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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
"Castelli Romani", an account of certain towns and villages in Latium, with an appendix containing short notices of Tivoli, Anzio, and Nettuno, illustrated with original sketches by Roman artists.
Florence: Alinari Brothers, 1904. FIRST EDITION. Small quarto, pp.158 [2]. With many monochrome reproductions of paintings by various artists. In publisher's cream cloth with red titles to upper board and significantly raised relief-decoration. Top edge green, others untrimmed. Some marks to boards and bumped corners, otherwise very good... More
The Age of Churchill. Heritage and Adventure 1874-1911.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1961. [Politics]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[10];627; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, blue top edge, photographic dust-jacket. Some marks to the top centimetre or so of the cloth, a couple of patches of tape burn to free endpapers, very slight bowing..... More
[Playbill for] The Exquisites.
London: Printed by W. Reynolds, Friday, June 17, 1831. [Musical Theatre] ORIGINAL PLAYBILL. A single sheet of paper (36 x 20cm), backed and mounted with cream card. Advertising a performance of the new Comedy by Telesforo de Trueba, featuring the brilliantly named Madame Pasta and Mademoiselle Taglioni. Lightly browned. A...... More
The Flowering Plants of Tunbridge Wells and Neighbourhood.
Tunbridge Wells: Stidolph and Bellamy, 1871. [Natural history] FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.vi; 371; [1], blank. Professionally recased dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, black decoration to boards. Hand coloured frontispiece showing Butomus Umbellatus. Numerous black and white illustrations. Publisher's presentation..... More
An Expensive Place to Die
Jonathan Cape, London, 1967. FIRST EDITION. Cold War -era spy thriller, set in Paris. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original dust-wrapper. Near fine, with a slight lean to book and jacket sunned to backstrip. Includes the original loose 'In Transit Docket', designed by Raymond Hawkey. HUBIN; CRIME FICTION IV. Milward-Oliver; Len..... More
An Expensive Place to Die.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. [Cold War spy thriller] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY in oversized PROOF-ONLY dust-wrapper. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.254;[2], blank. Publisher's lime-green softcovers in jacket, with traces of the bold printed word 'ENGLISH' to extreme front edge of the flap and 'PROOF ONLY' in bold to rear with provisional..... More
An Expensive Place to Die.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. [Cold War spy thriller] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY in oversized PROOF-ONLY dust-wrapper. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.254;[2] blank. Publisher's lime-green softcovers in jacket, with traces of the bold printed word 'ENGLISH' to extreme front edge of the flap and 'PROOF ONLY' in bold to rear with provisional..... More
Funeral in Berlin. Secret File No.3.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Cold-war spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY HAWKEY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's hardcover, printed black endpapers, dust-wrapper designed by Raymond Hawkey, priced at 18s. Very light wear to crown of spine else a clean, fine copy which appears unread. Autographed in blue ink by..... More
Len Deighton's Continental Dossier. A collection of cultural, culinary, historical, spooky, grim and preposterous fact compiled by Victor and Margaret Pettitt.
London: Michael Joseph, 1968. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm). Publisher's glazed photographic boards with all-over design in colour. Printed on glossy paper stock, folding cloth map at rear. A particularly fine example of an unusual 'sixties reference book, without the heavy fading to the spine that affects this title..... More
Len Deighton's Continental Dossier. A collection of cultural, culinary, historical, spooky, grim and preposterous fact compiled by Victor and Margaret Pettitt.
London: Michael Joseph, 1968. [European culture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), unpaginated. Publisher's glazed photographic boards with all-over design in colour. Printed on glossy paper stock, folding cloth map at rear. Lightly handled, top corners bumped, some fading to spine; a very good copy. Book Collector No.287 (pp.32-62) 'The..... More
Only When I Larf.
London: Penguin 1968 [1967]. A comic novel about three con-artists. FIRST TRADE EDITION, a paperback original. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.251; [5], advertisements. Publisher's photographic card covers showing some acceptable wear, spine a trifle sunned, expected toning to cheap paper. A very good copy. The true first edition following a...... More
Only When I Laugh [Larf].
