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FAST COMPANY.

FAST COMPANY.

by "PAGE, Marco" - [KURNITZ, Harry, 1909-1968] :

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New York : Pocket Books, (1943). First paperback edition. "Rare Books and Raw Murder Mix". Originally published in 1938 - and made into a film starring Melvyn Douglas the same year, a sequence of events that led to the former reporter Harry Kurnitz becoming a witty and stylish Hollywood screenwriter (Hatari, Pretty Baby, Shadow of the Thin Man and many more). Foolscap 8vo (17cm). [iv],204pp. Original pictorial wrappers - a design by Leo Manso (1914-1993); all edges red; spine a little worn and lightly sunned; a reasonable copy.
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THE SHADOWY THIRD.

THE SHADOWY THIRD.

by "PAGE, Marco" - [KURNITZ, Harry, 1909-1968] :

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New York : Pocket Books, (1949). First paperback edition. Dave Calder hired to solve the disappearance of a heavily insured violin. Owner then murdered - list of suspects reads like a telephone directory. First published in 1946. Foolscap 8vo (17cm). [viii],214,[ii]pp. Original pictorial wrappers - a stylish design by Harvey Whitney Kidder (1918-2001); all edges red; a touch of light wear; text slightly tanned, but otherwise a very good copy.
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THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

by PALGRAVE, Francis Turner, 1824-1897 - editor :

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Cambridge : Macmillan & Co., 1861. First edition : one of the 2,000 copies of the first impression, with the roman rather than gothic half-title, just four notes on p.323, etc. The original appearance of a perennial favourite - close on 300 of the finest poems in the language from seventy-five or so poets - from Sir Thomas Wyatt, Marlowe and Shakespeare, to Shelley and Keats. With a preface and some extensive notes by Palgrave. Foolscap 8vo. [4],[viii],332pp. Engraved vignette by Charles Henry Jeens (1827-1879) after Thomas Woolner (1825-1892). Bound in a smart recent half crimson morocco, banded and gilt - retaining the original cloth gilt (the priced, earliest variant) at rear; a handful of spots, a small flaw to the final leaf, but a very good copy. Contemporary ownership inscription on title-page and some neat pencil markings to margins in places.
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THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

by PALGRAVE, Francis Turner, 1824-1897 - editor :

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Cambridge : Macmillan & Co., 1861. First edition : mixed issue - with the four (rather than six) notes on p.323, obviously indicating the earlier printing, but with the gothic (rather than plain) half-title. The original appearance of a perennial favourite - close on 300 of the finest poems in the language from seventy-five or so poets - from Sir Thomas Wyatt, Marlowe and Shakespeare, to Shelley and Keats. With a preface and some extensive notes by Palgrave. Foolscap 8vo (162 x 103mm). [4],[viii],332pp. Engraved vignette by Charles Henry Jeens (1827-1879) after Thomas Woolner (1825-1892). Bound in an elegant recent half green morocco, banded and gilt - retaining the original cloth spine and upper panel (by Burn) at rear (the Carter "C" unpriced variant, although Carter makes a case of probability not certainty for the ordering of the variants); contrasting label (erroneously lettered "The Golden Treasures"); marbled sides; some occasional light spotting, but overall a very good copy. Contemporary… Read More
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TRAFFIC IN SOULS.

TRAFFIC IN SOULS.

by PARDOE, Geoffrey (Richard Geoffrey), 1890-1953 :

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Leigh-on-Sea : Barrington Gray, (1955). A reprint of the original 1952 edition. Case studies of "decoyed, soul-haunted women impressed into the service of the abominable White Slavers". Crown 8vo (18cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; wrappers worn and partly split; some creasing; a few slight nicks; staples rusting; text lightly tanned and slightly creased; a reasonable copy. Just a single copy (British Library) located in major libraries worldwide.
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DEADLOCK : A V. I. WARSHAWSKI MYSTERY.

DEADLOCK : A V. I. WARSHAWSKI MYSTERY.

by PARETSKY, Sara, 1947- :

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London : Victor Gollancz, 1984. First British edition. The second Vic Warshawski mystery - the unexplained death of her cousin. Post 8vo (21cm). [iv],252pp. Original red boards lettered in gilt; a very good copy indeed in the Gollancz yellow dust-jacket, lettered in black and cerise - price-clipped but also very good.
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SURREY GARDENS.

