First illustrated edition, first printing. Publisher's beige paper covered boards and brown cloth spine, in dustwrapper and slipcase. Illustrated by John Lawrence in colour and black and white throughout. A lovely near fine copy, the binding clean and square with slight sunning to the spine. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked price-clipped dustwrapper that has a single short closed tear to the bottom of the front flap fold. Not price-clipped (£8.75 net to the front flap). Housed in the fine original pictorial slipcase.

An attractive example of the first John Lawrence illustrated edition.

First edition, first printing. Possibly annotated by one of the author's, with several notes and corrections in ink in a contemporary hand, apparently preparing the work for a future edition. Publisher's original gray cloth with titles in black to the upper board. Illustrated with several black and white plates and numerous drawing and diagrams within the text. 4pp. printed Italian introduction to the work tipped-in at the front. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little toning to the spine and bumping to the corners. The contents with toning to the endpapers and the odd spot of light foxing are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout.

An uncommon title by the influential British theosophists Annie Besant (1847-1933) and Charles Webster Leadbetter (1854-1934). Arguing that the structure of chemical elements can be assessed through clairvoyant observation with the microscopic vision of the third eye, the work forms a series of illustrated descriptions of the presumed etheric counterparts of the atoms of the then known chemical elements, in addition to discussion of various other theories of occult physics. The present copy appears to have been annotated in preparation for a future edition (or else by a dedicated student of the subject), with the manuscript corrections displaying great attention to technical detail. Another possibility is that this copy was used by Alfred Percy Sinnett (1840-1921), who edited the second edition of 1919.

First edition, first printing of the first Daily Express Rupert Annual. Publisher's original red cloth with black titles and decorations to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. A better than good copy, the binding square with some bumping at the spine tips and corners. The red cloth is quite bright where it has been protected by the original dustwrapper. The contents have some spotting and finger marks to the margins. The "This Book belongs to" box has been completed (December 1936) and two of the painting pages have been done (one only partially). There is some cracking at the gutter throughout but no loose pages. Complete with the good original dustwrapper that is missing the top 1/4 of the spine panel with small nicks at the bottom of the spine and fold corners. There is a single piece of tape to the underside. Despite the loss the dustwrapper remains quite bright and attractive.

First edition, second impression (published in the same month). Publisher's original orange cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping and fading at the spine tips. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and nicked price-clipped dustwrapper that is chipped with a little loss at the tips of the darkened spine. The underside has three small pieces of tape. The scarce dustwrapper is identical to the first printing.

(Hubin; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).

First edition, first printing. Original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the bottom corners lightly bumped. The contents are clean and bright throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed original dustwrapper which is a touch faded to the spine. Not price clipped (£8.95 to the front flap).

The full scripts of two films written by William Boyd, Good and Bad at Games and Dutch Girls, both on the subject of British single sex boarding schools, along with a lengthy introduction detailing Boyd's own experiences at such an institution and his thoughts on their shortcomings.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Original red cloth with black lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. A good copy, the binding square and firm, the contents without inscriptions or stamps. Lightly pushed to spine tips and bumped to outer corners. Spotting to page block edges spreading to many pages within, notably early and late pages. Small bump to the upper outer corner of the front panel. In the very good or better dustwrapper, rubbed to spine tips and corners, lightly soiled to rear panel and folds, with a few spots to the rear. Not price-clipped (10/6 net to the front flap).

Inscribed by the author Adelaide Manning in black ink to the front free endpaper, "For / Anna Hancock / with the author's affectionate regards / Manning Coles. / 5/8/53." The sixteenth Tommy Hambledon thriller. (Hubin).

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper. Not price-clipped ($15.95 to the upper front flap).

Inscribed by the author in black ink underneath the printed dedication "To George / from / Quentin Crisp / with affection / 15th October '91".

