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New Arrivals
The Fireman.
London: Gollancz, 2016. [Apocalypse] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[14] 752 [4]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and flame-illustrated endpapers. All edges red. With the photographic dust-jacket by Shane Leonard, priced at £20.00. 'Signed by..... More
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Queenie. [Three Variant Jackets].
London: Trapeze, 2019. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS, three copies in variant dust-jacket. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[8] 392. Each copy SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, black endpapers, and all edges pink. With dust-jackets in orange, pink..... More
Arena 13.
London: The Bodley Head, 2015. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 280 [16]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and black endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by James Fraser, priced at £12.99. Promotional..... More
Middle England.
London: Viking, 2018. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 424. SIGNED by the author in black ink to preliminary leaf. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine and red endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £16.99. Promotional stickers to front cover. A fine, as-new..... More
The Student's Elements of Geology.
London: John Murray, 1878. [Natural History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, revised third edition thus. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.xx; 672 [2]. With frequent in-text engraved illustrations, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and large gilt arms of King's College London to upper. All..... More
The New Machiavelli.
London: The English Review, 1910. [Modern Literature] FIRST APPEARANCE, original magazine parts bound as one volume. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] 286-329 [2]; 532-563 [1]; 673-715 [2]; 98-136 [1]; 270-308; 477-511 [2]; 682-702 [2]. Contemporary green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to orange label, further gilt decoration to..... More
Curiosities of Literature.
London: Edward Moxon, 1851. [Literary Miscellany] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xii; 578 [2]. Very small print in two columns. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, a vignette title page, and one folding facsimile of a manuscript by Alexander Pope. Contemporary brown full..... More
Le Notti Romane al Sepolcro degli Scipioni, Adorne de Tavole Inventate e Fatte a Contorni da Vincenzo Gajassi, Dedicate a S.L. La Marchesa D. Zenobia Delcarretto.
Napoli [Naples]: Presso Gaetano Nobile Libraio-Editore, 1836. [Italian Literature] FIRST GAJASSI ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 20cm), pp.176 [4]. With 40 engraved plates by Gajassi, including a frontispiece portrait of the author. All text in Italian, printed in two columns. Contemporary full parchment, with gilt titles to a replacement..... More
Soonchild.
London: Walker Books, 2012. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.142 [2]. With in-text sketches by Deacon. SIGNED by the illustrator in purple ink to title page. Publisher's illustrated cream paper over boards, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated..... More
Danny Rouzer's Glamour Photography. Trend Book 134
Hollywood, CA: Trend Books, 1956. [Figure Photography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo magazine (24 x 17cm), pp.128. With black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice. Lightly browned throughout. Some light rubbing to covers. One tear to p.81/82. Very good. Essentially a guide for nude photography by the..... More
Zero Minus Ten (a James Bond novel).
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1997. FIRST EDITION. Royal octavo, pp.x; 257; [3], blank. Publisher's hardcover in original dust-wrapper. No inscriptions or price-clipping. A fine copy. Hubin; Crime Fiction IV. Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 613. More
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The Saville Club 1868-1968. [a souvenir booklet].
London: the Saville Club, 1968. [London Gentlemen's Club Centenary magazine] SIGNED BY CONTRIBUTORS. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.31 [1]. Also with the Centenary Dinner menu loose at rear. Liberally SIGNED by various contributors and club members, including Stephen Potter, John Pudney, Winston Graham, Ralph Richardson, Eric Linklater, Michael Ayrton..... More
Three Beds in Manhattan.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976. [Mystery novel] FIRST UK EDITION, translated by Lawrence G. Blochman. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.187; [1], blank. Publisher's jade cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Beverly LeBarrow. Near fine in like, price-clipped jacket with trivial wear to crown. A pyschological thriller;..... More
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
London: Bloomsbury, 2003. [Children's Classic] FIRST DELUXE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.766; [2]. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine, upper cover with art panel by Jason Cockroft, all edges gilt. A fine, as new copy, sealed in the original shrinkwrap with 'First Edition' text on price label..... More
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
London: Bloomsbury, 2000. [Fantasy adventure] FIRST DELUXE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.636; [4] blank. Publisher's purple cloth, all edges gilt, gilt titles to spine and upper with pictorial illustration laid on to upper. A fine, unused copy, sealed in the original shrinkwrap with 'First Edition' text on price label..... More
Quantum of Solace. The Complete James Bond Short Stories.
London: Penguin 007, 2008. [Spy fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 14cm), pp.301, with an introduction by the respected Bond authority Henry Chancellor. In the prize-winning binding of silver-grey cloth with a silenced Walther PPK motif to upper, burgundy endpapers. Complete with the wraparound sleeve, which is gummed together at..... More
The Life of Wellington. A New Edition, Revised, Condensed and Completed.
London: Bickers and Son, 1893. [Military Biography] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 387 [3]. With occasional in-text illustrations, and a frontispiece portrait of Wellington. Contemporary green polished calf, with gilt titles to a red label, and further gilt decoration to spine. All edges and endpapers..... More
Flawed.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016. [Young Adult Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[8] 402 [6]. Publisher's black cloth with metallic blue titles to spine, and blue endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £14.99. Promotional sticker to front cover. A fine, as-new copy. More
Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow.
London: Orion Children's Books, 2018. [Children's Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST LIMITED EDITION IN ASSOCIATION WITH GOLDSBORO BOOKS. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[8] 404 [6]. With occasional marginal illustrations by Beatriz Castro. Number 121 of just 250 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to 'Goldsboro Books Ltd. special edition' preliminary..... More
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Tombland. [Shardlake].
London: Mantle, 2018. [Historical Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[14] 866 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to preliminary 'limited edition' leaf. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine, and colour illustrated maps as endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £20.00. 'Signed Copy'..... More
The President is Missing.
London: Century, 2018. [Political Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 513 [9]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges red and American flag endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £20.00. A sticker removed from front cover. A fine, as-new copy. More
Dubious Deeds. Book One of The Further Adventures of Eddie Dickens.
London: Faber and Faber, 2003. [Children's Adventure] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[10] 145 [5]. With frequent in-text illustrations by Roberts. SIGNED by the author rather minimally in blue ink to flyleaf, with publisher's stamp of authenticity. Publisher's brown paper-covered boards with white titles to spine. With the..... More
The Haunting of Toby Jugg.
London: Hutchinson and Co., no date [1948]. [Occult Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.292. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. Light toning to edges; a small bookseller's label removed from front pastedown. Gilt heavily faded and a little rubbed..... More
An Art Tour to Northern Capitals of Europe.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1873. [Russian and Scandinavian Museum Tour] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 455 [3]. Contemporary dark brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and blind decoration to spine, and lighter brown cloth over boards, with a gilt institutional device to upper..... More
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The Kindly Ones. [A Dance to the Music of Time].
London: Heinemann, 1962. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 254 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to back background on spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Broom-Lynne. French bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Spotting to edges and endpapers. Light toning to spine. Jacket price-clipped and toned..... More