Collected Works & Sets
A New Dictionary of the English Language.
London: William Pickering, 1839. [English Dictionary] EARLY PRINTING. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (29 x 24cm), pp.[8] [72] 1184 [4]; pp.[8] 1185-2223 [5]. Contemporary lightly-diced brown calf boards with gilt rule, recently re-backed to-style in tan calf with raised bands and gilt titles. All edges speckled red; textured orange-patterned endpapers..... More
Les Romans [The Novels]
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1920-1927. 15 volumes; 8vo. Text in French. Superb contemporary binding by Levitsky in half brown morocco with four raised bands, gilt titles and extra gilt to spines, marbled boards and end papers, top edges gilt. A very attractive set. LIMITED EDITIONS, printed on "Hollande Van Gelder" paper..... More
Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself: Illustrated From His Letters, With Occasional Notes and Narrative by John Lord Sheffield. A New Edition, with Considerable Additions.
London: John Murray, 1814. [Literature] LEATHER-BOUND SET. Octavo (23 x 14 x 18cm). Complete in five volumes. With a frontispiece portrait and other engraved illustrated plates. Contemporary binding of deep purple/dark brown full morocco. Spines gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, gilt border to boards, and coated yellow endpapers..... More
[Woburn Books Collection]. A Wedding Morn; Portrait of The Misses Harlowe; The Apple Disdained; The Man who Missed the Bus; The Male Impersonator; Alice and the Lost Novel; Fame; The Goldfish Under the Ice; A Ghost in the Isle of Wight; Triall by Armes.
London: Elkin Mathews and Marrot, 1928-1929. [Collection of Short Stories] SIGNED BY AUTHORS. Ten volumes. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.50 [2]; [2] 26 [2]; 31 [1]; 32; 28 [4]; [2] 27 [3]; 40; [2] 26 [4]; 30 [2]; 30 [2]. Publisher's paper to boards, titles and illustrations in various colours..... More
Complete Harry Potter Series. The Philosopher's Stone; The Chamber of Secrets; The Prisoner of Azkaban; The Goblet of Fire; The Order of The Phoenix; The Half-Blood Prince; The Deathly Hallows.
London: Bloomsbury, 2000-2007. [Children's Fantasy Series] COMPLETE NOVELS. Seven volumes. Octavo (14 x 20 x 30cm). The first four books are Bloomsbury hard cover reprints (28th, 28th, 28th, 22nd); remaining three volumes are Bloomsbury first impressions. All volumes in publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, each with the matching dust-jacket. Volumes I...... More
Illustrated Edition of the Select Works of John Bunyan: with an original sketch of the author's life and times; and notes by the editor of "Sturm's Family Devotions." Containing The Pilgrim's Progress; The Holy War; Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners; A Confession of My Faith; A Reason of My Faith; Jerusalem Sinner Saved; Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ; Differences in Judgement About Water Baptism; Peaceable Principles and True; The Life and Death of Mr. Badman; The Pharisee and the Publican; Bunyan's Last Sermon; Bunyan's Dying Sayings; The Life and Times of Bunyan.
London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, no date [circa 1850's]. [Christian Spirituality] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (28 x 20cm), pp.[6] 670 [4]; pp.[6] 1300 [2] cxxxvi [4]. With 31 steel-engraved plates, each with a tissue guard, including a frontispiece to each volume and a...... More
O. Henry Authorised Edition. [Complete Works of O. Henry].
New York, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co. for Review of Reviews Co., 1913. COMPLETE WORKS. 12 volumes. Octavo (19 x 14cm). With a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's red leatherette with gilt titles to spines and gilt monograms to upper boards, brown monogrammed endpapers, top edges gilt. Some volumes with..... More
Traveller's Prelude; Beyond the Euphrates; The Coast of Incense; Dust in the Lion's Paw. [A Complete set of Freya Stark's four-volume Autobiography].
