London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. [Detective novel] TRUE FIRST EDITION, preceding the US edition by one year. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.319; [1]. Elegantly bound in navy half calf, gilt-lettered with twin red morocco title labels, spine ruled in six compartments with raised bands, matching cloth sides. Light spotting to first... More about The Long Goodbye

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961. [Mystery novel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.156. Translated from the French by Daphne Woodward. Publisher's deep orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Youngman carter, Priced at 12/6. A fine copy of the book in near fine, slightly sunned wrapper. More about The Premier

London: Collins, 1966. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.255 ;[1]. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket illustrated by John Heseltine, priced at 21s. Slight toning to extremities, jacket a little edgworn with a couple of minor nicks. A lovely near fine copy. A Bond-style... More about When Eight Bells Toll

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1934. [Lawn Tennis] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 111 [1]. With 19 full-page diagrams. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'J.P. Maurell, esq. | with compliments | from the author, | Norman H. Patterson. | april 1934.' Publisher's green cloth... More about Courtcraft: Lawn Tennis Tactics and Psychology

London: Beaverbrook Newspapers, 1957-8. [Cartoon Annual] FIRST EDITION THUS. Oblong octavo (20 x 26cm), unpaginated. Captioned cartoons to every page. Publisher's colour illustrated card covers. A lovely fine copy. More about Giles Sunday Express and Daily Express Cartoons [Giles Annual]. Twelfth Series

London: Spencer Blackett, 1890. [Sherlock Holmes] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4]; 283; [1], bound without advertisements. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black and gilt, neatly respined to style with Spencer Blackett's Standard Library to foot of spine, later black endpapers. With a frontispiece engraving by Charles Kerr, lacking... More about The Sign of Four

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1959. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.319; [1]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, top edge tinted red, dust-jacket designed by Eric Ayers with printed price of 21s net. A used copy in jacket; well read, rather spotted/toned, ink ownership... More about Lolita

London: Chapman and Hall, 1896. [Palaeontology] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Octavo (20 x 14), pp.xxiv; 270. With 24 full page half-tone plates, including a frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text illustrations. Contemporary red full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to a brown label on spine, and further gilt... More about Creatures of Other Days: Popular Studies in Palaeontology

London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1966. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 183; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket by Jack Jensen, priced at 21s. Some spotting and marks to edges. Light rubbing and bumping with a few small marks... More about In Praise of Older Women: The Amorous Recollections of Andas Vajda

London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1908]. [Illustrated] FIRST DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto, pp.144. With 40 mounted coloured plates tipped on green card, each with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's mid-green cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, green endpapers. Some occasional spotting, more so to first and final leaves, neat gift inscription... More about Shakespeare's Comedy of The Tempest, with illustrations by Edmund Dulac

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Tall octavo (22 x 13cm), pp.63; [1]. Illustrated with drawings by Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Number 15 of 500 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to the limitation page. Publisher's peach cloth with gilt titles and illustration to... More about The Venus Touch

London: Heinemann, 1965. [Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (18x 12cm), pp.184; [1], blank. With fifteen illustrations drawn by the author in the Chinese style. Publisher's purple cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial endpapers, illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Paul Castell repriced at 15s. A near fine copy in similar wrapper... More about The Willow Pattern. A Chinese Detective Story

AB Tiprod, ETC, 1982. [Photography] FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION. Text in Swedish. Oblong octavo (27 x 24cm). With 88 black and whiite photographs. White cloth hardcovers blocked in black, photographic dust-jacket. Book is fine, jacket near fine with a couple of small marks and tears. An attractive copy. First published in... More about Cafe Lehmitz