New Arrivals
A Most Wanted Man.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2008. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17 cm). Publisher's hardback in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £18.99. A fine copy in like jacket. Basis for the acclaimed 2014 movie starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rachel McAdams. More
The Works of H. R. Haggard. Including: King Solomon's Mines, She, Montezuma's Daughter, The Spirit of Bambaste, Cleopatra, Alan Quatermain, The People of the Mist etc.
New York, NY: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, no date [circa 1900]. 20 volumes; octavo. With frontispiece illustrations. Bound in recent dark green half morocco with matching cloth sides, gilt titles on black squares and gilit tooling on red squares to spine. Top edges gilt. Neat ownership inscriptions, to the title..... More
Absolute Friends.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. [Intrigue] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.383; [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, and purple endpapers. With the purple dust-jacket designed by gray318, priced at £18.99. A fine, as-new..... More
The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: Consisting of those Which were formerly Printed; and those which He Design'd for the Press. Publish'd out of the Author's Original Copies. With the Cutter of Coleman-Street.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1707. [Poetic and Dramatic Works] TENTH EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp.[2] lxxxvi; 392; pp.[2] 393-894 [2]. Complete with 28 copper engraved plates, including a frontispiece to each volume, and one folding. Contemporary full speckled and panelled calf, with gilt titles..... More
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. A New and Revised Edition.
London: Edward Moxon, 1846. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND SET, a New Edition. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.xliv; 313 [3]; pp.viii; 349 [3]; pp.xii; 355 [3]; pp.xii; 372 [2]; pp.xii; 388 [2]; pp.xvi; 384 [2]; pp.xvi; 374 [2]. With a portrait engraving of the author as a...... More
A Lost Season.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1944. [Second World War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.60. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain dust-jacket titled in blue. A lovely crisp copy on wartime economy standard paper. Price to jacket flap carefully removed (not clipped), with some..... More
The Last Frontier.
London: Collins, 1959. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.319 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 15s. Some toning to edges. Some bumping to binding, with sunning marks to spine corresponding with jacket losses. Jacket re-priced in blue ink..... More
The Commodore.
London: Michael Joseph, 1945. [Naval adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.271; [1]. Publisher's yellow cloth with silver titles to spine, in striking Barbosa-designed dust-wrapper priced at 9/6. Dusty top edge else book is near fine. Jacket sunned to spine, with a few small nicks and tears, some vintage..... More
Hornblower and The Atropos.
London: Michael Joseph, 1953. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.302; [2]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket by Val Biro, priced at 12/6. Trivial wear to crown, mild toning: a lovely fine copy in jacket. Following the funeral of Admiral Nelson..... More
The White South.
London: Collins, 1949. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles blocked to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 9s 6d. Gilt tarnished, a few old tape marks, chipped to spine ends. Very good. A murder-mystery based in the Antarctic, adapted for the..... More
A Burnt-Out Case.
London: Heinemann, 1961. [Modern Literature] First English Edition. Novel set in the Belgian Congo. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's silver-titled black cloth in original pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 16s. Minor toning and edge wear. A clean, near fine copy in jacket. Greene's previous novel 'Our Man In Havana', had..... More
Monsignor Quixote.
London: The Bodley Head, 1982. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.221; [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge green, purple dust-jacket designed by Michael Harvey, priced at £5.95. Very slightly toned. A near fine copy. Greene's pastiche of the classic Spanish novel 'Don..... More
The Honorary Consul.
London: The Bodley Head, 1973. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.335; [1], blank. Elegantly hand-bound in half mid-green calf over cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, top edge tinted purple. Contents clean, topstain a little sunned, binding as new. A fine copy in an..... More
The Road To Oxiana.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1937. [Travel literature] First Edition. Octavo, pp.341 [2]. publisher's light blue cloth (presumed second binding), with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Age toned to spine. Very good indeed. Byron, who died young in the Second World War, was one of the Brideshead..... More
The Secret Pilgrim.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1991. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.335; [1], Note. Publisher's hardback cloth with navy blue endpapers, dust-wrapper priced at £14.95. A clean, fine copy in like jacket. An espionage novel with George Smiley in a supporting role. More
Biggles in the Underworld.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1968. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.184. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Studio Stead, original printed price of 10/6 (uncommon thus, seemingly most copies are clipped and repriced by the publisher). Binding rubbed to extremities. Jacket..... More
The Big Footprints.
London: Collins, 1977. [African Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.349 [1]. Publsher's tan cloth with silver titles ton spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. A crisp, clean copy, with just a little rubbing and chipping to jacket edges. Near fine. As a troop of elephants embark on..... More
Blue Moon.
London: Bantam Press, 2019. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 404 [6]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with bronze titles to spine, orange endpapers, and all edges cyan. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £20.00. 'Signed by the Author'..... More
Tess of The D'Urbervilles. A Pure Woman. Wessex Edition Volume I.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1927. [Classic Literature] VINTAGE COPY, a later printing of the Wessex Edition. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxiv; 508 [4]. With a photogravure frontispiece and a double-page map of Wessex at rear. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edge untrimmed. A crisp..... More
A Group of Noble Dames. That is to say, The First Countess of Wessex; Barbara of the House of Grebe; The Marchioness of Stonehenge; Lady Mottisfont; The Lady Icenway; Squire Petrick's Lady; Anna, Lady Baxby; The Lady Penelope; The Duchess of Hamptonshire; and The Honourable Laura. The Wessex Novels Volume XV.
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896. [Classic Literature] From the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 271 [1]. With a frontispiece etching by Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex at rear. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and decorative TH monogram stamped in gilt to..... More
Two on a Tower. The Wessex Novels Volume V.
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1895. [Classic Literature] From the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[4] vi; 333 [1]. With a frontispiece etching by Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex at rear. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and decorative TH monogram stamped in gilt to..... More
Far From the Madding Crowd. The Wessex Novels Volume II.
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1895. [Classic Literature] From the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[4] xii; 476 [2]. With a frontispiece etching by Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex at rear. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and decorative TH monogram stamped in gilt to..... More
The Woodlanders. The Wessex Novels Volume VII.
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896. [Classic Literature] From the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[10] 460 [2]. With a frontispiece etching by Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex at rear. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and decorative TH monogram stamped in gilt to upper..... More
Peter Simple.
London: Saunders and Otley, 1834. [Naval Adventure] SECOND EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 309 [3]; pp.[2] viii; 322 [4]; pp.[2] viii; 316 [2]. Original plain pasteboards, re-backed in the mid twentieth century in green quarter cloth with printed paper title labels (possibly original spare..... More
The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poems; Prose-Tales and Literary Papers; Translations; Prose-Notices of Fine Art.
London: Ellis and Elvey, 1888. [Complete Works] FINELY BOUND, an early edition. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xliv; 528 [2]; pp.[2] xl; 521 [3]. A fine slightly later binding of red half crushed morocco by BAYNTUN of Bath, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and..... More