Literature from Roz Hulse

Walpole, Hugh. Roman Fountain. Macmillan, London. 1940. Advance Copy, 1st Edition. 8vo. Brown Card Covers. Printed paper title label to front, with ink stamp "A bound Copy follows when ready" . Pp292. The Frontis is not included in the Advance Copy. Dedicated to Harold Cheevers. Edges bumped and spine leaning. All pages tight, bright and clean throughout. A scarce item.

Edited By Susan Tranter. Pitch. Issue I Spring 2001. Bookcase, Carlisle. 2001. ist Edition. 8vo. Soft Cover. PP 64. A collection of Poems by 22 poems including Christopher Pilling, William Scammell and Andy Croft. Gift inscription on title page "Arnold and Sim/love from Chris and Sylvia. Therew is also a lose note reading "Arnold/ One… Read more about this item

Cabell, James Branch. Jurgen. Penguin, London, 1940. Penguin 1st edition. Softcover with Dustwrapper. Pp 247, ads 8. Dustwrapper tanned to spine with very small loss. Covers clean. Pages age toned to edges, tight bright and clean throughout. A very good example of this early Penguin First Edition.

Lavrin. Janko,. An Introduction to the Russian Novel. London, Metheun, 1942, 1st Edition. 8vo. Dustwrapper. Red boards, black titles to spine.PP216. Binding and all pages in tight, bright and clean condition throughout. Dustwrapper unclipped but with wear to edges with some losses. Neat ownership mark of Russia historian Ian Grey dated 1/12/43 on front pastedown. Also included are… Read more about this item

Emerson. Ralph Waldo,. Poems. George Routledge and Sons, London. 1894. 12mo. Red cloth boards, gilt titles to front and spine. Pp 319. Covers bumped at edges, wear to spine edges. Pages age toned, in tight, bright and clean condition. The Prefatory note by J E Cabot reads " his volume contains nearly all the pieces included in the POEMS and… Read more about this item

Beckwith. Reginald,. Boys in Brown. Percival Marshall, no date Circa 1948. 8vo. Card Covers, balck titles to front. Pp 81. Some small loss to cover spine and back cover. Tight, bright and clean. Scarce soft cover edition.

Le Queux. William,. The Breath of Suspicion. John Long, Haymarket. 1917. 1st Edition. 8vo. Brown boards, quarter cloth, gilt title to spine. Pp314. Shelf wear to edges of binding. Some light foxing to pages, with some marks to blank margin. Cancelled Library stamp of the Railway Clearing House Literary Society on front pastedown, title page and page… Read more about this item

Ehrenburg. Ilya. The Fall of Paris. Hutchinson and Co, London, Ca 1942. 1st edition. 8vo. Black boards, blind title to spine, publishers gold device to front. Pp381. Lacks dust wrapper. All edges to binding rubbed. All pages bound tight, bright and clean. On front free end paper is a gift inscription dated 1942 together with an ownership mark of H… Read more about this item

Hunt. Herbert J,. Honore de Balzac. A biography. University of London, Athlone Press. 1957, 1st Edition. 8vo. Green Boards, gilt title to spine. Unclipped dustwrapper with price sticker of 25/- attached. PP198. Dust wrapper age toned with small chip losses to edges. Binding and all pages in tight, bright and clean order throughout.

Hamilton., Patrick. Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse. Constable, London. 1953. 1st edition. 8vo. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. Pp356. Lacks dust wrapper Boots Library label laid on front cover, spine sunned, small tear without loss to spine top edge. Pages age toned to edges, otherwise tight, bright and clean.

Galsworthy. John,. Ex Libris. William Heinemann, London. 1933 1st edition. 8vo. Decorated cloth boards, black titles to front and spine. Pp112. Black and red printed alphabetical list of quotations. Ada Galsworthy wrote: "The nucleus of this little book has been provided by John Galsworthy; a score or so of quotations were chosen by him…..". "Of Imagination. "There's nothing wrong with… Read more about this item

Pakenham, Lady,. Catholic Approaches. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London. 1955. 1st Edition. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles to spine. Unclipped dustwrapper, has price overwritten in red ink, in removable protective film. PP227. Includes Art and Sacrament by David Jones. Excellent clean bright and tight condition throughout.

Harris, Joanne,. Holy Fools. Doubleday, London, 2004, 1st Edition, Signed by Author. 8vo. Unclipped dustwrapper in protective removable cover. Pp 273. In fine condition.

Harris, Joanne,. Holy Fools. Doubleday, London, 2003, 1st Edition, Signed by Author. 8vo. Unclipped dustwrapper in protective removable cover. Pp 432. In fine condition. Also included is a newspaper review of the book published in The Telegraph 26 April 2003.

Beeton. S. O., Beeton's Boy's Book of History and Adventure. The Annual for 1869.Ward, Lock, and Tyler, Warwick House, London. 1869. 1st Edition. 8vo. Red cloth boards, decorative gilt titles to front and spine. Bound by W Bone and Son. PP656 all edges gilt. Full colour frontis and title page, 31 full page black and white engravings as called for.… Read more about this item

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Familiar Stories of Men and Books. London, Chatto and Windus. 1924, 1st Edition, 8vo. Card boards, cloth spine with gilt titles. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Pp385. Binding a little bumped at corners. Neat ownership mark of 1932 on front free endpaper. All pages tight bught and clean.

Olivier. Edith, The Love Child. The Richards Press, London. 1951. 8vo. Pp159. Blue cloth boards, silver titles to spine. Title and final leaf decorations by Rex Whistler. No dustwrapper. Spine sunned and bumped at edges. All pages and illustrations in tight and bright condition. Scarce Richards Press Edition.

Deighton. Len,. Twinkle Twinkle Little Spy. London, Cape. 1976. 1st Edition. 8vo. Black boards, gilt titles to spine, top edge coloured blue. With unclipped dustwrapper, light shelf wear to edges. Illustrated endpapers. Pp240. Small neat ownership mark on half title page. All pages and binding in excellent tight, bright and clean condition. An excellent 1st Edition.

Dreiser, Theodore. The Financier. Dell Publishing, New York. 1961. 1st Edition. 8vo. Paperback. Pp542, pp2 Publishers Ads. Illustrated paperback covers. All edges coloured green. Covers chipped and bumped at edges, cover corners fold marks. Pages age toned to edges. Binding tight, all pages bright and clean. Scare in this format at this time. A good Vintage Paperback.

Gascoyne, David. Collected Verse Translations. London, Oxford University Press. 1970. 8vo. 1st Edition. Limited 1000 copies. Hardback, blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Unclipped dustwrapper, glassine protected. Pp128. Signed by author on title page. Covers a lighted a little at top and bottom edges. Otherwise in near fine order throughout. Benford C4.