Literature
A Sporting Tour Through Various Parts of France, In the Year 1802: Including a Concise Description of the Sporting Establishments, Mode of Hunting, and Other Field-Amusements, as Practised in that Country With General Observations on the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Husbandry, and Commerce: Strictures on the Customs and Manners of the French People; With a View of the Comparative Advantages of Sporting in France and England. In a Series of Letters to the Right Hon. The Earl of Darlington. To Which is Prefixed, an Account of French Wolf-Hunting. By Colonel Thornton, of Thornville-Royal, Yorkshire. Illustrated With Upwards of Eighty Correct and Picturesque Delineations from Original Drawings from Nature, by Mr. Bryant, and Other Eminent Artists. In Two Volumes.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1806. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, in two volumes. Quartos (30 x 24cm), pp.lxvi; 168; [6], pp.xii; 260; [12]. With numerous in-text engravings and 51 engraved plates across the two volumes, some of them fold-out. Both with frontispieces and vignette title pages, frontispiece of volume II..... More
The Flight to France, or, The Memoirs of a Dragoon: A Tale of the Days of Dumouriez.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1888 [1892]. [Historical Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION, a later issue. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.viii; 231 [33]. Publisher's catalogue dated 1892. With 32 engraved plates, including a frontispiece, by Roux. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration, re-backed in matching green..... More
The Mask Of Dimitrios.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. FIRST EDITION. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone novel. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.320. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Internally very clean with no ownership marks, bookplates or inscriptions. Covers are fresh but for a little sunning to spine, a few small marks and the..... More
The Ace of Knaves (The Saint).
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937. [Mystery collection] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (18.5 x 13cm), pp.316; [4], advertisement. Publisher's cornflower blue cloth with blue endpapers in pictorial dust jacket priced at 7s 6d. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A fine copy of the book in a bright, near fine wrapper with..... More
The Big Four.
London: W. Collins and Sons. 1927. [Crime] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.v, 281; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in red to spine and upper. Some spotting to contents and edges (thick, fluffy paper is susceptible), covers fresh and bright, spine gently toned, lightly worn at tips. A very..... More
Partners in Crime.
London: Collins, 1929. [Detective fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.252; [4], advertisements. Publisher's black cloth with titles in red to spine and upper, ruled in red. With pictorial facsimile dust-jacket, produced by Facsimile Dust Jackets LLC. Foxing to fore-edge. Cloth is fresh with no wear to spine ends..... More
Don Quixote; Pamela; Peruvian Tales etc; Arabian Nights [Four bound volumes of The Novelist's Magazine].
London: Harrison and Co., Paternoster Row, 1782-6. [Literature] Four volumes, octavo (21 x 14 x 19). Vignette engraved illustrations to title pages. Engravings to Pamela (XIV plates) and Peruvian Tales (XV plates). Bound in simple red half English calf over marbled sides, five raised bands, simple gilt rule and titles..... More
The Friend of the Family, or, Stepantchikovo and its Inhabitants, and another story. The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky Volume XII.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. [Russian Literature] FIRST GARNETT EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 361 [3]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a gilt device to upper. Spotting and toning to edges and endpapers. Browning throughout; quite heavily to margins. Spine sunned with a few..... More
A Passage to India.
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. [Bloomsbury] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.325; [3], advertisements. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper. No inscriptions, contents clean and fresh with just a few minor spots, endpapers toned as usual, binding tight with one small bump..... More
The Achilles Affair.
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1959. [Adventure Thriller] FIRST US EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY with superb, lengthy inscription signed by the author. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's hardcovers, illustrated duct-wrapper priced at $3.50, with promotional wraparound band with supporting quote by Erle Stanley Gardner. Inscription reads; To Tony and..... More
Manuscript letter responding to an editor's request.
