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The Darkwater Hall Mystery.
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1978. Limited edition. Number 67 of 165 copies. 8vo. Illustrated by Elspeth Sojka. Bound in publisher's original marbled card wraps. Fine with trifling edgewear. Internally clean and bright, a very pretty copy of a scarce piece of Sherlockiana. More
Jake's Thing.
London: Hutchinson and Co., 1978. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.285 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine, dust jacket illustrated by Quentin Blake. Jacket spine just very slightly faded; near-fine. More
The James Bond Dossier
London: Jonathan Cape. 1965. FIRST EDITION. THE AUTHOR'S COPY, in a bespoke quarter leather binding of half red morocco, gilt, commissioned by the publisher for presentation to Amis. Obviously a unique copy, this was likely bound by Ian Fleming's own binder Arthur Last, the style matching closely the author's copies... More
The Alteration.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1976. [Alternative history novel]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.208. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge green, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Tom Adams. Textblock slightly toned. Near fine. More
The Alteration.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1976. [Alternative history novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.208. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge green, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Tom Adams. Textblock slightly toned, slight reading lean. Near fine. More
The Anti-Death League. A Novel.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1966. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.352. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey, priced at 30/- net. Some spotting to preliminaries and offset toning to endpapers. Some spotting to top edge, edges toned. Light sunning... More
The Green Man.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. [Strange tale] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.252. Publisher's hardback in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 30s. A gently used copy with a sunned spine; near fine. A pub landlord starts seeing ghosts, in a particularly literate tale that must have inspired John Cleese's Basil Fawlty... More
The James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY IN RARE JACKET. Publisher's paper covers, with pictorial proof dust-wrapper, based on the familiar 'trompe l'oeil' designs which decorated the Ian Fleming first editions. Very bright jacket with inevitable wear to the unsupported oversize area, otherwise a fine copy, housed in a custom-made... More
My Enemy's Enemy, Stories.
London: Victor Gollancz. 1962. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 224. Red publisher's cloth with gilt titles to spine, in strikingly restrained yellow dustwrapper. Top and fore edge slightly browned, slight bumping to head and tail caps. Some wear to the top and bottom edges of the dustjacket with some marking and... More
The James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.159. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with gilt titles to spine and blind-stamped bullet-holes to upper cover in the price-clipped dust-wrapper based on the familiar 'trompe l'oeil' designs which decorated the Ian Fleming first editions. A lightly handled copy, signed and... More
The Light of Asia or The Great Renunciation. Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1908. Deluxe Edition. Octavo, pp.xv; 158. Illustrated with thirty two pictures of Indian scenery from photographs taken by Mabel Eardley-Wilmott. Bound in cream vegetable parchment boards with gilt titles to spine and upper board, and illustrated to the upper and lower boards. Top... More
Indian Memories. Recollections of Soldiering, Sport, Etc.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1915. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm) pp.xx; 363; [1], blank. With 24 colour plate illustrations and 100 in black and white (by the author). Publisher's pale blue cloth pictorially blocked in colours. Very light handling/wear. A clean, fine copy without the scarce jacket. More
The Influence of the Gold Supply on Prices and Profits.
London:Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913. [Economics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x15cm), pp.xii; 104. Publisher's burgundy cloth, blind ruled to boards, gilt titles to spine. Errata slip tipped in at page 58. Discreet ownership to rear pastedown, some spotting to preliminaries, to end matter, and to edges, else generally clean and... More
Arthur and George.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 360; [2]. Signature of Julian Barnes to the title page. In publisher's olive cloth decorated in black and titled in white to spine and upper. With the original printed paper band to rear board, issued in place of... More
The Admirable Crichton. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [c.1914]. FIRST HUGH THOMSON EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), with twenty mounted colour plates and captioned tissues. Publisher's pale green cloth blocked in dark green and red to upper, gilt to spine. Contents are a little foxed, binding lightly handled, one neat/accidental pull to crown... More
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The Little White Bird [Peter Pan].
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1902. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 312; [2], blank. Frontispiece of The Child's Map of Kensington Gardens, with tissue guard. Half dark blue calf, raised bands, gilt titles to spine, cloth sides, top edge gilt. Hints of foxing. A handsome copy in an attractive... More
Historic Memoirs of Ireland; comprising Secret Records of the National Convention, the Rebellion, and the Union; with Delineations of the Principal Characters connected with these transactions.
London: Henry Colburn, 1835. NEW EDITON. In two volumes. Large Quarto, pp.[2] xlii, 358 [2]; pp.[4] x, 464 [2]. With 38 copper engraved portraits, including a frontispiece of Barrington to vol. I, and two plates preceeding the title page in vol. II. Also with three facsimile letters and an index... More
The Episodes of Vathek.
London: Stephen Swift, 1912. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Large Octavo, pp.xxxi, 207; 127 [14]. With a frontispiece engraving of the author. In publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board. Brown end-papers. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Leaves largely un-cut. Spine... More
The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression, as Connected with the Fine Arts.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1865. [Art] FINE PRIZE BINDING, Fifth Edition. Octavo (27 x 18cm), pp.[2]; viii; 275; [3]. With frequent in-text steel engravings, and four full page plates with detailed descriptions at rear. Contemporary red full morocco for the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on... More
Commentaries on the Laws of England.
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1768-9. 4 volumes. Quarto. Volumes I and II are Third Editions; volumes III and IV are First Editions. Original polished calf with title labels to spine, raised bands, bordered in blind to covers. Attractive (early) ownership signature of Thomas Bund to each flyleaf. Internally... More
The World, The Air and the Future.
London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. [Aviation and dirigibles] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxiii; [3]; 356. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Illustrated with thirty-one plate and two maps. Internally fine, discreet ownership to front pastedown. Light damp stain to fore edge, some dustiness to edges. Cloth rubbed... More
The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. [American Travel]. SECOND EDITION, identical to the First. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 707. With 10 wood engraved plates including a frontispiece and two folding maps. Nine further illustrations in-text. In publisher's blue pebble grained cloth, re-backed during the twentieth century, with original... More
The Memorial Edition of the Works of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton. Set of writings containing: 'A Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah,' 'A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome,' 'Vikram and the Vampire: Tales of Hindu Delivery' and 'First Footsteps in East Africa.'
London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893-1894. ALL FIRST EDITIONS THUS. 7 volumes, complete. Publisher's gilt decorated black cloth, coated black endpapers, top edges tinted red. In black fleece-lined slipcase. Some acceptable wear, spine ends a little chipped or frayed, some titles exhibit a reading lean, inner paper joints sound but for... More
The Memorial Edition of the Works of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton. Containing: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah; A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome; Vikram and the Vampire, or Tales of Hindu Devilry; First Footsteps in Africa.
London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893-94. Complete in 7 volumes, superbly bound in half black oasis with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt to spines, original cloth sides pictorially stamped in gilt, top edge tinted red, black endpapers. With frontispieces, black and white and coloured plates. Occasional light spotting otherwiseclean within... More