"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Strange Tales & Mysteries
The Male Response.
London: Dennis Robson, 1963. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's brown cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Harry Grimley, priced at 16s. A little light handling and some spotting to edges. Jacket a little rubbed to edges. Near fine. More
Dead Man's Bay.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Mystery Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the green and black dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Light offsetting to endpapers and some browning to edges. Jacket toned and chipped to..... More
Trent's Own Case.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. [Crime Mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 324 [2]. Publisher's orange cloth with blue titles to spine and upper. Top edge blue, others untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by Hawkins, priced at $2.00. The usual wood-grain pattern browning to preliminaries..... More
Trent's Own Case.
London: Constable and Co., 1936. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 314. Publisher's orange cloth with blue titles to spine and upper. Top edge blue. Toronto bookseller's stamp to flyleaf. Erasure of heavy pencil inscription also to flyleaf. Gently toned throughout. Only very minor rubbing to cloth;..... 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
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Pharos The Egyptian [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume 8.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., June to November 1898. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.vi; 716. With many photogravure illustrations. Contemporary deep burgundy half calf with gilt titles to spine and dark green foliate cloth. All edges flecked red; yellow coated endpapers. Binding rubbed and worn, slightly..... More
The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain. A Romance of Chivalry. Originally Translated from the French by John Bourchier, Lord Berners. A New Edition. With a Series of Plates, from the Illuminated Drawings contained in a valuable Ms. of the Original Romance.
London: Printed for White, Cochrane and Co., 1814. Limited Edition to 175 regular copies. Quarto; pp: half title page, frontispiece, title page, (12), (1), vi - xxvii, (1), iv, 544. Illustrated with black and white plates based on drawings from the original manuscript. Complete. This edition is edited by Edward..... More
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[The Riding of Ninemileburn, in] Blackwood's Magazine No. MCLVIII [1158].
London: William Blackwood and Sons, April 1912. FIRST APPEARANCE. Large octavo, pp.[32], 445-496. In publisher's light brown paper wrappers with titles and contents to front cover. Some expected wear; small losses to spine; very good. The first appearance of a strange tale included in the published collection 'The Moon Endureth'..... More
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[The Riding of Ninemileburn, in] Blackwood's Magazine No. MCLVIII [1158].
London: William Blackwood and Sons, April 1912. [Weird tales] FIRST APPEARANCE. Large octavo, pp.[32], 445-496. In publisher's light brown paper wrappers with titles and contents to front cover. Some external wear, address stamp to upper, old tape to head and tale of spine; very good. The first appearance of a...... More
The Lost Witch.
London: Andersen Press, 2018. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6] 325 [5]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to publisher's bookplate affixed to flyleaf. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine, and light green endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Kate McKendrick, priced..... More
The Sting.
London: HarperCollins, 2019. [Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 435; [3]. Publisher's white cloth, purple titles to spine, purple endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Claire Ward, printed price £12.99. All textblock edge tinted pink. Signed by the author in black ink to title page. Minor bump to..... More
Spider's Web.
London: Harper Collins, 2000. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp. [6]; 241; [9], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's black cloth lettered in white to spine, illustrative dust-jacket. Small spider illustration at the start of chapters. Toning to edges of textblock, small markings from a green gel pen throughout the..... More
By The Pricking Of My Thumbs.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1968. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's mid green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the yellow dust-jackt designed by Kenneth Farnhill. A fine copy of the book in a very good, price-clipped jacket with two short tears..... More
The Mousetrap. A Play in Two Acts.
London: Samuel French Limited, [circa 1990]. [Drama] CENTENARY EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] 70 [4]. Publisher's yellow paper covers, illustrated to upper, reproducing the original from 1954. With a photogravure plate showing the set. Internally bright and clean. Minor crease to upper. A fine copy. First performed in 1952..... More
Peril at End House.
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1932. [Murder Mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm) pp.[x]; 270. Publisher's tan cloth blocked in red, fore-edge untrimmed, cream endpapers. Illustrated dust-wrapper by Beth Krebb Morris, priced at $2.00. Contents clean. An exceptionally fine, fresh copy in a lovely dust jacket..... More
The Seven Dials Mystery.
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1929. [Murder Mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm) pp.[viii]; 310; [2], blank. Publisher's orange cloth blocked in black, top edge orange, fore-edge untrimmed, decorative red endpapers. With the illustrated dust-wrapper. Fine in a bright, fresh, price-clipped dust jacket. As with all..... More
Sparkling Cyanide.
London: For the Crime Club by Collins, 1945. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's orange cloth with titles in black to spine. Illustrated dust-jacket. No inscriptions. Discreet address stamp to endpaper, correct jacket has been clipped and repriced to 4/6 by the publisher (was 8/6), shows some..... More
Secrets of a Private Enquiry Office. Being Tales Weird and Tales Ghostly, Tales Humorous and Tales Pathetic, Tales Exciting and Tales Curious.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1891. [Detective fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth to bevelled boards with gilt titles to upper and spine. 'Routledge's Hearth and Home Library' blocked in blind to upper. Ruling in blind to upper, spine, and lower. Top edge gilt. Toning..... More
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Mad Morgan's Murder Sanctum [and] Danger! Dead Men! Detour! [in] Detective Story Magazine. Vol. IX, No. 5.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., May 1954. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 9d. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories is made only more appealing by its..... More
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The Wrong Corpse [and] Let's Have Some Murder [in] Thrilling Detective Magazine. Vol. V, No. 2.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., October 1949. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. With occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 9d. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories is made only..... More
Waste lands.
London: Ward Lock and Co. 1935. Mystery novel. FIRST EDITION, later state. Octavo. In the secondary binding of green cloth, lettered in black, in original jacket repriced to 5/- and with publisher's book number overprinted to spine. The striking dust-wrapper depicts 'reaching' hands, with a leather glove motif to the..... More
Doctor Who: The Good Doctor.
London: BBC Books / Penguin Random House, Ebury Publishing, 2018. [Children's Science Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[6] 230 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half title. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards with Forbidden Planet 'Signed' sticker to upper board, and barcode sticker to lower..... More
Sleep and His Brother.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971. [Mystery fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.190. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Colin Andrews, priced at 28s. Textblock top edge tinted blue. Light spotting to textblock edges, wear to edges of dust-jacket, more so to..... More
The Shrine of Death.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1886. [Macabre] LIMITED EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.160. With illustrated majuscules, vignettes and headpieces. Number 75 of just 150 copies in this edition, printed by Unwin Bros., Ludgate Hill. Expertly bound in a suitable sombre full black oasis morocco in the..... More