First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Jan Pienkowski illustrated dustwrapper based on the 'trompe l'oeil' paintings by Richard Chopping reproduced on the James Bond Books. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with light rubbing to the bottom edge of the boards and spine and a little creasing across the lower board. The contents, with light dustiness to the closed text block, are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine lightly rubbed dustwrapper, that is a little creased on front panel and is otherwise free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (16s net to the front flap).

The first literary study of the James Bond novels and analysis of Fleming's writing style and technique. Features all but 'Octopussy and the Living Daylights' which was published the following year. Amis was later commissioned to write the first continuation novel 'Colonel Sun' under the pseudonym Robert Markham.

First edition, first printing. Original black cloth lettered in silver to the spine, in the dustwrapper designed by Christopher Cressey. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Light abrasion visible to the upper right corner of the front free endpaper, small ink mark to the upper edge of the page block. In the neatly price-clipped dustwrapper which, except for some toning, is in very good shape indeed. A nice copy of an unusually scarce volume.

Although best known for his sculpture, paintings and drawings, Jean or Hans Arp (1886–1966) also wrote poems throughout his long life. '[His] poetry, Herbert Read wrote, "is inseparable from his plastic work and a full understanding of his genius and development must take into account both." Much about Arp was ambiguous and liminal. His birthplace in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, historically a site of cultural, political and linguistic turbulence, set the tone of his own multi-lingual life and career. To the French (and English), he is best known as Jean Arp, in German-speaking countries as Hans Arp. Born Hans, when Alsace became French (again) at the end of World War I, the law (apparently) required Arp to adopt a French name (while continuing to refer to himself as Hans when he spoke German). He signed his work variously as Hans, Jean, Hans Jean, or with his surname alone. This important volume is based on Marcel Jean's 1965 edition of Arp's French poems, which was edited in collaboration with the author. Joachim Neugroschel's translation, includes new material, exhaustive bibliographical notes, a memoir by the artist's widow, an introduction by Marcel Jean, and many examples of Arp's book illustrations. Neugroschel consistently consulted and compared French to German versions of works existing in both languages. There was to be a further volume of Arp's German writings which never materialised. "[Arp] seems to distil the purest essences of Dada and Surrealism. Not only was he in at the creation of Dada, 'which tzara and i gave birth to joyfully', but all Surrealist elements pervade his work: the dream, ('in dreams I learn how to paint'), the humour (in uncharacteristically French, Carroll-like nonsense), the verbal spasms, the onomatopoeia, the working of objective chance in 'papiers déchirés' and 'collage'." (Margaret Davies, 'Journal of Beckett Studies' [Autumn 1980]).

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Fred Marcellino illustrated dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, with bumping to the spine ends and rubbing to the extremities. The contents, with a small bookseller's label to the lower edge front pastedown, light offsetting on the front endpaper and some toning to the paper stock, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly creased, price-clipped dustwrapper, that has some tiny abrasions to the upper spine tips and some ripples in the laminate (a production flaw), and is otherwise free from fading, loss or tears.

Winner of the first Arthur C. Clarke Award, shortlisted for The Booker Prize and nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award. Atwood's futuristic feminist dystopian novel has been the basis for film and Emmy Award winning television adaptations.

First editions, first printings. Three volumes. Each signed by the author. Volumes I and III, publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper; volume II, publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. 'A Kind of Loving' is in very good condition, the binding firm,the spine a touch rolled, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, toned to the paper-stock as always, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is toned to the spine and panel edges. 'The Watchers on the Shore' is a near fine copy, the binding square and the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with a small square patch on the front endpaper (from a paper label, long since removed) are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. 'The Right True End' is a near fine copy, the binding firm, the spine a touch rolled. The contents are clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is a little toned to the spine and panel edges. None of the three dustwrappers have been price-clipped and all of the books are without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps.

Each volume is signed by Stan Barstow in black ink on the title page. Uncommon thus.

First UK edition, first printing. Original black cloth with metallic green lettering to the spine, in the dustwrapper designed by Frederick Cantor. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth clean. The contents, with light toning to the paperstock, are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. There is some faint damp staining to the closed text block edge. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper which has a short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel and is otherwise without loss. Not price-clipped (£2.25 net to the front flap).

William Blatty's fifth novel, most famous for its 1973 film adaptation, directed by William Friedkin and starring Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair. In addition to providing the screenplay, Blatty was a producer on the film.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Dorothy Wheeler illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated with line drawings by Dorothy Wheeler throughout the text. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping and rubbing to the spine tips, the cloth clean and bright. The contents, with two bookplates; one on the front pastedown, the other on the front endpaper, above which is a contemporary Christmas gift inscription to the same owner from her grandmother, and foxing to the closed text block edge, encroaching onto the page surface in places, are entirely complete and without loose or torn pages. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that has small chips to the spine tips and fold corners. Not price-clipped (6/- net to the lower front flap). A scarce title in the correct, original dustwrapper.

