New Arrivals
Ludmila's Broken English.
London: Faber and Faber, 2006. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[8] 318 [10]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's cream paper-covered boards with black titles to spine. Black endpapers. With the orange dust-jacket designed by Ghost. A fine..... More
The House of the Dead. A Novel in Two Parts.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. [Russian Literature] FIRST GARNETT EDITION, third impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 284. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Blind device to upper. Moderately toned throughout, as usual, with a bookseller's label to fly-leaf. Moderate general wear to cloth, with toning to..... More
Dracula.
London: Rider and Company, no date [circa 1946]. [Gothic Novel] Vintage hardcover in RARE JACKET. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.335; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the rare colour-illustrated dust-jacket, showing a price of 6s, adverts for Rider titles printed on reverse side. No inscriptions..... More
Oswald Bastable and Others. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock and H. R. Millar.
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1905. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; [vii-viii], seemingly misbound; 1-369; [1], blank; [9], ads; [1], blank. Text in first state. Publisher's burgundy cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, t.e.g. Illustrated with plates (all present) and one drawing..... More
The Story of the Treasure Seekers. Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; [2]; 296; [2]; [2 of advertisements]; [8 of publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's blue-green cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, all edges gilt. Illustrated with seventeen plates. Contents clean, owner's stamp to flyleaf, binding shows..... More
You Only Live Twice.
[Taipei] Central Publishing Co., 1960s. [Thriller] Taiwanese Pirated edition, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.256. Text is a taken from the UK Cape first edition, in jade green leather-effect hardcovers, titled in gilt to the spine, with an original two-tone jacket design. Contents clean, no inscriptions, jacket with small..... More
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
London: Bloomsbury, 1997. [Harry Potter] FIRST EDITION, first paperback impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.223 [1]. Publisher's card covers illustrated by Thomas Taylor, and priced at £4.99. Toned to edges, as usual. Some handling to extremities, and a light crease to top corner of front cover, otherwise seemingly unread. Spine..... More
The Orient Flight L.Z. 127-Graf Zeppelin.
Maryland: Germany Philatelic Society Inc., 1980. [German Postage] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.135, illustrated. Publisher's blue leather-effect boards with gilt titles to the spine and upper. A fine copy. One of only 1000 copies published. An unusual diversion from the master thriller writer; a collaboration between Deighton (writing..... More
Story of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shotakovich to Isaak Glikman 1941-1975. With a Commentary by Isaak Glikman.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. [Musical Correspondence] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xliv; 340. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's navy paper over boards, with cream titles to spine and green endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, not priced..... More
Licence Renewed. James Bond 007.
London: Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton, 1981. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.270; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £6.50. Edges gently toned/spotted else fine in a lovely fine wrapper. The first James Bond continuation novel from John Gardner. Bond is back..... More
Ethic Demonstrated in Geometrical Order and Divided into Five parts, [Ethics] which treat (1) of God; (2) of the Nature and Origin of the Mind; (3) of the Nature and Origin of the Affects; (4) of Human Bondage, or of the Strength of the Affects; (5) of the Power of the Intellect, or of Human Liberty.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930. [Philosophy] FOURTH EDITION THUS, third impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.c; 297 [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Gentle toning to edges and endpapers, with occasional light pencil notations. Light wear to cloth, including some scratches to upper. Very good..... More
Goldfinger.
New York: Macmillan [Printed and bound in Great Britain], 1959. [Spy thriller] FIRST US EDITION. 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, price-clipped to both corners. No inscriptions, a few brown marks..... More
Tomorrow Never Dies.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1997. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.213. The standard hardcover edition, with cover photo of Pierce Brosnan as James Bond and only Bruce Fierstein listed as scriptwriter (a rare variant exists with four writers credited). Published simultaneously with the mass-market softcover..... More
Zero Minus Ten. Tomorrow Never Dies. The Facts of Death. High Time to Kill. The World Is Not Enough. Doubleshot. Never Dream of Dying. The Man With The Red Tattoo. Die Another Day (Complete James Bond novels).
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1997-2002. [Spy novels] FIRST EDITIONS. A SIGNED SET of the entire series of Raymond Benson's James Bond novels, housed in an elegant bespoke fleece-lined cloth slipcase with ribbon pull measuring 24 x 24 x 16cm. Nine volumes, Octavo. Publisher's hardcover cloth in illustrated dust-jackets. No inscriptions..... More
IceBreaker.
London: Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton, 1983. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, publisher's copy with warmly SIGNED PRESENTATION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.250; [6], blank. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-jacket by Bill Botten, priced at £7.50. Inscribed by the author in black ink to the title page; To Otto &..... More
Nobody Lives For Ever.
London: Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton, 1986. [James Bond novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Trevor Scobie, priced at £8.95. A very clean, fine copy. Outstanding. Formerly owned by the respected Bond historian John..... More
For Special Services [James Bond series].
London: Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton, 1982. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, publisher's copy. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.254; [1], afterword; [1], blank. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-jacket with no price to the front flap - copies without a printed price were intended for export. No inscriptions, contents clean. A...... More
Licence Renewed. James Bond 007.
London: Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton, 1981. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, publisher's copy with warmly SIGNED PRESENTATION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.270; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper. Inscribed by the author in black ink to the title page; To Otto & Carolyn With / Fondest Love..... More
For Special Services [James Bond series].
London: Swordfish, an imprint of Orion Publishing Group, 2011. [Spy novel] A quality hardback re-issue of the first Jonathan Cape edition (1981) featuring the same dust-jacket artwork. FIRST EDITION thus, with a full strike-line number sequence. Octavo, pp.243 + afterword. Black hardcovers blocked in gilt, red endpapers, illustrated jacket priced..... More
Icebreaker.
London: Swordfish, an imprint of Orion Publishing Group, 2011. [Spy novel] A quality hardback re-issue of the first Jonathan Cape edition (1983) featuring the same dust-jacket artwork. FIRST EDITION thus, with a full strike-line number sequence. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.243. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine..... More
The Novels of Jane Austen, in Ten Volumes: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; and Emma]. Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1895-97. [Classic Literature] COMPLETE SET, later impressions thus. Ten volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 20cm). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece portrait, and two or three other illustrations by William Cubit Cooke, and ornaments by F.C. Tilney. Publisher's light green cloth, with gilt titles..... More
On Her Majesty's Secret Service Special Edition Box Set.
MGM/UA, 1994. [James Bond film] Dimensions 22 x 19cm. Box set comprising widescreen video cassette, a 44-page stapled book by 007 Magazine, glossy colour print of the original cinema artwork, and a SIGNED George Lazenby b/w still from the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). Housed in an illustrated..... More
Brokenclaw. A James Bond novel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1990. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp. 218. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial dustwrapper; flap is priced at £12.95 for the UK market (non-priced export copies were also produced). Contents clean, no inscriptions. Very lightly handled. Near fine. An original novel starring Ian..... More
Brokenclaw. A James Bond novel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1990. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.218. 'Lancastria' brand binding by Askews of Preston [library suppliers], being plain burgundy cloth with sewn cloth-strengthened inside joints for heavy use, binders label to rear, illustrated dust-jacket, flap is priced at £12.95 for the UK market..... More
Scorpius [James Bond series].
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, bibliographer's copy. Royal octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.190; [2], blank. Library binding of full green vinyl over boards. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at £10.95 to flap. Institutional marks to copyright page and endpapers as expected, 'withdrawn' stamp to half-title, lacks..... More