"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
New Arrivals
The Burning Perch.
London: Faber and Faber, 1963. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.58 ;[2]. Publisher's Purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink dust-jacket titled in blue and red, priced at 12/6. A bump to rear board. Jacket lightly toned to spine and edges; minor black ink spatter...
Flashman and the Mountain of Light. From the Flashman Papers, 1845-46.
London: Collins Harvill, 1990. [Adventure Comedy] FIRST EDITION. Demy octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.367; [1]. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Barbosa, priced at £13.95. Light spotting and toning to edges. Cloth lightly handled. Wrapper shows well with one tiny closed tear to foot of spine. Very good.
Carthage and the Carthaginians.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1908. [Punic History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a later edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xxviii; 400; [2]. With 11 engraved illustrations, including a frontispiece and several maps printed in colour. In fine tree calf for Owen's School, Islington, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to...
Many Inventions.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2]; x; 365; [7]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and decoration in gilt and blind to spine and upper board, green endpapers. Neat ink ownership to first blank, negligible spotting, edges lightly toned. Cloth...
Much Obliged, Jeeves.
London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1971. [Jeeves and Wooster] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Osbert Lancaster. Ink ownership to pastedown, edges a little toned. Marginally short wrapper lightly rubbed and marked. Very good. Released in the...
Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 272; [2], advertisements. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt elephant motif to upper board. Top edge gilt. Mostly clean within, endpapers browned, cloth shows some general wear and handling. Very good at...
Shout at the Devil.
London: Heinemann, 1968. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[6]; 310; [4]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket by Paul Castell. Lightly toned to edges, wrapper marginally short, spine very lightly sunned. Near fine.
Eagle in the Sky.
London: Heinemann, 1974. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 307; [5]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket by Ron Alexander. Slight dustiness to edges, cloth and jacket lightly handled, marginally toned to spine. Near fine.
Hungry As The Sea.
London: Heinemann, 1978. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.378; [6]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. Slight dustiness to edges, lightly handled. Near fine.
Sound of Thunder.
London: Heinemann, 1966. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 438; [2]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket by Paul Castell. Light spotting to edges, light rubbing to jacket edges. Very good.
When the Lion Feeds.
London: Heinemann, 1966. [Modern Literature] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 459; [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket by Neil and Leila Godfrey. Slightly toned to edges. Cloth and wrapper lightly handled. A second edition of the author's first published novel. Near fine.
The Sunbird.
London: Heinemann, 1972. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[6]; 486; [2]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. Very slight toning to edges, cloth and wrapper lightly handled. Near fine.
The Vegetable. Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Comedy Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.145; [1]; [2], publisher's advertisements. Recent green full morocco, raised bands and gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, green marbled endpapers, original green cloth upper and spine bound in at rear. Internally clean. Very Good.
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca. The New Hogarth Library Vol. XI.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1943. [Spanish Poetry] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.56. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket printed in red, priced at 3/6. Blue ink ownership inscription to flyleaf; a little spotting. Gilt to spine oxidised. Jacket browned, especially to...
The Writings of George Washington. Being his Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and other Papers, Official and Private, selected and published from the Original Manuscripts. With A Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations by Jared Sparks.
Boston, MA: American Stationers' Company [and various imprints] 1834-1837. [American History] First Sparks Edition, also The First Collected Edition, large paper copies. Twelve volumes, quarto (26 x 18 x 52cm). Illustrated with frontispieces to four volumes and thirty further plates as called for. Bound in tan half calf over swirl...
Death from Disclosure.
London: Robert Hale and Company, 1976. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.157; [3]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, priced at £2.95. Some light adhesive abrasion to flyleaf. Jacket edges lightly bruised. Near fine.
J.R.R. Tolkien A Biography.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1977. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.287; [3], blank. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted brown, lemon yellow endpapers, photographic dust-jacket showing price of £4.95 on a publisher's label to front flap. Foyles ticket to...
![The Silmarillion [Lord of the Rings]. J. R. R. TOLKIEN, Christopher TOLKIEN.](/pictures/thumb/53672.jpg?v=1555597689)
The Silmarillion [Lord of the Rings].
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1977. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.365; [1]. Folding map to rear. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted blue, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated with drawings by Tolkien, showing printed price of £4.95 to front flap. Lightly used...
![[MOVIE POSTER] Diamonds Are Forever. Ian Lancaster FLEMING.](/pictures/thumb/53671.JPG?v=1555597689)
[MOVIE POSTER] Diamonds Are Forever.
Printed in England by Lonsdale and Bartholomew, 1971. [Film promotion] British ADVANCE Double crown poster (text version) for the 1971 United Artists film starring Sean Connery as Ian Fleming's James Bond, produced by Harry Salzman and Albert R. Broccoli's Eon Productions. Approximate dimensions 30 x 20 inches. Folded. A couple...
![The Property of a Lady (a James Bond story) [THE IVORY HAMMER]. Ian Lancaster FLEMING.](/pictures/thumb/53670.jpg?v=1555597689)
The Property of a Lady (a James Bond story) [THE IVORY HAMMER].
New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (Printed in Great Britain by Percy Lund), 1964. [James Bond] First (and only) printing. US issue, from the UK sheets. Quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.254. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial dust-jacket. A lovely fine copy in price-clipped wrapper, with a little laminate shrinkage...
![[The Complete Novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, comprising:] Wuthering Heights; Jane...](/pictures/thumb/53668.jpg?v=1555597689)
[The Complete Novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, comprising:] Wuthering Heights; Jane Eyre; Shirley; Villette; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; The Professor; Agnes Grey. The Shakespeare Head Bronte.
Boston, MA and New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. [Complete Novels] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Complete in 11 volumes. Octavo (23 x 15 x 46cm). Each volume illustrated with three lithographic plates from drawings by J. Hewer, except 'The Professor' and 'Wildfell Hall' II, which have two, and Wuthering...
The Woman In White.
New York, NY: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1860. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, also the FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION and first single volume edition. Likely predates the UK edition; the British publisher's circular states that their triple-decker appeared in mid to late August, 1860. The US publication date was 14th August 1860. This...
Liverpool Days.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1994. [Rock photo-documentary] LIMITED EDITION, Signed by photographers Astrid Kirchherr and Max Scheler. No 816 of 2500 numbered copies. Folio (25 x 28cm), pp.122, hand-bound in grey buckram, titled in black with inset black and white portrait of John Lennon, housed in a two-colour, silk-screened slipcase. A....
Live In Japan.
Guildford: Genesis Press [Genesis Publications], 1993. [Rock] LIMITED EDITION, number 2953 of 3500 copies SIGNED by George Harrison. With a foreword by Eric Clapton and text by George Harrison plus members of the touring band. Folio (35 x 27cm), pp.274, with colour photographs throughout. Original full black morocco blocked in...
Win, Lose Or Die (a James Bond novel).
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1989. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Tall octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.220. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper with original price £11.95 to flap. Near fine.