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Passenger to Frankfurt.
London: The Crime Club, 1970. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.256. Elegantly hand-bound in burgundy half morocco over cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. A fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. A late Christie airport drama which develops into a game of... More
Elephants Can Remember. A Hercule Poirot Story.
London: The Crime Club, 1972. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp. 256; [2] blank. Green half calf binding over green cloth, raised bands and gilt titles to spine, front and rear dust-jacket panels bound in at rear. Internally clean and bright, exterior unmarked. A fine copy in... More
The Hundred and One Dalmatians.
London: Heinemann, 1956. [Childrens' classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.191; [1]. Illustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone. Attractively bound in recent dark blue calf, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, blue marbled paper-covered sides. Original pictorial endpapers (entitled 'The Twilight Barking') bound in after the text... More
![The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Emma, Lady Susan, The Watsons, as well as the Letters. Jane AUSTEN.](/pictures/thumb/52885.jpg?v=1545059630)
The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Emma, Lady Susan, The Watsons, as well as the Letters.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911. [English Literature] Complete in twelve volumes including the Letters. Octavo, with portrait frontispiece to first volume, title pages printed in red and black, vignette 'JA' monogram illustration. Beautifully bound in red half calf with gilt titles and centre tool to spines, green morocco title labels, red... More
Somewhere South of Suez.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. [African Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.428; [4]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge blue, dust-jacket priced at 12s. 6d. Bookplate of G, Lillywhite to flyleaf. Spotting to preliminaries, edges toned and marked. Jacket darkened to spine with some small chips... More
A Tradition of Victory.
London: Hutchinson, 1981. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.296. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, cartographic endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Chris Mayger. Discreet Harrods library blind stamp to rear pastedown. Some spotting to edges, slightly handled with some bumping to corners and spine... More
Colours Aloft!
London: Hutchinson, 1986. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.286; [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Brian Sweet. Discreet Harrods library blind stamp to rear pastedown. Some spotting to edges, slightly handled with some bumping to corners and spine ends... More
The Well of Loneliness.
Paris: The Pegasus Press, 1928. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION THUS. First Pegasus Press edition, following on from two Jonathan Cape printings. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.512. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, top edge black others untrimmed. With an introductory commentary by Havelock Ellis. Internally clean and bright... More
Action This Day. A War Memoir.
London: Frederick Muller, 1960. [Naval History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.223; [1]. With six double-sided black and white photographic plates, a black and white frontispiece, and three maps. Maps also printed to endpapers. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the navy dust-jacket titled in white... More
The House at Pooh Corner. Decorations by Ernest Shepard.
London: Methuen and Co., 1928. FIRST EDITION. Octavo., pp.178. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's pink cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper. Light soil mark to rear cover, jacket is lightly used with a little abrasion/damage to the lower margin of back panel. Generally bright and clean. Very good. Book Collector No.271, 'The Great Illustrators'. More
Now We Are Six. With decorations by Ernest Shepard.
London: Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated throughout. Octavo, pp.103; xii; [1], imprint. Publisher's burgundy cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, with gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, illustrated salmon pink endpapers, in original illustrated dust-wrapper. Binding near fine, contents clean, gift inscription to half-title. Jacket very good... More
James Bond 007. Bond Girls of the Sixties: Martine Beswicke. Limited Edition Calendar 2019.
007 Magazine and Archive, 2018. Photographic calendar, stapled, in book-form (30 x 21), pp.24, in full colour. Punch-cut hole for hanging. Brand new. RRP £9.99. Our price includes global shipping. An exclusive print collectable published by 007 Magazine. More
James Bond 007. Bond Girls of the Sixties: Luciana Paluzzi. Limited Edition Calendar 2019.
007 Magazine and Archive, 2018. Photographic calendar, stapled, in book-form (30 x 21), pp.24, in full colour. Punch-cut hole for hanging. Brand new. RRP £9.99. Our price includes global shipping. An exclusive print collectable published by 007 Magazine. More
The Sleeping Beauty. Together with Cinderella. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1919 and 1920. [Children's illustrated classic] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. Two volumes, large octavos. Tipped-in colour frontispiece to each volume and numerous black and white silhouettes and three-toned illustrations. Elegantly bound in half green oasis morocco with gilt decoration to the spine, five raised bands, matching cloth... More
One Two Buckle My Shoe.