London [105 Great Russell Street, WC1] 1972. A brief signed letter, written in black ink, nine lines in total including handwritten address and salutation, declining an offer to contribute material. Single sheet of writing paper (25 x 20cm), folded twice. Near fine, in a grey cloth folder with gilt lettering..... More
Mistress Branican.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [circa 1902]. [Mystery Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 360. With a selection of Benett's engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and polychrome decoration to spine and upper. Black ink church choir..... More
Malice Domestic.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1962. [Legal Mystery] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Rose. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Rose (28 x 22cm), with original..... More
The Romance of the Echoing Wood.
Newport: R.H. Johns, the "Directory" Press, 1937. [Welsh Fairy Tale] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[8] 43 [5]. Number 50 of just 220 copies, SIGNED by all the contributors, including the publisher, to the limitation page. With wide marginal illustrations and three full page plates all engraved..... More
Master Humphrey's Clock [The Old Curiosity Shop; Barnaby Rudge].
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41. [English Literature] FIRST EDITION in book-form. 3 volumes, quartos (25 x 17 x 9cm), pp.[2] iv; 306, pp.vi; 306, pp.vi; 426 [4]. With illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Publisher's vertically-ribbed brown cloth, elaborately blocked in gilt and blind, with gilt-blocked clock design to..... More
The Novels of Jane Austen, in Ten Volumes: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; and Emma]. Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1895-97. [Classic Literature] COMPLETE SET, later impressions thus. Ten volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 20cm). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece portrait, and two or three other illustrations by William Cubit Cooke, and ornaments by F.C. Tilney. Publisher's light green cloth, with gilt titles..... More
The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain. A Romance of Chivalry. Originally Translated from the French by John Bourchier, Lord Berners. A New Edition. With a Series of Plates, from the Illuminated Drawings contained in a valuable Ms. of the Original Romance.
London: Printed for White, Cochrane and Co., 1814. Limited Edition to 175 regular copies. Quarto; pp: half title page, frontispiece, title page, (12), (1), vi - xxvii, (1), iv, 544. Illustrated with black and white plates based on drawings from the original manuscript. Complete. This edition is edited by Edward..... More
Sir Quixote of The Moors. Being Some Account of an Episode in the Life of the Sieur de Rohaine.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (20 x 12cm), pp.188 [4]. Red publisher's cloth, pictorial design blocked in colour and titles in black to upper and spine. Fore edge untrimmed. Interior lightly toned, with the odd mark here and there. Toning and faint offsetting to endpapers. Cloth..... More
The Innocence of Father Brown.
London: Cassell and Company, 1911. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 336. Publisher's red cloth, with gilt titles to spine and upper cover. Contents clean, discreet bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, hand-coloured and illuminated bookplate of renowned bibliophile Stanley Crowe, gift inscription to reverse side of frontispiece..... More
The Listerdale Mystery. And Other Stories.
London: Collins, 1934. [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.251; [5 of advertisements]. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt, with gilt motifs of dagger..... More
Horse Under Water. Secret File No. 2. A Novel by Len Deighton.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Espionage fiction] FIRST EDITION. Two copies (regular and variant). Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.255;[1] blank. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Black "office stamp" motif and blind-stamped DOWNGRADED TO UNCLASSIFIED on front board, with plain black endpapers. Dust-wrapper designed by Raymond Hawkey. With a...... More
The Ipcress File.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1962. [Cold-War thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's orange cloth in original dust-wrapper (without reviews) designed by Raymond Hawkey. Owner name to f.e.p, minor wear and handling, a little rubbed to crown. Very good indeed. Author's debut spy novel, a landmark in the..... More
The King's General.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1946. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.298 [1], Acknowledgements; [1], blank. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the distinctive yellow Gollancz dust-jacket, priced at 9/6. With author's inscription to title: 'For Frieda my / friend and neighbour /..... More
The Crime at Honotassa.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1962. [Historical Crime Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION WITH ORIGINAL ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Rose, priced at 12/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Rose (32 x...... More
A Ship of the Line.
London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1938. [Naval fiction] FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.304; [1], advert; [3], blank. Second issue; sheets bound up later in the orange cloth (rather than blue), blocked in black to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by Rowland Hilder, clipped and priced down to 3/6..... More