Literature
The Secret Pilgrim.
London: Penguin Books, 2011. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED COPY, first thus. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6] 423 [3]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's soft covers, priced at £7.99. A fine, as-new copy. An espionage novel with George Smiley in a supporting role. More
The Secret Pilgrim.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1991. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 335 [9]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine and blue endpapers. With the blue, yellow and red dust-jacket. Jacket price-clipped, otherwise a crisp, near fine copy. An espionage novel with George Smiley..... More
Single and Single.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999. [Legal thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.336. Publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt titles to spine, yellow endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of £16.99. Lightly handled; near fine. Following his Cold War espionage novels, John Le Carré now switches to the post-Soviet..... More
Single and Single.
New York, NY: Scribner, 1999. [Crime fiction] SIGNED US FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp. 345 [7]. Black quarter cloth over red paper boards, with gilt titles to spine. With the gold and red dust-jacket designed by John Fontana, priced at $26.00. A little light handling. Fine..... More
[Smiley vs Karla trilogy] Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, [together with]; The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974, 1977, 1980 [November 1979]. [Espionage thriller] ALL FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes complete, uniform octavos (22 x 14 x 11cm). Publisher's blue and black hardcovers lettered in gilt, purple topstain to first volume, peach-coloured endpapers to first volume, Hong Kong/China map endpapers to second volume (the..... More
[Smiley vs Karla trilogy] Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, [together with]; The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974, 1977, 1980 [November 1979]. [Espionage thriller] ALL FIRST EDITIONS, SIGNED in first volume. Three volumes complete, uniform octavos (22 x 14 x 11cm). Publisher's blue and black hardcovers lettered in gilt, purple top stain to first volume, peach-coloured endpapers to first volume, Hong Kong/China map..... More
[Smiley vs Karla trilogy]: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; Smiley's People.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974, 1977, 1980 [November 1979]. [Espionage Trilogy] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 11cm), pp.350, pp.532, pp.328. Bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards, top edges gilt, and with the original..... More
The Little Drummer Girl.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[8] 430 [10]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine; top edge tinted brown. With the bronze typographic dust-jacket, priced at £8.95. Small blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise minor handling and some sunning to..... More
The Naive and Sentimental Lover.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971. [Suspense] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.416. Publisher's black cloth blocked in gilt, grey endpapers, top edge tinted red, dust-jacket designed Tony Geddes. Light general handling, top edge dusty. Near fine in similar price-clipped jacket. The semi-autobiographical story of a man's post-marital existential crisis..... More
Our Kind of Traitor.
London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2010. [Spy Novel] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.306; [6]. Publisher's hardback black cloth binding lettered in gilt, red endpapers, in pictorial dust-jacket priced at £18.99 to front flap, publisher's 'signed' label to upper. Carefully read, jacket shows..... More
Silverview.
London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2021. [Spy Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.208; [12]. Publisher's hardback green cloth binding lettered in white, sand-coloured endpapers, in pictorial dust-jacket priced at £20 to front flap. A fine copy. The last complete work by the chronicler of our age..... More
Goldengirl.
London: Cassell, 1977. [Sports Dystopia] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] 377 [3]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at £3.95. Light rubbing, bumping and sunning out outer edges of binding and..... More
Spider Girl.
London: Cassell, 1980. [TV Documentary Dystopia] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 292. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's black quarter cloth with silver titles to spine and red paper over boards. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £5.95. A fine copy. A...... More
Fly Me A Killer.
London: Robert Hale, 1962. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. A lovely crisp copy, with just a touch of spotting to the top edge. Jacket lightly rubbed and toned, with a few..... More
Lorien Legacies. I Am Number Four; The Power of Six; The Rise of Nine; The Fall of Five; The Revenge of Seven; The Fate of Ten; United As One.
London: Michael Joseph, 2010 to 2016. [Young Adult Fantasy] COMPLETE FIRST UK EDITIONS, the final volume SIGNED. Octavo (24 x 16 x 23cm), pp.[4] 360; pp.[4] 380; pp.[4] 330 [2]; pp.[4] 342 [6]; pp.[4] 315 [1]; pp.[4] 347 [1]; pp.[4] 348. Final volume SIGNED by the author in black ink..... More
United as One.
London: Michael Joseph, 2016. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[4] 348. SIGNED by (an) author in blue ink as 'Pittacus Lore' to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at £14.99. 'Signed Copy' Sticker to front cover..... More
The Bell Jar.
London: William Heinemann Contemporary Fiction, 1964. [Modern Literature] SECOND EDITION, the First Book Club Edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 258 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Dodie Masterman, not priced. Heavy spotting to edges, otherwise crisp and clean internally. Jacket shows..... More
A L'Hopital Marie Madeleine.
Paris: Editions du Sagittaire, 1924. [Surrealist Novella] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 12cm), pp.107 [5]. Number 709 of just 750 copies of the first edition. Publisher's plain soft covers with the brown paper wrap-around jacket titled in red and black to spine and front cover. Also with the glassine..... More
Early Lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid, recently discovered among letters to his schoolmaster and friend George Ogilvie. With an Appreciation of Ogilvie.
Preston: Akros Publications, 1968. [Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 16cm), pp.28. Number 93 of 350 copies thus. Publisher's green card covers, sewn, with green fly-leaves, and a green card prospectus / order form loose to preliminaries, marked as paid with thanks by the publisher Duncan Glenn..... More
In Memoriam James Joyce from a Vision of World Language.
Glasgow: William MacLellan, 1955. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.150. With occasional illustrations by Fergusson. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt decoration to upper. Top edge green. With the green dust-jacket titled in white, and priced at one Guinea. Spotting and..... More
Cornish Heroic Song for Valda Trevlyn, and Once in a Cornish Garden.
Padstow: Lodenek Press, 1977. [Poetry] DOUBLE SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[5] 22 [1]. SIGNED by both MacDiarmid and his wife Valda, one in blue, the other in black ink to flyleaf. With three illustrations by Lorgan, including a frontispiece, and a photograph of Christopher and Valda..... More
First Hymn to Lenin and Other Poems.
London: The Unicorn Press, 1931. [Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp.[10] 44 [2]. Number 221 of 450 copies thus. With a portrait illustration of the author as a frontispiece. Publisher's black quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and to red cloth over boards. Top edge..... More
At the Sign of the Thistle. A Collection of Essays.
London: Stanley Nott, no date [1934]. [Literary and Political Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.222 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 5s. A little toned, with a light tobacco scent. Jacket a little rubbed to edges, with a...... More
The Burning Passion.
Glasgow: the Akros Press, 1965. [Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (26 x 16cm), pp.[6]. Number 2 of just 35 copies thus. Publisher's orange card throughout, sewn. A fine copy. First printed in 'First Hymn to Lenin' (1931). More
A Clyack-Sheaf.
London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1969. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 57 [5]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge brown, typographic dust-jacket, priced at 18s. A lightly sunned strip to top edge on rear cover of jacket, and some spotting to edges. Near..... More