London: John Murray, 1950; 1951; 1953; 1961. [Travel Autobiography] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS, First Impressions. Octavo (23 x 15 x 13cm), pp.xii; 346; pp.xiii; 341; pp.xiii; 287; pp.xii; 297. Each with a green sketch-map and numerous black and white photographic plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt..... More
Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, the complete Pan paperback 'Models' series. Comprising: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only (short stories inc. From A View To A Kill, Quantum of Solace),The Spy Who loved Me, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy and The Living Daylights (short stories)
London: Pan Books, 1969-1972. [James Bond] 11 volumes [all that were issued], octavo (18 x 12 x 15cm). A vintage set of Pan paperbacks in the classic white 'Model' series with photo covers and the bold 'James Bond' lettering designed by Raymond Hawkey. Single ink name 'Simon' to Dr.No else..... More
The James Bond Collection. Licence Renewed; For Special Services; Icebreaker; Role of Honour; Nobody Lives For Ever.
London: Swordfish, an imprint of Orion Publishing Group, 2011. [Spy novels] LIMITED BOX SET. Quality hardback re-issues of the first Jonathan Cape editions (1981-6) featuring the same dust-jacket artwork. FIRST EDITIONS thus, with a full strike-line number sequence. Octavo, five volumes in publisher's illustrated red card slip-case, showing the original..... More
A Christmas Book. An Anthology for Moderns.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1928. [Christmas stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xix; 320 [2]. With in-text illustrations and music transcriptions by A.C. Harradine, as well as a colour frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge tinted red. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... More
Lorna Doone. A Romance of Exmoor.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1893. [Romantic fiction] FINELY BOUND. Three volume edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[18] 343 [3]; pp.[10] 361 [3]; pp.[8] 358 [2]. Green half calf, blue and gilt flowered paper over boards and endpapers, gilt titles and decorations to spine, gilt ruling to boards, top..... More
Ian Fleming [Omnibus]. Dr No; Moonraker; Thunderball; From Russia With Love; On Her Majesty's Secret Service; Goldfinger.
London: William Heinemann, Secker and Warburg, and Octopus Books, 1978. [James Bond omnibus] FIRST EDITION THUS, bibliographer's copy, with scarce wraparound band. Large octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.862; [2]. Publisher's burgundy cloth, grey and blue 'Ian Fleming' printed endpapers, photographic dust-wrapper featuring colour stills from the 1962 film 'Dr. No'..... More
Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, the complete Pan paperback 'X' series. Comprising: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only (short stories inc. From A View To A Kill, Quantum of Solace), Thunderball, The Spy Who loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy and The Living Daylights (short stories).
London: Pan Books, 1960s. [Spy thrillers] JAMES BOND PAPERBACKS. Fourteen volumes. Octavos (18 x 12 x 18). A vintage set of Pan paperback printings in the classic 'X' series with cover artwork and bold 'James Bond' lettering after designs by Raymond Hawkey. Cheap paper stock toned as usual, three books..... More
Quantum of Solace. The Complete James Bond Short Stories.
London: Penguin 007, 2008. [Spy fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 14cm), pp.301, with an introduction by the respected Bond authority Henry Chancellor. In the prize-winning binding of silver-grey cloth with a silenced Walther PPK motif to upper, burgundy endpapers. Complete with the wraparound sleeve, which is gummed together at..... More
John Welcome. 'Best' anthologies, each with content from Ian Fleming [group]. Comprising Best Motoring Stories, Best Gambling Stories, Best Secret Service Stories 1-3, Best Spy Stories.
London: Faber and Faber, 1959-1967. [Literary anthology series] FIRST EDITIONS, 7 volumes, octavos (21 x 14cm). Publisher's cloth hardcovers in illustrated dust-jackets (one softcover first). Three with discreet ink names, one is price-clipped, two re-priced by the publisher. Some minor nicks/rubs to jackets. Generally a very good, presentable set. Bibliographer..... More
Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, the complete IFP 007 paperback series. Comprising: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only (short stories inc. From A View To A Kill, Quantum of Solace), Thunderball, The Spy Who loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy and The Living Daylights (short stories), together with The Diamond Smugglers & Thrilling Cities.
