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Literature
The Shrine of Death.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1886. [Macabre] LIMITED EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.160. With illustrated majuscules, vignettes and headpieces. Number 75 of just 150 copies in this edition, printed by Unwin Bros., Ludgate Hill. Expertly bound in a suitable sombre full black oasis morocco in the..... More
The Great Spy Race.
London: Michael Joseph, 1968. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.208. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in Richard Chopping-esque pictorial dust-jacket designed by Broom Lynne. Top edge a little dusty, spine a shade toned else a clean, fine copy. Typical 'sixties James Bond cash-in, complete with a...... More
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Enos Leptou Mazi [One Minute's Together].
Athens: Ikaros Publishing, January 1999. [Greek Poetry] THIRD PRINTING. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.66 [6]. All text in Greek. Heavily inscribed with notes in black ink to fly-leaf. Publisher's red soft covers. Light rubbing to covers; near fine. A collection of poetry first published in September 1998. More
Out of Africa.
New York, NY: Random House, 1938. [Africa] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo, pp.[4] x; 389 [5]. Recent green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and green cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; fore-edge untrimmed. Gently toned throughout, as usual. A clean copy in an attractive new binding. Very..... More
A View of Ancient Laws Against Immorality and Profaneness; Under the following Heads; Lewdness; Profane Swearing, Cursing, and Blasphemy; Perjury; Prophanation of Days devoted to Religion; Contempt or Neglect of Divine Service; Drunkenness; Gaming; Idleness; Vagrancy, and Begging; Stage-Plays and Players; and Duelling. Collected from the Jewish, Roman, Greek, Gothic, Lombard, and other Laws, down to the middle of the Eleventh Century.
Cambridge: Printed for Corn. Crownfield, 1729. [Law] FIRST EDITION. Folio (39 x 28cm), pp.[34] 351 [3]. Printed with very generous margins, and the original Latin or Greek of the Laws discussed on the right-hand side of the commentary. Recently re-bound in brown speckled half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles..... More
Austin Dobson: An Anthology of Prose & Verse.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1922. [Miscellany] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] xxii; 174 [6]. With a half-tone photographic portrait of the author, and a facsimile reproduction of his bookplate. Contemporary blue half morocco by RAMAGE of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to..... More
A Paladin of Philanthropy
London, 1899. Octavo.With a map of London and a frontispiece illustration. Fine late-Victorian binding by Bumpus in full green calf, gilt panels to spine, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles. Bumped to upper corner else fine. A particularly nice binding- most attractive. More
Mail Train.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1946. [Detective fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.240. Publisher's red cloth, titles in white to spine and upper, dust-jacket with printed price of 8/6 net. handwritten date and some tape to flyleaf, spotting to edges. Cloth with some faded areas. Wrapper edgeworn with..... More
P.G. Wodehouse: A Biography.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982. [Literary Biography] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.xviii; 399 [7]. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. With a 'Proof Copy' statement pasted to half-title stating probable price and publication date. Publisher's completely blank white soft covers, titled by hand..... More
The Ginger Man. With an Introduction by Arland Ussher.
Paris, The Olympia Press, 1955. FIRST EDITION. The Traveller's Companion Series, n° 7. Pp.353; [1], blank; [1], advertisement; [1], blank; [1], imprint; [1], blank. Publisher's green paper binding. Trivial wear and toning, neat Belgian bookshop stamp to flyleaf. A lovely fine copy of this important book. The Irish American playwright's..... More
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Romances from a Detective's Casebook [in] The Strand Magazine. 'The Jewelled Skull'; 'The Story of the Great Cat's-Eye'; 'The Secrets of the Black Brotherhood'; and 'The Chamber of Shadows'
London: George Newnes, July 1892 - November 1892. [Literary Magazine]. FIRST APPEARANCES. Four magazines in their original paper covers. Large Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 112; xvii-xx; pp.xvi; 113-220; xvii-xx; pp.xvi; 221-328; xvii-xx; pp.xvi; 441-548 ; xvii-xxiv. Not including the October issue, which did not contain a Detective's Casebook story..... More
The Friend of the Family, or, Stepantchikovo and its Inhabitants, and another story. The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky Volume XII.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. [Russian Literature] FIRST GARNETT EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 361 [3]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a gilt device to upper. Spotting and toning to edges and endpapers. Browning throughout; quite heavily to margins. Spine sunned with a few..... More
An Honest Thief and Other Stories. The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky Volume XI.
