London: Thorpe & Porter, no date [circa 1960]. [Magic and Conjuring] ORIGINAL COMIC (26 x 17cm), pp.48. A series of stories about magic and magicians, told in the form of a colour-illustrated comic. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice. Moderate toning throughout, with wear and bumping to covers. A tear..... More

London: Oldbourne Book Co., no date [April 1956]. [Children's Cartoon] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), twelve leaves illustrated in colour throughout, including soft covers with two staples. Light rubbing and thumbing to covers. Very good. More

London: The Oldbourne Book Co., no date [circa 1959]. [Children's Cartoon] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), twelve leaves illustrated in colour throughout, including soft covers with two staples. A section of the margin lost from the first second leaf, about 1 x 3cm. Covers lightly rubbed and detached..... More

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

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

London: Harmsworth Bros, Dec. 1898. First appearance of Churchill's short story 'Man Overboard'. Small quarto magazine format in original publisher's illustrated paper covers. Very minor edgewear and very slight chipping to spine ends otherwise bright, clean and strong. Quarter inch of loss to tail of spine panel. Staples faintly rusting..... More

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

London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1898. [Literary Magazine]. FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.vi; 3-716. With numerous in-text lithographic illustrations. In publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine and upper board. Brown floral endpapers. With a PSA Book Fund bookplate to front pastedown. Some gatherings a little loose;..... More

New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, February 11, 1893. FIRST AMERICAN APPEARANCE of this adventure, illustrated by W.H. Hyde, which was later collected in 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'. Single newspaper issue in pictorial wraps (41 x 29cm). Disbound or extracted from a hardcover with associated wear to the spine..... More

London: Atlas Publishing, March 1966. [Literary journal]. Pp.112. Digest magazine format in illustrated covers. Text block toned as expected, a few small insect holes, wrappers with some light general wear. Very good. A scarce issue of The Saint magazine, with a controversial article on 007 and his creator. From Jon..... More

London: Express Newspapers [1956]. [Journalism] Folio newspaper. Bibliographer's copy. Some browning as expected to cheap newsprint paper stock, some brittle areas, minor chips, archival repair strip along fold. A very good copy of a scarce item. Apart from the publisher's file copy (Cape also retained the typescript), this is the..... More

Chicago: HMH Publishing Co., Inc., Playboy Building, 232 East Ohio Street, 1965. [Spy novel serialisation] FIRST APPEARANCE. Four issues. Magazine format, stapled, illustrated. Overall size 30 x 23cm. Original Price 75 cents per issue. Some light expected handling, small chip to cover of April issue, June issue has centrefold pullout..... More

New York, NY: Atlas Magazines, 1964. [Men's Magazine] FIRST U.S. PERIODICAL APPEARANCE. Magazine format (28 x 21cm), pp.130. The story appears on pp.12-15, 118-129, being an abridged illustrated printing of 'The Spy Who Loved Me', published under this new title and advertised as a 'Suspense novel'. Publisher's Colour-illustrated paper covers..... More