"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
New Arrivals
Contract of Copartnery of the Clydesdale Banking Company.
Glasgow: James Lumsden and Son, 1838. [Scottish Banking] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.70 [2]. Publisher's watered-silk-effect cloth over boards, with titles and crest stamped in gilt to upper. All edges gilt. A rather exquisite pencil sketch of the Clyde with square-rigged ships moored either side to verso of..... More
Carte Blanche. A James Bond Novel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. FIRST PRINTING; 'INDIES' SIGNED EDITION, limited to 1500 copies autographed by Jeffery Deaver. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xiv]; 436. Publisher's red cloth blocked with metallic red foil, metallic 'smoke effect' endpapers, illustrated dust-jacket. With a signed limitation page, numbered by hand [890]. Pages edges a...... More
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
London: Bloomsbury, 2003. [Children's Classic] FIRST DELUXE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.766; [2]. Publisher's maroon cloth, all edges gilt, gilt titles to spine and upper with cover art by Jason Cockroft. A fine, as-new copy, with the original shrink-wrap, priced at £30. The fifth Harry Potter adventure which was..... More
Ionia: A Quest.
London: John Murray, 1954. [Near-Eastern Travel] FIRST EDITION WITH SIGNED LETTER AND POSTCARD. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 263 [1]. With 17 black and white photographic plates, many double-sided, as well as a double-page spread sketch map by E.G. Morton. Publisher's turquoise cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper..... More
Pathological Studies of the Past: Curious Bypaths of History, being Medico-Historical Studies and Observations.
Paris: Libraire des Bibliophiles, 1898. [History of Medicine] LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 366 [4]. With a frontispiece after Daniel Vierge, engraved on copper by F. Masse. Number 464 of just 500 copies in this edition, printed on Van Gelder's vellum paper. Publisher's black cloth with..... More
The Pantropheon, or, History of Food, and its Preparation, from the Earliest Ages of the World. Embellished with forty-two steel plates, illustrating the greatest gastronomic marvels of antiquity.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1853. [Gastronomy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 474 [2]. Complete with all 42 plates, including a frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's elaborate gilt-decorated blue cloth boards, re-backed in the twentieth century with the original gilt-decorated cloth spine laid over. Yellow coated endpapers..... More
Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 272; [2], advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in half red oasis morocco leather over original cloth sides gilt with elephant medalion to upper, top edge gilt, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. A few light marks within; externally..... More
Solo.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2013. [James Bond Novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.326. Publisher's red screen-printed hardcovers, red endpapers, embossed and die-cut dust-jacket, featuring bullet-holes in the style of the original US printing of Ian Fleming's The Man With The Golden Gun (this adventure being set in 1969..... More
Paradise Lost. An Illustrated Edition with an introduction by Philip Pullman.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.374. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, red endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket. Text printed in red and black. Reproduction plates of twelve engravings from the first illustrated edition. Autograph in blue ink to the title page..... More
Doubleshot.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2000. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.274. Publisher's cloth with pictorial dust-wrapper. The signature was obtained during the book launch event held at our shop. Minor crease to rear else fine. While officially on medical leave, James Bond uncovers..... More
Doubleshot.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2000. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.274. Publisher's cloth with pictorial dust-wrapper. The signature was obtained during the book launch event held at our shop. A fine/as new copy. While officially on medical leave, James Bond uncovers a murderous..... More
'My Name's Bond' - an anthology from the Fiction of Ian Fleming.
London: Allen Lane, 2000. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated quarto (23 x 17cm), pp.150. With black and white photographs. Publisher's grey cloth hardback blocked in silver to spine, blind-stamped '007' motif to front cover, photographic dust-jacket priced at £9.99 / $24.99 (Canada). A fine copy. Editor Simon Winder was the senior executive..... More
Costumes by Eros.
London: Jonathan Cape. 1929. First edition. Octavo, pp.255. Publisher's plum cloth with gilt titles to spine, white paper dustwrapper with a depiction of Eros by Gower Parks, priced at 7/6. Slight lean to the book, light spotting to the prelims and moderate spotting to the edges. Covers show general wear..... More
Treasure Island.
