"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
New Arrivals
A Prayer For the Ship.
London: Jarrolds, 1958. [Naval Fiction]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. Pictorial dust-jacket priced at 13s 6d. A near fine copy of the book, jacket with a few chips and tears plus two vintage tape mends to reverse side... More
The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1902. FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, and first colour plate edition. Text on p.51, line 1 "wept big tears," fourth printing onwards has "shed big tears." Sextodecimo (14 x 10cm), pp.86. Illustrated with twenty-seven coloured plates, pp.98. Publisher's dark grey paper-covered boards, illustration laid-down to upper, grey... More
Kim.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 413; [1]; [2 of advertisements]. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt medallion to upper board, top edge gilt. Illustrated with ten plates. Page edges a trifle spotted, some foxing to endpapers, bookplate of Parnham... More
Two Discourses. The First, Concerning the Spirit of Martin Luther, and the Original of the Reformation. The Second, Concerning the Celibacy of the Clergy.
Oxford: [no publisher stated] 1687. [Theology] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes as one. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.[26]; [8]; 104; pp.[4]; 39; [35]. Contemporary brown panelled calf, rebacked to style with raised bands and gilt titles. Small black ink 'R.H.' to top right corner of fly-leaf, denoting the initials Woodhead... More
The Economic Consequences of The Peace.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1919. [Economics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 279; [1], blank. Original blue buckram titled and trimmed in gilt to spine, ruled in blind to covers. Clean within, edges of text block toned, bookplate to pastedown (offset to half-title), bumped at crown, gilt bright, a.... More
Send a Gunboat.
London: Jarrolds, 1960. [Naval Fiction]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. In publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket priced at 15s. Reading lean; some chips and closed tears to jacket, creases to front panel. Very good. To counter the threat of Communist invasion... More
The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Paris: Charles Carrington 1908. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.312. Illustrated with 7 full-page wood engravings by Eugene Dété from drawings by Paul Thiriat of Paris, with titled tissue guards. The publisher's note on the illustrations is tipped on to the half title (although dated 1908, the book... More
Dive in the Sun.
London: Jarrolds, 1961. [Submarine novel]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. 258; [2]. Publisher's dark blue cloth, titles in red and yellow to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Ing. Foyles booksellers ticket to pastedown. Slight crease along the spine, dust-jacket shows well with some chipping and nicking to extremities... More
Harry Potter Series, Complete Deluxe Set: The Philosopher's Stone; The Chamber of Secrets; The Prisoner of Azkaban; The Goblet of Fire; The Order of The Phoenix; The Half-Blood Prince; The Deathly Hallows.
London: Bloomsbury, 1999-2007. COMPLETE SIGNED SET, ALL FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST PRINTING, IN DELUXE BINDINGS. 7 volumes. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.223 [1]; pp.251 [5]; pp.317 [3]; pp.636 [4]; pp.766 [2]; pp.607 [1]; pp.607 [1]. Each volume SIGNED by the author, variously in blue and black ink, to half-title or dedication... More
The Road to Wigan Pier.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15 cm), pp.viii; 264. With 32 black and white photographic plates. Not including the foreword, which appeared in the first Left Book Club edition. In publisher's blue cloth with yellow titles to spine. With original light yellow dust-jacket with titles to... More
The Code of the Woosters.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1938. [Jeeves and Wooster]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.312; [8 of advertisments]. Publisher's green cloth blocked in black to spine and boards, top edge tinted green, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Fenwick, priced 7'6 on spine. Some spotting to edges, top edge tint not faded, faint thumb marks... More
Cesar Cascabel.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Co., 1891. FIRST UK EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii, 313 [35]. With 80 wood engraved illustrations by George Roux, including a frontispiece. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and polychrome blocked illustrations to spine and upper board. All edges gilt; foliate endpapers... More
The Winding Stair and Other Poems.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[x]; 101. Publisher's embossed green cloth with gilt checkered design and titles to spine, edges untrimmed, in the original blue-green dust-wrapper with black pictorial decoration, priced at 6/- net. A lovely crisp example in a fresh jacket with two... More
A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads, and Interior Communication in General; with Original Experiments, and Tables of the Comparative Value of Canals and Railroads. Illustrated by Engravings.