First edition, first printing, first issue. Three volumes. Publisher's original reddish brown fine-diaper cloth; the front and rear boards with an arabesque design in mirror image stamped in blind; titles and single rule in gilt to the spines. Illustrated with 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank. Yellow coated endpapers. An excellent near fine set in entirely unsophisticated condition. The bindings are square and firm with bumping at the spine tips and edges but without tears, chipping or loss. The cloth, with a few minor marks and some uniform fading of the spines, is otherwise clean, the gilt remains bright. The contents, with the neat previous owner's stamp (Charles Allen, Croyden) to the front endpaper of each volume are otherwise remarkably clean and fresh throughout. The inner hinges remain sound. With all first issue points present including "Boz" as the author on the title pages and the 'Fireside plate' present as the last illustration in volume III. Housed in a bespoke quarter red morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. Exceptionally uncommon in this condition.

Unusually for Dickens' novels, Oliver Twist was first issued complete in book form rather than monthly serial parts. It did appear in "Bentley's Miscellany" magazine, but was not completed until April 1839. The book in its earliest state, as here, was published on November 9th 1838. (Eckel 59; Smith, Walter: Dickens in the original cloth, part one: 4).

A suite of six original watercolour illustrations depicting characters from Charles Dickens' novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), with illustrated watercolour title and contents pages. Each portrait signed by the artist in red ink. The images printed on watermarked laid paper with untrimmed rough-cut edges. Condition is very good with toning to the left hand side of the title page. The watercolour portraits themselves remain clean, fresh and bright.

An attractive suite of original watercolour illustrations depicting characters from Dickens' unfinished final novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood, by the noted artist Joseph Clayton "Kyd" Clarke (1857-1937). The set includes Mr. Dick Datchery, Durdles, Deputy, Mr. Tope, Rev. Crisparkle, and Mr. Grewgious. Kyd's first Dickens illustrations appeared in 1887 in Fleet Street Magazine. They achieved immediate popularity, with two published collections appearing shortly after and numerous sets of postcards based on his Dickens drawings also released. Following this initial success, Kyd earned his living creating sets of watercolour portraits such as these, which found many eager buyers. Indeed, as early as the 1890s, his popular, characterful sketches – which drew significantly on the work of the original Dickens illustrators Hablot Knight Browne ('Phiz') and Robert Seymour) – were being sought by major Dickens collectors such as Thomas Wilson and Frederick Cosens. Significant collections of Kyd's work are now held by numerous major institutions including The British Museum, the V&A, the Charles Dickens Museum, and the University of Texas.

First edition of the first appearance of Dostoevsky in English. Publisher's original yellow cloth with Aubrey Beardsley illustration and titles in black to the upper board, titles in gilt to the spine. Title page and covers illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. 16 page publisher's catalogue at the rear. An attractive better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with bumping to the bottom right corner of the upper board and a little softening at the spine tips. The spine is a touch darkened but the gilt remains bright. The contents with a little spotting to the endpapers are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps.

The author's first novel, first published in Russian in 1846. This was the third title in John Lane's Keynote Series.

Watercolour, ink and wash on paper, laid down on board. Signed with monogram and dated 1870 lower right. The image measures 50 x 35 cm. Thin strips of toning to the edges otherwise in fine and bright original condition.

This beautifully whimsical painting depicts young girls combing the beards of countless billy goats amidst an idyll of rolling hills. In typical Doyle style, this meticulously executed work is full of charming details; some of the maidens sport floral garlands while one in the bottom right corner wears a crown, suggesting that she is a princess, and far in the distance another girl runs after an escaped goat. Created in the same year that Doyle's masterpiece In Fairyland was published, this painting shares the hazy colours, fine brushwork, and dispersed composition commonly seen in that famous work. Richard Doyle was one of the most popular illustrators of his time. Possessing a healthy dose of both humour and fantastical sensibility, he first made a name for himself illustrating Punch magazine and then found great success turning his hand to classic and contemporary fairy tales such as Grimm's Tales and John Ruskin's The King of the Golden River. Provenance: Christie's, London (South Kensington) October 25, 1982, lot 150; private collection.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent better than very good copy, the binding square and the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with mild offsetting to the endpapers are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has several closed tears and small chips to the extremities and two large pieces of tape to the underside. Correctly priced 6/- net to the spine.

