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The Princesse de Cleves

de Lafayette, Madame · 1962 · Philip Emery

£3.62 (€4.34 | $4.78 | ¥764)

Penguin Books 204 pages, translated by Nancy Mitford, glossary, bibliography, cover design by Germano Facetti, light edge wear and creasing to covers, pages tanned, (Penguin Books 1846). Good Revised Edition Harmondsworth

Book and Magazine Collector : No 13 March 1985

THE EDITOR · 1985 · Godley Books

£4.95 (€5.93 | $6.54 | ¥1,045)

London, Diamond Publishing Group Ltd. 1985. Soft Cover, 8.25 x 6 inches. A small number of classified section listings highlighted with pale colour. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy and no bumping to corners. 131pp. This issue i…

Book and Magazine Collector : No 59 February 1989

JOHN DEAN (EDITOR) · 1989 · Godley Books

£4.95 (€5.93 | $6.54 | ¥1,045)

London, Diamond Publishing Group Ltd. 1989. Soft Cover, 8.25 x 6 inches. A very small number of classified section listings highlighted in very pale yellow. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slighly tanned pages,…

The Essentials of Anglo-Saxon Grammar.

ROSS, Alan S. C. · 1954 · Marijana Dworski Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Cambridge, W. Heffer, 1954. Reprint. Stapled card covers, 19pp. Covers damp-spotted and age-marked but internally very clean and tight. With bibliography. A very good copy. Alan Ross, linguist and professor of English, is best known for his collaboration with Nancy Mitford on th…

Ups and Downs. Diaries 1972-1975.

PARTRIDGE, FRANCES. · 2001 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001. 0297607170. 1st edition. "Frances Partridge is recognised as one of the great British diarists. She began writing her diaries at the start of the Second World War but only to publish them in her seventies." Frances Partridge was the last surv…

The Loved One [in] Horizon. Vol. XVII. No. 98,. February 1948. FIRST APPEARANCE OF 'THE LOVED ONE'

WAUGH Evelyn · 1948 · Island Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Horizon, 1948. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original wrappers printed in black and orange, wrappers very lightly browned at edges, one small tear at head of backstrip else a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy. First appearance of Waugh's 'Anglo-American Tragedy' dedicat…

The Vogue Bedside Book

ROSS, JOSEPHINE EDITOR · 1984 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£8.35 (€10.01 | $11.03 | ¥1,762)

black white text a5 garage R, Vermilion. 1984. (ISBN: 9780091585204). Hardback. Hardback with D/J in good condition. 1984 Vermilion edition. A collection of the very best writing in Vogue for over sisty years. Many well known names including Ken Tynan, W H Auden, Nancy Mitford, …

Chips - The Diaries Of Sir Henry Channon

Channon, Sir Henry & James, Robert Rhodes [editor] · 1967 · Eastleach Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1967 1st edition, 2nd impression. Cloth, dj, F/VG. [viii]+496pp, 32pp b/w plates showing 42 images, index a fine copy in a slightly edge worn price clipped dustjacket that is almost fine. The diaries of Sir Henry Channon [ 1897 - 1958 ] the American-born B…

The Adventures of Maud Noakes [and] Maud Noakes, Guerilla. Two novels.

ALAN NEAME. Andy Warhol. · 1962 · Clearwater Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

Chapman & Hall, London 1962 and 1965., 1st Edition, The first English editions (first printings) of the author's debut and the subsequent sequel, the former retaining the original unaccredited controversial Andy Warhol dust wrapper design which had also graced the US edition of …

The Last Medici

ACTON, HAROLD · 1980 · Little Lane Books

A$19.00 (€11.68 | $12.87 | £9.74 | ¥2,056)

London, Macmillan. 1980. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24.5cm. Book, Acton seems to have rowed in the same team as Norman Douglas, possibly a book about him will be just as readable as this insight into the Medici clan, originally a 1932 issue. Among his contemporaries at Eton wer…

The Funny Bone

J. Maclaren-Ross [Julian Maclaren-Ross] · 1956 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Elek Books, 1956. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition, first impression of this collection of stories, sketches and essays by British author and famous dandy Julian Maclaren-Ross. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original …

Harper's Bazaar Magazine, September 1966 - Nun Cover Photo

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1966 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

USA: Hearst Books, 1966. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by Hiro (Yasuhiro Wakabayashi). 368 pages. Features: Great fold-out nun cover by Hiro; Hot Line from Paris; Long Line from Italy; Strong Line from Spain; America - fleet-footed, fleet fashion, fleet fingered; Hot Lin…

Garden Ornament: Five Hundred Years of History and Practice

George Plumptre · 1989 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Thames and Hudson, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A fantastic first edition of George Plumptre's examination of the history of garden ornamentation, lavishly illustrated with photographs by Hugh Palmer. This work covers the history of ornamental gardens, their applicat…

The Siren

Alison Bruce · 2010 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

London, Constable, 2010. First edition. Cloth. A fine signed first edition of this DC Gary Goodhew novel by Alison Bruce, a tense and thrilling mystery novel. The first edition, first impression of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original unclipped dustwr…

The Silence

Alison Bruce · 2012 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Constable, 2012. First edition. Cloth. A fine signed first edition of this exciting DC Gary Goodhew novel by Alison Bruce, a thrilling mystery novel. The first edition, first impression of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original unclipped dustwra…

Prophesying Peace; Caves of Ice

James Lees-Milne · 1984 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Faber and Faber, 1984. Paperback. An attractive set of the second and third diaries of James Lees-Milne, which date from 1944 until 1947, during which time he worked for the National Trust. The first thus editions of these two works in the publisher's original picto…

The Unfortunates

Laurie Graham · 2002 · Book Haven

NZ$8.50 (€4.26 | $4.70 | £3.55 | ¥750)

Fourth Estate 2002 Paperback, 370pp. Poppy Minkel is the daisy fresh, naively witty star of Laurie Graham's The Unfortunates. Poppy is a mustard heiress with crinkle-cut hair, sticky-out ears and a nutty Jewish family. When Pa goes down with the Titanic, Ma decides Poppy was des…

Notes on the Ecclesiastical and Monumental Architecture and Sculpture of the Middle Ages in Bristol

George Pryce · 1850 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Houlston and Stoneman, 1850. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated first edition work examining the ecclesiastical sculpture and monuments of Bristol. The first edition of this study of the history of middle ages architecture in Bristol. From historian George Pryce, autho…

Jericho

Dirk Bogarde · 1992 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Viking, 1992. First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition of this southern France set novel by Dirk Bogarde, signed by Bogarde to the title page. The first edition, first impression of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.…

Travels in Portugal

John Latouche [Oswald Crawford] · 1875 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1875 . Cloth. The second edition of this illustrated account of an Englishman's travels in Europe in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The second edition of this travelogue from John Latouche, the pseudonym of John Crawford.With five …