Sillitoe, Alan: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. London: W.H. Allen 1959. First edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.176. Internally very clean. Sage green cloth, gilt title to spine. Slightly cocked, some faint stains to cloth, stripe of toning near gutter to each free endpaper, illegible ms initials to front pastedown, good. Dust jacket a little creased at edges, price intact, very good. The author's second book, a Hawthornden Prize-winning collection of short stories; published one year after the success of Saturday Night & Sunday Morning. The eponymous lead story was the basis for the highly-regarded movie (of the same title) directed by Tony Richardson. Ref: 54668show full image..
Sillitoe, Alan: The Ragman's Daughter. London: W.H. Allen 1963. First edition. first impression. 8vo., pp.189, [i]. Very mildly toned, a little faint foxing to first leaf. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Edges very slightly rubbed, faint foxing to endpapers, very good. Green Foyles Bookshop sticker to front pastedown. Dust jacket a bit creased at edges, a few marks, price intact, very good. First appearance of these seven stories in book form, Ref: 54669
Sinclair, Ian: (McKean, Dave, illust.:) Landor's Tower or The Imaginary Conversations. Uppingham / London: Goldmark / Granta Books, 2001. Limited edition, first printing, signed by the author and the illustrator. 8vo., pp.[viii], 345, [xxi]. Deep red cloth, gilt title to spine, fine. Matching cloth-covered slipcase. Very faint shelf wear, near fine. Limited edition of 250 illustrated signed copies issued by Goldmark, this copy numbered 95. Ref: 54878show full image..
Singer, Charles & Sigerist, Henry E. (eds.): Essays on the History of Medicine presented to Karl Sudhoff on the occasion of his seventieth birthday November 26th 1923. Z?rich: Verlag Seldwyla, 1924. First edition. 8vo., pp. 418 + plates. Trivial ink stain to bottom margin at edge only of 4pp. and edges a little dust-marked, otherwise internally unblemished. Hardback: buff cloth, gilt-lettered to spine and upper board. Cloth covering spine detached in one piece but present (loosely inserted), split along gutter between title-page and Contents but binding holding well, corners and top edge a little bumped, cloth discoloured. No dust-jacket. Currently a useful reading copy; rare and eminently reparable. Bookplate of the Bibliotheca Cariana to front pastedown. "3d" in ink to top corner of ffep. Eighteen essays in English, German or Italian covering a range of medical topics from Antiquity to Modern Times. Ref: 53953
Smith, Stevie: Tender Only to One. Poems and Drawings. London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. First edition. 8vo., pp.[ii], 77, [i]. Lightly foxed. Blue cloth, silver title to spine, top edge blue. Endcaps a little rubbed, corners slightly bumped, still very good. Dust jacket a bit grubby, spine toned with a little loss at each end, good. First edition copy of Smith's second collection of poetry. Ref: 54975show full image..
Solerius Cemeliensis, Anselmus, pseud. [Raynaud, Th?ophile]; (Frisius, Andreas Wilhelmus, ed.): Bosso, Girolamo: De pileo c?terisque capitis tegminibus tam sacris, qu?m profanis. Editio novissima aucta, emendata & figuris ?neis exornata; [bound with] De toga romana commentarivs, Accedit ex Philippo Rvbenio iconismus statuae togatae, et praeter indicem geminum, quem adjecimus, De modo gestandi togam ex Ferrario dissertatio. Amstelodami [Amseterdam]: sumptibus Andre? Frisii, 1671; 1671. 2 works bound as 1, often found together. 12mo., pp. [xii], 379, [xli] + 4 plates, including 3 folding; 84, [xii] + 1 folding plate. De Pileo with engraved title-page and second title-page with vignette (both part of first gathering), many engraved illustrations several of which occupy a full page, with final blank leaf. Very slightly toned but clean, short repaired tear to De Toga Romana's folding plate at gutter. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, edges sprinkled red. A few marks and smudges, corners very mildly rubbed, a very good copy indeed. Solerius' De Pileo is a curious work on hats and headgear, pseudonymously published by the French Jesuit theologian Th?ophile Raynaud (1583-1663). Amongst the numerous illustrations, the engraved title-page is signed by Romeyn de Hooghe; one folded plate is signed by Cornelis Galle. This 'new edition' of 1671 followed its original publication in Leiden in 1655. Here, it is found paired with the second edition of Girolamo Bosso's work on Roman secular and clerical togas, which made its first appearance in Pavia in 1614. Lipperheide 1650; Barbier III 700 & Lipperheide 220; Colas 399 Ref: 52285show full image..
Southern, Pat: Domitian. Tragic Tyrant. London: Routledge, 1997. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 164 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, light foxing and dust to top edge of boards and text block. Dust-jacket, light shelf wear. Still a very good copy. Ref: 53205
Southon, Emma: A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome. New York: Abrams, 2021. First edition, second impression. 8vo., pp. xii, 339. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear, very good. Ref: 54513
Speidel, Michael. P Riding For Caesar: The Roman Emperors' Horse Guard. Harvard University Press, 1994. First edition. 8vo., 223 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: blue cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-dusting only: very good. Ref: 54225
Spence, Joseph: Polymetis: or an Enquiry concerning the Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets and the Remains of the Ancient Artists. Being an Attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley 1747. Folio, pp.xii, 361, [i] + portrait frontispiece + 41 plates (of which 2 double page and two double page and folding). Further engraved illustrations in the text. Toning transferred from the frontispiece image to the title-page, foxing and some blotchy toning, a few short closed tears to lower margins. Contemporary mottled brown calf, raised bands, spine lightly gilt, red morocco title label, edges sprinkled red. Both endcaps plus tail endband lost, upper joint cracked at each end but holding firm, corners frayed, repaired scrape to upper board, endpapers toned, rubbed but very good overall. To front pastedown, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst, and small shelfmark label. First edition of Spence's (1699?1768) interesting book on the connections between ancient artists and poets. The "long gestated Polymetis was published as a lavishly illustrated folio in February 1747 and earned him at least ?1450 by subscription and sale of copyright. Conceived during Spence's first visit to Italy and with much of its material collected there, Polymetis was intended to show how the works of ancient artists and of Roman poets illustrate and explain one another. It was attacked in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Laokoon (1766) and, though new editions appeared in 1755 and 1774, and abridged versions for the use of schools were current until the 1820s, it sank fairly quickly from serious notice. However, it proved an invaluable guide to mythological images for Keats." (ODNB). Polymetis is, in common with several of Spence's other works, written in dialogue form as he thought that the first person singular seemed arrogant. ESTC T133753 Ref: 55035show full image..
