"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "
— Oscar Wilde
Strange Tales & Mysteries
The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
London: Arthur Barker, 1979. FIRST EDITION. Octavo., pp. 159. Publisher's cloth in glossy dustwrapper. Lightly handled. A bright clean, copy with fading to spine commonly associated with this book. Plain rear panel. A clean, sharp copy of a milestone book. A modern classic to which many of us owe immense... More
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.
London: Pan, 1984. Inscribed First Edition. Octavo. pp. [5], 191. Bound in publisher's black cloth with titles in silver to spine. Black dust jacket, designed by Gary Day-Ellison, with holographic panel to front cover, and titles in white to front cover and spine, unclipped. Includes publisher's compliment slip. Binding shows... More
MacKill's Choice. A book of Unfamiliar Mystery Stories Selected by the Editor of McKill's Mystery Magazine.
London: Todd Publishing Group, 1949. Crime anthology. FIRST UK EDITION. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in original dustjacket. It is printed on cheap paperstock, so consequently it is uniformly browned inside, with some offset and light spotting to the endpapers. The textblock edges are dusty and toned, with some bumping to... More
The Male Response.
London, Dennis Robson, 1961. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, light edge spotting, else fine. In fine dustwrapper. More
The Ms. In a Red Box.
London; John Lane, The Bodley Head 1903. FIRTS EDITION, octavo, 352pp + 4 (advertisements), with folding map as frontispiece. Bound in original mid blue pictorial cloth with gilt titles to spine. Some minor edgewear, page edges a little toned and shaken within case, ink ownership to flyleaf. Very good. Historical... More
The Ms. In a Red Box.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head 1903. Mystery. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.352; [4], advertisements), with folding map as frontispiece, title page printed in red and black. Original mid-blue pictorial cloth. A variant publisher binding with blocking in white only (no gilt or red colour), spine imprint as 'Bodley Head' (not... More
Contribute to The Strand Magazine: The Brass Bottle, Playing With Fire, etc. An Illustrated Monthly.
London: George Newnes Limited January- September 1900. This run includes the complete serial of Anstey's fantasy tale 'The Brass Bottle', plus stand-alone stories by Conan Doyle, E.Nesbit, Bret Harte and E.W Hornung, plus articles on the conflict in South Africa by Rudyard Kipling and Conan Doyle. Together nine magazines, with... More
The Butcher of Bruton Street.
London, Grant Richards. 1908. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's light brown pictorial cloth (depicting the eponymous Butcher, complete with knife, skull and suspect looking bottle). Titled in gilt to spine and in white to front board. Edges lightly worn with signs of what might be light exploratory nibbling by some small... More
Abishag.
London, Thornton Butterworth. 1925. First UK Edition. Publisher's light brown cloth, titled in black to spine. Lightly bumped to spine ends. Spotting to page edges. Internally clean. In a crisp, clean dustwrapper with chips and loss to upper right front panel and the head of spine just affecting top edge... More
A Journey In Other Worlds. A Romance of the Future.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. First Edition. Octavo, pp.vi, 476. Illustrated with 10 plates. Publisher's dark blue cloth opulently decorated in silver gilt and and titled in gilt to spine and front board with a silver planetary design to the rear board. Minor tanning to margins, ownership inscription to... More
The Resurrection of Merion Lloyd.
London, Thornton Butterworth. 1929. First Edition. 8vo. 284pp + 1pp ads. Publisher's light green cloth, titled in black and blind to spine and front board. Beautifully fresh and clean, a fine copy. In a near fine dustwrapper, clean, bright and unsoiled with very slight edgewear, and a triangular chip to... More
The Episodes of Vathek.
London: Stephen Swift, 1912. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Large Octavo, pp.xxxi, 207; 127 [14]. With a frontispiece engraving of the author. In publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board. Brown end-papers. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Leaves largely un-cut. Spine... More
Vathek: An Arabian Tale. Edited by Richard Garnett. With Notes by Samuel Henley, and Etchings by Herbert Nye.
