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The Curiosity Cabinet holds Rare Books, including First Editions and items of interest, connected to literature.
The Curiosity Cabinet holds Rare Books, including First Editions and items of interest, connected to literature.
Published by Lutterworth Press, London. First Edition published in 1949. Illustrated by Grace Lodge.
The story of two families, whose gardens adjoin. There are three Carltons - John, Margery and Annette - well-brought-up, clean and tidy children, with nice manners ans ways, fussed over by their proud moither. Rather prim and proper, never climbing trees nor playing “rough” games, the little Carltons are horrified at children like the Taggertys.Pat, Maureen, Biddy and baby Michael!. Rough, Noisy, untidy and careless, not very truthful, and quite selfish, they romp through life with their mad but lovable dog Dopey. what happens when the teo families get to know one another? Ah, that is the story - and a fine story it is, full of wisdom and humour, exactly the right book for any boy or girl.
Condition: A considerable amount of tear and wear to front, spine and back of dust jacket. Corner piece to bottom and top of spine dust jacket and front bottom left corner missing. Previous owner inscription on the front flyleaf, All pages are attached and readable, no missing or loose pages. Mild corner bumping to hardback. Price clipped.
Published by Longmans, Green and Co. 1923. New Edition. With illustrations by Estella Canziani. Gilt motif to front cover with gilt sea horses to spine. Gilt edges to top pages.
Condition: Damage to top and bottom of hardback spine. Pencil inscription from previous owner on first page. Discolouration to cover. Wear to and bending of corners on the hardcover. No Dust Jacket
Published by Macmillan and Co., Limited: London.563 pages. 3rd reprint of 1924 1st thin paper edition. Soft blue leather binding with gilt illustration on face and gilt lettering on spine. With 350 illustrations by the author.
W. S. Gilbert, renowned author of the Savoy Operas, was also the creator of the Bab Ballads--"possibly the best comic verse--and surely the best illustrated--in the English language," according to James Ellis.
Gilbert published these poems, together with his own, grotesque drawings signed "Bab," a childhood nickname, in Fun and other magazines in the late nineteenth century. In 1898, the older and by then distinguished Gilbert substituted pallid and inoffensive drawings for the originals, which he had come to believe "erred gravely in the direction of unnecessary extravagance." Since then the ballads have been collected and published in various editions, most of which have featured the revised drawings and only a selection of the poems.
Condition: Gilt page edges all round Slight damage to edge of pages. Previous owner's inscription..
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William Heinemann LTD, London. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett, the first to be made direct from the Russian New Impression 1946. 617 pages. With dust jacket. Red clothbound hardback, Crown octavo size. Now known as the Devils in English.
As ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky and inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin, plan to spread destruction and anarchy throughout the country. Morally bankrupt, they are prepared to use whatever means necessary to achieve their goal, including murder and incitement to suicide. But when they are forced to test the limits of their doctrine and kill one of their own to secure the secrecy of their mission, the ragtag group breaks up in mutual recrimination. The Possessed is at once a compelling political statement and a study of atheism and its calamitous effect on a country that is teetering on the edge of an abyss.
Seen as Dostoevsky's most powerful indictment of man's propensity to violence, this darkly humorous work, shot through with grotesque comedy
Condition: Cracked inside spine, all pages secure and intact. Little to no foxing and tanning. Previous owner inscription. Slight discolouration to hardback and with mild corner bumping to top and bottom of spine.