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London: Macmillan, 1970. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.223; [1]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Mike Cook. Some spotting to endpapers and top edge, a few pages creased from being turn over. Price clipped dust-jacket shows well with just some slight fading..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1954. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 20cm), unpaginated, with three fine chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece tipped in and 16 further sketch illustrations by Whistler. Publisher's red quarter cloth over grey cloth boards, gilt titles to spine gilt figure to upper, light blue endpapers, dust-jacket..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1930. [Poetry] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 550 [2]. With a photogravure frontispiece of the author, SIGNED by him in black ink to lower margin. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Spine toned..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1983. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[6] 185 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Craig Dodd. Text-block heavily browned, as usual. Jacket price-clipped, with some light general handling. Near fine. An early novel by Ackroyd, dramatising..... More
New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1972. [Children's Fantasy] US ADVANCE COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[12] 430 [6]. Publisher's yellow soft covers with red and black titles to spine and upper. Illustration also to upper. Spine lightly sunned. Some spotting and handling to edges. Very good. A tragic fantasy..... More
London: Atlantic Books, 2008. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[6] 321 [1]. Signed by the author to the title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, red endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by gray318, priced at £12.99. A fine copy. More
Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1764. [The celebrated fabulist] Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.lxxvii; 186; [28], index; [2], blank. Bound in full tan calf with red title label to spine, five raised bands with extra gilt, marbled endpapers. A few marks to..... More
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016. [Young Adult Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[8] 402 [6]. Publisher's black cloth with metallic blue titles to spine, and blue endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £14.99. Promotional sticker to front cover. A fine, as-new copy. More
London: HarperCollins, 2018. [Short Stories] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[10] 337 [5]. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. Orange endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Ellie Game, priced at £12.99. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front cover. A fine, as-new copy. More
London: Jonathan Cape. 1929. First edition. Octavo, pp.255. Publisher's plum cloth with gilt titles to spine, white paper dustwrapper with a depiction of Eros by Gower Parks, priced at 7/6. Slight lean to the book, light spotting to the prelims and moderate spotting to the edges. Covers show general wear..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. [American Drama] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.142 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. Top edge yellow. With the dust-jacket designed by Germano Facetti, priced at 18s. A lovely fine copy. The author's first book, featuring ''The Death of Bessie Smith,'..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1965. [Science fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.155; [1] blank. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket by Margaret Peall and Trevor Heath, with printed price of 16s net. Textblock a little toned to edges, a few pages show the ghost of a...... More
London: Doubleday, 2006. [Modern fiction]. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm). Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles, without dust-jacket as issued, blue cloth slipcase with gilt titles. Still in the original shrink wrap with "Signed by the Author at Waterstone's" label. Some tears and loss to the shrink wrap..... More
London: Grant Richards, 1900. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. A used copy with some shelfwear,rubbed to extremities, gilt illustration rubbed to upper, discreet owner stamp to flyleaf, inside paper joint cracked. Very good. Illustrated throughout by Gordon Browne..... More
London: Walker Books, 2009. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.79 [1]. Generously illustrated by McKean throughout. SIGNED by both author and illustrator in black marker to title page. Publisher's soft covers, priced at £5.99. Light handling with some rubbing and marks to rear cover. Near..... More
London: Hodder Children's Books, 2018. [Children's Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6] 231 [3]. Publisher's navy cloth with bronze titles to spine and upper, and orange endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by David Litchfield, priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. More
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. [Intrigue] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.280; [1], blank; [1], advertisements; [2], blank. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in burgundy, pictorial jacket priced at $2.00. Edges of text block toned, ink ownership to flyleaf, jacket with a few chips and tears, clipped..... More
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. [Crime Thriller] SIGNED FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[6] 243 [5]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and green decoration to spine, a gilt EA monogram to upper, top edge red, fore-edge..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. FIRST EDITION. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone novel. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.320. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Internally very clean with no ownership marks, bookplates or inscriptions. Covers are fresh but for a little sunning to spine, a few small marks and the..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937. [Intrigue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.314; [6], advertisements. Publisher's pale blue cloth lettered in black, mid-blue endpapers, pictorial jacket by Gibbs, priced 7/6. Trivial toning to edge of text block, jacket with very light rubbing/wear to extremities. Overall a lovely fine copy of..... More
London: Victor Gollancz, [1966] 1972. [Modern Literature] SIGNED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.352. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey, priced at £2.75. One of an unspecified small number of the second printings issued on behalf of the New Fiction Society..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. [Strange tale] UNCORRECTED PROOF of the FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.253. Publisher's green softcovers in proof-only pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 30s. A fine, unread copy of the book in near fine, lightly rubbed oversized jacket. A ghostly tale set in an english medieval coaching..... More
London: Victor Gollancz. 1962. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 224. Red publisher's cloth with gilt titles to spine, in strikingly restrained yellow dustwrapper. Top and fore edge slightly browned, slight bumping to head and tail caps. Some wear to the top and bottom edges of the dustjacket with some marking and..... More