Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes, (1950). small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 49 pages. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Preface by John Carter followed by articles on The Sense of the Past, Why First Editions, The Technical Approach and Bookshop and Auction Room. READ MORE about BOOK COLLECTING, FOUR BROADCAST TALKS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 715
Paris: La Nouvelle Edition, 1949. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, wrap-around advertising band. 341, (3) pages. First French edition. Noted bibliophile Michael Sadleir's novel "These Foolish Things" translated into French by Jules Castier. Includes song "These Foolish Things Remind Me of You" with music on page (9). Pages unopened. With Sadleir's pencilled note "1949" on front free endpaper. Wrap-around band slightly torn. Browned throughout and wrappers darkened, but a nice copy. READ MORE about BAGATELLES
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 59739
London: Constable, (1940). 8vo. paper wrappers. vii, 490, (2) pages. Rare advance proof copy of this title. (Nowell-Smith A36). Heavily darkened and browned throughout due to the exceedingly poor paper used, wrappers and edges of some leaves creased and frayed and backstrip frayed at spine ends. READ MORE about FANNY BY GASLIGHT
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 59576
Paris: Le Nouvelle Édition, (1947). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 522, (6) pages. First French edition (retaining the English title) and first edition of this translation. Browned throughout. READ MORE about FANNY BY GASLIGHT ROMAN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 59670
London: Constable, (1947). small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xi, 501 pages. First edition. A long novel by this bookman on the London underworld of the 1870s. The dust jacket and frontipiece were drawn by John Piper. Tear in jacket and chipping around edges. READ MORE about FORLORN SUNSET
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 10288
Toronto: Longmans, Green and Company, 1947. (1946), 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. xi, 501 pages. First Canadian Edition. Soiled and frayed dust jacket with piece of back cover missing at the top. Presentation from Sadleir on half-title "John Arlott from Michael Sadleir Dec. '46." READ MORE about FORLORN SUNSET
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 59578
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. 8vo. cloth. xi+(i), 339, (5) pages. First U.S. edition of this novel by the writer of essays of books about books (Not noted by Nowell-Smith). Contains an "Advertisement to the American Edition" by the author in four pages at the beginning. Spine and covers faded. READ MORE about PRIVILEGE, A NOVEL OF THE TRANSITION
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 59658
