" It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. "
— Henry Ward Beecher
Literature
Vagabond. The Grail Quest.
London: Harper Collins, 2002. [Historical Fiction]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xii]; 371; [1], blank. With map, vignette illustrations and pictorial endpapers. Publisher's hardcover in dust-wrapper. Signed by the author to title-page. Signed upon release and carefully warehoused by ourselves since publication. An as new/unread copy. A young..... More
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Three of Them [and] Jeeves and the Chump Cyril [and] The Film that was Never Shown [and] The Magic Plus Fours [and] Billy Bones [and] The Forbidden Subject [and] First Aid for Dora [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 55, 56, 64, and 66; numbers 328, 331, 332, 366, 384 and 392.
London: George Newnes, April, July, August, and December 1918, December 1922, and August 1923. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.44; 265-344; 45-52; pp.20; 76; 21-32; pp.16; 77-152; 17-34; pp.64; 361-484; 65-82; pp.84; 487-628; 85-118; pp.48; 105-212; 49-64. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's..... More
The Woman of Andros. aq
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1930. [Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (27 x 21cm), pp.[12] 105 [7]. With a woodcut frontispiece tipped in with a tissue guard. Printed on fine handmade paper by the Westminster Press. Number 22 of just 260 copies SIGNED by the author in black..... More
The Vegetable, Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Comedy Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 145 [7]. With the original green cloth cover and spine bound in at rear. Recent green full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and a gilt autograph stamped to upper board. Marbled endpapers;..... More
Man of War.
London: Heinemann, 2003. [Naval Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.276; [2], blank. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Geoffrey Huband, priced at £16.99. Autographed in black ink to title page. Signature obtained in person upon release. An as new/unread copy..... More
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The Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1926. [Complete Novels] FINELY BOUND SET, the second edition thus. Six volumes bound as five. Octavo (20 x 14 x 20cm), pp.[6] xvi; 429 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 415 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 567 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 522 [4]; pp.[2] xiv; 252; 311 [3]. With occasional half-tone..... More
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The Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and Minor Works.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the Oxford University Press, 1952-1954. [Complete Novels] FINELY BOUND SET, the third edition thus and the first to include 'Minor Works.' Seven volumes bound as six. Octavo (20 x 14 x 21cm), pp.[6] xvi; 429 [5]; pp.[2] xiv; 415 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 567 [3]; pp.[2] xiv;..... More
Robin Hood.
Philadelphia, PA: David McKay, Publisher, 1917. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST WYETH EDITION. Large Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.362. With eight colour plates and a colour-illustrated title page, all by N.C. Wyeth. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, as well as a handsome coloured plate also to..... More
Funeral in Berlin.
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. [Spy Thriller] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 312 [6]. Publisher's black quarter cloth with grey titles to spine, cream cloth over boards, and orange endpapers. Top edge orange; fore-edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by Ben Feder. A little toned..... More
Atonement.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2001. [Wartime romance-suspense] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 372 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and black endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £16.99. A fine, as-new copy. A modern..... More
Absolute Friends.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. [Intrigue] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.383; [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, and purple endpapers. With the purple dust-jacket designed by gray318, priced at £18.99. A fine, as-new..... More
The Works of Joseph Conrad. Including: Almayer's Folly, Tales of Unrest, Typhoon, Nostromo, Lord Jim, An Outcast of the Islands, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, Chance, Allmayer's Folly, Victory, The Rescue, The Inheritors, Romance, The Mirror of the Sea, The Arrow of Gold, The Shadow Line, etc.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1925. [Literature] THE WORKS. Complete in 20 volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm). Frontispiece photogravure to each volume. Facsimile signature of the author printed to first and final leaves. Handsomely bound in half dark blue oasis morocco with gilt titles and gilt raised bands to spines, blue cloth..... More
Flashman on the March. From the Flashman Papers 1867-68.
London: Harper Collins, 2005. [Historical fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; [2]; 317; [7]. Autograph of George MacDonald Fraser in blue ink to the title page. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, cartographic endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Gino D'Achille. A fine/as new copy. The..... More
Persuader. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2014. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 342 [2]. Number 84 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and..... More
One Shot. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2015. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 376 [2]. Number 89 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
Worth Dying For. A Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2018. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xii; 384 [8]. Number 51 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
61 Hours. A Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2018. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xiv; 383 [3]. Number 79 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
The Story of Horace.
London: Faber & Faber, 1952. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[52]. With colour lithographic illustrations to every page by the author. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Illustrated bookplate to front pastedown. Quite heavily toned throughout, with an 8cm tear to final..... More
Stories of King Arthur and his Knights. Retold From Malory's "Morte De Arthur."
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1906. [Arthurian Legends] FINE PRIZE BINDING, second thus. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[6] xx; 236 [2]. With 16 black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary half vellum, with gilt titles to black morocco label on spine and blue grained cloth over boards..... More
Bracebridge Hall.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1877. [Short Stories and Essays] FIRST CALDECOTT EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xiv; 284 [4]. With 118 illustrations by Randolph Caldecott, mainly in-text, but also including a frontispiece, decorated title page, and several full page plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to..... More
They Stay for Death.
London: Macmillan, 1980. [Legal Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £4.95. The lightest of spotting to edges. Near fine. The 30th Antony Maitland legal mystery. More
The Lie Direct.
London: Macmillan, 1983. [Legal Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £6.50. Toning and spotting to edges. Near fine. The 38th Antony Maitland legal mystery. More
Proceed to Judgement.
London: Macmillan, 1979. [Legal Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £4.95. Some light spotting to edges and minor rub marks to jacket back cover. Near fine. The 28th Antony Maitland legal mystery... More
Winner Take Nothing.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[10] 244 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt title labels to spine and upper. Top edge tinted red; fore-edge untrimmed. Toned throughout, as usual. Fairly light wear to cloth, with toning to spine and one..... More
The Vegetable. Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Comedy Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 145 [7]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. Fore-edge untrimmed. Gently toned throughout, as usual. Neat ownership to flyleaf, bookseller's labels to rear endpapers. Gilt a little rubbed..... More