Literature
Young Vigilance; or, a Broken Link. A Detective Narrative. Old Sleuth's Own No.99.
New York, NY: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, [circa 1920s]. DIME NOVEL. Octavo paperback (19 x 12cm), pp.82 [18]. Publisher's illustrated paper covers, stapled twice. Heavily browned throughout, as expected. Only very light wear to covers. A rare survival. Near fine. References in the advertisements to U-Boats, and to books being..... More
Zantilli; or, Creco's Wonderful Pursuit. A Romantic Detective Story. Old Sleuth's Own No.80.
New York, NY: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, [circa 1920s]. DIME NOVEL. Octavo paperback (19 x 12cm), pp.89 [11]. Publisher's illustrated paper covers, stapled twice. Heavily browned throughout, as expected. Only very light wear to covers. A rare survival. Near fine. References in the advertisements to U-Boats, and to books being..... More
Chandos.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1905. [Romance and Adventure] SIXPENNY NOVEL. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.250 [8]. With a colour Lifebuoy advertisement and stock list to centre of text-block. Publisher's illustrated paper covers, priced at 6d. Toned throughout; heavily browned to cover and edges. Covers detached, heavily rubbed and chipped, with..... More
The Grass Widow's Tale.
London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1968. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket designed by Brian Russell with printed price of 18s to front flap. Minimal splitting to hinges, light toning to edges of textblock, bumping to base..... More
Mystery at Friar's Pardon.
London: The Crime Club Ltd. By W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd. No date (circa 1931). [Crime thriller] Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.284. Publisher's red cloth with titles in black, issued without endpapers. Spotting to edges, first gathering proud (a binding fault from the outset), cloth is rather bright and..... More
The Literature of Crime. Stories by World-Famous Authors.
London: Cassell and Company, 1952. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.ix; [1]; 366. Publisher's black cloth titled to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 15/ to front flap. Ex-libris stamp front paste-down, spotting to some preliminaries and rear blanks, toning and spotting to edges of textblock..... More
The Paddington Mystery.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1925. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 305; [1], blank; [6], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in black to spine and upper board. Toning to endpapers, water marks to upper board, some soiling to cloth, rolling to spine, wear to spine extremities. Very..... More
The Banishing Of Billy Bunter.
London: Cassell and Company, 1956. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.223 [1]. With a colour frontispiece, and black and white illustrations throughout. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine and upper. With the illustrated dust jacket. Light toning and spotting to edges. Price-clipped jacket shows wear..... More
Billy Bunter Afloat.
London: Cassell and Company, 1957. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (29 x 13cm), pp.223 [1]. With a colour frontispiece, and black and white illustrations throughout. Publisher's green cloth lettered in black to spine and upper. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 8s 6d. Light toning and spotting to edges. Jacket..... More
The Orchard of Tears.
London: Methuen and Co., 1936. [Modern Literature] FINE PRE-WAR DUST-JACKET, seventh edition. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 250. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine, illustrative dust-jacket designed by Frank Marston with publisher's advertisements to flaps. Toning and light spotting to edges of textblock, toning and some spotting to..... More
Virgin In Flames.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1953. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.204 [4], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of 9/6 to front and rear flaps. Toning and spotting to edges of textblock, extremely light and infrequent spotting throughout..... More
Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers. Edited by his friend, Reuben Shapcott.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., 1890. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 194 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece. Publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt titles to spine, and black endpapers. All edges untrimmed. A touch of light spotting to preliminaries. Somewhat shaken. Moderate wear to..... More
The Female of The Species.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1928]. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.312; [8], advertisements. In publisher's light blue cloth blocked in black to spine and upper. Edges clean, no inscriptions. A lovely fine copy, lacking the scarce jacket. The fifth Bulldog Drummond thriller... More
Tiny Carteret.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1930]. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Spurrier, priced at 7/6 to spine. Light offsetting to endpapers; text lightly browned. Spine lightly sunned. Rather worn jacket..... More
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.
New York: Beginner Books, 1958. [Children's Illustrated Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[1]; 61; [2]. Publisher's glossy pictorial boards with the dust-jacket of matching design. Coloured illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers. Previous owner's neat note to flyleaf in black ink, bumping to spine and corners, some sunning..... More
Sonntag.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1971. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Mike McInnerney, priced at £1.50 / 30s. Blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise crisp and clean, with a touch of toning to edges and one..... More
"Not So Quiet..." Stepdaughters of War.
London: Albert E. Marriott, 1930. [Great War Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.239 [1]. Publisher's mixed red and white cloth, with red titles to spine and upper. With the illustrated cream dust-jacket, priced at 5s. An exceptionally nice copy, with some spotting and toning to edges. Jacket shows..... More
A Series of Unfortunate Events [Complete]. The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, The Wide Window, The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, The Hostile Hospital, The Carnivorous Carnival, The Slippery Slope, The Grim Grotto, The Penultimate Peril, The End, and The Unauthorized Autobiography.
London: Egmont, 2001 to 2006. [Children's Fantasy] COMPLETE UK FIRST EDITIONS. 14 volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 28cm). With in-text illustrations by Helquist. Volumes 5, 7, and the autobiography complete with wrap-around bands. Volume 8 with the dust-jacket. All in publisher's colour paper-covered boards illustrated by Helquist. Light wear..... More
The Blackbird
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1970. [Spy thriller] FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo (20x 14cm), pp.184; [8], blank. Publisher's dark grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Graphics Partners. A clean, fine copy in near fine price-clipped wrapper. Adventure novel featuring the 'swinging' series character Alan Grofield. Westlake..... More
The Dark Crusader.
London: Collins, 1961. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Pino Dell-Orco. An export copy, not priced. Toning, spotting, and some bumping to edges. Moderate spotting also to pages either side of the..... More
The Satan Bug.
London: Collins, 1962. [Spy fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's mid-blue cloth titled in gilt to spine, in dust-wrapper illustrated by John Heseltine, priced at 16s. No inscriptions, edge spotted, jacket with some chips and tears, some edgewear. Very good. A rather scarce title, being the second..... More
Eurydice.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1953. [Wartime adventure] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author. Crown Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.352. Publisher's dark blue cloth, blocked in white, in full-colour dust-wrapper illustrated by Bip Pares, priced at 7/6. Author's presentation note in green ink to the title page "Signed for..... More
The Way of Escape.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1912. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vi; 383 [9]. Publisher's navy cloth with titles in gilt to spine and white to upper. Front flyleaf neatly removed. Light spotting and toning to edges and endpapers. Light wear and bumping to cloth, with..... More
Black Widow.
London: Robert Hale, 1963. [Psychological thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.190; [2]. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced 10/6. Clean and fresh. Gently handled. A fine copy. The third of her four Robert Hale-published thrillers. More
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade).
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. [Literature] FIRST UK EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, being novelist Sir Walter Besant's copy, a friend of the author and an early public champion of this book. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 438; [34]. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Pictorial red cloth boards, brown floral endpapers..... More