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London: New English Library, 1969. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.220; [4]. Publisher's red and stippled pink cloth to boards, gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at 25s to front flap. Pink endpapers. Interior and edges moderately toned. Some scuffing to jacket, with sunning to spine. Gentle wear and bumping to jacket extremities. Very good. Groupie, a fictionalised but accurate account of sixties rock n roll/groupie culture, was one of the first English novels to incorporate a variety of sixties slang. As lexicographer Jonathon Green writes: 'Groupie gets 22 citations in the Oxford English Dictionary from "downer" to "trippy" and "spliff" to "uptight," a mini-lexicon of Sixties-speak.'.
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Groupie
by FABIAN, Jenny (born 1950) and BYRNE, Johnny (1935-2008)
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Some Common Birds of West Africa. With Coloured lllustrations
by FAIRBAIRN, W.A. (died 1984)
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Lagos: Church Missionary Society Bookshop, no date [1933]. [Ornithology] FIRST EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 12cm), pp.xii; 112. With a fine colour illustration of each bird. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Light spotting to endpapers. Very light rubbing to cloth with a few marks to lower board. Near fine. A small book on the bird-life of West Africa intended for schools, with a view to fostering an interest in conservation.
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They Found Each Other
by FAIRLIE, Gerald (1899-1983)
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1946. [WWII Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Burgundy publisher's cloth with black titles to spine and upper. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Bip Pares, priced at 8/6. A lightly used copy, jacket with a few nicks and tears, small amount of colour bleed at foot. Very good.
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Captain Bulldog Drummond
by FAIRLIE, Gerald (1899-1983)
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London; Hodder and Stoughton. 1945. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's oatmeal cloth titled in black to spine. Lightly bumped to extremities, very good indeed. In a dustwrapper that has been somewhat misused, possibly by dastardly enemies of a foreign power. Tape has been used to reinforce the extremities and inner hinges, resulting in som unfortunate patches of discolouration. From the library of the fearless Otto Penzler, suggested that copies of this book are scarce in wrapper.
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They Found Each Other
by FAIRLIE, Gerald (1899-1983)
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London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1946. [WWII Thriller] FIRST EDITION, Ex Libris OTTO PENZLER. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Burgundy publisher's cloth with black titles to spine and upper. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Bip Pares, priced at 8/6. Minor toning to edges. Jacket shows some wear to edges and spine. Near fine.
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The Adam Faith Show [Five Adam Faith Concert Programmes]
by FAITH, Adam (1940-2003)
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1960 - 1964. [Concert Programmes] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLETS. Various sizes from 21 x 13 to 26 x 21cm. Various iterations of the 'Adam Faith Show' in Margate and London. Publisher's paper covers, some in colour, some stapled. Some rubbing to all programmes - more so to the smaller bi-folds. Blue ink annotations to one programme. Very good overall.
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Games Ancient and Oriental and How To Play Them. The Games of the Ancient Egyptians, The Hiera Gramme of the Greeks, The Ludus Latrunculorum of the Romans and the Oriental Games of Chess, Draughts, Backgammon and Magic Squares
by FALKENER, Edward (1814-1896)
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London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1892. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; iv; 366; [2]. Publisher's grey cloth lettered and illustrated in gilt to boards and spine. With in-text illustrations, diagrams, and mounted plates throughout. Spotting to textblock edges, spotting to spine, severe reading lean. Very good. Falkener offers his book to readers in hopes 'that some of the amusements of past ages may take their place among the relaxations of modern times'. In the book, he attempts to lay out the practical rules and principals that will allow the reader to play these historically distant games. Throughout, there are full page and in-text illustrations that demonstrate the rules, equipment, and historical figures playing the game.
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The Lost Stradivarius
by FALKNER, J. Meade (1858-1932)
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. [Strangle Tale/Fantasy] FIRST US EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 239 [13]. Advertisements to rear. Publisher's red cloth, titles and pictorial motifs in black and gilt to upper and spine. Internally clean with the odd mark here and there. Both endpapers re-hinged with minor glue tears to both. Anonymous inscription in black ink to rear paste-down. A couple of small marks to lower board, rubbing to joints and spine ends. Cloth slightly toned. Very good. From the Appletons' Town and Country Library series, No. 185. One of Falkner's three romances - surrounding a haunted violin and the specific piece of music that can summon the ghost attached to it. The tale greatly reflects Falkner's own taste for the Gothic and antiquarian, a student himself of the medieval era and demonology.
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Murder Off Broadway
by FALKNER, Leonard
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London, John Hamilton Ltd. c 1930. 8vo. Publisher's bright orange cloth, lettered in black, in pictorial dust jacket. Minor bumping to extremities with slight fading to spine, trivial spotting to page edges, dust to top edge, very good. Attractive, rather fragile dust jacket with some chips and small losses, including 4cm closed tear to lower spine area, affecting lettering slightly, scuff to front illustration, also very good. A Sundial Mystery Library Edition.
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New and Collected Poems
by FANTHORPE, U.A. [Ursula Askham] (1929-2009)
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London: Enitharmon, 2010. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.508; [4]. Publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of £25.00 to front flap. Previous owner's small red stamp to title page, light scuffing to textblock edges, rolling and to spine, wearing to edges, wearing to edges of dust-jacket. Very good. U. A. Fanthorpe was a widely regarded poet both amongst the general public and fellow poets. In 1944 she was the first woman to be nominated for the Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and she was awarded the Queen's gold Medal for Poetry in 2003.
