Manchester: The Chetham Society, 1976. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Handsomely produced account of how the early mill and factory owners also sponsored something of a cultural revolution alongside their industrial one. Book has no marking or inscriptions and is very clean and tidy, with binding tight.....
London: Gollancz, 1968. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. A posthumous collection of stories and a novella assembled by the publisher and also including those written with collaborator August Derleth. Book is fine with red boards clean and bright. No marks or inscriptions, no spotting nor foxing. .....
New York: Scroll Press, 1979. Edition: 1st US, reprinted 1979. Book Condition: Very good. A charming compendium of colourful creations, written by children themselves and entirely characteristic of a cheery 1970s internationalist schtick. The book is in very good condition with no culinary confusion coalescing on the contents. Binding firm.....
London: Hutchinson, undated. Edition: no remarks. Book Condition: Very good. Presumed first and only issue of this bumper compilation of 65 stories and 77 authors including Wodehouse, Wilde, Arnold Bennett, Dickens, Doyle, Grossmith, A.A. Milne, Wells et al. Books is in striking yellow boards, very clean. No marks or inscriptions.....
London: Faber, 1968. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Notable as the first winner of the then Booker Prize in 1969 and often regarded as rather baffling, mainly because of the dream-like and/or drunken state of the most unreliable narrator. This very clean example is fine with no.....
London: George Harrap, 1943. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. A very rare and attractive war-time story based around three trains, anticipating in their anthropomorphism another much more famous set of train stories, first published only a couple of years later. This book is in good condition.....