New York, NY: Mysterious Press, 1987. [Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, also the FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.241; [5], blank. Publisher's green buckram blocked in gilt to spine, pale green endpapers, matching cloth slipcase. Copy No. 71 of 250, signed by Len Deighton. A fine copy in..... More
XPD.
London: Hutchinson, 1981. [Post-war spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 397; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth hardcover, red endpapers, in photographic dust-wrapper. Minor spotting to top edge else a fine copy in a fine unfaded wrapper. A popular read and certainly not a scarce book, but increasingly..... More
Give Us This Day.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1973. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.767; [1]. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated endpapers. Top edge blue. With the dust-jacket illustrated by George Chrichard. Some page corners tuned down, some marks to edges. Price-clipped jacket spine sunned, some light..... More
Morse's greatest mysteries: The inside story and Morse's greatest mystery.
London: Pan Books, 1999. EXCLUSIVE W. H. SMITHS EDITION. Softcover octavo, pp.60, bound in photgraphic wraps. Fine. Two Inspector Morse short stories printed specially for W. H. Smiths. More
Our Mutual Friend.
New York, NY: Hurd and Houghton, 1866. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND by M. Jackel and Co, NY. In four volumes. Crown octavo (18 x 12 x 11cm), pp.[4] 311 [3]; pp.[4] 306 [4]; pp.[4] 305 [3]; pp.[4] 284 [4]. With a steel engraved frontispiece to each volume. In an elegant..... More
Master Humphrey's Clock. To which are added Papers by Mr. Yellowplush.
Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1841. [Literature] CONTINENTAL EDITION. Two volumes, octavo (22 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 323; [iii], blank; pp.[viii]; 131; [ii], blank. Contemporary red quarter calf binding, title labels and decorative gilt to spine, raised bands, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers and boards. The continental edition, published a year after..... More
The Old Curiosity Shop.
London: Chapman and Hall, [1841]. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, bound with unaltered stereotype sheets from the original triple-decker; an unrecorded variant. Octavo (26 x 17cm), 228 leaves, Page 2 is numbered 2-38, p.47 numbered 47-79, p.96 numbered 96-102, p.224 blank, as per Smith, p.307 reverts to number 1 (not in Smith)..... More
Death of a Chancellor.
London: Constable, 2005. [Crime Fiction]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Octavo (22 x 14cm). Pp.[vi]; 313; [1], blank. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dustjacket. A fine, unread copy. A Lord Francis Powerscourt detective novel, set in the late Victorian period. More
Son of a Box of Punks. Original Photographs.
Brighton: [Self-published], 2006. SIGNED by the photographer. From Ian Dickson's 'Collector's Series'; a range of handmade box sets, each title containing seven hand-printed images in signed mounts; offered in Standard, Digital or De Luxe (best) edition. 'Son of a Box of Punks' comprises seven silver gelatine prints of punk and..... More
20th Century Boy. Original Photographs of Marc Bolan
Brighton: [Self-published], 2006. SIGNED by the photographer. From Ian Dickson's 'Collector's Series'; a range of handmade box sets, each title containing seven hand-printed images in signed mounts; offered in Standard, Digital or DeLuxe (best) edition. '20th Century Boy' comprises six silver gelatine prints and one colour digital print of Glam-Rock..... More
A Paladin of Philanthropy
London, 1899. Octavo.With a map of London and a frontispiece illustration. Fine late-Victorian binding by Bumpus in full green calf, gilt panels to spine, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles. Bumped to upper corner else fine. A particularly nice binding- most attractive. More
Travels In North-Western Arabia and Nejd.
Published for the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society by Edward Stanford, 1884. [Arabia] FIRST PUBLISHED APPEARANCE of Doughty's own account of his travels in Arabia, read at the evening meeting of the RGS, November 26th 1883. Pp.381-408, Extracted from the above Proceedings, with large fold-out map printed in colour..... More
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes
New York: Doubleday 1979. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.214. Publisher's hardcover in original dust-wrapper. No inscriptions or price-clipping. A near fine copy (jacket slightly rubbed). More