"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
New Arrivals
Life at the Limit.
London: William Kimber, 1970. [Biography] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. First edition, second impression. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.x; 11-255; [1] blank. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of 36s. net. Illustrated with numerous photographs spread over eight double sided black and white plates. Signed by..... More
The Cultured pearl.
London: Hammond, Hammond and Company, 1961. [Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.284; [1] blank; [3] publisher's advertisements. Publisher's orange cloth, titles in green to spine, striking dust-jacket designed by Sax with printed price of 15s. net. Signed by the author to the title page. Internally fine, some..... More
The BFG. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. [Children's classic] UNCORRECTED PROOF of the FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.224. With frequent in-text illustrations by Quentin Blake. Publisher's printed red wraps. Lightly handled only; a near fine copy. The story of Sophie's adventures with the Big Friendly Giant, bursting with strange and quite..... More
Casino Royale.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.218; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with red titles and 'heart' design to upper, tail edge untrimmed, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 10/6. Contents and edges clean, some light spotting to endpapers, jacket with..... More
King Solomon's Mines.
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1885. [Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION, THIRD ISSUE (being the first corrected state of the text). Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.vi; 7-320; [16]. Fold-out colour map as frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth pictorially blocked in black, gilt titles to spine, coated yellow endpapers. Catalogue is dated 5B.11.85..... More
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The Works of Nikolay Gogol. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. [Including] Dead Souls; The Overcoat and Other Stories; Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka; Mirgorod; and The Government Inspector and Other Plays.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1922-28. [Literature] FIRST EDITIONS OF THE GARNETT TRANSLATION. Six volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 21cm). Elegantly hand-bound in blue half morocco over matching cloth sides, with raised bands and gilt titles to red labels on spines, top edges gilt. Occasional light marginal marks to 'The..... More
The Life of Ian Fleming. Creator of James Bond.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.352, with sixteen pages of photographic plates. Attractively bound in black half calf over cloth sides blocked with 'Golden Eye' motif, top edge gilt. Contents clean, a few light marks to covers; near fine. John Pearson began his..... More
The Themis Files. Sleeping Giants, Walking Gods, Only Human.
London: Michael Joseph an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016, 2017, 2018. [SF] FIRST UK EDITIONS, FINAL VOLUME SIGNED. Three volumes, octavo (25 x 17 x 10cm), pp,[6]; 304; [10]; pp.[6]; 324; [6]; pp.[8]; 336; [10]. Publisher's black cloth, titles in gloss black to spines, black endpapers, pictorial dust-jackets. The third..... More
John Surtees: Motorcycle Maestro.
Derby: The Breedon Books Publishing Company, 2003. [Motor-Racing] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.224. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Number 111 of just 250 copies SIGNED and hand-numbered by the author in black ink to half title. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine..... More
Guess How Much I Love You.
London: Walker Books, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Quarto (28 x 26cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated in colour throughout by Jeram. Light blue endpapers. Publisher's light blue paper-covered boards, with the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. A fine copy. More
Sticky Ends.
London: Andersen Press, 2011. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.78. Illustrated in colour throughout by Ross. Illustrated endpapers. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper-covered boards with matching dust-jacket, priced at £9.99. A fine copy. More
Gavin & Stacey: From Barry to Billericay.
London: HarperCollins, 2008. [British Sitcom] MULIT-SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.[8]; 216. Illustrated in colour throughout. SIGNED in blue ink to title and verso of half title by members of the cast who play the 10 main characters; Pete, Bryn, Mick, Dave Coaches, Rudi, Pam, Gavin, Stacey, Smithy..... More
The Nutcracker.
London: Orchard Books, 2015. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 25cm), pp.[32]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Illustrated in colour throughout by the author. Blue illustrated endpapers. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards, priced at £11.99. A fine copy. More
Boa's Bad Birthday.
