Literature
A Few Late Chrysanthemums.
London: John Murray, 1954. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.viii; 95 [1]. Publisher's purple cloth, with printed titles to a plain paper label pasted to upper. With the plain yellow typographic dust-jacket, priced at 9/6. Blue ink ownership to fly-leaf. Spotting to jacket, with some toning also to..... More
Sand and Canvas; a Narrative of Adventures in Egypt, with a Sojourn Among the Artists in Rome.
London: Charles Gilpin, 1849. [Travel Memoirs] FIRST EDITION, an association copy. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] xii; 370 [2]. With eight engraved plates, including a frontispiece, after drawings by the author, six being hand-coloured, each with a tissue guard. Pencil note to verso of fly-leaf stating: 'Wm. Bevan - my..... More
Select Fables; With Cuts, Designed and Engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, And Others, Previous to the Year 1784: Together With a Memoir; and a Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick.
Newcastle: Printed by S. Hodgson, for Emerson Charnley, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, c. 1880s. [Fables] LEATHER-BOUND STEREOTYPE. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; xl; 332. With numerous wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Thomas and John Bewick. Brown half-calf with brown cloth to boards and blind ruling to calf..... More
The Veiled Wanderer. Letters to the Duc de Guiche and Unpublished Papers.
London: The Falcon Press, 1949. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.88. With all 12 collotype plates. Title page lettered in red and black. Publisher's light blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 7s 6d to front flap. Internally bright and clean, minor..... More
The Illustrated Family Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, With the Self-Interpreting and Explanatory Notes, and Marginal References, of the Late Rev. John Brown, Minister of the Gospel at Haddington: to Which is Appended, A Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testaments.
London: Smith, Elder, and co., 1838. [Bible] EARLY VICTORIAN BINDING. Small folio (34 x 24cm), pp.[12] xlii; 590 [2]; 256 [2]; 104; 54 [4]. Red full morocco to boards. Gilt tooling and blind ruling to lower and upper. Gilt titles and additional tooling to spine. Raised bands. Gilt interior dentelles..... More
The Holy Bible. A Critical Commentary and Paraphrase on the Old and New Testament and the Apocrypha.
London: Richard Priestley, 1822. FINELY BOUND. Quarto (32 x 26 x 28cm). Bound in contemporary diced tan calf, gilt titles on black calf squares to spine, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of Bishop Patrick to volume I, folding map of the Holy Lands in volume V. Bookplate of..... More
The Man in the Shadows.
London: Rich and Cowan, 1954. [Crime Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.208. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf: 'To | Margaret & Denys | with all my love | Charles "Barker" Bidmead | Charworth | September 1954.' Publisher's navy cloth with silver titles to..... More
The Trap.
London: Faber and Faber, 1950. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. 380; [4], blank. Publisher's cream cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket, priced at 10s. 6d. to front and back flap. Toning and spotting to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, bumping to corners, dust-jacket..... More
The 7th Function of Language.
London: Harvill Secker, 2017. [Political Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[8] 390 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to red preliminary leaf. Publisher's red paper-covered boards, with matching endpapers. A red '7' to fore-edge. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £16.99. 'Signed by..... More
The Blackbird's Nest. A Tale for Youth.
Philadelphia, PA: Johnson and Warner, 1812. [Children's Antiquarian]. EARLY EDITION. Vigesimo-quarto (13 x 9cm), pp.36. With occasional vignette wood engravings. Recently re-backed in matching grey card with original grey illustrated paper covers laid over. Remarkably crisp and clean, with some wear to original cover edges. Very good. A fine wholesome..... More
London Visions.
London: Elkin Mathews, 1908. [Poetry collection] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.viii; 96. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to upper and spine. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. Faint, infrequent spotting to interior. Toning to textblock edges. Near fine. More
Magisterium: The Iron Trial.
London: Doubleday, 2014. [Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 295; [19]. Chapter headpieces illustrated by Scott Fischer. Publisher's green paper over boards, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, designed by Alexandre Chaudret, priced at £12.99 to front flap. Fine, as-new. The first..... More
Double Cross.
London: Doubleday, 2008. [Young Adult Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[10] 434 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the black and white dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. Slightly toned to edges, lightly handled. Near..... More
Lorna Doone. A Romance of Exmoor.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [1893]. [Romantic Novel] FINELY BOUND, the thirty-ninth edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.viii; 517 [5]. Contemporary red full calf by ALLMAN & SON of London, with gilt titles to green label and further gilt tooling to spine. All edges and endpapers marbled..... 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
Lorna Doone. A Romance of Exmoor.
London: W. and R. Chambers, No date [circa 1911]. [Romantic Fiction] Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[2]; viii; 634; [2]. Full navy calf, gilt titles to spine, raised bands, pastel marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, gilt 'Church Schools Company Limited' armorial device to upper. Bound by Bumpus. Forty-seven pen and ink..... More
Day and Night Stories.
New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1917. [Strange tales] FIRST US EDITION, one of 1500 copies. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 228; [2]. Publisher's brown cloth, black titles to upper and spine. Interior mostly clean, although thumbed and/or spotted in a few places. Small bookseller's sticker to rear paste-down. Top..... More
Strange Stories.
London: William Heinemann, 1929. [Short Stories] FIRST THUS. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 745 [3]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Toning to textblock edges, pencil ownership inscription, light spotting to preliminaries, else internally clean. Wearing to edges, more so spine and board corners, shaken in binding, light..... More
Guerilla Warfare. Restricted.
London: Ministry of Defence, 1957. [Warfare] WRITTEN WITH ACCESS TO OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[x]; 201. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles on red label to spine, 'Restricted' in gilt to boards, with sixteen folding maps and diagrams, erratum slip for p.91. Internally clean. Wearing to boards, more so..... More
An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., c.1900. AN ILLUSTRATED PICTURE BOOK. Slim oversized octavo, pp.22. Bound in publisher's decorated paper-covered boards, depicting two men in Georgian attire holding a portrait of a lady in side profile. Front and rear pastedown illustrated with full colour plates. Publisher's advertisement to rear. A...... More
The Dreadful Hollow.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1953. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION, Colonial copy. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Book store stamp to rear blank [New Book Co., Bombay]. Contents clean, no inscriptions, Tokyo bookseller Subun-So label and stamp..... More
Head of a Traveller.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1949. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Spine sunned; a good, used copy without the jacket. The baffling case of a headless corpse found in..... More
The Morning After Death
London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1966. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.224. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. Contents clean, edges toned, owner inscription to f.e.p., p/c jacket with some chips and tears, gummed paper to reverse side at spine ends..... More
Blake's Poetry and Prose.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. [Literature] PUBLISHER'S DELUXE BINDING. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.1152. Limp binding with yapp edges, gilt tooling to front and back covers, gilt lettering to spine. Spotting to preliminaries and rear blanks, spotting to edges of textblock, sunning to spine and wear to gilt, bumping to..... More
My Mother was a Bank Robber, and Other Stories.
London: Revolver, 1998. [Crime stories] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.64. No.11 of just 200 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. In original lilac card covers with a colour / black and white photo montage pasted to the front cover. Price label mark to back cover..... More