RAMSEY CAMPBELL

The Seven Days of Cain

Hornsea, UK, PS Publishing. 2010, First Edition. (ISBN: 9781848630987) Hardcover. Book, Unread in undamaged dustwrapper. As New/As New.

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Book number: 005460

Catalogue: Collectable

Keywords: 9781848630987 Horror Fiction Science Fiction, Fantasy, Supernatural, Horror

KAREL CAPEK

Power and Glory

London, George Allen & Unwin. 1938, First. Cloth. Book, A Drama in three acts; English version by Paul Selver and Ralph Neale. Slight foxing eps; dustwrapper faded on spine. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 002360

Catalogue: Collectable

Keywords: Theatre, Drama, Plays, Literature Performing Arts: Theatre, Music, Dance, Cinema, &C

BERNARD CAPES

Loaves and Fishes

London & Glasgow, Collins. 9999, Not Known. Cloth. Book, "Collins Modern Fiction". Colour frontispiece & title page. Front hinge cracked; cloth water stained & darkened, boards slightly warped; half-title loose, some staining page edges. Text generally clean & sound. Fair reading copy of uncommon book. 1930s?. Fair/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001032

Catalogue: Collectable

Keywords: Fiction, Short Stories, Ghost Stories, Supernatural, Fantasy, Crime Crime, Mystery, Detective Fiction Science Fiction, Fantasy, Supernatural, Horror

NOEL CARRINGTON AND JOCELYN RAE (COMPILERS)

This Man's Father - a Pictorial Biography in Two Centuries

London, Oxford University Press. 9999, Not Known. Cloth, 9" x 11". Book, No date, foreword dated 1935. Collection of old photographs linked by whimsical fictional biography. Art deco decorated cloth. Label of Times book club. Light coloured cloth rather soiled; corners bit bruised; slightly cocked. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001900

Catalogue: Collectable

Keywords: Social History, Photographs Humour

SEAN O'CASEY

The Star Turns Red

London, Macmillan. 1940, First Edition. Cloth. Book, Cloth stained on corners, endpapers browned, d/w very frayed ends of spine, few tears on back. Contains cutting of contemporary review (from New Statesman) of production at the Unity Theatre, by Stephen Spender. He wasn't wholly impressed. Good/Fairly Good.

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Book number: 002354

Catalogue: Collectable

Keywords: Drama, Theatre, Plays, Ephemera, Criticism Irish Interest Performing Arts: Theatre, Music, Dance, Cinema, &C

REV. JAMES F. CASSIDY

Visions of Ireland, Old and New

London & Edinburgh, Sands & Co. 1933, First Edition. Cloth. Book, Chapter headings - The Tears of Ireland, Some Phases of Gaelic Spirituality, The Inspiration of Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish Conservatism, St. Columkille, Patriot & Poet, Ireland and the Sea, The Poetry of Padraic Colum, The Celtism of St. Patrick, Natre, the Supernatural & Irish Music. Foreword by Prof. Alfred O'Rahilly. Cover & spine ends damp stained; some foxing page edges and endpapers. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002557

Catalogue: Collectable

Keywords: Ireland, Gaelic, Religion, Spirituality Irish Interest History

HENRY CECIL

Fathers in Law

London, Michael Joseph. 1965, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Rear endpaper creased; small closed tear top rear of dustwrapper. Legal novel about adoption. Good/Good.

