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The Bear Fell Free.
London: Grayson and Grayson, 1935. [Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Slim octavo (22 x 15cm). One of the titles in "The Grayson Books" series, a collection of signed limited editions by notable authors. Publisher's gilt decorated green-brown cloth, illustrated endpapers, cream and blue dust-wrapper. Boards a little bowed, jacket with..... More
The Bear Fell Free.
London: Grayson and Grayson, 1935. [Modern Literature] PROOF COPY. Slim octavo (22 x 15cm), unpaginated. Bound in plain brown paper wraps, titled in ink to upper. Minor wear to spine, light handling; near fine. Published in an edition limited to 250 copies, yet only a handful of softcover proofs would..... More
The Complaisant Lover. A Play.
London: Heinemann. 1959. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.77. Publisher's blue cloth in pale green printed dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. A fine, unread copy in similar jacket with some accidental rubbing to the edges of the front panel. A bright example of this Graham Greene comedy, the third..... More
The End of the Affair.
London: William Heinemann, 1951. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 237 [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the white and grey dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Endpapers browned; some sunning to head and tail of spine. Jacket browned to spine, with losses to head..... More
Introductions to Three Novels.
Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag, 1962. [Literary Essays] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (20 x 12cm), pp.48 [4]. Publisher's soft covers, with titles printed in colour to spine and upper. Edges untrimmed. A near fine copy showing a little light wear and toning to covers. A curious item released by the..... More
The Living Room. A Play in Two Acts.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1953. FIRST EDITION: Octavo. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, neat ownership to flyleaf. Original pictorial dust jacket; lightly worn,with a few small chips. Now rather elusive. Graham Greene's first play, a melodrama. WOBBE, R.A, "Graham Greene - A Bibliography and Guide to Research"..... More
May We Borrow Your Husband? And Other Comedies of the Sexual Life.
London: The Bodley Head, 1967. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY in publisher's printed yellow wraps. Clipped at first flyleaf. Externally fine, with minimal creasing to spine. Remarkably clean throughout. Twelve entertaining short stories from Greene, which were received with acclaim. More
A Sense of Reality.
London: The Bodley Head, 1963. [Short stories]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.140. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket. Minor handling; a very good copy. Greene's only fantasy collection; a selection of unusual tales, two of the stories which take their 'reality' from the dream state; 'Under the..... More
A Sense of Reality. Short Stories.
The Bodley Head, London, 1963. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.140. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket. A clean, bright, near fine copy. Greene's only fantasy collection; a selection of unusual tales, two of the stories which take their 'reality' from the dream state; 'Under the Garden' and 'Dream of a...... More
The Tenth Man.
London: The Bodley Head and Anthony Blond, 1985. Uncorrected Proof. Octavo. pp158. Publisher's yellow paper covers with titles in black to front cover and spine. Nominal rubbing to corners, internally pristine; in sum, a very attractive copy. An utterly gripping story of a wealthy French lawyer being held prisoner by..... More
The Tenth Man.
New York, NY: Simon And Schuster, 1985. [Thriller] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.155; [1], blank. Publisher's printed yellow wraps with price and publication date written on upper. Very good, with dampmark throughout. An utterly gripping story of a wealthy French lawyer being held prisoner by the Germans during..... More
The Tenth Man. Contained within a supplement to 'You' (The Mail on Sunday magazine).
London: 1985. FIRST APPEARANCE. Thriller. A 2-part periodical. Publisher's fragile pictorial softcovers, magazine format. Complete in two issues. Near fine. An utterly gripping story of a wealthy French lawyer being held prisoner by the Germans during World War II. Precedes the Bodley Head book-form edition, which was published in March..... More
Three Plays. The Living Room, The Potting Shed, and The Complaisant Lover.