The second book in the Magic Faraway Tree series following The Enchanted Wood (1941). [Summerfield, Tony: Enid Blyton, An Illustrated Bibliography, Part II].

Limited edition. 12 volumes. Publisher's original hand sewn coloured card covers with Ingres paper wrapper printed with black titles, housed in brown cloth solander box with paper label to the spine and wrap around gilt pattern. Folded information slip laid in. Five volumes in Welsh and seven in English. Each poem is illustrated with a specially commissioned wood engraving. A near fine set, the bindings square and firm, with a little rubbing to the extremities of some volumes and a tiny mark to the cover of 'Seren Bethlehem'. The contents of each volume are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. There are a few small pen marks to the loosely laid in information slip. Housed in the fine, structurally sound solander box.

A series of twelve poems from some of Wales' best known poets, selected by literary editor, translator and poet Meic Stephens. Issued in a limited edition of 400 copies, this being number 66.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Douglas Mays illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge red. With three black and white illustrations by Douglas May. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, cloth and gilt fresh, the contents clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine, lightly rubbed dustwrapper that has a few faint marks to the rear panel and is otherwise free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (65p / 13/- net to the front flap).

A lovely copy of the twentieth book featuring Jennings and the boys of Linbury Court.

Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition, first printing. Publisher's light green paper covers, illustrated and with titles printed in black to the upper cover and spine. A good copy, the binding toned to the edges, creased to the corners and spine, with splits at the fold ends. Hand written publication date and publication price in blue ink to the upper edge of the front cover. The contents, are entirely complete, without loose or torn pages and without inscriptions or stamps. The text block edges are foxed and there is a little creasing some page edges. Housed in a bespoke purple cloth solander case, with titles in orange to the spine. Rare in this form. The pre-publication proof was cheaply produced in very small numbers, strictly for in-house editorial purposes. It includes, with minor layout alterations to the first published edition, a chapter that was subsequently removed from the first American edition.

Burgess regularly expressed frustration at the disproportionate attention garnered by 'A Clockwork Orange'. The novel, he later recalled, "fell into a great silence, as many books do" following its publication in 1962, "but then a film was made of it ten years later, and [...] my trouble began". The film, of course, was Stanley Kubrick's infamous 1971 adaptation starring Malcolm McDowell as Alex (Andy Warhol had earlier adapted the book for his film 'Vinyl' in 1965), and the "trouble" was being "accused of fomenting violence, rape, mayhem, as it were, because of this film and because of the book it was based on". Burgess was ambivalent about the very aspects of the book that made it famous. "It was certainly no pleasure to me to describe acts of violence" he recalled in 1972, later expressing the more nuanced view that "I was sickened by my own excitement at setting it down". It is the book's language, however, that makes it so extraordinary, "nadsat", the vivid Anglo-American-Slavic language used by its characters generating its remarkable energy (and indeed violence). Burgess began writing the book upon his return to Britain from Malaya and Brunei in 1960 (he was an education officer for the Colonial Service) and it also reflects the author's reaction to a pop and youth culture (including violent clashes between Mods and Rockers) that he was experiencing for the first time after being away for six years. ('Conversations with Anthony Burgess', ed. by Earl and Mary Ingersoll, Mississippi: 2008; Brewer A04; Boytinck 75).

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original violet cloth with silver lettering to the spine, in the dustwrapper designed by The Green Bay Packers Art Co. Black and white photographic portrait of the author to the rear panel. Violet endpapers. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents bright, clean and without inscriptions or stamps. There are a few light spots to the top edge of the page block, and one or two more to the fore- and lower-edges. The wonderfully vibrant dustwrapper is bright, clean and, except for some light spotting to the verso, and a touch of fading to the yellow on the spine, fine and sharp. A lovely copy. Uncommon signed.

Signed by Angela Carter in blue ink to the front free endpaper. Carter's first collection of short fiction (the author requested that the subtitle, 'Nine Profane Pieces', be removed from the 1987 Chatto and Windus reprint). The stories were written between 1970 and 1973, for most of which time Carter was living in Japan (which is reflected in the stories). In the Afterword, she explains that she "started to write short pieces when [...] living in a room too small to write a novel in. So the size of my room modified what I did inside it [...]." The book was reviewed in 'The Observer' by the late Lorna Sage (who became a champion and later friend of the author): "Miss Carter [...] evades most of the lumpish entailments of realism; she writes in exotic and violent metaphors, her shameless plots breed carnivorous water-lilies and androgynous wizards at every twist and turn. [She is] one of the most rousing young writers around" ('The Observer', 18th August 1974).

