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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
They Do it With Mirrors.
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
Third Girl.
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
The Great Train Robbery.
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
Dombey and Son. Or, Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and Exportation.
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
The Millstone.
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
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. 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
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
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine.
London: Chatto and Windus Ltd., 1974. [Modern literature]. FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo, pp.328: Publisher's green cloth boards and pictorial dust-jacket designed by John Sutcliffe, priced at £2.50. Jacket spine a little sunned and toned, with some minor spotting to edges, otherwise a clean, very good copy. Iris Murdoch was..... More
Harper and Wilton.
London: Colophon Press, 1996. [Short Story] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 19cm), pp.[2] 17 [5]. Number 59 of 110 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear. Printed by letterpress on Velin Arches paper. Publisher's brown quarter morocco, with gilt titles to spine..... 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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