Literature
Divided We Fall.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Trade Union Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13m), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the black and green typographic dust-jacket, not priced. Light toning to edges, with a bump to upper top right corner. Jacket..... More
A Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the Great.
London: Seeley and Co., 1890. [Historical novel] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 325 [3]. With sixteen illustrations including a frontispiece. Tan full calf, gilt armorial device of St. Michael's School to upper, boards gilt-ruled. Brown label lettered in gilt, gilt-tooling, and raised bands to spine. Blind..... More
Roman Life in the Days of Cicero.
London: Seeley and Company, 1884. [Roman History] FINELY BOUND, the fourth printing thus. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2]; xii; 291; [3]. Twelve illustrations including frontispiece. Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles on green label to spine, gilt decorations to spine, raised bands, gilt decorative panelling to boards, gilt dentelle..... More
Virginia Woolf.
London: Editions Poetry London, 1945. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.151 [1]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece portrait of Woolf. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the red typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Gently toned to wartime economy paper. Bumping to corners..... More
Give Us This Day.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1973. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.767; [1]. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated endpapers. Top edge blue. With the dust-jacket illustrated by George Chrichard. Some page corners tuned down, some marks to edges. Price-clipped jacket spine sunned, some light..... More
A Games of Murder.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. With a 'review copy' slip loose to preliminaries, as well as a bookplate detailing provenance. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Colin Andrews..... More
The Black Book
Paris: Olympia Press 1969. FIRST OLYMPIA PRESS EDITION. The Traveller's Companion Series, n°77. Pp.301; [1], blank; [1], advertisement; [1], blank; [1], imprint; [1], blank. Publisher's green paper binding, glossy pictorial jacket. Minor toning to text block, trivial nicks to jacket; a clean, fine copy. The author's first novel, not published..... More
The Ikons, and Other Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp. 48. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the yellow and blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 13/6. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Jacket a little rubbed to edges, and gently toned to spine. Near fine... More
Livia. Livia, or Buried Alive.
London: Faber and Faber, 1978. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. [6]; 265; [1]. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of £4.95 to front flap designed by David Gentlemen. Very slight rolling to spine, very slight fraying to dust-jacket edges..... More
Quinx, or The Ripper's Tale.
London: Faber and Faber, 1985. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Ocatavo (21 x 14cm), pp. 201; [7]. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of £8.95 to front flap. Slight spotting on top edge of textblock, water staining visible only on the inside of..... More
The Tree of Idleness, and other poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1955. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.48. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Some offsetting to endpapers. Jacket a little toned to spine, with some rubbing and a couple of small closed tears. Near..... More
A Lost Season.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1944. [Second World War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.60. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain dust-jacket titled in blue. A lovely crisp copy on wartime economy standard paper. Price to jacket flap carefully removed (not clipped), with some..... More
New Poems.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1968. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.61 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the purple typographic dust-jacket designed by Patricia Davey, priced at 15s. Just a hint of toning to jacket spine, otherwise a lovely crisp copy. Near fine. More
Off Course.
London: Turret Books, 1969. SIGNED Limited Edition (First). Small Octavo, pp. 16 [1]. No. 47 of 250 copies signed by the author. In publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. As new. 15 short poems. More
The Ruined Boys.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1959. [School Story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 248 [4]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket illustrated by Peter Edwards, priced at 15s. The very slightest hint of toning to jacket spine, and a little light handling. A lovely..... More
Be Shot For Sixpence.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1956. [Spy Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 223; [1], publisher's advertisement. Bound in dark red cloth, with titles and smoking gun in gilt to spine, illustrated price-clipped dust-wrapper. Contents clean, no inscriptions, jacket with a few small nicks and tears. A very good..... More
Be Shot for Sixpence.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [no date] Circa 1957. [Modern Literature] THRILLER BOOK CLUB EDITION, early edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.223; [1]. Publisher's yellow cloth lettered in black to spine, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 12s. 6d. to front flap. Toning to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, 10cm..... More
The Final Throw.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.240. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £7.95. Minor toning. A fine copy. A gritty London police thriller featuring Detective Chief Superintendent Morrissey. More
Sky High.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1955. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13xm), pp.222; [2]. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in black to spine, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of 10s 6d to front and back flaps. Toning to edges of text-block, archival tape to flaps and spine (six pieces applied..... More
One of Our Submarines.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952. [Naval biography] FIRST EDITION, third impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.320. With black & white plates. Publisher's green cloth hardcovers, in jacket illustrated by Roy Sanford, priced 18s, with Peter Fleming advertisement on rear panel. A clean, fine copy of the book in a near fine..... More
One of Our Submarines.
London: Penguin Books, Pan Books, 1952, 1968, 1973. [Naval warfare] First Penguin edition, First Pan edition, and revised edition reprint. Octavos. A group of three paperbacks in publisher's softcovers, each with a supporting quote from Ian Fleming. Clean copies, with some expected toning and gentle reading creases to spine. near..... More
One of Our Submarines.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952. [Naval biography] FIRST EDITION, sixth impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.320. With black & white plates. Publisher's green cloth hardcovers, in jacket illustrated by Roy Sanford, priced 18s, with Ian Fleming review on front flap. Discreet gift inscription, contents and page edges clean, used jacket has..... More
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.
London: Faber and Faber, 1981. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST LE CAIN-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (31 x 22cm), pp.32. With a full colour plate by Le Cain to every other page. Publisher's colour-illustrated glossy paper-covered boards, not priced. A fine, as-new copy. More
House of Darkness.
London: Collins, 1947. [Mystery/Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's burgundy cloth, silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. Interior lightly toned, edges faintly spotted. Previous ownership inscription in black ink to flyleaf. Jacket price-clipped to front flap. Jacket gently toned, mostly to backstrip and rear panel..... More
Better than a Kick in the Pants.
London: Lawson & Dunn, 1945. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.144. Publisher's green cloth with lighter green titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket illustrated by Madeleine E. Anderson. An exceptionally crisp, clean copy. Price-clipped jacket shows some sunning to spine, as well as some wear, closed..... More