Literature
The Dinner Party at Bardolph's.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937. ['Golden Age' crime fiction] NEW EDITION, first thus. Crown octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.320. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black, blocked in blind, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 2/- net. Contents clean, no inscriptions, jacket with a few tears, chipped at crown. Very good. A yellow..... More
The Pale Horse.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1961. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the distinctive dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Contents clean, edges a little toned, no inscriptions, bright jacket lightly worn with some gentle spotting to..... More
The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1962. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at 15s. Contents and page edges clean, no inscriptions, jacket lightly worn, toned to spine with a few small..... More
The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1962. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Contents clean, no inscriptions, some toning to page edges, jacket with some chips and tears but generally bright, larger chip/loss..... More
Death in Cold Storage.
London: John Long, 1965. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.184. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers with spine blocked in colours, illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Contents clean, no inscriptions, jacket lightly rubbed, minor sunning to spine. Very good indeed. A muder mystery set in the Scottish..... More
Nemesis. [A Miss Jane Marple Story].
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1971. [Murder mystery] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth in silver-grey typographic dust-jacket priced £1.50. No inscriptions. A lovely clean copy of the book in a crisp, near fine wrapper with some light rubbing to extremities. Unusually for..... More
Nemesis. [A Miss Jane Marple Story].
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1971. [Murder mystery] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth in silver-grey typographic dust-jacket priced £1.50. No inscriptions. One tiny mark to top edge, jacket a touch rubbed to rear joint and extremities. Near fine. Unusually for Christie, a...... More
Passenger to Frankfurt.
London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1970. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, printed price of £1.25p to front flap. Internally bright and clean, a few brown spots to fore-edge, jacket spine lettering faded..... More
Passenger to Frankfurt.
London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1970. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, printed price of £1.25p to front flap. Internally bright and clean. Some sunning to dust-jacket backstrip although red lettering has not..... More
The Witness For The Defence.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.312. VARIANT binding of red cloth decoratively blocked in colours. possibly a deluxe or primary binding(?), the standard binding in blue cloth is rather plain by comparison. Minor spotting, rear inside paper joint cracked else..... More
Mystery at Friar's Pardon.
London: The Crime Club Ltd. By W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd. No date (circa 1931). [Crime thriller] Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.284. Publisher's red cloth with titles in black, issued without endpapers. Spotting to edges, first gathering proud (a binding fault from the outset), cloth is rather bright and..... More
Death Comes to Perigord.
London: The Crime Club Ltd. By W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd. no date (circa 1931). [Crime thriller] Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.252. Publisher's green cloth with titles in black, issued without endpapers. Some light foxing within, covers are rubbed and shelfworn, front joint cracked to hear and tail. A...... More
Murder In The Mews. 4 Poirot Stories.
London: Odhams Press Ltd, no date (1938). [Detective mysteries] Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.280. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, code 'C338' to copyright page denoting 1928 as date printed. Some light foxing within, covers lightly shelfworn with a few small marks. Very good. Crime short stories, featuring..... More
Tess of The D'Urbervilles.
London: Osgood, Mc Ilvaine and Co., 1892. [English Literature] FIRST SINGLE VOLUME EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.520. With frontispiece portrait of the author, printed signature leaf and prefaces. Publisher's light brown/beige cloth with 'nouvea' style decoration in gilt. Ink ownership dated 5th Oct. 1982. Edges toned, cloth has some..... More
Mrs McGinty's Dead.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1952. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.188; [4], advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in half deep red calf, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, cloth sides, illustrated jacket panel bound in at rear. Contents clean, exterior as new. A near fine..... More
Poems Upon Several Occasions Written by Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Archdeacon of Clogher: and Published by Mr. Pope. With 'The Life of Zoilus': and his Remarks on Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice. A New Edition with Additions. To Which is Prefixed, 'The Life of Dr. Parnell,' Written by Dr. Goldsmith.
London: Printed for T. Davies, J. Dodsley, and R. Baldwin, 1773. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND NEW EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[4] xxviii; ii; 180 [2]. With two copperplate illustrations, designed by Samuel Wale and engraved by Charles Grignion. Contemporary brown full tree-calf, spine gilt-ruled with red label lettered in gilt..... More
The Island of Fantasy. A Romance.
London: Griffit Farran, 1892. [Strange tale] FIRST EDITION, three volumes complete. Octavo (19 x 13 x 9cm), pp.288; 302; 300. Pagination appears to be correct, with half-titles to vols. 2 and 3 (evidently not called for in first volume). Publisher's light blue cloth blocked in gilt to spine, and titled..... More
The Pleasures of Memory, with Other Poems.
London: For T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1801. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND NEW EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[8] 187 [1]. With numerous copperplate vignettes throughout, designed by Thomas Stothard. Contemporary brown full tree-calf, boards gilt-ruled. Brown label with blind titles and gilt-tooling to spine. Dentelles in blind to turn-ins..... More
News Cuttings: [Campaign to errect a Memorial to Robert Louis Stevenson].
London: Marcus Ward & Co., Limited, circa 1896-1904. [News Cuttings Album] ORIGINAL CUTTINGS AND LETTERS. Quarto (30 x 24cm), with 70 numbered pages of news clippings, 111 blank numbered pages, and 12 pages of official typed letters from the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Committee at rear. Publisher's burgundy cloth with..... More
Poo-Poo and the Dragons.
London: Michael Joseph, 1942. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.188. With in-text illustrations and endpapers by Lawson. Publisher's yellow cloth, designs and titles blocked in red to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Mild toning throughout. Typographic bookplate of Trevor Hickman to front..... More
The complete Boysie Oakes spy novel series. Comprising The Liquidator, Understrike, Amber Nine, Madrigal, Founder Member, Traitor's Exit, The Airline Pirates and A Killer For A Song.
London: Frederick Muller, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970,1970, 1975. [Cold War Thrillers] ALL FIRST EDITIONS. Eight volumes. Octavos (21 x 14 x 19cm). Publisher's hardcover cloth bindings, seven in pictorial dust-jackets. Contets clean, no inscriptions, some light spotting to some edges, wrappers lightly worn, with the odd chip/rub, spine..... More
Spring-Board. Poems 1941-1944.
London: Faber and Faber, 1944. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.56. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 6s to front flap. Small pencilled ownership inscription to flyleaf. Light toning to top of cloth. Minor edgewear to jacket. Near fine. Irish poet..... More
Gargantua and Pantagruel.
London: The Folio Society, 2019. [Satirical Novels] LIMITED EDITION, FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Folio (38 x 28cm), pp.xxviii; 454 [6]; pp.xii; 455-949 [5]. A modern translation with Dore's original in-text wood engravings. Number 169 of 500 copies thus, typeset in Bulmer and printed on Abbey Pure Paper at..... More
Adventures of a French Serjeant, During his Campaigns in Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia, etc. From 1805 to 1823. Written by Himself.
London: Henry Colburn, 1826. [Memoir/biography] LEATHER-BOUND SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] xvi; 345 [3]. Brown half calf, patterned paper over sides. Red label lettered in gilt, raised bands, and blind tooling to spine. All edges marbled. Interior toned throughout and very lightly spotted. Open tear to rear flyleaf..... More
The Further Side of Silence.
New York: Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1927. [Short stories] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[2] xvi; 407 [5]. With 19 full-page black and white illustrations by Blaine and a few vignettes. Title page lettered in black and orange. Publisher's black cloth with pictorial labels to upper and spine..... More