Modern First, Illustrated Books & Limited Editions

Alcott (Louisa May) Little Men. Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, frontispiece, original cloth, top edge green slightly f...

Amis (Kingsley)  One Fat Englishman, FIRST EDITION, spine slightly faded, dust-jacket frayed at head and with tear at foot, chipped at corners, li...

Amis (Martin) Dead Babies, a fine copy, book label to pastedown, 1975; Success, 1978; Other People: A Mystery Story, 1981; London Fields, signed b...

Bannerman (Helen) The Story of Little Black Sambo, FIRST EDITION, colour illustrations by the author, original green decorated cloth, spine slight...

Bates (H.E.) The Black Boxer Tales, FIRST EDITION, bookplate, inscribed by the author on the flyleaf to F.G. Robinson. advertisement leaf, manusc...

Beckett (Samuel)  Waiting for Godot. A tragicomedy in two acts, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 4 photographic plates, bookplate to flyleaf, original bl...

Belloc (Hilaire)  Cautionary Tales for Children, FIRST EDITION, inscribed by the author "To Mr and Mrs Meade. Their obedient servant, H.B. 29th...

Bennett (Arnold) Imperial Palace, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, NO 80 OF 100 SETS, printed on Saunders' handmade paper and signed by the author in vol. ...

Brooke (Rupert) Poems, FIRST EDITION, bookplate, half title, light soiling throughout, original dark blue cloth, corners slightly bumped, ownershi...

Buchnan (John)  The Thirty-Nine Steps, marginal browning, original blue cloth, rubbed at spine head and tail, Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1915;...

Burnett (Frances Hodgson) Little Lord Fauntleroy, FIRST EDITION, bookplate, frontispiece and 25 further illustrations after drawings by Reginald B...

Butler (Samuel) The Way of All Flesh, FIRST EDITION, armorial bookplate of W. R. Stuart Majendie, later bookplate, half title, some scattered foxi...

Chesterton (G.K.) The Innocence of Father Brown, FIRST EDITION, bookplate,  frontispiece and 7 further plates by Sidney Seymour Lucas, minor foxi...

Churchill (Winston Spencer) Lord Randolph Churchill, 2 vol., FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, photoengraved frontispieces, plates (including folding lette...

Churchill (Winston Spencer).- The Centenary Limited Edition The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill Centenary Limited Edition, 38 vol. ( inc...

Conrad (Joseph) The Secret Agent. A Drama in Three Acts, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 107 OF 1000 COPIES, signed by the author, bookplate, half title, po...

Conrad (Joseph) Almayer's Folly, A Story of an Eastern River, FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, bookplate, original green cloth, gilt, light handling m...

(De la Mare) Ramal (Walter) Songs of Childhood, FIRST EDITION, signed and inscribed by the author "Walter de la Mare, for Elbridge Adams with his...

Dexter (Colin) Last Bus to Woodstock, 1975; Last Seen Wearing, 1976; The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn, 1977; The Riddle of the Third Mile, 1983,...

Dickens (Charles) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM,  half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece by Daniel...

Du Maurier (Daphne) Jamaica Inn, FIRST EDITION, original blue cloth, minor spotting, dust-jacket darkened to backstrip panel and borders, some chi...

Du Maurier (George) Trilby, FIRST EDITION, 3 vol., original linen, blue lettering on upper cover and spine, light wear to boards, spotting to the ...

Eliot (T.S.) Ezra Pound. His Metric and Poetry, FIRST EDITION, bookplate, frontispiece portrait of Pound by Gaudier-Brzeska, light toning througho...

Eliot (T.S.) Homage to John Dryden. Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century, FIRST EDITION, bookplate, light foxing, original printed cr...

Ellson (Hal) Reefer Boy. Story of Teen-age Drug Addicts, FIRST EDITION, original cloth, slightly frayed and browned dust-jacket, Neville Spearman,...

Faulkner (William) Soldier's Pay, FIRST EDITION, bookplate, original blue cloth, yellow lettering and publisher's device, some rubbing to spine ex...

Fleming (Ian)   Octopussy and The Living Daylights, FIRST EDITION, original cloth embossed boards, gilt lettering, original pictorial dust jacket,...

Fleming (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, FIRST EDITION, second state, original black cloth gilt lettered on spine, light rubbing, patterned g...

Forester (C. S.) Lord Hornblower, FIRST EDITION, publishers orange cloth, original dust-jacket, slight chipping and creasing, rubbed, 8vo,  Micha...

Galsworthy (John) The Forsyte Saga, FIRST COMPLETE EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, bookplate, half title, folded Forsyte Family Tree following dedicat...

