Muffin The Mule
MILLS, Annette 1st Edition, 1st Impression. 19.8 x 13.8cm blue cloth covered boards with blue stamped vignette to the front and titles to the spine. Map endpapers, 136pp with black and white photographic frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations by Molly Blake throughout. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page. With original unclipped jacket priced at 6/- net. Together with a press release from University of London Press concerning the book and three letters, the first being a hand signed letter from the author to Hannah Newlands gifting the book and asking her to ring about a proposed talk to the Women's Press Club. The second letter is from Selfridges asking Miss Newlands for publicity for their Muffin the Mule books signing and a copy of a reply from Newlands. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
Miracles
LEWIS, C S 1st Edition.14.5 x 22.2 cm. Teal cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine 220pp, In original unclipped dust jacket priced at 10s 6d. Firm square binding, unfaded boards with dust marking along the bottom edge. Internally clean, without name, inscription or bookplate noting a strip of toning due to acid migration to the free endpapers where the dust jacket does not protect The jacket is a little dust stained with toning to the spine and rubbing to the corners and spine tips with a short tear to the head of the spine and minor loss to the rear joint at the head. A presentable copy. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
CARROLL, Lewis Twenty-Second Thousand. 12.5 x 18.7 cm full red leather binding signed Bayntun-Riviere Bath with triple ruled border to the front and rear boards and a gilt cartouche of Alice carrying a pig on the front and the Cheshire Cat to the rear. 5 raised bands to the spine decorated with gilt spots, ruled gilt borders to the compartments and titles and date. All edges gilt, dentelles with ruled borders, marbled endpapers [iv]blank [x] 192 [1] blank [1] ads [4] blank. A fine, beautifully bound book. Internally very clean and without name, inscription or bookplate. A lovely collectable early copy of this children's classic in a beautiful signed binding. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care. Vigils
SASSOON, Siegfried Privately printed for Douglas Cleveland No. XVII of XXIII large paper copies. 19.3 x 24.2 cm bound in brown niger morocco by John R. Grey and Son Ltd, with a gilt monogram to the front made after an engraving by Stephen Gooden; unpaginated 25 tissue-guarded leaves with poems engraved on copper by Charles Sigrist on one side only, the title-page being a proof signed by the artist. Signed and numbered by Sassoon to the Colophon at the rear. Laid in are a proof copy of the prospectus/proposal indicating that the original price for the book was £6-6-0, together with a list of the 3 different styles of this limited edition and, oddly, a receipted Douglas Cleverdon bill for £12-12-0 for one of the 8 vellum copies. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care. The Hunting of The Snark
CARROLL, Lewis 1st Edition, 1st Printing with "Baker" for "Butcher" on p83. 12.3 x 18.7 cm cream cloth with black stamped tiles and decoration to the boards and spine. All edges gilt, black endpapers [vi]83[3]pp including final page of author's works. With 8 full page tissue-guarded illustrations including frontispiece and blank Ocean Chart. Light dust marking to the boards with a touch of cockling, tiny bruises to the corners on the front boards and just a hint of pushing to the spine tips. Internally there is a bookplate for Sir Charles Philip Huntington on the pastedown, a couple of tiny handling marks and a small label at the foot of the rear pastedown but otherwise the book is clean and bright. A very nice copy. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care. High Magic’s Aid
GARDNER, Gerald B. [Scire] 1st Edition 12.5 x 19 cm black cloth with silver stamped titles to the spine. Pictorial endpapers, 352[1]pp with original unclipped jacket priced at 10/6. The boards are clean with a slight, difficult to see, darkening on the rear panel corresponding with an area of faint rippling on the dust jacket. The corners are firm and sharp. Internally clean, without name, inscription or bookplate and just a hint of spotting on the top edge. The dust jacket is clean and bright and without fading to the spine but with a little dust staining to the white rear panel and some rippling for 3cm along the spine side of the rear panel. There is rubbing to the spine tips and corners with a little surface abrasion and minimal loss to the corners and at the foot of the spine. There is a thin 0.5 x 2 cm chip at the top of the rear joint. All in all an excellent 1st edition copy of this tale of medieval magic from the "Father of Modern Witchcraft". Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.