Recent Arrivals from Paul Foster Books

Chapman and Hall Ltd. London. 1938. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.1 inches). First state of the text with the incomplete number 8 in the publication date to the verso of the title page and the s present on the last word of page 88. A bright and clean copy in the red and black snakeskin design cloth with gilt… Read more about this item

Chapman & Hall Ltd. London 1942. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.2 inches). A little light foxing to the first few leaves otherwise a bright and clean copy in the publishers oatmeal cloth with dark blue lettering to the spine. In the original colour illustrated dustwrapper which has been price clipped to the front inner flap. Repair to the reverse… Read more about this item

Duckworth. London. 1930. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.9 inches). Frontispiece illustration after a drawing by Waugh, double-page route map, sketch map of Port Said and seven mono photographs on 3 leaves. Publishers purple cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Attractive illustrated bookplate to the front pastedown endpaper. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which has… Read more about this item

Duckworth. London. 1928. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.9 x 5.8 inches). Illustrated with 8 full page mono plates. Neat previous owner's initials to the front, and some offsetting to the other blank endpapers, otherwise a bright, tight and clean copy throughout. In publishers burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. A little rubbing to the very bottom of the spine… Read more about this item

Chapman and Hall Ltd. London. 1934. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.1 inches). Illustrated mono frontispiece of Hetton Abbey by J. D. M. Harvey. Some minor foxing, mainly to the fore edge and to the margins of a couple of dozen pages otherwise a very good copy in original black and red snakeskin patterned cloth, with the spine lettered in… Read more about this item

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1899. 8vo. (7.4 x 5 inches). Fifty second edition, completing two hundred and forty seventh thousand copies. Some light foxing to a few pages and previous owner neat printed bookplate on the blank pastedown endpaper otherwise clean and bright throughout. Bound in attractive amateur full tan morocco Arts and crafts style binding. Spine with five raised… Read more about this item

William Pickering. London. 1849. FIRST PICKERING EDITION. 8vo. (9 x 6 inches). xii, 354pp. A very good copy in an attractive contemporary leather binding by J. Wright of London. Full black morocco. Spine with raised bands, each ruled in gilt. Compartments double ruled, fully decorated and lettered in gilt. Elaborate gilt panelled decoration on boards. Gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers.… Read more about this item

Baynard Press. London. 1940. FIRST EDITION. Printed stapled wraps. 16pp. Some rusting to the staples and minor creasing to the page corners and edges. Browning and spotting to the wraps mean that overall this is just a good example of this fragile pamphlet. -------- Printing and the mind of Man. No.424. -- The Lion`s Voice."If the Gettysburg address is one… Read more about this item

Alfred A Knopf. New York. 1930. FIRST EDITION. 1st printing. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.4 inches). viii,268pp. A bright clean copy internally in the publishers original grey cloth with Falcon design in black to the front board, within a single black ruled line border. Blue and black lettering and symmetrical design to the spine. Publishers Borzoi books logo on rear board… Read more about this item

Faber & Faber. London. 1965. FIRST EDITION. 1st impression. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.7 inches). A little foxing to the blank endpapers otherwise generally a clean, bright copy. Red cloth with gilt ruled lines and lettering to the spine. The gilt is bright and gleaming. In a very good original colour dustwrapper. Spine a little darkened. Some light stains to the… Read more about this item

Methuen & Co. London. 1929. EARLY PRINTING. Ninth edition. 8vo. Same format as the first edition of 1926. Illustrated throughout with wonderful line drawings by E. H. Shepard. Decorative map endpapers printed in black on green paper. Top edge gilt. A very good, bright copy in the original green cloth, with gilt stamped decorations of Christopher Robin and Pooh to… Read more about this item

Methuen & Co. Ltd. London. 1925. EARLY PRINTING. Eleventh edition. 8vo. The same format as the 1924 First edition, with the addition of decorative endpapers. This is a fine copy of Milne's first children's book in the publishers blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Top edge gilt. The book looks unread. In a very good original illustrated… Read more about this item

Wm. Miller. Albemarle Street. London. 1807. FIRST EDITION. Oblong 8vo. (7 x 8.8 inches). Title page with hand coloured vignette and 16 full page hand coloured plates by Atkinson (one folding), each with an accompanying page of text opposite. The text consists of excerpts from James Beresford's The Miseries of human life (1806). An uncut copy in the original brown… Read more about this item

The Casanova Society. London. 1925. LIMITED EDITION. 8vo. One of 50 copies, this out of series but inscribed by the author to, and with two letters to, the writer Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts (known as Ephesian) and with his bookplate to the front pastedown endpaper. Two letters relating to black masses are loosely inserted, one is hand written and simply… Read more about this item

F. Lewis Ltd. Leigh-on-sea, Essex. 1946. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo. (10.6 x 7.3 inches). 44pp. Illustrated with 12 striking full page wood engraved plates, comprising the title, the ten commandments and the greatest commandment, by Braby. Limited edition of 1025 copies on mould made paper, with only 1000 for sale. Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in attractive full red polished calf… Read more about this item

Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London. 1929. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo. (7.2 x 4.8 inches). Finely bound in recent full brown morocco. Spine with raised bands. Red title label, gilt. Compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt. A Lovely copy.

John Bell. London. 1785. Two works in one volume. Early and first edition. 8vo. (5.8 x 3.6 inches). First work; 90pp. second work: 99pp. Some brown offsetting from the glue used in the binding to the first and last couple of leaves, otherwise generally very good copies in an attractive late 18th century leather binding of half dark brown calf.… Read more about this item

Blackie and Son Limited. London. No date. Circa 1903. Early reprint. 8vo. (6 x 4 inches). Mono portrait frontis, from a photograph by J. Caswall Smith. xi, 277pp. Text in red and black and decorated with small floral head pieces in red. Attractive early leather binding of full dark green morocco, although much of the leather has now toned to… Read more about this item

Heinemann. London. 1967. Reprint. This edition originally published in 1963. 8vo. (7.2 x 4.9 inches). vi, 194pp. Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in attractive full red calf binding. Spine with raised bands, each decorated with gilt wavy lines. Compartments double ruled and decorated in gilt. Blue morocco label, gilt. Board edges and turn-ins with decorative floral gilt tooling. All edges gilt.… Read more about this item

David Paradine Developments Limited. London. 1977. FACSIMILE OF FIRST EDITION. 8vo.(6.8 x 4.2 inches). Limited edition, one of only 100 copies, this number 17, numbered and signed by Champion British Equestrian Lucinda Prior-Palmer, later Green, to mark the centenary of the book's first publication. Finely bound in publishers delux leather binding of full tan morocco. Spine with raised bands, ruled… Read more about this item