Inscribed by the author in back ink on the front endpaper "To Eveline / from / Mr + Mrs Etheridge / 6th April 1931 / A. I. Etheridge [underlined]". Seemingly the author's only mystery novel. (Hubin)

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth in dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has some creasing and a couple of tiny chips at the head of the spine and a couple of small pieces of tape to the underside. Not price-clipped (8s. 6d. net to the front flap). A scarce title.

(Hubin; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. There is a tiny sliver of fading to the upper spine tip, light spotting to the upper edge, and a few scattered spots to fore-edge of the page block. Complete with the dustwrapper showing the customary rubbing to the black portions of the front panel revealing flecks of the foil background beneath, the rear panel with the reverse effect. There are two short closed tears (with associated light creasing) to the lower edge of the front panel. Not price-clipped (£4.95 net to the front flap). Altogether a very attractive example.

'The Golden Child', Fitzgerald's first novel, has always stood a little apart from her later work in being a murder mystery. Its plot unfolds in the context of the Tutankhamun exhibition held at the British Museum in 1972, and involves both academic and cold war intrigue. It was written, Fitzgerald later declared, "to amuse [her] husband", Desmond, who at the time was terminally ill in hospital, and also concurrently with work on her biography of the Knox Brothers to whom she was related. Hermione Lee, in her fine biography of the author has written of the close connections between novel and biography: "For all its Knoxian tomfoolery", she writes of 'The Golden Child', "it has a serious question to ask: What is false, and what is true, and how are people deceived? That was the kind of question the Knoxes were interested in." (Hermione Lee, 'Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life' [London: 2013])

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with titles and illustration in orange to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Green top stain, as issued. Illustrated from photographs taken by the author. Folding map. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is without loss and a little toned to the spine. Not price-clipped (8s 6d net to the front flap). Remnants of a small paper label to the bottom of the flap edges (possibly a wraparoung band). Scarce in the first edition dustwrapper.

The author's second book.

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original orange cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips. The contents, with spotting to the prelims are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is a little creased at the spine tips, but remains without fading or loss. Unpriced to the front flap (for export). An attractive example.

(Hubin; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original burgundy cloth with orange titles to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Top edge orange. A lovely fine copy, the binding square and firm and the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine dustwrapper that is a little rubbed at the extremities with a single short closed tear at the lower front flap fold and a small stain to the lower spine. Not price-clipped (7s 6d net to the front flap). A lovely example, scarce in this condition.

The basis for the 1957 Stanley Kramer film "The Pride and the Passion", starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, and Sophia Loren.

New edition, with an enlarged preface. Signed by the author. Original maroon cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Top edge red. An excellent very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. The top edge a touch faded. Complete with the very lightly rubbed dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£4.95 to the bottom of the front flap).

Inscribed by the author in black ink on the title page "John Fowles / Lyme Regis, 1997". The Aristos is a personal philosophical exposition on the nature of humanity and modern life, inspired by the work of the 5th century BCE philosopher Heraclitus.

An original illustration executed in pen and ink depicting a woman with a large feathered hat reading a book whilst holding a flower in one hand, perched atop sinuous vines and foliage. Unsigned. The image measuring 8.5 x 12 cm. Mounted, framed and glazed. Condition is excellent, with just the slightest hint of minor toning in places.

Scottish artist Annie French (1872-1965) attended and later taught at the Glasgow School of Art during the era of the 'Glasgow Girls' (of which she was one, alongside her contemporaries Margaret and Frances MacDonald and Jessie M. King) and the 'Glasgow Boys', whose distinctive collective style helped to shape the aesthetics of the British Art and Crafts Movement at the turn of the twentieth century. The present painting forms a lovely example of French's work, demonstrating her typically delicate, fluid style and her fine, sweeping line, which together lend the image an airy and subtly dynamic atmosphere. Provenance: Sir James French.

