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London: Robert Hale Limited, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Bloom, Ursula. ROSEMARY FOR STRATFORD-ON-AVON London: Robert Hale Limited, 1966. 8vo., 192pp. Black & White Glossy Photos (illustrator). First Edition. The story of folks who lived in the small town of Stratford-on-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare, between the years of 1900 and 1910 when it was an old-world small town, surrounded by green fields & devoted to the memory of the bard who had made it great. Bloom lived nearby as a child, & tells of this & that & everything else that went on in this sweetly old fashioned town. A fine copy in price clipped dustwrapper.

Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Sibson, Francis H[enry]. THE SURVIVORS. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. 8vo., 312ppp. Inserted folded map, title page printed in orange & black, original pictorial gray cloth, front & spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained orange, other edges rough trimmed. First U.S. Edition of this "fantastic volcanic eruption under sea brings death to many, a strange romance to two". An adventure novel of survival following the collision of two ocean liners during an earthquake & the subsequent shipwrecks on New Canada, an island continent in the area of the Sargasso Sea raised by volcanic action & subterranean earthquakes. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s- 1930s p. 695. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 62. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 197. Bleiler (1978), p. 179. Reginald 13059. A very good copy that would be described as better save for a few final pages… Leer más

Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, n.d. [1920], 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Saxby, C. F. Argyll. BRAVES WHITE AND RED - A Tale of Adventures in the North-West. Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, n.d. [1920] First Juvenile Series thus also published by Nelson, 1920. but originally First published by Jack in 1907. [6 illustrations by Murray Urquhart] Illustrated tan cloth printed black with coloured oval pastedown to the front cover. Beige dustwrapper with matching colour oval illustration and Nelson at the base of the spine panel. Juvenile Literature set in Qu'Appelle Valley. Scarce Edition. 8vo., 216pp.

New York: The John Day Company, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Cleeve Brian. TREAD SOFTLY IN THIS PLACE. New York: The John Day Company, 1972. 6vo., 316pp. First American Edition. "A Novel of South Ireland Today". A fine fresh copy in dustwrapper.

New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1937. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Morley, Christopher. THE TROJAN HORSE. Signed. New York: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1937. Neatly signed by Morley on the front free endpaper. Brownish cloth covers stamped white & black, spine in black stamped white, top edge stained black. A nice copy of the second edition, [so stated] in illustrated price clipped dustwrapper showing light use. A very nice example.

New York: D. Appleton and Co., [1931], 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Chambers, Robert W. WAR PAINT AND ROUGE. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1931. First edition. [An Historical Novel of the French & Indian Wars times]. 8vo., 379pp. A near fine copy in peppled red cloth, stamped gilt to the spine & upper cover. In a very good dustwrapper that was neatly backed on the verso with brown paper tape. Small number code on top right of DJ. Notwithstanding, the book presents nicely.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fleischmann, Glen. WHILE RIVERS FLOW. An Historical Novel. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1963. Publisher's red cloth stamped gilt to the spine. A fine fresh copy in like price clipped John Lathey designed dustwrapper, a hint of fade to the spine panel, hardly noticable. An excellent example of this novel of the expulsion of the Cherokee Nation. "In the 1830s America was a small country crushed against her eastern seaboard, but already the land-hungry South was pressing westward and the Cherokee Nation - a settled, civilised, prosperous people whose territory was secured to them by treaty - was in the way. The people of Georgia clamoured for a new treaty which compelled the Cherokees to remove west of the Mississippi. Against this historical background - one of the bitterest stains on the history of the United States - Glen Fleischmann has written a powerful and dramatic novel: the story of… Leer más