"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
New Arrivals
Five go off in a Caravan. Being the Fifth Adventure of Julian, Dick, George, Anne and Timmy the Dog.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1948. [Children's Adventure] SECOND IMPRESSION. Small Octavo. pp.208. With a colour-illustrated frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured in red or blue, by Soper. Publisher's blue cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue pictorial endpapers. With original dust-jacket illustrated in colour..... More
Five on a Treasure Island. An Adventure Story for Boys and Girls.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1951. [Children's Adventure] EIGHTH IMPRESSION. Small Octavo. pp.191 [1]. With a black and white frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text illustrations by Soper. Publisher's burgundy cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue pictorial endpapers. With original dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Soper, priced..... More
Five Get into Trouble.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950. [Children's Adventure] SECOND IMPRESSION. Small Octavo. pp.190 [2]. With a black and white frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured blue or red, by Soper. Publisher's red cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and yellow pictorial endpapers. With original dust-jacket illustrated..... More
Five Run Away Together. The Third Story of the Adventures of the Four Children and their Dog.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1949. [Children's Adventure] THIRD IMPRESSION. Small Octavo. pp.192. With a colour frontispiece (same image as jacket), and numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured blue or red, by Soper. Publisher's light blue cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue pictorial endpapers. With original dust-jacket illustrated..... More
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships. [Gulliver's Travels].
London: Printed for Benj. Motte, at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet Street, 1726. [Classic Literature / Satire] FIRST EDITION, Teerink's AA issue. Four parts complete in two volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] xii; 148, pp. [6] 164 [2]; pp.[8] 154 [8] 199 [3]. Complete with six engraved plates, and..... More
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Centenary Edition.
London: Published by Hodder and Stoughton Limited, for Boots Pure Drug Co., no date [circa 1932]. [Children's Illustrated] RARE JACKET, the Centenary Edition. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[10] 180 [2]. With 12 colour plates by Hudson, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's red cloth with gilt..... More
The Years at the Spring. An Anthology of Recent Poetry Compiled by L.D.O. Walters and Illustrated by Harry Clarke, with an Introduction by Harold Monro.
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1920. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.128. With 24 wood engraved plates by Clarke, including a frontispiece and 10 other plates in colour. Publisher's tan cloth with grey titles and red decoration to spine and upper. Black ink gift inscription to..... More
The Kingdom of the Pearl.
London: Nisbet & Co., no date [1920]. [Pearls] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (31 x 25cm), pp.[16] 151 [1]. With 10 chromolithographic plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Number 12 of just 100 copies SIGNED by the artist in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's..... More
Brian Eno: Visual Music.
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2013. [Music and Art] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.416. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated cloth, with white titles to spine and upper, and bright pink endpapers, priced at $50 / £35. With the magnetic strip affixed to copyright page. A fine, as-new..... More
The Modern Antiquarian: A Pre-Millennial Odyssey through Megalithic Britain, including a Gazetteer to over 300 Prehistoric Sites.
London: Thorsons, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 1998. [British Prehistory] FIFTH IMPRESSION. Quarto (30 x 20cm), pp.x; 438. Rainbow-coloured leaves, heavily illustrated with colour photographs and maps. Publisher's glossy orange paper-covered boards, titled and decorated in metallic purple and white, with photographic endpapers. In the publisher's blue glossy paper-covered..... More
T.O.T.A. '75: The Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas, 1975.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2006. [Rock & Roll] SIGNED LIMITED 'STARSHIP' EDITION. Folio (total dimensions 52 x 34 x 11cm), pp.416. Containing 620 images. Number 46 of 350 copies thus, from a total limitation of 2500, SIGNED by Sykes and Rudge to limitation page. Full black leather with embroidered eagle patch..... More
Biggles Sorts it Out.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1967. [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 in colour by Stead, priced at 10/6. A lovely, bright, crisp copy. Fine. The trail of a jewel thief takes Biggles from Regent Street to..... More
Biggles And The Lost Sovereigns.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1964. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.184. With a colour frontispiece by Stead. Publisher's yellow cloth with green titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Stead, priced at 8/6. A lovely bright, crisp copy, with just a touch of rubbing to..... More
Biggles' Special Case.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1963. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.170. With a colour frontispiece by Stead. Publisher's light blue cloth with green titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Stead, priced at 8/6. A lovely crisp, clean copy, with just a hint of spotting..... More
Biggles and the Gun Runners.
London: Brockhampton Press, 1966. [Children's] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.182; [2]. Publisher's light blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Leslie Stead with printed price of 10/6 net in U.K. Small (ink?) mark to the margin of the front endpapers that has bleed through the first..... More
Biggles and the Deep Blue Sea.
London: Brockhampton Press, 1968. [Children's] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.184. Publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Studio Stead with printed price of 10/6 net in UK. A couple of faint marks to edges, wrapper very lightly handled with some very slight bruising to the..... More
Orchids for Biggles.
London: Brockhampton Press, 1962. [Boy's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.168; [1], advertisement. With colour frontispiece by Leslie Stead. Publisher's green cloth with titles and publisher's imprint in yellow to spine. Pictorial jacket priced 8s 6d. Simply a lovely fine copy. Biggles travels to Peru in pursuit..... More
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage.
London: David Fickling Books, 2017. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, third printing thus. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.546. Publisher's gilt and silver decorated black cloth, with wave-decorated endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £20.00. A fine copy. Pullman returns to the world of the His Dark Materials..... More
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His Dark Materials. Northern Lights [Golden Compass]; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass.
London: Scholastic Press, 2001. [Classic Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION of the complete award-winning trilogy in one volume. Large octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.1016. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, yellow ribbon marker and original pictorial dust jacket. Orange..... More
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
London: Bloomsbury, 1998. [Fantasy adventure] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, in first state jacket (lacking commas after child's names). Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.251; [blank]; [3 of reviews]; [advertisement]. Autographed in black ballpoint to the flyleaf. Printed boards and matching pictorial dust-jacket drawn by Cliff Wright, priced at £10.99. Some expected toning..... More
Doubleshot.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2000. [Spy thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. 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 London bookshop. A fine/as-new copy, carefully dark stored by ourselves since publication. While officially on medical leave, James..... More
Dr. No.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [James Bond adventure] Fifth Impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, silver titles to spine, with price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Pat Marriott. Top edge dusty, contents clean, would be fine, but for some overly enthusiastic use of tape (probably to..... More
Diamonds are Forever.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Spy thriller] FINE REPRINT. Sixth impression, Binding 'A'. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.257; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth titled in silver, with the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Pat Marriott, priced at 16s. No inscriptions or bookplates. A truly fine copy with the faintest rubbing to the..... More
GoldenEye.
London: BCA by arrangement with Hodder and Stoughton. 1995. [Film novelisation] True first hardback EDITION, issued several months before the Hodder edition. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.218. Publisher's black cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper. Usual toning to paper stock else a clean, near fine copy in jacket The author's second film..... More
A James Bond Omnibus. Containing Live and Let Die, Diamonds are Forever and Dr No.
London: Book Club Associates, 1973. [Spy novels] FIRST EDITION of the first James Bond omnibus to be published in the UK, preceding the Jonathan Cape equivalent. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.748. Publisher's hardcover in original metallic effect dust-wrapper. No inscriptions, slightly dusty, foil jacket has a few expected marks but..... More