Literature
The Burning Question.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1957. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Randell, priced at 10/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (31 x 25cm)..... More
Long Shadows.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1958. [Crime Mystery] 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 (29 x...... More
A Screw Loose: My story so far.
London: B and T Publishers, 1977. Signed First Edition. Octavo. Bound in wine cloth with gilt titles to spine. Red dust wrapper bears titles in red and white to spine and front and rear covers. The binding is tight. The text is clean, and shows no signs of spotting. The..... More
The Witch of the Low Tide. An Edwardian Melodrama.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8]; 247; [1]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Biro with printed price of 15s. Light toning to edges of text block, wearing to edges of jacket, expected toning to white of..... More
The Hunting of the Snark.
London: Harper and Brothers, 1903. [Children's Illustrated Literature] FIRST EDITION THUS, deluxe binding. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[2]; xiii; [1]; 248. Publisher's cream cloth lettered in gilt to upper board and spine. Seventeen illustrations including the tissue-guarded frontispiece, decorative borders in green. Some small tears around name card holder to..... More
Lewis Carroll's Diaries. The Private Journals of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (including: Vol. 1 January to September 1855; Vol. 2 January to December 1856; Vol. 3 January 1857 to April 1858; Vol. 4 May 1862 to September 1864; Vol. 5 September 1864 to January 1868; Vol. 6 April 1868 to December 1876; Vol. 7 January 1877 to June 1883; Vol. 8 July 1883 to June 1892; Vol. 9 July 1892 to December 1897; Vol. 10 Complete Index Reconstruction of the First Two Missing Volumes).
Luton: Lewis Carroll Society, 1993-2007. [Diaries] SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS. 10 volumes uniformly bound. Octavos (22 x 16cm), pp.158; [2], blank. pp.158; [2], blank, pp.199, [1], blank, pp.399; [1] blank, pp.416, pp.552, pp.606; [2], blank, pp.[2]; 688; [6], blank, pp.408, pp.502; [2], blank. Publisher's blue leatherette lettered in gilt to front..... More
The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch. With a Foreword by Florence Milner.
London: Cassell and Company, 1932. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 19cm), pp.[xvi]; 193; [3]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper, decoration to upper, top edge tinted black. Illustrations throughout. Occasional spotting to textblock edge, a neat ownership inscription to front endpaper in black ink..... More
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1867. [Children's illustrated] EARLY PRINTING, the seventh thousand. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 192. With in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Tenniel. No ads at rear. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt devices to boards. All edges gilt; dark navy endpapers. Bound..... More
Fingle-Fangle.
London: Hurst & Blackett, no date [1949]. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.190 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Kris, priced at 8/6. A large clumsy blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise an exceptionally clean, bright copy, with just a...... More
See How They Run. Embassy Row 2.
London: Orchard, 2016. [Young Adult Novel] SIGNED FIRST UK PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.334 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's soft covers, priced at £6.99. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front cover. A fine, as-new copy. Second in the 'Embassy Row'..... More
Black Venus.
London: Chatto & Windus, the Hogarth Press, 1985. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.121 [3]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black dust-jacket designed by Don Macpherson. A lightly handled copy in a price-clipped jacket. Near fine. More
Victorian Fiction. An Exhibition of Original Editions at 7 Abermarle Street, London, Janurary to February 1947.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xiii, 50. With 16 b/w photographic plates detailing some of the highlights of the exhibition. With Foreword and Introduction by Carter and Sadleir. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pink pictorial dust jacket. Chipping and closed tears..... More
Tokiwa and Other Poems.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1895. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 357; [3]. Publisher's stippled pink cloth over boards with red pictorial decoration and titles to upper, small rose design to lower. Gilt titles to spine. Edges untrimmed. Interior toned with some foxing, mostly to preliminaries and endpapers..... More
Miss Seeton Draws the Line.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1969. [Crime Satire] FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 213 [1]. With a 'review copy' slip loose to preliminaries, as well as a bookplate detailing provenance. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the aubergine dust-jacket designed by..... More
Except the Lord.
London: Michael Joseph, 1953. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 287. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original black and brown dust jacket, featuring black and yellow titles. Slight lean, and even age toning throughout. Jacket somewhat dog-eared to top edge; very good overall. The story..... More
The African Witch.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1936. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.448. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. A lovely clean copy internally. Moderate wear to covers; gilt dulled and slightly chipped. Very good. The Irish author's third novel, set in Nigeria, and his first real success..... More
The Horse's Mouth.
London: Michael Joseph, 1944. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. 291. In publisher's orange cloth with silver titles to spine. With original brown dust jacket with green titles. Expected browning to text block; reading lean. Jacket browned to spine; chips to head and tail. Large closed tear to back cover. Front cover..... More
Marching Soldier.
London: Michael Joseph, 1945. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.28. A single long poem. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to upper. With the plain dust-jacket, titled to both covers. Bookseller's label to front pastedown. Jacket price-clipped, with a little light wear and chipping to edges. Near..... More
The Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova di Seingalt. Translated into English by Arthur Machen.
London: The Casanova Society, 1922. [Memoirs] LEATHER-BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Complete in 12 volumes. Quarto (26 x 21 x 36cm). Privately printed for subscribers only on fine hand-made paper, number 452 of 1000 sets thus. With a frontispiece to each volume, as well as 17 maps, and an index. Recently re-bound..... More
Broken Heart Club.
London: Puffin Books, 2016. [Teen Novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[6] 307 [7]. SIGNED by the author in gold to title page. With occasional illustrations by Erin Keen. Publisher's blue and white heart-illustrated paper-covered boards (no titles), with blue endpapers and promotional bookmark loosely inserted. With the..... More
Lucy Gayheart.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 231; [3]. In publisher's mid green cloth, printed labels with black lettering to spine and upper board. Toning to edges of textblock, sunning to spine, rolling to spine, bumping to corners, dust-jacket missing. Very..... More
Bird Notes From the Nile.
Westminster: Archibald Constable and co., 1904. [Ornithology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.xii; 113; [3]. Advertisements to rear. With 22 illustrated plates, including a tissue-guarded colour frontispiece. Also with numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, black titles to upper and spine, pictorial decoration in black to upper. Fore and..... More
The Spanish Ladie, and two other stories from Cervantes translated from the original by James Mabbe, 1640, and newly illustrated by Douglas Percy Bliss.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1928. [Illustrated Spanish Literature] FIRST BLISS-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Small quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[8] 197 [3]. With occasional wood engraved illustrations by Bliss, some printed in colour. Publisher's salmon quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine and grey paper-covered boards, illustrated in brown to upper..... More
The Sting.
London: HarperCollins, 2019. [Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 435; [3]. Publisher's white cloth, purple titles to spine, purple endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Claire Ward, printed price £12.99. All textblock edge tinted pink. Signed by the author in black ink to title page. Minor bump to..... More
The Literature of Roguery.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1907. First Edition. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 14cm). Publisher's embossed green cloth, gilt titles to spines, top edges tinted green. Very light rubbing to extremities, signs of label removal to spines. Blind stamp to title page and first page of text of each volume..... More