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Book number: 004140

Catalogue: Collectable

Keywords: Fiction Law Novel Adoption Modern Fiction

MARC CEPPI AND HENRY RAYMENT

Sentence Expansion Leading to Free Composition in French by the Direct Method

London, G. Bell. 1922, Reprint of 1st Edn. Cloth. Book, Limp green cloth, 86 pages. Label in front from Dame Alice Owen's Girls' School, governors the Worshipful Company of Brewers of the City of London, for the use of (Violet Farmer/ Doris Tilyard). School name stamped on a few pages. Cloth bit worn & creased; well used. Wrapped in brown paper. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002563

Catalogue: Collectable

Keywords: French Language Text Book, Education London Text Books

HENRY CHAMPLY, TRANSLATED WARRE BRADLEY WELLS

White Women, Coloured Men

London, John Long. 1939, Second Cheap Edition. Hardcover. Book, Staggering white supremacist rant, translated from the French, apparently (I haven't read it all) concerning a a plot by the Japanese to wipe out the white races by interbreeding. Sexist, racist, fascist, you name it, quite mad. Surprised it found a respectable publisher even in 1939. Cloth worn and faded, boards warped, one prelim missing, hinges weak, some foxing. Fair/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004929

Catalogue: Collectable

Keywords: Social History Racism Sexism Prejudice White Supremacism Conspiracy Theory Politics, Economics, Social Studies

CHARLES CHILTON

The Red Planet

London, Digit - Brown, Watson. 1963, First Thus. Soft cover. Book, Slight creasing to cover, edges brown, name on flyleaf; but good firm copy of scarce paperback. "The story of the record-breaking radio serial Journey into Space". Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004271

Catalogue: Collectable

Keywords: Science Fiction Radio Mars Jet Morgan Science Fiction, Fantasy, Supernatural, Horror

FATHER CHINIQUY

The Priest, the Woman, and the Confessional

London, W. T. Gibson. 9999, Twenty-third Edition. Hardcover. Book, Blue cloth worn and very discoloured; names on flyleaf and half-title; couple of pages browned at beginning and end. Portrait frontispiece. No date given; gift inscription dated 1886. Charles P. Chiniquy, 1809-1899 was a Canadian Catholic priest who became a Presbyterian pastor. An anti-Catholic tract inveighing against auricular confession. Good Plus/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005341

Catalogue: Collectable

Keywords: Temperance Canada Protestantism Anti-Catholic Philosophy, Theology, Religion

AGATHA CHRISTIE

Parker Pyne Investigates

London, Collins Crime Club. 1967, New Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library, Edges brown, ex-library - stamps on reverse of title, bit of label inside front cover, dustwrapper encased in polythene, but appears to be in good order inside, except for some rubbing to lower right hand corners. Stamp Islington Libraries on lower edge. Front hinge neatly reinforced with clear tape. New edition in attractive scarce dustwrapper. Not strictly all detective stories - Parker Pyne advertises that he makes people happy, some of the stories involve detection, others modifying people's lives, rather like one of Chesterton's Queer Trades. Good/Good.

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Book number: 003101

Catalogue: Collectable

Keywords: Crime, Mystery, Detective, Fiction, Short Stories Crime, Mystery, Detective Fiction

DEREK CLIFFORD

A History of Garden Design

London, Faber & Faber. 1962, First Edition. Hardcover, 7.5" x 10". Book, Slight edgewear to dustwrapper, now in protective cover. Small mark in margin of one plate. Numerous b/w illustrations. Label of Henry Sotheran Bookseller. Heavyish - may need extra shipping to some locations. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 005509

Catalogue: Collectable

Keywords: Social History Horticulture Gardening History

R. B. COATS

BBC Basic

London, Edward Arnold. 1987, Reprint. Soft cover. Book, Large paperback, 250 pages. Slight creasing of cover corners. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003639

Catalogue: Collectable

Keywords: Computers Computing Programming Teaching Text Book It Science, Technology, Medicine

WILLIAM COBBETT

Advice to Young Men, and (incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life

London, Griffin, Bohn, and Company. 1862, New Edition. Hardcover. Book, Original green embossed cloth, gilt titles on spine; engraved portrait frontis. Prelims, frontis & tissue guard foxed; hinges cracked; text has a few spots & creases, generally clean & sound; cloth a little worn on corners. Loosely inserted review from Daily Mail 1907, which has caused browning of two pages of the catalogue at the back. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002231

Catalogue: Collectable

Keywords: Essays, Philosophy Philosophy, Theology, Religion