New Arrivals
Ape and Essence.
London: Chatto and Windus. 1949. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.153; [1], imprint. Grey cloth covers with gilt titles on blue square to spine, top edge blue, in grey and white dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Bookblock dusty/spotted, jacket with some foxing to rear, spine toned but with... More about Ape and Essence
The Cocktail Party. A Comedy.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1950. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Tall octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.71; [5], blank. Publisher's green cloth hardcovers titled in gilt, typographic dust-wrapper priced at 10/6. A little dusty with some spotting to preliminaries and edges, else near fine, in a similar example of the wrapper, with... More about The Cocktail Party. A Comedy
A Moveable Feast.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION, preceding the US printing. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's brown cloth with top edge tinted red, patterned grey endpapers, dust-wrapper designed by Hans Tisdall, priced at 18s. Top edge a little dusty/sunned, neat ownership to flyleaf, jacket very lightly worn... More about A Moveable Feast
The Irish Guards in the Great War.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1923. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.344; 310; [2], advertisements. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, regimental badge blocked in gilt to upper board, top edges gilt. Illustrated with maps. Light wear and handling only; a very good copy indeed. Following the... More about The Irish Guards in the Great War
Thunderball.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. [Spy thrillerl] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with embossed skeleton hand design to upper board, gilt titles to spine. In price-clipped dust-wrapper illustrated by Richard Chopping. A beautiful fresh copy in jacket which would be fine, but for some... More about Thunderball
The German War.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.viii; 152. Publisher's illustrated softcovers printed in red and black. Original price 1 shilling to spine and upper. 5000 copies published December 1914. Contents clean, light blue colour card sunned to tan to spine and upper, minor... More about The German War
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets.
London: Bloomsbury, 1999. [Children's Classic] DELUXE EDITION, Fourth Impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.251; [5]. Publisher's blue cloth, with the cover art by Cliff Wright laid onto the upper board, along with gilt titles to spine and upper board. All edges matt gilt, blue endpapers. A fine copy still in... More about Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
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The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw [and] Covering End.
London: William Heinemann, 1898. [Strange Tale] FIRST EDITION, first impression, earliest state. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[iv]; 310; [2], blank; [32], catalogue. Title page printed in two colours. Publisher's mid-blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper cover, with four irises in blind to centre of same, edges untrimmed... More about The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw [and] Covering End
Bachelors Anonymous.
London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1973. [Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm). Pp.191; [1], blank. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt to spine in an amusing pictorial dust-jacket designed by Osbert Lancaster. Edges dusty/toned. A very good copy in a fine wrapper with usual laminate shrinkage. More about Bachelors Anonymous
Tales from Moominvalley.
London: Ernest Benn, 1963. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.175; [1], advert. Illustrated throughout by Jansson. Translated by Thomas Warburton. Publisher's jade green cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge green, striking pictorial jacket priced at 7/6. Topstain not faded, book is absolutely fine in... More about Tales from Moominvalley
The Patience Of Maigret.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1966. [Detective fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.154. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Ken Reilly, priced at 13/6. A few splashes to book and wrapper, some toning etc.; very good. More about The Patience Of Maigret
The Last Frontier.
London: Collins 1959. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 15s. Near fine in a very good dust-wrapper, slightly chipped and rubbed. An undercover mission beyond the Iron Curtain to recover a defected scientist goes disastrously wrong; a classic early Cold... More about The Last Frontier
My African Journey.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. [Colonial History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 226; [18], catalogue. With sixty-one illustrations from photographs by the author and Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Wilson, and three maps. Publisher's red cloth pictorially blocked in gilt and colours. Usual spotting to edges, a few plates edgeworn, cloth... More about My African Journey
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-54. [World War Two] FIRST EDITIONS. In six volumes, octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv, 640; pp.xvii, 684; pp.x, 818; pp.xviii, 917; pp.xviii, 673; pp.xviii, 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, top edges red, typographic... More about The Second World War
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Spitfire Parade [Biggles at War]. Stories of Biggles in Wartime.
