"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1878. [Classic Literature] ILLUSTRATED VINTAGE EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[24] 488. Five illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title page. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles and band decoration to spine, black ruling and pictorial title to front board, blind ruling and device to back board..... More
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1905. [Prose Works] COMPLETE THORNTON EDITION. 12 volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm). With a frontispiece illustration to each volume, and numerous black and white photographic plates showing Bronte country. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and Nouveau-style floral decoration to spines, top edge gilt, others..... More
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1905. [Prose Works] LEATHER BOUND THORNTON EDITION, first printings thus. 12 volumes. Octavo (21 x 15cm). With a frontispiece illustration to each volume, and numerous black and white photographic plates showing Bronte country. Recent navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and..... More
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1905. [Prose Works] LEATHER BOUND THORNTON EDITION, first printings thus. 12 volumes. Octavo (21 x 15cm). With a frontispiece illustration to each volume, and numerous black and white photographic plates showing Bronte country. Elegantly bound in navy blue half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles on twin..... More
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1981. [Classic Literature] LEATHER BOUND, first edition thus. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[16] 523 [5]. With occasional black and white illustrations by Liepke, including a double-page frontispiece. Publisher's red quarter morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt-decorated red cloth..... More
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915. [War Poetry] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Pott octavo pamphlet (15 x 12cm), pp.[8]. Publisher's grey card covers, sewn, with blue titles to front cover. Small black ink ownership to front cover. Covers lightly rubbed and thumbed. Lightly toned internally. Very good. The larger collection '1914 and..... More
London: Bantam Press, 2013. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[xii]; [466]. Publisher's pictorial paper covered boards with titles in white to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Claire Ward. Some minor bumps and shelfwear. Near fine. The fourth book in the Robert Langdon series; Langdon wakes up with..... More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1955. [Science Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION, REVIEW COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.224. The publisher's review slip loosely inserted. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink typographic dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. A little light spotting to edges and endpapers. Gilt slightly dulled to..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1967. [Orcadian Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.157 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue dust-jacket illustrated by Patricia Davey, priced at 18s. A lovely crisp, clean copy, with a small black ink ownership to flyleaf. Light wear..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1973. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.206 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the striking dust-jacket designed by Ian MacInnes, priced at £2.00. A black ink ownership to flyleaf, dated 1973. A selection of related newspaper clippings loosely inserted..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, the Hogarth Press, 1984. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[6] 249 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the purple photographic dust-jacket, priced at £8.95. Toned to edges, with heavy sunning to jacket spine. Otherwise a crisp copy. Very good... More
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1862. [Illustrated] FINE COPPER ENGRAVINGS, later edition. Slim quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.34. With seven fine copper engravings after George Harvey, R.S.A., including a frontispiece. Recently re-backed using original white glazed paper-covered boards, with black titles printed to upper board. Black ink gift inscription to half-title..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, second impression thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxvi; 736 [2]. With a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary Art Nouveau binding of green full calf, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and some decoration to boards including red..... More
East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop, 1898. Limited Edition to 480 copies of which this is No.217. SIGNED by Elbert Hubbard. Publisher's quarter white cloth with gilt titles to upper, grey paper boards and end papers; edges untrimmed. Hand coloured stylised capitals throughout the text; superb printing on thick pages..... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1896. [Poetry] LETTERS FROM THE AUTHOR. In two volumes. Octavo. Bound in publisher's green cloth, with gilt motif to front board and gilt titles to spine; top edge gilt. Portrait frontispieces to both volumes. Accompanied by Robert Browning's dried buttonhole decoration from June '86, preserved..... More
Oxford: the Clarendon Press, 1983. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 158 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Light blue endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket titled in red and black. Light spotting to edges. Jacket a little bruised and rubbed, with a closed tear..... More
London: Simon and Schuster, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST THUS, a revised translation. Square octavo (16 x 16cm), 14 leaves, with text facing full colour illustrations by the author. SIGNED by the translator in black ink to copyright page at rear. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper-covered boards. A fine, as-new copy..... More
New York: Ballantine Books. 1983. First US Edition. Octavo. pp. iv, 289. In publisher's quarter cream cloth with black paper-covered boards and gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dustwrapper featuring planets in nebula-scape and a large spaceship. Author's bookplate to front pastedown, featuring an animation of himself assailed by..... More
New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc. 1972. [Science Fiction Short Stories] FIRST US EDITION, AUTHOR'S OWN COPY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.238 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket featuring 'Friday 13' calendar date, priced at $5.95. Author's bookplate to front pastedown, featuring an..... More
London: Constable. 1971. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 222. Dark grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dustwrapper. Author's whimsical bookplate to front pastedown, some very light wear to the dustjacket, a fine copy. More
London: Eyre Methuen, 1975. [Science Fiction]. SIGNED UK FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4]; 185; [1]. Publisher's green cloth, light green titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Signed and inscribed on the title page: "For Frank | John Brunner | 1988 [peace sign]". Some light spotting to edges and to..... More
Boston, MA: The Bibliophile Society, 1907. [American Poetry] LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.[4] xxviii [4]. With a double-sided facsimile plate of the manuscript of each poem, and an engraving for each, together with the printed texts. One of 470 copies thus, finely printed on Japanese..... More
London: Collins, 1963. [Literary Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.320. Publisher's mixed brown and green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket. A lovely crisp copy, with the price-clipped jacket showing just a hint of toning to spine, one closed tear to front panel..... More
London: William Blackwood and Sons, April 1912. FIRST APPEARANCE. Large octavo, pp.[32], 445-496. In publisher's light brown paper wrappers with titles and contents to front cover. Some expected wear; small losses to spine; very good. The first appearance of a strange tale included in the published collection 'The Moon Endureth'..... More
London: William Blackwood and Sons, April 1912. [Weird tales] FIRST APPEARANCE. Large octavo, pp.[32], 445-496. In publisher's light brown paper wrappers with titles and contents to front cover. Some external wear, address stamp to upper, old tape to head and tale of spine; very good. The first appearance of a...... More