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London: N.p. [BBC], 1956. 40 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left. A little edgeworn and dusty, last page detached, but a well preserved copy. First edition. TRIAL SCRIPT FOR THE SHOW WHICH BECAME FLOGGITS, STARRING ELSIE AND DORIS WATERS. NO RECORDING OF THIS EPISODE EXISTS. DATED 29 MAY 1956 -- THREE MONTHS BEFORE EPISODE 1 WAS RECORDED. Floggit's, starring Elsie and Doris Waters, ran for three series on BBC Radio between 1956 and 1959, and among the regular cast were Anthony Newley, Joan Sims, Ron Moody -- and Ronnie Barker, whose radio debut this was. Transplanting their Workers' Playtime characters to a family-run general store, this unexceptional and now very dated show had a stellar writing team: while providing scripts for this middle-of-the-road radio comedy, Freeman, Junkin and Nation were also working on Idiot's Weekly Price 2d, the first attempt to present Goon Show humour to a television audience. The script offered here is an unmarked trial script for the series,… Read More

London: N.p. [BBC], 1956. Six scripts, approx. 40 mimeographed pp. per script, each secured with split pin to top left. A little edgeworn and dusty, but well preserved copies. Occasional pencilled markings in numbered episodes, and informal titles pencilled to title pages. More extensive markings to Christmas episode (see below). One episode lacking title page and so not identified. Last page of Episode 15 and title page of Christmas episode detached. First editions, including EDITOR'S COPY OF CHRISTMAS EPISODE, EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED FOR USE IN PRODUCTION. OF THESE EPISODES, ONLY A RECORDING OF EPISODE 14 IS KNOWN TO EXIST. These episodes of Floggit's (the apostrophe is missing from the scripts' title pages) are from the first series, which was transmitted between August and November 1956. It was during this show that Ronald Barker became Ronnie Barker, producer Alastair Scott-Johnson having decided that Ronnie sounded more friendly. The first Barker knew of it was when he read the… Read More

London: N.p. [BBC], 1956. 34 mimeographed pp., 5 typed inserts, all secured with split pin to top left. A little edgeworn and dusty, but a well preserved copy. First edition. TERRY NATION'S EXTENSIVELY REVISED WORKING COPY, WITH HIS SIGNATURE, AND WITH A SIGNED HANDWRITTEN NOTE TO PRODUCER ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSON TO TITLE PAGE. NO RECORDING OF THIS EPISODE EXISTS. Floggit's, starring Elsie and Doris Waters, ran for three series on BBC Radio between 1956 and 1959. Transplanting their Workers' Playtime characters to a family-run general store, this unexceptional and now very dated show featured a phenomenal supporting cast: Anthony Newley, Joan Sims (whose name is misspelt 'SIMMS' on the title page of this script), Hugh Paddick -- and Ronnie Barker, whose first radio appearance this was. It's writing team was equally stellar. At the same time (1956) as providing scripts for this middle-of-the-road radio comedy, Freeman, Junkin and Nation were also working on Idiot's Weekly… Read More

London: Walker Books, 2009. 8vo, pp. 519. Original blue patterned boards lettered in silver and grey on front and back panels and spine. A fine copy in a near fine printed transparent dustwrapper, with very slight closed tears at folds. First edition of the second volume in the Chaos Walking series, and the sequel to The Knife Of Letting Go.

London: Walker Books, 2008. 8vo., pp. 479. Original illustrated boards, covered by the original transparent dustwrapper lettered in red. A fine, unread copy. First edition of the first book in the Chaos Walking trilogy, the hugely successful saga adored by children who think the Harry Potter books are for kids. Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Booktrust Teenage Prize. A lovely copy.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. 8vo, pp. 401, 6pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original dark green illustrated boards, lettered in whit to front panel and spine. Tissue guard to frontispiece. A tightly bound, near fine copy with just a little bumping to spine ends. Colour frontispiece and text illustrations by C. Coles Phillips and Reginal Birch. First edition. Meredith Nicholson [1866-1947] was a diplomat and leading light of the US Democratic Party, who served as his party's representative in three South American countries. Before embarking on his political career he wrote some thirty novels in a variety of genres; this is a light comedy with the gentlest whiff of mystery (with the biggest mystery being how it got itself listed in Hubin's bibliography of crime fiction). HUBIN, p. 306