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London: Cape, 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. A neat name on the FFEP otherwise a fine copy in a near fine D/W with just a touch of rubbing. Uncommon in this condition. Introduction by Ian Fleming. A much nicer copy than normally seen of this classic poker text. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London: Cape, 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Pushing at the base of the spine which is also a tiny bit faded otherwise a fine copy in a VG which is creased along the top edge and worn, torn and creased at the head of the spine. Introduction by Ian Fleming. A classic poker text. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. (London: Macdonald & Jane's 1977). First UK Edition. A near fine copy in like D/W. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Not dated. Uncommon inscribed.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. First UK Edition. Story by John Yeoman and pictures by Quentin Blake. A charming children's book. A near fine copy with glossy pictorial boards. Not issued with a D/W. Quentin Blake drawings and a fun parade of goofy characters waltzing through the woods, over a stile, and through to the town. Uncommon. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Oxford: Smith Elder, 1915. First Edition. Hard Cover. (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1915). First UK Edition. vii + 364 pp., 8vo. Publisher's dark green, ribbed cloth with gilt titles to the spine and bottom edge un-trimmed. Foxing to the page block edges and the early/late pages of the book otherwise a bright and attractive VG+ copy with slight pushing at the head and tail of the spine. From the private library of Pember Boyle (stockbrokers) with their stamp to the front free end-paper. A nice copy of an uncommon economics text. NB: this is a true first edition from 1915 and NOT A MODERN REPRODUCTION. Edward Hilton Young started his career as assistant editor of The Economist before becoming City editor of the Morning Post and London correspondent of the New York Times financial supplement. Hilton Young entered Parliament as a Liberal MP in 1915 and became Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1921. Scarce in first edition. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London: Hutchinson, 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (London: Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Ltd n.d. [1937]). First UK Edition. Publisher's green boards with front board and spine stamped in black. 46 authors; 58 stories of the Mystery and 1,024 pages. A VG+ (or better) copy in like D/W with a small chip from the bottom right hand corner of the front cover just affecting the lettering. The verso of the D/W is interesting as it has details of other Century Omnibus books in this series. The authors include: Eden Phillpotts, Talbot Baines Reed, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Alexandre Dumas, Sir Walter Scott, R L Stevenson, Capt Marryatt and Percy L Westerman, amongst many others. The English Catalogue of Books has this book being published in July 1937. Rare in D/W. Photographs/scans available upon request.

2006. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (Mortimer, Berkshire: Richard Griffiths 2006). First UK Edition in First Issue Dust Wrapper. A very fine copy in like D/W. THE WITHDRAWN ISSUE - this was intended to be a "new Lone Pine story" but the Saville estate objected to the use of the Lone Pine blurb so both the book and dust jacket were quickly withdrawn from sale on the Malcolm Saville Society website and reprinted without any Lone Pine reference. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London: John Murray, 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. First UK Edition. Publisher's purple boards with gold tolling to the spine and author and title blind-stamped to the front board. A near fine (or better) copy (with offsetting to both sets of end-papers) in like D/W priced 7/6 net to the spine and front cover (as called for). A particularly fresh-looking copy with the original D/W mostly intact: with the slightest of fraying to corners and tips of spine and a little loss (approx. 0.3 cm X 0.9 cm) at the bottom left of spine. Younghusband's spiritual vision of utopia (set in the Himalayas) in which he attempts to demonstrate how the fire of national consciousness or active love could transform first a city, then a whole country and, finally, through that country the whole World. Very scarce in this condition in D/W. Photographs/scans available upon request.