"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
— Abraham Lincoln
Literature
Lionel Lincoln. Or, The Leaguer of Boston.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832. [Classic Literature] EX LIBRIS WILLIAM GLADSTONE. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.viii; 408; [2], blank. FIRST ILLUSTRATED, One Volume Edition. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary brown half calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Marbled boards, edges and endpapers..... More
The Leather - Stocking Tales. Comprising: The Last of the Mohicans, The Pioneers, The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder, and The Prairie. With Illustrations by H.M. Brock and an Introduction by Mowbray Morris.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1900-1901. [Literature] ALL FIRST BROCK-ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. 5 volumes, octavo (19 x 13 x 19cm). Abundantly illustrated with line drawing black and white full page plates. Finely bound in mid-green half calf with raised bands, gilt decoration, twin red title labels to spines; cloth boards; top edges..... More
The Prairie. A Tale.
London: Frederick Warne 1888. Issued as part of 'Warne's Crown Library'. Octavo, pp.358. Bound in the publisher's original decorative brown cloth, blocked in black and gilt, with yellow coated endpapers. A fine, crisp copy. More
The Road To Wellville.
New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1993. [Modern Literature] FIRST TRADE EDITION, SIGNED, Octavo (24 x 16cm). Illustrated with double-page photographs at the start of each section. Publisher's chocolate-brown paper-covered boards, black linen spine lettered, bottle-green endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket by Tom Nikosey. Author's signature to half- title. A clean, fine copy..... More
Lionboy: The Chase.
London: Puffin, 2004. [Children's Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 320; [6]. With occasional illustrated maps and diagrams by Fred van Deelen. SIGNED by the author/s in black ink to the title page. Publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine. Orange endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... More
Collected Poems.
London: The Cresset Press, 1954. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS NAOMI MITCHISON. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.117 [3]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Illustrated bookplate of Naomi Mitchison to fly-leaf. Spine toned and gilt dulled. Jacket heavily toned to..... More
Fools and Mortals.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017. [Historical Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 369 [5]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and patterned endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Holly Macdonald, priced at £20.00. 'Signed by the Author'..... More
Gallows Thief.
London: Harper Collins, 2001. [Historical Fiction/Crime novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[vi]; 281; [1], blank. With a nineteenth century coloured map of London as endpapers. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. With signature of the author in black ink to the title-page. Signature..... More
Sharpe's Escape. Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign, 1810.
London: Harper Collins, 2004. [Historical fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Royal octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[x]; 351; [7], blank. Signed by the author in blue ink to the title-page. Publisher's dark grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, blue endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket. Signature obtained in person upon release. An as-new/unread copy..... More
Sharpe's Fury.
London: Harper Collins, 2006. [Historical Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 407; [3]. Publisher's cloth, pale blue endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper. Signed by the author to the title page. Autograph obtained in person upon release. An as new/unread copy, carefully warehoused by ourselves since publication. Another episode in..... More
Sharpe's Havoc. Richard Sharpe and the Campaign in Northern Portugal, Spring 1809
London: Harper Collins, 2003. [Historical fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xiv]; 380; [6], blank. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket depicting showing The Battle of Fuentes d'Onoro, 1811, priced at £17.99. An as-new/unread copy, warehoused by ourselves since publication. Sharpe's Havoc is set during..... More
Sharpe's Honour.
London: Collins, 1985. First Edition. Octavo, pp.320. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust wrapper designed by Ian Robertson, showing a broken telescope and a citadel on an opposing hill. Internally clean, with nominal tanning. A fine copy. A devious French general attempts to turn the tide..... More
Sharpe's Prey. Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 261 [3]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by David Scutt, priced at £16.99. A fine copy. Sharpe dabbles in espionage when he is sent to guard a...... More
Sharpe's Prey. Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001. [Historical Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 261 [3]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by David Scutt, priced at £16.99. A fine, as-new..... More
Sharpe's Trafalgar. Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2000. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[viii]; 277; [3], blank. With battle plan, illustrated endpapers. Publisher's hardcover in dust-wrapper. An as new/unread copy, warehoused by ourselves since publication. Ensign Richard Sharpe is returning by sea from the British campaign in India (as covered in Tiger..... More
Sharpe's Trafalgar. Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2000. [Historical Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 277 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. With battle plan and illustrated endpapers. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by David Scutt, priced at £16.99..... More
Vagabond. The Grail Quest.
London: Harper Collins, 2002. [Historical Fiction]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xii]; 371; [1], blank. With map, vignette illustrations and pictorial endpapers. Publisher's hardcover in dust-wrapper. Signed by the author to title-page. Signed upon release and carefully warehoused by ourselves since publication. An as new/unread copy. A young..... More
Runaway Robot.
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2019. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 272 [10]. SIGNED by the author in black ink, with robot sketch, to preliminary leaf. With frequent in-text illustrations by Lenton. Publisher's yellow cloth with black titles to spine and black illustration to upper, and..... More
Madame de Sable. Etudes sur les femmes illustres et la societe du XVIIe siecle.
Paris: Didier, 1854. Signed presentation copy. Octavo. Bound in half brown calf over marbled paper, with raised bands highlighted with gilt, and brown and gilt label to spine. Signed by the author, and presented to Viscount Mahon, later Earl Stanhope, MP, prominent historian and biographer.Binding is rubbed, both leather and..... More
The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: Consisting of those Which were formerly Printed; and those which He Design'd for the Press. Publish'd out of the Author's Original Copies. With the Cutter of Coleman-Street.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1707. [Poetic and Dramatic Works] TENTH EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp.[2] lxxxvi; 392; pp.[2] 393-894 [2]. Complete with 28 copper engraved plates, including a frontispiece to each volume, and one folding. Contemporary full speckled and panelled calf, with gilt titles..... More
Poems: by William Cowper.
London: W. Kent & Co., 1859. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a later edition thus. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vii-lxxii; 274 [2]; pp.viii; 336 [2]. With 75 in-text engravings after Gilbert. Contemporary brown full morocco for Hatchard's, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and panelled decoration..... More
The Poetical Works of William Cowper.
Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1854. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxx; 416 [2]; pp.[2] xxviii; 428 [2]. Reasonably-sized print on good paper. Very fine contemporary green full morocco by J. WRIGHT, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and very fine..... More
The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence.
London: William Tegg and Co., 1849. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xx; 736; [2]. With six steel engraved plates by various artists including a frontispiece, as well as an engraved vignette title page. Contemporary full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and extensive gilt decoration..... More
Poems by William Cowper, Of the Inner Temple, Esq.
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1787. [Poetry] THIRD EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 367 [1]; pp.[8] 359 [1]. Contemporary full tan calf, recently rebacked with the original spines laid over. Gilt titles to red labels on spines. Armorial bookplate of Michael Pepper to front pastedown of each..... More
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Mad Morgan's Murder Sanctum [and] Danger! Dead Men! Detour! [in] Detective Story Magazine. Vol. IX, No. 5.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., May 1954. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 9d. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories is made only more appealing by its..... More