Literature
In Parenthesis. seinnyessit e gladyf ym penn mameu.
London: Faber and Faber, 1938. [Great War Literature] THIRD IMPRESSION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xx; 226. With two lithographic illustrations after drawings by the author, and a map. Publisher's light tan cloth with titles blocked in grey and gilt to spine. Top edge grey. With the grey typographic dust-jacket. An..... More
The Naive and Sentimental Lover.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971. [Suspense] PROOF COPY. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.416. Publisher's grey paper covers, decorated with the publisher's logo, and showing titles, publication date and a price of £2.25 in green. Black ink ownership to reverse of front cover. Covers starting to come away from the spine..... More
On Not Winning the Nobel Prize. Nobel Prize Lecture. Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.
Fyfield: Oak Tree Fine Press, 2008. [Nobel Lecture] SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONS. Two volumes. Tall octavo (27 x 15cm), pp.31 [5]; pp.31 [5]. Each letterpress printed on Zerkall mould made paper, and SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. With a woodcut portrait of the author by Abigail..... More
Contract of Copartnery of the Clydesdale Banking Company.
Glasgow: James Lumsden and Son, 1838. [Scottish Banking] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.70 [2]. Publisher's watered-silk-effect cloth over boards, with titles and crest stamped in gilt to upper. All edges gilt. A rather exquisite pencil sketch of the Clyde with square-rigged ships moored either side to verso of..... More
The Master of the Moon.
London: The Museum Press, 1952. [Science Fiction Adventure] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.223 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf: 'Tony Ashby | with best wishes from | Patrick Moore.' Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clothier..... More
Gargantua and Pantagruel.
London: The Folio Society, 2019. [Satirical Novels] LIMITED EDITION, FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Folio (38 x 28cm), pp.xxviii; 454 [6]; pp.xii; 455-949 [5]. A modern translation with Dore's original in-text wood engravings. Number 169 of 500 copies thus, typeset in Bulmer and printed on Abbey Pure Paper at..... More
New Songs of Innocence.
Edinburgh: Macniven and Wallace, 1889. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION WITH JACKET. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.viii; 109 [3]. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and boards. Top edge gilt, and blue endpapers. A really stunning, crisp example, with just a touch of spotting to cloth. The..... More
The Lemon Tree.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1937. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[18]; 29; [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with blue titles to spine, dust-jacket made by The Temple Press, with printed price of 2s 6d to flap. Light toning to board edges and spine, slight sunning to dust-jacket..... More
Gael Over Glasgow.
London: Sheed and Ward, 1937. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.ix; [1]; 357; [1]. Publisher's green cloth lettered in yellow to spine, photographic dust-jacket with printed price of 7s 6d to front flap. Top edge green. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf. Dark..... More
[The Trial of Madame Laffarge for Poisoning her Husband], The Mystery of Marie Lafarge.
London: Clerke and Cockeran, 1840 and 1951. [Original news clippings scrapbook] First Use of Forensic Evidence, contemporary newspaper reports, with a first edition of the 1951 biography by Edith Saunders. Quarto (29 x 24cm), and octavo (22 x 15cm), 31 leaves with newspaper clippings pasted to recto only in two..... More
The Tragedy of the Korosko [and] Glimpses of Nature [and] The Strange Experience of Alkali Dick [and] Silenced [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 13 and 14, numbers 77 to 84.
London: George Newnes, May to December 1897. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Eight octavo magazines (27 x 19cm), pp.xxviii; 481-600; xxix-xxxvi; pp.xxxii; 601-804; xxxiii-xlviii; pp.xxxii; 120; xxxiii-xliv; pp.xxiv; 121-240; xxv-xxxii; pp.xxiv; 241-360; xxv-xxxii; pp.xxxii; 361-480; xxxiii-xl; pp.xxxii; 481-600; xxxiii-xlviii; pp.xl; 601-804; xli-lx. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers..... More
The Steam House: The Demon of Cawnpore [and] Tigers and Traitors.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. [Science Fiction Adventure] SECOND UK EDITIONS. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (19 x 16cm), pp.viii; 262 [2]; pp.viii; 246 [2]. With a total of 98 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and..... More
King Kong. Novelization by Delos W. Lovelace. Illustrated with scenes from the Radion Picture.
