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Jeeves Omnibus.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1931. [Classic humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.847; [1], blank. Publisher's green cloth blocked in black, in pictorial dust-jacket by Abbey, priced 7/6 on spine. An exceptionally crisp, fine copy in a near fine wrapper with one tear to upper, minor edge wear, frayed to..... More
The Voyage Out.
London: Duckworth and Co., 1915. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.458; [6], adverts; 16, catalogue. Publisher's green cloth, titled in gilt to spine, panelled title blocked in black to upper. Custom-made clamshell box. Decorative bookplate of R.D Jackson. Some trivial wear/handling else a particularly sharp copy, from..... More
Recueil de Plans de Batailles, Sieges et Combats, Arrives dans les Expeditions Memorables de la Guerre de Sept Ans, pour Servir A L'Intelligence des Oeuvres Posthumes de Frederic II, Roi de Prusse.
Amsterdam: J. G. Treuttel, 1789. [Seven Years War] DUKE OF GRAFTON'S COPY. Folio (42 x 27cm), pp.[4] followed by 19 plates. Contemporary marbled boards, paper covered spine designed to look like speckled calf, printed paper label to spine. Introductory text in French, text to plates in either English or French..... More
Trent's Own Case.
London: Constable and Co., 1936. [Crime Mystery] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 314. Publisher's orange cloth with blue titles to spine and upper, top edge blue, in typographic dust-wrapper priced at 7/6. With author's ink inscription to flyleaf; Neil and Alice / With love from..... More
The Novels of the Sisters Brontë: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, Shirley, Villette, The Professor. The Thornton Edition.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1905. [Prose Works] LEATHER BOUND THORNTON EDITION, first printings thus. 12 volumes. Octavo (21 x 15cm). With a frontispiece illustration to each volume, and numerous black and white photographic plates showing Bronte country. Elegantly bound in navy blue half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles on twin..... More
[Arabian Nights] The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Translated from the Arabic by Captain Sir R.F. Burton. Reprinted from the original edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers. Illustrated by a series of 71 original illustrations reproduced from the original pictures in oil specially painted by Albert Letchford.
[Benares, by The Kamashastra Society, 1885] London: H.S. Nichols, 1897. The Library Edition. Printed by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers only. Complete in 12 volumes; large octavo, (27 x 18 x 56cm). Frontispiece portrait and photogravure illustrations with titled tissue guards. Publisher's original red half morocco with raised bands..... More
The ABC Murders.
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1936. [Murder mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm) pp.[x]; 306; [4], blank. Publisher's lemon yellow blue cloth blocked in dark green, top edge yellow, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust-wrapper. Fine in a price-clipped dust-jacket, which has wear at spine tips, hinges, and..... More
Evil Under The Sun.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1941. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.252 [4]. With an illustrated map of 'Leathercombe Bay', the scene of the crime. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in black. With the illustrated dust-jacket. No inscriptions, contents clean, page edges show some dustiness..... More
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
London: W. Collins and Sons and Co. Ltd., 1926. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.312. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth, red lettered title and border, with titles in red to spine. Contents clean, edges toned with some spotting, top edge browned, neat ink ownership..... More
[War Speeches 1938-1945]: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill.
London: Cassell and Company, 1941-6. [Speeches] FIRST EDITIONS, all first impressions ('Into Battle' is a first state). Seven volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 19cm). Includes several half-tone plates. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spines. All in original colour dust-jackets, none of which are price-clipped. Wartime paper..... More
The World Crisis 1911-1918. [Complete in six volumes, including: 1911-1914; 1915; 1916-1918 Part I; 1916-1918 Part II; The Aftermath; The Eastern Front].
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923-1931. [Military history] FIRST EDITIONS. Octavo (24 x 16 x 29cm), pp.[8] 536; pp.557 [3]; pp.292; pp.x; 293-589 [1]; pp.474 [2]; pp.368. With errata slips, illustrated with black and white plates and folding maps. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt to spines. Crisp, clean copies showing some..... More
Original artwork for Cold.
[1996]. Original drawing on artist's board with textured surface (c. 300 x 210 mm), watercolour and gouache, signed ("Scutt") lower right, taped to an accompanying paper sheet. Booklabel to lower left corner. Small mark on paper sheet, artwork in fine condition. A preliminary drawing by David Scutt for the dust..... More
Original artwork for SeaFire.
