"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
New Arrivals
One Shot. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2015. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 376 [2]. Number 89 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
Worth Dying For. A Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2018. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xii; 384 [8]. Number 51 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
61 Hours. A Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2018. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xiv; 383 [3]. Number 79 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
Olly: The Life and Times of Frederick Oliver Robinson, 2nd Marquis of Ripon.
No place: [Privately Published], 2012. [Game Shooting Biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.x; 222. Liberally illustrated with both colour and black and white illustrations. Number 259 of 1500 copies signed by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to..... More
The Story of Horace.
London: Faber & Faber, 1952. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[52]. With colour lithographic illustrations to every page by the author. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Illustrated bookplate to front pastedown. Quite heavily toned throughout, with an 8cm tear to final..... More
Tennis, Lawn Tennis, Rackets, Fives. With Contributions by the Hon. A. Lyttelton, W.C. Marshall, Miss L. Dod, H.W.W. Wilberforce, H.F. Lawford, Spencer W. Gore, R.D. Sears and Herbert Chipp. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897. [Racquet Sports] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 488. With numerous black and white illustrations, both plates and in-text, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth with a mixture of gilt, black, and white titles and decoration to spine and..... More
Swimming. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. [Swimming] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 452. With numerous black and white illustrations, both plates and in-text, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth with a mixture of gilt, black, and white titles and decoration to spine and upper. Green..... More
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: John Murray, 1880. [Evolutionary science] Sixth Edition, twenty-second thousand. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxii; 458. With a folding tree diagram. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Brown endpapers. Black ink ownership to front pastedown. An old paper repair to upper hinge, coloured to match. A 1cm tear..... More
A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada. From the MSS. of Fray Antonio Agapida. To which is added Legends of the Conquest of Spain.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1859. [Spanish History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the third edition thus. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[2] x; 360; [6] 361-492 [2]. Contemporary full tan diced calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to black label, and further gilt decoration to spine, as well..... More
They Stay for Death.
London: Macmillan, 1980. [Legal Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £4.95. The lightest of spotting to edges. Near fine. The 30th Antony Maitland legal mystery. More
The Lie Direct.
London: Macmillan, 1983. [Legal Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £6.50. Toning and spotting to edges. Near fine. The 38th Antony Maitland legal mystery. More
Proceed to Judgement.
London: Macmillan, 1979. [Legal Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £4.95. Some light spotting to edges and minor rub marks to jacket back cover. Near fine. The 28th Antony Maitland legal mystery... More
Winner Take Nothing.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[10] 244 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt title labels to spine and upper. Top edge tinted red; fore-edge untrimmed. Toned throughout, as usual. Fairly light wear to cloth, with toning to spine and one..... More
The Vegetable. Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Comedy Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 145 [7]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. Fore-edge untrimmed. Gently toned throughout, as usual. Neat ownership to flyleaf, bookseller's labels to rear endpapers. Gilt a little rubbed..... More
The Black Spear.
Bournemouth: William Earl & Company, 1950. [Zulu Novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.310 [2]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the light yellow illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Light spotting and toning throughout; heavier spotting..... More
This Day's Madness.
London: Jarrolds, 1960. [Zulu Novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.224. SIGNED by the author 'with best wishes' in blue ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to blue background on spine, and gilt device to upper. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Sax. Blue ink..... More
The Late Show.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company, 2017. [Crime novel] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 405 [5]. Number 35 of 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, with gilt titles to..... More
Nothing to Lose. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2016. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 407 [3]. Number 76 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
The Hard Way. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2015. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 371 [3]. Number 79 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
Running Blind.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2013. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 360. Number 93 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
The Enemy. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2015. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 393 [1]. Number 73 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
Mr Mouth.
London: Ondt & Gracehoper, 2006. [Poetry] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[8] 122 [2]. SIGNED by the author in blue pencil to title page, dated 28/11/08. Publisher's plain black soft covers, with black and orange illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. A fine, as-new copy. A large collection of contemporary..... More
The Great Boer War.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1900. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm) pp.[2] x; 552 [12]. With five folding maps. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed; dark brown endpapers. Black ink gift inscription to half-title. Spotting to fly-leaves, and a 3cm tear to..... More
Step by Step 1936-1939.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1939. [Politics / Second World War] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.366. With two maps; one folding at rear. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf; toned throughout. Corners bumped. Spine toned, with rubbing to head, tail and joints. Good..... More
An Owl and Three Pussycats.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Folio (32 x 24cm), pp.[32]. With colour illustrations by Alice and Martin to every page. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards with blue endpapers. Light rubbing to covers, and bumping to corners. Very good. More