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original red cloth with black titles to spine in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that has a short closed tear to the bottom of the front flap fold and a tiny hole to the middle of the lightly faded spine. Not price-clipped (12s 6d net to the front flap). Housed in a bespoke green cloth chemise and full brown morocco slipcase, with titles in gilt to the backstrip. A lovely copy.

Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the front endpaper "To Winifred Robinson / from / Agatha Christie / Nov. 1960". A short story collection notable for being the only first edition to include stories featuring both Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. There was no equivalent American edition. Comprising The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, or The Theft of the Royal Ruby; The Mystery of the Spanish Chest; The Under Dog; Four and Twenty Blackbirds; The Dream; Greenshaw's Folly. [Hubin; Wagstaff & Poole; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman].

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original red cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the upper corner bumped, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with a mild crease to the upper corner of the early pages are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the very lightly rubbed and price-clipped dustwrapper that is a touch dustmarked to the rear panel and otherwise without loss or tears. Housed in a bespoke purple cloth chemise and full navy blue morocco slipcase, with titles in gilt to the backstrip.

Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the front endpaper "best wishes for Xmas / from / Agatha Christie". A stand alone mystery novel, considered by Robert Barnard "One of the best of 'fifties Christies, and one of her own favourites". (Hubin; Wagstaff & Poole; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).

First edition thus. Signed by the illustrator. Containing an original print by Harry Brockway. Original red paper-covered boards over vellum, the spine lettered in gold, with a large, elaborate illustration on the upper board in gold, silver, copper and black. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with 16 tipped in colour illustrations by Brockway. An excellent fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Housed in a fine black buckram solander box with a red title label lettered in gilt to the spine.

Limited to 1000 copies. An original print is tipped in opposite the limitation page and is signed and numbered "553" in pencil by Harry Brockway. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Christabel', 'Kubla Khan' and 'The Pains of Sleep' are beautifully illustrated with wood engravings by Harry Brockway and luxuriously bound and produced by The Folio Society.

First edition, first printing [first issue]. Publisher's original heavy gilt and silver illustrated boards with gilt titles to the black cloth spine. Illustrated throughout with Gilbert Rumbold's characteristic colour illustrations. A genuinely very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping to the spine tips and corners, the gilt a little rubbed and scuffed, although without the heavy pitting and oxidization usually encountered. The contents, with some mild spotting to the prelims and closed text block edge, are otherwise clean and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps.

An attractive example of this art deco cocktail classic. This is the correct first edition, with a paginated title page and the Bacardi Cocktail errata slip tipped in at page 25.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, toned to the closed text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is toned to the spine and panel edges and otherwise without loss or large tears. Not price-clipped (9/- to the lower front flap).

The seventh Gervase Fen novel, published later in America under the title 'Sudden Vengeance'. (Hubin).

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with a thin strip of offsetting to the front endpaper are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has a couple of tiny chips to the fold corners and some fading of the spine. The lower front flap has been clipped and re-priced 12/6 net by the publisher.

A novel for adults by the author best known for her 'Just William' books.

Fifth impression of the first edition with Michael Foreman illustrations. Signed by the author. Publisher's original blue cloth boards with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with line drawings by Michael Foreman. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. There is some toning and spotting to the closed text block edge. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£10.95 to the lower front flap).

Inscribed by the author ink black ink on the front endpaper "To Francesca / Love / Roald Dahl". Signed copies of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are highly desirable; this wonderfully illustrated volume also includes the sequel.

First edition, first printing, first state binding. Original light blue paper-covered boards lettered in red to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. There is a light horizontal crease (c. 5 cm) visible to the edges of the front endpaper and prelims. In the bright dustwrapper, toned to the spine, lightly rubbed and nicked to the upper spine tip, with a three short closed tears to upper edges. Not price-clipped (2s. 6d. net to the front flap). A very presentable copy.

'Sweeney Agonistes' collects for the first time in book form, two 'Fragments': 'of a Prologue' and 'of an Agon', which had first appeared across two issues of 'The Criterion' (in October 1926 and January 1927). When reprinted in 'Twenty-Four One-Act Plays', an anthology edited by John Hampden (Revised ed. 1954), they were accompanied by a note explaining that "The author wishes to point out that 'Sweeney Agonistes' is not a one-act play and was never designed as such. It consists of two fragments. But as the author has abandoned any intention of completing them, these two fragmentary scenes have frequently been produced as a one-act play." An urban satire set in contemporary London, 'Sweeney' was Eliot's first foray into verse drama, the Aristophanic label a clue to the work's pointed satire and ritual artifice. (Gallup A23).

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Richard Chopping illustrated dustwrapper. Green patterned endpapers. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping to the spine tips and corners, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. There are a few small marks to the closed text block edge. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased, price-clipped dustwrapper that has a few tiny foxing spots to the rear flap and is otherwise without loss or tears.

