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London: Duckworth/ The Greenleaf Studio, 1922. Illustrated wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR-ILLUSTRATOR. 8vo, pp. 52, incl. 160 b/w illustrations by Smedley. Publisher's original illustrated buff wrappers, lettered in black, stapled beneath wrappers. Scarce initialled presentation from the author: "To Rosalind, who is so near Arden, from someone who likes her very much, C.S. 1933." Some nicking, browning and rubbing to wrappers, heel of spine lifting, corners rounded. Else, clean and bright. Very good A aptly inscribed copy of an unusual and fragile Smedley title, illustrated throughout by a black and white cartoon frieze header, suggesting the position and movement of actors. Birmingham-born, (Anne) Constance Smedley (1876-1941) was an artist and author, a New Woman and founder, in 1903, of the International Lyceum Clubs for Women Artists and Writers. With pan-European, democratic and non-hierarchic aspirations, she helped women to open clubhouses in Amsterdam, Berlin,…
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THE FORTUNATE SHEPHERDS: A COTSWOLD PASTORAL.
by SMEDLEY, Constance
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A Fable
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1955. Cloth. Good+. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Rubbed, bruising and wear to extremities, marks to upper board. Toned, Andrew Sarnowski's 1961 inscription to himself in red biro on ffep, noting: "A present to myself again... broke again: it was good while it lasted!". Good+ Faulkner's WWI novel, which took more than a decade and a tremendous effort to write, was the first title to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The author had had high aspirations for it, describing it as "the best work of my life and maybe of my time".
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Fabulous New Orleans
by [BRITTAIN, Vera]; SAXON, Lyle; SUYDAM, E. H. (illustrator)
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New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1937. Reprint, WARMLY INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO VERA BRITTAIN. Large 8vo, pp. xii, 334 + colour frontis, b/w plates and headpieces by Suydam. Quarter black buckram, lettered in lilac, rust boards, upper board lettered in black, with illustrated label in black and yellow. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, one pair of uncut leaves. Illustrated endpapers. Pushing to spine ends, lightest wear to extremities. Edges toned, top edge spotted. Inscribed by Saxon in black pen to title page: "For Vera Brittain �/ and we hope she / liked New Orleans/ as well as New Orleans/ liked her �/ Lyle Saxon �Nov. 2- 1937". Ink offsetting to frontis tissue guard. Else, clean and tidy. Very good. A pleasing copy that speaks to an otherwise unrecorded meeting of two quite different literary celebrities, who both mined (or fabricated) their own lives for their works. Brittain likely visited New Orleans, and met Saxon, during her second American lecture tour (of three), undertaken between…
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The Face of a Madonna
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Collins, 1964. Very Good. First edition. 8vo, pp. (384). Orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Slight lean to spine, head and tail of spine lightly bruised, bump to bottom edge of lower board. Light spotting to edges, prelims and rear endpapers. Loss (6 x 1.5cm) to fore-edge of ffep. Else, clean and tight. In VG original DJ - soiling, edgewear, a few nicks. Armstrong's fictional foray into medieval Yorkshire and its religious cultures and institutions, including Rievaulx Abbey.
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The Fair Venetian
by FARJEON, Eleanor; [BLAKELOCK, Denys]; [HAGART/ ROSE, Bertha]
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London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1943. Cloth. Good+. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in silver. Unevenly sunned and rubbed, pushing to spine ends, edgewear, bottom corners bumped, a few scores to bottom board. Inscribed by Farjeon in blue pen to ffep: "Dearest Denys � Nollekins �/ from Eleanor � Nellikins �/ to mark The Silver Curlew's / second London year./ Dec. 22nd 1950" with another inscription below in blue ink: "Bertha Rose./ given to me by Ren�e / in memory of Denys./ March 15. 1971." Closed tear to bottom edge of pp. 211-2, nick to rear hinge, else, clean and tidy, especially given the wartime paper stock. A unique association copy of Farjeon's only crime novel. Good+ Aptly, with a printed dedication to Farjeon's brother, who was a crime novelist by trade: "To Joe from a novice in his craft". Inscribed to "Denys" in 1950, the first year of Blakelock and Farjeon's friendship, and subsequently re-gifted to another friend Bertha Rose (n�e Hagart) by…
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The Fair of St. James: A fantasia
by FARJEON, Eleanor; [HAGART/ ROSE, Bertha]
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London: Faber and Faber, 1932. Cloth. Good-only. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. 352. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Shaken, binding slack, but holding, spine sunned, joints splitting, especially rear, corners bumped. Some foxing, inscribed by Farjeon in publication year in sepia pen to ffep: "Dear Maggie/ from Eleanor & Pod/ May 1932" and in another hand below: "Bertha Hagart/ July 1956". Else, clean. Good-only. It seems likely that Bertha Hagart (later Rose) was the Royal Academy of Music (RAM)-trained, South African pianist, who was active professionally both in South Africa and Britain in the 1950s. If this is the case, it also seems probable that Hagart and Farjeon met through the author's elder brother Harry, who taught at RAM for 45 years. Pod was Farjeon's partner and friend, George Earle; Maggie, sadly, remains unidentified.
