Literature
Funeral in Berlin. Secret File Number 3.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Cold-war spy thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[1] 319 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with blue rubber-stamp motif and blind 'downgraded to unclassified' box blocked to upper board, gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey priced at..... More
The Christmas Books. Being; A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man.
London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1905-1907. [English literature] FIRST EDITIONS THUS, Illustrations in colour by Charles Brock. Five volumes, octavo (18 x 12 x 15cm). Bound in full festive cranberry red morocco with holly green labels, raised bands, gilt rules, cloth sides, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Housed in a...... More
A Tale of Two Cities. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1860. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, THIRD ISSUE. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 254 [2]. With 16 engraved plates by "Phiz", including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Lacking the signature 'b' on the list of plates, and the pagination of p.213 is corrected, but 'affectionately'..... More
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. The Virginia Edition.
New York, NY: Thomas Y. Cromwell, 1902. [Strange Tales and Mysteries]. FINELY BOUND COMPLETE WORKS. Seventeen volumes. Crown octavo (16 x 11 x 39cm). With frontispiece engravings. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting green and brown labels to spines, gilt decoration to spines and marbled..... More
The Godfather Papers, and Other Confessions [Author's Master Galley Proof].
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1972. [Literary Autobiography] MASTER GALLEY PROOF. 94 loose sheets 65 x 20cm, roneo'd to one side only, with frequent corrections and notes by the author in thick red and blue ink, and by the printer in black ink and red pencil. Impossibly long sheets are..... More
The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras.
Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. [Adventure novel] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 440; [2], blank. With two hundred and fifty illustrations by Riou. Publisher's gilt-pictorial green cloth hardcovers, coated brown endpapers. Contents fine, page edges a little toned, cloth a trifle shelfworn. A lovely..... More
Laughing Gas.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1936. [Comic novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.312; [8], adverts. Publisher's red cloth with black titles, top edge red, illustrated dust-wrapper priced 7/6. Bright and clean inside, edges a little dusty/spotted, jacket is bright with small chip at crown and a few resulting creases tears..... More
Three Plays. The Living Room, The Potting Shed, and The Complaisant Lover.
London: Mercury Books / Heinemann, 1961. [Drama] FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION, GREENE FAMILY COPY, INSCRIBED by the author to his wife. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.237; [2], blank. Publisher's softcovers. With presentation note to flyleaf; For Vivien / with love from / Graham [underlined]. Light handling and soiling, spine toned; near..... More
The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Letters volumes I and II. The text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes, and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1923-1932. [Classic Literature] First Oxford Edition. Large Paper, limited to 1000 sets. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 35cm), pp.[6] xiv; 429 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 415 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 567 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 521 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 252; 310 [2]. With a...... More
The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Letters volumes I and II. The text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes, and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1923-1932. [Classic Literature] First Oxford Edition. Large Paper, limited to 1000 sets. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 35cm), pp.[6] xiv; 429 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 415 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 567 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 521 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 252; 310 [2]. With a...... More
The Riddle of the Sands.
London: Smith Elder and Co., 1903. [Espionage novel] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xii; 336 [8]. Illustrated with maps and charts, including a folding frontispiece. Bound in black full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and gilt ruling to raised bands and covers..... More
N or M?
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1941. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Thompson, not priced (an export copy). A small notation of 'First Edition' in black ink inside front cover, hidden..... More
The Apple Tree [The Birds].
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1952. [Macabre/Strange tales] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.264. Publisher's red cloth in illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Val Biro, priced at 10/6. With author's inscription to the title page: For Roy. With best wishes / from / Daphne du Maurier / 1988..... More
The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Accession of Henry VII; under the House of Tudor; the Revolution in 1688.
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1759-1762. [English History] FINELY BOUND QUARTO EDITIONS, volumes I-IV FIRST EDITIONS, volumes V and VI NEW EDITIONS. Complete in six volumes. Quarto (26 x 22 x 20cm), pp.viii; 424; pp.viii; 446 [2]; pp.[2] viii; 402 [2]; pp.[2] iv; 403-739 [3], pp.vi; 473 [1]; pp.[2] vi;..... More
The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw [and] Covering End.
London: William Heinemann, 1898. [Strange tales] FIRST EDITION, first impression, earliest state. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[iv]; 310; [2], blank; [32], catalogue. Title page printed in two colours. Publisher's mid-blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper cover, with four irises in blind to centre of same, edges untrimmed..... More
Gösta Berlings saga.
Stockholm: Frithiof Hellbergs förlag, 1891. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[4]; 287; [1] map; pp.[4]; 296. Publisher's black card covers printed in orange. Fragile card binding exhibits acceptable wear, some creasing, name 'Lizzie Hallborg' (partially obscured) to each flyleaf. A very good set of this important..... More
A Rationale Upon the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England.
London: Are to be sold by T. Garthwait, 1655. [Religion] FIRST EDITION, scarce. Duodecimo (15 x 9cm), pp.[12]; 168; [12]. With the engraved frontispiece. Errata to rear. Brown full calf. Boards double ruled, seven rulings in blind to spine. Edges speckled red. Interior clean though toned with very minimal spotting..... More
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (Tom Sawyer's Comrade).
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. [Literary classic] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.xvi; 438; [2], blank. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Exquisitely bound by Frost of Bath in full scarlet polished calf with full gilt back, twin title labels, marbled endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, original decorative cloth..... More
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (Tom Sawyer's Comrade).
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. [Literary classic] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.xvi; 438 [34]. Catalogue dated October 1884. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Publisher's brown foliate endpapers. Presented in a black quarter morocco clamshell box, with..... More
Cesar Cascabel.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1891. [Adventure novel] FIRST UK EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii, 313; [1], imprint; [2], list of works; [32], ads. With eighty wood-engraved illustrations by George Roux, including a frontispiece. In publisher's blue-green cloth with gilt titles and polychrome blocked illustrations to spine..... More
Carry On Jeeves.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1925. [Jeeves and Wooster] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's green cloth, with black titles and decoration to spine and boards, illustrated dust-jacket priced 3/6 and conforming to the bibliography in every respect. Contents clean with some light spotting to edges of text block on..... More
Stories from Hans Andersen. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.viii; 250 [2]. With 28 colour plates illustrated by Dulac, including a frontispiece. An out-of-series copy numbered 0000, from a series numbered officially at 750 copies thus, SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to the..... More
The Catcher in the Rye.
Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1951. FIRST EDITION. Octavo., pp.277. Elegantly bound in black full morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, original spine bound in at rear. A clean, fresh copy with one faint mark to half-title, in a fine, unmarked recent..... More
The Daughters of Danaus.
London: Bliss, Sands and Foster, 1894. [Feminist Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.491; [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. All edges untrimmed. Browning and very light spotting to edges and preliminaries. Neat later ownership to title page, blind bookseller's stamp to rear..... More