"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway
Literature
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
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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Alice I Underlandet. [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland].
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1966. FIRST JANSSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo, pp.112. All text in Swedish. With frequent illustrations by Tove Jansson, some full page, including 11 in colour. In publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original colour-illustrated cream dust-jacket. Green endpapers. Jacket lightly browned; near-fine. The elegant..... 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. Very clean within; one small tear and brown mark to foot of spine. A near fine copy. The elegant, scarce and desirable Swedish translation of 'The Snark', being illustrated by..... 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
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1939. [Classic literature] FINELY BOUND. First Nonesuch Press edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiv; [2]; 1165; [1]. Handsomely bound in recent red half morocco over marbled boards, top edge red. With occasional in-text illustrations. Textblock a little toned, edges a little more so, else a fine..... 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
Alice in Wonderland.
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, no date [circa 1920]. [Children's Illustrated] EARLY ATTWELL-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.148. With 12 colour plates, including a frontispiece, as well as frequent in-text illustrations by Attwell. Recently re-bound with a robust red cloth spine, plain paper title label, and original boards..... 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