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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. The further adventures of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka chocolate-maker extraordinary.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[12]; 164. Publisher's blue quarter cloth over grey paper covered boards, titles in pink to spine, blocked in blue to upper, grey endpapers, dust-jacket illustrated by Schindelman with printed price of $3.95. Illustrated throughout. Occasional... More
Birthday Letters.
London: Faber and Faber, 1998. [Poetry] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. First edition, second impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.ix; [1]; 198. Publisher's light blue paper covered boards, titles in cream to spine, dust-jacket featuring a painting by Frieda Hughes with printed price of £14.99. Signed by the author to the... More
The Complete Hornblower Novels. The Happy Return (1937); A Ship of the Line (1938); Flying Colours (1938); The Commodore (1945); Lord Hornblower (1946); Mr Midshipman Hornblower (1950); Lieutenant Hornblower (1952); Hornblower and the Atropos (1953); Hornblower in the West Indies (1958); Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962); Hornblower and the Crisis (1967)
London: Michael Joseph, 1937-67. [Naval fiction / Historical Fiction] ALL FIRST EDITIONS. Eleven volumes, octavos (19 x 13 x 33cm). The full series, bound uniformly in recent blue half morocco, gilt titles to spines with gilt ship and anchor motif, blue marbled paper-covered boards, top edges gilt. Light and occasional... More
Count Karlstein, or, the Ride of the Demon Huntsman. Illustrations By Diana Bryan.
London, Doubleday, 2002. [Gothic Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST PRINTING thus; originally published in 1982, this edition is newly illustrated. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Publisher's cloth, fine, in very lightly edge-worn wrapper. Probably read once. By the prize-winning author of 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. Author's signature to the title page in blue... More
The Diamond Smugglers.
London: Ian Fleming Publications Limited, 2009. SIGNED FIRST THUS, a new edition. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.116. SIGNED by Fergus Fleming in black ink to the title page. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, priced at £15. A fine as-new copy. Fleming's first non-Bond... More
The Rape of Venice.
London: Hutchinson, 1959. [Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.446; [1], list of countries; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth with blocking to spine in gilt and lime green, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Sax with printed price of 15s net, endpapers showing a view of Venice in the 18th... More
Magic Island.
London: Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd., 1956. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Slim octavo (22 x 20cm), pp.53; [1]. Publisher's yellow cloth blocked in red, black, and blue, illustrated endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of 8/6 net. With twenty-four full page colour illustrations. Internally fine, edges slightly toned, cloth unmarked and... More
Nigger at Eton.
London: Leslie Frewin, 1972. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.239; [1] blank. Publisher's grey cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Brian Hampton and Ian St. John with printed price of £2.70. Illustrated with a suite of black and white photographic plates. Neat ownership to pastedown, faint... More
The Son. Translated from the French by Daphne Woodward.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. [Suspense] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.191; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket designed by Peter Probyn, priced at 11/6. Some toning and dustiness, single ink name to flyleaf, jacket with moderate wear and soiling. Very good. A.... More
The Looking-Glass War.
London: Heinemann, 1965. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[10] 246. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the yellow and orange dust-jacket. A lovely fine copy of the book in bright, price-clipped wrapper with the inevitable sunning to the spine. Follow-up to the Edgar-winning novel... More
Biggles Goes to School. The Story of Biggles' Early Life and School Days
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1951. [Children's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.193; [1], blank. With sepia illustrations by Leslie Stead. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black, dust-jacket also illustrated by Stead Very good indeed in price clipped jacket. More
The Golden Fluid.
London: Ward Lock and Co., 1935. [Strange Tale] FIRST EDITION, later state. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.319; [1]. In the secondary binding of red cloth, lettered in black, in original jacket clipped and repriced at 4/6 and with publisher's book number overprinted to spine. A very good, used copy, jacket... More
A History of Sarawak under its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908.
London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1909. [Malaysian History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 464. With 74 half-tone plates, including two frontispiece illustrations, as well as a large coloured folding map at rear. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. Bookplate to front... More
The Day's Alarm.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. [Poetry] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.53; [3]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and red and cream patterned paper over boards. With the cream decorated dust-jacket with red titles, priced... More
Inkspell.
Frome: The Chicken House, 2005. [Children's Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[2]; 682; [6]. With occasional vignette illustrations by the author, as well as a map and chapter head illustrations by Carol Lawson. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Publisher's green cloth with gilt... More
Inkheart.
Frome: The Chicken House, 2003. [Children's Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.544. With occasional vignette illustrations. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the red dust-jacket illustrated by Carol Lawson and designed by... More
Sunset at Blandings.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1977. [Classic humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. 213; [3], blank. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, in a pictorial dust-jacket designed by Ionicus, priced at. Splashmark to top edge otherwise fine in jacket. Wodehouse's final unfinished novel, with an extensive appendix based on... More
Harry Potter and the The Deathly Hallows.
London: Bloomsbury, 2007. [Fantasy adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.607; [1], blank. Publisher's illustrated hardcovers, pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Jason Cockcroft priced at £17.99. A very lightly handled copy in near fine condition. The final Harry Potter adventure. More
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His Dark Materials. Northern Lights. [Golden Compass]. The Subtle Knife. The Amber Spyglass.
London: Scholastic Press, 2001. [Classic Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION of the complete award-winning trilogy in one volume. Large octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.1016. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, yellow ribbon marker and original pictorial dust jacket. Orange... More
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1843. [English Literature] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with 'Stave I' and uncorrected text. Foolscap octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[viii]; 166; [2], advertisements. Illustrated with four hand-coloured steel engravings by John Leech and four textual woodcuts by W.J. Linton. Title printed in red and blue, half title... More
The Life of Nelson, The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, and Company, Limited, 1987. [Naval history] FIRST UK EDITION, bound from the American sheets. Octavo (23 x 17 x 9cm), pp.xxiii; [5]; 454; [2]; pp.xvi; [4]; 427; [1]; [3] publisher's advertisements ;[3]. Illustrated with nineteen plates and twenty plans. Publisher's navy blue cloth, gilt titles to... More
Galatea. A Novel.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1978. [Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. 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 rear board... More
Siegfried Sassoon Diaries 1915-1918, Siegfried Sassoon Diaries 1920-1922, Siegfried Sassoon Diaries 1923-1925,
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1981-1985. [Literary Diaries] FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 9cm), pp.288; pp.304; pp.320. Each with a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's green, brown and blue cloth (respectively), with gilt titles to spines. With the respective green, brown and blue dust-jackets, priced at £10.50;... More
Vixen 03.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1978. [Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.318; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket by Terry Hadler priced at £4.95. A near fine copy of the book, in lightly edge worn jacket, sunned to spine. The author's fourth novel. More
Smiley's People.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.327; [1], blank. Publisher's blue cloth, plain endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket. Discreet blindstamp to flyleaf, marginally shot wrapper a little edgeworn else fine. The acclaimed novel, part of the 'Quest for Karla' series starring Le Carre's famous hero... More