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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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First edition. 239pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's purple cloth-backed purple paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed and sunned. Pencilled ownership inscription to half-title, else internally clean and crisp. The first edition of the first book to be published under the imprint that would become the Fortune Press; a bitter condemnation of the character of the Scottish people, the final published work of Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (1865-1924). Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ dj. Baby Peggy Edition. (price-clipped) [modest wear to spine extremities and lower corners; the jacket has a few small nicks at both ends of the spine, and some minor winkling across the top edge of the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by "Baby Peggy" / Diana Serra Cary on the title page. Reprint of a Burnett short story (originally published in 1881 and later adapted for the stage), issued as a tie-in to the 1924 movie adaptation, retitled THE FAMILY SECRET, and illustrated with numerous stills from the film. The movie starred "Baby Peggy" (born Peggy-Jean Montgomery in 1918), who was then one of Hollywood's most famous (and highly-paid) child stars, but whose stardom would come to an abrupt halt just a few years later. However, in 1925 she was still a big enough deal to have several "Baby Peggy Editions" of movie-sourced books issued to capitalize on her popularity. As her career as a top-line film star began to fade, she turned to vaudeville (successfully for a time), and then to extra work, before getting out of showbiz altogether and moving on to other lines of work. Later in life she established herself as a respected film historian and biographer, and published her own memoir, "What Ever Happened to Baby Peggy," in 1996. Prior to her death in 2020, she was the oldest living person who had been a genuine star during the silent film era. Signed by Actress.

Second thousand. 23pp, [1]. With a half-title. Modern dark green cloth-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed. Half-title browned. A sarcastic poem by Lewis Carroll - of Alice in Wonderland fame - on the architecture of Christ Church College, Oxford, poking fun at the new belfry installed in 1872. Due to financial limitations, the project's lofty ambitions were never executed, and instead a large wooden cube served as the belfry until it could be tactfully hidden behind new walls. Carroll's poem mocks the shape of the structure, commenting snidely that 'two builders of bathing-machines at Ramsgate have followed his example: one of the great London houses is supplying 'bar-soap' cut in the same striking and symmetrical form: and we are credibly informed that Borwick's Baking Powder and Thorley's Food for Cattle are now sold in no other shape'. Size: 12mo.