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Faber and Faber, 1990. 20cm by 13cm, 68 pages. First paperback edition SIGNED “Miroslav Holub 14.10.90.” This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) and the book would have been signed for him. Condition: The spine is faded plus there is 2cm wide fading running down the…
Carcanet Press, 1972. First paperback edition. Blue card wraps 20cm by 14cm, 117 pages. This previously unpublished poem is contemporary with her Trilogy. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: wraps slightly edge-worn and curled to edges, pages minimally browned and page edges a little…
Private printing, 2020. 21cm by 14.5cm, 22 pages. Poetry pamphlet by poet and storyteller, Sandy Chadwin. Condition: white card wraps a little shelf-worn.
Edge Press, Barry, Wales, 1979. Published in a limited edition of 300 copies. 21cm by 14.5cm, 22 pages. Jenkins is a Welsh poet born in 1953 and has been published for over 40 years. This pamphlet is one of his earliest. Jenkins is also the father of Plaid Cymru politician Bethan Sayed and the journalist…
Penguin, 1972. 18cm by 11cm, 187 pages. Anthology featuring Richard Aldington, H.D., Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and more. Fabulous cover: detail from William Roberts’ The Vorticists in the Eiffel Tower. From the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: Covers slightly soiled and edge-worn with…
Bloodaxe Books, 1986. First edition. 21cm by 14cm, 189 pages. Back cover declares “This new SELECTED POEMS covers all Denise Levertov’s collections up to Candles in Babylon (1982).” From the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: White spine a little browned with age plus light edge-wear to covers.
The Juniper Press, 1979. First edition. Subtitled The sane man’s guide to cooking with nuts! with text and illustrations by David Eno and calligraphy by Jenny Ivermee. 14.5cm by 10.5cm, 30 pages brown card wraps. A delightful recipe book in praise of all kinds of nuts. Condition: slightly faded with sun to the edges of…
Price list for Ron Kitching Ltd, Cycling Centre, Harrogate. Printed by Walker Parker (Keighley) Ltd. Devonshire House, West Lane, Keighley. Undated but presumably printed in the 1960s as the prices are pre-decimal. 22cm by 14cm pink wraps, 48 pages featuring British Hub, Campagnolo, Milremo, Reg, Vittoria and more. Condition: Staples on spine rusted and fading…
Alzheimer’s Society North Tyneside Branch, 2001. First edition. Oblong 21cm by 15cm illustrated wraps. A book of photographs by Sharon Bailey with text edited by the late, great North East-based writer, Julia Darling who died in 2005. A moving collection of oral testimonies of living with dementia edited by Darling, accompanied by Bailey’s photos. Produced…
Penguin Books, 2005. Pocket Penguin 38, published as part of Penguin Books’ 70th anniversary celebrations. 18cm by 11cm, 55 pages. INSCRIBED by Harold Pinter on title page “To Stella from Harold” and a 15cm by 11cm compliments card from Pinter laid in. Could the previous owner have been Stella Powell, granddaughter of Harold’s second wife…
Published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), London, 1976. Victoria & Albert Museum Small Colour Book 10. 15cm by 12.5cm 12 page booklet in colour card covers. Condition: slight soiling to covers but contents clean.
First edition Bloodaxe Books in association with Enitharmon Press, 1985. Published two years after her death at the age of 43, this collection was edited by her poet and critic husband, Roger Garfitt. 21.5cm by 14cm, 128 pages. Condition: slight edge-wear to covers plus spine and top edge of rear cover are browned with age….
Kaye & Ward, 1972. First edition thus of this paperback reprint of title first published in hardback in 1966. Edmund Ward ‘Starting to Read’ Books Number 4. 19cm by 15cm, 47 pages. Noggin is a kind king, married to kind queen Nooka but Nogbad the Bad is unkind. Condition: Bottom edge has a dent and…
First paperback edition, 2008. Published by The Public Catalogue Foundation. 28.5cm by 23cm, 368 pages, illustrated throughout with 2,500 of colour photos of paintings from the Tyne and Wear Museums Service, many of which have never been illustrated in print before. The Public Catalogue Foundation was set up to record the nation’s entire collection of…
The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled The Group: Pictures from Previous Lives and features Geoff Dyer, Luke Harding, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Theroux and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 254 pages. Condition: Minimal edge-wear and slight curling to the front cover. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in…
Sub-titled: A South African Landscape in words and pictures, this collection of poetry, prose and photos is by eminent South African playwright, poet, literary critc, Pieterse and fellow South African, George Hallett, known for his work during Apartheid and the country’s early democracy. First edition. Hickey Press, Surrey, 1974. 29.5cm x 21cm, 90 pages illustrated…
Published by Susan Cunliffe-Lister, 1978. 23cm x 15cm, 213 pages, b&w photos, illustrations and maps throughout. A history of North Yorkshire’s Masham from Early Britons up to 1970s. There is an unsent, unused postcard of Masham’s Market Place laid in. Condition: clean contents but covers somewhat worn and yellowed with age plus page edges browned.