First edition, first printing. Original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding tight, the extremities a touch rubbed. The contents, with toning to the endpapers and very faintly to the margins are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which is toned to the spine and has a 2cm closed tear to the top of the rear spine fold. Not price clipped (10s. 6d. to the bottom of the front flap). An attractive example.

Friday's Child is reported to be Heyer's favourite of her Regency romances.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original brown cloth with white titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that has a scuff to the lower panel, a couple of short closed tears and very slight toning to the spine. There is a single piece of archival tape to the underside at the head of the spine. Not price-clipped (9s 6d net to the front flap). A scarce title in dustwrapper.

(Hubin).

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original blue cloth with titles in gilt to the spine. Photograph of the author affixed to the front free endpaper above signature. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little marking to the boards and fading to the spine. The contents with a previous owner's blank, uninscribed bookplate and pencil inscription (W. H Ingrams – likely William Harold Ingrams (1897-1973), the British colonial administrator) to the front pastedown are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout.

Signed by Richard Hillary in black ink to the front free endpaper. The Anglo-Australian Royal Air Force fighter pilot Richard Hillary's (1919-1943) famous account of his service in the Second World War, specifically the Battle of Britain. Hillary's work met with instant acclaim, not only due to its lively depictions of the experiences of a spitfire pilot, but also for the quality of the writing and depth of its storytelling. Just a year after publication, on 8th January 1943, Hillary was killed when he crashed a Bristol Blenheim during a night training flight in adverse weather conditions in Berwickshire, making signed copies of his work particularly scarce.

First edition, first printing. Hardcover issue. Illustrated throughout with full page colour artworks by David Hockney. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean and bright throughout. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. A beautiful example.

Published in conjunction with the Royal Academy exhibition of the same name, exploring Hockney's long standing fascination with landscape.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original burgundy cloth with white titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm and the cloth bright and fresh. The contents with a previous owner's bookplate and shelf stamp to the front pasedown and his inscription and date at the head of the title page are otherwise clean throughout. The top edge of the closed text block is spotted. Publisher's catalogue dated Summer 1935 at the rear. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that is otherwise without fading, loss or tears. Correctly priced 7/6 net to the spine. A scarce title.

The author's first work of fiction, shortly followed by "The Champagne Mystery" written under the pseudonym Guy Garston (published by Muller, 1935).

First edition in book form, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with black titles to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. 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 owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the good (at best) rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has several closed tears and large chips at the base of the spine and upper left corner of the front panel. Correctly priced 7/6 net to the spine. An international bestseller on publication (350,000 copies sold in its first ten months), the first edition is rare in dustwrapper.

Filmed twice, first in 1923 directed by Harry Millarde and starring Percy Marmont and Ann Forrest, and again in 1947 directed by Victor Saville and starring Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr and Angela Lansbury.

First edition, first printing. Beautifully bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full burgundy morocco, ruled in gilt to the upper and lower boards, five raised bands ruled in gilt and titles in gilt to the spine. Gilt ruled inner dentelles. Dark green endpapers. All edges gilt. The publisher's cloth retained and bound in at the rear. A fine copy, the binding square and tight. The contents, with the occasional isolated foxing spot and the habitual toning of the paper stock are otherwise clean and bright throughout.

A beautifully presented first edition of James Joyce's short story collection, this being one of just 746 copies of the first issue.

Second illustrated edition (the third overall). Quarto. Contemporary full calf, the spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt and with titles in gilt. Red speckled edges. Engraved additional title page. Illustrated with 73 half and quarter-page engravings (including one folding) of monsters – i.e. deformed humans and animals, in addition to fantastical, monstrous hybrids of both. Early eighteenth-century armorial bookplate for John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel (1690-1754) to the verso of the title page and another for his estate, Belton House, to the front pastedown. A very good copy indeed, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing and cracking to the joints, chipping to the spine ends, a few minor scuffs to the boards, and wear to the corners. The contents with the tiniest trace of worm to the margin of the first three pages, a little toning and light foxing to the preliminary pages, and a minor ink smudge to the bottom margin of one engraving are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. An attractive copy.