[1994]. Original drawing on textured card (c. 235 x 143 mm), oil and gouache, signed ("Scutt") lower right, taped to an accompanying acetate sheet. Tape marks to verso of artwork, colours bright. In fine condition. An evocative preliminary design by David Scutt for the dust jacket of SeaFire (1994) by..... More
The Centenary Edition of the Works of Ian Fleming.
London: The Queen Anne Press, 2008. [James Bond] LIMITED EDITION. Complete in 18 volumes. The definitive edition of Ian Fleming's works, issued to commemorate the birth of the author; no such edition has been published before. Number 32 of 250 sets thus, bound by Shepherds, Sangorski and Sutcliffe in dark..... More
Thunderball.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1961 [actually issued December 1960]. [Thriller] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the first edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254. Publisher's lime green softcovers with 'greek urn' device repeated in white, titles printed in black. Contents clean, reader's name to first blank, in address (Hastings, East Sussex) to rear..... More
Cold [James Bond series].
London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1996. [Spy thriller ] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.213. An exceptional copy, with an original watercolour illustration from the jacket artist David Scutt to flyleaf, with his 'chop' stamp and signature. Publisher's blue cloth hardback cloth in a pictorial dust-wrapper. A fine copy, housed in a bespoke..... More
The Secret Families [Inscribed Typescript with Associated Correspondence].
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. [Spy Thriller] INSCRIBED ORIGINAL TYPESCRIPT. 437 sheets of type-written A4 paper, with the title leaf INSCRIBED by the author in black ink: 'To Gary, | With all good wishes — | yours | John Gardner.' Also with a separate Compliments leaf on US..... More
The Bear Fell Free.
London: Grayson and Grayson, 1935. [Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Slim octavo (22 x 15cm). One of the titles in "The Grayson Books" series, a collection of signed limited editions by notable authors. Publisher's gilt decorated green-brown cloth, illustrated endpapers, cream and blue dust-wrapper. Boards a little bowed, jacket with..... More
The Collected Edition of the Works of Graham Greene: Brighton Rock, It's A Battlefield, England Made Me, Our Man In Havana, The Power & The Glory, The Heart of The Matter, The Confidential Agent, A Gun for Sale, The Ministry of Fear, The Quiet American, Stamboul Train, The End of The Affair, A Burnt-Out Case, The Man Within, The Third Man & Loser Takes All, The Comedians, Collected Stories, Journey Without Maps, The Lawless Roads, Travels With My Aunt, The Honorary Consul and The Human Factor.
London: Heinemann and The Bodley Head, 1969-1982. [Modern Literature] THE COLLECTED EDITION. First editions thus, complete as published in 22 volumes and additionally with the volume of essays published in 1969. All volumes are first printings of the collected edition and include a new introduction by the author. Publishers' bright..... More
Live In Japan.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1993. [Rock and Pop] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Folio (35 x 27cm), pp.274. Number 1205 of 3500 copies thus, SIGNED by George Harrison in brown ink to a label on the front pastedown. With a foreword by Eric Clapton and text by George Harrison plus members of the..... More
The Jungle Book [and] The Second Jungle Book.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1894; 1895. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 212; pp.[6] 238 [2]. With frequent in-text illustrations by the author's father John, as well as a frontispiece and a number of full page plates to volume I. Publisher's blue cloth..... More
No Voyage.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1963. [American Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 56. Publisher's green patterned paper-covered boards with spine lettered in gilt, deckled fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust-jacket priced 15s. Owner's small and unobtrusive name to front endpaper, else clean and fine, in a bright, near..... More
Yoko Ono at Lisson. Half-A-Wind Show. Oct 11 -Nov. 14, 1967.
London: Lisson Gallery, 1967. [Exhibition programme/synopsis] FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Slim booklet comprising four text sheets (26 x 21cm), staples twice to left hand side. Illustrated cover/first sheet "Have You Seen A Horizon Lately?". Includes the two-page article 'Some Notes on the Lisson Gallery Show' penned by Yoko Ono. Lightly..... More
The Flood.
Edinburgh: Polygon, 1986. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, the author's own copy. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.188 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Kerry Kirkwood, priced at £9.95. Including a letter detailing..... More
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. A New Edition: comprehending A Life of the Author, and A View of the Doctrine of Smith compared with that of the French Economists.
Glasgow: At the University Press, 1805. [Economics] Complete in three volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), [Vol.I] pp.[iv]; iv; lvi; 360; [Vol.II] pp.[ii]; iv; vi; 512; [4], Appendix; [Vol.III]; pp.[11]; ii; 448 [52], Index. Contemporary brown acid-stained patterned calf boards, re-backed to style circa 1890s in brown calf, with gilt titles..... More