New Arrivals
Talk of The Devil. Limited and Trade issues.
London: Queen Anne Press, Ian Fleming Publications, [2023], 2025. [Literary anthology] TRUE FIRST EDITION, collector issue. One of 220 copies (all sheets taken from the Centenary edition and marked out-of-series o/s). Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.406. Bound in black Plike paper-covered boards decorated with wraparound typewriter keys design, accented with..... More
Designing 007. 50 Years of Bond Style.
London: Barbican International Enterprises, 2012. [Movie reference] Photographic book to accompany the exhibition Designing 007, 6th July- 5th September 2012, held at The Barbican Centre, London. English language edition (also printed in French) Quarto, pp.192, illustrated throughout in colour. Publisher's self-wraps. A crisp, clean copy. To celebrate the 50th anniversary..... More
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Scorpius [James Bond series].
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1988. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Royal octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.190; [2], blank. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper priced £10.95 to flap. Clean throughout. Appears unread. An original novel starring Ian Fleming's James Bond. Formerly owned by the respected Bond historian John Griswold (1950-2016), author of..... More
Tropic of Capricorn.
London: John Calder, 1963. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 316; [2], blank. Copyright notice blacked out by the publisher to c.p. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the red dust-jacket, priced at 25s. Contents clean and fresh, no inscriptions, jacket shows..... More
003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior.
New York, NY: Random House, 1968. [Adventure novel] FIRST US EDITION; being the first fully illustrated edition, with drawings by Michael Jackson. Quarto (23 x 17cm), pp.236; [2], blank. Publisher's illustrated boards, no jacket was issued. Some minor rubbing, spine tips a little scuffed. From the collection of Otto Penzler..... More
Licence to Kill. James Bond is Back.
London: Coronet Books, 1989. [Spy thriller] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.219; [5], advertisements. Elegantly bound in deep red half oasis morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, matching cloth over boards, with the original pictorial covers bound in at rear showing Timothy Dalton as James Bond..... More
Passage of Arms. Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) reader's report, favourably assessing the novel's potential for film adaptation, together with a First Edition book.
N.p. [London: Elstree Studios/ABPC], Heinemann, 1959. [Literary and cinematic critique] Elstree Studios' report on the Eric Ambler thriller, considering the novel as suitable for filming. 5pp., typed report on rectos only. Perforations down left edge from office binding. Very well preserved. Book is near fine in like jacket. A gun-running..... More
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Consolatio Navigantium [Consolation for Voyagers]: in quâ docetur, & deducitur, quomodo per maria pereginantes à fame ac siti immò etiam morbis, qui longinquo ab itinere ipsis contingere possunt, sibi providere ac suppetiari liceat. Omnium illorum, qui ad patriæ salutem magnas ac diutinas navigationes obeunt, amori, auxilio, solatio, ac levamini, ex bonâ animi mente descripta, & in lucem edita.
Amstelodami: Apud Joannem Janssonium, MDCLVII [1657]. [Sea travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.96. In the original Latin. Later brown half calf, nonpareil marbled paper over boards. Black gilt-lettered title label to spine. All edges speckled red. Text gently toned and heavily annotated in faint pencil throughout. Light mark..... More
The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons. A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery.
New York, NY: Lawrence Block, 2013. [Crime Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, first thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10]240 [2]. Number 774 of 1000 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in blue ink to the limitation page. Publisher's green leatherette, with gilt titles to spine and upper, and an illustration laid..... More
The World is Not Enough.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.274; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to backstrip, photographic dust-wrapper priced at £16.99. The signature was obtained during the book launch event held at our shop. Clean and fresh throughout..... More
Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Based on the novel by Anthony Burgess.
