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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
Stories of King Arthur and his Knights. Retold From Malory's "Morte De Arthur."
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1906. [Arthurian Legends] FINE PRIZE BINDING, second thus. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[6] xx; 236 [2]. With 16 black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary half vellum, with gilt titles to black morocco label on spine and blue grained cloth over boards..... More
Bracebridge Hall.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1877. [Short Stories and Essays] FIRST CALDECOTT EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xiv; 284 [4]. With 118 illustrations by Randolph Caldecott, mainly in-text, but also including a frontispiece, decorated title page, and several full page plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to..... 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. [Colonial 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
Two Kinds of Truth.
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] 402 [8]. Number 53 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 Only Story.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2018. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 213 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the blue dust-jacket designed by Suzanne Dean, priced at £16.99. 'Signed by..... 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
The Man With The Golden Typewriter. Ian Fleming's James Bond Letters.
London: Bloomsbury, 2015. [Letters] Edited by Fergus Fleming. SIGNED. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.391; [1]. Black hardcovers blocked in gilt, pictorial dust-jacket priced at £25. With black and white photographs. Second impression, autographed by Fergus Fleming in ink to the title page. Signature obtained in person for Adrian Harrington Ltd..... More
Lorien Legacies. I Am Number Four; The Power of Six; The Rise of Nine; The Fall of Five; The Revenge of Seven; The Fate of Ten; United As One.
London: Michael Joseph, 2010 to 2016. [Young Adult Fantasy] COMPLETE FIRST UK EDITIONS, the final volume SIGNED. Octavo (24 x 16 x 23cm), pp.[4] 360; pp.[4] 380; pp.[4] 330 [2]; pp.[4] 342 [6]; pp.[4] 315 [1]; pp.[4] 347 [1]; pp.[4] 348. Final volume SIGNED by the author in black ink..... More
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Hartford, CT: The American Publishing Co., 1876. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, Second printing, issue A (Jacob Blanck, 3369). Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.i-xvi; 17-274; [2]; [4, ads; [4], blank. Handsomely bound in twentieth century full mid-blue oasis morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, gilt decoration, all edges gilt..... More
Cards on the Table.
London: For The Crime Club by Collins, 1950. [Detective fiction] FIRST EDITION, fourth impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.286; [2], advertisements. Publisher's orange cloth, lettered to spine in black, in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 4/6. Some edges spotting, jacket rather bright but chipped to crown and with a 4cm loss..... More
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1975. [Middle English Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.149 [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine; top edge green. With the green typographic dust-jacket, priced at £3.95. With a collection of book review clippings relating to Mallory and the Arthurian legends..... More
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The Magicians of Caprona. [Chrestomanci Series].
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 1980. [Young Adult Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.223 [1]. Publisher's light brown cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Ionicus, priced at £4.95. Slight wear to board and jacket edges. Near fine. The second in the acclaimed Chrestomanci series..... More