"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
New Arrivals
The Viceroy of Ouidah.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 155; [1]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, map endpapers, photographic dust-jacket clipped and repriced with a sticker at £6.95 by the publisher. A clean, fine copy. More
The Mystery of the Franklin: Mistress Branican.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., no date [circa 1925]. [Mystery Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition with the rare jacket. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 360 [52]. With a black and white half-tone frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with black titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated..... More
The Archipelago On Fire.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [circa 1920s]. [Historical Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a cheap edition with the rare jacket. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.vi; 198 [2]. With a colour illustrated frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with black titles, and red, green, blue and pink decoration to spine and upper..... More
The Vanished Diamond. A Tale of South Africa.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., no date [circa 1924]. [African Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition with the rare jacket. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 263 [39]. With a half-tone frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with black titles and decoration to spine and upper. Bookplate of Curtiss Taylor to front..... More
How to Be Good.
New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2001. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[12] 305 [3]. INSCRIBED by the author in black marker to title page: 'To Bill, | Best wishes, | Nick Hornby.' Publisher's red quarter cloth with black titles to spine, yellow paper over boards..... More
Out of Africa.
London: Putnam, 1937. [Travel literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 416; [4], blank. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine. Very slight spotting, minor wear to binding. A clean, near fine copy. 'Out of Africa' is a poetic memoir by Isak Dinesen (pseudonym of Danish Baroness..... More
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Ian Fleming's Thrilling Cities [including a James Bond story]
New York, NY: New American Library, 1964. [Travel] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.viii; 246; [2], blank. Publisher's full beige cloth with blue and white endbands, top edge red, terracotta endpapers - not to be confused with the taller book club binding which has red cloth sides, red..... More
Doctor Zhivago. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari.
London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1958. [Modern fiction] FIRST UK EDITION, being the first edition printed in English. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.510. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine in striking John Woodcock-designed dust-wrapper priced 21s. Complete with wraparound band heralding the author's Nobel Prize win. Page edges..... More
Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977.
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. [Fashion Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (37 x 28cm), unpaginated, with 162 black and white photographs. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by the photographer in black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy photographic paper-covered boards. With the original clear..... More
Satan's Tears. The Art of Alex Niño.
Detroit, MI: The Land of Enchantment, 1977. [Comic Book Art] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (35 x 27cm), pp.x, 301 [1]. With 20 colour plates, and all other illustrations in black and white, many folding. Number 965 of 1000 copies SIGNED by the artist in black ink to limitation page..... More
Philippe Halsman A Retrospective: Photographs from the Halsman Family Collection.
London: Pavilion, 1998. [Celebrity Photography] FIRST UK EDITION. Quarto (34 x 27cm), pp.212. Black and white photographs throughout. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and brown endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £40. Some light markings to jacket and little creasing to endpapers. Near fine. Iconic photos..... More
The James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Reference critique] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.159; [1]. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with gilt titles to spine in pictorial dust-wrapper, based on the familiar 'trompe l'oeil' designs which decorated the Ian Fleming first editions. Priced at 16s. to flap. A near fine..... More
The Pale Horse.
London: Published for The Crime Club by Collins, 1961. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket without a printed price (intended for export). Contents clean, discreet ownership beneath flap, dust-jacket with some chips and tears. Very good. A...... More
Floodgate.
London: Collins, 1983. [Disaster novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23x 13cm), pp.[ii]; 315; [3]., blank. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, pictorial dust wrapper. Price-clipped else a clean, near fine copy. A ransom thriller concerning a group of IRA-sympathisers and their plot to decimate Amsterdam's Schiphol..... More
The Booze Book.
San Francisco, CA: Determined Productions, 1967. [Cocktail Book] FIRST EDITION. Square octavo (15 x 15cm), pp.68. Illustrated in colour throughout by Astrop and Hill. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and black endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, not priced. Rubbing and bumping to head and tail of spine, and to corners. Jacket..... More
The World is Not Enough.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.274; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to backstrip, photographic dust-wrapper priced at £16.99. The signature was obtained during the book launch event held at our shop. A fine/as-new copy, carefully..... More
Doubleshot.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2000. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 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 shop. A fine/as-new copy, carefully dark stored by ourselves since publication. While officially on medical..... More
Carte Blanche. A James Bond Novel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. FIRST TRADE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xiv]; 436. Publisher's red cloth blocked with metallic red foil, metallic 'smoke effect' endpapers, illustrated white dust-jacket priced at £19.99. A fine/as-new copy, carefully dark stored by ourselves since publication. A James Bond adventure set in Afghanistan and..... More
Carte Blanche. A James Bond Novel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. FIRST TRADE EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xiv]; 436. Publisher's red cloth blocked with metallic red foil, metallic 'smoke effect' endpapers, illustrated white dust-jacket priced at £19.99. A fine/as-new copy, carefully dark stored by ourselves since publication. A James Bond adventure..... More
Forever and a Day.
London: Jonathan Cape in association with Goldsboro Books, 2018. [James Bond continuation novel] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[8]; 287; [9]. Publisher's black hardcovers with boat/bullet design in gilt, blue endpapers, blue edges, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Kris Potter. Signed by Anthony Horowitz to the limitation page..... More
Forever and a Day.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2018. [James Bond continuation novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Trade edition. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[8]; 287; [9]. Publisher's black hardcovers with boat/bullet design in gilt, blue endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Kris Potter. Signed by Anthony Horowitz to the title page. A fine, as new copy. Horowitz's..... More
The Patience of Maigret. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1939. [Detective Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.320; [1], blank. Publisher's mid-green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Contents clean, binding very lightly handled. A fine copy without jacket. Scarce pre-war Maigret, published in America the following year. More
The House by the Churchyard.
London: Richard Bentley, 1866. [Strange Tale] New Edition, being the FIRST ONE VOLUME EDITION. Features two engraved illustrations and expanded text). Publisher's ribbed bottle-green cloth, blocked in blind, decorated in gilt to spine, coated brown endpapers. We believe this to be the PRIMARY BINDING, having previously catalogued a variant (cheaper)..... More
A Burnt-Out Case.
London: Heinemann, 1961. [Modern Literature] First English Edition. Novel set in the Belgian Congo. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's silver-titled black cloth in original pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 16s. Light wear only. A lovely near-fine copy. Greene's previous novel 'Our Man In Havana', had impressed author friend Ian Fleming..... More
Colonel Sun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Illustrated map endpapers. The rarer variant with a dropped quad mark to the date on the copyright page (rather in the same manner as 'The Spy Who Loved Me' variant - see Gilbert). Publisher's hardcovers..... More