Oxford University Press / London: Humphrey Milford 1941. [Aviation adventure] FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, printed on THICK PAPER. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256, with colour frontispiece by Radcliffe Wilson, black and white illustrations within. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth with text and decoration printed in black, top edge tinted... More about Spitfire Parade [Biggles at War]. Stories of Biggles in Wartime
Perseus in The Wind.
London: John Murray, 1948. [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.x; 169; [1]. With wood engraved vignettes by Reynolds Stone to chapter headings. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by F.Quilter priced at 12/6. Owner's gift inscription, top edge dusty, jacket a little edgeworn. Generally... More about Perseus in The Wind
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
London: Bloomsbury, Printed by Clays Ltd, St. Ives, 2000. [Fantasy adventure] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the cover artist Giles Greenfield. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.636. Illustrated hardcovers, pictorial dust-wrapper repeating cover design. Signed by the artist to the front panel of the jacket. Absolutely fine/as new. The fourth Harry Potter... More about Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The World is Not Enough.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.274; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to backstrip, photographic dust-wrapper priced at £16.99. Some handling, likely read once; near fine. Novelisation of the nineteenth Bond film, which was released in cinemas in late 1999... More about The World is Not Enough
Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, and the Means of making it a Benefit to the World. To which is added, a Letter from M. Turgot, late Comptroller-General if the Finances of France: with An Appendix, containing a Translation of the Will of M. Fortune Ricard, lately published in France.
London: T. Cadell, 1785. [Political Philosophy] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] viii; 156 [4]. Recent speckled calf with raised bands and gilt titles to red label on spine. Library stamp to p.1, title page washed, some annotation to p.153. Some toning and spotting to textblock. Very good. A.... More about Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, and the Means of making it a Benefit...
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
London: Bloomsbury, 1999. [Children's Classic] DELUXE EDITION, Fourth Impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm). Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, as well as an illustration by Thomas Taylor laid over. All edges gilt. Still in the original shrink-wrap, priced at £18; opened at top edge. Fine... More about Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
The Tales of Beedle The Bard. Translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger.
London: Children's High Level Group, 2008. [Harry Potter] Collector's Edition, First Printing, December 2008. Bound in full brown heavy grained leather featuring metal clasp, cornerpieces, centre medallion with skull motif, replica gemstones and emerald ribbon, ribbed spine, sewn headband and marbled endpapers. Protected in an embroidered velvet drawstring bag, housed... More about The Tales of Beedle The Bard. Translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger
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[FLEMING, Ian] PORTRAIT OF IAN FLEMING BY AMHERST VILLIERS.
no place, no date [printed 2012]. A limited edition giclée print of the only formal portrait of Ian Fleming, painted in 1962 by Charles Amherst Villiers. The painting was then used as a frontispiece to the signed limited edition On Her Majesty's Secret Service, published by Jonathan Cape in 1963... More about FLEMING, Ian] PORTRAIT OF IAN FLEMING BY AMHERST VILLIERS
Yesterday's Spy.
New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. [Spy thriller] FIRST US EDITION, BIOGRAPHER'S COPY. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.282. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket with artwork is by Raymond Hawkey, priced at $7.95. Slight toning to rear panel; near fine. From the library of the writer, media and... More about Yesterday's Spy
The Anti-Death League. A Novel.
London: Victor Gollancz, [1966] 1972. [Modern Literature] SIGNED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.352. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey, priced at £2.75. One of an unspecified small number of the second printings issued on behalf of the New Fiction Society... More about The Anti-Death League. A Novel
The Head of Kay's.
New York, NY: Macmillan [A and C Black], 1922. [Humour] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, issued from the imported sheets of A and C Black's London edition (1922). Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.280. Publisher's red cloth with black titles and decoration, pictorial jacket. Attendance prize inscription to flyleaf, some spotting; very good... More about The Head of Kay's