New York, NY: Grosset and Dunlap, 1932. [Gorilla adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 249;[1], advertisement. Publisher's green cloth blocked in dark brown, photographic endpapers, coloured top edge. Contents very clean, spine sunned, frayed at tips. A used yet respectable copy. The ultimate monster story, giant apes, dinosaurs..... More
The Invisible Man. A Grotesque Romance.
London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897. [Speculative fiction] FIRST EDITION, first Issue. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 246; [2] advertisements. With page 1 incorrectly numbered as 2. Attractively bound in full burgundy oasis, gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, top edge gilt, original cover bound in at rear. A...... More
Jeeves and the impending Doom [within] The London Omnibus. Introduction by Carl Van Doren.
New York, NY: Doubleday Doran and Company, Inc., 1932. [Classic Humour] FIRST ANTHOLOGY EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm). Publisher's pale green cloth blocked in dark green, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at $2.50. Jacket just a touch dusty and marginally sunned to spine else a particularly fine copy which appears to be..... More
[Original Artwork for Biggles]. [Unpublished].
no date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Adventure Artwork] ORIGINAL PAINTING (38 x 57cm). Gouache painted directly onto a Winsor & Newton Fashion-Plate Drawing Board, details printed on reverse. A little rubbed, chipped and bumped to edges, but clean and bright generally. Very good. An original painting produced by Leslie Stead, or..... More
A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany.
London: Printed for the author, by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakspeare Press, and Sold by Payne and Foss, Longman, Hurst and Co., 1821. [Bibliographical Travel] FIRST EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[8] xxxii; 462; lxxx [4]; pp.[8] 555 [5]; pp.[5] 622; lxii [4]. With a...... More
The Doubly Dead.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1963. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.191 [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. Together with the original hand-painted artwork (28 x 21cm), with original notes..... More
'Puck of Pook's Hill' (complete parts), and 'Some Fore-Runners of Sherlock Holmes' in The Strand Magazine [Ten monthly parts].
London, George Newnes Jan-Dec.1906. The complete Puck in parts; FIRST APPEARANCE, preceeding the edition in book-form. Original magazine issues; 10 separate parts. Illustrated throughout. Bound in publisher's light blue pictorial wrappers. Some minor chips as expected, some adsverts excised from Feb. and June issues, but generally a very clean, attractive..... More
The Chase of the Golden Meteor.
London: Grant Richards, 1909. [Science fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.vii; 292. Navy blue cloth with white titles to spine, gilt titles and colour blocking to upper board. Illustrated with twenty-four halftone plates, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece. Ex-libris stamp front-paste down, spotting throughout, toning and spotting to..... More
A Gentleman of Leisure.
London: Alston Rivers Ltd., 1910. [Modern fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.vi; 351 [1]. An early title in the first issue binding of navy blue cloth lettered in gilt (second issue is red cloth lettered in black). Contents clean, ownership to pastedown. A used copy with flyleaf discreetly replaced, cloth rubbed..... More
The Juvenile Reader; Consisting of Religious, Moral and Intellectual Instruction; Exercises in Spelling, Explanation, and Derivation; and an Appendix, Containing Select Pieces for Recitation. By Preceptor, Member of the College of Preceptors. And Under the Auspices of the Council of Education.
London: Published by Bartholomew Harris, c.1852. [Education] SCARCE COPY. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.216. With numerous in-text woodcuts, a few of which are hand-coloured. Red full calf, with gilt titles and blind-stamped decoration to both boards. Edges speckled red. Interior toned and marked, with a few annotations in black ink..... More
Wuthering Heights. and Agnes Grey.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1858. [Literature] The Third Edition, designated 'New Edition' on the title page. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.446; [1], imprint; [1], blank; 4, advertisements. Newly bound in half burgundy calf over marbled sides, original yellow-coated advertising endpapers bound in, original printed cloth covers preserved in a...... More
The Labours of Hercules.
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1947. [Crime Short Stories] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 265 [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with dark green titles to spine and upper. Top edge black, fore-edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Herbstman, priced at $2.50. Contents clean and fresh..... More
The Mysterious Mr. Quin.
London: W.Collins Sons and Co. Ltd. 1930. [Mystery novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.287; [1], imprint. 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, pistol, moustache..... More