London: William Heinemann, 1919. [Russian Literature] FIRST GARNETT EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 325 [3]. With the front cover of the jacket neatly trimmed and inserted loose to preliminaries. Publisher's red cloth with black titles and decoration to spine. Extremely heavy browning throughout to low quality paper. Spine sunned..... More
The House of the Dead. A Novel in Two Parts.
London: William Heinemann, 1915. [Russian Literature] FIRST GARNETT EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 284. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Blind device to upper. Toning and spotting to edges. Some occasional spotting throughout. Spine sunned and toned; gilt oxidised to a grey / brown colour..... More
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The Possessed. A Novel in Three Parts [Demons; Devils]. The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky Volume III.
London: William Heinemann, 1913. [Russian Literature] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 637 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a blind device to upper. Small blue bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. A black ink ownership, and a blue ink Convent school..... More
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes
New York: Doubleday 1979. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.214. Publisher's hardcover in original dust-wrapper. No inscriptions or price-clipping. A near fine copy (jacket slightly rubbed). More
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes.
London: John Murray, 1954. [Detective fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.x; 313. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dustjacket. No inscriptions or price-clipping. Jacket with a few chips and tears. A very good copy. A new series of cases for the consulting detective, including..... More
Adventures of Gerard.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1904. [Historical Fiction] COPYRIGHT EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 12cm), pp.279; [33]. Publisher's printed paper wraps. Latest date January 1904, given on the first page of advertisements at rear. An extremely clean, crisp copy. Fine. More
The Crowborough Edition of the Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Include the Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger stories, as well as Brigadier Gerard adventures and more.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1930. [Literature] The Crowborough Edition, Limited to 760 sets of which this is number 214, SIGNED by the Author in the first volume. 24 volumes. Publisher's brown paper covered boards with the author's facsimile signature in gilt to uppers; oatmeal-coloured buckram spines..... More
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The King of the Foxes [and] The Destroyers [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume VIII.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1898. [Literary Magazine]. FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.vi; 3-716. With numerous in-text lithographic illustrations. In publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine and upper board. Brown floral endpapers. With a PSA Book Fund bookplate to front pastedown. Some gatherings a little loose;..... More
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Contribute [to THE STRAND MAGAZINE]; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Volumes I to VI.
London: George Newnes, 1891-1893. Large octavo, with illustrations. 6 volumes. Original magazine parts bound in half-yearly volumes of tan half calf, gilt, with marbled sides and brown morocco title labels, edges speckled red. Some light occasional thumbing and marking within; externally fine. An attractive copy in a robust recent leather..... More
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The Valley Of Fear - A New Sherlock Holmes Story [in] The Strand Magazine. Vols. 48-49.
London: George Newnes, July 1914 - June 1915. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE of the fourth full-length Holmes adventure in its entirety. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 17cm). Complete in nine monthly parts, running September through May. The first issue features a colour portrait of Holmes and a full page colour..... More
By Way of Introduction.
London: Methuen and Co. 1929. [Sherlockiana] FIRST EDITION, First Issue. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii, 208; [8]. In publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, lower edges untrimmed, printed dust-wrapper priced at 6s. Contents clean, jacket toned to spine, lightly rubbed at joints. Very good indeed..... More
Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack The Ripper.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1966. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.157; [3], blank. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, in an unmistakably restrained yellow Gollancz dust-jacket priced at 18s. Fine in near fine jacket. How Holmes might have solved the infamous Whitehall murders. More
The Unique Hamlet: A Hitherto Unchronicled Adventure of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
Chicago, IL: Privately Printed for the Friends of Walter M. Hill, Christmas 1920. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Slim octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.39; [1], blank. Bound in publisher's mustard-coloured textured paper over boards with printed title label to spine, Japanese vellum endpapers, edges uncut, original off-white tissue jacket. Internally fine..... More