" It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. "
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Treasure Island.
London: Ernest Benn, 1927. [Illustrated classic] FIRST DULAC EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.xiv; 15-256. Contains 12, full page, colour illustrations by Dulac, including frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth variant (a brown buckram binding was also produced), with titles and trim in black. A 4cm tear to pp.111 / 112. Minor..... More
Sharpe's Escape. Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign, 1810.
London: Harper Collins, 2004. [Historical fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Royal octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[x]; 351; [7], blank. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, blue endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket. Signed by the author in blue ink to the title-page. Some marking to board edges else fine. Another instalment in..... More
The Crime Wave at Blandings.
New York, NY: The Book League of America, 1937. [Humour] NO UK EQUIVALENT. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 330. Publisher's mint-green cloth, titled and decorated in dark green to spine and upper board, pictorial dust-jacket priced at $2.00. Owner name to flyleaf, edges dusty, jacket rubbed with some nicks and..... More
Jonathan Cape's 'Now and Then' magazine (x7); Winter 1950, Spring 1951, Summer 1952, Autumn 1954, Autumn 1955, Summer 1956, Summer 1957.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950-1957. [Book Reviews] ORIGINAL MAGAZINES. Octavo (25 x 17cm). Illustrated throughout. Stapled, in typographic softcovers. Original price sixpence. Very good throughout. These magazines include book reviews by/of authors including; Evelyn Waugh, Fitzroy Maclean, C. Day Lewis, T.H. White, Norman Lewis, Alan Paton, T.E. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway and..... More
Jonathan Cape Book Lists (x6); Autumn/Winter 1976-7, Spring/Summer 1977, Spring/Summer 1980, Autumn/Winter 1981-2, Spring/Summer 1984, Spring/Summer 1985.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1976-1985. Six booklists from the publisher. Stapled pamphlets in illustrated softcovers. Near fine throughout. These trade lists were intended for bookshops and advertise books from Cape authors including; Kingsley Amis, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, John Fowles, John Gardner, J. G. Ballard, Doris Lessing, Maureen Duffy, Quentin Blake..... More
contibutes to...'THE STRAND MAGAZINE'. No.159, ORIGINAL ISSUE IN WRAPPERS. 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes- The Adventure of The Empty House'.
George Newnes Ltd., London, March 1904. This issue contains the FIRST APPEARANCE of 'The Adventure of The Empty House' by Doyle, illustrated by Sidney Paget, later published as the first story in 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes'. Several of the illustrations are exclusive to the serial parts. Also contains a...... More
Jeeves and The Feudal Spirit.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1954. [Classic humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.222; [2]. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black, upper panel of pictorial dust-jacket laid down to front cover. A few spots to edges else a clean copy. More
Pigs Have Wings.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1952. [Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION, fourth printing. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.220; [2], advertisements; [2], blank. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black, upper panel of pictorial dust-jacket by 'Sax' laid down to front cover. Moderately used with some spotting to first gatherings. Very good. McIlvaine A85b..... More
The End of the Affair.
London: William Heinemann, 1951. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 237 [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the white and grey dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Endpapers browned; some sunning to head and tail of spine. Jacket browned to spine, with losses to head..... More
Uncle Fred in the Springtime.
New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1939. [Classic Humour] EARLY EDITION, not in McIlvaine. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8] 292 [4]. Publisher's green cloth with burgundy titles to spine. Top edge green; others untrimmed. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Peggy Bacon, priced at $2. Browning to edges and endpapers..... More
Something New.
New York, NY: A.L. Burt Company, no date [1931]. [Classic Humour] BURT EDITION, reissued from plates of the third edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 347 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, with red scarab devices. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Arthur Hawkins, no..... More
America, I like you.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1956. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8] 212 [4]. With occasional vignette illustrations by Marc Simont. Publisher's cream cloth with red titles to spine. Blue paper over board, with titles in red and blue. Top edge red, others untrimmed. With the cream..... More
Wodehouse on Golf.
New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1940. [Golf Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.844 [4]. Publisher's green cloth with darker green titles to spine and green decoration to upper board. Top edge green, others untrimmed. With the green dust-jacket illustrated by Roese. Spine cloth toned with some..... More
The Mating Season.
New York, NY: Didier, 1949. [Jeeves and Wooster] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[14] 287 [3]. With a frontispiece and numerous in-text illustrations by Hal McIntosh. Publisher's red cloth with white titles to spine and author name to upper board. With the red dust-jacket also illustrated by McIntosh..... More
Nothing Serious.
New York, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1951. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.222 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Fore-edge untrimmed. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Lightly browned. Light spotting to price-clipped jacket; toned and chipped to spine. Very good. Ten short stories, including..... More
The Odyssey of Homer. To which is added The Battle of the Frogs and Mice.
London: Printed for J. Walker [et al.], 1811. [Classics] FINELY BOUND. Duodecimo (13 x 7cm), pp.[6] 426 [2]. With an etched frontispiece and decorated title page after Thomas Uwins, by Anthony Cardon. Contemporary brown diced full calf, with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Marbled endpapers. Small contemporary booksellers' label..... More
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[The Quest For Karla trilogy] Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, together with; The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982. [Thriller] FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION, with three titles in one. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[4]; 952. Publisher's quarter black cloth hardcovers lettered in silver, fore-edge untrimmed, typographic metallic-effect dust-wrapper. Clipped and repriced by the publisher to £17.99. A clean, near fine copy. A thrilling elegy for..... More
Casino Royale.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.218; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with red titles and 'heart' design to upper, tail edge untrimmed, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 10/6. Small mark to top edge else a near fine copy of..... More
The Hound of Death. And Other Stories.
London: Odhams Press Limited, 1933. [Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.247; [5], blank. Publisher's plum-coloured cloth with titles in gilt to spine, in suitable macabre wrapper. Some edge spotting, fugitive pigment of cloth with inevitable sunning to extremities, gilt dulled, jacket with a couple of small chips..... More
In the Teeth of Evidence. And Other Stories.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1939. [Short stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.286. Publisher's black cloth lettered in red to spine, dust-jacket priced at 7/6 net to spine. Textblock clean and bright internally, toned and a little spotted to edges, cloth shows very well. Wrapper toned as often found..... More
The Underground Man.
London: The Crime Club Collins, 1971. [Detective Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's red hardback cloth binding in illustrated dust-jacket, priced £1.50. A near fine copy in slightly rubbed jacket. Another case for the Los Angeles Private Investigator Lew Archer, created by Ross MacDonald-..... More
The House by the Canal. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Limited, 1952. [Crime Fiction] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.266; [2], blank. Publisher's yellow cloth in pictorial dust-jacket priced at 9/6. A rather used copy showing general handling, soiling, single ink name, jacket with some loss to spine ends. The Kegan Paul published..... More
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The Red Carnation [in] Pearson's Magazine. Number 30 volume 5.
London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., June 1898. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo magazine (25 x 17cm), pp.[24] 572-682 [8]. Publisher's yellow illustrated paper covers, priced at 6d. Advertisement leaves browned. A few small tears to covers. Joints lightly rubbed; spotting to edges. Very good. The first appearance of a short..... More
Green for Danger.
London: John Lane the Bodley Head. 1945. First UK Edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. 224. In publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine. With original dust jacket in green featuring an operating theatre illustration with white and black titles. 'Joubert' written in browned ink to top edge; also..... More
The Thinking Machine.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. 1907. First American edition in book form. Octavo (), pp.[10] 342. With four black and white plates illustrated by the Kinneys, including a frontispiece. Publisher's black cloth titled and blocked in red. Internally fine, but for soft vertical crease to p.213. Minor handling, discreet..... More