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The Fallen Curtain: Eleven mystery stories by an Edgar-award winning writer
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New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc./ The Crime Club, 1976. Very Good. FIRST US EDITION. 8vo. White paper boards, black lettering to spine. Tanned, spine ends and bottom rear corners bumped. Tanned edges, e lse, clean. In the fabulous surreal dust jacket: toned edgewear, spine creased and rubbed. Very good/ very good.
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Far, Far the Mountain Peak
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London: Michael Joseph, 1957. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo, pp. 415, [1 catalogue]. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Gentle pushing to spine ends, mottling to boards, tobacco-tanned edges, small stain to fore-edge (into free margin). Bands of tanning and light spotting to free endpapers, unsigned Book Society bookplate (Rex Whistler-designed) to front pastedown. Else, clean and tidy. In the Donald Green-designed dust jacket: edgewear, chipping to head of spine and corners, various closed tears, reinforced by tape to verso, rear panel lightly shelf-soiled and toned. Good+/ good+.
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The Fatal Impact: An account of the invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840
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Hamish Hamilton, 1966. Good. 8vo. (22cm), pp.xiv, 230 + b/w frontispiece, plates and illustrations. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and red highlight. Heel of spine and lower corner bruised. Top edge black. Illustrated endpapers. Browning to half title and final index page, else clean and tight.
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A Father and his Fate
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1957. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Top corners bruised, top edge dusty. Small stain to front pastedown, else clean and tight. In the original yellow, plum and black dust jacket: spine sunned, creased, rear panel a little grubby, losses to spine ends, a number of closed tears. Very good/ good+.
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Fear is the Thorn
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition. 8vo, pp. viii, 88. Green cloth, lettered in gilt. Endpapers toned, a few spots, else, clean and tidy. In the original dust jacket: price-clipped with red rubberstamp price cancel ($1.35) at bottom edge of front flap, sunned and lightly soiled, closed tear to bottom of front flap edge, spine ends and corners nicked, with tape reinforcements to reverse. Still, a handsome, square copy. Near Fine/VG. Field (1894-1942) was a successful novelist and poet, recipient of the Newbery Medal for her 1929 Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, as well as one of the inaugural National Book Awards for her novel, Time Out of Mind (1935).
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A Few Hours of Sunlight
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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971. FIRST US EDITION. 8vo. Vibrant quarter purple cloth over orange cloth boards, silver and black lettering to spine. Orange endpapers. Pushing to spine ends, bottom corners bumped, find band of sunning to top and bottom edges. Else, clean and tidy. In the original dust jacket: spine lightly sunned, extremities creased, short closed tear to heel of spine. Very good/ very good.
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The Fifth Verrine Oration
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Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1953. Good. The second impression. 8vo. In Latin, with notes in English. Light blue cloth with blue stamped lettering. Spine sunned, boards dusty, edgewear. Tanned edges. POIs and notes to pastedowns and ffep. Residual tape marks to feps. Annotations throughout.
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Film
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Harmondsworth: Pelican Books/ Penguin Books, 1944. FIRST THUS. MMP, pp. 192 + numerous b/w plates, stapled (rusty). Light blue and white wrappers, lettered in black. Spine creased and rubbed, wear to spine ends. Wrappers grubby, edgewear and a little creasing. Toned, pencil ticks to 'Some Directors and their Films', else, clean and tidy. PB no. A126. Manvell (1909-1987) was the first Director of the British Film Academy.
