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
The Wind in the Wood.
London: Hollis and Carter, 1952. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[10]; 143; [1]. With twelve chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by the author, and wood engraved vignettes to chapter headings. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 18s. net..... More
The Green Lacquer Pavilion.
London: W. Collins Sons and Co., 1926. [Adventure Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[8] 319 [1]. With nine in-text wood-cuts and a frontispiece portrait of the author by Dulac. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt titles to green label on spine, and a gilt and green device stamped to..... More
The Endless Chain.
London: Alvin Redman Limited, 1956. [Crime Fiction] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.256. INSCRIBED by the author in green ink to title page: 'Dear John | For Greene may come and | Waugh may go | But I go on forever | - well, nearly. | Warmest regards..... More
I am Legion.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 380 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in green ink to title page: 'John R. Cronland | with all kind thoughts | from Neil Bell | Brixham | June, 1950.' Publisher's black cloth with silver titles..... More
Arnold Bennett.
London: A.M. Philpot, 1925. [Biography] SECOND IMPRESSION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. 126; [2]. Illustrative frontispiece of Arnold Bennett by Edward Wolfe. Publisher's maroon quarter cloth lettered in gilt to spine, with maroon boards, typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6 to spine. Spotting and toning to edges of textblock, slight bumping..... More
The Dreadful Hollow.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1953. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION, Colonial copy. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Book store stamp to rear blank [New Book Co., Bombay]. Contents clean, no inscriptions, Tokyo bookseller Subun-So label and stamp..... More
Head of a Traveller.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1949. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Spine sunned; a good, used copy without the jacket. The baffling case of a headless corpse found in..... More
The Morning After Death
London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1966. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.224. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. Contents clean, edges toned, owner inscription to f.e.p., p/c jacket with some chips and tears, gummed paper to reverse side at spine ends..... More
Margaret Dashwood, or, Interference.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1929. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 220 [2]. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt titles to spine. With a vignette title-page illustration. Publisher's advertisements to rear. Faintly spotted throughout, toning to endpapers. Toning to top edge. Light thumbing/marking to cloth, toning to..... 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
...Or Be He Dead.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by William Randell, not priced. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (23 x 18cm)..... More
Alibi.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1961. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 10s.6d. Page edges toned, a few reading marks within, old tape mark to rear where jacket was secured..... More
Of Unsound Mind.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1962. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. Discreet label 'The Queen's Book' to fly else a fine copy in a very good wrapper with one..... More
The Burning Question.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1957. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Randell, priced at 10/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (31 x 25cm)..... More
Long Shadows.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1958. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by William Randell, priced at 10/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (29 x...... More
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll. Includes: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass; Sylvie and Bruno; Sylvie and Bruno Concluded; The Hunting of The Snark; Puzzles From Wonderland; Phantasmagoria; Acrostics, Verse, Stories and A Miscellany.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1939. [Children's] FIRST NONESUCH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 1165 [3]. With Tenniel's original in-text illustrations to the Alice books. Recently re-bound in red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles, and gilt-stamped 'Wonderland' devices to spine, and marbled paper over boards. Toning to edges..... More
Lewis Carroll's Diaries. The Private Journals of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (including: Vol. 1 January to September 1855; Vol. 2 January to December 1856; Vol. 3 January 1857 to April 1858; Vol. 4 May 1862 to September 1864; Vol. 5 September 1864 to January 1868; Vol. 6 April 1868 to December 1876; Vol. 7 January 1877 to June 1883; Vol. 8 July 1883 to June 1892; Vol. 9 July 1892 to December 1897; Vol. 10 Complete Index Reconstruction of the First Two Missing Volumes).
Luton: Lewis Carroll Society, 1993-2007. [Diaries] SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS. 10 volumes uniformly bound. Octavos (22 x 16cm), pp.158; [2], blank. pp.158; [2], blank, pp.199, [1], blank, pp.399; [1] blank, pp.416, pp.552, pp.606; [2], blank, pp.[2]; 688; [6], blank, pp.408, pp.502; [2], blank. Publisher's blue leatherette lettered in gilt to front..... More
The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch. With a Foreword by Florence Milner.
London: Cassell and Company, 1932. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 19cm), pp.[xvi]; 193; [3]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper, decoration to upper, top edge tinted black. Illustrations throughout. Occasional spotting to textblock edge, a neat ownership inscription to front endpaper in black ink..... More
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1870. [Children's illustrated] EARLY PRINTING, the 21st thousand. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 192 [2]. With in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Tenniel. One leaf of advertisements at rear. Recently re-cased into the publisher's red cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and gilt devices to boards..... More
See How They Run. Embassy Row 2.
London: Orchard, 2016. [Young Adult Novel] SIGNED FIRST UK PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.334 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's soft covers, priced at £6.99. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front cover. A fine, as-new copy. Second in the 'Embassy Row'..... More
Bird Notes From the Nile.
Westminster: Archibald Constable and co., 1904. [Ornithology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.xii; 113; [3]. Advertisements to rear. With 22 illustrated plates, including a tissue-guarded colour frontispiece. Also with numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, black titles to upper and spine, pictorial decoration in black to upper. Fore and..... More
The Black-Eyed Blonde. A Philip Marlowe Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop / Henry Holt, 2014. [Detective mystery] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xii]; 290; [4]. Limited to 100 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's quarter black leatherette with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards..... More
61 Hours. A Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2018. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xiv; 383 [3]. Number 8 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
Blue Moon.
London: Bantam Press, 2019. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 404 [6]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with bronze titles to spine, orange endpapers, and all edges cyan. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £20.00. 'Signed by the Author'..... More