"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "
— Oscar Wilde
New Arrivals
The History of the South African Forces in France.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., no date [1920]. [First World War] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.404. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, gilt motif to upper board, light brown endpapers, fore and tail edges untrimmed. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seventeen further plates, and twenty... More
Watership Down.
London: Rex Collings, 1974. [Children's classic] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 413; [1] blank. Folding map to rear. Fifth printing of the second edition, printed two years after the first edition. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge green, photographic dust-jacket. Signed and dated... More
Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race. Derived from a Comparison of the Languages of Asia, Europe, Africa, and America. Being an Inquiry How Far the Differences in the Languages of the Globe are Referrible to Causes now in Operation.
London: Samuel Clarke, 1843. [Anthropology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.lx; 103; [1]; 20, advertisements. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Yellow coated endpapers. Bookplate of writer and illustrator Maud J. Vyse to pastedown. Some light spotting and toning. Occasional pen annotation. Residue where a label has been... More
A Partisan's Daughter.
London: Harvill, Secker, 2008. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 212; [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Black endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket. A fine, as-new copy. More
The Love Department.
London: The Bodley Head, 1966. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.295; [1]. Publisher's blue green cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Stephen Russ, priced at 25s net. Internally fine, some very slight spotting to preliminaries and edges. Cloth clean, corners a tiny bit bumped... More
The Living Years. The First Genesis Memoir.
London: Constable, 2014. [Rock Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.241; [5]. Publisher's blue hardback cloth, photographic jacket priced £20. Illustrated with two suites of photographic plates. With signature of Mike Rutherford to his printed bookplate, affixed to the title page. A fine, unused copy. More
Bit of a Blur. The Autobiography.
London: Little, Brown, 2007. [Britpop] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 274 [4]. With 12 double-sided colour photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in thick black marker to title page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper over boards with titles to spine and tan endpapers. With the matching blue dust-jacket... More
Biggles Buries A Hatchet.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1958. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.184; [2] advertisments. With six colour plates by Stead. Blue hardcovers blocked in red, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 8/6. A fine copy of the book in light used jacket with some rubbing to rear panel. Biggles and his... More
The Plot That Thickened.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1973. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] 221 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt motif to upper board. Yellow endpapers. With the yellow dust-jacket illustrated by Paul Bacon. Slightly spotted and dusty to top... More
Inside Out. A Personal History of Pink Floyd.
Guildford, UK: Genesis Publications, 2004. [Music Autobiography] LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 copies SIGNED by Nick Mason. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Quarto (54 x 40cm in case), bound in grey morocco blocked in silver with colour plate to front cover, all edges silver. With a all additional items as issued... More
Who I Am.
London: Harper Collins, 2012. [Rock Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.538. Publisher's grey hardback cloth, photographic endpapers, pictorial jacket priced £20. Illustrated with two suites of photographic plates. With signature of Pete Townsend to title page, obtained at a book-launch signing session with the retailer's original 'Signed... More
Leave It to Psmith.
New York, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1924. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION, second issue without monogram on copyright page and amended list of titles to jacket flaps. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.347; [1] blank. Publisher's light blue cloth with dark blue decorations, pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by Maylerson Austin priced at... More
Playback.
Guildford, UK: Genesis Publications, 2002. LIMITED EDITION, Collector Issue No.1026 of 2000 copies, SIGNED by Sir George Martin. With Forewords by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Quarto (40 x 26cm in box), pp.327. Bound in black quarter leather over buckram sides, chromium nameplate, silver page edges and tooling. With exclusive... More
Beady Minces.
London: Mathews Miller Dunbar and Bailey Co-Production, 1973. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 22cm), unpaginated. Publisher's cream laminated boards, titles in black to spine, photographic dust-jacket. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of Bailey's work. With an introduction by Terence Donovan. Internally clean, some toning to endpapers and... More
The Ability to Kill.....And Other Pieces.
London: The Bodley Head Ltd., 1963. [Murder/true crime] FIRST EDITION, corrected state. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.222. Publisher's light red cloth in a rather chilling pictorial dust-jacket, illustrated by Don Higgins. Illustrated bookplate to flyleaf. Usual laminate shrinkage at joint, some soiling, spine and extremities toned. Very good. More
![Poirot and the Triangle at Rhodes and Poirot and the Regatta Mystery [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 91. VARIOUS, Agatha CHRISTIE, CHURCHILL, Sir Winston S., P. G. WODEHOUSE.](/pictures/thumb/52003.jpg?v=1534002109)
Poirot and the Triangle at Rhodes and Poirot and the Regatta Mystery [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 91.
London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1936. [Literature] FIRST APPEARANCES. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.672. Contemporary green cloth, gilt titles on a red morocco square to spine. Profusely illustrated. Occasional thumbmark but generally clean, toning to edges. Bindings lightly rubbed to extremities, slightly darkened to spine. Very good. Alongside the two Poirot... More
An Almanac of Twelve Sports. With Words by Rudyard Kipling.
London: William Heinemann, 1898. [Lithographs] FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[32] unpaginated. Publisher's printed paper covered boards, plain cloth spine. Twelve colour lithographs. Offsetting from the lithographs as often found. Toning to endpapers, occasional thumbmark but slightly toned textblock generally clean and bright. Textblock shaken with the hinges... More
A journey Round the Coast of Kent. Containing Remarks on the Principal Objects Worthy of Notice Throughout the Whole of that Interesting Border, and the Contiguous District; Including Penshurst, and Tunbridge Wells; with Rye, Winchelsea, Hastings, and Battle, in Sussex; Being Original Notes Made During a Summer Excursion.
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818. [Kent] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.iv; 304. Hand coloured folding map of the County facing title page. A later utilitarian binding of red half leather over marbled boards, hand written label to spine. Library marks to rear of title page, light spotting... More
Mansfield Park.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. [Illustrated Classic] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xviii; 429; [1]. With 40 wood engraved illustrations by Thomson, including a frontispiece. In the publisher's deluxe red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board. All edges gilt; yellow peacock design... More
Goldfinger.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.318. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with 'skull' design stamped to upper, in original pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Richard Chopping, priced at 15s. No inscriptions, jacket with minor toning to extremities, joints a little rubbed... More
Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth. The Remedy.
London: William Reeves, 1884. [Economics] FINELY BOUND, an early edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[10]; 440; [4]. Contemporary half tan calf with raised bands, gilt titles to black label on spine, and further gilt decoration to spine. Brown textured cloth over boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Slight reading lean;... More
A Caribbean Mystery.
London: The Collins Crime Club, 1964. [Detective Fiction]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Bound in publisher's red cloth, printed with black cloth pattern, with gilt titles to spine. Dust-wrapper shows palm fronds in green and blue and titles in black and orange against a pale background, repeated on... More
Flashman and the Tiger, And other extracts from The Flashman Papers.
London: Harper Collins, 1999. [Adventure fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.319; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt to spine in original pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by Barbosa. Price-clipped else a fine copy. More
Command a King's Ship.
London: Hutchinson, 1973. [Naval adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.320; [4] blank. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket. A fine copy of the book, in a near fine jacket which is sunned to the spine. Complete with 'Richard Bolitho' bookmark. March 1784: Bolitho, new... More
News From Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2010. [Travel] LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, being one of 150 copies. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.382. 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