Gide (André) Le Caves du Vatican. Sotie par l'Auteur de Paludes, FIRST EDITION, 2 vol., half-title, lithographed author's portrait by Paul Albert...

Graves (Robert) Good-Bye to All That, FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, bookplate, portrait frontispiece and 7 further plates, original salmon-pink clot...

Greene (Graham) The Name of Action, FIRST EDITION, half title, bookplate, minor spotting to gutter of preliminaries, original blue cloth with pub...

Greene (Graham) Brighton Rock, An Entertainment, FIRST EDITION, original decorated red cloth, slightly faded, top edge black, original dust-jacke...

Greene (Graham) The Ministry of Fear. A Novel, FIRST EDITION, bookplates, original yellow cloth with publisher's device stamped in black to lower...

Greene (Graham) The Third Man and the Fallen Idol, FIRST EDITION, ownership inscription on half-title, paper a little toned, endpapers browned, sm...

Greene (Graham) The Complaisant Lover. A Play, FIRST EDITION, inscribed by the author for his lead Ralph Richardson, bookplates, original blue bo...

Greene (Graham) A Visit to Morin, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 250 COPIES, inscribed by the author for Ralph Richardson and his wife, bookplate, origina...

Hammett (Dashiell) The Maltese Falcon, FIRST EDITION, original decorated cloth, top edge stained blue/green, original pictorial dust jacket, ligh...

Hardy (Thomas) Desperate Remedies, FIRST EDITION, 3 vol., bookplate to vol. 1, half-titles in vol. 2 & 3, but lacking in 1, some spotting, Vict...

Hardy (Thomas) A Pair of Blue Eyes. A Novel, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, without half title, misaligned 'c' in 'clouds' on page 5 of vol.2, C8 in vol....

Hardy (Thomas) A Laodicena; or, the Castle of the De Stancys. A story of Today, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 3 vol., book stamp of the Blackfriars of L...

Hardy (Thomas) Wessex Poems and other Verses, FIRST EDITION, 31 illustrations (13 full-page) by Hardy, tissue guard to frontispiece foxed, in ori...

Hardy (Thomas) Domicilium, FIRST EDITION, inscribed to 'John Lane from C.K.S. July 12, 23', as issued sewn with purple cord into purple wrappers,...

Hemingway (Ernest) In Our Time, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 137 OF 170 COPIES on Rives handmade paper, bookplate, woodcut frontispiece portrait by Henr...

Hemingway (Ernest) A Farewell to Arms, FIRST EDITION, inscribed by the author 'To Mike Murphy, Good luck, Ernest Hemingway' on fly-leaf, bookplat...

Hemingway (Ernest) Green Hills of Africa, FIRST EDITION, half title, bookplate, illustrations by Edward Shenton, original light green cloth with a...

Hemingway (Ernest) The Old Man and the Sea, FIRST EDITION, bookplate, half title, original blue cloth with author's signature blind-stamped, sm...

Hilton (James) Good-bye Mr Chips!, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, signed by the author, bookplate, title page and  chapter decorations printed in blue an...

Hornby (Nick) High Fidelity, Victor Gollancz, 1995; About a Boy, Victor Gollancz, 1995, FIRST EDITIONS, signed by the author, original boards, du...

Ishiguro (Kazuo) Never Let Me Go, NUMBER 261 OF 1000 COPIES, numbered and signed by author, pictorial cloth original slipcase, 2005; An Artist of...

James (Henry) A Passionate Pilgrim and Other Tales, FIRST EDITION, bookplate, book label of John K. Martin to rear pastedown, minor browning th...

James (Henry) Daisy Miller. A Study, FIRST EDITION, later issue, bookplate, 107 titles listed in the initial advertisements, browning throughout,...

James (Henry) Transatlantic Sketches, FIRST IMPRESSION, original green cloth, minor wear to extremities, first state binding (green variant cloth...

Joyce (James) Pomes Penyeach, FIRST EDITION, errata slip tipped-in at end, original printed pale green boards, 'Price One Shilling' printed on lo...

Kerouac (Jack) On the Road, FIRST EDITION, bookplate, original black cloth, white lettering, top edge red, rubbing to extremities of dust jacket, ...

Kingsley (Charles) The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, bookplate, with two illustrations by J. Noel Paton...

Kipling (Rudyard) Puck of Pook's Hill, FIRST EDITION, bookplate, frontispiece and 19 further full page-illustrations, title-page printed in red a...

Lawrence (D.H.) Lady Chatterley's Lover, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 117 OF 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR,  leaves untrimmed, original paper-covered...

Lawrence (D. H) A Play, ONE OF 500 COPIES, bookplate, browning to half title, some foxing to preliminaries, original yellow buckram, boards...