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London: The Cresset Press, 1934. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 75, (1). Terracotta cloth, black stamped title labels, lettered and framed in gilt, to spine and upper board. First and bottom edges untrimmed. A few stains to boards, faint offsetting to endpapers, a few fox spots to untrimmed edges, else, clean and tidy. In the original dust jacket: spine sunned, small loss to head of spine, toned, a few chips, creasing to top edges. Very good/ good+ A lovely copy of Pitter's fourth collection, which first brought her to public attention. The British poet and craftswoman "first attracted public attention with A Mad Lady's Garland (1934), a brilliantly crafted work reflecting her early exercises, encouraged by [A. R.] Orage, in the art of pastiche"; another contemporary, John Stewart Collis, recalled "[h]er remarkable range, and the subtlety of her oblique lyrical assault" (ODNB). The collection features poems voicing a coffin-worm ("The Worm unto his love"), earwig, 'the virtuous female…
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A Mad Lady's Garland
by PITTER, Ruth; BELLOC, Hilaire (Preface)
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Magic Casements
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London: P.E.N. Books/ George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1941. Good+. FIRST EDITION. Slim 8vo, pp. 48. Eggshell blue and yellow patterned paper boards, spine and upper board lettered in black. A little soiled and darkened, bruising and light wear to extremities, arcing closed tear to spine. Spine cracked at p.16-7, still, binding firm. Else, clean. Good+
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Magic Casements
by FARJEON, Eleanor; [BLAKELOCK, Denys]; [HAGART/ ROSE, Bertha]
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London: P.E.N. Books/ George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1941. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Slim 8vo, pp. 48. Eggshell blue and yellow patterned paper boards, lettered in black, label to spine. A little soiled and darkened, bruising and light wear to extremities. Inscribed, movingly, by Farjeon in blue ink to half-title: "For Denys – who has/ added another magic casement to my mansion –/ from Eleanor in/ remembrance of this/ week: July 19–26/ 1950" and below, in a different hand: "Bertha Rose./ given to me by Renée / in memory of Denys./ March 15th 1971." With Farjeon's marginal corrections and clarifications to pp. 12 & 13. Else, clean and tight. A gorgeous and significant association copy, inscribed to Blakelock in the first year of friendship. Near fine. With Farjeon's own marginal corrections and clarifications regarding misquotations from Cymbeline: '–Should be "lads" of course. This is a slip', but not so for the (mis)citations from Twelfth Night: whose "spinners" and "sitters in…
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Magic Shadows: The Story of the Origin of Motion Pictures
by [PATERSON, Neil]; QUIGLEY, JR., Martin
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FIRST THUS. 8vo, pp. [192] + b/w plates. Green leatherette boards, spine and upper board lettered in gilt. Wear and bruising to extremities, top corners bumped. Neil Paterson's flamboyant ownership signature in green pen to ffep. In the original dust jacket: toned, spine sunned and lightly stained, nicked and chipped, a little loss to spine ends. Else, clean and tight. Originally published in 1948. Very good/ good+. An interesting association copy. "The best story-teller Scotland has produced since Stevenson," Neil Paterson (1915-1995) was an author, amateur footballer and screenwriter, who won the 1960 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Room at the Top. Paterson remained an influential figure in the British film landscape, sitting on various boards, including Film Scotland and Grampian Television, and both the Scottish Arts Council and the Arts Council for GB.Martin Quigley Jr. (1917-2011) was born into the business of writing about film: his father founded a number of trade publications,…
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The Magnetic Mountain
by [BLOOMSBURY]; DAY LEWIS, C.[ecil]
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London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1933. FIRST, LIMITED & SIGNED EDITION, no. 94/ 100. Slim 8vo, pp. 55, [1]. Original rose-brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Lean to spine, rubbed and soiled, pushing to spine ends. Gently toned, ffep spotted, signed and numbered by Day Lewis in blue ink to limitation page, a few marks to gutter, front matter gently creased, else, clean. Unusual. Good+ A robust copy of the first, limited & signed edition of Day Lewis' early poetry collection, reflecting his leftist politics of the period. Published in March 1933 and priced at 7s6d, it was no. 1 in the Hogarth Living Poets, Second Series. A trade edition, of 500 copies, was published simultaneously. With a printed dedication: "To W. H. Auden". Woolmer 318A
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The Maid's Song: And other poems
by HARTNOLL, Phyllis
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1938. Hardback. Good. FIRST EDITION. Slim 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Gentlest rubbing to extremities, sunning to bottom board, tanned edges, offsetting to feps and pp. 36-7, due to laid-in notepaper, spine cracked between a couple of signatures, but binding holding firm. Else, clean and tidy. The note (dated 3.7.92) regards the reproduction of 'On A Quartet of Bamboo Pipes/ for Margaret James and the Pipers' Guild Quartet' in the Piping Times Newsletter. Good+ With a printed dedication "To the memory of Lilian Bayis and to Tyrone Guthrie and the Old Vic Company Elsinore, June 1937"; its first section is entitled, Theatre Poems, and includes poems for John Gielgud, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. Phyllis Hartnoll (1906-1997) was a British poet, editor (for Macmillan) and theatre critic, who was a founder member of the Society for Theatre Research and edited the Oxford Companion to the Theatre (1951). She won the University of Oxford's…
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Makar Chudra and Other Tales
by GORKY, Maxim
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Moscow, 1963. Fair. In Russian. 8vo, pp. (206), (2 adverts?) + b/w frontispiece of Gorky and illustrations. Quarter cream cloth with black lettering, illustrated paper boards. Rubbed, edgeworn, spine grubby. Edges browned, endpapers and text block tanned. Section removed from ffep (POI?), occasional pencil and pen annotation (in English). Spine cracked at pp. 34-5, but binding holding firm. Still, a good copy of an unusual, and striking, title.
