Modern Literature

Christie (Agatha) The A. B. C. Murders, this copy extensively marked and altered for syndication in red, blue and graphite pencils, leaf facing ti...

Clapton (Eric) The Autobiography, first edition, one of 1000 copies signed by the author, illustrations, original pictorial boards, slip-case, 8vo...

Clarke (Arthur C.) 2001: A Space Odyssey, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, a fine copy, New York, 8vo, 1968.

NO RESERVE Cocteau (Jean).- Peyrefitte (Roger) L'Exilé de Capri, original pencil signature and drawing by ?Cocteau to half-title, wrappers lightly...

Conrad (Joseph) Typhoon, first edition, 2pp. publisher's advertisements at beginning and 32pp. advertisements at end, contemporary ink ownership i...

Conrad (Joseph) Within the Tides, first edition, bookplate to pastedown, rear endpapers browned, original cloth, a little sunned, dust-jacket, cor...

Conrad (Joseph) The Rescue, first edition, half-title browned, original cloth, spine sunned, ends frayed, dust-jacket, spine ends and extremities ...

Conrad (Joseph) The Rover, endpapers browned, very light foxing, 1923; Suspense, frontispiece, light foxing to endpapers, 1925 § Notes on Life and...

Conrad (Joseph) The Secret Agent, one of 1000 copies signed by the author, photogravure portrait frontispiece by Emery Walker, endpapers lightly b...

Craddock (Harry) The Savoy Cocktail Book, first edition, issue with half-title and title paginated but no errata slip, colour illustrations and de...

Cunard (Nancy) Parallax, first edition, [one of c.420 copies], bookplate of Duff Cooper to pastedown, very light spotting to first few pages, orig...

Dahl (Roald) Danny the Champion of the World, first edition, A.L.s from the author loosely inserted, illustrations by Jill Bennett, original cloth...

Dahl (Roald) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to front free endpapers, light spo...

Dahl (Roald) My Uncle Oswald, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "to Jane of Pisa love Roald" to front free endpapers,...

Dahl (Roald) George's Marvellous Medicine, 1981; The Twits, jacket price-clipped, 1980; The BFG, 1982; The Witches, 1983, first editions, all with...

Dahl (Roald) The Twits, signed presentation inscription from the author to other titles leaf, 1982; The Enormous Crocodile, signed by Quentin Blak...

Dahl (Roald) Boy, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to half-title, original boards, corners bumped, dust-jacket, ligh...

Dahl (Roald) Going Solo, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "to Jane love Roald" on front free endpaper, original boar...

Dahl (Roald) Matilda, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to endpapers, offset to pastedown and jacket lower flap, orig...

Dahl (Roald) Rhyme Stew, reprint, signed presentation inscription from the author "to Jane of Pisa love Roald 1989" on front free endpaper, 1989; ...

Dawe (Carlton) Tough Company, first edition, 1936 § Donovan (Dick) Wanted!, foxing to first few pages, 1921 § Chesterton (G. K.) Man-Alive, lendin...

de Madariaga (S.) The Sacred Giraffe: Being the Second Volume of the Posthumous Works of Julio Arceval, signed presentation inscription from the a...

Deighton (Len) The Ipcress File, book-label to pastedown, board spine ends lightly bumped, jacket lightly creased at edges, 1962; Horse Under Wate...

NO RESERVE Deighton (Len) [Hook, Line & Sinker trilogy], 3 vol., comprising Spy Hook, 1988; Spy Line, 1989; Spy Sinker, 1990; together with Faith,...

NO RESERVE Deighton (Len).- Milward-Oliver (Edward, author of Deighton's bibliography, 1946- ) Collection of Typed and Manuscript material relatin...

Deighton (Len) and John Bratby.- Bratby (John) Brake-Pedal, first edition, signed presentation inscription "from your dear friend, Len Deighton" t...

Dell (Draycot) Fan Tan of the Front Page, first edition, endpapers browned, original cloth, soiled, dust-jacket, light creasing and chipping to up...

NO RESERVE Dexter (Colin) The Secret of Annexe 3, first edition, 1986 § Harris (Thomas) The Silence of the Lambs, first American edition, New Yor...

NO RESERVE Dexter (Colin) The Wench is Dead, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to title, 1989 § Leonard (Elmore) Cat ...

Dexter (Colin) Morse's Greatest Mystery, one of 99 copies signed by the author, original morocco-backed boards, 1993; Death is Now My Neighbour, f...

