"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
New Arrivals
Lolita.
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. Light spotting to edges and endpapers, otherwise internally fine, top edge..... More
Machines Like Me. And People Like You.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2019. [SF] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[10]; 319; [7]. Publisher's blue paper covered boards, silver titles to spine, blue endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Suzanne Dean with printed price of £18.99. Signed by the author to a tipped in title page. Fine/as new... More
Diamonds are Forever.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. FIRST EDITION, Binding A (designated without priority). Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.257; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth titled in silver, with the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Pat Marriott, priced at 12/6. A near fine copy of the book in an attractive dust jacket now expertly restored..... More
A Caribbean Mystery.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1964. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Bound in publisher's red cloth, printed with black cloth pattern, with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-wrapper. Contents clean, jacket toned to spine, price-clipped. Very good. As Miss Marple snoozes in the West Indian..... More
Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1945. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.304. Bound in half red oasis morocco with raised bands and gilt rules to spine, contrasting black labels, top edge gilt, marbled sides. A lovely clean copy, inside and out. Waugh's glorious tale of love, loss, teddy..... More
The Cultured pearl.
London: Hammond, Hammond and Company, 1961. [Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.284; [1] blank; [3] publisher's advertisements. Publisher's orange cloth, titles in green to spine, striking dust-jacket designed by Sax with printed price of 15s. net. Signed by the author to the title page. Internally fine, some..... More
King Solomon's Mines.
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1885. [Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION, THIRD ISSUE (being the first corrected state of the text). Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.vi; 7-320; [16]. Fold-out colour map as frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth pictorially blocked in black, gilt titles to spine, coated yellow endpapers. Catalogue is dated 5B.11.85..... More
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The Works of Nikolay Gogol. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. [Including] Dead Souls; The Overcoat and Other Stories; Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka; Mirgorod; and The Government Inspector and Other Plays.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1922-28. [Literature] FIRST EDITIONS OF THE GARNETT TRANSLATION. Six volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 21cm). Elegantly hand-bound in blue half morocco over matching cloth sides, with raised bands and gilt titles to red labels on spines, top edges gilt. Occasional light marginal marks to 'The..... More
The Themis Files. Sleeping Giants, Walking Gods, Only Human.
London: Michael Joseph an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016, 2017, 2018. [SF] FIRST UK EDITIONS, FINAL VOLUME SIGNED. Three volumes, octavo (25 x 17 x 10cm), pp,[6]; 304; [10]; pp.[6]; 324; [6]; pp.[8]; 336; [10]. Publisher's black cloth, titles in gloss black to spines, black endpapers, pictorial dust-jackets. The third..... More
The Life of Samuel Johnson, including a Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides. With numerous Additions and Notes, by the Right Hon. John Wilson Crocker. To which are added, Two Supplementary Volumes of Johnsoniana by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murohy, Tyers, Reynolds, Malone, Nichols, Steevens, Cumberland, and others. And Notes by Various Hands.
London: John Murray, 1839. [Literary biography] FINELY BOUND. Ten volumes, small octavo (17 x 11 x 28cm). With upwards of fifty engraved illustrations. Later binding by Ramage in brown half morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spines, marbled boards and end papers; top edges gilt. Edges a little..... More
SS-GB. Nazi Occupied Britain 1941.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. [Spy thriller] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.250; [2], blank. Bound in salmon-coloured printed wraps, with oversize proof-only dust-wrapper. The jacket artwork is by Raymond Hawkey, who designed the classic 1960s James Bond paperbacks for Pan Books. Rather curiously and..... More
Souvenir in Commemoration of the Marriage Between Mr. Harold Nicholson and Hon. Victoria Sackville-West. At the Private Chapel, Knole, near Sevenoaks, Oct. 1, 1913. All Blessings and Happiness to Them.
no place, 1913. [Nuptials] COMMEMORATIVE PAPER NAPKIN. A napkin printed on thin tissue paper produced to celebrate the wedding between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. Approximate total dimensions 48 x 50cm, image size approximately 38 x 38cm. Presented in an elegant bespoke moulding, professionally glazed and backed with pH neutral..... More
Finished.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1917. [Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. With a black and white half-tone frontispiece. Publisher's mid-green cloth with stylistic blue titles to spine and upper. Edges of text block toned, dicreet ink name and date to pastedown, binding rather clean. A very..... More
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The Thirty-Nine Steps [39 Steps].
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. [Espionage thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13), pp.253; [1] blank; [2] publisher's advertisements. Publisher's mid blue cloth, titles in darker blue to spine and upper board. Contents uncommonly clean, binding lightly handled, darkened to spine, faint purple ink mark to upper..... More
The Last Chronicle of Barset. With Thirty-Two Illustrations by George H. Thomas. In Two Volumes.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes bound as 1. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.384; 384. Complete with 32 plates by George H. Thomas. Handsomely bound in tan half calf over marbled sides, twin red and green title labels to spine, raised bands, gilt centre tools..... More
Red Eve.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, No date [1911]. [Strange Tale] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 296; [16], Catalogue. Publisher's gilt-titled red cloth with colour plate illustration laid down to upper. Four colour plate illustrations including frontispiece. A little spotting, some browning to endpapers, covers bright with minor wear. Very..... More
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His Dark Materials [Tenth Anniversary SIGNED set]. Northern Lights [Golden Compass]. The Subtle Knife. The Amber Spyglass.
London: Scholastic Press, 2005. [Children's Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION SET. Three volumes. Octavo (21 x 17cm). Each volume one of 1000 copies signed and numbered by the author. Hardbacks with dust-jackets, housed in matching slipcases. As-new copies, each volume in the original shrink-wrap. Fine. A special edition celebrating the 10th..... More
Absolute Friends.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [Intrigue] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.383; [1]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, purple endpapers, purple dust-wrapper with red and white titles, priced at £18.99. Signed by the author to the title page. A fine/as new copy. A theatrical masterstroke of..... More
Maskerade.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1995. [Fantasy Satire] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.285 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Josh Kirby, priced at £15.99. Black ink gift inscription to flyleaf. Jacket..... More
Where There's a Will.
London: Viking an imprint of Penguin Books, 2003. [Reflections on life] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.x; 182. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, claret endpapers, dust-jacket featuring artwork by Tony Healey with printed price of £17.99. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page..... More
The Quiet American.
London: William Heinemann, 1955. [Modern fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[viii]; 247; [1]. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, with original printed dust-wrapper priced at 13/6. Book is near fine, jacket is very good with a few chips to extremities, lightly toned to spine panel. Greene's classic..... More
The First Men in the Moon.
London: George Newnes, 1901. [Science fiction] FIRST EDITION, third state. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[vii]; 342. Illustrated with twelve monochrome plates, some by Shepperson, some unattributed. Publisher's mid blue cloth with titles in black to spine and upper, white endpapers. The third state of the first edition, preceded by a...... More
Mediterranean Nights.
London: Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) LTD., no date [1943]. [Short stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.208. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine and gilt publisher's monogram to upper, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of 9'- net (including extra war costs). Neat gift inscription dated December 1942 to..... More
The Far Side of The Dollar.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1965. [Detective Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.256; [1], blank. Publisher's red hardback cloth binding in illustrated dust-jacket, priced 16s. One small mark to fore-edge. A near fine copy in a slightly chipped and torn jacket Shows well. Another case for..... More