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Librairie Felix Juven, nd (c1905) 1905. Hardcover. VG-. JOB. 28.5 x 35.5 cm Grey cloth with coloured illustration and titles to the front and black titles to the spine. Pale blue-grey endpapers, unpaginated with coloured illustrations by JOB throughout. A little rubbing to the spine tips and corners which are also rubbed. Very lightly dust stained with a small ink smudge on the rear board. Internally there is no name, inscription or bookplate and just a touch of toning to the page edges. All in all a very nice copy of this history of France in the era of Napoleon with some fantastic JOB illustrations Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Viking, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG++/NF. 14 x 22.3 cm blue boards with silver stamped titles to the spine [viii] 309[1]pp with original unclipped jacket priced at £15.00. Signed to the title page by the author and Craig Charles who played Lister in Red Dwarf. The boards are clean with bright titles and firm spine tips and corners. Internally there is a touch of light spotting to the edge of the text block and to the prelims and last couple of pages. The dust jacket which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown) is in near fine condition. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Chris Beetles, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NF/NF. Signed Limited Edition, one of 1000 signed by the author. Maroon boards with silver stamped titles and publisher's device to the spine. Fawn endpapers, 95(1)pp with colour illustrations throughout. With unclipped dust jacket priced at £14.99 and signed by the author in blue ink to the title page. Laid in is a card for a Chris Beetles exhibition of Blake's work A near fine book, with light rubbing to the bottom fore edge corner of the lower board, in a near fine jacket with just a couple of light creases and the added bonus of the author's signature. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Chris Beetles, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+/NF. Signed Limited Edition, one of 1000 signed by the author. Maroon boards with silver stamped titles and publisher's device to the spine. Fawn endpapers, 95(1)pp with colour illustrations throughout. With unclipped dust jacket priced at £14.99 and signed by the author in blue ink to the title page. Laid in is a card for a Chris Beetles exhibition of Blake's work to mark the publication of his book. There is some bumping and rubbing to the corners of the boards but otherwise the book is in excellent condition and is clean and bright without spotting and just the authors signature on the title page. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

H Piazza, 1922. Limited Edition. Hardcover. RACKHAM, Arthur. Limited Edition, No. 450 of 1,300. 23 x 30.5 cm vellum backed marble paper covered boards, top edge gilt and other edges uncut. Marble endpapers [iv] 103 [10]pp with 16 tipped in coloured plates with captioned tissue guards, 7 full page black and white illustrations and 7 within the text all by Arthur Rackham. The text pages are set within a triple red line border and have decorative initial letters, head and tail pieces to each story. Original covers bound in. There is some dust staining and marking to the vellum with a 1.2 cm split across the spine about two-thirds of the way down. Some rubbing and bumping to the edges of the paper covered boards with loss to the paper on the bottom corners and to a much lesser extent on the top corners. There is a small 1cm drip mark on the front cover. Internally clean, without name, inscription or bookplate and the colour plates and tissue-guards are all present and undamaged. A beautifully… Read More

Methuen Drama, 2007. 1st Edition. Softcover. VG-. 1st Edition. 13 x 19.6 paperback, 97 [1]pp. Signed by author and cast of the original production in the Soho Theatre: Maxine Peake, Ben Wishaw, Ruth Sheen and Trystan Gravelle. Clean covers but with an obvious scratch on the front and some lighter ones on the rear. Internally, apart from the signatures there is just a note of when the book was signed 'April/May 2007 + Post Show talk May 21st'. Some excellent theatrical autographs. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Macdonald, 1969 1969. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. VG++/VG++. 1st UK Edition,13 x 20.4 cm purple boards with silver titles to the spine. 286[2]pp in original unclipped jacket priced at £1.50 and 30s. net. Together with a T.L.S. from Le Guin to Malcolm Edwards the then editor of a Science Fiction Fanzine called Quicksilver, dated 20th April 1971. In it she addresses questions about 'The Left Hand of Darkness' and the first printing of her short story, 'Winter's King' in Orbit 5' (copy included) which she refers to in the letter as "the genesis of the story". A clean bright book without name inscription or bookplate and just a tiny Foyles label on the verso of the front free endpaper. There is also little tape burn on the fore edge of the front free endpaper, presumably from a previous jacket cover, but otherwise the pages are very clean. The dust jacket which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown) is in excellent condition with the merest hint of dust marking to the rear panel… Read More

