Literature
In Our Time.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1926. [American Literature] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.248; [2]. Elegantly hand-bound in half black calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands. Contents clean, some minor toning to edges of text block, exterior as new. A near..... More
The Strange Land.
London: The Book Club, 1955. [Suspense Thriller] BOOK CLUB EDITION WITH ORIGINAL ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Biro, priced at 3/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Biro (20 x 28cm). Presented in a custom-made..... More
The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1904. [Pre-Raphaelite Poetry] FIRST KING-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 310. With 96 illustrations by King, including a frontispiece, decorated title page, and numerous in-text illustrations and full-page plates. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and boards. Top edge..... More
Galatea. A Novel.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1978. [Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.287; [1]. publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Linda Garland with printed price of £5.75 net. Signed by the author to the title page. Small bump to the top of the..... More
The Plays of Shakspeare [Shakespeare].
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. [Shakespeare] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND SET. Twelve volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 44cm). With an engraved portrait frontispiece of the Bard to volume I, and an engraved headpiece for each play by various artists. Contemporary green half morocco, with gilt titles and..... More
The Mysterious Island (part II): Abandoned.
New York: Scribner's & Sons, 1880. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 304; [10]. With a frontispiece and 49 (of 50) engraved plates by Ferat. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spines and uppers, bevelled edges, coated yellow endpapers. No inscriptions..... More
The American Gun Club.
New York, NY: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1874. [Science Fiction] FIRST THUS, a partial reprint of 'From the Earth to the Moon.' Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] viii; 142 [4]. With 24 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Brown-coated endpapers. Inside..... More
A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. The Dark Lantern; Donkey Boy; Young Phillip Maddison; How Dear Is Life; A Fox Under My Cloak; The Golden Virgin; Love and the Loveless; A Test to Destruction; The Innocent Moon; It Was the Nightingale; The Power of the Dead; The Phoenix Generation; A Solitary War; Lucifer Before Sunrise; The Gale of the World.
London: Macdonald and Co., 1951-1969. [Autobiographical Novel Series] 13 FIRST EDITIONS, two titles are second impressions ('The Golden Virgin' and 'A Fox Under My Cloak' 1962). Fifteen volumes. Octavo (21 x 14 x 53cm). Publisher's variously coloured cloth with gilt titles to spines (The Innocent Moon' is lettered in silver)..... More
Sketches in Bedlam; or Characteristic Traits of Insanity, as Displayed in the Cases of One Hundred and Forty Patients of Both Sexes, now, or Recently Confined in New Bethlem, Including Margaret Nicholson, James Hatfield, Patrick Walsh, Bannister Truelock, and Many Other Extraordinary Maniacs, who have been Transferred from Old Bethlem. To the Above are Added a Succinct History of the Establishment, Its Rules, Regulations, Forms of Admission, Treatment of Patients, &c. &c. By a Constant Observer. Skulduggery Pleasant.
London: Sherwood, Jones & Co., 1823. [Psychiatry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xl; 312. Attractively bound in period-style half speckled calf with twin red and green morocco labels lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled covered sides, deckled edges uncut. Contents with a few minor marks, half title repaired and..... More
Background to Danger.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. [Intrigue] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.280; [1], blank; [1], advertisements; [2], blank. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in burgundy, pictorial jacket priced at $2.00. Edges of text block toned, ink ownership to flyleaf, jacket with a few chips and tears, clipped..... More
The Night-Comers.
London: William Heinemann, 1956. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY, superb association. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 233. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine, in decorative dust-jacket designed by Judith Bledsoe, priced at 13/6. With author's ink note to flyleaf; Roy and Joan. / with love / Eric..... More
[Minor Works Collection]. Love and Friendship; The Memoir of Jane Austen; Volume the First; Volume the Third; Lady Susan; Sanditon; The Watsons.