London: Ernest Benn, 1927. [Illustrated classic] FIRST DULAC EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.xiv; 15-256. Contains 12, full page, colour illustrations by Dulac, including frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth variant (a brown buckram binding was also produced), with titles and trim in black. A 4cm repaired tear to pp.111 / 112..... More
Sharpe's Escape. Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign, 1810.
London: Harper Collins, 2004. [Historical fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Royal octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[x]; 351; [7], blank. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, blue endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket. Signed by the author in blue ink to the title-page. Some marking to board edges else fine. Another instalment in..... More
The Crime Wave at Blandings.
New York, NY: The Book League of America, 1937. [Humour] NO UK EQUIVALENT. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 330. Publisher's mint-green cloth, titled and decorated in dark green to spine and upper board, pictorial dust-jacket priced at $2.00. Owner name to flyleaf, edges dusty, jacket rubbed with some nicks and..... More
A Round of Golf on the L.N.E.R.
No place: No publisher [Printed by Ben Johnson and Co., York], no date [1924]. [Golf] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.127 [1]. With frequent black and white photographs. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to upper board. Internally fine, bookseller's ticket to pastedown, toning to endpapers Cloth rubbed and..... More
Jonathan Cape's 'Now and Then' magazine (x7); Winter 1950, Spring 1951, Summer 1952, Autumn 1954, Autumn 1955, Summer 1956, Summer 1957.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950-1957. [Book Reviews] ORIGINAL MAGAZINES. Octavo (25 x 17cm). Illustrated throughout. Stapled, in typographic softcovers. Original price sixpence. Very good throughout. These magazines include book reviews by/of authors including; Evelyn Waugh, Fitzroy Maclean, C. Day Lewis, T.H. White, Norman Lewis, Alan Paton, T.E. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway and..... More
Jonathan Cape Book Lists (x6); Autumn/Winter 1976-7, Spring/Summer 1977, Spring/Summer 1980, Autumn/Winter 1981-2, Spring/Summer 1984, Spring/Summer 1985.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1976-1985. Six booklists from the publisher. Stapled pamphlets in illustrated softcovers. Near fine throughout. These trade lists were intended for bookshops and advertise books from Cape authors including; Kingsley Amis, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, John Fowles, John Gardner, J. G. Ballard, Doris Lessing, Maureen Duffy, Quentin Blake..... More
contibutes to...'THE STRAND MAGAZINE'. No.159, ORIGINAL ISSUE IN WRAPPERS. 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes- The Adventure of The Empty House'.
George Newnes Ltd., London, March 1904. This issue contains the FIRST APPEARANCE of 'The Adventure of The Empty House' by Doyle, illustrated by Sidney Paget, later published as the first story in 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes'. Several of the illustrations are exclusive to the serial parts. Also contains a...... More
Jeeves and The Feudal Spirit.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1954. [Classic humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.222; [2]. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black, upper panel of pictorial dust-jacket laid down to front cover. A few spots to edges else a clean copy. More
Pigs Have Wings.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1952. [Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION, fourth printing. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.220; [2], advertisements; [2], blank. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black, upper panel of pictorial dust-jacket by 'Sax' laid down to front cover. Moderately used with some spotting to first gatherings. Very good. McIlvaine A85b..... More
The End of the Affair.
London: William Heinemann, 1951. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 237 [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the white and grey dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Endpapers browned; some sunning to head and tail of spine. Jacket browned to spine, with losses to head..... More
Uncle Fred in the Springtime.
New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1939. [Classic Humour] EARLY EDITION, not in McIlvaine. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8] 292 [4]. Publisher's green cloth with burgundy titles to spine. Top edge green; others untrimmed. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Peggy Bacon, priced at $2. Browning to edges and endpapers..... More
Something New.
New York, NY: A.L. Burt Company, no date [1931]. [Classic Humour] BURT EDITION, reissued from plates of the third edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 347 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, with red scarab devices. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Arthur Hawkins, no..... More