New York: Abelard -Schuman Ltd., 1972. [Modern literature / Cinema] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), unpaginated. Photographs throughout (700 monochrome stills in all) from reel one to sixteen. Bound in the publisher's mustard cloth, titles in black to spine with bright orange endpapers. White pictorial dust-jacket designed by Philip..... More
The Years.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1937. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.iv; 469; [3], blank. Bound in an unusual variant publisher's binding of full bottle green buckram, lettered in gilt to spine. Contents clean, discreet ink date to endpaper, ticket of Times Book Club to rear pastedown, a couple..... More
The Tailor of Panama.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. [Spy Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.410. Publisher's grey quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine and purple paper-covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £16.99. A crisp, clean copy. Harry Pendel is the best known tailor in Panama and..... More
A Summer in Iceland. Translated by Rev. M. R. Barnard.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1868. [Travel / topography] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 364. With plates and illustrations in text. Attractive hand-bound in tan half calf, red label, gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, marbled paper-covered boards, edge untrimmed. Contents clean, minor toning. A...... More
The Time Machine.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1964. [Science Fiction] SIGNED COLLECTOR'S EDITION. Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.xii; 98 [2]. With six colour plates, and numerous in-text illustrations by Mugnaini throughout the text. SIGNED by the Science-Fiction author and writer of the introduction BRIAN ALDISS in black ink to a publisher's bookplate..... More
Licence Renewed, with related TLS. James Bond 007.
London: Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton, 1981. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.270; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £6.50. With fifteen-line typed letter, signed in blue ink by the author, dated 20th May 1982. Contents lightly toned else a crisp, fresh..... More
My Philosophy. Representing my Views on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space.
London: Ernest Benn, 1933. [Esoterica] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.318. Publisher's mid-green cloth blocked in gilt and blind. with titles stamped in gilt and black. No inscriptions, contents clean, edges foxed, covers fresh, spine sunned. My Philosophy is the final major book by the eminent British physicist..... More
The Supernatural? With Chapter On Oriental Magic, Spiritualism, And Theosophy
Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, [1891]. [Esoterica] FIRST EDITION. Preface dated 1891. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 273. Illustrations within the text. With two pages of ads as rear endpapers, half title as front endpapers as issued. Publisher's orange cloth with titles stamped in gilt and black. No ink names, contents..... More
Licence Renewed. James Bond 007.
London: Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton, 1981. [Spy novel] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, in the proof-only dust-wrapper. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.270; [2], blank. Publisher's red softcovers in pictorial dust-wrapper with provisional publication details to the rear flap. Minor wear at crown; a clean, fresh copy. The first James Bond..... More
Licence to Kill. James Bond is Back. UK and US paperbacks.
London: Coronet Books. New York: Charter Books, 1989. [Spy thriller] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.219; [5], advertisements. Pictorial covers priced £2.99, showing Timothy Dalton as James Bond in the motion picture written by Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum [together with] FIRST US PAPERBACK, pp.294; [2], ads...... More
Mother Courage and her Children. A Chronicle of the Thirty Years War.
London: Methuen, 1962. [Drama] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.x; 81; [3], blank. Publisher's photographic softcovers priced 4/6. Discreet ink ownership of Morris Venables, contents clean, edges dusty. A chronicle play first produced in Zurich, 1941, widely considered one of the greatest anti-war plays of the 20th century..... More
The Lord of the Rings. Being: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1969-1970. [Fantasy Classic] SECOND EDITION, the fifth, fifth, and fourth impressions respectively. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (23 x 14 x 10cm), pp.[4] 423 [1]; pp.352; pp.416. With a folding map at the rear of each volume. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spines..... More
James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me.
New York: Warner Books, June 1977. [Espionage novel] FIRST EDITION. A paperback original; no American hardback was produced. Slim octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.206; [2], advertisements. Pictorial card wrappers priced at $1.75, all edges tinted yellow. An exceptionally clean, fresh copy. Rather scarce. This is the original story / novel..... More
The History of Witchcraft and Demonology.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., 1965. [Witchcraft] REISSUE. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 353 [3]. Comprehensively illustrated with eight striking black and white plates spanning myth, theology, and history. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamp of an Athenian coin to upper cover, lettered in gilt to spine. Contents clean..... More
The Works of John Milton, in Verse and Prose. Printed from the original editions with a life of the author by the Rev. John Mitford.
London: William Pickering, 1851. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND AND PRINTED EDITION, First Thus, with the colophon of the Chiswick Press. Complete in eight volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 29cm), pp.[2] viii; v-ccii; 270 [4]; pp.[2] xx; 415 [3]; pp.[8] 530 [4]; pp.[8] 581 [3]; pp.[8] 457 [5]; pp.[8] 488..... More