Literature
Selected Poems.
London: The Folio Society, 2016. [Russian Poetry in translation] FIRST THUS. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxii; 161 [1]. With six black and white photographic plates, and an illustrated title page by Modigliani. Publisher's black cloth with blue and white titles and decoration to spine, and a photographic image of the..... More
How They Do It.
London: George Allen and Unwin ltd, 1945. [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.158; [2]. With numerous in-text illustrations by Karel apek. Publisher's green cloth to boards, blue titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, price-clipped to front flap. Top edge green. Toning to leaves and endpapers. Minor sunning..... More
Three Novels [Noetic Trilogy]. Hordubal; An Ordinary Life; Meteor.
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1948. [Modern Literature] FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION IN ENGLISH, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.469 [3]. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Top edge orange. With the grey typographic dust-jacket, printed on the reverse of a WWII map of Denmark..... More
Quality Street. A Comedy in four acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1913]. [Illustrated Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[4] viii; 198 [2]. With a loose flier for the original exhibition of Thomson's watercolour illustrations for the book, November and December 1913. Complete with 22 colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece..... More
Quality Street. A Comedy in four acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1913]. [Illustrated Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[4] viii; 198 [2]. With a loose flier for the original exhibition of Thomson's watercolour illustrations for the book, November and December 1913. Complete with 22 colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece..... 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
Guerilla Warfare. Restricted.
London: Ministry of Defence, 1957. [Warfare] WRITTEN WITH ACCESS TO OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[x]; 201. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles on red label to spine, 'Restricted' in gilt to boards, with sixteen folding maps and diagrams, erratum slip for p.91. Internally clean. Wearing to boards, more so..... More
The Heritage of the Sioux.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1916. [Old West Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 313. With a black and white frontispiece illustrated by Monte Crews. Publisher's brown cloth with black and tan titles and decoration to spine. Water staining to margins. Lacking rear endpaper, hinge starting. Moderate..... More
The Background of Modern Poetry. An Inaugural Lecture Delivered on 10 May 1946 by C.M. Bowra, M.A., D.Litt., Professor of Poetry.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1946. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 15cm), pp.20. Publisher's grey typographic paper covers, sewn. Small black ink ownership of Colin C. Moore to title page. Some light wear and toning to extremities. Very good. More
The Pilgrim's Progress, from This World to That Which is to Come.
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, no date [circa 1860s]. [Christian Allegory] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.xvi; 400 [2]. With over 100 full page and in-text wood engravings by Selous and Priolo, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full panelled morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles, and blind..... More
The Boy on the Bridge.
London: Orbit, 2017. [Zombie Apocalypse] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 392 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver title to spine, and yellow endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Duncan Spilling, priced at £16.99. 'Signed by the Author'..... More
Jerramy Green-Eyes.
London: Hurst & Blackett, no date [1947]. [Romance] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.333. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by J. Vibart, priced at 10/6. A large clumsy blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise an exceptionally clean, bright copy, with just a...... More
The Story of a Puppet or the Adventures of Pinocchio. Translated from the Italian by M.A. Murray. Illustrated by C. Mazzanti.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. [Fairy tale] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[6]; 232. Publisher's white cloth with blue floral decoration, blue title to spine and upper. Edges and endpapers repeating the design of the cloth. Illustrated with a tissue protected frontispiece and numerous in-text illustrations by..... More
Madame de Sable. Etudes sur les femmes illustres et la societe du XVIIe siecle.
Paris: Didier, 1854. Signed presentation copy. Octavo. Bound in half brown calf over marbled paper, with raised bands highlighted with gilt, and brown and gilt label to spine. Signed by the author, and presented to Viscount Mahon, later Earl Stanhope, MP, prominent historian and biographer.Binding is rubbed, both leather and..... More
Dr Ischenasch.
London: Peter Davies, 1952. [Industrial Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Val Biro, priced at 12/6. An exceptionally clean, bright copy, with just a little wear and chipping to jacket edges. Near fine. The..... More
The Fall of Lord Barrymore. [An extract from The Strand Magazine].
London: George Newnes, December 1912. [Magazine Extract] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 16cm), pp.603-611 [1]. With dichromatic illustrations by Brock. Leaves removed from a copy of The Strand Magazine and bound recently in brown paper, with a plain printed title label to upper, stapled twice. Light creasing and marking..... More
5 Passengers from Lisbon.
London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1946. [Murder mystery novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.192. Bound in tan cloth blocked in black, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price at 8/6. Contents clean, neat ink name to front endpaper, in a secondary or cheap edition binding, jacket with reduced..... More
Enemy in the House.
London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1963. [Historical murder mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.216; [4], blank. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine, dust-wrapper priced at 12/6. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A fine copy of the book in a near fine jacket with some..... More
The African Queen.
London: Longmans, 1961. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION THUS, Longmans' Abridged Books. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 209; [1]. Pictorial softcovers. Ex-libris stamp of Trevor Hickman to front paste-down, sunning to spine and light wearing to covers. Sunning to front cover, small pencilled 'w' to front cover. Very good. Set in..... More
Collected Short Stories of E.M. Forster.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, no date [1948]. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.vii [3] 246. Publisher's teal cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 10s 6d. Toning to flyleaf, very small bookseller's sticker front-paste down, toning to edges of textblock, rolling..... More
A Passage to India.
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. [Bloomsbury] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.325; [3], advertisements. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper. No inscriptions, contents clean and fresh with just a few minor spots, endpapers toned as usual, binding tight with one small bump..... More
Cent Proverbes. Texte par Trois Tetes dans un Bonnet. Nouvelle Edition Revue et Augmentee pour le Texte par M. Quitard.
Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, no date [circa 1870]. [Surrealist Humour] FINE HAND-COLOURED PLATES, a New Edition. Quarto (27 x 19cm), pp.[6]; 551; [3]. With many in-text illustrations, as well as 50 fine hand-coloured plates by Grandville, including a frontispiece. All text in French. Finely bound in black half calf with..... More
Kate Greenaway.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[xx]; 301; [2], advertisements. Illustrated with numerous photos, plates and in-text line drawings, including several in colour. Bound in early quarter brown calf over blue cloth sides with red morocco title label to spine, ruled in gilt..... More
War Poems of Nordahl Grieg: All That Is Mine Demand.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, November 1944. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.68. Printed on clay paper. Publisher's light green cloth with black titles to spine. With the striking colour-illustrated dust-jacket by Joseph Brown, priced at 6s. Illustrated bookplate of Margaret E. Spicer to front pastedown..... More
Annals of the Five Senses.
Montrose: Privately published by the author, 1923. [Stream-of-Consciousness] FIRST EDITION, a presentation copy. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 195 [3]. With a black and white photographic image of the author clipped from a newspaper tipped onto flyleaf, with a presentation note (possibly secretarial) in pencil stating 'from the author.' Publisher's..... More