Literature
Farewell to Poesy, and Other Pieces.
London: A.C. Fifield, 1910. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.60 [4], advertisements. Grey typographic paper over boards. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Endpapers and edges lightly toned. Near fine. An early collection from the 'super-tramp' poet, composed after his adventures across America - one being the loss of..... More
Hostage.
Surrey: Severn House, 2003. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.224. Publisher's photographic paper over boards. With the dust-jacket of matching design priced at £17.99 to front flap. Some light handling to jacket. Otherwise fine, as-new. Originally released as 'No Place to Hide' in 1984. More
Maggie Cassidy.
London: a Panther Book by Hamilton & Co., 1960. [Beat Novel] FIRST UK PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo paperback (18 x 11cm), pp.2-156 [4]. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at 2/6. Heavily toned, as usual. First leaf very neatly cancelled, otherwise remarkably bright and crisp, with minimal wear and creasing to covers..... More
Goblin Market. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: George Harrap & Co., 1933. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST TRADE EDITION, printed by R. Clark of Edinburgh in 1933, not to be confused with the 1939 reissue, printed by Jarrold. A vellum-bound limited edition was released simultaneously with this edition. Slim octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.45; [3], blank. With 4..... More
The Tryal and Condemnation of Arundel Coke Alias Cooke Esq; And of John Woodburne Labourer, For Felony, in Slitting the Nose of Edward Crispe Gent. Contrary to the 22 and 23 Car. II. Cap. I. Intitled, An Act to Prevent Malicious Maiming and Wounding; Who Were Found Guilty at the Assizes Held Before the Right Honourable Sir Peter King Knt. Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at Bury St. Edmonds, Tuesday the 13th of March 1721. And Received Sentence the Day Following.
London: Printed for John Darby in Bartholomew-Close, 1722. [Trial/Litigation] FIRST EDITION. Folio (33 x 20cm), pp.38. Perfectly collated. With an imprimatur leaf facing title page and an extra leaf marked D* between signatures D and E. Newly re-bound with brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. Interior toned and moderately spotted..... More
Hey Nonny Yes. Passions and Conceits from Shakespeare.
London: The Saturn Press, 1947. [Quotations] FIRST EDITION. Sextodecimo (15 x 12cm), unpaginated. With 16 colour illustrations by Ardizzone. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at 5s. A crisp, clean copy, with some minor bumping to corners and spine. Jacket toned and a little rubbed, with some..... More
New Bats in Old Belfries. Poems.
London: John Murray, 1945. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.vi; 54. Publisher's red cloth, with printed titles to a plain paper label pasted to upper. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, priced at 6s. A small black ink ownership to fly-leaf, with some light spotting and bubbling to endpapers..... More
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.
London: Faber and Faber, 1981. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST LE CAIN-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (31 x 22cm), pp.32. With a full colour plate by Le Cain to every other page. Publisher's colour-illustrated glossy paper-covered boards, not priced. A fine, as-new copy. More
Growltiger's Last Stand, with The Pekes and the Pollicles, and The Song of the Jellicles.
London: Faber and Faber, 1986. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST LE CAIN-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Oblong octavo (19 x 27cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated throughout in colour by Le Cain, with grey endpapers. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at £5.95. A fine, as-new copy. Three poems from Eliot's classic collection 'Old..... More
Mr Mistoffelees with Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer.
London: faber and faber, 1990. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST LE CAIN-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Oblong octavo (19 x 27cm), pp.[28]. Illustrated throughout in colour by Le Cain. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at £7.99. A fine, as-new copy. Two poems from Eliot's classic collection 'Old Possum's Book of..... More
Q. Horatius Flaccus Ex Recensione et cum Notis atque Emendationibus Richardi Bentleii.
Amsterdam: Rod. and Jacob. Wetstenios and Guil. Smith, 1728. [Classics] FINE PRIZE BINDING, THIRD EDITION THUS. Quarto (25 x 22cm), pp.[28] 717; [1] 239 [3]. All text in Latin. With a copper engraved frontispiece, and followed by 'Index in Q. Horatium Flaccum, olim quidem collectus a Thoma Tretero, deinde omnibus..... More
Direadh I, II and III.
Frenich and Foss: Kulgin Duval and Colin H. Hamilton, 1974. [Scottish Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (31 x 22cm), pp.[2] 52 [4]. Number 22 of just 200 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear, and printed in Dante type on Magnani paper. Publisher's red..... More
Quality Street. A Comedy in four acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1913]. [Illustrated Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[4] viii; 198 [2]. With a loose flier for the original exhibition of Thomson's watercolour illustrations for the book, November and December 1913. Complete with 22 colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece..... More
The Works of William Shakespeare. Edited, with a Scrupulous Revision of the Text, by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke.
