Grahame Thornton, Bookseller

The Sportsman's Bookshelf Volume I: Shotguns and Shotgun Shooting

----: · 1950

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

New York: Stackpole & Heck, 1950 1st. ed. PBK 128pp. + several b/w illustrations. Split foot spine, slight damage to foot spine. O/w good reading copy.

Fresh from the Freezer

Cameron-Smith, Marye: · 1969

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1969 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. PH148. 120pp. good copy.

Oxford: As It Was and As It Is To-day

Hobhouse, Christopher: · 1941

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Batsford, 1941 2nd. ed. HBK brown cloth, gilt letters and banding on spine. Town maps inside covers. Index 120pp. + 138 b/w plates + 1 colour plate (frontispiece). Cover corners frayed and slightly bumped, some foxing throughout. O/w good reading copy.

Jane Austen's Novels

Wright, Andrew H.: · 1962

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1962 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. Y19. Index 206pp. Good copy.

Finding Fossils in Lyme Bay

Coram, Robert: · 1989

£1.50 (€1.80 | $1.98 | ¥316)

Wimborne: British Fossils, 1989 1st. ed. PBK pocket sized booklet. 48pp. Good copy.

Penguin Film Review I

Baxter, R.K. Neilson: · 1946

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

London: Penguin, 1946 1st. ed. thus PBK. 122pp. Good copy.

Claudius the God Volume 1

Graves, Robert: · 1943

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Penguin, 1943 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 421 wartime Red for Orange. Eno's advertisement back cover. 223pp. Piece missing from back cover by lower spine, spine tape repaired, tear in front cover tape repaired inside, top corner front cover creased, covers soiled and ageing...

Green Pastures

Connelly, Marc: · 1941

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1941 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 357 Red. Genasprin advertisement back cover. 104pp. Top corner front cover torn off, head/foot spine broken with minor loss head, small loss foot, covers soiled. Reading copy.

Morning Tide

Gunn, Neil M.: · 1936

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Penguin, 1936 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 51 Orange. 256pp. Large chunk bitten from foot front jacket, and front end papers. Covers foxed. Split lower half spine/ rear cover. Reading copy only.

The Autobiography of Margot Asquith Volume Two

Asquith, Margot: · 1936

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Penguin, 1936 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 30 Dark Blue. Index 253pp. Two inches of backstrip on lower spine, including Penguin number, missing. Reading copy.

World Shipping

Hardy, A.C.: · 1941

£3.50 (€4.20 | $4.62 | ¥738)

London: Penguin, 1941 1st. ed. thus landscape PBK. No. S88 Red/Black pictorial cover. 224pp. + b/w illustrations and maps throughout. Small splits head/foot spine, o/w good copy.

Thimble Summer

Enright, Elizabeth: · 1955

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1955 1st. ed. PBK. No. PS89. 144pp. + b/w illustrations by the author. Small splits head/foot spine, o/w good copy.

A History of Fighting Ships

Hough, Richard: · 1975

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Octopus, 1975 1st. ed. thus large format HBK. Index 144pp. + numerous colour and b/w plates. Printed endpapers. Good copy.

Playing With Fire

Havers, Nigel: · 2006

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Headline Review, 2006 Reprint HBK + D/W. 310pp. + 45 b/w plates. VG/VG.

Longleat from 1566 to the Present Time

Bath, Daphne: · 1967

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

Longleat: Longleat Estate, 1967 5th. ed. HBK printed boards, printed end papers. 55pp. + 6 colour plates + 23 b/w plates/illustrations. Good copy.

The Rival Monster

Mackenzie, Compton: · 1959

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1959 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 1367 multicoloured cartoon cover. 249pp. Good copy.

Throw Out Two Hands

Smith, Anthony: · 1963

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1963 1st. ed. HBK + D/W. 272pp. + 57 colour plates. Jacket torn, chipped and scuffed. O/w G+/P.

The First Puffin's Pleasure

Webb, Kaye and Bicknell, Treld: · 1976

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London: Penguin, 1976 1st. ed. large format HBK, printed boards. No. PS900. 93pp. Good copy.

The Use of Imagination: Educational Thought and the Literary Mind

Walsh, William: · 1966

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1966 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. Y61. Index 251pp. Small split foot spine rear. FEP slightly creased. O/w good copy.

The Primitive World and Its Transformations

Redfield, Robert: · 1968

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1968 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. Y78. Index 188pp. Spine foredge scuffed, o/w good copy.