[Gilbert A13a (1.2 First impression, first issue, second state, binding A)], preceded only by the issue of 940 copies with the gilt stamped gun on the upper board.

First collected edition, first printing. Publisher's review copy. Original orange cloth with illustration in silver to the upper board and silver titles to the spine, in the John Burningham illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout in colour and ink wash by John Burningham. An excellent near fine copy, the binding firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Loosely laid in is a purple Jonathan Cape review slip printed in black stating the publication date and price and requesting that reviews do not appear before that date. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£1.50 net to the lower front flap).

The first one volume edition of the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Adventures, first published over three volumes between 1964 and 1965.

First edition, first printing. Illustrated boards with a tan cloth spine lettered in black. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white by Claude Flight, C. W. Toovey, Stanislaus Brien, Margaret Barnard, and others. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the spine tips slightly worn, the corners a little rubbed, with a little faint toning and light marks to the boards. The internal front hinge is starting but holding firm. The contents, with a contemporary price label (3/6) to the front pastedown, are otherwise clean and bright throughout and without inscriptions or stamps.

An instructional book on linoleum cut printing, a technique which the British artist and printmaker Claude Flight (1881 - 1955) pioneered and popularised. Lino-cuts by children are included alongside the work of professional artists, demonstrating the technique's accessibility and exemplifying Flight's promotion of lino-cut as an affordable and easy method of printmaking which he passionately believed would make art available to a large amount of people, including within education.

First collected edition in English. Signed by the author. Publisher's green rexine covered boards lettered in gilt. Text printed in black and green. 17 x 12cm. 120 pages. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a small bump to the lower corner of the upper board. The contents, with the name of the Swedish politician Per Gahrton together with his room number at Hotel Omar Khayyam in Benghazi noted in blue pen on front free endpaper, and with his occasional underlining throughout the text, are otherwise clean and bright.

Signed by the author, political theorist and de facto leader of Libya (from 1969-2011) Muammar Al Qathafi [Gadaffi] in blue ink on the rear endpaper, underneath which the recipient Per Gahrton has noted in Swedish "Qaddafi's signature, Benghazi 8.4.83". Per Gahrton (1943-2023), a founding member of the Swedish Green Party and a fluent speaker of Arabic, was in Benghazi for a conference on The Green Book, where he had the opportunity meet Qathafi for an interview, during which this book was signed.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Donald Green designed dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with toning to the paper-stock and spotting to the closed top edge are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine ever so lightly rubbed dustwrapper that is a little toned to the edges of the rear panel and otherwise without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (15s net to the lower front flap).

An attractive example of Greene's 1958 black comedy, adapted (the following year) into the Carol Reed directed film, starring Alec Guinness in the role of vacuum cleaner salesman turned MI6 operative, James Wormald.

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. Top edge blue. A very good copy, the binding square and firm. The contents, with a gift inscription in blue ink on the front endpaper are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and spotted dustwrapper that has a couple of short closed tears and some darkening to the rear panel. Not price-clipped (13s 6d net to the front flap).

One of Greene's best known novels, twice adapted for film; the first in 1958 directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and starring Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave and Giorgia Moll; the second, a more faithful adaptation in 2002 directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser and Do Thi Hai Yen.

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with dark blue titles to the spine, in the Janet Halverson designed dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the head of the spine, the cloth is bright and fresh. The contents, somewhat spotted to the endpapers and closed text block edge, are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is spotted to the flaps and otherwise without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£1.45 net to the lower front flap).

First edition with these illustrations. Signed by the author and illustrator. Publisher's original black cloth with metallic blue titles to the upper board. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Chris Riddell. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping to the bottom of the spine, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly creased dustwrapper, that has a publisher's barcode sticker and a few residue marks to the rear panel. Not price-clipped (£12.99 to the front flap).

Signed by the author Frances Hardinge, and illustrator Chris Riddell in black ink on the title page. Winner of the 2015 Costa Book Award in both the 'Children's Book Award' and 'Book of the Year' categories.

First UK edition, first printing. Original beige cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the spine tips with some bumping, the cloth with a few light marks to the upper board and the boards slightly toned at the extremities. There is some spotting to the closed text block edge and prelims, slight offsetting to the endpapers and a spot to the margins of pages 322-324, the contents are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased, price-clipped dustwrapper that is a little faded at the spine (although less so than usual) and is otherwise without loss or tears.

The third title in Frank Herbert's enduringly popular space-opera, the 'Dune' series. The series formed the basis for the 1984 film 'Dune' directed by David Lynch and starring Kyle MacLachlan and Patrick Stewart, and more recently 'Dune' (2021) and 'Dune: Part Two' (2024), directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya.

