Literature
Jane Austen's Sanditon: A Continuation by her Niece, Together With "Reminisces of Aunt Jane."
Chicago: The Chiron Press, 1983. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, limited to 500 copies of which this is number 198. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.lii [4] 183 [3]. With four black and white illustrations, including a frontispiece. White quarter leatherette, blue paper over boards. Typographic paper label to spine. With the typographic..... More
The Afternoon of Monsieur Andesmas [and] The Rivers and Forests.
London: John Calder, 1964. [Modern literature] FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.126 [2]. Publisher's orange cloth, silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 18s to front flap. Offsetting to endpapers with rear flyleaf heavily toned. Jacket toned, marked, and rubbed. Large, approximately 7cm closed..... More
Aeschyli Persae ad Fidem Manuscriptorum Emendavit Notas et Glossarium Adjecit Carolus Jacobus Blomfield.
Cantabrigiae [Cambridge]: Typis Academicis, Excudit Joannes Smith, 1818. [Ancient Greek Drama] SECOND EDITION THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] xxxii; 228. Interspersed with a blank leaf for every leaf of text, intended for notes. The editor's preface in Latin, followed by the main text in Greek, with extensive footnotes in..... More
The Doomed City; or, the Last Days of Durocina. A Tale of the Anglo-Saxon Conquest of Britain, and the Mission of Augustine.
London, Oxford: A.R. Mowbray and Co., 1901. [Historical fiction] FINE PRIZE BINDING, revised edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.320. With a frontispiece in black and decorative chapter headpieces. Green full calf, boards gilt-ruled, gilt armorial device to upper. Spine with red label lettered in gilt, raised bands, and gilt-tooling. Dentelles..... More
The Wind from the Sun: Stories of the Space Age.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1972. [Science Fiction Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; [2]; 193 [5]. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the distinctive yellow, purple and blue dust-jacket, printed price of £1.75 to front flap. Rolling to crown of spine, and wear to dust-jacket..... More
The Outward Urge.
London: The Science Fiction Book Club by arrangement with Michael Joseph, 1961. [Science fiction] SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.208. Publisher's grey cloth, spine backed in blue. With the typographic dust-jacket. Some light toning throughout, textblock edges faintly spotted. Light toning to jacket backstrip. Some gentle..... More
The Less Familiar Kipling, and Kiplingana.
London: Jarrolds, 1922. [Literature] REVISED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.190; [2]. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Seven illustrations throughout, mostly facsimiles of the title pages from first editions of Kipling's works. Toning to edges of text block, toning to endpapers, sunning and rolling to spine, some..... More
Perseus in The Wind.
London: John Murray, 1948. [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.x 169 [1]. With wood engraved vignettes by Reynolds Stone to chapter headings. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and facsimile signature stamped in gilt to upper. With the dust-jacket designed by F. Quilter. A touch of..... More
High Windows.
London: Faber and Faber, 1974. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.42. Publisher's light grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the distinctive dust-jacket, priced at £1.40. A large collection of associated newspaper clippings loose to preliminaries. A lovely crisp, clean copy internally, showing some wear..... More
The Whitsun Weddings.
London: Faber and Faber, 1964. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.46 [2]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the distinctive typographic dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. A large collection of associated newspaper clippings loose to preliminaries. A lovely crisp, clean copy, showing moderate toning..... More
The Waste Land.
London: Faber and Faber, 1940. [Poetry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.79 [1]. Publisher's pale blue paper over boards, with red titles to spine and upper. With the bright pink dust-jacket, titled in blue and priced at 2/6. Bookplate of Jim Robson-Miller to front pastedown. A large blue ink..... More
Complete Paperback First Editions of Ian Fleming's James Bond Novels. Comprising: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only (short stories inc. From A View To A Kill, Quantum of Solace), Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man With the Golden Gun, Octopussy and The Living Daylights (short stories).
