Literature
The Hard Way. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2015. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 371 [3]. Number 79 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 Midnight Line.
London: Bantam Press, 2017. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 391 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's white cloth with black titles to spine. Blue endpapers and all edges blue. With the dust-jacket designed by Stephen Mulcahey, priced at £20. 'Signed..... More
No Middle Name. The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2017. [Thriller Short Stories] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] viii; 418 [6]. Number 26 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles..... More
Nothing to Lose. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2016. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 407 [3]. Number 76 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
One Shot. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2015. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 376 [2]. Number 86 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
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 Story of a Puppet or the Adventures of Pinocchio. Translated from the Italian by M.A. Murray. Illustrated by C. Mazzanti.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. [Fairy tale] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[6]; 232. Publisher's white cloth with blue floral decoration, blue title to spine and upper. Edges and endpapers repeating the design of the cloth. Illustrated with a tissue protected frontispiece and numerous in-text illustrations by..... More
Lionboy: The Chase.
London: Puffin, 2004. [Children's Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 320; [6]. With occasional illustrated maps and diagrams by Fred van Deelen. SIGNED by the author/s in black ink to the title page. Publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine. Orange endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... More
Bad Blood.
London: Harvill Secker, 2013. [Swedish Crime Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[4] 342 [6]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, dated Stirling, 14.09.2013. Publisher's red paper over boards, with black titles to spine and black endpapers. Publisher's photographic dust-jacket, priced at..... More
Wild Decembers: a Play in Three Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1932. SIGNED PRODUCTION COPY. Octavo, pp.97. In publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Flyer for the Apollo Theatre production pasted to front paste-down. SIGNED by the author and nineteen members of the cast and crew from the May production of the following..... More
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and Exportation.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1895]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 624 [2]. With 40 engraved plates by Browne, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and textured green..... More
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and Exportation.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, Mixed Issue. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 624 [2]. With 40 engraved plates by Phiz, including a frontispiece and vignette title. Lacks the half-title. Contains most first issue points, but 'Birds-Eye' is hyphenated in the Contents. Contemporary tan half calf, with..... More
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and Exportation.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, Mixed Issue. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 624 [2]. With 40 engraved plates by Phiz, including a frontispiece and vignette title. Extra-illustrated with later engraved plates by Chapman and Hall, depicting Little Paul, Florence, Edith and Alice. Lacks the half-title. Contains..... More
Dombey and Son. Or, Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and Exportation.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. [Classic literature] FIRST EDITION, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED includes errata leaf within prelims, bound from the parts, without half-title. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[xvi]; 624. Illustrated with frontispiece and vignette and a further thirty-eight plates, plus three additional portrait plates by H.K. Browne ('Phiz'). Period-style half brown oasis..... More
The Bride Wore Black.
London: John Gifford, 1942. [Wartime Novel] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.247 [1]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate to front pastedown, over a removed library bookplate. The blurb from the jacket flap pasted to fly-leaf. Both hinges repaired..... More
Confetti for a Killing.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1937. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, LATER ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.280; [8]. Publisher's secondary binding of red cloth, black titles to spine, dust-jacket illustrated by Nina Miller Davidson. Neat ownership to flyleaf, light spotting and dustiness to edges. Jacket clipped and repriced at 4/6..... More
The Novels [Works] of George Eliot. Adam Bede; The Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life; Felix Holt; Romola; Middlemarch; Daniel Deronda.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, no date [circa 1890s]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND SET, mixed printings from a New Edition. Complete in eight volumes, bound as seven. Octavo (19 x 14 x 22cm), pp.[2] viii; 466 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 486 [2]; pp.[2] vi; 158; viii; 330 [2]; pp.[2]..... More
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe.
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. [English Literature]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4 of publisher's advertisements]; [6]; 364; [16 of publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind decoration to boards. All edges untrimmed. Armorial bookplate of Alfred Gilbey to front pastedown, neat ownership..... More
Kemlo and the Martian Ghosts. Illustrated by A. Bruce Cornwell.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1954. [Sci-fi] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vi; 202. With six full-page illustrations by Cornwell and a colour halftone frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth, titles and pictorial motifs blocked in navy to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. Light spotting throughout interior and to..... More
The Passion Flower Hotel.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. [Erotic comic novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.189; [3], blank. Publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge green, dust-jacket priced at 15s. Contents clean, small splash to fore-edge else fine in a clean, fine wrapper, lightly worn to crown. Now a...... More
The Stone Leopard.
London: Collins, 1975. [Cold War Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 245 [3]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £3.00. Light spotting and browning to edges. Jacket spine sunned. Near fine. More
Trial from Ambush.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1962. [Crime Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION WITH ORIGINAL ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Randell, not priced. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (34 x 26cm), with..... More