Serendipity

Bacon's essays. Sydney edition.

Humphries, Sydney, ed. · 1912

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1912; sm4to (25 cm), xxx(+2+)371(+1)pp., frontispiece, translations, index, blue cloth w. blind-stamped front cover, idem spine w. gilt lettering. Spine and top of front cover somewhat faded. Very good copy. Rare in NL.

History of the conquest of Peru, with a preliminary view of the civilisation of the Incas.

Prescott, William H. · 1867

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

London: George Routledge, 1867 (new ed.); sm8vo (19.5 cm), frontispiece, xix+464pp., appendix, brown cloth w. decorated spine, top edge gilt. Top and bottom of spine some wear, otherwise a (v.) good copy. This ed. rare. ¶ l First ed. 1848, so this is an early ed. of a very pop...

Carnival.

Mackenzie, Compton · 1935

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

Harmondsworth: Penguin,1935, Penguin 2nd impr..; 12mo (18 cm), 324pp., paper. Spine somewhat skewed. G+ ¶ l Vintage Penguin early ed.; # 10, so belonging to the famous first 10 Penguins published in August 1935.

Carnival.

Mackenzie, Compton · 1935

€7.50 ($8.27 | £6.26 | ¥1,320)

Harmondsworth: Penguin [1935, Penguin 1st ed.]; 12mo (18 cm), 324pp., paper. Title-page removed, and so the Penguin printing data; otherwise Near Fine. With dustwrapper VG. ¶ l Vintage Penguin 1st ed.; # 10, so belonging to the famous first 10 Penguins published in 1935, here ...

Gone to earth.

Webb, Mary · 1935

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1935 (2nd impr.); 284pp., paper. No dustwrapper. Slightly skewed. VG ¶ l Vintage Penguin # 9

The sea is strong.

Chair, Dudley de · 1961

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

London, etc.: George Harrap, 1961 (1st ed.); 8vo (21.5 cm), 248pp., bl-wh photographs, drawings, index, hardback w. price-clipped dustwrapper. V. good copy. Rare in NL. ¶ l The admiral's memoires, from 1880 to the end of WW I.

The battleship era.

Padfield, Peter · 1972

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1972 (1st ed.); 8vo (22.3 cm), bl-wh photographs, drawings, appendix, index, boards w. dustwrapper. Good copy. Rare in NL.

The history of feudalism. Selected documents.

Herlihy, David, ed. · 1971

€9.50 ($10.47 | £7.93 | ¥1,672)

London: Macmillan, 1971 (1st Engl. ed.); 8vo (23.6 cm), xxviii+352(+2)pp., index, green cloth w. dustwrapper. Good copy. ¶ l Volume in the series 'The Documentary History of Western Civilization'.

Gone to earth.

Webb, Mary · 1935

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1935 (2nd impr.); 284pp., paper. Half-title removed, otherwise VG+. Dustwrapper misses piece in lower part spine, flaps loose inserted but complete; G. ¶ l Vintage Penguin # 9

Gone to earth.

Webb, Mary · 1936

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1936 (6th impr.); 284pp., paper. Back flap w. author's photograph preserved. VG+ ¶ l Vintage Penguin # 9

Anna Christie and other plays.

O'Neill, Eugene · 1960

€3.50 ($3.86 | £2.92 | ¥616)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960 (1st Penguin ed. this collection); 12mo (18 cm), 206pp., paper. VG, with v. slight foxing on front cover. Scarce in NL. ¶ l Penguin Plays # PL 17. Apart from the first title, this collection includes 'The emperor Jones' and 'Desire under the elms'....

Death of a salesman. Certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem.

Miller, Arthur · 1975

€3.00 ($3.31 | £2.50 | ¥528)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975 (repr.); 12mo (18 cm), 112pp., paper. Used but good. ¶ l Penguin Plays, ISBN 014-948-028.5. Pullitzer Prize for Theatre, later filmed.

Fanghorn.

Pinner, David · 1966

€3.00 ($3.31 | £2.50 | ¥528)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966 (1st ed.); 12mo (18 cm), 80pp., paper. VG, v. slightly browned at the edges. Rare in NL. ¶ l Penguin Modern Playwrights, vol. 2.

The rules of the game and other plays.

Pirandello, Luigi · 0

€3.00 ($3.31 | £2.50 | ¥528)

Harmondsworth: Penguin; 12mo (18 cm), 219(+4)pp., paper. Title page is missing, p. 29-30 loose. ¶ l Penguin Plays # PL34, containing, next to the first titel, also 'The life I gave you' and 'Lazarus'. Ex library Herman Pley.

The boys in the band.

Crowley, Mart · 1970

€3.00 ($3.31 | £2.50 | ¥528)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970 (Penguin 1st ed.); 12mo (18 cm), 93(+2)pp., paper. VG. ¶ l Penguin Plays. \"It is a homosexual play, and as such is the first to accept homosexuality as an ordinary fact of life, and then go on to explore the hates, doubts and agonies of love betwe...

The last of the giants.

Sulzberger, C.L. · 1972

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972 (1st English ed.); 8vo (24 cm), xi+1056pp., index, red cloth w. dustwrapper. Good copy. Scare in NL. ¶ l Political autobiography in the form of a diary by a prominent American journalist. De Gaulle, Churchill and many leading figures of th...

The plebeians rehearse the uprising. A German tragedy.

Grass, Günter · 1972

€3.00 ($3.31 | £2.50 | ¥528)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972 (Penguin 1st ed.); 12mo (18 cm), 122(+6)pp., paper. VG+ ¶ l With an introductory address by the author; translated by Ralph Manheim. Penguin Plays. ISBN 0-14-048-120-6.

The millionairess.

Shaw, Bernard · 1960

€3.50 ($3.86 | £2.92 | ¥616)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960 (Penguin 1st ed.); 12mo (18 cm), 128pp., paper. Name on title page, otherwise near fine. ¶ l Penguin Plays PL 9. With Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers in a scene from the film on the front cover. Long preface 'on bosses'.

Fairy tales of New York.

Donleavy, J.P. · 1961

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

Hamondsworth: Penguin, 1961 (1st.ed.); 12mo (18 cm), 94pp., pocket book. VG++ ¶ l Penguin Plays PL 41.

Resurrection.

Boast, Philip · 1997

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

London: Headline, 1997 (1st ed.); 8vo (24 cm), 378pp., bl-wh drawings, hardback w. dustwrapper. Near fine. Rare in NL. ¶ l Novel on the holy place, from the Ice Age on, we now call St Paul's Cathedral in London.