First edition, first printing. Original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout by John Lawrence. A very good or better copy, the binding square, the spine slightly rolled. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper and is a little faded at the spine and otherwise without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£7.95 net to the front flap).

Susan Hill's modern classic ghost story formed the basis for the hugely popular stageplay of the same name, first adapted in 1987, which is the second longest-running West End play following Agatha Christie's 'The Mousetrap'. It has also been adapted for film twice, first in 1989 starring Adrian Rawlins and again in 2012 starring Daniel Radcliffe.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original grey paper-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with light bumping to the bottom corner of the upper and lower board. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£20.00 to the front flap).

Signed by Kazuo Ishiguro in black ink on the title page. The author's seventh novel, which was nominated in 2016 for both the World Fantasy Award for 'Best Novel' and the Mythopoeic Award for 'Adult Literature'.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Independent Bookshop issue. Publisher's original pink paper covered boards with black titles to the spine, in blue dustwrapper. Promotional bookmark laid in. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£20.00 to the front flap).

Signed by Kazuo Ishiguro in black ink on the half title page. The author's eighth novel, which was longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original blue cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£14.99 to the front flap).

Signed by Kazuo Ishiguro in black ink on the title page. The authors first (and so far only) collection of short stories including 'Crooner', 'Come Rain or Come Shine', 'Malvern Hills' and 'Cellists'.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original pale blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dustwrapper designed by Pentagram. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean and bright throughout. Very light spotting to the upper edge of the page block. Complete with the very near fine dustwrapper, the front panel a touch rubbed to the upper outer corner, with a faint (barely visible) diagonal crease to the upper edge. Not price-clipped (£6.25 net to the front flap). A lovely, sharp copy.

Signed by Kazuo Ishiguro in black ink to the title page. The author's first novel is the the story of Etsuko, a middle-aged Japanese woman living alone in England. Haunted by the recent suicide of her eldest daughter, she recalls and relives a particular summer in Nagasaki after the war. It was winner of the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. "A delicate, ironic, elliptical novel [...] what one remembers is its balance, halfway between elegy and irony." (New York Times Book Review).

First Folio Society edition, first printing, and first edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original light brown cloth blocked in dark brown and gilt with a wrap around illustration by Finn Campbell-Notman, in slipcase. Printed on Caxton Wove paper. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and six further colour plates by Finn Campbell-Notman. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly marked, structurally sound slipcase.

Kazuo Ishiguro's third novel. Winner of the 1989 Booker Prize, and the basis for the 1993 Academy Award winning, James Ivory directed film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and the artist. One of 150 special copies. Publisher's blue and white geometric patterned paper covered boards with a white paper title label printed in black to the upper board, black leather spine with titles in gilt. Illustrated in colour throughout by Eileen Hogan. With an additional print, initialled by the artist, loosely laid into a pocket at the rear, as issued. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks.

One of 150 'special copies' (from a total edition of 250), bound with a leather spine and containing an extra print. This example is numbered 120 and signed by Kazuo Ishiguro and Eileen Hogan to the colophon. A collection of three early short stories to which the author adds an interesting biographical introduction.

First Folio Society edition, first printing, and first edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original blue cloth with grey and yellow titles to the spine and illustration by Kate Miller on the upper board, in the black slipcase. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight further colour plates by Kate Miller. A fine copy the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the structurally sound slipcase that has a few light marks to the bottom edge.

A dystopian science fiction novel, shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize. The basis for the 2010 Mark Romanek directed film of the same name starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author, twice. Limited edition. Publisher's original green boards with white titles to the spine, in dustwrapper, housed in the publisher's white cloth slipcase. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the boards bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with fine original dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£16.99 net to the front flap). Housed in the fine original slipcase with pictorial inlay and titles in gilt to one side.

Issued in a limited edition of 1000 copies, this example is numbered 703 and signed by Kazuo Ishiguro in black ink on the title page. Although not called for, the author has additionally signed in black ink across the pictorial inlay on the side of the slipcase, unusual thus. A dystopian science fiction novel, shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize and 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award. The basis for the 2010 Mark Romanek directed film of the same name starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield.

First edition, first printing of Kazuo Ishiguro's first appearance in book form. Signed by the author. Original red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. A few light spots to the upper edge of the page block. Spine tips a touch softened. In the bright, clean dustwrapper, with some light creasing to the inner front flap, which remains unclipped and priced £4.95 net. Uncommon in signed state.