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Film Problems of Soviet Russia Photographs chosen and titled by Kenneth Macpherson
by BRYHER; MACPHERSON, Kenneth (photographs)
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Riant Chateau, Territet, Switzerland: POOL, 1929. Cloth. Good+. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, incl. b/w frontis and 22 b/w plates. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine and upper board sunned, extremities bruised, 1cm tear and small loss to tail of spine. Edges toned. Small ink smudges to p. 23 and adjacent plate, spine starting at p. 113, else, clean and tidy. A good copy of a colourful early account of the influential interwar cinema of Russia. In Film Problems, Bryher argued vociferously for the socio-political and aesthetic importance of Soviet Cinema and her right "as a freeborn English woman" to watch it; she sought a middle-way to discuss 'Russian film art,' for "either, it appears, you must be prepared to bayonet your aunt because she won't read Karl Marx, or else you must leave the room because Potemkin is mentioned" (p.11). Brim-full of striking stills � selected by Kenneth Macpherson � it is both a scathing indictment of British film censorship and a concerted attempt to circumvent it.…
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Fingers
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London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1964. Stiff card wrappers. Good+. FIRST EDITION. Slim paperback, incl. b/w line illustrations by Herbert Jones. Black, white and red wrappers. Edgewear, spine rubbed, foxed, with a gentle wave. First and last pages faintly foxed, final page separating, else, clean. A typically experimental offering from Blakeston and Jones. Good+ Founded in 1948, the Gaberbocchus Press was led by the artist-spouses Stefan and Franciszka Themerson. The press had previously published Blakeston's crime novel The Night's Moves to some success. With printed dedication "To Max Chapman," the British artist and Blakeston's partner and oft-collaborator. Herbert Jones (1888�1957), another frequent collaborator of Blakeston's, was a British-based American artist. Jones and Blakeston also co-edited the short-lived modernist little magazine, Seed (see our copy of the first issue ref. 2691).
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The First Masochist A biography of Leopld von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895)
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London: Anthony Blond, 1967. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. With b/w frontis. Quarter yellow cloth, gilt lettering, over black cloth boards. Top edge yellow (with lighter patches). Bruising to spine ends. Musty, POI to ffep, else, clean and tidy. In Peter Constable Pope's black PVC dust jacket: short and wrinkled. A very good copy.
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A First Sheaf of Little Songs: The verses by Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall. Set to music by Robert Coningsby Clarke (High)
by RADCLYFFE-HALL, Marguerite (i.e. HALL, Radclyffe]; CONINGSBY CLARKE, Robert
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London: Chappell & Co. Ltd, 1911. Very Good. Score. 4to, pp. [iv], 15, [1]. Original grey wrappers, lettered and decorated in black and silver. Rubbed at spine and extremities, pushing to heel of spine, a little soiled, POI in black pen to top of front wrapper: "G. A. F. Reddis 20.ix.17". "Robert Coningsby Clarke" stamped in purple to bottom corner of title page, gentle creasing, some spotting, very occasional pencil annotations, thread loose, with gatherings slightly dropped. Else, clean and tidy. A pleasing copy of the first sheaf of Radclyffe Hall's poems set to music by Robert Coningsby Clarke; another two would follow. Unusual. Very good Radclyffe Hall first found notice and popularity as a poet, publishing five collections, before turning their hand to novels (when they also dropped 'Marguerite'. This First Sheaf comprises: 'Hands and Lips,' 'Our Little Love is Newly Born,' 'You're Just as Pretty as the Day,' 'Butterfly,' 'Gentle Dame Priscilla,' and 'You, Dear, and I', reprinted from…
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The Five Nations
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London: Methuan and Co., 1903. Very Good. FIRST TRADE EDITION. 8vo, pp. [xvi], [216] + 38 catalogue (July 1903) as called for (plus 'David' on p.56, line 9, later changed to 'Saul'). Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed, a few pages unopened. Spine sunned, a little rubbed and soiled. Foxing to front edge, front and rear, occasionally to margins. Endpapers browned. Else, bright and tight. Very good.
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Fly High, Run Free
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1979. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. With b/w plates. Blue cloth, silver lettering to spine. Pushing to heel of spine, endpapers lightly toned. Signed in blue biro to title page: 'Best wishes,/ Jane Ratcliffe.' In the original dust jacket: price-clipped, bald patch on front flap, light creasing to edges. A smart, square copy. Near Fine/ Very Good. With a Foreword by Virginia McKenna. The Yorkshire-born wildlife campaigner and naturalist's second book. Ratcliffe's care and tenacity led to the 1973 Badgers Act.
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