Literature
The Cinque Ports and Romney Marsh.
London: John Gifford, 1972. [English History] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 266 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. With numerous in-text maps and halftone illustrations, folding map to rear. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. With..... More
The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay. A New Edition.
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873. [Politics/History] FINE LEATHER BINDING. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 784 [2]. Tan half calf, nonpareil marbled paper over boards. Brown label with gilt titles, tooling, and raised bands to spine. Marbled endpapers and edges matching boards. Lightly toned internally with infrequent spotting, heavier..... More
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: Printed for Cadell & Davies [et al.], 1807. [Late Antiquity] EARLY OCTAVO EDITION. Complete in twelve volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 37cm). With an engraved portrait of the author to volume I, and two large folding maps. Contemporary full marbled calf, with gilt decoration and twin black title..... More
Poems by Thomas Hood. Again Illustrated by Birket Foster.
London: E. Moxton, Son, and Co., 1872. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION THUS. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.vii; 180 [4]. With 23 tissue-guarded engravings including a frontispiece by Foster. Publisher's purple cloth extravagantly decorated in black, blue and gilt to upper board. Titles in black and gilt to spine, blind-tooling to lower..... More
Half in Shadow.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1978. [Weird fiction] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.ix [3] 212 [4]. With a monochrome frontispiece. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Tim Kirk priced at $8.95 to front flap. Grey endpapers. Fine, as-new. A collection of short..... More
A Glastonbury Romance.
London: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1933. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[12] 1174 [2]. Publisher's navy cloth, red titles to upper board and spine. Top edge blue. Publisher's advertisements to rear. Toning and spotting to endpapers, internally clean minus some faint splashing to a few..... More
Amphitryon. A Comedy.
New York, NY: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1962. [German Drama in Translation] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 80. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Jonas. Illustrated bookplate of Eric Salmon to front pastedown, otherwise crisp and clean..... 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
English Lyrics.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1883. [Poetry] FIRST THUS, interesting provenance. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.xix [1] 296 [4]. With an original poem lovingly INSCRIBED to a front blank by Scottish writer S.R. Crockett to his future wife Ruth Mary Milner, dated 1883. Contemporary white paper boards, red titles..... More
Fleshmarket Close.
London: Orion, 2004. [Crime Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.399; [5]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page, additionally inscribed 'To Elaine, Cheers!', with accompanying doodled face motif. Publisher's black cloth, with green metallic titles to spine and green endpapers. With the..... More
Dead Souls.
London: Orion, 1999. [Crime Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.406; [2]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page, additionally inscribed 'To Elaine, Cheers!'. Publisher's black cloth, with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £9.99. A near fine copy..... More
War and Peace.
London: Heinemann, 1961. [Russian Literature] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[6] 1146. With a colour frontispiece and 40 further line-drawn illustrations by Groth. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge purple. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at 42s. Lacking the loose card..... More
The Temple Shakespeare.
London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1894. [Drama] FIRST THUS. A near-complete set of 40 volumes, lacking only 'Songs'. Sexto-Decimo in half-sheets (14 x 11 x 55cm). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece and decorated title page. Attractively printed on good paper in contrasting red and black ink. Publisher's stippled maroon..... More
The Quiet American.
London: William Heinemann, 1955. [Modern fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 247 [1]. Publisher's dark grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With dust-jacket illustrated by BGS, priced at 13/6. Contents clean with a very few spots to fore-edge, blue ink ownership hidden beneath flap, jacket..... More
Alibi.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1961. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 10s.6d. Page edges toned, a few reading marks within, old tape mark to rear where jacket was secured..... More
Three at Wolfe's Door.
London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1961. [Detective stories] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket by William Randell. Page edges toned, some old tape marks to endpapers where wrapper was once secured, jacket is bright, with a...... More
The Morning After Death
London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1966. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.224. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. Contents clean, edges toned, owner inscription to f.e.p., p/c jacket with some chips and tears, gummed paper to reverse side at spine ends..... More
Summoned By Bells. With Drawings by Michael Tree.
London: John Murray, 1960. [Verse Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 18cm), pp.[8] 111 [1]. With engraved head-pieces by Tree. Publisher's blind stamped green cloth with gilt titles to spine and decorative endpapers. With the typographic dust-jacket printed in red and black, priced at 16s. Near fine in like wrapper..... More
The Complete Works [includes the Poems and Sonnets].
Oxford: University Press (Humphrey Milford), 1913. [English literature] The 'Oxford Shakespeare'. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.1350; [2], Notes. Frontispiece portrait. Elegantly hand-bound in full blue calf with five raised bands, extra gilt to spine, red title label, gilt crest to upper, marbled edges and endpapers. Colston's Girls' School, Bristol prize..... More
Miracles. A Preliminary Study.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1947. [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.220. Publisher's dark green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 10s. 6d. to front flap. Near fine in similar jacket which is a little browned to spine and extremities. Shows well. While most..... More
Ludmila's Broken English.
London: Faber and Faber, 2006. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[8] 318 [10]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's cream paper-covered boards with black titles to spine. Black endpapers. With the orange dust-jacket designed by Ghost. A fine..... More
The House of the Dead. A Novel in Two Parts.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. [Russian Literature] FIRST GARNETT EDITION, third impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 284. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Blind device to upper. Moderately toned throughout, as usual, with a bookseller's label to fly-leaf. Moderate general wear to cloth, with toning to..... More
Oswald Bastable and Others. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock and H. R. Millar.
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1905. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; [vii-viii], seemingly misbound; 1-369; [1], blank; [9], ads; [1], blank. Text in first state. Publisher's burgundy cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, t.e.g. Illustrated with plates (all present) and one drawing..... More
The Story of the Treasure Seekers. Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; [2]; 296; [2]; [2 of advertisements]; [8 of publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's blue-green cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, all edges gilt. Illustrated with seventeen plates. Contents clean, owner's stamp to flyleaf, binding shows..... More
The Novels of Jane Austen, in Ten Volumes: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; and Emma]. Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1895-97. [Classic Literature] COMPLETE SET, later impressions thus. Ten volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 20cm). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece portrait, and two or three other illustrations by William Cubit Cooke, and ornaments by F.C. Tilney. Publisher's light green cloth, with gilt titles..... More