London: Andersen Press, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 25cm), pp.[28]. SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to title page. Illustrated by Ross in colour throughout. Red endpapers. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper-covered boards, priced at £11.99. A fine copy. More
Winston Churchill. Being an Account of the Life of the Right Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, P.C., C.H., T.D., M.P.
London: Mills and Boon, Limited, 1927. [History / Politics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[2], 272; [24]. With 11 illustrations over eight plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Churchill. Publisher's navy blue cloth, titled in gilt to spine and upper, fore-edge and tail untrimmed. Contents clean, edges a little..... More
Peter Pan and Wendy.
London: Published by Hodder and Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Co., no date [1930]. [Children's classic] FIRST HUDSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (25 x 20cm), pp. 272. With twenty-one full-page colour illustrations and many more in-text or to margins. Elegantly hand-bound in dark blue quarter morocco over publisher's gilt-stamped pictorial cloth..... More
The Life of Samuel Johnson, including a Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides. With numerous Additions and Notes, by the Right Hon. John Wilson Crocker. To which are added, Two Supplementary Volumes of Johnsoniana by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murohy, Tyers, Reynolds, Malone, Nichols, Steevens, Cumberland, and others. And Notes by Various Hands.
London: John Murray, 1839. [Literary biography] FINELY BOUND. Ten volumes, small octavo (17 x 11 x 28cm). With upwards of fifty engraved illustrations. Later binding by Ramage in brown half morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spines, marbled boards and end papers; top edges gilt. Edges a little..... More
SS-GB. Nazi Occupied Britain 1941.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. [Spy thriller] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.250; [2], blank. Bound in salmon-coloured printed wraps, with oversize proof-only dust-wrapper. The jacket artwork is by Raymond Hawkey, who designed the classic 1960s James Bond paperbacks for Pan Books. Rather curiously and..... More
Souvenir in Commemoration of the Marriage Between Mr. Harold Nicholson and Hon. Victoria Sackville-West. At the Private Chapel, Knole, near Sevenoaks, Oct. 1, 1913. All Blessings and Happiness to Them.
no place, 1913. [Nuptials] COMMEMORATIVE PAPER NAPKIN. A napkin printed on thin tissue paper produced to celebrate the wedding between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. Approximate total dimensions 48 x 50cm, image size approximately 38 x 38cm. Presented in an elegant bespoke moulding, professionally glazed and backed with pH neutral..... More
His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass.
no place, 2000. [Children's literature] SIGNED PROMO. Printed paper flyer for The Amber Spyglass pasted to a composite card Scholastic promotional plaque signed and dated by Philip Pullman. Overall size 42 x 30cm. Very light bumping to edges and general wear but essentially fine. A promotional item to celebrate the..... More
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[Harry Potter] Quidditch Through the Ages [with] Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
London: Bloomsbury, 2001. FIRST EDITIONS. 2 volumes. Slim octavos. Paperback originals. Housed in a bespoke collector's folding box, fleece-lined within and titled in gilt to spine. The box is designed to complement the deluxe cloth editions of the Harry Potter series (external dimensions 24cm x 16cm). Fine condition throughout. Originally..... More
Finished.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1917. [Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. With a black and white half-tone frontispiece. Publisher's mid-green cloth with stylistic blue titles to spine and upper. Edges of text block toned, dicreet ink name and date to pastedown, binding rather clean. A very..... More
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The Thirty-Nine Steps [39 Steps].
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. [Espionage thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13), pp.253; [1] blank; [2] publisher's advertisements. Publisher's mid blue cloth, titles in darker blue to spine and upper board. Contents uncommonly clean, binding lightly handled, darkened to spine, faint purple ink mark to upper..... More
The Last Chronicle of Barset. With Thirty-Two Illustrations by George H. Thomas. In Two Volumes.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes bound as 1. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.384; 384. Complete with 32 plates by George H. Thomas. Handsomely bound in tan half calf over marbled sides, twin red and green title labels to spine, raised bands, gilt centre tools..... More