London: Pan Books, 1955-67. [Spy fiction] All paperback First Editions, all are export copies with no price on front cover [OHMSS being the exception priced at 60c]. Fourteen volumes, octavo (18 x 12 x 19cm). Publisher's illustrated softcovers. LLD priced in Lira within, FRWL has UK price blanked out by..... More
Plays for England. 'The Blood of the Bambergs'; 'Under Plain Cover'.
London: Faber and Faber, 1963. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.136. Publisher's red cloth, white titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket. Small bookseller's label and ownership inscription in black ink to front pastedown. Jacket price clipped. Dustiness to top edge. Jacket lightly toned, with mild edgewear. Near..... More
The Ogre Downstairs.
New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1975. [Fantasy] INSCRIBED US FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.191 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf: 'Robert, with best wishes. | Diana Wynne Jones.' Publisher's purple cloth, black titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by..... More
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen. Juvenilia; Northanger Abbey; Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Persuasion; Later Manuscripts; Jane Austen in Context.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. [Classic Literature] COMPLETE SET, first editions thus. Nine volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 34cm), pp.lxx; 502 [4]; pp.lxvi; 354 [4]; pp.lxx; 500 [6]; pp.lxxii; 540 [2]; pp.lxxxviii; 738 [6]; pp.lxxx; 600; pp.lxxxviii; 392; pp.cxxx; 742; pp.xxx; 467 [7]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles..... More
Helena. A Novel.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1950. [Historical fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.265 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the primary 'wood-grain' dust-jacket, priced at 9/6. Toning to edges, and some rippling to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Cloth shows extensive water staining and..... More
The Acceptance World.
London: William Heinemann, 1955. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression, with a later jacket. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 214. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to black backing on spine. Paired with a later jacket circa 1971, priced at £1.75 to front flap. Toning and spotting to edges and..... More
A Buyer's Market.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1952. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression, with a later jacket. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 274 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to black backing on the spine. Paired with a later jacket circa 1962, priced at 21s. Bookplate of the W.H. Smith Subscribers'..... More
Temporary Kings. [A Dance to the Music of Time].
London: Heinemann, 1973. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 272. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to black background on spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Broom-Lynne, priced at £2.25. Spotting to edges, otherwise internally clean. Bright, crisp jacket shows just a touch of..... More
Songs and Sonnets.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1902. [Poetry] FINE LEATHER BINDING, reprint. Octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.[4] 253 [3]. Contemporary green half morocco, borders gilt-ruled, green cloth over sides. Gilt titles, gilt floral tooling, and two raised bands to spine. Decorative endpapers, top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded title-page with vignette illustration. Bound by..... More
To Catch A Spy [3 copies]. An Anthology of Favourite Spy Stories Edited and Introduced by Eric Ambler.
London: Four Square & Fontana, New York: Bantam, 1966, 1974, 1966. [Spy Anthology] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITIONS; first UK, first Fontana edition and first U.S printings. Bibliographer's copies. Octavos, publisher's pictorial softcovers. No inscriptions, book store stamp inside cover of Bantam edition, contents toned as expected, very light wear to covers..... More
The Spy's Bedside Book [2 copies]. An Anthology edited by Graham Greene and Hugh Greene.
London: Four Square, 1962, 1965. [Spy Anthology] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, and second reprint with new cover art, bibliographer's copies. Octavo, pp.192. Publisher's pictorial softcovers. Contents toned as expected, light wear to covers, sticker pull on reprint. very good. The first printing of the british softcover, together with an early reprint..... More
Talking It Over.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10] 273 [5]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt titles to spine, and light blue endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Fraser Taylor, priced at £13.99..... More
England, England.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1998. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[6] 266. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, and navy endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £15.99. A crisp, fine copy. Shortlisted..... More
Metroland.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. [Modern Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.176. Publisher's grey cloth with silver titles to spine. With the black dust-jacket designed by Craig Dodd, clipped and re-priced by the publisher to £6.50. A touch of spotting to top edge, otherwise a lovely crisp..... More