Marion Pitman

Tonight We Will Fake Love - Poems, 1969 - 1973

STEVE TURNER · 1974

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Charisma Books. 1974, First Edition. Soft cover. Ill.: Norman Stone. Book, "Charisma Books are published by Spice Box Books" Design & photography by Tony Neeves. Covers are a little rubbed & corners rounded; few small marks rear cover. First publication of the author's...

A Little of Everything

E. V. LUCAS · 1912

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Methuen. 1912, First Edition. Cloth. Book, Binding worn & faded, spine detached at rear and split top & bottom at front; slight foxing. Includes a poem about a cricket ball. Fair.

The Voice of the River, a Dartmoor story

OLIVE KATHARINE PARR · 1903

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

London, George Routledge & Sons. 1903. Hardcover. Ill.: E. J. Wheeler & Katharine Parr. Book, Ten b/w plates; top edge gilt. Binding in poor condtion; spine twisted & split, back board very marked, some marks on front board, corners bruised; contents good. Pictorial cloth. Fai...

Margery Kempe, Genius and Mystic

KATHARINE CHOLMELEY · 1947

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1947, First Edition. Cloth. Book, V. slightly warped; endpapers bit damp stained; slight wear corners. Text clean & sound. D/w discoloured & torn spine ends & edges. Book about the 15th century Christian mystic. Good/Fair.

Our Wayside Trees, and How to Know Them

FORSTER ROBSON · 0

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

London, Thornton Butterworth. 0. Cloth, 4.5" x 7.5". Ill.: Forster Robson. Book, Colour frontis; 19 collotype plates from pencil drawings, line drawings in text. D/w torn, bit missing front right hand corner. Very Good/Fair.

Beyond the Headlines

TIMOTHY SHY · 1941

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1941, First. Soft cover. Book, Yellow Penguin, No. 341. Pieces reprinted from News Chronicle. Wartime paper, edges brown, cover very fragile, frayed at edges, good deal of spine gone, and some spotting & staining. Fair/No Jacket.

The Isle of Saints

JAMES KINROSS · 1962

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

London, Arthur Barker. 1962, First Edition. Cloth. Book, Novel set in 1920 during Irish war of independence. Slight darkening edges front board, partial fading of spine; d/w is marked and has few small tears on edges, and creased open tear lower corner at back. Good Plus/Fairl...

Great Pictures in Private Galleries

1904

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Cassell. First. Wrappers / Cloth Folder, 16ins x 11.5ins. Book, 12 fortnightly parts, four plates in each, tipped-in between thick grey paper wrappers. 3 plates missing - Tantallon Castle and A Fresh Morning off the Mumbles, by Edwin Hayes, Llyn Gwyllem by B. W. Leader...

Lord of the Sorcerers

CARTER DICKSON · 1946

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

London, William Heinemann. 1946, Reprint of 1st Edn. Cloth. Book, Detective mystery with H. M. Cloth bit worn on corners, v. slight fray top of spine, parts of cloth darkened; slightly cocked, slight weakness front hinge. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

The New Book of Artemas

ANONYMOUS · 1939

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

London, Robert Hale. 1939, Not Known. Hardcover, 4" x 7". Book, "Concerning men and the things that men did do in the year when began the war of liberation" By the author of The Book of Artemas. Endpapers brown, spine faded and split at ends, split about 1.5ins back top. Uncom...

The Book of Artemas; The Second Book of Artemas; The Third Book of Artemas; The Fourth Book of Artemas

ANONYMOUS · 1918

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, W. Westall, Robert Holden. 9999, Not Known. Pictorial Cloth, 4.5" x 6.5". Book, "Concerning men, and the things that men did do, at the time when there was war" Book of Artemas 1918, 153rd edn, cloth a little worn, foxing at ends; Second Book 1918 2nd edn, cloth worn, ...

The Discovery of Intelligence

JOSEPH K. HART · 1926

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

London, George Allen & Unwin. 1926, First GB. Hardcover. Book, History of Education. 431 pages; illustrated; green cloth, gilt title on spine. Bookplate; endpapers brown. Good/No Jacket.

The Bitter Glass

EILIS DILLON · 1982

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Swords, Dublin, Ward River Press. 1982, Reprint. Paperback. Book, Novel set in West of Ireland during Civil War. Cover design by Steven Hope. Cover bit marked, o/w VG. Good.

Harlequinade

FREDERICK COWLES · 1937

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

London, Frederick Muller. 1937, First Edition. Cloth. Ill.: Grace Reed Harding. Book, Somewhat whimsical stories of the characters of the harlequinade. Binding darkened in parts and a few marks; corners bit bruised, spine ends worn; internal hinges bit cracked; thumb marks som...

The Right Place, a book of pleasures

C. E. MONTAGUE · 1939

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1939, Reprint. Cloth. Book, Phoenix Library edn. Nice little book in red cloth with gilt spine. Essays on places & travel. Spine a bit sunned. Essays. Good Plus/No Jacket.

The Wild Yazoo

JOHN MYERS MYERS · 1948

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

London, Macdonald. 1948, First GB. Cloth. Ex-Library, Novel set in early 19th cent. Mississippi. Ex Boots Library, label front cover. Cloth worn edges & corners, spine darkened; flyleaf removed, half-title bit torn; slight foxing. Fair/No Jacket.

Mrs. Lancelot, a Comedy of Assumptions

MAURICE HEWLETT · 1912

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Macmillan. 1912, First Edition. Cloth. Book, Impressed stamp "Presentation Copy" on title page. Long gift inscription on flyleaf; hinges cracked; spine faded; boards & endpapers damp stained. Text clean & sound. Fair.

The Time of Laughter

COREY FORD · 1970

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

London, Pitman. 1970, First GB. Hardcover. Book, A Sentimental Chronicle of the Twenties, The Humour and the Humorists. Introduction by Frank Sullivan. Recollections of American humorists of the 1920s, inc. Robert Benchley, Ring Lardner, Don Marquis, Dorothy Parker, James Thur...

The Sunny Side

A. A. MILNE · 1921

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London, Methuen. 1921, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Articles, stories & verses, mostly from Punch. Green cloth, gilt spine. Loosely inserted catalogue of Methuen's new books autumn 1921. Spine darkened, ends bruised & a little worn, boards patchily faded, eps little foxed. ...

Agnes Weston, the Sailors' Friend

JENNIE CHAPPELL · 0

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

London, Pickering & Inglis. 9999, Revised. Hardcover. Book, "Revised and brought up to date" "Memoir" series. Small 8vo. 7 b/w photographic plates. Life of founder of Royal Sailors' Rests at Devonport and Portsmouth. Colour pictorial d/w frayed at corners and spine ends. Very ...