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Beckwith. Reginald,. Boys in Brown. Percival Marshall, no date Circa 1948. 8vo. Card Covers, balck titles to front. Pp 81. Some small loss to cover spine and back cover. Tight, bright and clean. Scarce soft cover edition.

Pakenham, Lady,. Catholic Approaches. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London. 1955. 1st Edition. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles to spine. Unclipped dustwrapper, has price overwritten in red ink, in removable protective film. PP227. Includes Art and Sacrament by David Jones. Excellent clean bright and tight condition throughout.

Sherry, Gordon. Black Limelight. London, Nelson and Sons, 1939. Ist Ed. Soft cover illustrating stage curtains and priced at 2/-net. A little dust soiled. Pp103 including play script and production notes. Pages have a little age tone to edges,otherwise clean, bright and unmarked throughout. Play first performed in 1937 at the St James Theatre, London.

Stokes, H.G. Winter Sports Simplified. Thornton Butterworth, London, 1927. 8vo First Edition. Brown Cloth, black titles to spine. 159pages with 15 pages of black and white illustrations, as listed. Contents include Winter Sports Holidays, Clothing, Learning to Ski, Luges, Toboggans and Bobs, Skating, Ice Hockey and Curling. Condition of this book is excellent, binding and all pages are tight, bright and clean. No marks or inscriptions.

Aistrop. Jack., and Moore. Reginald,. Bugle Blast. An Anthology from the Services. George Allen and Unwin, London. 1943. 8vo. 1st Ed. Printed boards, cloth spine with black title. Pp159. covers and page edges age toned. Neat ownership mark of Arnold Rattenbury 7/43 on front free end paper. An interesting book with interesting provenance.

Yen, Shih. It happened at Willow Castle. Cultural Press. The Peoples republic of China. 1951. Softcover. Small 8vo 130mm x 175mm. Pp71. Age tone to cover and page edges, otherwise clean and bright throughout. "While in billet in a village a member of the People's Liberation Army became emotionally involved with a girl. He couldn't marry her as this was against the wartime army regulations. And in principle he was not supposed to become too friendly with the daughter of an old fashioned peasant, who always kept an eye on the conduct of the average soldier. Just how he managed to get out of this dilemma is the themewhich this plain story proposes to elucidate. The author is (at present) a cultural worker in the army. This first story, based on actual expereince, has earned him the reputation as one of the best writers about army life." Scarce.

LINDSAY, Jack., Perspective for Poetry. Fore Publications, Key Essays No.1. 1944. 1st edition. 8vo, Illustrated card covers. Pp32. Pages age toned and covers foxed. Pages tight stapled. Shelf wear to edges. Clean and bright.

Gay., John. The Shepherd's Week in Six Pastorals. London, The Scholar Press Limited., 1973. 8vo, Board covers with paper dustwrapper, pp60. Frontis and 4 full page illustrations. Small tear (4mm) to top edge of dustwrapper, otherwise in bright clean condition. An attractive Book.

Harris, Joanne,. Holy Fools. Doubleday, London, 2003, 1st Edition, Signed by Author. 8vo. Unclipped dustwrapper in protective removable cover. Pp 432. In fine condition. Also included is a newspaper review of the book published in The Telegraph 26 April 2003.

Ehrenburg. Ilya. The Fall of Paris. Hutchinson and Co, London, Ca 1942. 1st edition. 8vo. Black boards, blind title to spine, publishers gold device to front. Pp381. Lacks dust wrapper. All edges to binding rubbed. All pages bound tight, bright and clean. On front free end paper is a gift inscription dated 1942 together with an ownership mark of H B Rattenbury, a methodist minister and missionary to China. A neat book with an interesting provenance.

Antonov, Sergei. Poddubki Songs. Edited by O. Gorchakov, illustrated and designed by V. Sveshnokov. Moscow Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow 1953. 12mo 110 x 160mm Softcover soviet Novelettes. PP118. With 3 illustrations within text by V. Sveshnikov. Cover a little bumped a t edges. Tight, clean and bright.

Deighton. Len,. Twinkle Twinkle Little Spy. London, Cape. 1976. 1st Edition. 8vo. Black boards, gilt titles to spine, top edge coloured blue. With unclipped dustwrapper, light shelf wear to edges. Illustrated endpapers. Pp240. Small neat ownership mark on half title page. All pages and binding in excellent tight, bright and clean condition. An excellent 1st Edition.

Chinese Students and their Country's Struggle. China Campaign Committee, London. 1938. 1st edition. 8vo. Printed card covers. Pp32. Light age tone to page edges, otherwise tight, bright and clean throughout.

Lee. Christopher. The Veins of Meaning. Enitharmon Press, London. 1980. 1st Edition. 8vo. Green Cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Unclipped dustwrapper. PP 37. Dustwrapper chipped at spine edges. Binding and pages in near new condition. Inscription in pencil on front free endpaper "Arnold - I found a / copy! Warm wished/Christopher." From the library of poet Arnold Rattenbury. An attractive book with poet to poet provenance.

Gooch. Steve,. Fast One. A Play. Solent Peoples Theatre, Southampton, 1982. 1st edition. 8vo. Illustrated card covers. PP 52. Covers and page edges lightly age toned. Inscribed on title page by author "With best wished from/ Steve."

Ed. Madden. Lionel,. The Liberal. Verse and Prose from the South. Volume the First. The Vision of Judgement by Quevedo Redivivus. 1973. Scholar Press. Printed Card Covers. Pp39, pp30 blank as called for. Age tone to page edgers. Neat ownership mark of poet Arnold Rattenbury on front free end paper. Scarce publication.

Bush. Alan,. Music in the Soviet Union. Workers Music Association, London. 1st edition. 8vo. Printed card covers. Pp32. covers a little bumped, pages age toned at edges. Tight, bright and clean.

Cole. Barry,. Dedications. Byron Press Pamphlet Series. Nottingham. 1st Edition. Limited No.2 of 25. Inscribed by author. 8vo. Pink card covers. Printed titles to back and front. Pp14[1]. Inscribed on title page by author "for Arnold - hoping/we'll one day meet!/ in respect - /Barry/Christmas '74. 3 little marks on front cover, otherwise in tight, bright and clean condition. A neat pamphlet with an interesting poet to poet provenance.

Harris, Joanne,. Holy Fools. Doubleday, London, 2004, 1st Edition, Signed by Author. 8vo. Unclipped dustwrapper in protective removable cover. Pp 273. In fine condition.

Koestler, Arthur.: Twilight Bar - An Escapade in Four Acts. Jonathan Cape, London. 1945. First edition. Small 8Vo approx 200mm x 130mm. pp76. Brown cloth with black titles to spine in good condition with damaged dustwrapper showing shelf wear and darkening to spine. The author "indulges in an extravaganza that might be called a satirical modern morality". Visitors from another planet announce that everyone will be exterminated unless they can justify their 'cumbering' of the earth. If they can prove they are happy they will be spared. A timeless piece perhaps.