London: Bickers and Son, 1883. [Shakespeare] FINE LEATHER PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.lxi [3] 1002 [2]. With an engraved portrait of Shakespeare and his facsimile signature underneath. Title page lettered in red and black. Contemporary burgundy full morocco, boards lavishly gilt-tooled, upper with the gilt armorial device of..... More
A Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the Great.
London: Seeley and Co., 1890. [Historical novel] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 325 [3]. With sixteen illustrations including a frontispiece. Tan full calf, gilt armorial device of St. Michael's School to upper, boards gilt-ruled. Brown label lettered in gilt, gilt-tooling, and raised bands to spine. Blind..... More
Pastors and Masters. A Study.
London: Heath Cranton, 1925. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.126 [2]. Publisher's terracotta cloth titled in black to upper board and spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 3/6 to backstrip. Margins and textblock edges lightly spotted. Ownership initials inscribed in blue ink to flyleaf. Jacket marked..... More
In Africa With the Union Jack.
London: Hutchinson and Co., No date [circa 1900]. [Colonial history] FINELY BOUND NEW EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[8] 248. With 8 full-page illustrations including a frontispiece. Red full calf, gilt armorial device to upper, boards gilt-ruled. Blue label lettered in gilt, gilt tooling, and raised bands to spine. Gilt..... More
The Watsons. With an Introduction by A.B. Walkley.
London: Leonard Parsons, 1923. [Literature] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.100. With an engraved, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Green quarter cloth, marbled paper over boards. Top edge green, the rest untrimmed. Blue endpapers. Lightly spotted throughout. Some rubbing to marbled boards. Gentle edgewear. Very good. 'In 1871 Jane Austen's nephew..... More
Miss Elizabeth Bennet. A Play from 'Pride and Prejudice.'
London: Chatto and Windus, 1936. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiv; 116. Publisher's grey cloth, paper label to spine. Top edge tinted blue. The odd internal mark, textblock edges lightly spotted with toning to top. Cloth sunned, with spotting to spine. Gentle bumping to extremities. Very good. By..... More
The Works of Joseph Conrad. Arrow of Gold, Nigger of the Narcissus, Victory, Nostromo, Rover, Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, Typhoon, Twixt Land and Sea, A Set of Six, A Personal Record, The Rescue, Within the Tides, Lord Jim, Tales of Unrest, Suspense, An Outcast of The Islands, Almayer's Folly, Tales of Hearsay, Shadow Line, Mirror of The Sea, Inheritors, Chance, Youth, Notes on Life, Romance.
New York, NY: published by Doubleday, Page and Company for WM. H. Wise and Co., 1924. [Complete Works] LEATHER-BOUND SET. Complete in 26 volumes, bound as 13. Octavo (21 x 15 x 68cm). Recently bound in tan half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to red labels, further gilt decoration..... More
Days before the Flood. A Tale.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1884. [Biblical literature] FIRST EDITION, scarce. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 134. Publisher's red cloth, gilt floral device stamped to upper, gilt titles to spine. Boards blind-ruled. Yellow endpapers. Lightly spotted/thumbed throughout, some toning to endpapers. Edges toned and spotted. Boards marked and discoloured, with..... More
Le Petit Prince.
Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1962. [Children's illustrated] VINTAGE PAPERBACK EDITION, a later impression thus. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.93 [3]. All text in French. With frequent coloured illustrations by the author. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 8NF. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise internally clean. Spine extremely heavily worn and..... More
Of Friendship. An Essay from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1901. [Philosophy] LIMITED EDITION, PRIVATE PRESS. Duodecimo (20 x 12cm), pp.[4] vi; 88 [6]. Number 448 of 500 copies thus, letterpress printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's quarter cream cloth, with gilt titles to spine and upper, and dark grey paper..... More
Miffy Goes Flying.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1971. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST UK EDITION. Square octavo (16 x 16cm), 14 leaves, with text facing full colour illustrations by the author. Publisher's red quarter leatherette, with black titles to spine and glossy illustrated paper over boards. Priced at 45p with a label to back..... More
But Flashes of Wit: Epigrams from Sir Thomas Urquhart's "Apollo & The Muses."
Tunbridge Wells: The Foundling Press, 1999. [Epigrams] LIMITED PRIVATE-PRESS EDITION. Octavo (25 x 14cm), unpaginated. Number 18 of 300 copies thus, letterpress printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's burgundy card covers, with the pink illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. Light wear and a couple of small marks to jacket, otherwise a...... More