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Ward Lock & Co, London., [1884]. First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Illustrated by the author: each page of her verse rendering of the story has a chromolithograph. Printed on rectos only. Cloth-backed colour pictorial covers. Patterned endpapers. Contemporary (1884) ownership inscription on verso of front free endpaper. Inner hinges cracked. Prelims faintly foxed. Covers a bit rubbed at the edges and slightly dusty. Very good.

Corgi Books, London., 1979. First edition. Wrappers - a paperback original. Octavo. pp 190, [2] adverts. A novelisation of the concept album and subsequent film.Near fine. Uncommon.

Cecil Palmer, London., 1928. First edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 244, [2] adverts. The author seems to restrict himself for the most part to the traditions of the City of London livery companies.Contemporary (1928) gift inscription on front free endpaper. Edges slightly spotted. Near fine in near-fine dustwrapper.

New Authors Limited, Hutchinson, London., 1959. First edition. Octavo. 207 pages. The author's first book, a novel set in the Jamaica of 1900 and issued as no. 11 in the New Authors series.Near fine in very good dustwrapper, with a design by Milein Cosman, slightly rubbed at tail of spine and with a two 1cm closed tears at top of rear panel.

Printed at the Senecio Press for private distribution by Peter Sampson and Alan Powers. Merivale Editions, London., 1986. First edition. Small concertina colour panorama of eight panels showing imagined shopfronts. Lithographs hand drawn at the Curwen Studio. Vaguely in the spirit of Eric Ravilious' High Street. The RIBA website has an interesting page devoted to its origins. 500 copies printed as seasonal greetings.Fine.

Harvill, London., 1992. First edition. Octavo. 225 pages. The author served in the 17th Black Cat Division in territory occupied by the Japanese.Fine in fine dustwrapper.

W. Clark, London., 1821. Second (unauthorised) edition. The first edition, of which were there were approximately 250 copies, was privately printed by the author in 1813. The first regularly published edition did not appear until 1822, after Shelley's death, under the imprint of the radical publisher, Richard Carlile. Carlile had wanted to publish the poem in the first place, but had been refused permission by Shelley, his reason for doing so being that he did not want to be represented to the wider public by an immature work. Carlile's former employee, William Clark, was rather less scrupulous and both he and another piratical publisher, William Benbow, brought out editions in London and New York respectively. In his haste to take advantage of the poem's notoriety, Clark printed the poem in various states, and always without its secondary title A Philosophical Poem: With Notes; also he dropped the quotations from Voltaire, Lucretius and Archimedes from the title-page. Clark's aim was… Read More

Chatto & Windus, London., 1921. First edition. Octavo. pp [xii], 314. Plates. Pages unopened.Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: ''With the Author's kind regards. Lytton Strachey.''Covers a bit bumped at corners and head and tail of spine. Very good in the dustwrapper which is faded at the spine, chipped at the head of the spine, has a short closed tear to rear panel and is split the length of the front joint.

Chatto and Windus, London., [1886]. First edition. Royal octavo. 58 pages. 28 illustrations in colour by Kate Greenaway. Original unbleached linen pictorial cloth. All edges red. Covers dusty but internally a bright, clean copy. Very good.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York., 1965. First edition. Octavo. pp [xii], 95. Twenty poems, divided into two sections: "Brazil" and "Elsewhere". Review slip loosely inserted.Head and tail of spine slightly pushed. Near fine in near-fine dustwrapper with faint creasing to rear panel.

Heinemann, London., 1893. First edition. Octavo. pp [xvi], 333, 16 adverts. Original salmon pink buckram covers lettered in gilt and with bevelled edges. Top edge gilt. Essays on Shelley, Symbolism and Stéphane Mallarmé, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Tennyson, etc. Armorial bookplate (H. Lewis Doulton of the pottery family) on front pastedown. Spine and cover edges a little faded. Endpapers tanned and spotted. Very good indeed.

Heinemann, London., 1955. First edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 247. A couple of small marks to fore-edge. Very good in very good, spotted and slightly nicked dustwrapper with repairs on the reverse.

Constable, London., 1913. Second edition, with additional material, of a title originally published in 1891. Primary binding with spine lettered in gilt. Octavo. pp xx, 210. Two pages of adverts at rear. When originally published this was the first work to make the link between Shaw and the theatre. It also did much to establish the careers of both author and subject.Bookplate on front pastedown. Tape marks to free endpapers. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Very good in very good, slightly stained, chipped and rubbed dustwrapper a bit darkened at the spine.

Faber and Faber, London., 1985. First edition. Octavo. 201 pages. The last title in the Avignon Quintet.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the title-page: ''Ray Mills from Lawrence Durrell 1985 - Thank you Ray!''. The recipient is Dr Alfred Raymond Mills who had met Durrell in Rhodes in 1945. They formed a lifelong friendship.Fine in fine dustwrapper.

Dent, London., 1954. First edition. Octavo. pp x, 181. Preface by Aneirin Talfan Davies.Smal ownership signature on verso of front free endpaper. Near fine in very good indeed, slightly rubbed dustwrapper with one nick.

The Europa Press, London., 1939. First edition. Octavo. pp 34, [1] adverts. Fifteen poems. Frontispiece by John Buckland-Wright showing Don Quixote on horseback. Printed by Hague & Gill on mould-made paper.One of 300 numbered copies out of a total edition of 340.Endpapers very faintly spotted. Very good indeed in very good, slightly marked dustwrapper faded at the spine.