"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C. S. Lewis
New Arrivals
Zero Minus Ten (a James Bond novel).
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1997. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Royal octavo, pp.x; 257; [3], blank. Publisher's hardcover in original dust-wrapper. Absolutely fine throughout, being carefully dark stored by ourselves since publication. The first of author Raymond Benson's successful series of adventures featuring Ian Fleming's superspy James..... More
A Dictionary of the English Language; In Which the Words are Deduced From Their Originals; and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples From the Best Writers. To Which are Prefixed A History of the Language, and an English Grammar. In Two Volumes.
London: Printed by W. Strahan, 1755. [Dictionary] FIRST EDITIONS. 2 volumes; Folio (42 x 27cm). Complete. Titles printed in black and red. Bound to style in full brown calf with red and green title labels, raised bands to spine, decorated in gilt and blind. Some expected spotting/toning from use; more-so..... More
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The Baby's Opera [and] The Baby's Bouquet. A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses, the Music by the Earliest Masters [and] A Fresh Bunch of Old Rhymes & Tunes: A Companion to the "Baby's Opera" The Tunes Collected & Arranged by L.C.
London: George Routledge and Sons [and] Frederick Warne and Co., no dates [circa 1878 and 1900]. [Nursery Rhymes] FINE COLOUR PRINTING, early printings. Two volumes. Small quarto (19 x 19cm), pp.56; pp.56. Both volumes with fine colour illustrations designed by Crane and printed by Evans, accompanying printed music and words..... More
The Book of Princes and Princesses.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1908. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xx; 361; [7]. With eight chromolithographic plates, including a frontispiece, and numerous further wood engravings by H.J. Ford. Publisher's blue cloth, liberally decorated in gilt, with gilt titles to spine. All edges gilt. Note to flyleaf..... More
The Wedding of Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach by Terry O'Neill.
No place, No date [April 27th 1981]. Portrait photograph. A bromide fibre print, black and white image, 21 x 21cm. Edition limited to 150 copies, hand-numbered in ink and SIGNED by the photographer. Presented in a plain archival card mount, autographed below the image in black ink, the whole framed..... More
Devil May Care. Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming
London: Penguin 007, 2008. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[viii]; 295; [7], Endmatter; [9], advertisements; [1], blank. Publisher's black hardcovers blocked in silver to spine, poppy design endpapers in red, illustrated dust-jacket priced at £18.99. A fine copy. An original 007 adventure, written under copyright of Glidrose..... More
Harry Potter and the The Half-Blood Prince.
London: Bloomsbury, 2005. [Children's Classic] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the artist to the front panel of the dust-jacket. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.607; [1]. Publisher's glossy pictorial paper-covered boards with matching dust-jacket illustrated by Jason Cockroft, priced at £16.99. An as-new copy, carefully warehoused by ourselves since publication. The sixth..... More
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets.
London: Bloomsbury, 1999. [Fantasy novel] FIRST DELUXE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.251; [1]; [1] reviews; [2] facsimile letters from fans; [1] black and white reproduction of cover of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, illustration by Cliff Wright of Ron and Harry in the..... More
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
London: Bloomsbury, [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 (original..... 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. A fine/as-new copy, carefully..... More
Die Another Day.
London: Hodder and Stoughton. 2002. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp[vi]; 245; [5], blank. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers lettered in silver to the spine, photographic dust-wrapper priced at £18.99. A fine/as-new copy, carefully warehoused by ourselves since publication. A novelisation of the James Bond movie starring Pierce..... More
Brazilian Adventure.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2010. [Travel] LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, being one of 150 copies. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.364. Finely bound in the publisher's gilt decorated cloth, to the design of the original first edition binding. With photographic plates and illustrated map endpapers. Absolutely fine/As new. Out of print for..... More
Shadowmancer.
