Literature
Robin Hood.
Philadelphia, PA: David McKay, Publisher, 1917. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST WYETH EDITION. Large Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.362. With eight colour plates and a colour-illustrated title page, all by N.C. Wyeth. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, as well as a handsome coloured plate also to..... More
The Great Train Robbery.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. [Locomotive thievery] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.255, [1]. Publisher's mid brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Leigh Taylor. Signed by the author to the title page. Internally fine. Bright dust-wrapper, not faded or clipped, with just some light..... More
The Great Train Robbery.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. [Locomotive thievery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's mid brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Leigh Taylor, not priced. A crisp, clean copy, showing just a hint of sunning to jacket spine and a touch..... More
William's Television Show.
Sydney: Dymock's Book Arcade, 1958. [Children's Short Stories] FIRST AUSTRALIAN EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.248. With occasional in-text illustrations by Henry, as well as a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. Extremely heavily browned throughout to low quality paper. Small..... More
William—In Trouble.
London: George Newnes, no date [1927]. [Children's Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.261. With occasional in-text drawings and a frontispiece by Henry. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Black ink gift inscription to flyleaf. Light toning and very minor spotting to edges and..... More
Mist, and Other Ghost Stories. Edited with an Introduction by Richard Dalby.
Dorset: Sundial Supernatural, 2015. [Ghost stories] LIMITED EDITION COPY, only 265 published. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.x; 182. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £17.50 to front flap. Black endpapers. Fine, as-new. The first reprinted edition of this incredibly rare 1928 series, its..... More
The Passage Trilogy: The Passage; The Twelve; The City of Mirrors.
London: Orion Books, 2010; 2012; 2016. [Vampire / Zombie Horror] SIGNED COMPLETE FIRST UK EDITIONS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 766 [10]; pp.[2] xvi; 568 [8]; pp.xviii; 600 [8]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to the title page of volume I, and subsequently to a Goldsboro Books 'Limited..... More
The Passage.
London: Orion Books, 2010. [Vampire / Zombie Horror] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 766 [10]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to 'Limited Signed First Edition' leaf tipped in ahead of the title page. Publisher's dark grey cloth with silver titles to spine and black..... More
Harris of Japan. The Story of Townsend Harris and his Amazing Adventures in Establishing Relations with the Far East.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1939. [Asian History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2]; 310; [2]. Publisher's red cloth with green titles to spine, blind ruling to front and rear boards, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price 12s 6d to flap. Frontispiece of Townsend Harris. Illustration plates in black and white throughout..... More
A Nice Place to Die.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1965. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. With a bookplate detailing provenance loose to preliminaries. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink, white and green dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Light offsetting..... More
A Spliced Yarn. Some Strands From the Life Cable of Bill Bullen.
London: Gibbings and Company, 1899. [Maritime fiction] ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 300. With five tissue-guarded halftone plates, including a frontispiece, illustrated by Frank Brangwyn. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Red pictorial decoration to upper and spine. Top edge gilt. Toning to margins, foxing..... More
Tales of My Native Town.
London: Eveleigh Nash Company, 1920. [Italian Short Stories] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256 [16]. Publisher's brown cloth, with fully-oxidised gilt titles to spine. Internally crisp and clean, with some off-setting to endpapers and quite heavy toning and spotting to edges. Some sunning to board fore-edges, and..... More
Les Dieux Rouges. Roman.
Paris: La Renaissance du Livre, n.d. [1924]. [French literature] FIRST EDITION, BOUND BY LEVITZKY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.356. Fine contemporary red half morocco, gilt-ruled, with decorative paper over bevelled boards. Spine in five compartments, brown labels titled in gilt with onlays and gilt tooling. Decorative matching endpapers. Original yellow..... More
Bad Blood.
London: Harvill Secker, 2013. [Swedish Crime Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[4] 342 [6]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, dated Stirling, 14.09.2013. Publisher's red paper over boards, with black titles to spine and black endpapers. Publisher's photographic dust-jacket, priced at..... More
Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1994. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 20), pp. 61. Illustrative card wrapped over boards with Quentin Blake illustrations. Photographs throughout depicting the food, Blake illustrations throughout both small in text illustrations and full page illustrations. Some scuffing to boards. Near fine. Felicity Dahl married Roald..... More
Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1973. [Childrens classic] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.150; [2], endmatter. Publisher's laminated pictorial card covers. Detailed illustrations throughout by Faith Jaques, including covers. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Minor wear, some rubbing to spine tips, laminate is decent with one small bubble to..... More
The Magic Finger.
London: Viking, 1995. [Children's Adventure] FIRST BLAKE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.64. With frequent in-text illustrations by Blake; large print. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. Moderate toning to paper, as usual, jacket with a few small nicks, spine gently..... More
Two Fables.
Harmondsworth: Viking, 1986. [Short Stories] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.64. Number 45 of 300 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. With frequent in-text black and white illustrations, and a colour frontispiece, by Dean. Publisher's red quarter calf, with gilt titles to..... More
My Uncle Oswald.
London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1979. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.221. Publisher's dark blue cloth in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Dave Senior, priced at £5.50. Neat ink ownership else a lovely fine copy. Slightly risque, adult romp from the regular 'Playboy' contributor. Roald Dahl received the World..... More
Virginia Woolf.
London: Editions Poetry London, 1945. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.151 [1]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece portrait of Woolf. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the red typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Gently toned to wartime economy paper. Bumping to corners..... More
Dali by Dali.
New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1970. [Art and Philosophy] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 156 [4]. Heavily illustrated in colour. Publisher's cream cloth with black titles to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced with a sticker at £2.50. A touch of toning to extremities..... More
The Wrong Corpse [and] Let's Have Some Murder [in] Thrilling Detective Magazine. Vol. V, No. 2.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., October 1949. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. With occasional in-text illustrations. 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
Wild Decembers: a Play in Three Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1932. SIGNED PRODUCTION COPY. Octavo, pp.97. In publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Flyer for the Apollo Theatre production pasted to front paste-down. SIGNED by the author and nineteen members of the cast and crew from the May production of the following..... More
Monarchy, and Three Political Letters.
New York, NY: The Noonday Press, 1954. [Political and Theological Philosophy] FIRST THUS, an English edition translated by Nicholl and Hardie. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. xxii; 121 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Brown monogrammed endpapers. With the brown typographic dust-jacket, priced at $2.75. Internally crisp..... More
The Scorch Trials.
London: Chicken House, 2010. [Young Adult Fiction] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.361; [1]. One of 3000 copies SIGNED by the author. Hardback in pink dust-jacket, with black paper-covered slipcase. In the original shrink-wrap. Fine/as-new. The second book in the 'Maze Runner' series. More