Signed by Kazuo Ishiguro in black ink to the title page preceding his contributions. After graduating from the University of Kent in 1978, Ishiguro briefly worked in London as a social worker before joining the now famous MA writing program at the University of East Anglia in 1979. The three stories published in this Faber 'Introduction' volume were his first writings to be published in book form and, apart from the first story, 'A Strange and Sometimes Sadness', which appeared in the journal 'Bananas' the previous year, the first published anywhere. Two decades later, Ishiguro republished that first story with two others in a short volume entitled 'Early Japanese Stories' (London: Belmont Press, 2000), for which he provided a biographical introduction recalling the context in which his early stories were written. Of 'A Strange and Sometimes Sadness', he remembers that "it was only after considerable hesitation I began to show the story around, and I remain to this day profoundly grateful to my fellow students, to my tutors, Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter, and to the novelist Paul Bailey [...] for their determinedly encouraging response. Had they been less positive, I would probably never again have written about Japan. As it was, I returned to my room and wrote and wrote. Throughout the winter of '79–'80, and well into the spring, I spoke to virtually no-one aside from my fellow students, the village grocer from whom I'd buy the breakfast cereals and lamb kidneys on which I existed, and my girl-friend (today my wife) who'd come to visit me every second weekend." The other two Ishiguro stories in this Faber Introduction – 'Waiting For J' and 'Getting Poisoned' – have not been republished since. 'Introduction 7' was the seventh in a series established to publish new work by unpublished writers. First appearing in 1960, Tom Stoppard, Ted Hughes, Christopher Hampton, and Jim Crace are among writers first published in the series. In addition to the three Ishiguro stories, 'Introduction 7', includes stories by J. K. Klavans, Steven Kupfer, Tim Owens, and Amanda Hemingway.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original yapped, oatmeal buckram, double ruled in red and with titles in black to the upper board and spine. Illustrated with a tissue guarded frontispiece and three further full page plates by James McBryde. A very good or better copy, the binding firm, the spine touch rolled and somewhat toned. The contents with some toning to the paperstock and spotting to the endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. An attractive example.

The author's first collection of Ghost Stories, the first two of which were previously published in magazine form. A cornerstone of Supernatural fiction. The first printing was issued with and without a publisher's catalogue at the rear, the present example is without. No precedence has been established. [Bleiler; Reginald 07817].

First UK edition, first printing. Original light grey cloth lettered and ruled in silver on a blue background to the spine, in the dustwrapper and rarely seen publisher's card slipcase. Upper edges coloured blue. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents bright and clean throughout. In the very near fine, bright, unclipped dustwrapper (£18.00 to the front flap), a few spots to the verso. The card slipcase shows a few light surface marks and a touch of rubbing to corners. A lovely, bright copy of the uncommon first edition of Stillinger's definitive edition of Keats' poems

Stillinger's revelatory edition, published simultaneously by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, remains the standard scholarly edition of Keats' poems, building upon the research published earlier in 'The Text of Keats's Poems' (1974). Owing to the complexity of manuscript materials and manifold inconsistencies and errors in first printings, there had never been a completely reliable edition of Keats' poems until the arrival of this edition. Based on a systematic investigation of all existing manuscript and printed materials, Stillinger's readings represent, as exactly as can be determined, Keats' preferred versions of each poem. Arranged chronologically, with variants at the foot of each page, the poems are followed by extensive textual and critical notes.

First edition with these illustrations; first Folio Society edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth illustrated and with titles in gold, red, white and black to the upper board and spine, housed in the red card slipcase. Top edge green. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, 13 further full page colour plates and tail pieces in black and white by Kate Baylay. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed, structurally sound slipcase.

First published in 1907 with illustrations by Henry Justice Ford, this newly illustrated edition features an introduction by Jane Yolen. The volume contains 29 stories including Madschun; The Blue Parrot; Geirlug The King's Daughter; The Story of Little King Loc; A Long-Bow Story; Jackal or Tiger?; The Comb and the Collar; The Thanksgiving of the Wazir; Samba the Coward; Kupti and Imani; The Strange Adventures of Little Maia; Diamond Cut Diamond; The Green Knight; The Five Wise Words of the Guru; The Golden-Headed Fish; Dorani; The Satin Surgeon; The Billy Goat and the King; The Story of Zoulvisia; Grasp All, Lose All; The Fate of the Turtle; The Snake Prince; The Prince and the Princess in the Forest; The Clever Weaver; The Boy Who Found Fear At Last; He Wins Who Waits; The Steel Cane; The Punishment of the Fairy Gangana; The Silent Princess.

First edition with these illustrations; first Folio Society edition, first printing. Publisher's original green lilac illustrated and with titles in silver, blue, white and black to the upper board and spine, housed in the blue card slipcase. Top edge lilac. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, 11 further full page colour plates, one full page black and white illustration and several smaller line drawings by Caitlin Hackett. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed, structurally sound slipcase.

