Modern Literature, Illustrated Books and Limited Editions

Ackroyd (Peter) Hawksmoor, browning to text margins, 1985; Chatterton, signed by the author, browning to text margins, 1987 § Hornby (Nick) About ...

Ahlberg (Allan) The Clothes Horse, dust-jacket, 1987; The Mighty Slide, 1988; Heard it in the Playground, 1989; The Jolly Christmas Postman. Heine...

Bainbridge (Beryl) A Weekend With Claud, uncorrected proof copy, original printed wrappers, spine creased, slight shelf-lean, 1967; Another Part o...

Briggs (Raymond) The Snowman, first edition, signed by the author, colour illustrations throughout, ink ownership inscription to front free endpap...

Briggs (Raymond) Fungus the Bogeyman Plop-Up Book, 6 pop-up illustrations all in good working order, 1982; Gentleman Jim, 1980 § Serraillier (Ian)...

Briggs (Raymond) When the Wind Blows, 4 A.L.s. and A.C.s. from the author loosely inserted "BBC has accepted my radio play of 'Wind Blows' on in n...

NO RESERVE Christie (Agatha) The Hound of Death and Other Stories, first edition, original cloth, shelf-lean, spine faded at head and foot, dust-j...

Conrad (Joseph) The Works, 21 vol. "Medallion edition", frontispieces, original blue cloth, gilt, minor rubbing to extremities but a near-fine set...

Craddock (Harry) The Savoy Cocktail Book, first edition, printed in black and colours with illustrations and decorations by Gilbert Rumbold, picto...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) H.G. Wells and others.- The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, 23 vol., illustrations by Sydney Paget and others, o...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Works, 13 vol., "Author's Edition" one of 1,000 sets, frontispieces and plates, later brown half morocco, t.e.g., ot...

Dulac (Edmund).- Khan (Nathan) Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, 20 colour plates tipped in, tissue guar...

Farrell (J.G.) A Girl in the Head, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "It wasn't a good pâté (better luck next time). ...

Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, first edition, original boards, slight shelf-lean, dust-jacket, spine browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped,...

Fleming (Ian) The Spy Who Loved Me, first edition, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original boards, slight shelf-lean, dust-jack...

Fleming (Ian) You Only Live Twice, first edition, first state, light browning to endpapers, original boards, slight shelf-lean, dust-jacket, spine...

Foreman (Michael) The Saga of Erik the Viking, 1983; Nicobobinus, 1985; War Boy, 1989; War Game, 1993; After the War Was Over, 1995; Billy the Ki...

NO RESERVE Forster (E.M.) The Hill of Devi, first edition, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, price-clipped, spine ends and corners a little chi...

Francis (Dick) A continuous run of his novels, 38 vol., first editions, comprising Dead Cert, ex-library, 4 light stamps, jacket partly laid onto ...

Gill (Eric).- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), number 24 of 80 specially-bound copies of the facsimile reprint of the 1931 Golden Cock...

Golden Cockerel Press.- Keats (John) Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.Agnes & Other Poems, number 462 of 500 copies, title in red and black with dec...

Greene (Graham) The Name of Action, lacking front free endpaper, ink ownership inscription, endpapers spotted, 1930; Rumour at Nightfall, spotting...

NO RESERVE Greene (Graham) Journey Without Maps, scattered spotting, 1936; The Lawless Roads, 1939, first editions, plates, map endpapers, origina...

NO RESERVE Greene (Graham).- Brophy (John, editor) Hotch-Potch, ink ownership inscription, light browning to endpapers, jacket browned, spine ends...

Greene (Graham) Brighton Rock, first edition, endpapers browned, light spotting to title, original cloth, spine slightly discoloured, spine ends a...

Greene (Graham) The Power and the Glory, first edition, endpapers and half-title a little browned, original cloth, spine darkened, spine ends and ...

Greene (Graham) The Ministry of Fear, spine slightly faded, 1943; The End of the Affair, dust-jacket, spine darkened, spine ends and corners a lit...

Greene (Graham) The Heart of the Matter, first edition, light browning to half-title, original boards, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners a littl...

Greene (Graham) The Third Man and The Fallen Idol, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, price-clipped, spine chipped at head and with smal...

NO RESERVE Greene (Graham) The Living Room, 1953; The Potting Shed, small ink ownership inscription, 1958, first edition, original cloth, dust-jac...

