 248 12mo. Reprinting of first edition. Essayists include Max Beerbohm, Rose Macaulay, Joseph Conrad, Lytton Strachey and Hilaire Belloc. With a frontispiece portrait of Max Beerbohm. Condition notes: Covers faded and grubby, foxing or other soiling to fore edges, pencil notes to contents page. Binding firm,… Read more about this item

London: George Allen, 1900. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 452 8vo. Twenty-five letters to a working man of Sunderland on the laws work". Perhaps best summed up by listing some of the appendices: Expenditure on Science and Art, Legislation of Frederick the Great, Effect of Modern Entertainments on the Mind of Youth, Drunkenness as the Cause of Crime,… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 762 . A clean reading copy. Condition notes: Rather battered externally; internally clean and sound.

National Pig Breeders' Association, 1953. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 928 4to. Borderline octavo-quarto. Contains details of Large White Boars 184179 to 196433 and Sows 489460 to 518524. Condition notes: Boards knocked, considerable foxing to front free end paper, soiling to external page edges, otherwise clean and sound.

London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 464 8vo. co-author Merja Makinen. To quote from the cover: "Female Fetishism provides a theoretical context for understanding the subject and also collect together some fascinating case material, from fetishism in advertising to the additional behaviour of pop fans and women's involvement in the world of fetish… Read more about this item

London: Ward Lock and Co. Hardback. Good/None. 314 8vo. 'Intended for the use of schools and young persons in general; but, more especially for the use of soldiers, sailors, apprentices, and plough-boys'. Undated but early 20th century. Green cloth-covered boards, 161 pages plus index. Condition notes: Boards rather knocked, hinges almost broken across front free endpapers… Read more about this item

1943. Rigid card. Very Good/None.. 478 Folio. Does what it says on the cover. Irresistible. Learn how to say: "This man's rifle is shaking. His arms are weak". "How long is it since you counted the ammunition?". "If the mule won't obey, send it back to the lines". "Get your bottom down"."Put that fir… Read more about this item

London: The Olympia Press, 1966. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 364 12mo. An anthology of tales, poems, scientific documents and tricks which appeared in the short-lived and much lamented 'Olympia Magazine'. Condition Notes: Some rubbing, chipping etc to covers, but overall clean and sound.