Did you know Lewis Carroll visited Ripon during sixteen of his creative years? This pamphlet “attempts to put that into context.” Printed by Ripon Cathedral, 2005. Reprint of 1998 first edition. 21cm by 14.5cm , 16 pages, illustrated throughout with mostly b&w photos and illustrations. Condition: Clean contents but some wear to spine and slight…
Subtitled “The Anatomy of a Legend,” this is a stimulating book on the life, art and legacy of Leonardo Da Vinci by a Professor of Fine Arts. First UK edition published by Papermac in 1995. 23.5cm x 17.5cm, 268 pages, with black and white illustrations. Condition: Some wear and soiling with age to covers and…
Published by Puffin (Penguin) Books, Puffin Post was the magazine of The Puffin Club, which was the brainchild of Puffin Books’ editor, Kaye Webb. The club was born in 1967 after Kaye persuaded Sir Allen Lane, the owner of Penguin Books, that the club would make children into adult readers. This edition from 1974 measures…
An examination of Cubism inside and beyond France featuring Braque, Picasso, Gris, Delaunay and more. Third impression published by Phaidon Press, six years after first edition. Paperback 24.5cm by 17.5cm, 320 pages, illustrated throughout with black and white and colour images. Condition: Spine sunned, cover edges a little worn, ownership bookplate inside front cover. Overall…
Hamish Hamilton, 1991. First edition examining the life, career and legacy of Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando and James Dean. 23.5cm by 15.5cm. 214 pages. Condition: Some creasing to spine and edge-wear to covers. Clearly been read but clean contents.
“Dah, Dah, Dah, Daaah!” went the opening bars of This Is Your Life’s theme tune. When those notes started up it was after Eamonn Andrews had taken off the false moustache/preposterous “disguise” and, er, revealed himself to the celebrity he was about to spend the next half hour embarrasing with guests and biographical details. This…
“It is 1962. The Beatles have released Love Me Do and John Glenn has orbited the Earth. But in this pit village in County Durham, everyone is looking back towards the traditions of the past…” A First Edition by the Tyneside writer who died in 2004. Macmillan, 2001. 20.5cm by 13.5cm, 309 pages. Hardback in…
Ursula Moray Williams was a Children’s author and this title is one of her earlier books. First edition, lacking dustwrapper, published by Harrap, 1937. 20cm x 14.5cm blue boards. 254 pages. Colour frontispiece and black and white drawings illustrated by the author. Condition: Lacks dustwrapper, there is foxing in the pages and page 33 is…
Glastonbury or The English Jerusalem by Rev C.L. Marson.Third edition, 1925 published by The George Gregory Bookstore, Bath. Subtitled The Historic Guide to the English Jerusalem with sketches by H.S. Stewart and other illustrations. Bluecloth hardback 18.5cm by 12.5cm, 106 pages.The author’s Preface begins “In presenting a short outline of a splendid subject, the writer…
First paperback edition published by Beauclerk Publishing in 1990. The author’s memoir of training at Florence Nightingale’s training school for nurses at St Thomas’s Hospital in Lambeth, London in the 1950s. The nurses were known as Nightingales. A paperback measuring 20.5cm by 14cm with 182 pages. Condition: There is some wear and soiling to page…
Hatching Game Birds’ Eggs in Incubators booklet 11b, produced by Eley Game Advisory Station, 1966. First published in 1961, this is a revised edition from Autumn 1966. It is book 11b in the Game Management Booklets produced by Eley Games Advisory Station of Fordingbridge, Hampshire for Eley Ammunition Division.. This 21cm by 15cm booklet comprises…
Wildfowl Management on Inland Waters booklet 3 produced by Eley Game Advisory Station, 1969. First published in 1969 this is book three in the Game Management Booklets produced by Eley Games Advisory Station of Fordingbridge, Hampshire for Eley Ammunition Division. This 21cm by 15cm booklet has 80 pages and includes information on hatching, rearing and…
This book blends British commercial and social history spanning two hundred years with the story of the UK Board of Trade. It is illustrated with contemporary cartoons, portraits and photographs and mentions the Board’s many distinguished presidents including Gladstone, Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. The book measures 21cm x 20cm, has 153 pages and is…
The Blue Coat Inheritance by Mike Matson 2012 Volume One: The Eighteenth Century Blue Coat School. This paperback book measures 21cm by 15cm and has 240 pages. It is a first edition, published by M.C. Matson in 2012.This first volume about the 18th century Blue Coat School is subtitled Transition from Charity School to Grammar…
