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J B PRIESTLEY.
A small collection of his work.
All first editions unless otherwise described.

 
     

PAPERS FROM LILLIPUT. 1922. Bowes & Bowes. Pages uncut.
Author's early second book of essays. £12.00

GEORGE MEREDITH. 1926. MacMillan. English Men of Letters.
Dw frayed, torn & tape strengthened. Name on front end paper.
Small bookseller's label on paste-down. Uncommon. £10.00

SELF-SELECTED ESSAYS. 1932. Heinemann. Dw. £36.00

THE SECRET DREAM. 1946. Turnstile Press. Original printed wraps.
An essay on Britain , America and Russia . £8.00

FESTIVAL AT FARBRIDGE. 1951. Heinemann. Dw. £12.00

THE PRIESTLEY COMPANION. 1951. Penguin. Introduced by Ivor Brown.
Extracts from the writings of J B Priestley selected by himself.
Original wraps a little dusty but the book is tight & internally clean.. £5.00

JOURNEY DOWN A RAINBOW. 1955. Heineman-Cresset.
Written with Jacquetta HAWKES. Dw.. £12.00

ALL ABOUT OURSELVES & OTHER ESSAYS. 1956. Heinemann.
Introduced by Eric Gillett. Dw. £16.00

LITERATURE AND WESTERN MAN. 1960. Heinemann. Dw. £15.00

SATURN OVER THE WATER. 1961. Heinemann. Dw. £12.00

SIR MICHAEL AND SIR GEORGE. 1964. Heinemann.
Uncorrected Proof Copy in original printed wraps. £8.00

LOST EMPIRES. 1965. Heinemann. Neat name on front end paper.
Excellent copy with very good dw. £12.00

THE MOMENTS & OTHER PIECES. 1966. Heinemann. Dw.
Name and date on front end paper. £10.00

OUTCRIES AND ASIDES. 1974. Heinemann. Dw. £8.00

INSTEAD OF THE TREES. 1977. Heinemann. Dw.
A Final Chapter of Autobiography. £10.00

THE ENGLISH NOVEL. 1965. April. National Book League. Original wraps.
A list of one hundred boks prepared in conjunction with nine programmes on the English Novel produced by the Associated Television, written & presented by Priestley.. £5.00

WALPOLE, H & PRIESTLEY, J B. FARTHING HALL. 1929. £10.00

AN INSPECTOR CALLS. Programme of the play performed at the Lyttelton Theatre in 1992. Apposite article by Tony Benn & programme notes from Priestley's work. £4.00

BROWN, Ivor. J B PRIESTLEY . 1964. Longmans, Green & Co. Revised Edn.
Erasure on front wrap. £5.00

STONE, Janet. THINKING FACES. PHOTOGRAPHS 1953-1979. 1988.
Chatto & Windus. Introduced by Iris Murdoch. Dw.
Collection of 169 black & white photograph portraits. Subjects include Joyce Grenfell,
Cyril Connolly, Benjamin Britten, C Day-Lewis, Julian Huxley, Henry Moore,
J B Priestley, John Betjeman, etc.. £12.00

TOMLINSON, H M. ALL OUR YESTERDAYS. 1930. Heinemann. Dw.
1st issue with misprint on p19.
Book Society wrap-around contains quotations by Priestley & Walpole.£20.00

KING AND COUNTRY. 1940. Zodiac Books. Selections from British War Speeches 1939-40, including several by Churchill as well as The King and Queen, Eden, Chamberlain, Bevin and J B Priestley. £5.00

ESSAYS OF THE YEAR . Ed. F J HARVEY DARTON . 1929-1930
(J C Squire, J Drinkwater, H Belloc, I Brown, E V Knox, A A Milne, E C Bentley,
A Ransome, J B Priestley, L Golding, M Sadleir, B Dobree, A Birrell, etc.)  £20.00

THE LISTENER . BBC. 22/9/29 . (L Housman-The Watchers. Alan Ross-The Classic Sea . Poems by D J Enright, H Summers, P Dehn. Giles Romilly on D H Lawrence-the poet.
H Foss on Arthur Bliss & J B Priestley. Etc.). £8.00

THE OBSERVER MAGAZINE . 20/4/75. ( Priestley on the heyday of the Royals, 3pp:
R Llewellyn, J Osborne. Original wraps. £10.00

THIS QUARTER . Ed. E W TITUS. 1931 June. v.3/4 . Paris . (Essays by M Belgion,
G Duhamel, L Lewisohn, M Lyle. Stories by J B Priestley, Sherwood Anderson,
Rhys Davies, G Highnet, etc. Poems by J Collier, E E Cummings, E J O'Brien,
A S T Tessimond, Y Winters, H Wolfe, etc. Illustrated. £35.00