The second illustrated edition of this classic work of by the Italian physician, philosopher and friend of Galileo, Fortunio Liceti (1577-1657), first published (without illustrations) in 1616. This edition is the first to include the "Appendix of new and rare monstrosities" by the Dutch physician Gerard Blasius (1627-1682), one of the founders of comparative anatomy, illustrated with fifteen engravings, including images of conjoined twins, the "horned woman", the well-known engravings of Lazarus and his "parasitic twin" Johannes Baptista Colloredo, and the famous depiction of an Orangutan (the "Satyr Indica"). One of the earliest classifications of deformities. This work, by the Paduan physician Liceti, was still under review in works on malformation in the 19th century. It includes both real and imaginary cases and accurate descriptions of cases observed in the years following the first edition. Liceti contested the "vulgar" opinion that identified monsters with errors or failures in the course of nature. Liceti likened nature to an artist who, faced with some imperfection in the materials to be shaped, ingeniously creates another form still more admirable. On this view, monsters revealed nature not as frustrated in her aims, but as rising to the challenge of recalcitrant matter, a constricted womb, or even a mixture of animal and human seed. "It is in this that I see the convergence of both Nature and Art," wrote Liceti, "because one or the other not being able to make what they want, they at least make what they can." "By the early decades of the seventeenth century, professors like Aldrovandi and physicians like Liceti who inquired into the wonders of nature were joined by erudite Jesuits like Athanasius Kircher, gentleman virtuosi like John Evelyn, and members of academies such as the Accademia degli Lincei in Rome or the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, founded in Schweinfurt in 1652. Not all marvel-mongers in the seventeenth century concerned themselves with natural philosophy; nor did all natural philosophers and natural historians attend to marvels. But there was an unprecedented (and never-to-be-repeated) overlap between the two groups. This was in part because marvels, described in words and displayed as things, saturated early modern European culture, thrusting themselves into the consciousness of nearly everyone, from prince to pauper to philosopher." (Daston & Park, "Wonders and The Order of Nature"). [Thorndike, Vol 7, pp. 52-3; Osler 3235. Wellcome III, 514. Waller 5779. Goldschmid, S. 42. Garrison-Morton. 534.52; Graesse, v. 4, p. 203; Rosenthal, Bibl. magica 4375].

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original beige cloth with navy titles to the spine and upper board, in the Cyril Walter Hodges illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge blue. A very good copy, the binding firm, the corners lightly bumped. The contents, with the front free endpaper removed, light offsetting to the half title, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed and creased original dustwrapper which has some minor chipping and short closed tears to the extremities, particularly the spine tips. Not price clipped (three shillings and sixpence to the bottom of the front flap).

Signed by Norah Lofts in black ink to the title page "Yours sincerely / Norah Lofts. / 15. vi. '37". The author's first book, a short story cycle following a single family line throughout history. The collection won a National Book Award in 1936.

First edition, second impression. Inscribed by the author, and with a card signed by the publisher loosely laid in. Original black cloth with silver titles and decoration to the spine, in the Eric Fraser illustrated dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding firm with a very slight lean to the spine, the bottom corners a just a touch bumped. The contents, with the recipient's ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, light spotting to the text block edges and endpapers, and a tiny stain to the text block top edge, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the original rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which is a little toned to the spine and extremities, has a few short closed tears to the edges, and has two pieces of tape to the inside along the top and bottom edges. Not price clipped (12/6 net to the front flap).

Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the half title "Inscribed for an old / school-fellow, Charles / Wright- / Norah Lofts". With a Christmas card signed by Michael Joseph in blue ink loosely laid in.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original red cloth with silver titles to the spine, in the Eric Fraser illustrated dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding firm, the spine with a slight lean, the extremities very lightly rubbed. The contents are clean and bright throughout. Complete with the rubbed and nicked original dustwrapper which has a few very short closed tears to the edges, the largest being of 1.5cm to the top of the front panel. Not price clipped (9/6 net to the bottom of the front flap).

