Literature
Rupert [Daily Express Rupert Bear Annual], No.22.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Oldbourne, no date [1957]. [Children's Annual] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.107. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy illustrated card covers, with pictorial endpapers. Title page price-clipped. 'The Book Belongs To' section filled out in black ink. Colouring sections at front and rear..... 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
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
Wit's Last Stake. A Farce. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The Second Edition.
London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1769. [Comic Play] SECOND EDITION. Octavo, disbound (20 x 12cm), pp.[4] 30 [2]. A disbound section from a book, still tightly sewn. Final blank loose. Title page quite heavily toned, with a label mark, and spotting to preliminaries. Otherwise clean. Good..... More
The Vale of Clwyd, or the Pleasure of Retirement, a Welch Tale.
London: Printed for B. Crosby and Co. [etc.], no date [circa 1800]. [Short Romantic Tale] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 12cm), pp.36. No covers; sewn. Internally crisp and clean. Outer leaves toned, with top right corner of the title page lost. Very good. An injured itinerant Irish veteran regales..... More
A Letter to a Young Poet. The Hogarth Letters No. 8.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1932. [Literary Essay] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 28. Publisher's card covers, sewn, with an illustration by John Banting. A clean copy showing a little spotting to preliminaries, and moderate toning to covers. Minimal wear. Near fine. First published earlier in the..... More
The Third Hour.
Lonsdon: Chatto & Windus, 1937. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.452. Publisher's beige cloth lettered in red and blue, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 8/6, printed wraparound band (Evening Standard's 'Book of the Month' selection). Some gentle toning to the rear panel else a lovely fine copy. The..... More
The Eiger Sanction.
London: Heinemann, 1973. [Suspense] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp229; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth hardcovers with gilt titles to the spine, photographic dust-jacket priced at £2.10. Contents clean, no ink names. A fine copy in a near fine wrapper. The British first is rather scarce. A secret..... More
Goldfinger.
New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Co. [Book Club], no date [circa 1970]. [James Bond] US BOOK CLUB EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 214. Publisher's grey paper-covered boards with blue titles to spine. With the pictorial blue dust-jacket. Whole lower edge of book tinted purple (other copies are similarly noted..... More
The Achilles Affair.
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1959. [Adventure Thriller] FIRST US EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY with superb, lengthy inscription signed by the author. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's hardcovers, illustrated duct-wrapper priced at $3.50, with promotional wraparound band with supporting quote by Erle Stanley Gardner. Inscription reads; To Tony and..... More
Passage of Arms.
London: Heinemann, 1959. [Gun-running thriller] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.228. Publisher's salmon pink hardback cloth binding blocked in red and gilt, in two pictorial dust-jackets priced $3.95- one of which was supposedly a trial jacket and not issued, but in reality very many copies came with the..... More
Ulysses.
London: The Bodley Head, 1967. [Modern literature] FILM TIE-IN, the seventh impression of the 1960 text. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 939 [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket showing a white bow to the spine, and a second black and white photographic jacket..... More
Harry Potter and the The Deathly Hallows.
London: Bloomsbury, 2007. [Fantasy adventure] FIRST EDITION, first impression, SIGNED by the artist. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.607 [1]. Publisher's pictorial paper over boards, with the matching dust-jacket illustrated by Cockcroft, priced at £17.99, SIGNED to the upper panel in black marker by the artist Jason Cockcroft. Edges gently toned..... More
The Mission Song.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2006. [Spy Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, limited issue, on of 500 copies. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6] 339 [6]. With a map of Africa at rear. Publisher's hardback blocked in silver, terracotta endpapers, sewn endbands, pictorial cloth slipcase. This is an exclusive signed edition for Hatchards..... More
Whisky Galore.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1947. [Modern Literature] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 264 [2]. Recently rebound in red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to black label on spine, and matching red cloth over boards. Top edge red. A crisp, clean copy in an attractive new..... More
Action Cook Book. Len Deighton's Guide to Eating.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Gastronomy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 24cm), pp.138. Publisher's photographic hardcover boards, no jacket. Illustrated throughout, including diagrammatic endpapers. Contents fine, edges toned, covers a little grubby and handled. Very good. Len Deighton's pictorial 'Cook Strips' originally appeared in The Observer. This is the first book-form..... More
Lonesome Traveller.
London: Pan Books Ltd., 1964. [Short Essays] FIRST UK PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo paperback (18 x 11cm), pp.158 [2]. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at 2/6. Heavily toned, as usual, otherwise remarkably bright and crisp, with minimal wear and creasing to covers. Near fine. A collection of essays by the Beat..... More
Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men.
London: a Panther Book by Hamilton & Co., 1960. [Beat Anthology] FIRST THUS. Octavo paperback (18 x 11cm), pp.319 [1]. Publisher's colour photographic soft covers, priced at 3/6. Heavily browned, as usual, with light wear and creasing to covers. Very good. More
Sharpe's Trafalgar. Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2000. [Historical Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. 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..... More
Sharpe's Havoc. Richard Sharpe and the Campaign in Northern Portugal, Spring 1809.
London: Harper Collins, 2003. [Historical fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 380 [6]. 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..... More
The Complete Poems and Fragments.
London: Chatto and Windus, The Hogarth Press, and Oxford University Press, 1983. [War Poetry] FIRST THUS. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxvi; 194 [4]; pp.[2] x; 195-560 [6]. With frontispieces showing facsimiles original manuscripts. Publisher's grey and purple cloth with gilt titles to spines. With the publisher's..... More
The Hired Killers.
London: W.H. Allen, 1964. [True Crime] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.185; [1], blank. Illustrated with photographs. Publisher's black cloth with titles in gilt to the spine. With the photographic dust-jacket with bold quote by Ian Fleming printed on the front panel. Contents clean, jacket lightly edge worn..... More
A View To A Death.
London: Cassell, 1958. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.185; [3]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 12s 6d. Contents clean. Library label and marking to endpapers, no stamps to text pages, edges speckled green, jacket is close to fine but for..... More
Across the Street. Translated from the French by John Petrie.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Limited, 1954. [Crime Fiction] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.183; [1], blank. Red cloth stamped in green to spine, dust-jacket illustrated by Lore Strich, priced at 8/6. A very good copy in slightly chipped jacket. A supreme storyteller, his non-series psychological thrillers are..... More
The Works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Shirley, Villette, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Professor, and Poems. With illustrations by H.S. Greig and ornaments by F.C. Tilney.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1893. [Classic Literature] LEATHER-BOUND SET. Complete in 12 volumes. Small octavo (19 x 12 x 32cm). Each volume with a decorated title page and frontispiece, and two further black and white illustrated plates by Greig and Tilney (three to volume I). Recently re-bound in navy..... More