"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. "
— Oscar Wilde
Literature
The Poems and Dramas of Lord Byron. With Biographical Memoir, Explanatory Notes, etc.
New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Poetical Works] VINTAGE COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 855 [3]. With a half-tone frontispiece portrait of the author. Rebound in 1929 in brown full morocco with gilt titles to spine and brown endpapers. All edges gilt. Black..... More
The Works of Lord Byron. With His Letters and Journals, and his Life, by Thomas Moore.
London: John Murray, 1835. [Verse] FINELY BOUND. 18 volumes, being the poetry complete in 17 volumes, with Galt's Life of Byron (First Edition) as the 18th volume. Octavo (17 x 11 x 45cm). Engraved frontispiece and engraved title page to every volume. Finely bound by Kaufmann for booksellers Estes and..... 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
Galatea.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 242; [6]. Publisher's grey cloth with purple titles to spine and upper board. Top edge yellow; fore edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., priced at $3.00. Internally fine. Small mark..... More
The Daughters of Danaus.
London: Bliss, Sands and Foster, 1894. [Feminist Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.491; [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. All edges untrimmed. Browning and very light spotting to edges and preliminaries. Neat later ownership to title page, blind bookseller's stamp to rear..... More
Rough Husbandry.
London: Hutchinson, 1965. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.142; [2]. With a double page title illustration, occasional in-text illustrations and dust-jacket design by Blake. In publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine and red illustration to upper board. With original bright red pictorial dust-jacket. Slight reading lean. Jacket price-clipped, with very..... More
The Gum Trees. The Ariel Poems No. 30.
London: Faber & Faber, no date [1930]. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.[4]. With an illustration by David Jones printed in colour to preliminaries. Publisher's red paper covers, sewn. Light handling, with a couple of marks to front cover. Near fine. More
The Curious Adventures of a Field Cricket.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1881. [Children's Illustrated] SECOND UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.viii; 272. With frequent engravings by Renard. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles, and gilt and black decoration to spine and upper. Grey patterned endpapers; all edges gilt. Black ink ownership to flyleaf..... 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
Breakfast at Tiffany's.
New York, NY: Random House, 1958. [Romance novella] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[viii]; 179; [5] blank. Publisher's yellow cloth with gilt titles against a black panel, top edge blue, dust-jacket designed by Ismar David, with correct date code 10/58 (publication was 28th October 1958) and showing the second state printed price..... More
In Cold Blood. A True Account Of A Multiple Murder And Its Consequences.
New York, NY: Random House, 1965 [1966]. [True Crime Novel] FIRST EDITION together with an ADVANCE REVIEW COPY. Two volumes. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[12] 343 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and silver decoration, brown endpapers, top edge tinted black, and fore-edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by..... More
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder And Its Consequences.
New York, NY: Random House, 1965. [True crime] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo, pp.[12]; 343; [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and silver decoration, red endpapers, top edge green, in the first issue dust-jacket, designed by S. Neil Fujita, with correct date code (1/66) and $5.95 price..... More
The Boy on the Bridge.
London: Orbit, 2017. [Zombie Apocalypse] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 392 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver title to spine, and yellow endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Duncan Spilling, priced at £16.99. 'Signed by the Author'..... More
His Illegal Self.
London: Faber and Faber, 2008. [Modern fiction] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 272; [10]. Publisher's grey paper covered boards, titles in black to spine, photographic dust-jacket with printed price of £16.99, dark green endpapers. Signed by the author to the title page. With a Hatchards bookmark..... More
Reminiscences of an Ex-Detective.
London: Hutchinson and Co., no date [1927]. [Detection] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.256. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Rebacked in matching black cloth, with the original spine laid over. A very distinct red offset mark..... More
A Screw Loose: My story so far.
London: B and T Publishers, 1977. Signed First Edition. Octavo. Bound in wine cloth with gilt titles to spine. Red dust wrapper bears titles in red and white to spine and front and rear covers. The binding is tight. The text is clean, and shows no signs of spotting. The..... More
Murder on the Matterhorn.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951. [Alpine detective mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.238; [2], blank. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black to the spine, photographic dust-wrapper. A lightly used copy, jacket would be very good, but for a loss at the foot of the spine affecting imprint, nicked and..... More
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Snarkjakten [The Hunting of the Snark]. Illustrated by Tove Jansson.
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1959. FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.56. Publisher's illustrated wraps. Pictured throughout by Tove Jansson. A fine copy. The elegant, scarce and desirable Swedish translation of 'The Snark', being illustrated by the much-loved and award-winning creator of the Moomins. More
Alice in Wonderland.
London: John F. Shaw and Co., no date [circa 1933]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST SEXTON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.192. With eight chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece, 23 full page wood engravings, and numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards. With the matching colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Some spotting to preliminaries..... More
Rhyme? and Reason?
London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. [Children's Illustrated] SECOND EDITION, the fourth-thousand. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xii; 214 [6]. With sixty-five wood engraved illustrations by Frost and Holiday including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt illustration to upper board. All edges gilt; black coated..... More
See How They Run. Embassy Row 2.
London: Orchard, 2016. [Young Adult Novel] SIGNED FIRST UK PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.334 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's soft covers, priced at £6.99. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front cover. A fine, as-new copy. Second in the 'Embassy Row'..... More
Take the Key & Lock Her Up. Embassy Row 3.
London: Orchard, 2017. [Young Adult Novel] SIGNED FIRST UK PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.335 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's soft covers, priced at £6.99. A fine, as-new copy. Third in the 'Embassy Row' series, beginning with 'All Fall Down' (2015)... More
Victorian Fiction. An Exhibition of Original Editions at 7 Abermarle Street, London, Janurary to February 1947.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xiii, 50. With 16 b/w photographic plates detailing some of the highlights of the exhibition. With Foreword and Introduction by Carter and Sadleir. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pink pictorial dust jacket. Chipping and closed tears..... More
Blood Junction.
London, Orion. 2001. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. SIGNED by the author. Fine in like dustwrapper. As New. The hardback print run was limited to 1000 copies. Winner of the CWA New Writer's award. Author's debut novel. When journalist India Kane travels from Sydney to the outback town of Cooinda for..... More