Literature
The Anti-Death League. A Novel.
London: Victor Gollancz, [1966] 1972. [Modern Literature] SIGNED 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 £2.75. One of an unspecified small number of the second printings issued on behalf of the New Fiction Society..... More
The Green Man.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. [Strange tale] UNCORRECTED PROOF of the FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.253. Publisher's green softcovers in proof-only pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 30s. A fine, unread copy of the book in near fine, lightly rubbed oversized jacket. A ghostly tale set in an english medieval coaching..... 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 Riverside Villas Murder.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, coloured endpapers, top edge green. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Ian Beck. Some minor dustiness to fore-edge else a fine, fresh copy. An old-fashioned whodunit, set in the 1930s... More
The Riverside Villas Murder.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. [Crime Mystery] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.224. Publisher's green monogrammed card covers. Light handing to covers. Worn and a little toned to spine, with a reading lean. Very good. An old-fashioned whodunit, set in the 1930s. More
That Uncertain Feeling.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1955. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.254; [2]. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 12/6 to front flap. Toning to edges of dust-jacket, rolling to spine, sunning to top edge of front board and crown of..... More
The Letters of Kingsley Amis.
London: Harper Collins, 2000. [Literary correspondence] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.lvi; 1208. Illustrated with four suites of eight photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt, photographic jacket, showing the famous portrait of Amis adopting the pistol pose. A very good copy in like, price-clipped jacket. The letters..... More
Arthur and George.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. [Historical Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 360 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's olive cloth decorated in black and titled in white to spine and upper. With the original printed paper band to rear board..... 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
A Fountain Sealed.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1897. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. viii; 301; [1]; 32, publisher's advertisements. With the half-tone frontispiece illustration by H.G. Burgess. Patterned endpapers. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to upper and spine, embossed pattern to upper. Exlibris stamp front paste down, some spotting..... 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 Woman Thou Gavest Me. Being the Story of Mary O'Neill.
London: William Heinemann, 1913. [Modern literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 586; [14]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt to upper and spine. Embellishment in black to upper, in blind to lower. Catalogue to rear. Interior lightly toned..... More
Man Overboard! [extracted from] The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine.
London: Harmsworth Bros., Limited, 1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.661-664, with several blanks bound in as fillers. Taken from The Harmsworth Magazine, January 1899, with 3 illustrations by Henry Austin. Elegantly bound by Bayntun-Riviere, in half red morocco, gilt titles, marching buckram sides, marbled eps., t.e.g...... More
The Further Side of Silence.
New York: Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1927. [Short stories] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[2] xvi; 407 [5]. With 19 full-page black and white illustrations by Blaine and a few vignettes. Title page lettered in black and orange. Publisher's black cloth with pictorial labels to upper and spine..... More
Bones [in] Tales From Many Sources.
New York, Dodd Mead and Co., 1885. First edition. Four volumes. Octavo. Publisher's dark blue cloth, titled and decorated in gilt to spines and uppers. All volumes clean and sharp with light wear to spine ends, pale spot to lower edge front board volume III. Volume I has some minor..... More
The Hound of The Baskervilles.
London: George Newnes, 1902. [Sherlock Holmes] FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[viii]; 359; [1] blank. With 16 illustrated plates by Paget. Handsomely bound in full deep red oasis morocco, titled and decorated in gilt to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers endpapers, top edge gilt. All plates present..... 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
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
London: Folio Society, 1958. [Crime Literature] FIRST EDITION THUS, FOLIO EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[16]; 291; [1]. Burgundy quarter calf, red cloth over sides. With numerous full page illustrations by Hogarth, including a frontispiece. Some minor marking to edges of texblock, wearing to leather at spine leading to some..... More
The Valley of Fear.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1915. [Sherlock Holmes] SECOND PRINTING. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 306 [6]. With a black and white frontispiece illustrated by Wiles. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Second Impression text printed on title page. Edges toned, some expected spotting to thick..... More
The Last Galley. Impressions and Tales.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1911. [Short stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 298 [14]. With a chromolithographic frontispiece by Wyeth and one further lithographic illustration by Rountree. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Contents clean, edges slightly toned, moderate handling and wear..... More
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes In ORIGINAL INDIVIDUAL PARTS [Strand Magazine] July 1891 to June 1892.
London: George Newnes, 1891. [Detective short stories] FIRST APPEARANCE of these famous Sherlock Holmes short stories in The Strand Magazine. July 1891 to June 1892. Magazine format in paper covers; twelve issues, complete. Contents clean, with acceptable toning. All covers present. Some expected wear and toning to the fragile wrappers..... More
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.
London: John Murray, 1927. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Contents clean, front cover with a little discolouration, spine lightly sunned, gilt dulled; very good. The last of the original Sherlock Holmes books, being twelve cases for the great detective which..... More
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.
London: John Murray, 1927. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip. Contents very clean, edges free from spotting and toning, neat ink ownership to free endpaper, covers fresh, spine a touch sunned and rubbed at tips. A...... More
The Great Keinplatz Experiment, And Other Stories.
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally and Company, 1894. [Supernatural] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.232. Publisher's red cloth over boards. Gilt titles to upper and spine. Gilt ruling and floral device to upper. Title page lettered in black and red. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Leaves moderately..... More
His Last Bow. Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes.
London: John Murray, 1917. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 305 [7]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Contents clean, some browning to endpapers, cloth shows a few marks, faint cup ring to upper, spine sunned, gilt dulled to same. Overall very good..... More