Greene (Graham) Loser Takes All, 1955; The Spy's Bedside Book, 1957; A Burnt Out Case, 1961 The Comedians, 1966, first editions, original boards, ...

Greene (Graham) Yes and No and For Whom the Bell Chimes, 1983; Why the Epigram?, 1989, limited editions signed by the author, original cloth, fine...

Hardy (Thomas) The Woodlanders, reprint, signed presentation inscription from the author to Florence Henniker dated September 1893 on half-title, ...

Hardy (Thomas) Jude the Obscure, first edition, etched frontispiece, contemporary ink ownership inscription, original cloth, gilt, spine ends and ...

NO RESERVE Hardy (Thomas) Wessex Poems, first edition, frontispiece and illustrations, original cloth, spine darkened, spine ends and corners a li...

Hardy (Thomas) The Collected Letters..., 7 vol., first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, fine copies, Oxford, 8vo, 1978-88.

Harris (Thomas) [The Silence of the Lambs trilogy], 3 vol., New York, 1981-99, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 6 others, simila...

Hemingway (Ernest) To Have and Have Not, first edition, light toning to text margins, original cloth, dust-jacket, chipped and creased at head and...

Hemingway (Ernest) Across the River Into the Trees, first edition, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, some minor creasing ...

Hughes (Ted) Remains of Elmet, number 90 of 110 copies signed by the author from an editions limited to 180 copies, photographic plates by Fay God...

James (Henry) The Other House, 2 vol., first edition, [one of 600 copies], 32pp. advertisements at end of each vol., hinges tender, original cloth...

John (Augustus) Autograph Letter signed to Thomas Earp, 1 p., on paper headed Fryern Court, Fordingbridge, Hants., dated 'Dec. 15' at head, sendin...

Le Carré (John) A Small Town in Germany, first edition, signed by the author on title, ink library stamps to front free endpaper, top and bottom e...

Le Carré (John) [The Karla Trilogy], 3 vol., first editions, comprising Tinker Tailor Solider Spy, staining to fore-edge, jacket price-clipped, sp...

Lewis (Cecil Day) 'Young Chekhov' original typescript poem, signed at foot, 1p., horizontal folds, browning to foot, n.d.

Lowry (Laurence Stephen) Painters of Today: L.S. Lowry, first edition, signed by the artist, plates, original pictorial boards, some bowing, oblon...

NO RESERVE McEwan (Ian) Atonement, 2001 § Wolfe (Tom) A Man in Full, unopened, 1998 § Boyd (William) The Blue Afternoon, margins browned, 1993, al...

Milne (A. A.) Winnie-The-Pooh, first edition, illustrations by E.H.Shepard, pictorial endpapers, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, dust...

Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, spine slightly ...

Moore (Brian) [The novels], 21 vol., The Feast of Lupercal, The Great Victorian Collection and The Temptation of Eileen Hughes first American edit...

Orczy (Baroness) The Scarlet Pimpernel, first edition, light scattered foxing, original cloth with design to upper cover, spine browned, spine end...

NO RESERVE Orwell (George) The Road to Wigan Pier, illustrations, original stiff orange wrappers, spine creased, 1937; Shooting an Elephant, orig...

NO RESERVE Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition, small ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth, slight she...

Osborne (John) The Entertainer, first American edition, signed presentation inscription "A remembrance Paul Slickey with love John 10.4.59" to fro...

Owen (Wilfred) Poems, first edition, portrait frontispiece, tissue guard, title browned, browning to endpapers, original cloth, paper label to spi...

Parker (Robert B.) The Godwulf Manuscript, jacket price-clipped, 1974; God Save the Child, light browning to text margins, jacket spine faded, 197...

Pinter (Harold) Landscape and Silence, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Eric [Kahane] to title, original boards, ...

Pinter (Harold) The Caretaker, 1960; The Birthday Party and Other Plays, jacket price-clipped, 1960; A Slight Ache and Other Plays, 1961; The Coll...

Pinter (Harold) The Homecoming, number 177 of 200 copies signed by the author and artist, signed presentation inscription from the author to David...

Pinter (Harold) Poems, errata slip loosely inserted, original morocco-backed cloth, Enitharmon Press, 1968; Five Screenplays, original cloth, Karn...