Grahame Thornton, Bookseller

Ackermann's Oxford

Colvin, H.M.: · 1954

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

London: Penguin, 1954 1st. ed. HBK. No. K69. 36 pp. text, 16 plates. Ex-Library copy, but not obtrusive. Small stamp title page, library sticker foot spine, pocket REP. Protected with plastic cover, which has kept it in o/w excellent condition.

Trial by Terror

Gallico, Paul: · 1965

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1965 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 2330 multicoloured pictorial cover. 217pp. Good copy.

France: The Birth of the Fourth Republic

Edelman, Maurice: · 1944

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1944 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. S155 Orange. 122pp. Good copy.

Bitter Honeymoon

Moravia, Alberto: · 1961

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1961 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 1519 Black/Orange cartoon cover. 206pp. Slighlty soiled covers, o/w good copy.

Gerald

du Maurier, Daphne: · 1970

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1970 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 3048 multicoloured cartoon cover. 252pp. Minor worm towards end, o/w good copy.

The Four Beauties

Bates, H.E.: · 1972

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1972 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 3420 multicoloured photographic cover. 153pp. Good copy.

The English Tradition in Design

Gloag, John: · 1947

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1947 1st. ed. HBK. No. K34. 36 pp. text, 72 plates. Top spine broken. Covers colour faded. O/w good copy.

The Penguin Hansard No. 1: From Chamberlain to Churchill

----: · 1940

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1940 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. H1, cover no. 3. Index 303pp. Foot spine foredge split, scuffing. Small tear foot FC. Usual page browning. Good for wartime printing.

Ur: the First Phases

Wooley, Leonard: · 1946

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

London: Penguin, 1946 1st. ed. HBK. No. K25. 39 pp. text, 16 plates. Spine slightly scuffed, slight spotting. O/w very good copy.

The Cricketer Book of Cricket Disasters and Bizarre Records

Martin-Jenkins, Christopher: · 1983

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Century Publishing, 1983 1st. ed. HBK printed boards. 118pp. + b/w cartoons and illustrations throughout. Good copy.

Gardening Encyclopedia

Steer, William H.: · 1950

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Spring Books, no date 1st. ed. HBK + D/W. 278pp. + numerous b/w illustrations. Jacket torn, o/w G/P. Probably dates from the 1950s.

Elizabethan Miniatures

Winter, Carl: · 1943

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

London: Penguin, 1943 1st. ed. HBK. No. K8. 31 pp. text, 16 plates. Top spine broken, frayed at foot. O/w good copy.

The Day of the Fox

Lewis, Norman: · 1960

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1960 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 1412 Orange/Black cartoon cover. 186pp. Covers lightly foxed, o/w good copy.

The Penguin Book of English Christian Verse

Levi, Peter: · 1984

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1984 1st. ed. thus large format PBK. No. D292 multicoloured pictorial cover. Top corner FC creased, o/w good copy.

The Penguin Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse

Davison, Denis: · 1973

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1973 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. D169 multicoloured pictorial cover. Index 321pp. Good copy.

British Poetry Since 1945

Lucie-Smith, Edward: · 1970

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1970 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. D122 multicoloured patterned cover. Index 412pp. Good copy.

The Penguin Book of Satirical Verse

Lucie-Smith, Edward: · 1967

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1967 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. D101 multicoloured pictorial cover. Index 311pp. Good copy.

Poetry of the Forties

Skelton, Robin: · 1968

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1968 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. D100 multicoloured pictorial cover. Index 269pp. Good copy.

Longer Contemporary Poems

Wright, David: · 1966

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1966 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. D87 Black/Orange cover. 235pp. Good copy.

Elizabethan Love Stories

Spencer, T.J.B.: · 1968

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1968 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. SL3. 215pp. Good copy.