Signed by Norah Lofts in black ink on the the title page.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Original stapled card wrappers. The line drawing reproduced on the front cover (dated 1959 and perhaps created for the catalogue) shows a characteristic group of Lowry figures, human and canine. Printed on laid paper. A very near fine copy, the binding firm, the contents, with many careful annotations in pencil throughout, are otherwise clean. An intriguing copy of this scarce little catalogue issued to accompany the major retrospective of the artist's work held in Manchester in 1959.

Inscribed by L. S. Lowry in blue ink to the verso of the front cover, "Dear Roger / Here is a copy of the / catalogue as requested. / (Many apologies it took so long!) / The drawings are both / listed as discussed. / I hope to see you / in Manchester on the 10th / as arranged. / Yours / L. S. Lowry". We have been unable to determine the identity of the recipient, or the two drawings specified. The pencil annotations, consist of queries and notes regarding dates and locations of individual works, as well as what appear to be questions for the artist prepared in advance of the planned meeting mentioned in the inscription. The precise and informed manner of these annotations suggest that the recipient may have been compiling information for a study of the artist. The retrospective of Lowry's work mounted in Manchester in 1959, along with his election as an associate of the Royal Academy four years earlier, marked a new phase in the artist's popular reputation.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Top edge red. Map endpapers. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, with a minor bump to the bottom edge of the lower board, the contents clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed and creased dustwrapper which has a tiny closed tear to the head of the faded spine. Not price clipped (25/- net to the bottom of the front flap).

Inscribed by the author in blue ink to the page facing the title page "To: / General Desmond Gordon / with best wishes / from / Jimmy Mills [underlined] / November. 1961. [underlined]". The recipient is Major-General Desmond Spencer Gordon, a British Army officer who commanded the 4th Division, and the author's Brigade Commander (Mills describes proposing the expedition plans to him on page 18). A detailed recollection of an expedition to the Alaskan mountaintops undertaken by four British officers. (Neate M109).

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles and illustration to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Top edge gilt. Illustrated throughout with line drawings by Ernest Shepard. An attractive better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with minor rubbing at the spine tips and corners. The contents with a small handwritten date "xmas 1924" to the front endpaper and some toning to the endpapers are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the very good rubbed and nicked first state dustwrapper that has some spotting to the fold edges and three short tears (strengthened with three small pieces of archival tape to the underside).

The first volume of the "Pooh" books, issued in a first edition of only 4500 copies which sold out almost immediately. This example with the contents page in the corrected state, numbered 'ix'.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original dark red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt borders and illustrations to the boards, without dustwrapper. Top edge gilt. Illustrated endpapers and line drawings throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing at the tips of the lightly faded spine. The contents with the usual offsetting / toning to the half title are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps.

An attractive example of the third book in the Winnie The Pooh series.

First edition, first printing. Original aquamarine cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Small mark to the bottom edge of the closed text block. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased original dustwrapper which is slightly toned to the edges and has a little faint foxing to the flaps. Not price-clipped (£5.50 net to the front flap).

An attractive example of the author's Booker Prize winning novel.

First edition, first printing. Original peach cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Barnett Freedman illustrated dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the spine tips and board corners a little bumped, with a tiny black stain to the upper board. The contents, with light spotting to the text block edges and faint offsetting to the free endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked original dustwrapper which has a short closed tear to the top of the front spine fold which has been repaired with a piece of tape to the underside, a very small chip to the head of the spine, a small hole to the front panel corresponding with the small stain to the cloth, and a little fading to the spine. Not price clipped (12s. 6d. to the bottom of the front flap). An excellent example, scarce in the dustwrapper.