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A Man Most Driven: Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the Founding of America
by Firstbrook, Peter
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Oneworld Publications, 2014. Very Good. 8vo., 24cm, pp. x, 419 + b/w illustrations throughout. Blue paper boards with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge tanned, else neat and bright. In very good dust jacket.
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The Man Who Bought London
by WALLACE, Edgar
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London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1950. Good. Reprint n.d. [c.1950, as Ward, Lock & Co. moved premises to 6 Chancery Lane (listed on the back wrapper) in 1946]. 16mo, pp. 256. Green and white paper wrappers, red lettering. Creased, sunned and rubbed, spine cocked, nicking to spine ends. Tanned edges. POI to half-title, occasional foxing, else, clean and tidy. Scarce. Ward Lock's Popular Novels, no. 68.
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Marconi, My Beloved. First English-Language Edition, Edited, Enlarged And Updated By Elettra Marconi
by MARCONI, Maria Cristina; MARCONI, Elettra
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Boston: Dante University of America Press/ Branden Publishing Company, 1999. Cloth. Very Good. Large 8vo,. Original blue buckram, spine lettered in gilt. Spine ends bruised, else, a bright, tight copy. In the original dust jacket: creasing to spine ends and edges, price label to rear panel. Very good/ very good Maria Cristina Marconi (1900-1994) was the radio pioneer and Nobel prize winner's second wife, and Maria Elettra their only daughter (1930-). See also our Signed photographic portrait of Marchese Marconi & Principessa Marconi, marking the centenary of Marconi's birth [ref: 1258].
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Marianne
by DAVIES, Rhys; BIRO, [Val] (dust jacekt)
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London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1951. Cloth. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original light blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Edgewear, pushing to spine ends, edges foxed. Toned, discrete POI to ffep. Else, clean. In Val Biro's aptly illustrated dust jacket: spine sunned, loss to head of spine, other extremities chipped, a number of closed tears, foxed. Good/ good
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The Marie Rambert Ballet
by [RAMBERT, Marie]; HASKELL, Arnold L.; KARSAVINA, Tamara (Foreword) ; [HILL, Brian]
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London: British-Continental Press/ The Artists of the Dance, 1930. Hardback. Good+. FIRST EDITION, with TLS & SIGNED POSTCARD by RAMBERT laid-in. 8vo, pp. 44, [6 catalogue] + 7 b/w plates. Quarter red cloth, buff paper boards, lettered in black. Top and fore-edged untrimmed. Tanned, edgewear, corners bruised, patch of rubbing to bottom board. Front hinge starting, Brian Hill's attractive monochrome ex libris, featuring a windmill and designed by "SLR," to front pastedown. One-page TLS from Rambert on blue Mercury Theatre/ The Rambert Ballet-headed paper (04.09.1950) addressed to Mr. Hill, plus a later Ballet Rambert sepia postcard, featuring "Marie Rambert, Warsaw, 1897" and signed in blue ink on reverse by Rambert, laid-in. Else, clean. Good+. A pleasing copy of Haskell's tribute to Rambert & her dancers, unusual with signed ephemera laid in. The Polish-born ballet dancer and teacher Marie Rambert (1888–1982, DBE) studied in Paris and London, before creating her own company, Ballet Club, in 1926.…
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Marius the Epicurean: His sensations and ideas (two volumes)
by PATER, Walter; [CARR-SAUNDERS, Alexander]
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London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1910. Hardback. Very Good. Library edition (seventh edition). 8vos. Original dark blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Edges untrimmed. Extremities bruised, some rubbing, scuffing and staining. Edges and endpapers toned. Alexander Morris Carr Saunder's ex libris labels to both paste-downs, some foxing. Else, clean and tight. Good+ A pleasing association copy of Pater's important philosophical novel, whose publication coincided with an educational turning point for Alexander Carr-Saunders. Sir Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders, KBE, FBA (1886–1966) was an English biologist, sociologist, and academic administrator. His "imagination having been fired" by the work of Mendal and William Bateson while at Oxford, like Marius, Carr-Saunders sought new ideas and fields: in 1910 (coinciding with the publication of this edition of Pater's novel), he studied biometrics under Karl Pearson and became secretary of the research committee of the Eugenics Education Society (ONDB). He…
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The Marked Man
by TREVOR, Meriol; BIRO [Val] (DJ design)