Whitby: Mount Publishing, 2002. [Christian Children's Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.252. SIGNED and dated by the author in black ink to title page, October 2002. Publisher's blind stamp also to title page, together with a hand-drawn and captioned 'gravestone' sketch, and a typed letter signed by..... More
Devil May Care. Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming
London: Penguin 007, 2008. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author to title page. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[viii]; 295; [7], Endmatter; [9], advertisements; [1], blank. Publisher's black hardcovers blocked in silver to spine, poppy design endpapers in red, illustrated dust-jacket priced at £18.99. A fine copy, autographed in..... More
The Hound of The Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes.
London: George Newnes, 1902. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.359. With 16 illustrated plates by Paget. Bound in publisher's decorative red cloth, showing silhouette of the hound against a skyline in black and gilt to front board, gilt titles to spine. Internally clean and free from marks and spotting..... More
Die Another Day.
London: Hodder and Stoughton. 2002. [Spy thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp[vi]; 245; [5], blank. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers lettered in silver to spine, photographic dust-wrapper priced at £18.99. Autographed by Raymond Benson in black ink to the title-page. The signature was obtained privately by us -the..... More
'James Bond and the Book Collector' within The Book Collector. Spring 2014.
London: The Collector Limited, 2014. [Literary Journal] Vol. 63, No.1, Spring 2014. Octavo, pp.168. Illustrated, in green card wrappers, with accompanying loose index for previous volume. Includes the article 'Bond and the Book Collector' by Nicolas Barker OBE, being a lengthy review of Jon Gilbert's award-winning Ian Fleming Bibliography, SIGNED..... More
The House of Silk.
London: Orion Books, 2011. [Detective Fiction] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.294. One of 1000 numbered copies, signed by the author on the half title. A fine/as-new copy in jacket, in a silver-titled black cloth slipcase, in the original shrinkwrap. Anthony Horowitz's first Sherlock Holmes continuation novel, followed..... More
Harry Potter and the The Deathly Hallows.
London: Bloomsbury, 2007. [Fantasy adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.607; [1], blank. Publisher's illustrated hardcovers, pictorial dust-wrapper, SIGNED to the upper panel by the jacket artist Jason Cockcroft. An as-new copy, carefully warehoused by ourselves since publication. The final Harry Potter adventure. Over many years Adrian Harrington Ltd..... More
The Diamond Smugglers.
London: Ian Fleming Publications Limited, 2009. [True Crime] FIRST EDITION THUS, SIGNED COPY. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.116. Autographed by Fergus Fleming in black ink to the title page, in my presence. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, priced at £15. A fine as-new..... More
Warhol: Red Books.
Göttingen: Steidl / Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 2004. [Photography Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Twelve small ring-bound booklets, including one in black covers containing the introduction and index, and eleven containing reproductions of Warhol's photographs, all in red covers. All housed in a red box with white titles (9 x 17..... More
The Armed Hands, and other stories and pieces.
London: Cecil & Amelia Woolf, 1974. [Short Stories and Miscellaneous Writings] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.137 [1]. Number 65 of 200 copies printed on Basingwerk Parchment. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, pink crow-patterned endpapers, and the matching red cloth-covered slipcase. Top edge red. Light wear..... More
Mrs. Beeton's Household Management. A Complete Cookery Book with sections on Household Work, Servants' Duties, Labour-Saving, Laundry Work, Etiquette, Marketing, Carving and Trussing, the Art of "Using-Up," Table Decoration, The Home Doctor, The Nursery, The Home Lawyer, etc.,
London; Ward, Lock & Co., no date [circa 1920s]. [Cookery and Domestic Economy] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (22 x 15 x 10cm), pp.[4] xvi; 1680 [12]. With 32 colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and nearly 700 other illustrations. Later maroon half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
The Nursery Rhyme Book.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1898. [Nursery Rhymes] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.288. With numerous wood engravings by Brooke, both full page plates and in-text, including a frontispiece and decorated title page. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and gilt decoration to spine. All..... More
The Subtle Knife. His Dark Materials II. The Lantern Slides Edition.
London: Scholastic, 2008. [Children's Fantasy] SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, second impression thus. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.[8] 332 [12]. Publisher's red paper-covered boards, with red metallic titles to spine and red endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Lawrence, priced at £20.00. Signed by the artist to the title page. A...... More