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Not After Midnight and Other Stories.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1971. [Short Stories] INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, Second Impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.285; [3]. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Flavia Tower. With presentation note on flyleaf, to her best friend and cousin Ursula Pike, together with a lengthy..... More
Kidnapped. Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751.
London: Cassell and Co., 1886. [Adventure classic] FIRST EDITION, First Issue. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 311, with advertisements to the rear dated 5G.4.86 and 5B.4.86. Folding map frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles, black endpapers. Internally clean, owners ink-stamped name to first blank, cloth with a few marks to..... More
His Last Bow. Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes.
London: John Murray, 1917. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 305 [7]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Toning and spotting to edges and endpapers. Light occasional spotting throughout, otherwise internally clean. Spine sunned, joints starting, and gilt dulled to spine. Light wear..... More
The Valley of Fear.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1915. [Sherlock Holmes] SECOND PRINTING. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 306 [6]. With a black and white frontispiece illustrated by Wiles. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Second Impression text printed on title page. Edges toned, some expected spotting to thick..... More
The Day of The Triffids.
London: Michael Joseph, 1951. [Science-Fiction Dystopia] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 302 [2]. Recently re-bound in green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, matching cloth over boards, and the original green cloth spine bound in at rear. Top edge gilt. A crisp, clean copy..... More
The Third Man and The Fallen Idol.
London: William Heinemann, 1950. [Spy novel and short story] FIRST EDITION. Small Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 188 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the black and white photographic dust-jacket, priced at 6s. A lovely crisp, clean example, with just a hint of toning to jacket..... More
Spring Fever.
London: Herbert Jenkins, no date [1948]. [Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Frank Ford priced 8/6. A stunning, as-new copy. Fine. A typically-Wodehousian farce set at the Earl of Shortlands' Beevor..... More
The Sleeping Beauty: A Modern Version. The "Bairnie" Series of Dainty Books for Children.
London: Jarrold & Sons, 1900. [Children's Illustrated] LEATHER BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.97 [48]. With 10 wood engraved illustrations by Barry, including a frontispiece. With a large section of advertisements at rear. Recently rebound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
The Scapegoat [with a Typed Letter Signed].
London: Victor Gollancz, [and] Menabilly, Cornwall, 9th March 1957. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION with a TYPED LETTER SIGNED. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.368. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to spine. With the yellow typographic dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Together with a typed letter on headed notepaper addressed to Ivor Brown..... More
Catriona. A Sequel to 'Kidnapped' Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad.
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1893. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[x]; 371; [18], catalogue dated 8/93. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, floral-patterned pale green endpapers. Ads partially unopened, some foxing within, pencil signature of respected Brighton architect Gilbert Murray Simpson (1869-1954), cloth with..... More
Phantasmion, a Fairy Tale. With an Introductory Preface by Lord Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
London: Henry S. King & Co., 1874. [Fantasy Novel] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 348 [44]. A very early issue, with the publisher's catalogue dated February 1874. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine and upper, and a silver urn decoration stamped to upper. Brown-coated endpapers, with..... More
The Best Man to Die.
London: John Long, 1969. [Crime Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.184. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. A ticket to the Soho Theatre event 'Ruth Rendell and PD James, Head to Head' September 2012, attended by a well-known bookseller, suggests provenance..... More
Clovis Dardentor.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1897 [1898]. [Romantic Adventure] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, third issue. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 320. With 45 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and grey, black and orange decoration to spine and upper..... More
Mistress Branican.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [circa 1902]. [Mystery Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 360. With a selection of Benett's engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and polychrome decoration to spine and upper. Black ink church choir..... More
Keraban the Inflexible: The Captain of the Guidara.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1884 [1886]. [Ottoman Adventure] FIRST UK EDITION, a later issue. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 223 [33]. Publisher's catalogue dated October 1886. With 49 engraved plates, including a frontispiece, by Benett. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and..... More
Their Island Home. The Later Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson.
New York, NY: G. Howard Watt, 1924. [Castaway Adventure] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 272 [4]. With a colour-illustrated frontispiece and two further black and white plates by Murphy. Publisher's maroon cloth with green titles to spine and upper, and a reproduction of the frontispiece laid over..... More
The Last Galley. Impressions and Tales.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1911. [Short stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 298 [14]. With a chromolithographic frontispiece by Wyeth and one further lithographic illustration by Rountree. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Contents clean, edges slightly toned, moderate handling and wear..... More
Galatea. A Novel.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1978. [Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.287; [1]. publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Linda Garland with printed price of £5.75 net. Signed by the author to the title page. Small bump to the top of the..... More
The Stoneware Monkey.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, blue endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 7/6. Contents very clean, neat ownership to flyleaf, jacket with trivial rubbing and wear, some discreet (frankly unnecessary) touch-up (no paper repair);..... More
The Moonstone.
New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1868. [Literature] FIRST US EDITION, being the FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, also first single volume edition. Published the same year as the UK triple-decker. Slim octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.223; [1] blank. Publisher's blind-stamped textured brown cloth (not ribbed, as some copies), with decorative gilt..... More
The Tower.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1928. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vi; 110; [2] publisher's advertisements. Bound in mid-green cloth, handsomely blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, fore and tail edges untrimmed, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 6/- net. A fine copy of the book in an..... More
The Secret Agent.
London: Methuen and Co., 1907. [Landmark Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 442; [1], imprint; [1], blank; [40], advertisement catalogue dated September 1907. Bound in publisher's burgundy coloured cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Edges of text block toned/browned, binding a little sunned to the spine..... More
The Chase of the Golden Meteor.
London: Grant Richards, 1909. [Science fiction] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm) pp.vii; 292. Illustrated with twenty-four full page plates. Navy blue cloth with white titles to spine and colour blocking to the front cover. Ink inscription (Christmas 1913) to flyleaf, minor spotting, top corner bumped, cloth mostly fresh..... More
The Shadowy Waters.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1900. [Dramatic poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.57 [3]. Publisher's dark blue ribbed cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt floral motif with dropped petal to upper board, top edge gilt others untrimmed. Bookseller's ticket and a discreet date inscription to pastedown. Some..... More
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