Didion (Joan) Sloughing Towards Bethlehem, first English edition, light even foxing to first few pages, original cloth, dust-jacket, a fine copy, ...

Didion (Joan) Play It As It Lays, first edition, original cloth, lightly soiled at upper cover corner, dust-jacket, light fraying to spine ends, o...

Disney (Walt) Mountaineering Mickey, illustrations by Disney, some partially in colour, original pictorial boards, spine rubbed at ends, 1937; and...

Donaldson (Julia) The Gruffalo's Child, Gift Edition, first printing, signed by author and artist with doodle of Gruffalo's head, illustrations by...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Lost World, first edition, frontispiece, occasional light spotting or foxing, original cloth with portrait decoration...

*** Please note, the description to this lot has changed.***Doyle (Roddy) Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, signed by the author to title, 1993 § Naipaul (V....

Durrell (Lawrence) [The Alexandria Quartet], 4 vol., comprising Justine, one or two light spots to jacket, 1957; Balthazar, small neat ink ownersh...

Durrell (Lawrence) Monsieur, signed by the author to front free endpaper, original boards, dust-jacket, spine lightly faded, 1974; A Smile in the ...

Dweck (Michael) The End, first edition, photographic plates and illustrations, original boards, dust-jacket, wrap-around band (lightly creased), n...

Eliot (T.S.) Murder in the Cathedral, first edition, T.L.s from the author thanking the recipient "Father Nicholson" for his praise of the book, o...

Eliot (T.S.) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, first American edition, some cracking to title gutter but holding firm, original cloth, some lig...

NO RESERVE Eliot (T.S.) Little Gidding, first edition, original wrappers, stained and faded, 1942 § Larkin (Philip) The North Ship, small ownershi...

Elstow (T. Francis) A Human Vampire, portion of loss to spine head and corner, [c.1930] § Trent (Paul) The Craven Mystery, c.1930 § Leroux (Gaston...

NO RESERVE Elwes (Richard) First Poems, reprint, original wrappers, original wrap-around, 1941 § Seaman (Owen) War-Time Verses, second impression,...

Ernst (Max) & Paul Eluard. L'Interieur de la Vue, number 297 of 600 copies, plate reproductions of 39 collages, some hand-coloured, original wrapp...

Farjeon (Eleanor) Elsie Piddock Skips in her Sleep, illustrations by Charlotte Voake, 1997 § de la Mare (Walter) The Lord Fish, illustrations by P...

Faulks (Sebastian) [The French Trilogy], 3 vol., comprising, The Girl at the Lion d'Or, very light fading to spine, 1989; Birdsong, 1993; Charlott...

NO RESERVE Faulks (Sebastian) The Fatal Englishman, 1996; Possible Life, 2012; On Green Dolphin Street, 2001; A Fool's Alphabet, 1992, first editi...

Fermor (Patrick Leigh) The Traveller's Tree, first edition, jacket rather creased and chipped along joints and edges, larger chips to upper edge a...

Fermor (Patrick Leigh) The Violins of Saint Jacques, first edition, first few pages lightly spotted, original cloth, spine lightly faded, dust-jac...

Fielding (Xan) Hide and Seek, first edition, map endpapers, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, extremities chipped and frayed, larger chip to lo...

Film.- Baxter (John) Science Fiction in the Cinema, the author's copy with his bookplate, typed note signed from the author tipped onto frontispie...

Firbank (Ronald) Sorrow in Sunlight, one of 1000 copies, this the "press copy", pictorial endpapers, original cloth lettered in gilt, spine faded,...

NO RESERVE Fleming (Ian) Diamonds are Forever, 1956; The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962; You Only Live Twice, 1964; Thunderball, 1961, first editions, ori...

Fleming (Ian) Goldfinger, first edition, original boards with skull design in gilt and blind, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket, light surface s...

Fleming (Ian) For Your Eyes Only, first edition, original boards with eye design in white to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket, ver...

NO RESERVE Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, first edition, original boards, skeletal hand in blind to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket, ...

Fleming (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, bookseller's stamp to pastedown, original boards, spine ends lightly bumped, dust-jacket...

Forester (C.S.) Payment Deferred, 1926; The Wonderful Week, 1927, first editions, ink ownership inscriptions to pastedown or endpapers, endpapers ...

Forester (C.S.) Flying Colours, first edition, signed by the author on title, original red cloth, light browning to spine, light rubbing to spine ...