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine slightly cocked, bruising to spine ends, spotting to top edge. Scuffed patch to ffep, inscribed by Trevor in black pen below: "To Sheila/ with love from Meriol/ 1974." Else, clean and tight. In Val Biro's wintery dust jacket: edgewear and creasing, especially to spine ends. Still, a pleasing copy of the second novel (of six) in Trevor's Luxembourg series, unusual inscribed. Meriol Trevor (1919–2000) was a British novelist and biographer, whose "Catholicism and understanding of history quietly underlaid all her work" (Matthews, 2000). Trevor's two-volume biography Newman won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1962. From 1973 (and unmentioned in Matthews obituary), Trevor successfully turned her hand to historical romance, publishing two series, the Warstowe Saga and the Luxembourg series, the latter set mostly in Luxembourg during the Napoleonic wars.…
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A Marriage of True Minds: An intimate portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf
by SPATER, George & PARSONS, Ian
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London: Jonathan Cape and The Hogarth Press, 1977. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends. Else, clean and tight. In the original illustrated dust jacket: darkened at top edge. A lovely copy. Very good/ very good
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Marriage as a Trade
by HAMILTON, Cicely; [BILLINGTON, Rosamund]
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London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1910. FIFTH EDITION (first published 1909). 8vo, pp. vi, 284, [8 adverts]. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, black lettering and ruling to upper board. Bottom edge untrimmed. Slight lean to spine, bruising and wear to extremities, bump to front bottom corner. Edges and endpapers tanned, Rosamund Billington's feminist-cum-Libran ex libris to front pastedown, foxing to front. Else, clean and tidy. A brightly-bound copy of a later edition of Hamilton's critique of marriage, with a pleasing feminist provenance. Very good. Jisc LHD lists no holdings of this final full-price edition (preceding the 1912 'New and Cheaper' edition. Playwright, journalist and suffragist, Cicely Hamilton (born Cicely Hamill, 1872-1952) is perhaps best known for her A Pageant of Great Women (1910), co-conceived and directed by Edy Craig, while her short story, How the Vote was Won, was successfully dramatised by Craig's partner, Christopher St. John a year earlier. Like Corbett and Holme,…
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The Mask of Apollo
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London: Longmans, 1966. Good+. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original cream cloth, spine lettered in gilt. A little grubby, extremities bumped, top and leading edges spotted. POIs to ffep, else clean. In A. E. Barbosa's illustrated dust jacket: price-clipped, spine gently sunned, edgewear and chipping. Good+/ good+
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Masques of Morality: Females in fiction
by AITKEN, Johan Lyall
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Toronto: The Women's Press, 1987. Paperback. [1987] Trade paperback. Corners lightly bruised, light spotting to edges, else, clean and tidy.
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The Master Book of Soups featuring 1001 titles and recipes
by SMITH, Henry
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Spring Books, 1965. Very Good. [n.d. 196?] 8vo, with b/w illustrations. Beige cloth with brown lettering to spine. Tanned edges and pages, as expected with age and low paper quality. Else, clean. In good illustrated DJ - edgewear, ragged spine ends, closed tear to front edge.
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Master of the House
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FIRST UK TRADE EDITION. 8vo. Publisher's original sand-coloured cloth, lettered in orange, bottom board blind-stamped with Cape's device. Bottom edge rough trimmed. A touch soiled and dust-darkened, pushing and wear to extremities. Edges toned, scatter of faint spots to leading edge. Uneven toning to pastedowns, occasional fox spots. Else, clean and bright. In the original red and black typographical dust jacket: price-clipped, grubby and splodged, spine-darkened, a number of losses, chips, creasing and closed tears.Nevertheless, a rather pleasing copy of Hall's first literary appearance after the banning of The Well of Loneliness in 1928.
Hall was an early guest at a Foyles Literary Luncheon on 17 March 1932, held to mark the publication of The Master of the House; the first lunch had been held only two years earlier, with the monthly event at the Dorchester Hotel rapidly became a literary tradition. Despite, or perhaps because of, the banning and scandal circling Hall's previous novel, The Well of… Read More
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