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Ancient Light.
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
Angels and Spaceships.
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
Black Venus.
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
The Great Train Robbery.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. [Locomotive thievery] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. 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..... More
The Family Reuion. A Play.
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
We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
London: Michael Joseph, 1963. [Strange Tale] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. 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..... More
The Sixpence that Rolled Away.
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.24. With five colour plates and six line drawn illustrations by Bawden. Publisher's colour illustrated paper covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Some offsetting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Wear to extremities and some..... More
A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur.
London: Colophon Press, 2001. [Short Story] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 19cm), pp.[2] 15 [7]. Letter Z of 26 lettered copies thus, from a total limitation of 157, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear, with a holograph quotation from the text. Printed by..... More
Voices at Play. Stories and Ear-pieces.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1960. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 248. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by Victor Reinganum, priced at 16s net. Very light handling only. A crisp, fine copy in like jacket. Muriel Spark won the 1965 James Tait Black Memorial Prize..... More
Alice of Old Vincennes.
Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1900. [American Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION, an advance copy. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 419 [13]. With five black and white illustrated plates and a colour frontispiece, all by Yohn. Publisher's light blue cloth with black and gilt titles, as well as decoration in white..... More
The Mennyms.
London: Julia MacRae Books, 1993. [Children's Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[2] 213 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and light brown endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Patrick Benson, priced at £9.99. A fine copy with just a touch of light handling. The first..... More
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