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This Quarter. Vol. IV, No. 3, March, 1932. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Paginated 373-558pp. Card wrappers, a little rubbed and nicked at the yapped edges and a little chipped at the spine ends with a three-inch tear to the lower wrapper at the natural fold. A lovely bright copy internally. This issue also includes contributions from Ruth Peacock (three poems), Kathleen Balbernie (two poems), Paul Valéry (an essay on music and architecture), August W.Derleth (a 'confession'), J.M.Reeves (his poem 'You Told me Love is a Star'), A.L.Rowse (his poem 'The Apes'), Rupert Croft-Cooke (his story 'Episode in 1930'), Neville Brand (his story 'The Returned'), and others plus an untitled nude drawing by Matthew Smith. This Cummings contribution not noted by Firmage (the poems had previously appeared in his collections 'Is' (1926) and 'ViVa' (1931)..

Journal of Modern Literature. Vol. 7, No. 2, April, 1979. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 4to. Card wrappers, lightly tanned and soiled. Illustrated with several photographs and manuscript reproductions. Includes critical essays on Cummings by Richard S.Kennedy (also guest editor), Irene R.Fairley, Linda Bradley Funkhouser, Edith Everson, Valarie Meliotes Arms, Norman Friedman, Marte Shaw and J.P.Vernier; plus '8 sonnets and 16 other things', a sequence from 1919 which includes twenty hitherto unprinted poems as well as the earliest known versions of four others..

Wake. No. 9., 1950. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo. Card wrappers, with a touch of tanning and dust soiling. The internal staples rusted, with the rust-marks bleeding through to the wrappers in four small areas. A nice bright copy. The first appearance in print of this three-page Cummings story, which does not appear to have been subsequently reprinted. This issue also includes contributions from Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Katherine Hoskins, Mark Van Doren, William Carlos Williams and others. Firmage B177..

Michael Joseph, London, 1950. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 248pp. Red cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Some uneven browning to the free endpapers. A very good copy in Broom Lynne-designed dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but a little nicked, creased and chafed at the edges with some internal repair and a little fading to the publisher's red spine panel lettering. Eads A67..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1935. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 285pp + viii publisher's catalogue bound in at the rear. Original publisher's blue and brown flecked white cloth, lettered in blue at the spine and upper board. Some patchy tanning to the backstrip, edges and several preliminary leaves spotted and with some browning to the endpaper margins. Tip-Ex erasure from the front endpaper and a small Times book club plate to the rear endpaper. Quite a bright copy, lacking the uncommon dust wrapper. Fourteen short stories, seven of which were previously issued in periodicals or limited editions, with the other seven appearing in print here for the first time. 2,000 copies were printed. Eads A25. "Mr. Bates is supreme among English short-story writers; and the work of most authors beside his appears shoddy, trivial or emotional" - Graham Greene reviewing this collection in 'The Spectator'..

Michael Joseph, London, 1945. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 78pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Covers a little marked in places with a little spotting to endpapers. Quite a bright copy, albeit printed on cheap wartime paperstock. No dust wrapper. The author's only significant play, an RAF story that was produced in Salisbury in October 1945, broadcast by the BBC and later toured by the Arts Council. Eads A54..

The White Owl Press, London, 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 130 numbered copies signed by the author (this being #67). Tall 8vo. 51pp. Brown cloth with bevelled edges, lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With a splendid woodcut frontispiece credited to 'N.K.' which was not included in the standard trade edition, and a second woodcut vignette at the head of the first text leaf. Cloth very lightly marked at one or two extremities, and with a little offsetting from the woodcuts to the adjacent leaves. Free endpapers very lightly toned, and with just a touch of spotting to several preliminary and concluding leaves. A very good copy. No dust wrapper called for. Uncommon. The first printing of these two Bates' stories; the second story, 'The Country Doctor', was never reprinted. Eads A18..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 286pp. Two-tone cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge slightly spotted and binding just a little tender at the half-title. A trace of light partial browning to the free endpapers and to the half-title. A very good copy - particularly crisp internally - housed in the non-price-clipped dust wrapper exhibiting some staining to the spine panel, and just a little dust soiling and a trace or two of edgewear. The author's first full-length collection of short fiction, comprising twenty-five stories, with a printed dedication of George William Lucas, Bates' maternal grandfather. 1,500 copies were printed. Eads A6..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1931. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 271pp. Blue cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. The cloth faded at the backstrip, very lightly marked and worn in one or two small areas. Rear gutter just a little tender. About a good copy, very crisp and bright internally, with a neat ink-stamped initial to the front and rear pastedowns. No dust wrapper. Bates' third novel. 2,000 copies were printed. Eads A11..