SURREY GARDENS.

by PARKER, Eric, 1870-1955 :

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London : B. T. Batsford, 1954. First edition. A charming exploration of eighty Surrey gardens - the wild-life, the writers, and the gardens themselves. Demy 8vo (23cm). xii,(260)pp. Illustrations by William McLaren. Original cloth; a very good copy in the McLaren dust-jacket - lightly worn, but also very good. Small contemporary ownership inscription.
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NAVAL BATTLES FROM THE COLLECTION OF PRINTS FORMED AND OWNED BY COMMANDER SIR CHARLES LEOPOLD...

NAVAL BATTLES FROM THE COLLECTION OF PRINTS FORMED AND OWNED BY COMMANDER SIR CHARLES LEOPOLD CUST ...

by PARKER, Harry, 1884-1959 :

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London : Parker Gallery, 1911. First edition : a variant with the Parker Gallery label pasted over the original T. H. Parker imprint. A catalogue of the collection of 287 prints, with extensive descriptive and historical notes, an index of artists and engravers, a general index, etc. - the whole forming an illuminating history of the British navy. With an interesting introduction by the naval historian, Commander Charles Napier Robinson (1849-1936). Foolscap 4to (22cm). xx,(340)pp. Frontispiece and eighteen plates. Original blue cloth, ruled in blind and lettered in gilt; just a touch rubbed; a few faint marks and some mild occasional spotting, but a bright and sound copy.
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GAMBLE GOLD.

GAMBLE GOLD.

by PARRY, Edward Abbott (Sir Edward Abbott), 1863-1943 :

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London : Hutchinson & Co., 1907. First edition. Judge Parry and an extraordinary Scottish fantasy tale for children, in which a Swiss Seal umpiring a cricket match seems relatively normal. Illustrated by Harry Furniss (1854-1925). Foolscap 4to (21cm). viii,248pp. Illustrations. Original red cloth, pictorially blocked and lettered in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; all edges gilt; a little bruised; covers with some patches of fading and discolouration to edges; endpapers tanned; some internal marks and creases; but a good and still bright copy. Ownership inscription.
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THE EARLIER INHABITANTS OF LONDON.

THE EARLIER INHABITANTS OF LONDON.

by PARSONS, F.G. (Frederick Gymer), 1863-1943 :

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London : Cecil Palmer, (1927). First edition. An anatomist brings thirty years' experience of physical anthropology to a study of the mental and physical characteristics of early Londoners and their descendants, with perhaps even the evolution of a new head form. With chapters on the Palæolithic and Neolithic; the Beaker Folk; the Coming of the Celt; Caesar and London; London under the Roman; Picts, Scots and Saxons; Saxon London; London and the Danes, etc. Demy 8vo (23cm). 240pp. Original cloth; some very minor rubbing and a couple of marks, but a very good copy - clean and sound.
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NEAR TEDDINGTON.

NEAR TEDDINGTON.

by [PAYNE, Albert Henry, 1812-1902] :

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[London : John Tallis & Co., 1852]. A charming small antique print - Teddington Weir - men fishing - a cottage among trees. An engraving from the workshop of A. H. Payne, originally produced for Payne's "Illustrated London, or a Series of Views in the British Metropolis and its Vicinity" (London : 1846-1847), and here in a slightly later impression. Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 67 x 87mm (approx. 2-5/8" x 3-3/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 207/052B.
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BRIGHTON RAILWAY STATION, LONDON BRIDGE.

BRIGHTON RAILWAY STATION, LONDON BRIDGE.

by [PAYNE, Albert Henry, 1812-1902] :

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[London : John Tallis & Co., 1852]. A charming small antique print of the station. An engraving from the workshop of A. H. Payne, originally produced for Payne's "Illustrated London, or a Series of Views in the British Metropolis and its Vicinity" (London : 1846-1847), and here in a slightly later impression. Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 70 x 85mm (approx. 2-3/4" x 3-5/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 207/078B.
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CONFIGURATIONS.

CONFIGURATIONS.

by PAZ, Octavio, 1914-1998 :

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London : Jonathan Cape, (1971). First edition in English. The first major collection of poetry by the Mexican Nobel Prize winner to be published in the British Isles - Paz at that time lecturing at Cambridge. Poems from his collections "Salamandra" (1958-1961) and "Ladera Este" (1962-1968), together with the stand-alone poems "Sun Stone" (1957) and "Blanco" (1966) - all given in parallel Spanish and English text versions - the translations by Paul Blackburn, Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Tomlinson and others, as well as Paz himself. Demy 8vo (23cm). [x],198pp. Original aubergine boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; slightly bruised at head; top edge a little spotted, but otherwise a very good copy in the Leigh Taylor dust-jacket - the jacket just a touch sunned, but with only the faintest signs of use and also very good.
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AIRBORN = HIJOS DEL AIRE.

