"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme

London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Illustrated map endpapers. The rarer variant with a dropped quad mark to the date on the copyright page (rather in the same manner as 'The Spy Who Loved Me' variant - see Gilbert). Publisher's hardcovers..... More
London: The Bodley Head, 1973. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.335; [1], blank. Elegantly hand-bound in half mid-green calf over cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, top edge tinted purple. Contents clean, topstain a little sunned, binding as new. A fine copy in an..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1937. [Travel literature] First Edition. Octavo, pp.341 [2]. publisher's light blue cloth (presumed second binding), with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Age toned to spine. Very good indeed. Byron, who died young in the Second World War, was one of the Brideshead..... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1913. FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xxvi, 633 [3]; pp.xvi, 534 [2]. Title page printed in red and black. With eight photogravure plates, including a frontispiece portrait for each vol.; 18 coloured plates; and 260 photographic plates taken by..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1991. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.335; [1], Note. Publisher's hardback cloth with navy blue endpapers, dust-wrapper priced at £14.95. A clean, fine copy in like jacket. An espionage novel with George Smiley in a supporting role. More
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1968. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.184. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Studio Stead, original printed price of 10/6 (uncommon thus, seemingly most copies are clipped and repriced by the publisher). Binding rubbed to extremities. Jacket..... More
London: Collins, 1977. [African Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.349 [1]. Publsher's tan cloth with silver titles ton spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. A crisp, clean copy, with just a little rubbing and chipping to jacket edges. Near fine. As a troop of elephants embark on..... More
London: Bloomsbury, 2017. [Norse Myths] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xx; 279 [5]. SIGNED by the author in purple marker to blank following half-title. Publisher's black cloth with bronze titles to spine and bronze Mjölnir to upper. Orange patterned endpapers and all edges black. With the black..... More
London: Bantam Press, 2019. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 404 [6]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with bronze titles to spine, orange endpapers, and all edges cyan. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £20.00. 'Signed by the Author'..... More
Leipzig: In Johann Friedrich Sleditschens Handlung, 1780. [French-German Dictionary] NEW EDITION, revised. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[32] 2039; 4-743. French printed in Italic; German printed in Gothic. With a copper engraved frontispiece. In a contemporary or slightly later vellum binding with black titles to spine and a faint blind armorial..... More
Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2012. [Ian Fleming / James Bond] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 255 [5]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £19.99. A fine, as-new copy. The history of a recently unclassified sabotage operation performed with..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1927. [Classic Literature] VINTAGE COPY, a later printing of the Wessex Edition. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxiv; 508 [4]. With a photogravure frontispiece and a double-page map of Wessex at rear. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edge untrimmed. A crisp..... More
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896. [Classic Literature] From the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 271 [1]. With a frontispiece etching by Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex at rear. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and decorative TH monogram stamped in gilt to..... More
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1895. [Classic Literature] From the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[4] vi; 333 [1]. With a frontispiece etching by Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex at rear. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and decorative TH monogram stamped in gilt to..... More
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1895. [Classic Literature] From the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[4] xii; 476 [2]. With a frontispiece etching by Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex at rear. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and decorative TH monogram stamped in gilt to..... More
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896. [Classic Literature] From the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[10] 460 [2]. With a frontispiece etching by Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex at rear. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and decorative TH monogram stamped in gilt to upper..... More
London: Colburn and Co., 1852. [Near Eastern Travel] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the Second Edition. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 316; pp.iii-x; 307 [3]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume; bound without half-titles. Contemporary green full calf for Bray Collegiate School, with gilt titles to..... More
London: Saunders and Otley, 1834. [Naval Adventure] SECOND EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 309 [3]; pp.[2] viii; 322 [4]; pp.[2] viii; 316 [2]. Original plain pasteboards, re-backed in the mid twentieth century in green quarter cloth with printed paper title labels (possibly original spare..... More
London: Ellis and Elvey, 1888. [Complete Works] FINELY BOUND, an early edition. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xliv; 528 [2]; pp.[2] xl; 521 [3]. A fine slightly later binding of red half crushed morocco by BAYNTUN of Bath, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1914]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, trade issue. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[2] 222 [2]. With 23 stunning colour plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, each mounted with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's brown cloth, extensively decorated in green and gilt to spine and..... More
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1782; 1787; 1787; 1788; 1788; 1788. [Late Antiquity] FINELY BOUND QUARTO EDITIONS, first three volumes New Edition, final three volumes First Edition. Complete in six volumes. Quarto (29 x 23 x 31cm), pp.xx; 704; pp.[12] 640; pp.[12] 640; pp.[4] xvi; 620; pp.[12]..... More
New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. [Short War Stories] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10] 180 [2]. Publisher's black quarter cloth with red titles to spine and yellow paper over boards. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at $6.95. A little spotting to top edge. Head-cap pulled. Jacket..... More
London: Scholastic Press, 2000. [Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 548 [4]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and orange endpapers. With the orange dust-jacket illustrated by David Scutt, and priced at £14.99..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1932. [Children's Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.215 [1]. With six plates illustrated by Sale, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt JB monogram to upper. Black ink ownership to front pastedown and fly-leaf. A nice clean copy..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, the fifth impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 339 [3]. Contemporary red full calf with gilt titles to green label and further gilt decoration to spine. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Black ink gift inscription to first blank, dated 1894. Blue..... More