London: Mercury Books / Heinemann, 1961. [Drama] FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION, GREENE FAMILY COPY, INSCRIBED by the author to his wife. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.237; [2], blank. Publisher's softcovers. With presentation note to flyleaf; For Vivien / with love from / Graham [underlined]. Light handling and soiling, spine toned; near..... More
The Encounter.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1951. Octavo. Bound in publisher's red cloth, with titles in black to spine. Front cover of dust wrapper shows abstract pattern in black, red, and white, with titles in white, likewise spine, rear cover shows publisher's advertisements for other titles; unprice-clipped, originally priced at 12s 6d..... More
History of my Pets. With Engravings from Designs by Billings.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. 8vo. Publisher's embossed red cloth with decorative titles in gilt to spine and upper. Frayed to corners and spine tips with chips. Neat owner's name to first free end paper. A lovely copy of the author's collection of stories, written for young people, of..... More
Recollections of my Childhood. And Other Stories. With Engravings from Designs by Billings.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. 8vo. Publisher's embossed red cloth with decorative titles in gilt to spine and upper. Frayed to corners and spine tips with chips. Another collection of stories for children from the author of History of my Pets. More
A Father's Legacy to his Daughters.
London: Printed for W. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1774. [Social history] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (17 x 10cm), pp.[6]; xii; 132; [4]. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt titles to a recent black title label on spine. Marbled endpapers. Two ownership inscriptions to flyleaf, internally clean, toned to edges. Boards rubbed and worn, splits..... More
The Woman in the Case.
London: Greening and Co., 1909. [Edwardian murder mystery]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.281; [1]. Publisher's red cloth blocked in gilt to spine and black and gilt to upper board, top edge gilt. Frontispiece by A. Morrow. Some spotting to preliminaries and edges, edges toned. Cloth slightly rubbed to..... More
The Windsor Magazine No. 264. Vol. 45.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1916. RARE ORIGINAL PERIODICAL. Demy Octavo. pp. xl, 192 [8]. With frequent b/w in-text illustrations and 15 full-page colour plates. In original colour pictorial paper covers featuring Windsor Castle above the Thames; red and white titles. Adverts to prelims in the style of the..... More
An Incident of African History [and] M.I. [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volumes XIII and XIV.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1900 to November 1901. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. In two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.vi; 754; pp.vi; 714. With frequent photogravure illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt and dark brown titles and decoration to spines and upper boards. Blue ink ownership inscription to..... More
Mr. Meeson's Will.
London: Spencer Blackett, 1888. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, Later issue without publisher's advertisements at rear. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.286. With 16 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth stamped in black and gilt to spine and upper board. All edges untrimmed, black coated endpapers. Textblock shaken, light, very..... More
Beatrice. Newnes Sixpenny Novels Illustrated.
London: George Newnes, n.d. [c.1895]. SIXPENNY NOVEL. Octavo, pp.192. With eight lithographic illustrations by Cyrus Cuneo. In publisher's colour illustrated paper covers. Browned, as expected, with some marks to front cover. Very good indeed considering its fragility. More
The Brethren.
London: Cassell, 1930. Classic fantasy adventure. 8vo. Popular Edition, a 2/6 novel. Publisher's cloth, in pictorial dustwrapper. Text block a little foxed at edges, otherwise a very good copy in like jacket showing some sun-lightening. Attractive. More
Cleopatra. 6d Paper Novels 38.
London: Wight and Brown, n.d. [c.1930's]. SIXPENNY NOVEL. Octavo, pp.128. In publisher's colour illustrated paper covers. Heavily browned; some losses to spine; hinges very weak. Good overall considering fragility. Egyptian (or Ptolemaic) historical fiction set during the reign of the famous Queen Cleopatra (51-30 BC). More
Cleopatra. Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis, the Royal Egyptian, as set forth by his own Hand.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889. [Adventure Fiction] FIRST EDITION, First issue, adverts dated January, 1889. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 336; [16]. With thirty illustrations. Publisher's blue-grey cloth, bevelled edges, gilt titles, edges untrimmed, patterned endpapers. Some spotting, contemporary newspaper review clipped and affixed to flyleaf, armorial bookplate to..... More