Literature
The Ipcress File.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. [Landmark spy novel]. FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.287; [1], blank. Publisher's cloth in original dust-wrapper with the same Hawkey jacket design as the UK edition, priced at $3.95. Bookplate of art collector, philathropist and Carnegie Medal recipient Shelby White. Later pencil..... More
Paradise Lost. An Illustrated Edition with an introduction by Philip Pullman.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 374 [4]. SIGNED by Pullman in blue ink to title page. Text printed in red and black. With facsimile plates of twelve engravings from the first illustrated edition. Publisher's black cloth, with gilt..... More
Sharpe's Trafalgar. Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2000. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 277 [3]. With battle plan and illustrated endpapers. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by David Scutt, priced at £16.99. A fine, as-new copy. Ensign Richard Sharpe is returning by..... More
King Solomon's Mines.
London: Cassell & Company, 1886. [Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION, the seventh impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[4] 320 [14]. With the folding colour map frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth pictorially blocked in black, with titles in gilt to spine and black to upper, and light yellow-coated endpapers. Catalogue dated 5G.1.86, final..... More
The Poetical Works of John Milton.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. [Poetry] FINE PRIZE BINDING, reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 626. Contemporary navy full calf, boards gilt-ruled, with gilt armorial device of Marlborough College to upper. Spine with brown label lettered in gilt, raised bands, and gilt tooling. Dentelles in blind to turn-ins. Marbled endpapers..... More
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
London: The Folio Society, 2020. [Autobiography] FIRST THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 234 [4]. With six colour plates by Larkin, including a frontispiece. Publisher's orange quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and pink illustrated cloth over boards. Orange endpapers. With the publisher's orange paper-covered slipcase. A fine copy..... More
Selected Poems.
London: The Folio Society, 2016. [Russian Poetry in translation] FIRST THUS. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxii; 161 [1]. With six black and white photographic plates, and an illustrated title page by Modigliani. Publisher's black cloth with blue and white titles and decoration to spine, and a photographic image of the..... More
Castle Dor.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1962. [Cornish historical fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.242. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at 16s to front flap. Small bookseller ticket to pasdeown, contents clean, no inscriptions, some spotting to edges of text block..... More
Harri Potter a Maen yr Athronydd.
London Bloomsbury, 2003. [Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION IN WELSH, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 245 [5]. Publisher's paper-covered boards illustrated by Thomas Taylor. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at £11.99. A small red ink note to fly-leaf, and moderate toning to edges, otherwise internally clean. Jacket shows some..... More
The Brighter Buccaneer [The Saint].
Great Britain: White Lion Publishers, 1975. [Crime Fiction] Vintage hardcover reissue. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's deep pink cloth hardback with gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at £2.95. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A fine copy in like jacket. A fine (and rather elusive) hardback reissue of the..... More
The Ship of Adventure. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
London: Macmillan, 1947. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 328. Publisher's pictorial yellow cloth, blocked in colours. With the original illustrated dust-jacket priced at 8/6. Ink ownership to f.e.p., jacket rather chipped to spine ends. Nonetheless presentable. The sixth instalment in the 'Adventure' series. More
Funeral in Berlin. Secret File Number 3.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Cold-war spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[1] 319 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with blue rubber-stamp motif and blind 'downgraded to unclassified' box blocked to upper board, gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey. Contents clean, jacket..... More
The Wonderful Travels. Containing 'Around the World in Eighty Days,' 'Five Weeks in a Balloon,' and 'A Journey into the Interior of the Earth.'
London: Ward, Lock, and Co., [n.d.] c.1900. [Adventure fiction] FIRST THUS. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 5-192; 7-268; 268. With three halftone frontispieces, the first one also with a tissue-guard. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, designs and gilt titles to upper and spine. Black endpapers. Interior lightly toned, thumbed, and creased..... More
The Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova di Seingalt. Translated into English by Arthur Machen.
London: The Casanova Society, 1922. [Memoirs] LEATHER-BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Complete in 12 volumes. Quarto (26 x 21 x 36cm). Privately printed for subscribers only on fine hand-made paper, number 452 of 1000 sets thus. With a frontispiece to each volume, as well as 17 maps, and an index. Recently re-bound..... More
The Poetical Works of John Milton.
London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1910. [Poetry] OXFORD EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiii [3] 554 [2]. With a halftone frontispiece portrait of John Milton and facsimile first edition title-pages. Publisher's quarter vellum, red cloth over sides. Spine with gilt-lettered red label and floral designs in gilt and red. Top..... More
In the Days of Drake, Being the Adventures of Humphrey Salkeld, how he was Carried Away to Mexico: how he There Underwent Many Torments at the Hands of the Inquisitors; and Finally, how he fell in with the Great Captain, Francis Drake, and Escaped to England (A.D. 1578-1580).
London, Glasgow, Dublin, Bombay: Blackie and Son, N.d. [c.1896]. [Children's Adventure] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. With three halftone plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary brown full calf, gilt armorial device to upper, boards gilt-ruled. Spine with gilt-lettered brown label, raised bands, and gilt-tooling. Dentelles in blind to..... More
The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1910. [Poetry] OXFORD EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 667 [1]. With a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author, engraved by Emery Walker. Publisher's quarter vellum, green cloth over sides. Spine with gilt-lettered blue label and floral designs in gilt and red. Top edge gilt..... More
The Poetical Works of John Dryden; Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations.
London: Edward Moxon, 1851. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xii; lx; 445 [1]. With a steel-engraved frontispiece and title-page vignette. Navy full morocco, gilt-tooling to boards and spine. Raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Gilt dentelles to turn-ins. All edges gilt. Cream endpapers. Original bookmarking..... More
Dubliners.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1944. [Modern literature] VINTAGE REPRINT. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's green cloth, navy titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 5s to front flap. Gift inscription in black ink to flyleaf, dated 1944. Some faint spotting to edges. Jacket backstrip lightly toned, faint spotting..... More
Third Girl.
London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1966. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's patterned red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Kenneth Farnhill, priced at 18s. A very good copy in a slightly torn jacket. Shows well. When a...... More
A Pocket Full of Rye. [A Miss Marple story].
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1953. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.191 [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the red and black illustrated dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Contents clean, no inscriptions, edges spotted/toned, jacket chipped to head and tail of spine, with..... More
Crooked House.
London: Collins for the Crime Club, 1949. [Detective Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.192 [4]. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. Contents clean, no inscriptions, page edges toned, cloth a little handled, some sunning to spine. A very good copy lacking the scarce jacket. An Inspector..... More
Crooked House.
London: Collins for the Crime Club, 1949. [Detective Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.192 [4]. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 8/6 (crossed out/obscured). Contents and edges clean, neat gift inscription to free endpaper, jacket chipped to head and tail..... More
The Liquidator.
New York: Viking Press, 1964. [Cold War Thriller] US EDITION, book club issue. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.182; [4], blank. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers blocked in colours to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. Identical to the first edition but for unpriced jacket and BC impression to rear board. Green mark to f.e.p...... More
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, [1837] 1845. [Classic literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[16] 609 [3]. With 43 engraved illustrations by Phiz and Seymour, including a frontispiece and vignette title page (from the first printing, dated 1837). Contemporary green half morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and..... More