London: Ian Fleming Publications Ltd., 2023. [Spy thrillers] JAMES BOND PAPERBACKS, with his two non-fiction books. Sixteen volumes, octavos (20 x 13cm). A full set of this edition, all FIRST PRINTINGS with number line/strike line '1'. Publisher's softcovers with strikingly minimalist designs. Absolutely fine / as new. This is the..... More
Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, the complete Triad paperback series. Comprising: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only (short stories inc. From A View To A Kill, Quantum of Solace), Thunderball, The Spy Who loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy and The Living Daylights (short stories)
London: Triad Panther / Granada, 1977-1982. [Spy thrillers] JAMES BOND PAPERBACKS. 14 volumes, octavos (16 x 10 x 20cm). A vintage set of Triad paperbacks, ALL FIRST PRINTINGS, in the classic 'girl and gun' series with giant golden 9mm automatic pistol. Publisher's softcovers. Clean throughout, most books are fine [Moonraker..... More
The BLOFELD Trilogy: Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice.
London: Penguin Classics, 2009. [James Bond saga] FIRST EDITION, first printing, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.597. With an Introduction by Nicholas Lezard, literary critic for The Guardian. Elegantly hand-bound in half black calf, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, cloth sides, illustrated jacket panel bound in..... More
The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book; Just So Stories; Rewards and Fairies.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1924; 1926; 1926; 1924. [Literature] VINTAGE EDITIONS, pocket editions rare in dust-jackets. Four Volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[4]; vi; [2]; 276, pp.[8]; 299; [1], pp.[8]; 219; [1], pp.[4]; xii; 338; [2]. Limp red leather binding with gilt tooling to fronts and spines, gilt..... More
A History of England in the Eighteenth Century. Cabinet Edition.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899-1901. [British History] FINELY BOUND SET, the Cabinet Edition, new impressions. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (18 x 13 x 23cm). In contemporary green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and lighter green cloth over boards. Top edges gilt, and..... More
The Complete Poems and Fragments.
London: Chatto and Windus, 2013. [Poetry] REVISED CHATTO AND WINDUS EDITION, first edition thus. Two volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxvi; 194; [4], blank. pp. ix; 572 (continuation of pagination); [12], blank. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to spine, typographic dust-jackets with printed price of £40.00 to..... More
A Series of Unfortunate Events [Complete]. The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, The Wide Window, The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, The Hostile Hospital, The Carnivorous Carnival, The Slippery Slope, The Grim Grotto, The Penultimate Peril, The End, and The Unauthorized Autobiography.
London: Egmont, 2001 to 2006. [Children's Fantasy] COMPLETE UK FIRST EDITIONS. 14 volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 28cm). With in-text illustrations by Helquist. Volumes 5, 7, and the autobiography complete with wrap-around bands. Volume 8 with the dust-jacket. All in publisher's colour paper-covered boards illustrated by Helquist. Light wear..... More
'A Game of Bridge At Blades' [Moonraker] in Best Gambling Stories.
London: Faber and Faber, 1961. [High stakes anthology] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.215. Publisher's cloth hardcovers in illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 16s. Autographed in black ink to f.e.p. Some spotting to text block else a fine copy in a clean, bright wrapper. Contains the text of the..... More
Coronet Paperback editions of the James Bond series comprising Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only, Thunderball, The Spy Who loved Me, On Her Majesties Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy & The Living Daylights.
London: Coronet Books / Hodder & Stoughton, 1990s. [Spy Fiction] 14 volumes, complete. Bibliographer's copies. Octavo (18 x 12cm). Publisher's softcovers. With retro cover designs by Bill Gregory, David Scutt and Paul Robinson. Mixed printings (never available in these covers as first printings). No owner names. Paper stock a little..... More