Burns, Robert ("Midget" Classics)

POEMS BY ROBERT BURNS with Glossary

London, Burgess & Bowes Ltd. first edition, printed in Belgium. 1964 according to Miniature Book News #3 . 77x53mm (3" x 2.2") cream embossed paper-covered boards, gilt cover title "POEMS CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT by Robert Burns", in slightly chipped dust jacket with Nasmyth portrait & proposals for his Scotch poems 1786 in yellow on cream paper over-printed Robert Burns (slight wear to edges of dust jacket). Ownership inscription Kenneth Lamin, Nottingham & with love from D.M. Wakeling. All Edges Gilt edges sl.rounded as issued 256pp includes Titlepage & glossary. *A neat copy with the rare dust jacket. According to the Miniature Book News #3, March 1966, the 12 volume "Midget Classics" series was published in 1964 (reference from Commandant's Cottage Antiques and Books who list another book in the series).

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Book number: F72459

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: miniature Burns

Cameron, Isabel

THE STREET OF THE SPINNERS

London, Religious Tract Soc. 1st first edition 1936 . Octavo black cloth printed in blue lettering (tips worn/sl. rubbed but sound and clean) nicely cut out cover & part of spine of dust jacket tipped to endpapers 223pp. Inner hinge strengthened with cloth name to fore-edge else neat and tight. *The strife between occult forces and the parish clergyman for the health and minds of the Gaelic village.

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Book number: F48325

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction

Le Carre, John

SECRET PILGRIM

New York, Knopf first Edition stated 1991 . Octavo black cloth in dust jacket 335pp V.G+ in V.G+ jacket

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Book number: F54454

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: crime fiction spy espionage thriller first edition

Carter,Chris and Les Martin

THE X FILES #2 Darkness Falls A novel by Les Martin Based on the television series

London, Harper Collins 1995 . Paperback with Mulder and Scully on the cover (slight creasing tips rubbed) 108pp pages clean and white and tight. *TV spin-off based on the teleplay series of FBI investigations.

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Book number: F72800

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: supernatural TV spin-off

Cerf,Bennett

LAUGH'S ON ME

London, Hammond,Hammond 1st British edition 1963 Illustrated by Doug Anderson . Octavo pictorial boards (tips slightly worn/some marks mainly to lower board) 304pgs slight edge foxing else V.G

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Book number: F51392

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: humor American

Cheyney,Peter

I'LL SAY SHE DOES

London, Collins 1st edition 1945 . Octavo yellow cloth in edge-torn dust jacket (tips sl.darkened) 192pp V.G+ in nice jacket *Lemmy Caution Series written as a result of a promise Cheyney made to two Austrailian officers who had been prisoners of war.

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Book number: F58111

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction first edition

Clarke,Arthur C.

SONGS OF DISTANT EARTH

London, Grafton/Collins 1st edition 1986 . Large octavo boards in dust jacket (tips slightly rubbed) 182pp ex library with erasure to back of titlepage and to margin of last page. Lacks FEP and some surface loss to pastedown a few faint marks else V.G

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Book number: F49873

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: science fiction fantasy first edition

Cooper, J.F. [James Fenimore Cooper](1789-1851)

NOVELS, ROMANCES, AND TALES containing The Pilot + The Spy + The Pioneers + The Last of the Mohicans + Lionel Lincoln + The Prairie + The red Rover + The Water Witch + Imagination. Complete in One Volume.

London, Bruce and Wyld 1844 . Large Octavo half tan leather on 4 raised wide gilt decorated bands & black title label. Sides with marbled paper on boards, one-inch split to head of spine, worn and peeled, boards edge rubbed. All edges marbled. General titlepage + individual titlepages 102pp 97-500pp. The Pilot titlepage dated 1844. The Spy dated on its title 1846. The Pioneers dated 1845. Last of the Mohicans dated 1842. Lionel Lincoln dated 1845. At the foot of p500 it reads "End of the 1st volume of the Novel Newspaper. 107pp = The Prairie 146pp = Red Rover 136pp = Water Witch 27pp + Imagination. These four separately paginated books are all dated 1844 on their titlepages. In double columns throughout with The Pilot having pages 33 to 64 misbound after the end of this story on page 102. A few isolated foxing marks else a neat tight copy. Owner's name William Probyn Hurst to endpaper, dated 1st September 1881.

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Book number: F75352

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: Novels

Cox, Richard

SEX-SEEKER's BEAT

London, Adult Classic series Paramount Library N D . Small octavo printed card covers 175pp.;

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Book number: F52944

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: erotica fiction

Craik, Mrs. [Dinah Maria Mulock, 1826-1887]

JOHN HALIFAX GENTLEMAN

London, T. Nelson and Sons 1919 approx. frontispiece . Duodecimo blue blindstamped cloth (tips & spine edges slightly worn) 537pp + vi publisher's catalogue. Paper browned throughout but pages clean & supple. Ownership Geo Greening, Winchcombe on rear endpaper and NOTES on flyleaf by H[arold] Greening a local historian owner about facts in the text - the sale of Tudor House Tewkesbury in 1926 and cutting down of trees mentioned at p533 in the text.

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Book number: F73853

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: Victorian fiction Tewkesbury Gloucestershire topography

Daudet,Alphonse

LETTRES DE MON MOULIN introduction par Charles Sarolea

Paris, Nelson Editeurs 1936 Plates (4). . Duodecimo leather-grained blue with gilt spine titling (tips sl.rubbed) Top Edge Gilt 283pp +[5]pp publisher's adverts. Name to fly leaf else neat and tight. *French text.

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Book number: F72265

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: French fiction

Davies,Margot

CALLING NEWFOUNDLAND POEMS 1940-41 edited and introduced by G. Wilson Knight

London, Warren House Press 1st first English Edition 1982 Frontis portrait. . Octavo plum cloth in dust jacket (tips bumped) 56pp inscription to half title else clean and tight. Poetry.

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Book number: F71995

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: poetry

Dexter,Colin

DEATH IS NOW MY MEIGHBOUR The New Inspector Morse Novel

London, Pan Books 1997 . Paperback [viii] +413pp Inspector Morse detective mystery novel set in Oxford.

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Book number: F72819

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: crime fiction Oxford

Dickens,Charles Illustrated by Marcus Stone, J Mahony, F A Fraser, E G Dalziel, Townley Green etc.

CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND + CHRISTMAS STORIES

London, Odhams Press 1930's illustrated to both books by Marcus Stone, J.Mohony, F A Fraser, E G Dalziel, Townley Green . Small fat octavo red cloth with portrait medallion to cover, gilt decorated spine title (sl.bumped tips rubbed and spine sl.sunned) Frontis.& art décor TP +362pp +half title + frontis.+TP +402pp * See others in the set incl.Tale of Two cities etc. THIS volume

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Book number: F67917

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction & juvenile history

Dickens,Charles

CHRISTMAS STORIES (A Christmas Carol + The Chimes + The Cricket on the Hearth)

London, Heirloom Library reprint 1956 Color plates (8) by William Littlewood . Octavo pictorial boards (tips sl.worn/marked & spine darkened) 288pp EPs bit marked and foxed inscription on back of EPs. A few isolated marks else neat and tight.

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Book number: F62639

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: Christmas fiction Dickens classic