London: Printed for Knight and Lacey, 1825. [Railway History]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[14]; 314. With five folding copper-engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Recently re-backed using original brown paper-covered boards, with a new brown paper-covered spine to style. Black titles to cream label on spine, with the date... More
The Stolen Bacillus. And Other Incidents.
London: Methuen, 1895. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. [x]; 275; [1], imprint; [32], catalogue, dated November 1896. In publisher's blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine and upper board, edges untrimmed. Internally very clean, adverts mainly uncut although final four pages have been roughly opened. Cloth generally bright... More
Jeeves and The Feudal Spirit.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1954. FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.222; [2], advertisements. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black in pictorial dust-jacket. Owner's small ink stamp to flyleaf, some dustiness, area of soiling to rear panel of jacket, some edge wear, chips and tears. Shows well. More adventures of... More
Papers on Current Finance.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1919. [Economics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xviii; 280. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Stamps of the Swedish Bankers' Association to endpapers, lightly toned to edges. slight wear to the top and bottom of the binding. Near fine. More
The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East.
London: Printed for N. Newbury, 1762. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. In two volumes. Foolscap octavo, pp.viii, 286 [2]; pp.[2], 238 [16]. In contemporary mottled calf boards, recently re-backed to style with raised bands and gilt titles to original red labels to spines. Armorial bookplates of the De Burghs, Earls of Clanricarde... More
The Catcher in the Rye.
Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1951. FIRST EDITION. Octavo., pp.277. Elegantly bound in black full morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, original spine bound in at rear. A clean, fresh copy with one faint mark to half-title, in a fine, unmarked recent... More
Catch-22.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. [Wartime satire] FIRST UK EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo, pp.[2] 443 [3]. With publisher's PROMOTIONAL CARD, featuring an illustration of Captain Yossarian, loose to prelims. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge green, first issue dust-jacket with section of text on rear panel. Jacket... More
The Sins of Sumuru.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1952. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.224. In publisher's bright red cloth titled and trimmed in in black, with original illustrated dust-jacket. A lovely fine copy in a lightly used, price-clipped wrapper. One of Mr. Rohmer's increasingly elusive (but always cool) Sumuru titles, featuring the female equivalent of Fu... More
The Controversy between Great Britain and her Colonies Reviewed; the several pleas of the Colonies, in Support of their Right to all the Liberties and Privileges of British Subjects, and to Exemption from the Legislative Authority of Parliament, Stated and Considered; and the Nature of their connection with, and Dependence on, Great Britain, shewn, upon the evidence of Historical Facts and Authentic Records.
London: Printed for J. Almon, 1769. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[4], 207 [1], lv [1]. Variant 3, without half-title or errata page, but with uncorrected pagination. With a large appendix containing extracts from the printed journals of the Houses of Parliament, as well as colonial seats of government. In later tree... More
The Prince and the Pauper. With 192 illustrations.
Boston, MA: James R Osgood and Co., 1882. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE Square octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.411; [1] blank. Bound in recent full green morocco, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine, inner gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, black endpapers, original cloth bound in at rear. Illustrated... More
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade).
New York, NY: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, earliest state of the cloth issue, now finely rebound in full green morocco, with the original cloth covers preserved at rear. Large octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.366. Illustrated throughout. Binding features gilt titles, and raised bands to spine... More
The War in the Air. and Particularly how Mr. Bert Smallways Fared while it Lasted.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (198 x 130mm) pp.viii; 389; [2], advertisements. With 16 monochrome illustrations by A. C. Michael. Publisher's original gilt-decoated blue cloth. A little toning to flyleaves, discreet crack to rear inside paper joint, cloth lightly worn. A clean, bright example... More