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— P.J. O'Rourke

MacMillan, 1973. FIRST EDITION. 8vo., pp.220. Fine in dustwrapper. A Victorian mystery set in Oxford. The Crime Writer's Association award winning novel. Cooper & Pike; Detective Fiction, p 61-64. More
London: Grant Richards, 1903. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.424; [12], advertisements. Publisher's dark red cloth lettered in gilt to front cover and spine, top edge gilt. Housed in a vintage leather-spined slip-case with paper-backed cloth chemise. Bookplate of Frank J. Hogan, bookseller ticket (Liverpool), typed slip to..... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1990. [Historical Romantic Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (16 x 24cm), pp.[8] 511 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge blue, with the blue ribbon marker. With the dust-jacket illustrated with a painting by Burne-Jones, priced at £13.95 Blue ink ownership to front..... More
London: John Murray, 1842. [Romantic Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[4] viii; 827 [5]. With an engrave frontispiece portrait of the author and a vignette title page, as well as two double-sided facsimile plates showing the author's handwriting at different ages. Very small print over two columns. Contemporary..... More
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
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
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
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
London: George Routledge & Sons, no date [1884]. [Children's Illustrated] EARLY EDITION. Square octavo booklet (21 x 24cm), pp.24. Illustrated by Caldecott to every page, including several colour plates. Publisher's yellow illustrated paper covers, sewn. Rear adverts suggest the first year of publication 1884, but perhaps not the first issue..... More
London: Picador, 2009. [Italian Crime Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6] 280 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and yellow endpapers. With the dust jacket illustrated by Jeff Fisher, priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. The 10th Inspector Montalbano crime mystery, originally published..... More
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
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] xxii; 131 [5]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black photographic dust-jacket, priced at £7.50. A fine, as-new copy. More
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
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
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
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
London: Faber and Faber, 1997. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 328. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Huntley/Muir, priced at £15.99. Very light handling only. A fine copy..... More
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1889. [Letters] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[4] xx; 330 [6]. With eight black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to brown labels, further gilt decoration to spine, and marbled paper over..... More
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by William Randell, not priced. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (23 x 18cm)..... More
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1957. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Randell, priced at 10/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (31 x 25cm)..... More
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1958. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by William Randell, priced at 10/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (29 x...... More
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
London: Published by Hodder and Stoughton Limited, for Boots Pure Drug Co., no date [circa 1932]. [Children's Illustrated] RARE JACKET, the Centenary Edition. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[10] 180 [2]. With 12 colour plates by Hudson, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's red cloth with gilt..... More
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
London: Macmillan and Co., 1872 [1871]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[14] 224 [2]. 'Wade' for 'Wabe' p.21. With fifty wood-engraved illustrations by John Tenniel, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to a black label on the spine, and marbled paper..... More