"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "
— Oscar Wilde
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Moscardino.
Milan: All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro [at the sign of the Goldfish], 1956. [Italian Novella] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] 82 [4]. Number 22 of just 1000 hand-numbered copies. Publisher's plain soft covers with the light blue jacket and original plastic over-jacket. Toned throughout, especially to margins. Light handling..... More
Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable.
London: Calder and Boyars, 1966. [Modern Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] 418 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at 35s. Three related clippings from The Independent, including an obituary, loose to rear. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Neat pink..... More
The Blue Baby and Other Whimsical Stories.
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1931. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.56. With four colour plates including a frontispiece, as well as frequent in-text illustrations by Appleton. Publisher's brown paper-covered boards, with a colour illustration and titles laid over upper. Illustrated endpapers. School prize plate..... More
The Great Sermon Handicap.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1933]. [Jeeves and Wooster Short Story] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Very small octavo (12 x 8cm), pp.64. Publisher's red leatherette with gilt titles to upper and machine-marbled endpapers. Crisp and clean internally, with some rubbing to outer edges and a chip from tail of spine..... More
The Buildings of England: South Devon.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952. [Architecture]. FIRST EDITION. Paperback with jacket. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.351 [1]. With 40 double-sided photographic plates and a folding map to rear. Publisher's brown card covers with titles to spine and front cover. With the orange illustrated dust-jacket. Browned, as expected. Spine spotted with a...... More
Men Without Women.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, with a complete number '3' to p.3. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[12]; 232; [8]. Recent full black morocco with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the author's signature blocked in gilt to the to upper board, with marbled..... More
The Tailor of Panama.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. [Spy Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.410. Publisher's grey quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine and purple paper-covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £16.99. Gently toned to edges, with some minor water staining to spine, boards and jacket..... More
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Northern Lights [The Golden Compass]. His Dark Materials. The Lantern Slides Edition.
London: Scholastic, 2008. [Children's Fantasy] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[10] 403 [19]. One of 3000 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's purple cloth with silver titles to spine. With the black and white dust-jacket illustrated by Lawrence, as well as the..... More
Yesterday's Spy.
New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. [Spy thriller] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.282. Publisher's brown and orange hardback binding, top edge orange, in pictorial dust-jacket. The jacket artwork is by Raymond Hawkey, who designed the classic 1960s James Bond British paperbacks for Pan Books. Edges dusty..... More
Yesterday's Spy.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.224. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket. The jacket artwork is by Raymond Hawkey, who designed the classic 1960s James Bond paperbacks for Pan Books. Price clipped jacket slightly sunned; near fine. With comparisons to Graham Greene..... More
Live and Let Die (a James Bond novel).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. [James Bond] FIRST ISSUE, Second State. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.240. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper-covered boards, titled and decorated in gilt, with dust-wrapper, priced twice as issued, at 10/6. With 'author's skill' text incorrectly spaced to the rear panel, as described in the bibliography, page 61..... More
Thrilling Cities.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Travel] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the First Edition. Octavo (23 x 16cm), with plates. Publisher's green softcovers printed in black. Housed in a grey cloth clamshell with gilt-titled red leather label to spine. Some light wear and soiling, joints a little rubbed; a near fine copy..... More
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A Pocket Full of Rye. [A Miss Marple story].
London: For The Crime Club by Collins, 1953.156. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.191; [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the red and black illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 10s 6d. Book is fresh and appears unread. Clean bright panels including the spine, some..... More
A Delicate Truth.
London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2013. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, WATERSTONES EDITION with added content. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 310; [1], Acknowledgements; [11], blank. With exclusive black and white portrait photograph as frontispiece, by Anton Corbijn. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, navy blue..... More
Letters From Iceland.
London: Faber and Faber, 1937. [Poetry and Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.268. With 15 double-sided black and white photographic plates, as well as a frontispiece, seven charts and diagrams, and a folding map at rear. Publisher's green cloth with red and blue titles to spine. Top edge..... More
Aesop's Fables. A new translation by V.S. Vernon-Jones with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton.
London: William Heinemann, 1912. [Children's Illustrated / Folklore] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Small quarto (21 x 16cm), pp.[2]; xxx; 224. With 13 chromolithographic plates including and frontispiece, and 54 further wood engravings, in-text and individual plates. Elegantly bound in half mid green morocco over publisher's pictorial cloth, with five raised..... More
The Labours of Hercules.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1947. [Crime Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 256 [2]. Elegantly bound in half mid-green calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and matching green cloth over boards. Contents clean, exterior as new. A fine copy in an..... More
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [together with] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1888-9. [Children's classics] Fifteenth thousand and Twelfth thousand respectively. THE PEOPLE'S EDITION. Two volumes, octavo (20 x 14cm). With illustrations by John Tenniel. Handsomely bound in modern half dark green morocco over original mid-green cloth covers pictorially stamped in black and red, with 'Mad Hatter'..... More
Berlin Game, Mexico Set, London Match.
London: Hutchinson, 1983, 1984, 1985. [Cold War spy saga] FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes, octavos (23 x 15 x10cm). Publisher's black cloth with red endpapers, illustrated dust-wrappers designed by Raymond Hawkey. First volume price clipped with neat contemporary gift inscription otherwise a near fine set. Bernard Samson is a middle-aged and..... More
The Leather - Stocking Tales. Comprising: The Last of the Mohicans, The Pioneers, The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder, and The Prairie. With Illustrations by H.M. Brock and an Introduction by Mowbray Morris.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1900-1901. [Literature] ALL FIRST BROCK-ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. 5 volumes, octavo (19 x 13 x 19cm). Abundantly illustrated with line drawing black and white full page plates. Finely bound in mid-green half calf with raised bands, gilt decoration, twin red title labels to spines; cloth boards; top edges..... More
Thunderball.
London: Jonathan Cape. 1961. [Spy novel] INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. First edition, first Issue, Binding A, octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.254. With characteristic ballpoint inscription to the flyleaf; To/ Peter Werner/ from/ the Author. The recipient Peter Werner later became a prolific American film director. This is one of a...... More
The Jews Under Roman Rule.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. [Ancient History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the second edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xxx; 426 [4]. With 62 maps and illustrations, including a folding map of Palestine. Contemporary tree calf by BICKERS & SON of London for Tonbridge School, with gilt titles to brown label and..... More
Phantasmion, a Fairy Tale. With and Introductory Preface by Lord Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
London: Henry S. King & Co., 1874. [Fantasy Novel] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xvi; 348 [6]. Including the calling card of Miss Edith Coleridge; the author's daughter, and publisher of 'The Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge' (1873). Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles..... More
Battles of the British Army, being a continuous history of Its Services, its Defeats and its Victories from the Earliest Times.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1890. [Military History] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 528 [2]. With occasional engraved plates by Caton Woodville, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full calf for Beaconsfield School by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to black label and further gilt decoration to..... More
The Gravel Ponds. Poems.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1960. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.59 [1]. With the tan paper-covered boards, titles in black to spine and upper. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Light handling, with a few marks and a touch of sunning to spine. Near fine. More