New Arrivals
Singular Travels, Campaigns and Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
London: The Cresset Press, 1948. [Satirical Adventure] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xlvi; 178. With six full page and eight in-text wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Wood. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the yellow dust-jacket, priced at 9/6. Jacket toned to..... More
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour.
London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Hunting Humour] FINE COLOUR PLATES, a later edition. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.x, 408. With frequent in-text wood engraving, as well as 13 fine hand-coloured plates including a frontispiece, all by Leech. Publisher's red cloth with gilt and black titles and..... More
Harry Potter Series, Complete Deluxe Set. Being: The Philosopher's Stone; The Chamber of Secrets; The Prisoner of Azkaban; The Goblet of Fire; The Order of The Phoenix; The Half-Blood Prince; The Deathly Hallows; Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them; Quidditch Through the Ages; and The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
London: Bloomsbury, 1999-2008. ALL FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST PRINTING, IN DELUXE BINDINGS, superbly presented. Ten volumes, octavo (26 x 17 x 36cm). Original harlequin cloth, with gilt decoration, illustrations to upper covers, and all edges gilt. The three supplementary volumes housed in a custom green cloth clamshell case designed to match..... More
A Holiday on the Road. An Artist's Wanderings in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey.
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1887. [South-East Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xviii; 408. With 14 engraved plates, including a frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text woodcuts. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and black and gilt decoration to spine and upper. Dark brown-coated endpapers..... More
A Mirror for Princes: The Qabus Nama.
London: The Cresset Press, 1951. [Persian Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxii; 265 [1]. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to orange backing on spine. Plain bookplate of John Christopher Loder, 3rd Baron Wakehurst, to fly-leaf. A moderate tobacco scent. Sunning to spine, with some dulling to gilt..... More
The Selected Poems of Roy Campbell.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] xxii; 131 [5]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black photographic dust-jacket, priced at £7.50. A fine, as-new copy. More
More Poems.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.71 [1]. With a frontispiece sketch of the author by Francis Dodd. Publisher's navy buckram with gilt titles to spine and upper. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. With the light blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 5s. A 'Now and..... More
The Man Who Killed the King.
London: Hutchinson and Co., 1951. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.568. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Green illustrated map endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Jax, priced at 15s. A little spotting to edges, otherwise a nice clean copy. Jacket heavily sunned to spine..... More
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The Lonely Skier. [Fire In the Snow].
London: Collins, 1947. [Alpine Thriller] FIRST EDITION, with a later dust-jacket. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the Cheap Edition dust-jacket, circa 1949, priced at 4/6 and re-priced with a sticker to 5s. Also with the back panel and flap cut from..... More
Will Germany Crack? A Factual Report on Germany from Within.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1943. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION, a REVIEW COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.227 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine. With the distinctive yellow Gollancz dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. With a publisher's review slip loose to preliminaries. Toning and spotting to edges and preliminaries..... More
The New Cyclopaedia of Botany and Complete Book of Herbs: Forming a History and Description of All Plants, British or Foreign.
London: W.M. Clark, no date [1854]. [Herbal] FINELY BOUND WITH COLOUR PLATES. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] iv; 348 [4]; pp.[6] 349-733 [3]; v-lix [7]. With most of the introductory matter bound at the rear of volume II, for some reason. With 99 coloured plates, including a frontispiece..... More
The Tourist's Illustrated Hand-Book for Ireland; with numerous engravings, from drawings by Cruikshank, Crowquill, Lover, Mahony, etc., and a profusion of minor illustrations. Great Exhibition Year.
London: John Cassell, 1853. [Irish Travel Guide] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[84] 248 [64]. With a frontispiece engraving, a folding map of Ireland / plan of the Irish Industrial Exhibition building, and numerous in-text engravings by various artists. Publisher's blind-decorated 'pea' green cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotical. Containing an Index to the first Twenty Volumes of the " Sussex Archaeological Collections."
Lewes: George P. Bacon, 1870. [Sussex History and Topography] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] xxx; 270 [2]; pp.[6] 278; xiv [2]. With the folding map to volume I, and EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with 78 additional topographical engravings, carefully trimmed and mounted to fit..... More
I will not ever Never eat a tomato.
London: Orchard Books, 2010. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 26cm). Number 87 of 1250 copies SIGNED by the author to slipcase. Publisher's colour-illustrated white cloth with red and white titles. With the illustrated white cloth-covered slipcase, priced at £30.00. Book still in the original..... More
The Life of Ian Fleming. Creator of James Bond.
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill 1966. [Literary biography] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.339; [1], blank, with sixteen pages of photographic plates. Publisher's orange cloth blocked in black and yellow, pictorial jacket priced at $6.95. With a supplied copy of the statement from McGraw-Hill, acknowledging some factual errors in..... More
The Ian Fleming Collection of 19th-20th century Source material Concerning Western Civilization together with the Originals of the James Bond-007 Tales:
Indiana; Lilly Library Publication Number XII [1970]. A Catalogue of the Ian Fleming Collection as purchased by the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana. FIRST (and only) EDITION. Slim octavo, pp.50, stapled. Publisher's matt covers in a custom-made collectors cloth case, titled in gilt to the spine. Some discreet..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Illustrated by John Burningham.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964-5. [Children's classic] 3 volumes, octavos (24 x 17cm). ALL FIRST IMPRESSIONS. Complete. Pp.48, 48, 48. Publisher's white hardcovers in glossy pictorial dustwrappers, priced at 10/6 (first volume clipped). A very good, used set, with a discreet ink name to third volume endpaper, jackets with a few..... More
Ian Fleming: The Notes.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2020. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION, limited issue, (this copy marked out-of-series by the publisher), additionally SIGNED by Fergus Fleming (not called for). Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.375; [1], blank. Bound in dark-blue Plike paper-covered boards, red endpapers, blocked in gilt to spine and front cover, semi-opaque..... More
Eragon. Inheritance, Book One.
London: Doubleday, 2004. [Fantasy novel] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[14]; 509; [5]. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Publishers blue cloth hardback, with pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by John Jude Palencar. With the original 'Eragon' bookmark loosely inserted. Gentle toning of paper to some sections..... More
Told Again: Traditional Tales Told by Walter de la Mare.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1927. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.viii; 320. With six colour plates, and numerous in-text line drawings, by Watson. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. A nice clean copy, with some offsetting to fly-leaf only. Light toning to spine, and..... More
Another Teddy Robinson. Reading with Mother Series.
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1960. [Children's Story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.64. With a colour frontispiece, and numerous in-text line drawings by the author. Publisher's yellow cloth, with pink titles to spine and a pink decoration to upper. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 5s. A...... More
The Colonel's Photograph.
London: Faber and Faber, 1967. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.177 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 25s. A lovely crisp, clean copy with a slight tobacco scent. Jacket spine very slightly toned, with some light..... More
Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis.
London: Cassell, 1964. [Biblical Traditions] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.311 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 36s. Small black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Some spotting to edges. Jacket somewhat creased and torn to edges, with a loss to lower..... More
Getting On.
London: Faber and Faber, 1972. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.87 [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £1.80. Some offsetting from a news-clipping to front endpapers, otherwise a crisp, fine copy. More
Earth Memories. Essays.
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1934. [Nature and Philosophy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 239 [5]. With fine woodcut head-pieces by Gertrude Mary Powys. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. With the green woodcut-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at..... More