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1893. Limited Edition to 450 copies of which this number 430. Large paper. Illustrated with 8 fine etchings. Publisher's deep red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper; top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Extremities a little rubbed; corners bumped; a little fading to spine with... More
Across The Stream.
London: John Murray, 1919. First Edition. Octavo. pp.314. Bound in publisher's green cloth, with titles in black to front board and spine. Binding is rubbed and bumped to corners and spine ends, with a slight lean, and a little spotting to front edge of text block. Internally clean and free... More
The Secret People.
London: Newnes, 1935. First Edition. Octavo, pp.256. Mid-green cloth lettered in black to spine (the second binding). Some spotting; very good indeed. This is Beynon-better-known-as-Wyndham's first novel; a lost race extravaganza set in (oddly enough) 1964, with a suitably prescient touch Queen Elizabeth the Second sits upon the throne of... More
The Devil's Dictionary.
London, Bloomsbury. 2003. FIRST EDITION THUS, with an original painting by the artist. Publisher's hardback black cloth in illustrated dustwrapper. Both book and jacket are in fine condition. Steadman's characteristically bizarre interpretations of Bierce's famous work, with an ink painting of a devil to the half-title, suitably splashed and signed... More
My Psychic Adventures.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1923. First UK Edition. Octavo. Publisher's beige cloth, with titles in black to front board and spine. In original dust jacket, with titles in red to front cover, titles in red to spine, and publishers advertisements in red to rear cover; still with original price... More
The Empty House.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1915. THE UNIFORM EDITION. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. UNCOMMON. Octavo, pp.vii; 316. This uncommon copy of The Empty House is bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. The book shows leaves of irregular width - a possible production fault which has led to a rather... More
Incredible Adventures.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1914. First Colonial Edition. Octavo, pp.366, 8 Macmillan adverts. Bound in publisher's pale blue cloth, floral knotwork design stamped in navy with titles in gilt to front board and spine. Binding is a little umped to spine ends, with some sunning to spine. Internally clean and... More
Jimbo. A Fantasy.
London, Macmillan. 1909. First edition. 8vo. 258pp + 2pp ads. Publisher's pale red cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. Spine faded (as is so often the case with this book) and the spine gilt has appreciably dulled. Nevertheless a clean and respecatble copy, solid strong and bright... More
John Silence.
London, Eveleigh Nash. 1908. First Edition. 8vo. 390pp. + 34pp ads dated Spring 1908. Publisher's burgundy cloth faded to spine, titled in gilt to spine and front boards, light scuff to mid front board; strong, bright and crisp, a handsome book. Internally clean, minor marginal spotting. A very good, strong... More
The Wolves of God. And other Fey Stories.
London, Cassell. 1921. First Edition. 8vo. Bound in publisher's variant brown decorated cloth, blue being the more common colour for this volume. A collection of tales of the weird and supernatural in nature. Packed to the gills with mysterious storms, unusual portents and a quantity of ill-fated hunting expeditions. Mr.Blackwood... More
Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump. Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times. Prepared for Publication by Reginald Bliss. With an Ambiguous Introduction by H. G. Wells.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., 1915. FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. Octavo pp. 342. Publisher's dark green cloth, illustration to upper and titles to spine, all in gilt. Top edge gilt and plain endpapers. A little rubbing to head of spine, light spotting to edges. Blindstamped 'Presentation Copy' to title page... More
Dr. Nikola.
London. Ward Lock. 1906. Sixpenny paperback edition. 8vo. Original publisher's illustrated card wraps, bright and clean, some minor edgewear and shallow chipping to extremities. Slight soiling to the rear panel. Illustrated with full page plates. Internally clean. A very good, strong copy of a fragile object. Nikola was one of... More
Long Live The King.
London, Ward Lock. 1900. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's dark blue cloth over bevelled boards titled and decorated in gilt.Slight bumping to spine ends and minor scuffing to extremities. Clean and sharp. Spotting to page edges and light foxing to prelims, some minor spotting otherwise a fresh clean copy from the... More