Macdonald, 1969. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st UK Edition,13 x 20.4 cm purple boards with silver titles to the spine. 286[2]pp in original unclipped jacket priced at £1.50 and 30s. net. Clean boards with just the merest hint of pushing to the corners and a touch of fading to the very top edge of the head of the spine and rear panel. Internally there is a gift inscription dated Xmas 1969 to the front free endpaper and a few drips (tea?) to the margins of three pages. The dust jacket which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown) has a touch of toning to the spine and a little dust staining to the edges of the rear panel and some light spotting most obviously to the rear fore edge. There is a 2cm closed tear at the top of the lower joint (there appears to be a touching up of the colour arounf this) and a similar one to the top fore edge - both have a japanese paper repair on the inside. The Left Hand of Darkness is probably the most famous examination of androgyny in… Read More

T N Foulis, 1916. VG-/VG-. SULLIVAN, Edmund J.. 1st Edition Thus. 14 x 21.5cm oatmeal cloth with gilt stamped titles to the front and spine. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Grey endpapers, 203 (1) pp+ (4) publisher's ads, 15 tipped in black and white plates by Edmund J Sullivan, with tissue guards. With original dust jacket priced at 5/- net. The book has toning to the top and bottom edges and some pushing to the corners. Internally there is a neat gift inscription dated Christmas 1918 to the front free endpaper, scattered foxing and toning and dust staining to the uncut edges. There is an old Norfolk County Library blind stamp on the contents page. The dust jacket which is now protected in a removable clear jacket (not shown) has a T N Foulis water mark on the front flap of the dust jacket. There is 2-3 mm trimmed from the top and bottom edges and has toning to the spine small tears to the corners and rubbing to the edges. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not… Read More

Bantam Press, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG++/NF. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. 15.7 x 22 cm purple boards gilt stamped titles to the spine. 333(1)pp in original unclipped jacket priced at £15.99. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page. A touch of pushing to the corners and foot of the spine, a little rubbing to the foot of the spine. and two tiny dimple dents on the front board. Internally, the book is clean with just the merest hint of uniform toning to the page edges and the author's signature and inscription to the title page. The dust jacket, which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown), is in excellent condition with no loss or rubbing. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

George G Harrap & Co , 1928 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG++/G++. 1st Edition. 19 x 24.8 cm green cloth with gilt stamped titles and decoration to the front and titles to the spine, top edge gilt other edges uncut. Pictorial endpapers, 102[1], [1]blank, gilt and black decorative title page, 8 colour plates including frontispiece and black and white illustrations within the text. In original dust jacket. The boards have been well protected by the jacket and are clean and bright with just a touch of rubbing to the spine tips and corners. Internally, without name, inscription or bookplate and just a little light spotting to a couple of pages. The dust jacket which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown) is lightly dust stained with a couple of ink marks on the rear panel. There is loss to the spine tips and corners of up to 1.5 cm. Loss at the head of the spine extends for 1.5 cm on to the front panel and 4.5 cm on the rear. There are a few closed tears on the top and bottom… Read More

Librairie Felix Juven, nd(c1905) 1905. Hardcover. VG-. JOB. 28.5 x 35.5 cm Grey cloth with coloured and gilt illustration and titles to the front and black titles to the spine. All edges red, pale blue-grey endpapers, unpaginated with coloured illustrations by JOB throughout. A little pushing to the spine tips and corners where the cloth has rubbed through. There are a couple of white marks 3 x 7cm and 2 x 2cm on the rear board (the result of poor cleaning). The binding is a touch shaken with a couple of loose sentences. Internally there is no name, inscription or bookplate and just a touch of toning to the page edges. All in all a very nice copy of this history of France's 19th Century military history between 1815 and 1871 with some fantastic JOB illustrations. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Macmillan & Co, 1864. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG. 1st Edition. 13 x 19.5 cm textured and blind stamped orange cloth with gilt stamped titles to the spine. Uncut edges, black endpapers; Volume I vii (i) 289(3)pp, Volume II vii(i) 312pp, Volume III vii(i) 292pp. The boards on all volumes are a little dust marked as would be expected, although there is no fading, and all have pushing but only a hint of rubbing on the spine tips. Volume I has a little cockling to the front board and rubbing along the fore edge of the front board with the cloth rubbed through for 1.5 cm at the top. The other two volumes have pushing to the top corners and the cloth on Volume III is rubbed through for 0.5 cm along the top edge. Internally all three volumes are very clean and without name, inscription or bookplate. There is no cracking and only a few very light marks. A couple of pages in Volume I have been poorly opened resulting in a little loss to margins but no text has been lost. All in all an excellent and… Read More

