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— Ernest Hemingway
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![['Black Knight' Christmas Card]. Alfred MUNNINGS.](/pictures/thumb/52850.jpg?v=1545492299)
['Black Knight' Christmas Card].
No date [circa 1950's]. [Christmas Card] INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST. A single sheet of thick card (21 x 15cm) showing a photogravure print of Munnings' 'Black Knight'; a portrait of his dog. Inscribed in black ink to the verso: 'Happy Christmas | Prosperous New Year | from al. & V.... More
Mark Twain's Library of Humour.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1888. [Humour and Satire] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 719; [33]. With frequent in-text wood engravings. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, and black illustrations stamped to spine and upper. Brown foliate endpapers. Re-cased, with extensive cloth repairs... More
The Man Who Smiled.
London: Harvill Press, 2005. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 325; [3]. With maps. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Navy endpapers. With the dust-jacket featuring a photograph by Jamie Budge / Corbis, priced at £14.99. A fine copy. An Inspector Wallander mystery. More
Sense and Sensibility.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. [English Literature] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 342. With forty wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Hugh Thomson. Publisher's original burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped floral design to spine and covers, 'Peacock' patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Minor edgewear, some fading and... More
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company, 1956-58. [English History] HANDSOMELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes, octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 416; pp.[2] xii; 344 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 332 [6]; pp.[2] xii; 322. With occasional in-text maps and plans. In recent burgundy half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to... More
![[The Illustrated Novels of Jane Austen]. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Jane AUSTEN, Charles BROCK, illustrators, Hugh, and THOMSON, Austin DOBSON, introduction.](/pictures/thumb/52846.jpg?v=1545326607)
[The Illustrated Novels of Jane Austen]. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1898-1910. [Illustrated Novels Set] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, later impressions. Six novels in five volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 20cm). Pride and Prejudice illustrated by Brock; the other titles by Thomson. 40 wood engravings per volume. In recent navy half morocco with raised bands, gilt... More
James Bond 007. Four Limited Edition Calendars 2019.
007 Magazine and Archive, 2018. A collection of four Photographic calendars, stapled, in book-form (30 x 21), pp.24, in full colour. Punch-cut hole for hanging. Comprises; Bond Girls of the Sixties: Martine Beswicke, Bond Girls of the Sixties: Luciana Paluzzi. Roger Moore as James Bond 007, Daniel Craig as James... More
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
The Paying Guests.
London: Virago, 2014. [Modern fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6]; 566; [4]. Publisher's black cloth, white titles to spine, and debossed to upper board, patterned endpapers. Pictorial dust-jacket designed by Duncan Spilling and lettered by Stephen Raw, with printed price of £20.00. Signed by the author to... More
Mark Twain's Pleasure Trip on the Continent. The complete work previously issued under the title of "The Innocents Abroad" and the "New Pilgrim's Progress".
London: John Camden Hotten, 1871. [Literature] 2 VOLUMES IN 1. Octavo (16 x 11cm), pp. 256; 259; [1] imprint; [20] advertisements. Contemporary red half morocco, lettered and decorated in gilt to spine, marbled boards. Brown endpapers, pictorial frontispiece and title page vignette. Ownership to titlpage, textblock spotted and a shaken... More
The Life of Benjamin Disraeli. Earl of Beaconsfield.
London: John Murray, 1929. [British Politics]. Two volumes, octavo (22 x 15cm). Illustrated with plates throughout. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Recent bookplate detailing provenance affixed to flyleaf. Spines sunned, ends a little frayed else a very good copy of this biography of twice Prime Minister and... More
Before the Frost.
London: Harvill Press, 2004. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 375; [2]. Illustrated with a map. Signed by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. Navy endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £14.99. Textblock... More
Lord Randolph Churchill.
London: Odhams Press, no date [1951]. [Political Biography] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.840. With a frontispiece portrait of Randolph Churchill. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue dust-jacket titled in yellow and white, priced at 21/-. Blue ink and pencil notes to verso... More
An Historical Topographical and Descriptive Account of the Weald of Kent, With Eight Engravings and a Map.
Cranbrook: Printed for and sold by S. Reader, 1814. [Kent] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.lvi, 277, [1] blank; [5] index; [1] advertisements. Finely bound in later burgundy crushed morocco, raised bands, gilt titles and compartments to spine, gilt margin to boards. Fore and tail edges untrimmed. Illustrated with... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date. [Illustrated] EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 22cm). with 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards. Red half calf with raised bands, matching cloth sides, gilt titles, blue morocco label, top edge gilt. A fine copy, inside and... More
The Hawk of Aurania.
London: Collins, 1944. [Science Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.235 [1]. With a photogravure frontispiece reproducing the jacket art. Publisher's orange cloth with silver titles to spine. With the illustrated dust jacket priced at 3s. Black ink ownership to front free endpaper, some toning to edges. Jacket sunned... More
The Vicar of Wakefield.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1915. [Illustrated Classic] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a later impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4]; xxxvi; 305; [3]. With numerous wood engravings by Thomson, including a frontispiece. Contemporary lilac half calf by RIVIERE, with raised bands, gilt titles and decorations to spine, and blue cloth over... More
Maigret and the Madwoman.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1972. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4]; 184; [4]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Bernard Higton. Some spotting to top edge. Jacket price-clipped. A near fine copy. First published in French as 'La Folle... More
Cafe Royal Cocktail Book.
London: Publications from Pall Mall Ltd., 1937. [Mixology] CORONATION EDITION. First (and seemingly only) edition. Octavo (19 x 14cm), unpaginated. Smartly bound in recent dark blue half calf over blue cloth boards, gilt titles to spine. Original cloth spine and upper panel bound in at the rear. With numerous in-text... More
![Stamboul Train [Orient Express]. Graham GREENE, 1904 - 1991.](/pictures/thumb/52886.jpg?v=1545148400)
Stamboul Train [Orient Express].
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1932. [Espionage novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm) pp.307; [1] blank. Usual corrected state of text. Half black calf over marbled sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments, traditional raised bands, top edge gilt. This thriller was entitled 'Orient Express' in the US. Minor edge-spotting, exterior... More
A New Topographical, Historical, and Commercial Survey of the Cities, Towns, and Villages, of the County of Kent. Arranged in Alphabetical Order.
Canterbury: Printed for the Author, 1776. [Kent Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[4]; xxxvi; 828; [4]. With the folding distances chart. In recent brown quarter calf with raised bands and gilt titles to a red label on the spine. Marbled paper over boards. Textblock toned to edges, some... More
Wild Justice.
London: Heinemann, 1979. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 370; [8]. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket by Bill Richmond, priced at £5.50. An astonishingly fine copy. A thriller set in Galilee. More
'They'. With Illustrations in Colour by F.H. Townsend.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1905. [Fantasy] FIRST THUS (First Separate Edition). Octavo (22 x 14cm). pp.80. With 15 colour illustrated plates including frontispiece. Handsomely bound in recent half red calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, matching cloth sides. A fine copy, inside and out. 'They' is a subtle... More
Endless Night.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1967. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13), pp.224. Elegantly hand-bound in half black calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. A few minor marks to fore-edge otherwise a fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. A.... More
Dead Man's Folly (A Hercule Poirot mystery).
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1956. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Elegantly hand-bound in half black calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. A few small spots to foot of text block, exterior unmarked. A near fine copy in... More