Modern Literature

NO RESERVE Cartland (Barbara) Jigsaw, signed by the author on pastedown, endpapers lightly toned, 1925; Sawdust, bookplate to pastedown, foxing to...

NO RESERVE Cartland (Barbara) Original Typed Work "To Alan from Barbara", including ?unpublished poems and short stories, 5 original water-colour ...

NO RESERVE Childers (Erskine) The Riddle of the Sands, second edition, folding frontispiece map and 2 plates, title spotted, first few pages creas...

NO RESERVE Christie (Agatha) & E. Phillips Oppenheim. The Under Dog and Blackman's Wood, 2pp. adverts at end, margins toned, original decorative c...

NO RESERVE Christie (Agatha) Murder in Three Acts, hinge cracked, 1934; The Seven Dials Mystery, 1929; The Murder at the Vicarage, 1930, first Ame...

Christie (Agatha) Mr. Parker Pyne Detective, first American edition, New York, 1934; Crooked House, first edition, bookseller's stamp to title, 19...

Christie (Agatha) Death in the Air, first American edition, gift inscription to endpapers, original cloth, rubbed, lightly soiled, joints and extr...

Christie (Agatha) Cards on the Table, first edition, endpapers toned, very light spotting, original cloth, soiled, spine ends bumped and frayed, 8...

Christie (Agatha) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; Cards on the Table, 1936; Murder is Easy, ink ownership name to title, 1939, first editions, light ...

Christie (Agatha) Death on the Nile, original cloth, a little soiled, joints rubbed, 1937; The Clocks, first few pages spotted, original boards, ...

Christie (Agatha) Ten Little Niggers, 1939; The ABC Murders, endpapers browned, small ink ownership name to pastedown, 1936, first editions, origi...

Christie (Agatha) Hercule Poirot's Christmas, first edition, 1939; Murder in the Calais Coach, first American edition, New York, 1934, original cl...

Christie (Agatha) 4.50 From Paddington, first edition, original boards, spine ends faded, dust-jacket, spine faded, ends a little creased, overall...

Christie (Agatha) 4.50 From Paddington, jacket price-clipped, small portion of loss to spine head, 1957 § Sanders (George) Stranger at Home, New Y...

Christie (Agatha) Cat Among the Pigeons, small portion of loss to spine head of jacket, 1959 § Wallace (Edgar) The Twister, ownership inscription ...

Christie (Agatha) The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, light toning to endpapers, 1960; The Pale Horse, 1961; Ordeal by Innocence, 1958; By the...

NO RESERVE Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) Savrola, first edition, second state without date on title verso, ink ownership name to spotted endpape...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) Savrola, first edition, first state with copyright date on title verso, lightly foxed, ownership names to title an...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) India Speeches and an Introduction, first paperback edition in book form, title and few other pages spotted, origi...

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

NO RESERVE Clarke (Arthur C.) 2001: A Space Odyssey, first English edition, original boards, dust-jacket, 1968 § Woolf (Virginia) To the Lighthous...

Clarke (Arthur C.) 2001: A Space Odyssey, first edition, original boards, very light sunning to edges, dust-jacket, very light toning to edges, sm...

Counter-Culture.- London Oz Magazine, 39 vol., a good but broken run comprising nos.8-10,12-17, 19-47, colour illustrations throughout, original p...

Conrad (Joseph) Typhoon, first edition, 2pp. publisher's advertisements at beginning and 32pp. advertisements at end, foxing to first and last few...

NO RESERVE Corbett (Jim) Man-Eaters of Kumaon, second impression, with long autograph inscription from John Philip Lavallin Puxley and a diary ext...

NO RESERVE Cornwell (Bernard) Sharpe's Gold, 1981; Sharpe's Battle, 1995; Sharpe's Fury, 2006; Sharpe's Revenge, 1989, first editions, original bo...

Cornwell (Bernard) Harlequin, 2000; Gallows Thief, 2001; Sword of Kings, 2019, first editions, signed by the authors on titles, original boards, d...

Cornwell (Patricia) Postmortem, first edition, signed by the author, New York, 1990; Body of Evidence, first edition, signed by the author, New Yo...

Courage (James) A Way of Love, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "to Peter and Albert with much affection James Coura...

NO RESERVE Creasey (John) Inspector West Alone, 1950; The Toff in Town, endpapers toned, [1948]; Make-Up for the Toff, ink ownership name to endpa...