Tacitus Agricola edited by H Furneaux Roman history book. Second edition published Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1953. The title page reads “Cornelii Taciti de Vita Agricolae edited by H. Furneaux Second Edition Revised and Largely Rewritten by J.G.C. Anderson with contributions by the late Professor F Haverfield.” This hardback book measures 19cm by 13cm…
Green cloth hardback 22cm by 14cm with 301 pages. Includes society President G.E. Aylmer’s Address entitled Collective Mentalities in mid Seventeenth-Century England: The Puritan Outlook. Condition: Minor shelf-wear to boards and spine but otherwise clean and bright.
The Interregnum The Quest for Settlement 1646-1660 edited by G.E. Aylmer revised reprint from Macmillan, 1979. This paperback book measures 21.5cm by 14cm and has 247 pages. It is a 1979 reprint of the revised edition which came out in 1974. The first edition was published in 1972. Each chapter has a different author including…
A Paperback Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled: What Happened to Us? Britain’s Valedictory Realism and features John Banville on Anthony Blunt plus Hilary Mantel, Hanif Kureishi, Philip Hensher, Fintan O’Toole and more.21cm by 14.5cm 254 pages. Condition: A Very Good clean copy. N.B. We have more copies of…
The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled Over There How America Sees The World and features Edmund White, James Kelman, Paul Theroux, Studs Terkel, Gary Shteyngart and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: Minimal edge-wear with a couple of Granta leaflets laid in. N.B. We have more copies…
The Magazine of New Writing edited by Jason Cowley and featuring Hilary Mantel, Annie Proulx, Douglas Coupland and more.21cm by 14.5cm 286 pages. Condition: Miniscule shelf-wear. Appears unread. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.
The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled Necessary Journeys and features Ian McEwan on Dunkirk plus Decca Aitkenhead, Dayanita Singh, Isabel Hilton plus the untold story of how the FBI pursued James Baldwin. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: edge-wear to covers and page edges. N.B. We have more…
A paperback magazine of new writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue’s theme is News and features Zoe Heller, Gordon Burn, Fintan O’Toole and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: Crease down front cover and covers slightly yellowed with age. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask…
The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. Travel writing special featuring John Burnside, Michel Faber, Tessa Hadley and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: Clean contents but slight wear and creasing to covers. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.
The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack and featuring Isabel Hilton, Luc Sante, Tessa Hadley plus a rare interview with James Joyce. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: very clean and tight. Appears unread. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.
The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack and featuring Richard Ford, Olga Tokarczuk, Nik Cohn, A.L. Kennedy and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 254 pages. Condition: Clean contents but crease the spine of front cover. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.
The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled Life’s Like That and features Simon Gray, Lynn Barber and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 254 pages. Condition: some shelf-wear. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.
A Paperback magazine of new writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled The Best of Young American Novelists and features Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides, Fae Myenne Ng, Mona Simpson and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 320 pages. Condition: A few pages to the rear of the book have creasing to the bottom corner plus…
The feminist classic first published in 1971, this is a paperback reprint by Flamingo in 1993. Book measures 20cm by 13cm with 397 printed pages. Condition: previously owned. Pages browned with age and some edge-wear to covers but contents clean and complete.
A beautiful retro school prefect badge for the Princess in your life…or you Inner Princess?! The bar-shaped badge is one of 250 produced to celebrate the publication of Elaine Cusack’s book, The Princess of Felling. The book is a memoir of Elaine’s childhood and teenage years in North East England in the 1970s and 1980s….