Literature
The Ingoldsby Legends.
London: Blackie and Son, no date [circa 1940s]. [Literature] SANGOSKI AND SUTCLIFFE BINDING. Duodecimo (14 x 9cm), pp.[2]; xiii; [1]; 394; [2]. Fully bound in red morocco with gilt tooling and lettering to spine, gilt ruling to boards, all edges gilt, gilt-tooled dentelles to turn-ins. Illustrated frontispiece, marbled endpapers. Light..... More
The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer. The Fourteenth Edition: To which is added an Appendix, including the Statures of the last Session of Parliament (20G.3.) and some adjudged Cases.
London: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall for T. Cadell, 1780. [English Legal Procedure] FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING, the fourteenth edition. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 19cm), pp.[2] xxviii; 540 [6]; pp.[2] 607 [1]; pp.[2] 581 [5]; pp.[4] 504 [170]. With an unpaginated table of statutes..... More
[Arabian Nights] The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Translated from the Arabic by Captain Sir R.F. Burton. Reprinted from the original edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers. Illustrated by a series of 71 original illustrations reproduced from the original pictures in oil specially painted by Albert Letchford.
[Benares, by The Kamashastra Society, 1885] London: H.S. Nichols, 1897. The Library Edition. Printed by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers only. Complete in 12 volumes; large octavo, (27 x 18 x 56cm). Frontispiece portrait and photogravure illustrations with titled tissue guards. Publisher's original red half morocco with raised bands..... More
The Ring [2 copies].
London: Secker and Warburg, Corgi, 1967, 1968. [Modern literature/60s culture] FIRST EDITION, first printing, together with the first paperback edition. Tow vols., octavos. Publisher's red hardcover in pictorial dust-wrapper, designed by the author, priced 30s., and publisher's illustrated softcovers priced 5s. Lightly handled, minor spotting, expected toning to cheap paperback..... More
The Ring.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1967. [Modern literature/60s culture] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.352. Publisher's printed tan softcovers. Contents clean, some light soiling to covers, ink note to rear. Very good indeed. The author's second novel, a frank portrait of the squalid side of..... More
The Visitors' Book. In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller.
London: Constable, 2017. [Biography] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.392. With a suite of colour plate illustrations. Publisher's illustrated softcovers. As new. An account of Richard Chopping and his circle. 'Dickie' Chopping was the artist responsible for the memorable series of jacket designs which adorned Ian Fleming's James..... More
What Ho!
London: Robert Hale and Company, 1937. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. 288. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, printed price 7/6 to spine. Heavy toning and spotting to textblock edges and front few leaves, else internally clean. A few minor..... More
Soldiers of Fortune.
New York, Scribners. 1897. First US Edition. 8vo. Publisher's pale yellow decorated cloth titled in blue to spine and titled and decorated in blue and gilt to front board. Very good indeed with only very slight edgewear and light bumping to the spine ends. Slightly dusty top edge, internally bright..... More
The Identity of Yeats.
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1954. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[x]; 343; [1]. Publisher's red cloth, with gilt titles to spine, dust-wrapper with printed price of 23s to flap. Minor toning to textblock, ownership inscription to flyleaf, with loose postcard to owner. Some wear around jacket edges..... More
Independence Day.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. [Modern Literature] SIGNED ADVANCE REVIEW COPY. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 451 [5]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's soft covers illustrated by Carol Devine Carson. Some light marks and bumping to edges. Near fine. A sequel to..... More
Brewster's Millions
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1903. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[x]; 325; [3], blank; [1], imprint; [3], blank. Elegantly bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full burgundy morocco with gilt ruling and raised bands to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Discreet initials stamped to third blank..... More
An Incident of African History [and] M.I. [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volumes XIII and XIV.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1900 to November 1901. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. In two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.vi; 754; pp.vi; 714. With frequent photogravure illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt and dark brown titles and decoration to spines and upper boards. Blue ink ownership inscription to..... More
Geyserland. Empiricisms In Social Reform. Being Data and Observations Recorded by the Late Mark Stubble, M.D., Ph.D.
Washington, DC: printed for R. Hatfield, 1908. [Science Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.451 [1]. Publisher's cream cloth with titles in gilt and decoration in green to spine and upper. Top edge gilt. Lacks front free endpaper. Edges toned, with a little spotting to frontispiece and..... More
A High Wind In Jamaica, within Life And Letters, Vol 3, No.15.
London: Printed by Curwen and Sons, August 1929. Historical Fiction. First appearance in print of this novel by Richard Hughes; a slightly abridged version in this monthly journal edited by Desmond McCarthy. Magazine format in original printed softcovers. Minor spine roll, discreet owner name; a very good copy indeed. The..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1907. [Children's Illustrated] RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, DELUXE SIGNED ISSUE, number 347 of 560 copies. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.xx; 549 [3]. With twenty-four mounted coloured plates, captioned tissue guards, twelve illustrations with tint, and sixty-six line drawings. Publisher's gilt decorated white vellum with fore-edge ties..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1842-1847. [Strange Tales and Humour] FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS, volume I a third edition, volumes II and III first editions. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 339 [1]; pp.x; 288; pp.viii; 364. With a total of 18 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Henry Frowde, 1905. [Children's Illustrated] LEATHER-BOUND OXFORD EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. [2]; lv; 527; [3]. With 26 engravings, including a frontispiece portrait of the author, by Cruikshank, Leech and others. Publisher's green cloth with maroon label and gilt lettering to spine, gilt decorations to boards, dentelles. Marbled..... More
The Cincinnati Kid.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. [Gambling Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[6] 154. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and green endpapers. Top edge green. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Seymour Chwast, priced at $3.95. Very light rubbing to marginally short jacket with..... More
None But The Lonely Heart.
London: Michael Joseph. 1943. First edition, one of two hundred and fifty copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the author. Octavo, pp. 360. Pale yellow publisher's cloth cover with gilt titles on a red leather square to spine. Top edge gilt, all others untrimmed. Slight lean to the..... More
Murder in False Face.
London: Hutchinson, 1969. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. 190; [2]. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of 23s or £1.15 to front flap. Minor toning to edges of textblock, rolling to bottom of the spine, marking to dust-jacket spine..... More
Garnered.
London. Methuen. 1904. Short stories, some criminous. First Colonial Edition. 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth titled in gilt to spine, lightly worn to extremities with tape residue to rear panel. Essentially clean, strong and bright. A collection of Marsh stories including a couple of weird and fantastic ones; A Little..... More
Piccadilly. A Fragment of Contemporary Biography.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. [Satirical novel] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[13] 328 [5]. With eight engravings, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece, by Richard Doyle. Gold vein marbled endpapers. Red half calf with gold vein marbled paper over boards and gilt rulings to red..... More
Murder's Strip Tease [and] The Wrong People [in] Thrilling Detective Magazine. Vol. VI, No. 12.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., July 1953. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. With occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 9d. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories is made only..... More
Sheridaniana, or, Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; His Table Talk and Bon Mots.
London: Henry Colburn, 1826. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[2] xii; 334 [4]. With a frontispiece etching of Sheridan. In original publisher's paste-boards, recently re-backed to-style in grey paper, with a plain printed title label. Untrimmed edges. Light spotting throughout, with a pair of ink ownerships to first..... More
The Blackbird
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1970. [Spy thriller] FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo (20x 14cm), pp.184; [8], blank. Publisher's dark grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Graphics Partners. A clean, fine copy in near fine price-clipped wrapper. Adventure novel featuring the 'swinging' series character Alan Grofield. Westlake..... More