First edition, first printing of this classic of Australian literature. Three volumes. Publisher's original blue (Australia Felix and The Way Home) and black (Ultima Thule) cloth, with titles in black and gilt to the upper board and spine. Without dustwrappers. All are in very good or better condition, the cloth bright and fresh with minor bumping and rubbing at the spine tips and fold corners. Australia Felix with the bookplate of Michael Sadleir to the upper left corner of the front pastedown and the penciled ownership signature of Col. R. H. Bolton / Scots Guards to the front endpaper is otherwise clean throughout. The publisher's catalogue at the rear has the corner torn from two pages; The Way Home with light spotting to the margins and closed text block edge is otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's marks; Ultima Thule with a little toning of the text block and some dustiness to the top edge is clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. A very attractive set, the first volume is particularly scarce in first edition.

The Australian born author's masterpiece, the title character of which is loosely based on the her own father who had emigrated from Dublin to Australia, and his rise and tragic fall in Australia's gold rush. The final volume in the trilogy 'Ultima Thule' was awarded the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for 1929.

First edition, first printing. Original orange cloth with black lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and clean, the contents without inscriptions or stamps. In the very near fine, bright, dustwrapper showing the merest rubbing to edges and extremities. Not price-clipped (10s. 6d. net to the front flap). A particularly sharp, attractive copy.

Rutherford's fourth novel, and his first to be published in the Collins Crime Club series. "Here is the authentic atmosphere of Continental motor-racing, its danger and romance, its heart-stopping thrills and fabulous spectacle. [Y]oung Martin Templer is about to drive for the first time in a Continental race—the Mondano Grand Prix [...]. Martin himself, his co-drivers, the other members of the Dayton team and the two young women are put in a terrible position: to the ordinary hazards of Grand Prix racing is added the tension of knowing that a murderer is in their midst [...]." (from the jacket). (Hubin; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).

First UK edition. 8vo. Twentieth-century light blue cloth with titles in gilt to the spine. Ex Trinity College, Cambridge library, with their stamps to the verso of the title page and final text page. The copy of William St Clair, the author and noted scholar of Shelley and his circle, with his pencil signature and inscriptions to the front pastedown and front endpaper. A very good or thereabouts copy, the binding square and firm with a little marking and uneven fading to the boards. The contents with the top-right corner of the title page clipped away and rebuilt (likely in order to remove a previous owner's signature) and some light scattered foxing to the first few pages are otherwise in very good order.

The first UK edition of Shelley's elegy for his friend and fellow Romantic poet John Keats, often considered to be one of Shelley's best works, and certainly one his most widely-known. The publisher's advertisement (p.iii) declares the present volume "an exact reprint (a few typographical errors only being corrected,) of the first edition of 'Adonais', dated "Pisa, with the types of Didot, MDCCCXXI."" William Rossetti notes in his introduction to the 1891 edition of Adonais, that "the Cambridge edition, an octavo in paper wrappers, is now still scarcer than the Pisan one". An uncommon Shelley title with two distinguished provenances.� Provenance: Trinity College, Cambridge; William St Clair (1937-2021).

First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Stein illustrated dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square with just a little bumping to the extremities. The contents with very light spotting to the prelims are otherwise clean clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. The text block edges are a touch toned the fore-edge with an isolated foxing spot. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is without fading of the spine but is marked to the lower panel. Not price-clipped (16s net to the front flap).

Signed twice by the author. Inscribed in blue ink on the front endpaper "For George / from / Nevil Shute Norway" and signed by the author again underneath his printed name on the title page. Uncommon and desirable thus.

First edition, first printing. Original black cloth with purple titles to the spine, without the rare dustwrapper. A very good copy indeed, the binding square and firm with some bumping and minor rubbing at the extremities. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. An attractive example.

The first printing of Nevil Shute's fourth book. Published later in America by William Morrow under the title "Kindling".

First UK edition, first printing. Original red cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips. The contents, with a previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown and some toning of the paper stock are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is creased a the tips of the lightly faded spine. Unpriced to the front flap (for export). An attractive example.

A Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin bibliomystery. (Hubin; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).