1) London: Chatto and Windus; 2-7) Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1922-1951. [Literary Juvenilia and Fragments] MINOR WORKS COLLECTION. Seven volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 13cm). All in publisher's cream quarter cloth with light blue paper-covered boards, except 'Love and Friendship', which is in quarter red cloth with gilt..... More
The Novel Library Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Persuasion; Northanger Abbey; Mansfield Park; Emma.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1948-1952. [Literature] THE NOVEL LIBRARY EDITIONS. Three Volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.[4] viii; 386; viii; 373 [5]; pp.[4] vi; 254; viii; 235 [5]; pp.[4] viii; 477 [1]; x; 496 [6]. Red half morocco with red cloth over sides, raised bands, gilt tooling and gilt..... More
The Holy Bible. A Critical Commentary and Paraphrase on the Old and New Testament and the Apocrypha.
London: Richard Priestley, 1822. FINELY BOUND. Quarto (32 x 26 x 28cm). Bound in contemporary diced tan calf, gilt titles on black calf squares to spine, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of Bishop Patrick to volume I, folding map of the Holy Lands in volume V. Bookplate of..... More
The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer. The Fourteenth Edition: To which is added an Appendix, including the Statures of the last Session of Parliament (20G.3.) and some adjudged Cases.
London: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall for T. Cadell, 1780. [English Legal Procedure] FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING, the fourteenth edition. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 19cm), pp.[2] xxviii; 540 [6]; pp.[2] 607 [1]; pp.[2] 581 [5]; pp.[4] 504 [170]. With an unpaginated table of statutes..... More
...Or Be He Dead.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by William Randell, not priced. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (23 x 18cm)..... More
Murder In Mesopotamia (A Hercule Poirot novel).
London: For the Crime Club by Collins, 1936. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.284; [4], advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in half tan calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands. Contents clean with a few small marks/spots within, exterior as new. A...... More
The Secret of Chimneys.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1925. [Mystery novel] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; [2]; 310. Publisher's navy cloth, red titles to upper and spine. Top edge red, fore untrimmed. A short tear at the top of the spine, one corner bumped, else very good indeed. Rather scarce. A...... More
Black Boomerang. The Story of his secret 'Black Radio' operation in World War 2.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1962. [Wartime memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.320. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Peter Barrett, priced 35/-. Contents clean, cloth covers rather mottled and discoloured, jacket near fine. Bibliographer Jon Gilbert's copy (pencilled ownership within). A...... More
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.
London: John Murray, 1927. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip. Contents very clean, edges free from spotting and toning, neat ink ownership to free endpaper, covers fresh, spine a touch sunned and rubbed at tips. A...... More
The Hound of The Baskervilles.
New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1902. [Detective fiction] FIRST ISSUE (of four), of the First American edition, without the 'R' on the copyright page. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 249; [1], blank; [8], advertisements; [2], blank. Title page printed in black and red. With eight black and white illustrated..... More
The Scapegoat [with a Typed Letter Signed].
London: Victor Gollancz, [and] Menabilly, Cornwall, 9th March 1957. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION with a TYPED LETTER SIGNED. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.368. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to spine. With the yellow typographic dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Together with a typed letter on headed notepaper addressed to Ivor Brown..... More
Trial from Ambush.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1962. [Crime Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION WITH ORIGINAL ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Randell, not priced. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (34 x 26cm), with..... More
The African Queen.
London: William Heinemann, 1935. [WWI adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.283; [1], blank. Elegantly hand-bound in half tan calf with gilt titles to spine, raised bands, matching cloth sides, publisher's original cloth spine preserved at rear. Contents clean with some very light expected reading marks, edges gently toned..... More
I, Claudius [and] Claudius The God.
London: Arthur Barker, 1934. [Historical Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, First Impressions. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 9cm), pp.494 [2]; pp.[2] 575 [2]. With a folding family tree of the Julio-Claudian dynasty to rear of each volume. Recently re-bound in red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More