Books

Ian Fleming: 'The Man with the Golden Gun', London, Jonathan Cape, 1965, 1st edition, original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, white end pape...

Ian Fleming: 'Octopussy and the Living Daylights', London, Jonathan Cape, 1966, 1st edition, original black cloth lettered in gilt, dust wrapper (...

Ian Fleming: 'Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica', edited Morris Cargill, New York, Hawthorn Books, 1965, 1st US edition, printed at the same time as ...

Ian Fleming, 2 titles: 'You Only Live Twice', London, Jonathan Cape, 1964, 1st edition, original black cloth lettered in silver to spine and with ...

Ian Fleming: 'Thrilling Cities', London, Jonathan Cape, 1963, 1st edition, errata slip p.223, original quarter cloth gilt, dust wrapper (30s net p...

(Fantasy, Esoteric, Mystical), Arthur Edward Waite: 'The Quest of the Golden Stairs. A Mystery of Kinghood in Faerie', London, The Theosophical Pu...

(Ghost Stories, Supernatural), "Ingulphus" (Arthur Gray, Master of Jesus College): 'Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye', Cambridge, W. Hef...

Arthur Waley, 2 titles: 'The Way and Its Power. A Study of the Tao Te Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought', London, George Allen & Unwin, 1949,...

Jack B. Yeats: 'Sligo', London, Wishart & Co, 1930, 1st edition, original cloth gilt; Oscar Wilde: 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol', ill. Frans Masere...

George Orwell [i.e. Eric Arthur Blair]: 'Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays', London, Secker & Warburg, 1950, 1st edition, original cloth ......

Franz Kafka: 'The Trial', translated by Willa & Edwin Muir, London, Secker & Warburg, 1945, 2nd UK edition, 1st edition thus, original cloth, dust...

Aldous Huxley: 'Brave New World', London, Chatto & Windus, 1932, 1st edition, original publisher's blue cloth. A first edition of Huxley's dystopi...

Albert Camus: 'The Fall', translated Justin O'Brien, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1957, 1st Uk edition, original publisher's green cloth lettered in s...

John Bratby, 3 titles, all published London, Hutchinson, all with full page and in text black & white illustrations by Bratby throughout, all orig...

Bertrand Russell: 'History of Western Philosophy and its connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present...

Elizabeth David, 3 titles: 'Italian Food', London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1987, limited edition, number 140 of 400 copies only, signed by Elizabeth Dav...

Elizabeth David; John Minton (illustrated): 'French Country Cooking', London, Macdonald, 1965, 2nd edition, 2nd impression, full page b/w frontis,...

Harry Craddock: 'The Savoy Cocktail Book', London, Constable and Company, 1930, 1st edition, 1st issue (paginated to title), 287pp, illustrations ...

Haruki Murakami, 2 titles: 'First Person Singular', London, Harvill Secker, 2021, 1st UK edition, 'What I Talk About When I Talk About Running', L...

Frederick Forsyth, 2 titles: 'The Day of the Jackal', London, Hutchinson, 1971, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, 7th impression dust wrapper (wor...

Patrick Leigh Fermor, 2 titles: 'The Violins of Saint-Jacques', London, John Murray & Andre Deutsch, 1958, 3rd impression, original cloth gilt, du...

Bruce Chatwin: 'In Patagonia', London, Jonathan Cape, 1977, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, map end papers, dust wrapper. Bruce Chatwin's first ...

Graeme & Sarah Lorimer, complete set of the four "Maudie stories" juvenile romantic comedy series of books by the Philadelphia husband and wife au...

Rudyard Kipling, 4 titles: 'Kim', London, Macmillan, 1901, 1st edition, 10 b/w plates as called for, original cloth gilt (VGC), top edge gilt, 'So...

John William Polidori: 'The Vampyre; A Tale', Tring, The Gubblecote Press, 1973, limited edition (1,000), with an introductory note about the tale...

Herbert Stanley Redgrove: 'Matter, Spirit and the Cosmos: Some Suggestions towards a Better Understanding of the Whence and Why of their Existence...

A collection of 26 assorted mainly supernatural & ghost stories etc, including Bram Stoker, 3 titles: 'Dracula's Guest, and Other Weird Stories', ...

Karl Popper: 'Unended Quest. An Intellectual Autobiography', Fontana/Collins, 1976, first separate edition, presentation copy, signed & inscribed ...

Isaac Asimov: 'The Naked Sun', London, Michael Joseph, 1958, 1st UK edition, original cloth (VGC), dust wrapper (slightly worn, 13s/6d price intac...

Peter Haining (1940-2007), a folder of his typed notes, correspondence, biographies, research etc., mainly relating to Fantasy fiction and Comic F...

A collection of 23 various American occult and fantasy comics, including 'Scorpio Rose', Eclipse Comics, No's 1 & 2, January 1983 & October 1983; ...