First published in 1910 with illustrations by Henry Justice Ford, this newly illustrated edition features an introduction by Geraldine McCaughrean. The volume contains 32 stories including The Shifty Lad; The False Prince and the True; The Jogi's Punishment; The Heart of a Monkey; The Fairy Nurse; A Lost Paradise; How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves; The King of the Waterfalls; A French Puck; The Three Crowns; The Story of a Very Bad Boy; The Brown Bear of Norway; Little Lasse; 'Moti'; The Enchanted Deer; A Fish Story; The Wonderful Tune; The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother; The One-Handed Girl; The Bones of Djulung; The Sea King's Gift; The Raspberry Worm; The Stones of Plouhinec; The Castle of Kerglas; The Battle of the Birds; The Lady of the Fountain; The Four Gifts; The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok; The Escape of the Mouse; The Believing Husbands; The Hoodie-Crow; The Brownie of the Lake; The Winning of Olwen.

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Publisher's original grey cloth illustrated and with titles in silver, black and orange. Housed in the original grey card slipcase. Top edge grey. Illustrated title page, colour frontispiece, 12 further full page colour plates and 10 large tailpieces by Lauren Nassef. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The slipcase, very lightly rubbed to the extremities remains structurally sound.

First published in 1900, with illustrations by Henry Justice Ford, this newly illustrated edition features an introduction by Kate Bernheimer. The volume contains 35 stories including Donkey Skin; The Goblin Pony; An Impossible Enchantment; The Story of Dschemil and Dachemila; Janni and the Draken; The Partnership of the Thief and the Liar; Fortunatus and his Purse; The Goat-faced Girl; What came of picking Flowers; The Story of Bensurdatu; The Magician's Horse; The Little Gray Man; Herr Lazarus and the Draken; The Story of the Queen of the Flowery Isles; Udea and her Seven Brothers; The White Wolf; Mohammed with the Magic Finger; Bobino; The Dog and the Sparrow; The Story of the Three Sons of Hali; The Story of the Fair Circassians; The Jackal and the Spring; The Bear; The Sunchild; The Daughter of Buk Ettemsuch; Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye, or the Limping Fox; The Unlooked for Prince; The Simpleton; The Street Musicians; The Twin Brothers; Cannetella; The Ogre; A Fairy's Blunder; Long, Broad, and Quickeye; Prunella.

First edition with these illustrations; first Folio Society edition, first printing. Publisher's original violet cloth illustrated and with titles in silver, white, black and yellow to the upper board and spine, housed in the violet card slipcase. Top edge violet. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, 14 further full page colour plates and tail pieces in black and white by Robert Venables. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed, structurally sound slipcase.

First published in 1901 with illustrations by Henry Justice Ford, this newly illustrated edition features an introduction by Alison Lurie. The volume contains 35 stories including A Tale Of the Tontlawald; The Finest Liar in the World; The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars; Schippeitaro; The Three Princes and their Beasts; The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan; The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples; The Lute Player; The Grateful Prince; The Child who came from an Egg; Stan Bolovan; The Two Frogs; The Story of a Gazelle; How a Fish swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water; Two in a Sack; The Envious Neighbour; The Fairy of the Dawn; The Enchanted Knife; Jesper Who Herded the Hares; The Underground Workers; The History of Dwarf Long Nose; The Nunda, Eater of People; The Story of Hassebu; The Maiden with the Wooden Helmet; The Monkey and the Jelly-fish; The Headless Dwarfs; The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened; The Boys with the Golden Stars; The Frog; The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground; The Girl Who Pretended to be a Boy; The Story of Halfman; The Prince Who Wanted to See the World; Virgilius the Sorcerer; Mogarzea and his Son.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities very slightly rubbed, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh and without. The contents, with toning to the closed text block edge and are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is toned to the upper edge of the rear panel and flap edges, and without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£12.95 net to the front flap).

An irreverently comedic fantasy drawing heavily on biblical themes. The basis for the 2019 television series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant.

First edition in book form, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth stamped in blind to the upper board and gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Top edge blue, the others untrimmed. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and line drawings throughout the text. 'Corrigendum' slip inserted at the front. A very good copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, somewhat spotted to the page edges are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. Two page publisher's catalogue to the rear. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and marked dustwrapper that has several short tears and small chips to the spine tips and corners. Correctly priced 7/6 net to the spine. Uncommon in dustwrapper.

A collection of eight short pieces which includes the the last appearance of Clovis Sangrail in 'Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business', three plays and a 117 page biography of the author by his sister Ethel.

