Literature
Persuader. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2014. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 342 [2]. Number 84 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and..... More
Running Blind [aka The Visitor]
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2013. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 360. Number 93 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
Without Fail.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2014. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xiv; 374. Number 85 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
Worth Dying For. A Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2018. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xii; 384 [8]. Number 84 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
The President is Missing.
London: Century, 2018. [Political Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 513 [9]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges red and American flag endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £20.00. A sticker removed from front cover. A fine, as-new copy. More
The Works of James Fenimore Cooper. [Including 'The Last of the Mohicans'; 'The Pathfinder'; 'The Deerslayer' etc.] The Mohawk Edition.
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, no date [circa 1895]. [American Literature] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE SET. 32 volumes, ctavo (22 x 15 x 96cm). Printed by the Knickerbocker Press. Each volume with a photogravure frontispiece reproducing illustrations by F.T. Richards. Contemporary tan half calf with gilt titles to contrasting red..... More
Lionel Lincoln. Or, The Leaguer of Boston.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832. [Classic Literature] EX LIBRIS WILLIAM GLADSTONE. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.viii; 408; [2], blank. FIRST ILLUSTRATED, One Volume Edition. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary brown half calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Marbled boards, edges and endpapers..... More
By Love Possessed.
New York, NY: Hardcourt, Brace and Co., 1957. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 570. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original white dust jacket, featuring a clock and red titles. Text block slightly age toned; jacket spine sunned to brown; chips from jacket spine and corners; one..... More
The Scorch Trials.
London: Chicken House, 2010. [Young Adult Fiction] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.361; [1]. One of 3000 copies SIGNED by the author. Hardback in pink dust-jacket, with black paper-covered slipcase. In the original shrink-wrap. Fine/as-new. The second book in the 'Maze Runner' series. More
The Ginger Man. With an Introduction by Arland Ussher.
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. The Traveller's Companion Series, n° 7. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.353 [5]. Publisher's green card covers. Trivial wear, bump to top corners else a fine, fresh copy of this important book. The Irish American playwright's first novel, being the..... More
The Ginger Man.
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1958. [Modern Literature] FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.382. Publisher's green cloth with printed title lables to spine and upper, and red endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 15s. very minor wear to jacket edges. A lovely near fine copy. The Irish American..... More
A Father And His Son.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1943. FIRST UK EDITION. INSCRIBED by the author to Massachusetts bookseller, Hans Rohr, to front free end paper. Octavo. pp. 410. In publisher's yellow cloth with black titles to spine. In original dust jacket. Very slight nicks and tears to jacket spine edges, otherwise very..... More
Young Lonigan.
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1943. Octavo, pp. 201. red cloth with black titles to spine, in pictorial dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper. War economy standard paper is quite brittle with uneven browning. Some closed tears, wear and some small areas of loss to the..... More
Manila Envelope.
Quezon City: [James Fenton], 1989. [Small press poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Number 669 of 1000 copies. Octavo (28 x 22cm), pp.48. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the limitation page. Printed on grey speciality paper. Glossy pictorial softcovers, unpriced. Comes with a folded manila poster titled 'Manila Manifesto'..... More
The Memory of War.
Edinburgh: The Salamander Press, 1982. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.93; [1], blank; [1], notes; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of £6.95 printed to front flap. With added stanza loosely inserted. Toning to dust-jacket, very minor bumping..... More
Don Juan, A Play in Three Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1926. LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.xiv, 160. With a frontispiece photograph of the author. Number 150 of 380 copies printed on hand made English paper. In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spine sunned; good overall. Flecker was inspired to write..... More
Darkmouth.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2015. [Children's Adventure] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.411 [5]. With several illustrations by de la Rue. Publisher's black soft covers with titles in orange and green. Price, format and publicity details to inside cover and first leaf. Spine very slightly sunned. A hand-written number..... More
The Jonah.
London: New English Library, 1981. [Horror] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.253; [1]. Publisher's white boards, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by James Herbert priced at £6.50. Some light spotting to preliminaries and edges, textblock otherwise clean and bright. Cloth lightly rubbed to extremities, some marking to..... More
To You Mr. Chips!
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp244. Printed in two colours, with illustrations. Publisher's orange cloth, in dust-wrapper illustrated by Bip Pares. Some dustiness, jacket edgeworn, some rubbing, spine age-toned. Very good. Further stories of the retired schoolmaster Charles 'Chips' Chipping. Includes the festive..... More
The Outcry.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. [Classic Literature] First Edition, the UK and US editions being published simultaneously. Crown octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 261; [1]. Publisher's mid-brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Blue ink ownership to front pastedown, dated..... More
The Portrait of a Lady.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. [American-English Literature] FIRST EDITION. Three volumes, octavo (19 x 13 x 9cm), pp.266, 253, 248. With all half-titles present, publisher's 24-page catalogue (dated April 1881) to rear of the final volume. Handsomely bound in half brown polished morocco, gilt, by Trevor Lloyd M.B.E., with raised..... More
The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw [and] Covering End.
London: William Heinemann, 1898. [Strange tales] FIRST EDITION, first impression, earliest state. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[iv]; 310; [2], blank; [32], catalogue. Title page printed in two colours. Publisher's mid-blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper cover, with four irises in blind to centre of same, edges untrimmed..... More
Washington Square. The Pension Beaurepas. A Bundle of Letters.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. [Literature] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, Hybrid issue. Two volumes, Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.265; 271. With a 24-page catalogue at the rear of volume II, dated January 1881. Publisher's blue-green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, coated brown endpapers. Contents clean. A used set with some..... More
Innocent Blood.
London: Faber and Faber, 1980. [Crime novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.276. Publisher's maroon paper boards, titles and publisher's imprint in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at £5.95. Text block toned (heavier to top edge). Near Fine in Fine jacket. More
The Lighthouse.
London: Faber and Faber, 2005. [Crime Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 323 [3]. SIGNED and dated '27 Oct 2005' by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's navy paper over boards, with cream titles to spine and green endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by..... More