"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C. S. Lewis

London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. [Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] 150 [6]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Paul Hess, priced at £10.99. A fine, as-new copy. The final book in the Wolves Chronicles, published posthumously. More
London: The Zodiac Press, 1974. [Classic Literature] FINE COPY, the ninth impression of the Zodiac Press edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.299 [3]. Publisher's grey and white patterned paper over boards, with gilt titles to blue backing on spine. With the dust-jacket showing a painting by John Sergeant, price-clipped and..... More
London: Viking, 2012. [Modern Literature] DOUBLE SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 245 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, and signed also to tipped-in 'Exclusive Signed Edition' leaf. Publisher's black cloth with bronze titles to spine and dark green endpapers. With the photographic..... More
London: Putnam, 1937. [Memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.ix; [1]; 416; [2]. Publisher's dark red cloth, gilt titles to spine. A lovely clean copy internally, slight lean to the textblock, edges a little toned. Boards slightly bowed. Cloth very lightly handled to extremities but bright and unfaded. An..... More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1955. [Science Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION, REVIEW COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.224. The publisher's review slip loosely inserted. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink typographic dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. A little light spotting to edges and endpapers. Gilt slightly dulled to..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, the Hogarth Press, 1985. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.121 [3]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black dust-jacket designed by Don Macpherson. A lightly handled copy in a price-clipped jacket. Near fine. More
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1957. [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 256 [6]. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt..... More
London: The Crime Club [Collins], 1971. [Murder mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth in grey typographic dust-jacket with printed price of £1.50. A clean, fine copy in a superior example of the jacket which shows wear too readily. This one is only lightly handled with..... More
London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1970. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.256. Elegantly bound in half red oasis morocco over cloth sides, spine ruled in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt. Contents clean, exterior as new. A fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. A...... More
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1952. [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt, with gilt motifs of..... More
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1966. [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt, with gilt motifs of..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. [Locomotive thievery] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.255, [1]. Publisher's mid brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Leigh Taylor. Signed by the author to the title page. Internally fine. Bright dust-wrapper, not faded or clipped, with just some light..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.240. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. Pictorial wraparound dust-wrapper illustrated by Blake, showing printed price of £8.50 net. Numerous in-text illustrations by Blake. A couple of tiny spots to edges, binding and wrapper very lightly handled..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. [Classic literature] FIRST EDITION, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED includes errata leaf within prelims, bound from the parts, without half-title. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[xvi]; 624. Illustrated with frontispiece and vignette and a further thirty-eight plates, plus three additional portrait plates by H.K. Browne ('Phiz'). Period-style half brown oasis..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. [English Literature] FIRST EDITION. First issue text with 'pricipal' for 'principal', page 115 of volume II, line 38. Two volumes. Octavo, pp.[2] xii; 320 [2]; pp.[2] viii; 309 [3]. With 40 engraved plates by Stone, including a frontispiece to each volume. Complete with the half-titles..... More
New York, NY: Triangle Books, 1940. [Sherlock Holmes] VINTAGE HARDCOVER EDITION. Third Triangle Books printing. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[viii]; 415; [5] blank. Publisher's green cloth titled in silver to black label on spine, silver decoration to spine and upper board, edges coloured yellow, pictorial dust-jacket. Textblock toned, spine a...... More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1965. [English Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.223; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, colourful dust-jacket illustrated by Quentin Blake, priced at 18s. net. Near fine, with one shallow chip to crown. The author's third novel. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1939. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.136. Publisher's grey cloth with pink titles to spine. With the first issue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Very light general wear and some light toning. Near fine. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Thriller] FIRST ISSUE, Second state, Binding 'A'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with gilt lettering to the spine, plain covers, patterned green endpapers. In the original pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping priced at 18s. No inscriptions. Some tape..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. [Espionage novel] FIRST EDITION, State A. Crown Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.221. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with scarlet endpapers in pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping. A clean copy of the book but for some tape ghosts to the pastedown where the jacket was secured..... More
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1958. [Thriller] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14), pp.256. Publisher's black cloth lettered in red, with pictorial dust wrapper designed by Hoffman. Flap shows the correct price $3.50, although other prices are clipped from corners as usual. Owner's ink notes to flyleaf "1958..... More
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1959. [Wood Engraving] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[2] xliv; 355 [3]. A large collection of over 1000 wood engravings by Gibbings. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt device to upper. Top edge green, and green endpapers. With the..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1958. [Spy Satire] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 273; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Donald Green. No inscriptions, jacket price clipped, toned to edges and extremities. An attractive copy. Greene's classic comic thriller, memorably brought to the..... More
London: The Bodley Head, 1969. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.319 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Stephen Russ. A very good used copy; jacket frayed at crown with a few tape strips to reverse side, price clipped, general..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1963. [Strange Tale] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.190 [2]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Charles Gorham, priced at 18s. Blue ink ownership to flyleaf. Toning and spotting to edges, with some light wear to cloth. Jacket..... More