"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
New Arrivals
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing.
London: Trapeze, 2018. [Youtube-era novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.. Publisher's blue cloth with titles in green to spine, in typographic dust-jacket designed by Kaitlin Kall. Signed by the author to the half-title. Signed by the author sticker to dust-wrapper. Fine. Green, a prominent figure in important..... More
Hannibal.
London: William Heinemann, 1992. [Serial killer novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.486. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Michael Mascaro and illustrated by Craig Descamps. Textblock edge a little toned. Minor edgewear and handling to dust-wrapper. Near Fine. The third novel..... More
It.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1986. [Classic horror] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.912. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Howard J. Shore. Corners and spine ends somewhat bumped with some minor rubbing, and minor edgewear; textblock edge toned. Dust-wrapper shows some..... More
How Do You Like Me Now?
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. [Modern fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15 cm), pp.[6]; 362. Signed by author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's yellow cloth with blue titles to spine, dust-jacket with cover image by Mathilde Cretier and printed price of £12.99. Fine/as New copy. The debut..... More
Coraline.
Bloomsbury, 2012. [Fantasy] 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR. Octavo (21 x 14cm),pp.[xvi];192. Signed by the illustrator in black ink to half-title page. With illustrations by Chris Riddell. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and yellow endpapers, dust-jacket illustrated by Chris Riddell, with printed price £12.99 to flap..... More
All Passion Spent.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1931. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.297 [3]. With a paper advertisement for 'The Works of Virginia Woolf' loose to preliminaries. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Black ink gift inscription to flyleaf. Lightly browned throughout. Spine toned and sunned to..... More
The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1962. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with black title to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Black ink gift inscription to front pastedown. Jacket a little toned to spine, with some chips and..... More
The Nature of Beauty in Art and Literature. The Hogarth Essays, Second Series, vol. VI.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1927. [Aesthetics] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.88 [4]. Publisher's green paper-covered boards with black titles and decoration designed by Vanessa Bell. Some browning to endpapers. Spine heavily browned with some rubbing; head pulled with some loss. Board margins lightly browned. Good... More
The Shockwave Rider.
New York, NY: Harper and Row Publishers, 1975. [Science fiction] AUTHOR'S OWN COPY, FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[10]; 288; [6]. Publisher's yellow quarter cloth over black paper covered boards, titles in black to spine, fore edge deckled, brown endpapers. Striking dust-jacket designed by Luba Litwak with an..... More
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Pyramids. A Discworld Novel. [Pyramids, The Book of Going Forth].
London: Victor Gollancz, 1989. [Fantasy satire] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.272. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Josh Kirby, priced at £11.95. Minor crease to a few early leaves else a fine, bright copy. More
The Complete Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1929. [School stories] FIRST EDITION. The entire Stalky episodes collected in book form for the first time. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.447. Illustrated by L. Raven-Hill. Publisher's gilt decorated red cloth, top edge gilt. Some dustiness, covers a little sunned. A very good, presentable copy. Kipling's..... More
The Irish Witch.
London: Hutchinson, 1973. [Strange tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.446 [2]. Publisher's red and black speckled cloth, gilt titles and black rules to spine, suitably atmospheric dust-jacket designed by Val Biro and priced at £2.50 net, map endpapers. Some bruising and a few closed tears to top edge..... More
Rogue Male.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1971. [Manhunt adventure] A REISSUE, FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 280. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket illustrated by Aldren Watson. Some light ink staining to front endpapers; a little spotting to preliminaries and rear..... More
Drive.
Harpenden: No Exit Press, 2006. [Crime Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.189 [3]. Number 233 of just 500 copies signed in black ink to the flyleaf by the author. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. Photographic endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £12. A...... More
Ice Station Zebra.
London: Collins, 1963. [Espionage thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.255; [1]. Dark green cloth, gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by John Heseltine, priced at 16s. Near fine in a very good wrapper with a few minor nicks, rubs and tears. A bright copy. The Dolphin..... More
The Witness For The Defence.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.312. Publisher's mid blue cloth, titled in black to upper, gilt titled to spine, lacking the rare dust-jacket. Neat bookplate to pastedown, one discreet ink stamp to flyleaf, minor wear to cloth. A clean, bright, near fine copy..... More
Atonement.
London: Jonathan Cape 2001. [Wartime romance-suspense] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.372; [4]. Publisher's black cloth with black endpapers, in illustrated photographic dust-wrapper. Trivial handling; a fine copy in like jacket. The acclaimed short-story writer achieves a contemporary classic of mesmerising narrative conviction.; basis for the Oscar-winning 2007 motion..... More
Judas Unchained.
London: Macmillan, 2005. [Space opera] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.viii; 949. Publisher's maroon cloth with silver titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Jim Burns. Housed in publisher's limited edition slipcase. Signed by the author to the limitation page; this is copy 680 of 1000. Minor..... More
Fire and Blood. A History of the Targaryen Kings from Aegon the Conqueror to Aegon III.
London: HarperVoyager, 2018. [Fantasy worldbuilding] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.719. Illustrated throughout by Doug Wheatley. Publisher's black cloth with titles in gold to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Claire Ward and illustrated by Larry Rostant. Signed by the author to the title page. Fine. As fans..... More
Uncle Dynamite.
London: Herbert Jenkins, no date [1948]. [Classic humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.249 [3]. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket by Frank Ford priced at 8/6. Some spotting to edges, covers rather clean, jacket is used with a few..... More
Glass Houses.
London: Simon and Schuster, 2006. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED TO LADY MOYNIHAN. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 470. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'To Gaynor | on your birthday | much love | and very many happy | returns | from Sandra.' Publisher's green..... More
A Week in December.
London: Hutchinson, 2009. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 392. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'To Angela | with best wishes | Sebastian Faulks | Winchelsea, October 26, | 2009.' Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Deep maroon endpapers..... More
Selected Writings of Truman Capote. With an Introduction by Mark Schorer. Containing Breakfast at Tiffany's, A Tree of Night, etc.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1963. Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[xiv]; 460; [2]. Publisher's grey cloth with green title label lettered in silver, green dust-wrapper priced at 25s. net. A fine copy of the book in a very good jacket, toned to spine and extremities... More
Snowball the Pony.
London: Lutterworth Press, 1953. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.79 [1]. With a colour frontispiece and frequent in-text illustrations by Gillespie. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Gillespie. Blue ink gift inscription to flyleaf; lightly toned. Spine and board..... More
My Family and Other Animals.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis and the Book Society Ltd., 1956. [Corfu Trilogy] FIRST BOOK SOCIETY EDITION, contemporaneous with the first edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.256. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Ralph Thompson, priced at 16s. Top edge light blue. Heavy..... More