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London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper has a tear to top edge of front panel and is a bit creased, a small hole in the leather at top corner of front board (insect damage?), but otherwise a good clean tight copy,… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper has a tear to outer side of back panel and is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all… Read more about this item

Belfast: Eastside Partnership, 2015. Some scuffing to spine ends and outer corners of cover, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim soft-cover book. Short piece on the lives and works of thirteen writers from East Belfast working between the late eighteenth century and the 1980s. The writers are: Sam Hanna Bell, John Boyd, Joseph Campbell,… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper has had most of back panel torn away, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 2014. Very slight scuffing to top end of spine, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this slim soft-cover book. A collection of poems by the author, who died on 29th May 2024. Number line starts with a 2, so NOT a first edition. 82pp.. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket.… Read more about this item

London: J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1954. Creasing and small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper with small pieces missing at spine ends. Slight bumping to spine ends of brown boards and some yellowing to the pages, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim hard-cover book. Originally published in February 1954, this is a sixth impression… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1917. Pocket Edition in red leather binding with gilt elephant head and swastika on front board, top edge of pages gilt. Some scuffing to spine ends and bumping to corners, otherwise a good clean tight copy. Contains eight stories and eight poems by the author. Originally published in the Pocket Edition in 1909, this is… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1916. Red leather-bound Pocket Edition with gilt elephant head and swastika on front board and top edge of pages gilt. Slight scuffing to spine ends and corners, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim leather-bound book. Contains two poetry collections by Kipling, "The Five Nations" and "Service Songs". Originally published in… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1918. Pocket Edition bound in red leather with gilt elephant head and swastika on front board, top edge of pages gilt. Methuen at bottom ends of spines, but publisher is Macmillan. Minor scuffing to spine ends and bumping to corners, but otherwise both good clean tight copies. A collection of pieces by Kipling on his… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1916. Red leather ''Pocket Edition'' with gilt elephant's head and swastika on front board, gilt edges to pages. Some scuffing to spine ends and bumping to corners, original owner's name in pencil inside front board, some yellowing to endpapers, but otherwise a good clean copy of this little book. Contains the author's twelve… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 1919. Red leather ''Pocket Edition'' with gilt elephant head and swastika on front cover, top edge of pages gilt. Slight scuffing to spine ends but gilt titles and decoration thereon is still bright, endpapers have some yellowing, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this small leather-bound book containing ten stories from English history… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1960. Some creasing and a few tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, slight bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, original owner's name on f/ep, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover novel. The story deals with an aristocratic family in Sicily in 1860 at the time of Garibaldi's invasion. Originally published in Italian… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1923. "Pocket Edition" in red leather binding with gilt elephant head and swastika on front board, top edge of pages gilt. Slight scuffing to spine ends and bumping to corners, binding just starting to split at last page of text, otherwise a good clean tight copy. Contains three collections of stories, namely "Under… Read more about this item