Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Modern Literature, First Editions, Children's & Illustrated Books

Cornwell (Bernard). Sharpe's Eagle, 1st edition, 1981, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESThe author's first book and the debut of Rich...

Cronin (Justin). The Passage, Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2010, illustrrations, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, first limited signed...

Dexter (Colin). The Dead of Jericho, 1981; The Riddle of the Third Mile, 1983; The Secret of Annexe 3, 1986, 1st editions, light toning to Riddle ...

* Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, 'Lewis Carroll', 1832-1898). Autograph letter initialled 'CLD', Ch[rist] Ch[urch] Oxford, 27 February 1893, to Annie,...

Dostoevsky (Fyodor). The Novels, translated by Constance Garnett, volumes 1-10 (of 12), 1st editions, London: William Heinemann, 1913-18, scattere...

Du Maurier (Daphne). Jamaica Inn, 1st edition, Victor Gollancz, 1936, half-title, some light marks to margins, bound in recent cream and burgundy ...

* Du Maurier (Daphne, 1907-1989). Typed letter signed, September 17th, 1966, 2 pp., to an Ian Pepper of Stoke-on-Trent, on Menabilly, Par, Cornwal...

Eliot (Thomas Stearns). Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1929, minor spotting to endpapers and fore-margin of text...

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Fleming (Ian). Moonraker, 1st edition, 1955, a few leaves with very small nicks or corners torn away, occasional minor spotting, mainly to fore ma...

Fleming (Ian). From Russia, With Love, 1st edition, Jonathan Cape, 1957, old partially erased ballpoint pen ownership inscription to front free en...

Fleming (Ian). Goldfinger, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1959, original cloth, dust jacket, spine a little toned with two short closed tear at head...

Fleming (Ian). Live and Let Die, 3rd impression, 1956, original cloth gilt, dust jacket, spine slightly faded and rubbed at ends, 8vo, with two ot...

Fleming (Ian). The Man With the Golden Gun, 1st edition, 1965, original cloth, dust jacket, a couple of minor nicks, 8vo, together with two others...

Fleming (Ian). The Spy Who Loved Me, 1st edition, 1962, original cloth, dust jacket, spine a little rubbed with short closed tear at head, one or ...

Fleming (Ian). Thunderball, 1961; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1966, 1st editions, one or two small marks and stains to Thunderball, previous owne...

Fleming (Ian). You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965; Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966, 1st editions, previous owne...

Fowles (John). The Collector, 1st edition, London: Cape, 1963, top edge red, original russet cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket, spine ver...

Garner (Alan). The Weirdstone Trilogy: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, 1960; The Moon of Gomrath, 1963; Elidor, 1965, 1st editions, London: Collins...

Graham (Winston). Ross Poldark, A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787, 1st edition, Ward, Lock & Co., 1945, half-title, recent dark green and light brown...

Graves (Robert). Over the Brazier, 1st edition, The Poetry Workshop, 1916, some scattered spotting, original wrappers, upper wrapper with woodcut ...

Greene (Graham). The Heart of the Matter, 1948; The Quiet American, 1955; Our Man in Havana. An Entertainment, 1948, A Burnt-Out Case, 1961, 1st e...

Greene (Graham). Why the Epigraph?, 1st edition, London: The Nonesuch Press, 1989, original green cloth lettered in gilt, clear acetate dust jacke...

Hanley (James). Resurrexit Dominus, 1st edition, [London]: privately printed, 1934, printed on English hand-made paper, title-page ruled in red, t...

Heller (Joseph). Catch-22, 1st edition, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961, one or two minor stains, original blue cloth (edges slightly rubbed and ...

Heller (Joseph). Catch-22, 1st edition, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961, light toning and offsetting to endpapers, original blue cloth, some fa...

Hemingway (Ernest). A Farewell to Arms, 1st edition, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929, 1st issue with no disclaimer on p. x, partial offset...

Hilton (James). Good-bye Mr. Chips, 1st UK edition in book form, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1934, illustrations by Bip Pares, spotting to endpa...

Hornby (Nick). Fever Pitch, 1st edition, Gollancz , 1992, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo (Qty: 1)

Hughes (Ted). The Hawk in the Rain, New York: Harper Brothers, 1957, light partial offsetting to endpapers, original cloth (light flecking to cove...

Hughes (Ted, 1930-1998). Crow. From the Life and Songs of The Crow, 1st edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1970, signed presentation inscription from...