P.G. Wodehouse, 3 titles, all published London, Herbert Jenkins, all in original orange cloth lettered in black, all in dust wrappers, all priced ...

P.G. Wodehouse: 'The Girl on the Boat', London, Herbert Jenkins, [nd], c.1926, 6th printing, 312pp + [8]pp adverts at end, original pictorial clot...

P.G. Wodehouse, 3 titles, all published London, Herbert Jenkins: 'Carry on, Jeeves', [1930], 5th impression, original pictorial cloth, dust wrappe...

P.G. Wodehouse: 'My Man Jeeves', London, George Newnes, [1919], 1st edition, 1st issue, printed by Butler and Tanner, advertisement leaf at end, l...

P.G. Wodehouse: 'Very Good, Jeeves!', London, Herbert Jenkins, [1931], 2nd impression, original cloth, dust wrapper (priced 2/6 to spine, repaired...

Hilary Mantel: '[Wolf Hall trilogy]: Wolf Hall; Bring Up the Bodies; The Mirror and the Light', London, Fourth Estate, 2009-2020, 1st editions, 1s...

Iris Murdoch, 2 titles, both first editions published London, Chatto & Windus, both original cloth gilt, both in dust wrappers (VGC, prices intact...

Iris Murdoch: 'The Sea, The Sea', London, Chatto & Windus, 1978, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (£5.50 price intact) ...[more]

Iris Murdoch (1919-1999), Irish and British Novelist and Philosopher, 11 Autograph Letters Signed 1988-1996, all to a Mr Brian Hobson of Hong Kong...

John Newton Chance, twelve Crime fiction/thriller novels, all 1st editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, comprising: 'The Jason Murde...

Fifteen earlier 20th Century novels including crime, mystery, thrillers etc, all in original publisher's cloth bindings, including Victor L. White...

Hank Janson, seventeen pulp fiction thriller paperbacks circa 1963-1970, all 'Compact Books' with pictorial erotic cover art, plus Telos publishin...

(Crime Fiction), a folder containing a large quantity of correspondence to Iwan Hedman-Morelius (1931-2012), founder of the long-running DAST Maga...

Louis Albert Banks: 'The Saloon-Keeper's Ledger - A Series of Temperance Revival Discourses', New York, London and Toronto, Funk & Wagnalls, 1895,...

C.J. Sansom, [Matthew Shardlake Series], comprising Dissolution, 2003; Dark Fire, 2004; Sovereign, 2006; Revelation, 2008; Heartstone, 2010; Lamen...

Bob Mortimer: 'And Away...', London, Simon & Schuster, 2021, 1st edition, signed on FFEP, original cloth, dust wrapper ...[more]

Roger Moore: 'Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown', London, Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, 2014, 1st edition, signed Roger Moore limited edition U...

A collection of 11 poetry titles, including Seamus Heaney: 'Electric Light', London, Faber & Faber, 2001, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrappe...

John le Carré, 7 titles: ''The Spy Who Came in From the Cold', London, Victor Gollancz, 1963, 4th impression, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (i...

Graham Greene, 7 titles: 'The Ministry of Fear', London, Heinemann, 1943, 1st edition, original cloth, 'The Quiet American', L, Heinemann, 1955, 1...

Tsen Tsonming (translated): 'Reve D'Une Nuit D'Hiver (Cent Quatrains Des Thang)', Lyon & Paris, 1927, limited edition, number 820 of 1,000 copies,...

Siegfried Sassoon, 11 titles by or relating to him, including: 'The Heart's Journey', London, Heinemann, 1929, 4th impression, signed & inscribed ...

Alice Thomas Ellis, 6 titles, all 1st editions, all in original cloth, all in dust wrappers: 'The Sin Eater', Duckworth, 1977, the author's first ...

Cecil Beaton: 'Diaries: The Wandering Years 1922-39; The Years Between 1939-44; The Happy Years 1944-48; The Strenuous Years 1948-55; The Restless...

Cecil Beaton: 'My Bolivian Aunt. A Memoir', London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, September 1971, 3rd impression, signed & inscribed "With Best Wishes Ce...

Cecil Beaton: 'Ashcombe. The Story of a Fifteen-Year Lease', London, B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1949, 1st edition, signed by Cecil Beaton in black ink on...

Cecil Beaton: 'Diaries: The Wandering Years 1922-39; The Years Between 1939-44; The Happy Years 1944-48; The Strenuous Years 1948-55; The Restless...

Three mid 20th Century issues of British Vogue Magazine, comprising June 1945 'Victory Number', Volume 101, No.6, 96pp, profusely illustrated thro...

(Karl Lagerfeld, Monte Carlo Ballet, Fashion), Roy Strong: 'Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits', 1988, signed & inscribed by Karl Lagerfeld to his ...