Literature
A Kind Of Loving
London: Michael Joseph, 1960. [Romantic Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.286 [2]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, with the dust-jacket designed by Adrian Bailey priced at 16s. Heavy toning to edges, with some spotting to margins. Jacket toned, with wear and chipping to edges. Very..... More
A Kind Of Loving.
London: Michael Joseph, 1960. [Romantic fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.286; [2]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Adrian Bailey. Light toning to interior, some spotting and offsetting to preliminaries and rear leaves. Ownership inscription in brown ink to flyleaf. Price..... More
The Lonely Rhinoceros.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Small quarto (24 x 26cm), pp.[24]. With colour illustrations by Manhes to almost every page. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, priced at £3.95. Light rubbing and bumping. Near fine. More
Tears of the Desert. One Woman's True Story of Surviving the Horrors of Darfur.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2008. [Memoir] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xi; [3]; 367; [3]. SIGNED by both authors in black ink to flyleaf. Publisher's red cloth, blue titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £12.99 to front flap. Some very faint foxing to top edge..... More
The Cruise of The Breadwinner.
London: Michael Joseph, 1946. [Maritime Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.63 [1]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and a silver device to upper. Endpapers illustrated by Broom Lynne. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, also by Broom Lynne, priced at 5s. Some rubbing and light chipping to..... More
The Jacaranda Tree.
London: Michael Joseph, 1949. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's blue cloth, silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 9s 6d to front flap. Top edge blue. Some toning to edges and spine. Bright jacket shows just a little wear to edges. A...... More
[Scrapbook].
[Privately produced]. 1892- circa 1903. LATE VICTORIAN SCRAPBOOK. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[16]; 1-2; 9-68. With three leaves removed near the beginning, and two from the back. Containing a great panoply of decorative monograms, crests and printed signatures and addresses belonging to the English gentry, cut from letters or..... More
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The Centenary Edition.
London: Pavilion, 1999. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST FOREMAN ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.160. With colour illustrations by Foreman throughout. SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to title page. Publisher's green paper-covered boards with gilt titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by..... More
By the Way.
London: Sheed and Ward, 1931. [Humour] FIRST THUS. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.390; [2]. With numerous pen and ink illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. Colour halftone illustration by Bentley adhered to front pastedown. Publisher's green cloth to boards, blue titles to upper and spine. Top edge blue. Leaves lightly toned, spotting..... More
Anvil of Stars.
London: Century, A Legend Book, 1992. [Science Fiction] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[10] 442 [4]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page, and hand numbered 132 of 200 copies thus 'Edinburgh Edition (2)'. Publisher's red and black buckram, titled in white to spine and..... More
An Historical Account of Thomas Sutton Esq.; and of his Foundation in Charter-House.
London: Printed by E. Owen, and sold by F. Gyles in Holborn; W. Hinchliffe in Cornhill; Mess. J. and P. Knapton in Ludgate-Street. 1737. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 276. With an engraving by George Vertue between pages 160-161. Errata to page 276. Missing the folding plate..... More
The Green Lacquer Pavilion.
London: W. Collins Sons and Co., 1926. [Adventure Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[8] 319 [1]. With nine in-text wood-cuts and a frontispiece portrait of the author by Dulac. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt titles to green label on spine, and a gilt and green device stamped to..... More
Proust | Three Dialogues.
London: John Calder, 1965. [Literary and Art Criticism] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.126 [2]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the orange dust-jacket, priced at 18s. A nice crisp, clean copy, with just a little wear to jacket edges. Near fine. A republication of Beckett's..... More
Company.
London: John Calder, 1980. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.89; [1]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of £5.60 to front flap. Some scuffing and marking to back board. Near fine. 'Company' is a novella which is narrated from..... More
Waiting For Godot. A Tragicomedy in Two Acts.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1959. [Drama] FIRST SOFTCOVER EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.94 [2]. Publisher's orange wraps priced at 4s 6d to inner cover. Lightly annotated in pencil throughout. Some faint spotting/mottling to edges. Spine sunned, minor edgewear. Loose leaf of type inserted. Very good. Beckett's monumental drama..... More
Lytton Strachey. The Rede Lecture 1943.
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1943. [Literary Lecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.27 [1]. Publisher's pink paper covers, sewn and glued. Very light handling, with a touch of sunning to spine. Near fine. More
The Boy's Own Volume of Fact, Fiction, History, and Adventure.
London: S.O. Beeton, 1863. [Anthology] FINE ILLUSTRATED COPY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 552 [4]. With 24 engraved plates including a frontispiece, and numerous other in-text illustrations. Green publisher's cloth, lavishly stamped in both gilt and blind. Titles to upper and spine. Yellow coated endpapers. All edges gilt. Interior lightly..... More
Teems of Times and Happy Returns.
London: Heinemann, 1961. [Literary Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[12] 234 [2]. With two double-sided black and white photographic plates and a frontispiece sketch of the author. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the brown dust-jacket designed by Leslie Needham, priced at 18s. A lovely..... More
The Endless Chain.
London: Alvin Redman Limited, 1956. [Crime Fiction] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.256. INSCRIBED by the author in green ink to title page: 'Dear John | For Greene may come and | Waugh may go | But I go on forever | - well, nearly. | Warmest regards..... More
I am Legion.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 380 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in green ink to title page: 'John R. Cronland | with all kind thoughts | from Neil Bell | Brixham | June, 1950.' Publisher's black cloth with silver titles..... More
Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Volumes One and Two: Virginia Stephen 1882-1912; Mrs Woolf 1912-1941.
London: Hogarth Press, 1972. [Literary Biography] UNCORRECTED PROOFS. Two volumes. Octavos (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 216 [18], pp.[4] xii; 283 [13]. Illustrated with black & white plates. Bound in publisher's printed beige paper wraps. Spines a little wrinkled else a crisp, fine set. Uncommon in this format. More
Mr Sammler's Planet.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. [Modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 314. Publisher's blue cloth, silver titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at £1.75 to front flap. Blue endpapers. Interior lightly toned to margins. Toning to top of cloth. Sunning to jacket backstrip, minor..... More
Selected Articles on Censorship of the Theater and Moving Pictures. The Handbook Series III, Volume 6.
New York, NY: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1931. [Film and Theatre] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.385; [3]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of $2.40 to spine. Very light spotting and browning. Jacket browned with some small chips to edges. A remarkably well-preserved..... More
The Fourth of June
London: Anthony Blond. 1962. [Modern Fiction] FIRST EDITION, second printing. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.208. Publisher's hardback cloth in a pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Richard Chopping priced 18s. Text block a little dusty, jacket spotted to rear. Very good. The author's debut novel set in Eton College. This title was..... More
The Fourth of June.
London: Pan Books, 1964. [Modern Fiction] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.176. Publisher's sofcovers. The author's debut novel set in Eton College. A particularly fine, bright copy. This title was reviewed upon publication by Ian Fleming, who was an Old Etonian. The paperback features a supporting quote from..... More