"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway
Literature
Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.
Newport, RI: John Brown, 1870. [Poetry] Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.240. A facsimilie of the 1786 Kilmarnock edition. PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION COPY Handsomely bound by Bayntun-Riviere for Lauriat in tan half calf over buckram sides, gilt to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Contents toned, some thumbmarks, neat repair to corner..... More
The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited with A Memoir by George A. Aitken.
London, Covent Garden: George Bell and Sons, 1893. [Verse]. FINELY BOUND. 3 volumes; small octavo (17 x 11 x 8cm). Engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume. Elegantly bound by Morrell for bookseller Charles Lauriat in half mid blue morocco, spine gilt-titled in six compartments with raised bands, gilt rules and..... More
The Naked Lunch.
London: John Calder in association with Olympia Press, 1964. [Modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 251; [1]. Publisher's cream cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket, priced at 42s. Slight reading lean. Mark to rear board, spine ends a little pushed. Dust-jacket creased to top edge..... More
Death Leaves No Card.
London and Bombay: Collins, The Crime Club 1943. Octavo, pp.150. First published in 1939, this is the Colonial edition reprinted in India in 1943. Hardcovers of any vintage are evidently scarce. Publisher's red clothwith titles in black to spine, without dust-wrapper. Ownership to pastedown, some general dustiness and general wear..... More
Four-Ply Yarn.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1944. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth, titles in black to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Internally fine. Cloth clean and bright, spine ends a little pushed. Price clipped dust-jacket shows very well, slightly bruised to top and tail of..... More
A Coffin for Pandora.
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
Hudibras, in Three Parts. Written In the time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended. With large annotations and preface by Zachary Grey.
London: Printed for C. Bathurst et al. 1772. Third Edition. 2 Vols. Octavo. Bound in brown calf, with red title label and black volume label and extra gilt to spine; front edge of board gilt. Illustrated with copper plates by Hogarth. Binding is rubbed, corners worn, joints starting, spines cracked..... More
William Blake, Mystic: A Study. Together with Young's Night Thoughts: Nights I and II with illustrations by William Blake and frontispiece Death's Door, from Blair's 'The Grave.'
Liverpool: The Liverpool Booksellers Co., 1911. [Biography] LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.[6] 14 [5]; [2] 42. The first part printed and paginated to recto of each leaf only. Number 190 of 250 copies of the first edition, hand-numbered to verso of fly-leaf. With a copper engraved frontispiece..... More
Poetry of Byron.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. [Poetry Selection] FINELY BOUND, third impression thus. Octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.xxxvi; 276. With a vignette title page. Contemporary green full calf by BUMPUS of London, with titles and decoration to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Spotting to preliminaries. Light rubbing to binding; spine..... More
Hebrew Melodies.
London: John Murray, 1815. [Romantic Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6] 53 [1]. Recently re-backed in tan calf with raised bands and gilt titles to black label; incorporating contemporary tan calf boards by W. Nutt, marbled endpapers and edges. Bound without the advertisement and without the half title..... More
The Poetical works of Lord Byron. Collected and Arranged with Notes. New and Complete Edition.
London: John Murray, 1876. [Romantic Poetry] FINELY BOUND EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xii; 827; [3]. With 12 engravings by various artists, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary dark green full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration. All edge gilt; marbled..... 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 Island of Sheep.
New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1920. First US Edition. 8vo. Publisher's lavishly decorated paper covered boards with yellow linen spine, a near fine copy with minor bumping and edgewear. In a very good priceclipped example of the scarce dustwrapper, darkened to spine panel worn to hinges with a triangle of loss..... 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 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
Jonathan Cape's 'Now and Then' magazine (x7); Winter 1950, Spring 1951, Summer 1952, Autumn 1954, Autumn 1955, Summer 1956, Summer 1957.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950-1957. [Book Reviews] ORIGINAL MAGAZINES. Octavo (25 x 17cm). Illustrated throughout. Stapled, in typographic softcovers. Original price sixpence. Very good throughout. These magazines include book reviews by/of authors including; Evelyn Waugh, Fitzroy Maclean, C. Day Lewis, T.H. White, Norman Lewis, Alan Paton, T.E. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway and..... More
The First Rescue Party.
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1939. [Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.277; [1] imprint; [2] publisher's advertisement. Publisher's orange cloth titled and decorated in black, top edge orange, dust-jacket designed by Fuzzy Ludwig and priced at 7s. 6d. net. Some offset toning to endpapers, else internally..... 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. [True crime] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[12]; 343; [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and silver decoration, red endpapers, top edge tinted black, in the original dust-jacket, designed by S. Neil Fujita, priced $5.95 with correct date code (1/66) and five-line..... 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
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