Hughes (Ted, 1930-1998). Moortown, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1979, errata slip loosely inserted, author's signed presentation inscription in bla...

Huxley (Aldous). Those Barren Leaves [...] Two or Three Graces, and Other Stories [...] Brief Candles [...] Ends and Means. An Enquiry into the Na...

Isherwood (Christopher). Goodbye to Berlin, 1st edition, London: Hogarth Press, 1939, a little minor spotting and offsetting to endpapers, top edg...

Isherwood (Christopher). Lions and Shadows. An Education in the Twenties, 1st edition, London: Hogarth Press, 1938, half-tone portrait frontispiec...

Isherwood (Christopher). The Memorial. Portrait of a Family, 1st edition, London: Hogarth Press, 1932, a little minor spotting, top edge blue (fad...

Ishiguro (Kazuo). The Remains of the Day, 1st edition, Faber, 1989, original cloth, dust jacket, slight fading to spine, light partial toning to f...

Jones (David). In Parenthesis. Seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu, 1st edition, London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1937, 3 plates each with tissue-guard, ...

King (Stephen). 'Salem's Lot, 1st UK edition, New English Library, 1976, usual toning to textblock, original cloth (light vertical crease to spine...

Kipling (Rudyard). The Jungle Book, 2nd reprint, August 1894, illustrations by J.L Kipling, W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny, one or two spots, small in...

Lawrence (D.H.) Lady Chatterley's Lover, 2nd edition, privately printed, Florence: Tipografia Giuntina, 1928, marginal toning to textblock, some l...

Lee (Harper). To Kill a Mockingbird, 1st UK edition, London: Heinemann, 1960, some light spotting, small contemporary previous owner inscription, ...

Lee (Laurie). Cider With Rosie, 1st edition, 1959, illustrations by John Ward, occasional minor spotting and stains, original cloth, dust jacket, ...

Lynch (Scott). The Lies of Locke Lamora, Subterranean Press, 2007, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, limited signed edition 112/500, together with...

Malamud (Bernard). The Natural, 1st edition, New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952, original grey cloth (spine and extremities a little faded), dust jac...

Mapplethorpe (Robert). Mapplethorpe. Prepared in Collaboration with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Essay by Arthur C. Danto, New York: Random...

McCaffrey (Anne). Dragonflight, 1st edition, New York: Walker & Co., [1969], slight marginal toning, original cloth, a couple of tiny bumps, dust ...

McEwan (Ian). First Love, Last Rites, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1975, inscribed by the author to title-page 'Aye Rite! Ian McEwan (Scott...

McMurtry (Larry). The Last Picture Show, advance reading copy, New York: Dial Press, 1966, one or two minor spots, original plastic comb bound oli...

Miller (Henry). Tropic of Capricorn, 1st edition, Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1939, errata slip to title-page, a few light marks to contents, origin...

Naipaul (V. S.). A House for Mr Biswas, 1st edition, London: Andre Deutsch, 1961, original pink boards, spine lettered in gilt, spotting to top ed...

* Nehru (Jawaharlal, 1889-1964). Portrait of Nehru, by S.N. Swamy (1911-1983), lithographic portrait, printed in green and black, signed in pencil...

Orwell (George). Coming Up for Air, 1st edition, 2nd impression, Victor Gollancz, 1939, a few scattered spots, contemporary ink ownership inscript...

Orwell (George). Inside the Whale and Other Essays, 1st edition, London: Gollancz, 1940, a little minor spotting to endpapers and fore margins, or...

Orwell (George). Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1st edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1949, a little minor spotting (mainly front and rear and fore margin...

Orwell (George). The Lion and the Unicorn, 1st edition, London: Secker & Warburg, Searchlight Book No. 1, 1941, a little minor spotting to fore ma...

Plath (Sylvia). Ariel, 1st edition, London: Faber, 1965, a few minor spots to rear endpaper, original cloth, dust jacket, slight fading to spine a...

Pratchett (Terry). Nation, special numbered edition, 2008, illustrations, original cloth with publisher's band to lower cover, 8vo, limited signed...

Ransome (Arthur). 'Swallows and Amazons', 10 titles, 1932-47, comprising Pigeon Post, 1936; We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea, 1937; Secret Water, 1939;...

Reeman (Douglas). A Prayer for the Ship, 1st edition, Jarrolds, 1958, original cloth (one or two faint marks), dust jacket, one or two small chips...