AIRBORN = HIJOS DEL AIRE.

by PAZ, Octavio, 1914-1998 & TOMLINSON, Charles (Alfred Charles), 1927-2015 :

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London : Anvil Press Poetry, (1981). First edition. Signed by Charles Tomlinson on the half-title. A bilingual sequence of eight sonnets in both English and Spanish versions - written in collaboration. Demy 8vo (22cm). (32)pp. Original black and white wrappers, with a Tomlinson design on the upper wrapper; a few minor signs of age and use, but still a very good copy.
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GRYLL GRANGE.

GRYLL GRANGE.

by [PEACOCK, Thomas Love, 1785-1866] :

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London : Parker, Son & Bourn, 1861. First edition : in Carter's primary binding of green pebble-grain cloth. Peacock's final novel - a country house, eccentric guests - and full to the last of his "inveterate prejudices and pugnacious hostility to every modern innovation" (Garnett). Post 8vo (20cm). viii,316,(4)pp. Original cloth; some minor wear; endpapers cracking; text somewhat shaken and a little slack; some mild discolouration to first few leaves; occasional marking and spotting; but a good and presentable copy in cloth. With the neat ownership inscriptions of members of the Vachell and Wilson families. Wolff 5479. Carter (BV) pp.146-147 & (MBV) p.32.
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THE PLAYS OF THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK : PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME.

THE PLAYS OF THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK : PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME.

by PEACOCK, Thomas Love, 1785-1866 :

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London : David Nutt, 1910. First edition. The first publication of three Peacock plays discovered among the manuscripts acquired by the British Museum in 1903 - "The Dilettanti", "The Circle of Loda" and "The Three Doctors". Edited and introduced by Peacock's biographer, Arthur ButtonYoung (1877-1960). Pott 4to (16cm). [2],(xiv),(158),[ii]pp. Original red cloth, ruled and blocked in blind and lettered in gilt; top edge gilt; lightly rubbed and a little dull; endpapers a little tanned, but a good and partly unopened copy. Contemporary pencilled ownership inscription of H. J. Marshal, with some further pencilled annotation and underlining to the first play, suggestive of it having been used for a production.
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THE MINGRELIAN CONSPIRACY : A MAMUR ZAPT MYSTERY.

THE MINGRELIAN CONSPIRACY : A MAMUR ZAPT MYSTERY.

by PEARCE, Michael, 1933-2022 :

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London : HarperCollins (Collins Crime), (1995). First edition. Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, and a Russian Grand Duke in Cairo in 1908. Demy 8vo (23cm). [iv],(186),[ii]pp. Original red boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; some spotting of edges, but otherwise very good in the original pictorial Richard Duckett dust-jacket - the jacket just with a hint of sunning, but also very good.
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VICTORIAN SHEET MUSIC COVERS.

VICTORIAN SHEET MUSIC COVERS.

by PEARSALL, Ronald, 1927-2005 :

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Newton Abbot : David & Charles, (1972). First edition. A fully illustrated survey of this pervasive and ever-popular art form, with material on John Brandard, Alfred Concanen, R. J. Hamerton, Louis Jullien, George Leybourne, G. H. Macdermott, Alfred Vance, etc. Crown 4to (26cm). 112pp. Illustrated throughout. Original boards; a very good copy in a just slightly used dust-jacket.
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A LATE HARVEST.

A LATE HARVEST.

by PENMAN, John, 1913-1994 :

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Richmond : Keepsake Press, (1987). First edition : [one of 150 copies]. A collection of eighteen poems from the neurologist poet, including "Like Horses", "Peterborough", "Mystery at Glendurgan", "Sunday Afternoon", etc. Demy 8vo (21cm). 34,[ii]pp. Original white wrappers, printed in green and brown; very good. Lewis 79.
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SHROPSHIRE.

SHROPSHIRE.

by PEVSNER, Nikolaus (Sir Nikolaus Bernhard), 1902-1983 :

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London : Penguin Books, (1958). First edition : the hardback issue. In the celebrated "Buildings of England" series. Crown 8vo (19cm). 368pp. Plates. Map. Original cloth; very good in a just lightly used dust-jacket.
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