Nelson, London, 1941. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 231pp Cloth-backed boards lettered and ruled in gold. Extreme edges of the boards lightly spotted and discoloured. Endpapers lightly browned. Neat former owner name to the front pastedown. Quite a bright copy in dusty and tanned dust wrapper, a little rubbed at the extremities and internally reinforced..

Michael Joseph, London, 1971. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of Bates' "very personal gardening book". 8vo. 160pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. A single inked correction to a typo in the author's preface, else a fine copy in price-clipped and slightly chafed and dust marked dust wrapper. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Eads A112..

Evensford, London, 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, one of a special limited edition of 1000 numbered copies, signed by all three contributors (this being #511). This copy with an additional presentation inscription by Peter Eads. Landscape 4to. 72pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. In fine state with dust wrapper, with several tiny edge-tears and a little chafing to the natural folds. Nineteen poems including four composed for Christmas cards, plus a brief prose piece on John Clare and the text of Bates' four-page review of 'The Poems of John Clare'..

Nelson, London, 1941. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 231pp. Cloth-backed boards lettered in gold at the spine. Boards somewhat dusty and faded and just a little sprung, but a very bright copy internally. No jacket..

Michael Joseph, London, 1953. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 240pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A little browning and spotting to endpapers. Quite a bright copy in dusty, nicked, chipped and internally repaired non-price-clipped dust wrapper with two or three fairly small areas of loss. Three novellas, two of which had been previously printed in periodicals ('The Grass God' in a 1951 'Cornhill Magazine' supplement and 'The Delicate Nature' in a July 1952 issue of 'Argosy'), with the first, 'Dulcima', appearing in print here for the first time. Eads A79..

The Cornhill No. 967, April, 1946. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo. Card wrappers, a little dust marked. This appearance of 'Breadwinner' precedes the book publication by three months, although its very first outing was one month earlier in 'The Saturday Evening Post'. Bates' novel occupies the first 38 pages of this issue, with additional contributions by Anthony Powell ('The Other Amiel II', [Lilley C.74]), Geoffrey Grigson and Frank O'Connor. Eads B182.2. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Jonathan Cape, Londres, 1944. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Card wrappers, a little creased and rubbed at overlapping edges and with a single tiny stain to base of rear wrapper. "The Greatest People in the World" in a French translation, here published for the first time under his own name, rather than his 'Flying Officer X' pseudonym. Published in London and probably intended for circulation in France. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

The Labour Publishing Company Ltd, London, 1926. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of Bates' first published work, preceding his first novel by several months. 18pp. Cotton-bound card wrappers with several short tears and three or four small areas of loss from edges. Two-inch tear to dedication leaf. A nice bright copy of quite a fragile production. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 327pp. Green cloth lettered in red at the spine. Edges lightly spotted, and with just a touch of further spotting to the upper margin of the first three or four leaves, and also to a dozen concluding leaves. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, tanned at the spine panel, very lightly marked and dust soiled, and with a tiny sliver of loss from the head of the spine panel and a second tiny triangular area of loss from the upper edge. A splendidly preserved copy of the author's fourth novel, of which 2,500 copies were printed. Eads A17..

Michael Joseph, London, 1956. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 383pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped vignette to the upper board. A small area of staining to the top edge and a strip of browning to endpapers. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, just fractionally soiled, chafed and spotted. Eads A82..

Michael Joseph, London, 1969. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 189pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With endpaper decorations and various full-page drawings and further drawings in the text. A virtually fine copy in very good pictorial dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but with some fading to the publisher's red spine panel lettering, as is so often the case. The first of Bates' three volumes of memoirs..