London: For The Crime Club, by Collins, 1940. [Detective fiction] FIRST EDITION. A Hercule Poirot mystery. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.252; [3] advertisements.; [1] blank. Elegantly hand-bound in green half calf, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, cloth sides, publisher's original cloth bound in at rear. Edge lightly... More
The Pooh Books: When We Were Very Young; Winnie the Pooh; Now We Are Six; The House at Pooh Corner.
London: Methuen, 1924-9. [Childrens stories and poems] COMPLETE SET OF FOUR VOLUMES IN FIRST EDITION. Octavo, (20 x 14 x 7cm). Beautifully illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. Attractively bound in recent half morocco in their respective published colours, titled and decorated in gilt to spine, over original cloth sides... More
![The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Western Railway [and] The Official Illustrated Guide to the Bristol and Exeter, North and South Devon, Cornwall, and South Wales Railways, Including the Amalgamated West Midland Line, and the Chester and Holyhead Line, also, the Isle of Man. With descriptions of the most Important Manufactories in the several Towns on the Lines. George Samuel MEASOM.](/images/noimage.png)
The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Western Railway [and] The Official Illustrated Guide to the Bristol and Exeter, North and South Devon, Cornwall, and South Wales Railways, Including the Amalgamated West Midland Line, and the Chester and Holyhead Line, also, the Isle of Man. With descriptions of the most Important Manufactories in the several Towns on the Lines.
London: Griffin, Bohn, and Co., no date [1861]. [Railway Guide] SECOND EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Small octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[8] 800; pp.[6] 280 [2]. Filled with wood engravings by the author, as well as a steel-engraved frontispiece of Chepstow Castle by Bartlett and Cousen. In a mid-twentieth... More
Incendiary.
London: Chatto and Windus, 2005. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 242 [6]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, dated 17th June 2005, three weeks before the book was published. Number 58 of 500 copies thus. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles... More
A Treatise on White Magic, or the Way of the Disciple.
London: John M. Watkins; New York, NY: Lucis Publishing Company, 1934. [Esoterica] Second Edition. Octavo, pp.xiv; 640; [2]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Small bookseller's label to front free endpaper. Offsetting to endpapers, edges toned. Old repair to spine, joints and spine ends heavily... More
Hitler's War. [Comprising:] The War Path: Hitler's Germany 1933-39; Hitler's War: 1939-1942; and Hitler's War: 1942-1945.
London: Macmillan, 1983. [Second World War] COMPLETE PAPERBACK SET, review copies of the first paperback edition, and the first uniform edition. Three volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 11cm), pp.xxvi; 301 [1]; pp.xxxvi; 449 [75]; pp.xxxiv; 450-823 [71]. With a blue card slip and a press release identifying the books... More
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life.
London: Faber and Faber, 1993. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xx; 570 [2]. With 12 double-sided black and white photographic plates divided into three suites. Publisher's navy cloth with white titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £20.00. Light external rubbing. Jacket sunned to spine... More
On Green Dolphin Street.
London: Hutchinson, 2001. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 341; [5]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Green endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Glenn O'Neill, priced at £16.99. Textblock a little toned to margins/edges. Near fine. More
A Sparrow Falls.
London: Heinemann, 1977. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.539 [5]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket by Bill Richmond, priced at £4.75. Reading lean, with some rubbing to cloth. Jacket heavily rubbed, bruised and chipped to edges, with a large tape-repaired... More
Playtime and Company: A Book for Little Children.
London: Methuen and Co., 1925. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.95 [1]. With wood engravings by Shepard to every page. Publisher's quarter pink cloth with titles printed to paper label laid over spine. Glossy paper-covered boards with colour illustrations by Shepard. Yellow endpapers. Very small black ink... More
The Second World War.
London: The Educational Book Company, no date [1955]. [Military history] The Chartwell Edition, THE First Illustrated Edition. Six volumes (25 x 18 x 27cm). The standard binding of red cloth, embossed silhouette of Churchill on a brown leather square to upper boards, gilt titles to brown leather squares to spine... More