Literature
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
The Last Tresilians. A Novel.
New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1963. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST US EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.384. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and yellow paper over boards. Fore-edge untrimmed. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at $4.50. A little spotting to top edge..... 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
Before She Met Me.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.183 [1]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Craig Dodd, priced at £6.50. A crisp, fine copy, showing just a touch of spotting to top edge. The author's second..... More
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., from 1659 to 1669, with Memoir.
London: Frederick Warne, No date [c.1900]. [Diaries] FINE LEATHER BINDING, reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xii; 639 [1]. Red full calf, boards gilt-ruled. Brown label lettered in gilt, gilt-tooling, and raised bands to spine. Dentelles in blind to turn-ins. Marbled endpapers and matching marbled edges. Some toning to first..... More
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. With Introductions and Notes.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, No date [c.1910]. [Poetry] FINE VELLUM BINDING, oxford edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxxii; 986 [2]. With a halftone frontispiece of the author. Contemporary half vellum, red cloth over sides, gilt armorial device of Leamington College to upper. Red label lettered in gilt and..... More
Collected Poems.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1950. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.x; 181 [1]. Publisher's oatmeal quarter cloth, with grey paper over boards, and a printed paper title label to spine. A blue ink ownership to front pastedown, otherwise internally clean, with toning to edges. Bumping..... More
Roaring Tower and Other Short Stories.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1937. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 311 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with white titles to spine and upper. Internally clean, with some toning to edges, and light spotting to first and final few leaves. Moderate general wear to cloth..... More
Conference at Cold Comfort Farm.
London: Longmans Green and Co., 1949. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.167 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Una May, priced at 7/6. A crisp, clean copy with some light wear to cloth. Jacket toned, with some..... More
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
London: Bloomsbury, 2005. [Children's Classic] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.607 [1]. Publisher's glossy pictorial paper-covered boards, with matching dust-jacket illustrated by Jason Cockroft, priced at £16.99. A near fine copy showing some light wear to boards, and some light toning and a few marks to edges..... More
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
London: Bloomsbury, 2003. [Children's Classic] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.766 [2]. Publisher's glossy pictorial paper-covered boards with matching dust-jacket illustrated by Jason Cockroft, priced at £16.99. A fine, as-new copy, dark-stored by ourselves since publication. The fifth Harry Potter adventure which was shortlisted for Prometheus Award..... More
To Catch A Spy. An Anthology of Favourite Spy Stories Edited and Introduced by Eric Ambler.
New York: Atheneum, 1964. [Anthology] FIRST U.S. EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's hardcovers, gilt titles to spine, black endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Michael Harvey priced at $4.50. With autograph of Eric Ambler to half-title. A clean, near fine copy in similar jacket. Contains Ian..... More
To Catch A Spy. An Anthology of Favourite Spy Stories Edited and Introduced by Eric Ambler.
London: The Bodley Head, 1964. [Anthology] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the first edition. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.224. Publisher's printed buff wraps. Contents clean, covers slightly spotted, sunned to spine. Near fine. A rare proof; no other copies are currently listed online. Contains Ian Fleming's James Bond novella 'From A...... More
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