Literature
Dead Man's Bay.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Mystery Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the green and black dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Light offsetting to endpapers and some browning to edges. Jacket toned and chipped to..... More
Regiment of Women.
London: Eyre Methuen, 1974. [Modern fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. 349 [3]. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £2.75 to flap. Interiors clean and bright with minor toning to edges. Very small white mark to low upper board. Gentle..... More
Little Lord Fauntleroy.
London: Frederick, Warne and Co., 1886. [Classic children's story] FIRST UK EDITION, with 1886 date to both title and copyright pages. Octavo (pp.22 x 15cm), pp.x; 269; [1], imprint. Twenty-six illustrations illustrations after Reginald B. Birch. Half green straight-grained morocco, gilt, red leather label to spine, combed marble sides and..... More
Little Lord Fauntleroy.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. [Children's Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION, second issue. Square octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.xii; 209 [19]. With 26 illustrations after Reginald B. Birch. The second issue, showing J.J. Little on the copyright page. In a very fine binding of green full morocco, with..... More
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder And Its Consequences.
New York, NY: Random House, 1965. [True crime] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[12] 343 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to a tipped-in blank. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and silver decoration, red endpapers, top edge green, in the first issue dust-jacket, designed by S. Neil Fujita..... More
The Specials. [Psychedelic-40].
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1965. [Dystopia] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.191 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the white dust-jacket titled in purple, priced at 15s. A small chip to top edge of the first few leaves, otherwise a nice clean copy internally. Jacket..... More
Laughing Anne.
London: Printed at The Morland Press, 1923. [Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.67; [5], blank. Hand-printed in two colours on Kelmscott hand-made paper Publisher's full limp vellum, lettered in gilt to spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Number 164 of 175 copies for sale, signed..... More
Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard.
London: Harper and Brothers, 1904. [Classic Literature]. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[viii]; 480. Original blue cloth with wave motif across cover and spine, blocked in pale blue to upper, gilt-lettered to spine. No inscriptions. Contents generally clean, marginal brown spot to final gathering, some mark/wear to..... More
An Outcast of the Islands.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. [Literature] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 336 [10]. Publisher's green cloth, designs blocked in red, black, and gilt to upper and spine. Publisher's advertisements to rear. Internally clean and lightly toned. Typographic bookplate of Christopher Clark Geest to front pastedown..... More
The Rover.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1923. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.317; [3]. With the textual error ' o' for 'go', p. 221, line 2. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge lightly tinted green. With the cream illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 7/6..... More
The Rover.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1923. [Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 317 [9]. With the textual error ' o' for 'go', p. 221, line 2. Recently bound in green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original gilt-titled green cloth laid over..... More
The Secret Agent.
London: Methuen and Co., 1907. [Landmark Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 442; [1], imprint; [1], blank; [40], advertisement catalogue dated September 1907. Bound in publisher's burgundy coloured cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Edges of text block toned/browned, binding a little sunned to the spine..... More
A Set of Six.
London: Methuen and Co., 1908. [Short stories] FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 310 [2] 40. Advertisements to rear. Publisher's blue cloth, titles blocked in brown to upper board, gilt titles to spine. Blue 'presentation copy' stamp to title page. Bottom edge uncut. Light toning throughout, spotting..... More
Suspense. With an Introduction by Richard Curle.
London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1925. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. ix; 303; 4 [advertisements]. Bound in publisher's purple textured cloth, with blind ruling to front board, publisher's logo blind stamped to front board, title in dull gilt to spine, top edge coloured dark green. In a pictorial..... More
Suspense. With an Introduction by Richard Curle.
London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1925. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. ix; 303; 4 [advertisements]. Bound in publisher's purple textured cloth, with blind ruling to front board, publisher's logo blind stamped to front board, title in gilt to spine, top edge coloured dark green. Contents clean, single ink..... More
Tales of Unrest.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 297; [1]; imprint; [14], advertisements. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Owner name to flyleaf, contents shaken within case, inside paper joint cracked, gilt dulled, cloth handled. Very good..... More
Victory.
London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1915. [Literature] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, fist issue title page with comma following 'Essex Street'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 415; [1], imprint; [4], ads dated 'Autumn 1915'; 32, catalogue dated 8/5/15. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spine. Large open tear to bottom..... More
Victory.
London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1915. [Literature] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, first issue title page with comma following 'Essex Street'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 415; [1], imprint; [4], ads dated 'Autumn 1915'; 32, catalogue dated 8/5/15. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spine. Armorial bookplate of Stanley Austin..... More
The Works of Joseph Conrad. Arrow of Gold, Nigger of the Narcissus, Victory, Nostromo, Rover, Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, Typhoon, Twixt Land and Sea, A Set of Six, A Personal Record, The Rescue, Within the Tides, Lord Jim, Tales of Unrest, Suspense, An Outcast of The Islands, Almayer's Folly, Tales of Hearsay, Shadow Line, Mirror of The Sea, Inheritors, Chance, Youth, Notes on Life, Romance.
New York, NY: published by Doubleday, Page and Company for WM. H. Wise and Co., 1924. [Complete Works] LEATHER-BOUND SET. Complete in 26 volumes, bound as 13. Octavo (21 x 15 x 68cm). Recently bound in tan half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to red labels, further gilt decoration..... More
The Works of Joseph Conrad. Including: The Nigger of the Narcissus, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Youth, etc.
New York, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1920. [Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Complete in 24 volumes. Octavo (22 x 16cm). Frontispiece photogravure to volume one, vignette 'Sundial' illustration to title page of each volume, which features text printed in two colours. Handsomely bound in half dark blue oasis morocco with..... More
The Mystic Rose. A Study of Primitive Marriage.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1902. [Anthropology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xviii; 492. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. Fore-edge untrimmed. Preliminaries and rear leaves spotted. Toning to textblock edges. Some rubbing and marking to boards, '6' penned in black ink to upper board. Crease to crown..... More
Grimble.
London: Collins, 1968. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 44. With frequent in-text illustrations by Francis. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the red dust-jacket also illustrated by Francis. Internally fine. Jacket price-clipped and sunned to spine with some small closed tears. Very good..... More
In Massachusetts.
Menomonie, WI: Ox Head Press, 1967. [Poetry] PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (18 x 12cm), pp.[12]. Printed on handmade paper. Publisher's orange soft covers, sewn. A little light handling, and a touch of sunning to spine. Near fine. More
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes.
London: John Murray, 1964. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.92. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine in pictorial dustjacket. Some light spotting to prelims and to the edges, dustwrapper is nice and bright with just some creasing along the top and bottom edges. Very good. More
Behaving Badly.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, Association Copy. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.224. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'Signed for Phyllis | with much love + | many memories | Catherine Heath.' Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the..... More