First editions and first printings of the four volumes of Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet of novels, along with the concluding Companion Piece. Each volume signed by the author. Original multi-coloured cloth (respectively Terracotta, Light Grey, Mustard Yellow, Light Green, and Purple) lettered to spines and front panels in copper, silver and gilt and black. Each volume complete with a wraparound band reproducing a seasonally appropriate David Hockney painting (Early November Tunnel' [2006]; Winter Tunnel with Snow, March [2006]; Late Spring Tunnel, May [2006]; Early June Tunnel [2006]; Felled with Trees on Woldgate [2008]). The Quartet endpapers are individually coloured, the rear endpapers reproducing artwork by Pauline Bony, Barbara Hepworth, Tacita Dean, Lorenza Mazzetti, respectively. A fine set, presenting as unread, the cloth and lettering sharp, the contents clean and bright throughout. The protected wraparound bands are all fine and bright, without fading or marks. Each volume individually priced (£16.99) to the inner flap of it wraparound band. A beautiful set.

All five volumes signed by Ali Smith in black ink on the title page. In a 2016 interview, Smith recalled that she'd "been thinking about writing a seasonal series of books for about 20 years now, and in 2014, after finishing 'How to Be Both', I realised it was time to start. This might simply be because I knew now it was possible, after Hamish Hamilton made such a beautiful finished book-form for 'How to be Both' in a matter of weeks, to turn a book around quite speedily compared to the usual time it takes, and this excited me about how closely to contemporaneousness a finished book might be able to be in the world, and yet how it could also be, all through, very much about stratified, cyclic time." Between 2016 and 2020, author and publisher triumphantly rose to the challenge of writing and publishing "to the moment" (to borrow Samuel Richardson's useful phrase). As such, the first instalment opens with, and is shadowed by, the recent Brexit referendum, while the concluding volume takes in pandemic lock-down and Black Lives Matter protests. It is not journalism, however, each volume a fully fleshed-out novel replete with Smith's customary temporal experiments, wordplay, and allusive reach. Of 'Companion Piece', which appeared two years after 'Summer', Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Guardian, 30 March, 2022) noted that it "doesn't feel like a coda [...], rather an addition to a book sequence for all seasons, with no end in sight. Smith could carry on adding to the writerly collage she is creating through many more volumes. I hope she does." 'Autumn' was shortlisted for the 2016 Booker Prize; 'Summer' was winner of the 2020 Orwell Prize.

First edition, first printing. Domestic issue (printed by Billings). Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration to the spine, in dustwrapper. Top edge navy blue. Fold out map to the rear. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and free from inscriptions or stamps. The map is in fine condition. Complete in the very lightly creased dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£4.95 to the front flap).

Tolkien's creation story and Norse-style epic history of the world in which The Lord of the Rings is set. Compiled and edited by his son, Christopher.

First edition with this new binding design, first printing. Publisher's original red paper covered boards with illustration and decoration in green and gilt, housed in the original slipcase. Illustrated with superb black and white illustrations by Eric Fraser. Endpapers after the original drawings by J. R. R. Tolkien. A near fine copy, the binding square, firm and fresh, with some fading to the spine. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly rubbed, structurally sound slipcase, as issued.

Eric Fraser's illustrations for The Hobbit were first published by the Folio Society in 1979 and are re-issued in this new Francis Mosley designed binding for the first time.

First edition with this new binding design, first printing. Three volumes. Publisher's green paper covered boards with illustration and decoration in black and gilt, in the original slipcase. Illustrated with superb black and white illustrations drawn by Eric Fraser after designs by Ingahild Grathmer. A near fine set, the bindings square and firm, with light fading to the spines, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine structurally sound slipcase, that has a bump to the top edge and is lightly rubbed to the bottom.

Eric Fraser's illustrations for The Lord of the Rings were first published by the Folio Society in 1977 and are re-issued in this new Francis Mosley designed binding for the first time.

First edition, first printing of the Alan Lee illustrated edition. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and dragon illustration to the upper board, in the illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout with 26 colour plates and various in text pencil drawings by Alan Lee. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly creased dustwrapper, that has a faint indented line above the barcode on the rear panel and is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped.

Alan Lee is one of the most celebrated living illustrators of myth and fantasy: a recipient of the Kate Greenaway Medal and an Academy Award for Art Direction for Peter Jackson's films of The Lord of the Rings. For this edition of The Hobbit he won the 1998 Chesley Award for Best Interior Illustration. Released on the 60th Anniversary of The Hobbit's first publication. Outside of the author's own, Alan Lee's illustrations have become the most admired and recognisable renderings of Middle-earth and its inhabitants.

First UK edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original red cloth with bronze titles to the spine, in the 'Ghost' designed dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and tight with just a little bumping at the spine tips. The cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the original dustwrapper that is faintly creased to the corners and otherwise without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£12.99 to the lower front flap).

Signed and dated by Carlos Ruiz Zafón in black ink on the title page. 'La sombra del viento' was first published in Spanish in 2001 and became an international bestseller. This first edition in English was translated by Lucia Graves.