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Perkin the Pedlar
by FARJEON, Eleanor (1881-1965), [LEIGHTON, Clare, illustrator]
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London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1932. [Educational] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[4]; 206. With numerous in-text lithographic illustrations, including a frontispiece, by Clare Leighton. Blue pictorial cloth over boards. Light toning throughout leaves, with minor foxing to preliminaries and edges. Spotting to cloth boards, mostly lower. Rubbing to joints and extremities. Overall, very good. Farjeon's book to teach children the alphabet, framed as a narrative taking place in Zeal Monachorum. In it, the Alphabet Pedlar pays a visit to a couple and their 26 appropriately named children.
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The High Adventure
by FARNOL, Jeffery (1878-1952)
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London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., no date [1926]. [Regency romance] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; [2]; 370; [4] advertisements. Publisher's red cloth, blocked in black, pictorial dust-jacket. Signed and inscribed to flyleaf: "To: | A. Richardson Esq. | with all good wishes | from | Jeffery Farnol | Nov. 17.26.". Some offsetting to endpapers. Cloth lightly rubbed with a few marks. Dust-jacket shows brightly but with quite substantial rubbing and loss. Very good.
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The Amateur Gentleman. A Romance
by FARNOL, Jeffery (1878-1952)
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London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 1913. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 599 [17]. Publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt to spine and white to upper. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Very light spotting to preliminaries, and some light toning to endpapers. Spine slightly toned, with some light rubbing to cloth. Very good. The Amateur Gentleman tells the story of Barnabas Barty, the son of John Barty, the former champion boxer of England and landlord of a pub in Kent. At the start of the tale, Barnabas comes fortuitously into the possession of a vast fortune - £700,000, an astronomical amount by Regency standards - and determines to use this fortune to become a gentleman. His father objects to this plan and they quarrel, and settle their differences in a round of fisticuffs, which Barnabas wins, beating his father fair and square. Barnabas sets off for London in the furtherance of his ambitions and on the way there contrives to make a number of influential…
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The Amateur Gentleman. A Romance. With Drawings by C.E. Brock
by FARNOL, Jeffery (1878-1952), [BROCK, C.E., illustrator]
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London: Sampson Low, 1916. [Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.xiv; 600. With 21 colour halftone illustrations with captioned tissue-guards, including a frontispiece. Also with a title-page vignette. Red publisher's cloth, gilt pictorial designs and titles to upper board and spine, small onlay illustration to upper. Top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. Lightly foxed throughout, some toning and minor bubbling to endpapers. Faded ownership inscription to flyleaf. Some dulling to t.e.g. Faint black marks to upper board. Sunning to spine and portion of lower. Mild bumping to extremities. Very good. A comedic Regency plot wherein boxer Barnabas Barty comes into a fortune of £700,000 and decides to use the money as a start-up fund for his new aristocratic life (to the chagrin of his father). Later turned into a film starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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Peregrine's Progress
by FARNOL, Jeffery (1878-1952)
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London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., no date [1922]. [Regency romance] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 461; [3] advertisements. Publisher's red cloth, blocked in black, pictorial dust-jacket designed by C.E. Brock. Signed and inscribed to flyleaf: "To: | A. Richardson Esq. | with all good wishes | from | Jeffery Farnol | Nov. 2.22.". Some offsetting to endpapers. Dust-jacket shows brightly with some rubbing and quite substantial loss, some tape residue to top left of upper panel. Very good.
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Seal Morning
by FARRE, Rowena (1921-1979), [SHEPPARD, Raymond, illustrator]
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London: Hutchinson, June 1957. [Nature / Scotland] EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. First edition, fifth impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.178 [2]. With frequent in-text illustrations by Sheppard. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Grey illustrated endpapers. With Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate to front pastedown, and a fresh bookplate detailing provenance loose to preliminaries. Spine sunned with light wear to cloth. Very good. The story of the author's childhood spent on a remote croft in Sutherland, in the north Highlands. From the library of Clement Attlee (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1945-1951), and his wife Violet.
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Young Lonigan
by FARRELL, James T. (1904-1979)
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Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1943. Octavo, pp. 201. red cloth with black titles to spine, in pictorial dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper. War economy standard paper is quite brittle with uneven browning. Some closed tears, wear and some small areas of loss to the dustjacket. A presentable copy with a nice author's inscription.
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A Father And His Son
by FARRELL, James T. (1904-1979)
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London: George Routledge and Sons, 1943. FIRST UK EDITION. INSCRIBED by the author to Massachusetts bookseller, Hans Rohr, to front free end paper. Octavo. pp. 410. In publisher's yellow cloth with black titles to spine. In original dust jacket. Very slight nicks and tears to jacket spine edges, otherwise very good indeed.
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The Dwindleberry Zoo
by FARROW, G.E. (1862-1919), [BROWNE, Gordon, illustrator]
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London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1909. [Children's Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xii; 208 [16]. With 62 illustrations by Browne, including a frontispiece. Publisher's cyan cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt, with grey endpapers. School prize bookplate to front pastedown, dated 1914. Moderate spotting throughout. Spine shows light wear and toning. Very good. A Lewis Carroll-style surrealist children's adventure with animals.
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With Gilbert & George in Moscow
by FARSON, Daniel (1927-1997)
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London: Bloomsbury, 1991. [Art and Russia] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.191 [1]. With frequent black and white and occasional colour photographs. INSCRIBED by Gilbert & George to Michael Barnett in red ink to half-title. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper, and red endpapers. With the red photographic dust-jacket, priced at £9.99. Also including an invitation to a Gilbert & George exhibition, 'New Horny Pictures,' 2nd June to 15th July 2001, Hoxton Square, London, and three related newspaper clippings from the Evening Standard, the Independent Arts Review, and Frieze Magazine; all loose to preliminaries. Some light handling. Near fine. A travel memoir by the broadcaster and writer, born out of the unique and unlikely circumstances of staging an edgy art exhibition in Moscow just as the U.S.S.R. was breaking apart.
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