1957. VG. Letter dated 1st January 1957 thanking "the Brigadier" [Brigadier L F E Wieler] for showing him around Traitor's Gate at St Thomas' Tower for research into his planned next book. 'My Dear Brigadier, This is just a line to say how very gratefull (sic) I am to you for having taken me round the Tower yourself last Thursday and for making my visit such a pleasant one. St Thomas' Tower, will I am sure, 'fit the bill' as far as my book is concerned; and I feel now, thanks to you, that I shall be able to make the escape part of my story plausible. I may, after all, call the book 'Traitor's Gate', as the Wallace book was published many years ago and there is no copyright in titles. (Two of my own have been used by other people only last year). I am all against duplication in the ordinary way, but in this case the title would be so sensible. I'll have to think about it. Should you and your wife be coming down into Hampshire at any time, do let me know and come to lunch with us. In the meantime… Read More

George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG++. 1st Edition 12. 8 x 19 cm blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine. 156[3]pp including tissue-guarded frontispiece of the author and one similar of the editor. Consisting of the letters and four essays on The Lingam and Sexual Desire, The Endeavour to Control Desire, Birth-Control and Bisexuality, The Mouna Swamis and the Animals. The book has clean boards, bright titles and firm sharp corners the merest hint of pushing to the spine. Internally clean, without name, inscription or bookplate and just a little spotting to the edge of the text block. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

George Routledge and Sons, nd [1882] 1882. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG. GREENAWAY, Kate. 1st Edition. 15.5 x 23.5 cm Green half cloth, all edges bright blue, bright yellow endpapers, [iv] 64pp with colour illustrations by Kate Greenaway throughout. The book is very good noting a little dust staining and light marking to the boards. Internally clean and bright and without name inscription or book plate but printer's dots visible on a number of pages and with a W H Smith and Son blind library stamp on the front free endpaper. A very presentable copy. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Wills & Hepworth, nd (1920s or 1930s) 1920. NF. 217 x 292mm pictorial 'Untearable' card covers staple bound using 3 staples. 8pp with coloured illustrations to 14 popular nursery rhymes. These items are difficult to date but it is pre 1940 and the images suggest it is earlier rather than later. A really lovely example with only a little patchy toning the covers. The binding is firm although the staples are a little rusted as would be expected in a book of this age but there is only a hint of rubbing to the spine tips. This book is in much better condition than is usually found and looks hardly read. An excellent and early and scarce addition to any Ladybird collection. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Collins, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG++/VG++. TEMPEST, Margaret. 2nd Impression. 14 x 17.5 cm pink paper covered pictorial boards, with white titles to the front and spine, red line drawn endpapers, 91pp (2) + 3 list of the books in the series, printed on glossy paper stock, 20 colour illustrations plus decorative title page. Original unclipped jacket with a 4/- overseas price and 3/6 net in U.K. A very good ++ book, clean and bright with a hint of rubbing to the foot of the spine and a small bruise on the bottom corner of the front board. Internally there is no name, inscription or bookplate and the book appears unread with just a hint of toning to the front free endpaper. The jacket, which is now housed in a removable clear cover (not shown), is in very good ++ condition noting just a 2 cm crayon line to the front panel and a 1/2 cm mark to the rear. All in all a very collectable 2nd Impression copy of this the 16th title in the little Grey Rabbit series. Rainford & Parris Books… Read More

Collins, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NF/NF. TEMPEST, Margaret. 1st Edition. 14 x 17.5 cm green paper covered pictorial boards, with white titles to the front and spine. Green line drawn endpapers, 64pp, 16 colour illustrations including decorative title page 23e4by Margaret Tempest. Original unclipped jacket with a 4/- net price. A near fine book with a hint of shelf wear to the top and bottom edges only. Clean, bright boards with firm sharp corners. Internally there is no name, inscription or bookplate and the book appears unread. The jacket which is now housed in a removable clear cover (not shown) is in near fine condition noting the merest hint of dust staining to the fore edges and a hint of rubbing to the fore edge corners. A lovely 1st edition book in very collectable condition. All in all a very collectable copy of this the 21st Little Grey Rabbit story. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any… Read More

Faber & Faber, 1946. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. VG. 1st UK Edition, 24.2 x 23 cm olive green cloth with brown stamped titles and vignette to the front cover and titles to the spine. Pictorial endpapers, 40pp with colour illustrations on every page Lacking the dust jacket but in lovely condition considering its age. There is a touch of fading to the spine and bottom edge and a hint of rubbing and a little pushing to the corners. Internally there is a 1cm split to the endpapers at the bottom of the front joint but the binding is firm. There is a a very little light spotting mostly confined to the endpapers. All in all a scarce 1st UK Edition in much better condition than is normally found Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.