Literature
To Catch A Spy. An Anthology of Favourite Spy Stories Edited and Introduced by Eric Ambler.
London: The Bodley Head, 1964. [Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Michael Harvey. Contents clean, jacket with a little of the usual laminate shrinkage to joints, rich red lettering to spine, price clipped else a fine copy. Contains..... More
The Moneypenny Diaries: Secret Servant. [James Bond].
London: John Murray, 2006. [Spy Fiction] FIRST EDITION with number '1' present on copyright page strike line denoting first printing. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6] 311 [3]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and red endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by gray318, priced at £16.99. Published under licence..... More
Loser Takes All.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1955. [Modern fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp [viii]; 140. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper drawn by 'Stevens'. Contents clean, no inscriptions, jacket with a little wear, chipped at crown and top corner of rear panel. Shows well. An entertaining romance, basis for two..... More
Aristophanes Against War. The Acharnians, The Peace - Lysistrata.
London: Oxford University Press, 1957. [Greek drama] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xviii; 158 [2]. INSCRIBED to the British historian Edward Crankshaw and his wife Clare in blue ink to flyleaf. Publisher's orange cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 18s to..... More
The Girl with a Squint.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. [Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.156. Translated from the French by Helen Thomson. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Beverley LeBarrow, priced at £3.95. A clean fine copy of the book in similar jacket but for..... More
Here Where the World is Quiet.
London: William Heinemann, 1944. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 168. Publisher's dark blue cloth, silver titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 8s 6d to front flap. Lightly toned throughout. Ownership inscription in brown ink to flyleaf. Faint spotting to textblock edges. Some marking..... More
[The Millennium series:] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl Who Played with Fire; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest; The Girl in the Spider's Web; The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye; The Girl Who Lived Twice [together with] My Friend Stieg Larsson.
London: MacLehose, 2008-2019. [Crime novel series] FIRST UK EDITIONS, Larsson's trilogy originally published by Norstedts Förlag in the Swedish language (2005-7), Lagercrantz titles are all UK SIGNED limited editions by Goldsboro. 7 volumes, octavo. Publisher's hardcovers of various colours, with photographic dust-jackets. No inscriptions, contents clean. Showing a little minor..... More
The Shadow of the Hawk.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1928. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.284; [4], ads. Elegantly hand-bound in half mid-green calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands, original cloth cover and spine preserved at rear. Contents clean but..... More
Plain Murder.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1930. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.322; [6], ads. Elegantly hand-bound in half black oasis morocco over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands, original cloth spine preserved at rear. Contents clean, page edges..... More
The Adventures of Oliver Twist. The World's Classics VIII.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1909. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, a pocket edition. Sexto-Decimo (15 x 10cm), pp.[4] xiv; 511 [5]. With 24 engraved illustrations by Cruikshank, including a frontispiece. Exquisite contemporary full tree calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt ruling to boards..... More
Frozen Assets.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1964. [Classic Humour] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.219; [5], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 15/- net to front flap. Contents clean, light toning and spotting to edges of textblock, jacket is near fine..... More
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1951. [Modern literature] Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.244; [1], blank. Red cloth blocked in black, with original dust-wrapper with illustration by Fenwick, priced at 5s. Contents clean, no inscriptions, production crease to p.245 (not properly trimmed- inoffensive). Jacket rather bright and fresh. A near fine copy..... More
Teddy Bear. Translated from the French by John Clay.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1971. [Mystery] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.156. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Beverley LeBarrow, priced at £1.50. A clean, fine copy. Virtually as new. The disturbing story of Professor Chabot, from a supreme storyteller. Simenon's..... More
November.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1970. [Intrigue] FIRST UK EDITION, translated from the French by Jean Stewart. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.155; [1], blank. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Bernard Higton, priced at £1.25 / 25s. A clean, fine copy in jacket. A domestic..... More
Tom Brown's Schooldays. By an Old School Boy.
London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1907. [Literature] OXFORD EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.380. With 14 black and white illustrations by Brock, 6 being full-page including the frontispiece. Publisher's quarter vellum, red cloth over sides. Spine with red label lettered in gilt, and further gilt tooling. Top edge gilt. Faint..... More
The Novels [Works] of George Eliot. Adam Bede; The Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life; Felix Holt; Romola; Middlemarch; Daniel Deronda.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, no date [circa 1890s]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND SET, mixed printings from a New Edition. Complete in eight volumes, bound as seven. Octavo (19 x 14 x 22cm), pp.[2] viii; 466 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 486 [2]; pp.[2] vi; 158; viii; 330 [2]; pp.[2]..... More
The Family Lie.
New York, NY: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. [Psychological thriller] FIRST US EDITION (stated). Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[6]; 146; [4], blank. Publisher's red hardcovers cloth with titles in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket priced at $7.95. Edges lightly spotted, bright jacket slightly toned to..... More
Conan Doyle. The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 2007. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 527; [1], blank. With three suites of photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth blocked in gilt to spine, beige endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £20 net. With author's signature to the title page..... More
The Great Spy Race.
London: Michael Joseph, 1968. [Spy novel] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the first edition. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.208. Publisher's printed buff wraps. Pencil ownership of bibliographer Jon Gilbert, contents clean, covers lightly handled, spine wrinkled as expected. Near fine. A risqué James Bond-style spoof, being the second adventure featuring Adam..... More
Contribute [to THE STRAND MAGAZINE]; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Volumes I to VI.
London: George Newnes, 1891-1893. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six volumes. Large octavo (24 x 18 x 25cm). Illustrated throughout. Original half-yearly volumes, recently re-bound in tan half calf, with gilt titles and decoration to spines, marbled paper over boards and all edges speckled red. Moderate spotting throughout. An attractive set..... More
Waiting For Godot. A Tragicomedy in Two Acts.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1959. [Drama] FIRST SOFTCOVER EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.94 [2]. Publisher's orange wraps priced at 4s 6d to inner cover. Lightly annotated in pencil throughout. Some faint spotting/mottling to edges. Spine sunned, minor edgewear. Loose leaf of type inserted. Very good. Beckett's monumental drama..... More
Stalky and Co. [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume 9.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1898 to May 1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.vi; 754. With numerous photogravure illustrations. Publisher's green cloth over boards, with gilt and brown titles and decoration to spine and upper. Floral-patterned endpapers. Pink 'Book Fund' book plate to front pastedown..... More
Pride and Prejudice.
London: The Folio Society, 2006. [Classic Literature] FIRST THUS, reset with new illustrations. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xvi; 364 [2]. With seven colour illustrations by Puttiapipat, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown quarter buckram, with gilt titles to a blue roundel on the spine, and illustrated paper over boards. Maroon..... More
Plain Words.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1948. [Official English] Second Impression. Octavo pamphlet (21 x 14cm), pp.vi; 94. Publisher's typographic paper covers, priced at 2s. A nice, crisp copy, showing an ink ownership to the to right corner of the front cover, and even toning to covers. Near fine. The classic..... More
The Beano Book 1972.
Dundee: D. C. Thomson and Co., 1972. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 20cm), unpaginated. Illustrated boards depicting the characters of Beano Town, priced at 50p to flyleaf. Illustrations throughout, in the style of cartoon strips. Some toning to edges of textblock. Fine. A lovely edition. The book follows..... More