"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme

London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1940. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.284 [4]. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. Cosmological self-devouring snake bookplate to front pastedown. Small Indian bookseller's stamp to fly-leaf. Light spotting and thumbing to edges. Cloth well-worn, just starting..... More
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the black dust-jacket titled in white and orange, priced at 12/6. Spotting and browning to edges, with a little bumping and toning to..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1960. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.244 [4]. With 12 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to back backing on spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by R. Stone, priced at 25s. A lovely fresh copy with..... More
London: Jonathan Cape with the Hogarth Press, 1954. [Modern Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.370. Publisher's cloth, top edge tinted blue, printed blue dust-wrapper priced at 21s. Book is fine; jacket sunned and a little worn/toned to lower panel. Overall near fine. More
London: Martin Hopkinson & Company, 1928. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.x; 35 [1]. Publisher's light green paper-covered boards with a plain paper title label to upper. A nice clean copy internally. Spine and upper sunned and toned to grey, with some light handling. Near fine. The author's..... More