First edition. Signed by the author and seven Polar adventurers. Publisher's original blue cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated in black and white throughout. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the corners and spine tips somewhat bumped. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the creased original dustwrapper that has a small nick at the bottom right corner but is otherwise without fading, loss or tears.

Signed by the author Michael Tarver and the following Polar adventurers: Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Sir Chris Bonington, Victoria Humphries? (Riches), Louis Rudd, Harpreet Chandi, Ben Saunders and Antony Jinman. Scarce thus.

First edition. Original light blue cloth with black titles to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth clean and bright The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has a couple of small chips at the head of the spine. Correctly priced 3/6 net to the spine. An attractive example, scarce in the dustwrapper.

A collection of eight short stories and the only title by Edgar Wallace to make the Queen's Quorum list. It is also a Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. The American edition was published in 1929 under the title "The Murder Book of J. G. Reeder".

Original typed manuscript, 127pp. with text on rectos only. Small folio. Handsomely bound in full green morocco with decorative borders in blind and titles in gilt to the upper board. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Gillows embossed stamp to the foot of each page "Waring & Gillow Ltd, Valuers, 181 Oxford Street, W." Occasional contemporary annotations in pencil. Condition is very good, the binding with the odd scuff, a little rubbing to the extremities and minor wear to the corners. The contents with some faint scattered foxing to the preliminary pages are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout.

An inventory and valuation book for Burntwood Hall, Great Houghton, Barnsley, extensively detailing the "furniture, linen, lace, wines, consumable stores, china, glass, gold, silver, Sheffield plate, plated items, cutlery, ornamental items, decorative china, books, pictures, jewellery, lepidoptera, natural history objects, outside effects, carriages, harnesses, sporting items, and household equipment". The book describes everything from a Breeches Bible and a collection of Charles Dickens first editions, to diamond broaches, numerous oil paintings, Chien-lung dynasty china, asparagus tongs and a "massive French bedstead", with values declared alongside each item (the total estate being estimated at £11,228). Originally a modest farmhouse, Burntwood Hall was greatly expanded by the influential Marsden family during the course of the eighteenth century, creating a grand house which mixed classical and Gothic revival architecture. The present inventory was commissioned by John Dymond, manager of the Barnsley Main Colliery Company, whose family occupied the house from around 1868 until 1961. A splendid example of an estate inventory book, providing an incredibly detailed insight into a wealthy South Yorkshire household at the dawn of the twentieth century.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Val Biro designed dustwrapper. Blue top-stain. An excellent near fine copy, the binding firm and cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The spine is very slightly rolled. The contents are cleann throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that has a touch of fading to the spine but is otherwise without loss or tears. Correctly priced 15s net to the front flap. A very attractive example of the first volume in the Sword of Honour trilogy.

Signed by Evelyn Waugh in blue ink on the title page. Scarce thus.

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original orange cloth with black titles to spine and front panel, in the Frank Ford illustrated dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little soft bumping at the spine tips, the cloth is bright and fresh. The contents, with a small gift inscription to the front endpaper and a few foxing spots to the half title and rear endpapers are otherwise clean and bright throughout. Complete with the original lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that remains without loss. Not price-clipped (8/6 net to the front flap). An attractive example.

(McIlvaine A66b).

First editions, first printings. Six volumes. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spines, in the Angela Garnett designed dustwrappers. A fine set, the bindings square and firm, the contents clean and without inscriptions, stamps or spotting. Complete with the very near fine original dustwrappers, showing a little light toning to rear panels, but almost entirely lacking the fading to spines so prevalent with these volumes. There is the merest wear to a couple of spine tips. All volumes are unclipped and correctly priced between £7.75 and £15.00 to their front flaps. A particularly attractive example.

Published between 1975 and 1980, the six volumes of Woolf's Letters cover the years 1888-1941. "One can follow the slow development, the strain and desperation, of a mystical writer trying to capture a reality behind convention, and record forever a glimpse of it" (from Stuart Hampshire's review of Vol. II in 'The Observer', 3 October, 1976).