AUTHORS TAKE SIDES ON VIET-NAM . Ed. C WOOLF & J BAGGULEY. 1967. Dw. Includes appendices on the contributors & the questionnaire for & excerpts from "Authors Take Sides in the Spanish Civil War." (G Greene, W H Auden, A Miller,
B Russell, H Pinter, J B Priestley, Lord Snow, A Wilson, E Blunden, B Rophy,
P Hansford Johnson, M Muggeridge, H Read, Kingsley Amis, S Spender,
Iris Murdoch, A Powell, Auberon Waugh, D Lessing, A Powell, etc.) £35.00

COMING TO LONDON . Edited & introduced by JOHN LEHMANN. 1957.
Phoenix House. Dw. C Isherwood, W Plomer, L Woolf, V S Pritchett, G Barker,
G Grigson, J Middleton Murry, A Pryce-Jones, E Bowen, W Sansom, J Brooke,
R Macaulay & E Sitwell were asked to recall their first memories of London. £18.00

G.B.S. 90 . Ed. S WINSTEN . 1946. Hutchinson . Dw frayed & torn.
Aspects of Bernard Shaw's Life & Work by J Masefield, M Beerbohm, G Murray,
Lord Keynes, L Housman, J Bridie, J B Priestley, A Huxley, Lord Dunsany,
G Pascal, S I Hsiung, H G Wells, etc. Illustrated. End papers lightly foxed. £6.00

NEW STATESMANSHIP . Ed. EDWARD HYAMS. 1963. Longmans Green & Co, Dw.
(W H Auden, G Barker, H E Bates, B Behan, H Belloc, A Bennett, G Orwell, J Betjeman, W H Davies, E M Forster, R Graves, J Joyce, D H Lawrence, J B Priestley, K Raine, B Russell, S Sassoon, E & O Sitwell, C P Snow, L & V Woolf, H G Wells, G Greene, 2pp; etc.) £5.00

THE RADIO LISTENER'S WEEK-END BOOK . Ed. JOHN PRINGLE. nd. Odhams. Dw. A Selection from Notable Broadcast's of the past five years.
Edited by JOHN PRINGLE . (G Greene-Heroes are made in Childhood-6pp;
V Sackville-West-English Gardens through the Autumn; J Laver, J Stephens,
L A G Strong, St John Ervine, F Swinnerton, J B Priestley, N Royde Smith,
Compton Mackenzie, etc.). £12.00

THE BOOK OF FLEET STREET . Ed. T M POPE. 1930. Cassell. Dw frayed.
(The Confessions of a Fake Merchant, 23pp, by H Williamson, M Armstrong, H Belloc, A Machen, J B Priestley, E Shanks, Huddleston, J C Squire, etc.) Illustrated.
Top edge of blank front end paper cut out to remove a signature. Uncommon. £25.00

TOC H GIFT BOOK IN AID OF WAR SERVICES CLUBS . Ed. HILDA HUGHES. 1944. F Muller. Introduced by Lady Tweesmuir. Short Stories by V Britain , A Blackwood, Clemence Dane, J B Priestley, C Asquith, W De La Mare-The Bowl-10pp;
H E Bates, Dunsany, etc. Dw frayed at top of spine otherwise very good. £15.00

WHAT I BELIEVE by 14 modern thinkers. 1937. F Muller Ltd. Original wraps. Inscription on front end paper. These essays, by de Lord Baden Powell, J B Priestley, S Spender, Storm Jameson, Tangye Lean, G Bullett, T Harrisson & J Huxley,
which first appeared in the News Chronicle. £8.00

HAFFNER, Sebastian. A BOOK OF BRITISH PROFILES. 1954. Heinemann. Dw.
Profiles on Beerbohm, Churchill, H Moore, Priestley, Epstein etc.. £6.00

LAING , Allan M. Editor. IN PRAISE OF BERNARD SHAW. 1949. F Muller.
Small format. Patterned boards. Anthology of praise for GBS with contributions
by Churchill, Priestley, Einstein, Belloc, Chesterton, etc. 62pp. Illustrated.. £8.00

LOW, David. LOW'S COMPANY. 1952. Methuen . Fifty cartoon portraits with accompanying verses by Helen Spalding and L A G Strong. Subjects include Britten, Priestley, Olivier, Greene, Spender, Margot Fonteyne, Henry Moore, Bertrand Russell and T S Eliot. 108pp.. £16.00

MURDOCH, Iris. A SEVERED HEAD. 1964. Chatto & Windus. Dw. Play adapted by the author and J B PRIESTLEY together with the programme of the play performed
at the Criterion in 1963. £40.00

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