Crompton (Richmal) Just - William, [1922]; William Again, 1923; Still William, endpapers browned, [1925]; William in Trouble, [1927]; William the ...

Crompton (Richmal) William and the Tramp, first edition, gift inscription to front free endpaper, jacket price-clipped, 1952; William and the Evac...

Dahl (Roald) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, jacket a little toned at edges, spine faded, 1977; Some Time Never, light surface marking to jack...

Dahl (Roald) The BFG, uncorrected proof copy, cut signature of the author laid down to title, original wrappers, light scuffs to edges, otherwise ...

Dahl (Roald) Matilda, first edition, cut signatures of the author and illustrator laid down on title, illustrations by Quentin Blake, original boa...

Dahl (Roald) Matilda, first edition, illustrations by Quentin Blake, signed postcard from the illustrator loosely inserted, original boards, dust-...

Dahl (Roald) Rhyme Stew, uncorrected proof copy, cut signature of the illustrator laid down on title, original wrappers, lightly sunned, otherwise...

Dawkins (Richard) A Devil's Chaplain, third impression, signed presentation inscription from the author "to Katherine from Richard Dawkins" on tit...

De Bernieres (Louis) Captain Corelli's Mandolin, 1994 § Naipaul (V. S.) India. A Million Mutinies Now, publisher's promotional letter loosely inse...

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

Deighton (Len) The Ipcress File, jacket toned, top edge and spine tail frayed and rubbed, 1962; Funeral in Berlin, jacket spine lightly toned, 196...

Deighton (Len) The Ipcress File, jacket creased with light retouches along edges and spine ends, 1962; Horse Under Water, variant binding with pla...

Deighton (Len) Airshipwreck, 1978; [Hook, Line & Sinker trilogy], 3 vol., 1988-90; [Game, Set & Match trilogy], 3 vol., 1983-85, first editions, o...

Deighton (Len) Only When I Laugh, New York, 1987 § Thomas (Ross) Twilight at Mac's Place, 1990 § Parker (Robert) Playmates, New York, 1989, limite...

NO RESERVE Dell (Ethel M.) The Knave of Diamonds, 1913; The Rocks of Valpré, gift inscription to browned endpapers, 1914; The Keeper of the Door, ...

NO RESERVE Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) Adventures of Gerard, 16 plates, [1903]; The Exploits of the Brigadier Gerard, 8pp. publisher's adverts at end...

NO RESERVE Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, bookplate to pastedown, 1896; Adventures of Gerard, [1903], first editions, ...

NO RESERVE Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Lost World, first Dutch edition, bookplate and bookseller's sticker to endpapers, light marginal toning, o...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan).- Carr (John Dickson) The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle's cut signature laid down on title with his ...

Du Maurier (Daphne) Jamaica Inn, first American edition, light foxing, modern green half calf, new endpapers, light scuffing, otherwise fine, pres...

Du Maurier (Daphne) Rebecca, first edition, first and last few pages rather soiled and spotted, other light spots throughout, original cloth, soil...

NO RESERVE Dubois (Gaylord) The Lone Ranger, 1936 § Richardson (Gladwell) The Killers of Strawberry Gap, 1945 § Crauford (W. H. Lane) Clothes and ...

NO RESERVE Durrell (Gerald) The Mockery Bird, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, a remarkably fine copy, 1981; and an uncorrected proof ...

NO RESERVE Dust-jackets.- [A Collection of c.100 Dust-jackets], some reprints, chipping to extremities, some rubbed, some stained, in varying cond...

Eliot (T.S.) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, first edition, 1p. front free endpaper torn away, pp.13-15 small marginal tear where carelessly ...

NO RESERVE Ellroy (James) Blood on the Moon, first American edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, New York, 1984; The Big Nowhere, one of 350 copi...

Ellroy (James) Hollywood Nocturnes, New York, 1994 § Forsyth (Frederick) The Odessa File, publisher's compliment's slip loosely inserted, New York...

Farjeon (Jefferson) The Master Criminal, bookplate and ownership name to endpapers, 1924 § Queen (Ellery) The Devil to Pay, 1938; The Four of Hear...

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

NO RESERVE Farnol (Jeffery) The Amateur Gentleman, ink ownership name to endpapers, 1913; The Broad Highway, 1910; The Quest of Youth, dust-jacket...