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Half Wild.
London: Penguin Books, 2015. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[12] 402 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's silver paper-covered boards with green endpapers. With the silver and green dust-jacket, priced at £14.99. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front..... More
More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Cosmopolitan Crimes.
London: The Bodley Head, 1971. [Crime Anthology] FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.347 [1]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine, and grey endpapers. Top edge pink. With the dust-jacket showing a detail from the jacket of Leblanc's 'The Arrest of Arsene Lupin,' priced at £2.50. A fine..... More
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The Island of Sheep. [A Richard Hannay Novel].
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.318 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, gilt 'JB' monogram to upper board, and map printed to front endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Chesterman, priced at 7/6 to spine. Black ink ownership to..... More
Darkness, Take My Hand.
New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, 1996. [Crime Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[12] 336 [4]. Publisher's green paper-covered boards with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Bradford Foltz, priced at $24.00. Signed and inscribed by the author to title page. Rubbed to..... More
Shutter Island.
New York, NY: William Morrow, 2003. [Psychological Horror] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.x, 325 [1]. Publisher's red quarter cloth over black paper-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, and red endpapers. Fore-edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by Chip Kidd, priced at $25.95. Signed by the author to..... More
Gone, Baby, Gone.
New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, 1998. [Crime Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[10] 374. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's red quarter paper over spine, with white titles and black paper over boards. With the dust-jacket designed by Bradford Foltz..... More
Live By Night.
New York, NY: William Morrow, 2012. [Crime Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[12] 401 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's orange quarter cloth with green titles to spine and grey paper over boards. Orange endpapers, and fore-edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket..... More
A Study In Scarlet.
Rahway, NJ: The Mershon Company, no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 216. Publisher's red cloth with white titles to spine and upper. A little toning and spotting to edges, and a hint of spotting to endpapers. An unusually high quality pirate edition on..... More
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The Giant Raft: Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon [and] The Cryptogram.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. [Amazon Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, an early edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 254 [4]. With a folding map and 79 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt and black titles and decoration to spine, and black titles..... More
The American Gun Club.
New York, NY: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1874. [Science Fiction] FIRST THUS, a partial reprint of 'From the Earth to the Moon.' Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] viii; 142 [4]. With 24 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Brown-coated endpapers. Some..... More
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Michael Strogoff, The Courier of the Czar [and] The Mutineers: a Romance of Mexico.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883. [Russian Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 377 [1]. With a folding map and 89 engraved plates by Ferat and Barbant, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper..... More
Their Island Home. The Later Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson.
New York, NY: G. Howard Watt, 1924. [Castaway Adventure] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 272 [4]. With a colour-illustrated frontispiece and two further black and white plates by Murphy. Publisher's maroon cloth with green titles to spine and upper, and a reproduction of the frontispiece laid over..... More
The Archipelago On Fire.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1888. [Historical Fiction] EARLY CHEAP EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.viii; 198 [34]. With fifty engraved plates, including a frontispiece, by Benett. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Gentle toning throughout; a strong tobacco..... More
Outlines of German Literature.
London: Williams and Norgate, 1883. [German Literary Criticism] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xii; 642 [2]. Contemporary red full morocco for the Philological School (later St Marylebone Grammar School), with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt school crest to upper. All edges gilt and..... More
Artemis Fowl, The Arctic Incident.
London: Puffin Books, 2002. [Fantasy Adventure] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[xii]; 288; [4], blank. Publisher's black cloth in a metallic effect dust-jacket. Signed by the author to the title page. A fine/as-new copy, with the accompanying 'Artemis Fowl File', featuring a preview chapter from the next book..... More
Live and Let Die (Released Through United Artists). Souvenir Programme / Brochure.
London: Sackville Publishing, 1973. [Film memorabilia] ORIGINAL BROCHURE. Octavo (27 x 20cm), unpaginated, stapled at spine. Text with accompanying photographs throughout. Colour printed with soft card covers featuring the movie artwork by Robert McGinnis. Very lightly handled. Fine. A vintage cinema brochure promoting the 1973 James Bond movie starring Roger..... More
Doctor Pascal, or, Life and Heredity.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1893. [French Literature] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xx; 354 [34]. Advertisement at rear dated September 1893. With a frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt titles to spine, black to upper, and red and black floral decoration to spine..... More
A Study In Scarlet and A Case of Identity.
Chicago, MI: Rand, McNally & Company, no date [circa 1901]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.232. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and blind decoration to spine and upper. Top edge gilt. Black ink gift inscription to front pastedown, dated 1901. fly-leaf roughly removed. Library borrowing slip..... More
A Study In Scarlet.
New York, NY: Hurst & Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 176 [12]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, and black and green decoration to spine and upper. Bookseller's label very roughly removed from front pastedown. Extremely heavily browned and..... More
A Case of Identity and Other Stories. A Scandal in Bohemia, The Man from Archangel, The Captain of the "Pole-Star," and John Barrington Cowles.
New York, NY: Optimus Printing Company, no date [circa 1905]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Duodecimo (17 x 11cm), pp.30 [2]; 30 [2]; 30 [2]; 30 [2]; 30 [2]. Publisher's light blue cloth with blue titles and decoration to spine and upper. Extremely heavily browned and brittle throughout. Advertisement leaf at..... More
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The Giant Raft: Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon [and] The Cryptogram.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1893 and 1894. [Amazon Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition complete in two volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 244; pp.192. With a total of 11 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black..... More
The Tour of The World In Eighty Days.
New York, NY: John W. Lovell, 1880. [Science Fiction] EARLY PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 353-591 [1]. With a selection of wood engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Light pink-coated endpapers. Quite heavily toned throughout. Cloth..... More
A Small Selection of Binding Stamps Designed by Talwin Morris. Printed from the original brasses.
Glasgow: Foulis Archive Press, Glasgow School of Art, 1973. [Book Design] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (21 x 14cm), pp.[14]. A collection of 12 decorative binding stamps designed by Morris, each printed in black ink to one side of a leaf, including one example additionally printed in gilt to a swatch..... More
HMS Ulysses.
London: Collins, 1955. [Naval Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.320. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and illustrated cartographic endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Rose. Some offsetting to endpapers; edges quite heavily toned. Price-clipped jacket toned to folds, edges and spine, with some light..... More
The Tour of The World In Eighty Days.
New York, NY: R. Worthington, 1880. [Science Fiction] EARLY PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 353-591 [3]. With a selection of wood engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles, and gilt and black decoration, to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Heavy spotting and toning throughout..... More