"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. "
— Oscar Wilde
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A Delicate Truth.
London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2013. [Spy novel] LIMITED EDITION PROOF COPY. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.310; [1], Acknowledgements; [1], blank. Publisher's softcovers with publication details to foot of upper and lower panels. Trivial toning; a fine copy. A delicate counter-terror operation concerning Whitehall and Britain's most precious..... More
Black Dogs.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1992. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.174; [1], blank; [1], Note. Publisher's black cloth, titles in gilt to spine, white endpapers, photographic dust jacket by David Moores, priced at £13.99. A fine copy. The critically acclaimed fifth novel from the Booker Prize-winning author... More
Black Dogs.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1992. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.174; [1], blank; [1], Note. Publisher's black cloth, titles in gilt to spine, scarlet endpapers, photographic dust jacket by David Moores, priced at £13.99. Author's signature to title-page in black ink. A fine copy. The critically acclaimed..... More
Between The Woods and The Water. On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to The Iron Gates.
London: John Murray, 1986. [Travel]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 248 [2]. With a map printed on turquoise paper. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour illustrated dust-jacket by John Craxton, priced at £13.95. Very lightly handled; a clean fine copy. More
The Maythorn Story.
London: Heinemann, 1960. [Children's fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 217; [1]. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of 12s 6d net. With line drawings by Robert Hodgson. Spotting to edges. Cloth slightly sunned to extremties. Wrapper lightly rubbed to edges and folds..... More
The Scorch Trials.
London: Chicken House, 2010. [Young Adult Fiction] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.361; [1]. One of 3000 copies SIGNED by the author. Hardback in pink dust-jacket, with black paper-covered slipcase. In the original shrink-wrap. Fine/as-new. The second book in the 'Maze Runner' series. More
The Stone Leopard.
London: Collins, 1975. [Cold War Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 245 [3]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £3.00. Light spotting and browning to edges. Jacket spine sunned. Near fine. More
The Giant at the Ford, and Other Legends of the Saints.
London: The Bodley Head, 1980. [Children's Hagiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.183 [1]. With occasional line drawings by Felts. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket, also illustrated by Felts, priced at £4.50. Lightly handled, with slight sunning to jacket spine. Near fine. Fifteen..... More
Our Man in Damascus.
London: Robert Hale, 1971. [Espionage] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.189 [3]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the orange dust-jacket designed by Helen Hale. Jacket spine and edges sunned. Price-clipped. Very good. The story of Eli Cohen, Israel's master spy, who infiltrated right into..... More
Children of Dune.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1976. [Science Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.444 [4]. Publisher's light green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at £3.95. Some light handling. Purple to jacket spine sunned to pink. Very good. The third Dune novel... More
The Underground Man.
London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1971. [Crime Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Roy Belcher, priced at £1.50. Spotting to edges. Jacket quite heavily rubbed to edges with a few small chips. Very..... More
Inheritance.
London: Doubleday, 2011. [Children's Fantasy] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.860. One of 1500 copies SIGNED and numbered by the author for Waterstones' bookshops. Publisher's green cloth with matching slipcase, titled in gilt to spine and slipcase. Sealed in the original shrink-wrap. Fine/as-new. The fifth book in..... More
My Polar Flight. With 45 illustrations and 2 charts.
London: Hutchinson and Co., no date [1925]. [Arctic Exploration] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[8] 292. With 29 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Orange typographic bookplate of John Lloyd to front pastedown. Tape burns to both..... More
Paul and Virginia. With an original Memoir of the Author, and Three Hundred and Thirty Illustrations.
London: W.S. Orr and Co., 1839. [French Literature in Translation] First Edition in English. Octavo, (24 x 17cm) pp.[8] xxx; 306 [2]. With 30 large engravings on India paper tipped onto card, including a frontispiece and decorated title page, as well as hundreds of other smaller in-text engravings, by various..... More
Actinologia Britannica: A History of the British Sea-Anemonies and Corals. With coloured figures of the species and principal varieties.
London: Van Voorst, 1860. [Marine Biology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xl; 362. With 12 very fine chromolithographic plates, including a frontispiece, by W. Dickes. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Light yellow-coated endpapers. Some pencil notes, spotting and offsetting to verso of flyleaf and..... More
The Odyssey of Homer.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935. [Classics in Translation] FIRST UK EDITION THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[12] 327 [5]. With a dichromatic vignette title page and 'Wanderings of Odysseus' maps to front and rear. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt roundel illustration to upper. Top edge..... More
William Pitt the Younger.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2004. [Political Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.xxvi; 652 [10]. With three suites of four double-sided colour plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page; 'For Roger | with best wishes | William Hague.' Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine..... More
Honor Blackman's book of self-defence.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1965. [James Bond Association] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.128. Liberally illustrated with black and white photographs by Worth. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Cameron Poulterl, priced at 18s. Jacket toned to spine, with rubbing, closed tears and..... More
Animal Farm. A Fairy Story.
London: The Folio Society, 1984. [Political Satire] FIRST BLAKE-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.104. With in-text illustrations by Blake. Tan endpapers. Publisher's cloth boards, also illustrated in colour by Blake, with the original leather-grain-effect cream slipcase. Light toning to slipcase; spine sunned. Very good. Orwell's famous satire in fable..... More
Our Gang (Starring Tricky and His Friends).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. [Political Satire] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[12] 200 [4]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink. With the black and pink dust-jacket, priced at £1.75. Edges lightly toned. Cloth a little handled, marginally short jacket spine gently toned, with..... More
A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars.
London: Zephyr, 2017. [Children's Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 309 [3]. With occasional marginal illustrations by Leo Nickolls. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Black endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Nickolls, priced..... More
The Egypt Flight L.Z. 127 - Graf Zeppelin. A Philatelic Handbook No. 8.
[Maryland, MD]: Germany Philatelic Society, Inc., 1981. [German Stamps] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 80 [2]. With black and white illustrations throughout, and four in colour. Publisher's blue card covers, with darker blue titles to spine and front cover. Light rubbing and toning to spine. Near fine..... More
Day of Judgement.
London: Collins, 1978. [Cold War Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Reg Boorer, priced at £4.95. Lightly sunned to spine else a fine copy, perhaps carefully read once. More
The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time.
London: Cassell and Company, 1954. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 350. With eight double-sided black and white photographic plates, as well as a colour frontispiece. W.H. Smiths library binding of brown cloth with darker brown titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Brooks, priced at 21s. Light spotting..... More
Travels with my Aunt.
London: The Bodley Head, 1969. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.319 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Stephen Russ, priced at 30s. Spotting to edges and preliminaries. Rubbing to jacket spine, with losses to head and tail of spine..... More