Literature
No Dust in the Attic. [with Original Artwork].
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1962. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION with the ORIGINAL DUST-JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the deep pink dust-jacket illustrated by John Rose, priced at 12/6. Together with two separate original artworks by..... More
Ring for a Noose.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1963. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Rose, priced at 12/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Rose (31 x...... More
Cent Proverbes. Texte par Trois Tetes dans un Bonnet. Nouvelle Edition Revue et Augmentee pour le Texte par M. Quitard.
Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, no date [circa 1870]. [Surrealist Humour] FINE HAND-COLOURED PLATES, a New Edition. Quarto (27 x 19cm), pp.[6]; 551; [3]. With many in-text illustrations, as well as 50 fine hand-coloured plates by Grandville, including a frontispiece. All text in French. Finely bound in black half calf with..... More
Un Autre Monde. Transformations, Visions, Incarnations, Ascensions, Locomotions, Explorations, Peregrinations, Excursions, Stations, Cosmogonies, Fantasmagories, Reveries, Folatreries, Faceties, Lubies, Metamorphoses, Zoomorphoses, Lithomorphoses, Metempsycoses, Apotheoses, et autre Choses.
Paris: H. Fournier, Libraire-Editeur, 1844. [Surrealism] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[6] 295 [3]. All text in French. Extensively illustrated with wood engravings by the author throughout, including a frontispiece and decorated title page, as well as 36 hand-coloured plates. Recent quarter brown morocco with gilt titles and decoration..... More
Killer Conquest.
London: Collins, 1947. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. With a bookplate loose to preliminaries detailing provenance. Publisher's purple cloth with silver titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Browning and spotting to preliminaries; light rubbing to cloth. Jacket toned to..... More
The Mandarin Cypher.
London: Collins, 1975. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.256. SIGNED by the author ink black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket, designed by Craig Dodd, price-clipped and re-priced at £2.95 by the publisher. Light wear to cloth..... More
Grass for his Pillow.
London: Macmillan, 2003. [Historical Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[14] 306. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and black endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. The first sequel to 'Across..... More
Day of Judgement.
London: Collins, 1978. [Cold War Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Reg Boorer, priced at £4.95. Lightly sunned to spine else a fine copy, perhaps carefully read once. More
The Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wickenham.
London: Henry and co., 1895. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; 290; 14. Publisher's green cloth to boards, gilt titles and blue pictorial decoration blocked to upper and spine. Illustrated title page. Half-title lettered in orange. Advertisements to rear. Top edge gilt, the rest untrimmed. Light toning throughout..... More
The Eiger Sanction.
London: Heinemann, 1973. [Suspense] FIRST U.K. EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp229; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth hardcovers with gilt titles to the spine, photographic dust-jacket priced at £2.10. Contents clean, no ink names. A fine copy in a near fine wrapper. The British first is rather scarce. A secret..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1907. [Children's Illustrated] RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, DELUXE SIGNED ISSUE, number 347 of 560 copies. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.xx; 549 [3]. With twenty-four mounted coloured plates, captioned tissue guards, twelve illustrations with tint, and sixty-six line drawings. Publisher's gilt decorated white vellum with fore-edge ties..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1842-1847. [Strange Tales and Humour] FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS, volume I a third edition, volumes II and III first editions. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 339 [1]; pp.x; 288; pp.viii; 364. With a total of 18 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Henry Frowde, 1905. [Children's Illustrated] LEATHER-BOUND OXFORD EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. [2]; lv; 527; [3]. With 26 engravings, including a frontispiece portrait of the author, by Cruikshank, Leech and others. Publisher's green cloth with maroon label and gilt lettering to spine, gilt decorations to boards, dentelles. Marbled..... More
An Awkward Lie.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1971. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of £1.20 or 24s to front flap. Toning and spotting to top edge of textblock, rolling to spine. Very good. Michael Innes was a Scottish novelist and academic... More
Arms for Adonis.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1960. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by William Randell, priced at 10/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (23 x 18cm)..... More
Gordon League Ballads for Working Men and Women.
London: Skeffington and Son, 1897. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xviii; 165 [3]. Publisher's light brown cloth with dark brown titles to spine and upper. Small green bookseller's label to front pastedown. Light spotting to endpapers, and a strong tobacco scent. Spine toned, with little light wear..... More
Biggles Takes a Holiday.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1949. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.190; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in red to upper board and spine, red pictorial motif to upper, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of 6/- to front flap. Illustrative frontispiece and seven other coloured illustrated plates throughout..... More
In Gallant Company. [A Bolitho Novel].
London: Hutchinson, 1977. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.287; [1]. With maps to grey endpapers. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Chris Mayger, priced at £3.95. Spotting to edges. Some rubbing to cloth and some light bruising to jacket edges..... More
The Inshore Squadron. [A Bolitho novel].
London: Hutchinson, 1978. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.256. Maps to light blue endpapers. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Chris Mayger. A crisp, clean copy, in a price-clipped jacket, a little sunned to spine. Very good. September 1800: Richard..... More
The Only Victor.
London: Heinemann, 1990. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 340 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Geoffrey Huband, priced at £13.95. Some browning and spotting to edges, otherwise a bright, clean copy. Very good. More
A Tradition of Victory.
London: Hutchinson, 1981. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.296. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, cartographic endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Chris Mayger. Discreet Harrods library blind stamp to rear pastedown. Some spotting to edges, slightly handled with some bumping to corners and spine..... More
Command a King's Ship.
London: Hutchinson, 1973. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.320. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket priced at £2.50. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper, with promotional bookmark. A further instalment in the brilliantly expert Bolitho series. March 1784: Bolitho, new captain of His Majesty's..... More
Sloop Of War.
London: Hutchinson, 1977. [Naval Adventure] INSCRIBED COPY, the third impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.319 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'To Donald James – | with best wishes | Alexander Kent.' Publisher's maroon cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and maps to grey endpapers..... More
I Owe You One.
London: Bantam Press, 2019. [Modern fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 374 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's white cloth with gilt titles to spine, and yellow endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Richard Ogle, priced at £20.00. 'Signed Copy' sticker..... More
Shopaholic to the Rescue.
London: Bantam, 2015. [Romantic comedy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.320. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Lucy Truman and designed by Becky Glibbery. Signed by the author to the title-page. Signed sticker to dust-wrapper. Fine. The ninth instalment of the series following the life of Rebecca..... More