New York: Doubleday, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A clean, bright and solid copy. Tells the stories of several fascinating women who were the leaders of Washington Society. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author to the front free endpaper. Also, laid in, a hand-written love poem from the author to his wife. The outcome of...
London: Collins, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original purple cloth, lettered in silver to the spine. A very clean and solid example of the book. The compelling period dust jacket shows some minor corner wear and a bit of loss at the head of the spine impacting the "X" of Exit. A very nice copy.
London: Methuen & Co., (1915). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original red cloth, blind-stamped on the front board and lettered in gilt to the spine. In a complete original dust jacket, a rare survivor of an early example. Some minor foxing to the preliminaries and title page. With 35 pp of ads at the rear. A comic...
London: Collins, (1933?). Hardcover. Near Fine / Fine. A lovely copy of this omnibus edition. Contains: The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, A House of Pomegranates, The Happy Prince, Lady Windemere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, Collected Poems, and Intentions. 1248pp. With fifteen original drawings...
London: George G. Harrap & Co., (1957). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. "Through the Garden of Allah to Timbuktu." "It is said that Allah removed all surplus human and animal life from the desert, so that there might be one place for him to walk in peace .....
London: Faber & Faber, (1955). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A clean, bright and pleasing copy of this, the author's first book. Aldiss went on to become one of the most important authors of science and speculative fiction. A lovely example of this volume. In early University days Aldiss worked at a used bookshop in Oxford. This work, originally...
London: Architectural Press, 1930, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Two volumes. Though issued separately and by two different authors, I offer these volumes together because they must be together. Volume I contains records of Mills in Kent, Surrey and Sussex. Volume II contains records of Mills in Essex, Herts, Bucks, Middlesex and London. Volume I is...
London: Longmans, Green & Co., (1936). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. In a complete and lovely example of the dust jacket with original wrap-around promotional band. Tells of the murder of William Weare by John Thurtell, the pursuit and capture of the villain, and then justice, served most...
London: Michael Joseph, (1962). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Original blue cloth, lettered in silver to the spine. A near perfect copy looking, at least to my eyes, as if it was just issued. As clean and bright as one could hope to find.
London: The Epworth Press, (1929). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Bound in original brown cloth with lettering to the spine in black. A "prize" book, awarded to a deserving student of the Main Street Methodist School in 1945. The cloth on the book has few stains but remains solid and strong. The lovely dust jacket, illustrated by...
London: John Murray, (1936). Fourth edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Originally published in 1926 this copy is a reprint edition of the "First Cheap Edition." A story of romance set largely in India. Some minor foxing along the edges but the book remains very clean and bright and the beautiful jacket remains just that.
London: Peter Owen, (1953). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original light brown cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. In a very nice example of the dust jacket - gray with lettering and border in dark red. The jacket is price-clipped, else fine. Some minor foxing spots along the top edge. This is Muriel Spark's third published...
London: Collins, (1979). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. A beautiful copy, looking like it just came out. Fine in all respects. Contains seven short stories.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (2018). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page. From a limited edition of 250 copies, this one being number 147. One other copy currently in inventory is numbered 149.
London: Bantam Press, (2018). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author to the title page. An 18 year old boy with Aspergers Syndrome hacks into one of the most secured military facilties in the world. Taken into custody, he becomes an unparalled British asset as well as the number one target for...
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author to the special limitation page. This is a limited edition of 100 copies, this one being number 36. A re-telling of the Iliad from the wide range of female characters depicted but given little to say in the original.
London: Corsair, (2018). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page. All edges red.
London: Elliott And Thompson, (2018). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed, dated and with a line quote, all on the title page. A modern thriller set in London.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1966). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. A fine copy in all respects of this vintage mystery novel. Dust jacket design by Reinganum. A Dr. Frost novel.
London: Harper Collins, (2018). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page. A Logan McRae novel.
London: Elek Books, (1956). First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. In a near complete and bright example of the dust jacket, designed by Pagram. One small chip at the top edge. Translated by Alec Brown. First published in French in 1890. This is a very attractive example of an important novel.
London: Corvus, (2018). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page. Author's first novel set during the reign of Elizabeth I, London, 1590.
London: Zephyr, (2018). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author to the title page. Illustrated throughout. An homage, of sorts, to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. A superb copy in all respects.
London: William Heinemann, (1954). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy. With many black and white and four color plates. Line drawings, dust jacket art, and endpaper illustrations by A. J. Veilhan. Very minor edge-wear and a few very shallow closed tears. Wrap-around cover art.
London: George G. Harrap & Co., (1930). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original black cloth with lettering in gilt to the spine. In a bright and complete dust jacket. Translated from the Italian by Marion Enthoven. A very nice copy of this biography.