New Arrivals
SilverFin (Young James Bond series)
London: Puffin Books, 2005. FIRST EDITION, a paperback original. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR in black ink to the title page. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[x]; 372; [2]. Publisher's blue pictorial softcovers, priced at £5.99 to rear. A clean, fine copy. The first episode in the acclaimed 'Young Bond' series, which..... More
SilverFin (Young James Bond series)
London: Puffin Books, 2005. [Children's adventure novel] LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm). Publisher's hardback in dust-wrapper, housed in an illustrated slipcase. The signed limited edition, being one of 999 copies. A very fine/as new copy, in the original shrinkwrap (unopened). The first episode in the acclaimed 'Young Bond'..... More
Devil May Care. Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming
London: Penguin 007, 2008. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[viii]; 295; [7], Endmatter; [9], advertisements; [1], blank. Publisher's black hardcovers blocked in silver to spine, poppy design endpapers in red, illustrated dust-jacket priced at £18.99. A very fine/as new copy, carefully dark stored by ourselves since publication. An original..... More
Carte Blanche. A James Bond Novel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. FIRST TRADE EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xiv]; 436. Publisher's red cloth blocked with metallic red foil, metallic 'smoke effect' endpapers, illustrated white dust-jacket priced at £19.99. A very fine/as new copy, carefully dark stored by ourselves since publication. A James..... More
Only Fools and Stories.
London: Century, 2017. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.326. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, in photographic dust-jacket by Colin Bell. Signed by the author to the title page. Minor bump to foot of spine. Signed sticker to the dust-wrapper. Fine. Sir David Jason follows-up..... More
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing.
London: Trapeze, 2018. [Youtube-era novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.. Publisher's blue cloth with titles in green to spine, in typographic dust-jacket designed by Kaitlin Kall. Signed by the author to the half-title. Signed by the author sticker to dust-wrapper. Fine. Green, a prominent figure in important..... More
Hannibal.
London: William Heinemann, 1992. [Serial killer novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.486. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Michael Mascaro and illustrated by Craig Descamps. Textblock edge a little toned. Minor edgewear and handling to dust-wrapper. Near Fine. The third novel..... More
It.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1986. [Classic horror] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.912. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Howard J. Shore. Corners and spine ends somewhat bumped with some minor rubbing, and minor edgewear; textblock edge toned. Dust-wrapper shows some..... More
Skulduggery Pleasant: Resurrection.
London: HarperCollins, 2017. [YA fantasy] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (17 x 25cm), pp.424. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine in pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Tom Percival. Signed by the author to the limitation page. Limited edition sticker to cover. Fine. The first novel in the second sequence of..... More
Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the Light
London: HarperCollins, 2014. [YA fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.605. Publisher's black cloth with titles in silver to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Tom Percival. Signed by the author to the title page. Signed by the author sticker to cover. Fine. The final novel in the..... More
The Truth About the Cuckoo.
London: County Life Ltd., 1940. [Ornithology] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 207; [1]. Publisher's mid brown cloth, titles in darker brown to spine and upper. With a frontispiece line drawing, thirty-seven black and white photographs on plates and two folding maps. Signed by the author to the..... More
How Do You Like Me Now?
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. [Modern fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15 cm), pp.[6]; 362. Signed by author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's yellow cloth with blue titles to spine, dust-jacket with cover image by Mathilde Cretier and printed price of £12.99. Fine/as New copy. The debut..... More
Coraline.
Bloomsbury, 2012. [Fantasy] 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR. Octavo (21 x 14cm),pp.[xvi];192. Signed by the illustrator in black ink to half-title page. With illustrations by Chris Riddell. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and yellow endpapers, dust-jacket illustrated by Chris Riddell, with printed price £12.99 to flap..... More
All Passion Spent.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1931. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.297 [3]. With a paper advertisement for 'The Works of Virginia Woolf' loose to preliminaries. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Black ink gift inscription to flyleaf. Lightly browned throughout. Spine toned and sunned to..... More
From Libyan Sands to Chad.
London: Museum Press Limited, 1960. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.208. Ten pages of photographs and a map frontispiece. Publisher's yellow cloth with red titles to spine, endpaper maps of the Sahara, dust-jacket with printed price 27s 6d. Clean pages with toning to edges, slight rubbing to edges..... More
The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1962. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with black title to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Black ink gift inscription to front pastedown. Jacket a little toned to spine, with some chips and..... More
The Nature of Beauty in Art and Literature. The Hogarth Essays, Second Series, vol. VI.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1927. [Aesthetics] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.88 [4]. Publisher's green paper-covered boards with black titles and decoration designed by Vanessa Bell. Some browning to endpapers. Spine heavily browned with some rubbing; head pulled with some loss. Board margins lightly browned. Good... More
Descriptive Sketches of Tunbridge Wells and the Calverley Estate. With Brief Notices of the Picturesque Scenery, Seats, and Antiquities in the Vicinity, Embellished with Maps and Prints.
London: Published by the Author, 1832. [Town Guide] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.xii; 148 [4]. Illustrated with 3 folding maps and plans, 9 lithographic plates, and 2 in-text woodcuts. Twentieth-century brown full morocco with gilt titles to black label on spine. Spotting to plates. Quite heavily thumbed with..... More
Annals of Brechin Cricket 1849-1927.
Brechin: Black and Johnston, 1927. [Cricket] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 313 [3]. With 15 black and white plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt device to upper. Light occasional spotting. Heavy browning to index at p.310/311, probably due to..... More
Fashion is Our Business.
London: John Gifford, 1948. [Fashion] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 199 [1]. With a double-sided black and white photographic plate for each of the 12 chapters. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 7/6, and repriced to 1/6 with a...... More
Alamein to Zem Zem.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Second World War] NEW EDITION, a reissue with a new introduction by Lawrence Durrell and examples of the author's sketches. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.152. With a photographic frontispiece of the author and occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With..... More
The Shockwave Rider.
New York, NY: Harper and Row Publishers, 1975. [Science fiction] AUTHOR'S OWN COPY, FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[10]; 288; [6]. Publisher's yellow quarter cloth over black paper covered boards, titles in black to spine, fore edge deckled, brown endpapers. Striking dust-jacket designed by Luba Litwak with an..... More
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Pyramids. A Discworld Novel. [Pyramids, The Book of Going Forth].
London: Victor Gollancz, 1989. [Fantasy satire] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.272. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Josh Kirby, priced at £11.95. Minor crease to a few early leaves else a fine, bright copy. More
The Complete Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1929. [School stories] FIRST EDITION. The entire Stalky episodes collected in book form for the first time. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.447. Illustrated by L. Raven-Hill. Publisher's gilt decorated red cloth, top edge gilt. Some dustiness, covers a little sunned. A very good, presentable copy. Kipling's..... More
The Irish Witch.
London: Hutchinson, 1973. [Strange tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.446 [2]. Publisher's red and black speckled cloth, gilt titles and black rules to spine, suitably atmospheric dust-jacket designed by Val Biro and priced at £2.50 net, map endpapers. Some bruising and a few closed tears to top edge..... More