Books & Ephemera

William Salisbury: 'The Squareheads, The Story of a Socialized State - A Futuristic Novel', New York, The Independent Publishing Company, 1929, 1s...

Ken Follett: 'The Pillars of the Earth', London, Macmillan, 1989, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper. Historical novel, the first in the au...

Margaret Atwood: 'Cat's Eye', London, Bloomsbury, 1989, 1st edition, signed, original cloth, dust jacket; plus Maggie O'Farrell: 'After You'd Gone...

Olivia Manning: 'A Different Face', London, William Heinemann, 1953, 1st edition, signed on title page, further signed & inscribed on FFEP "To Mic...

Hilary Mantel: 'Wolf Hall', London, Fourth Estate, 2009, 1st edition, 1st impression, original cloth gilt, pictorial dust wrapper by Andy Bridge (...

Hilary Mantel: 'A Place of Greater Safety', London, Viking, 1992, 1st edition, 1st impression, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (spine faded, £15...

Hilary Mantel: '[The Thomas Cromwell trilogy.] Wolf Hall; Bring Up the Bodies; The Mirror and the Light', London, Fourth Estate, 2009-2020, all li...

Hilary Mantel, a complete set of her works, 1985-2020, 15 volumes, all 1st editions, all signed/with mounted signed pieces, all original cloth, al...

Margaret Thatcher: 'The Downing Street Years', L, Harper Collins, 1993, 4th impression, 10 Downing Street book plate signed by Margaret Thatcher i...

Herbert Hoover: 'The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression 1929-1941', New York, Macmillan, 1952, 1st edition, signed & inscribed on FF...

Sir Robert Watson-Watt: 'Three Steps to Victory: A Personal Account by Radar's Greatest Pioneer', London, Odhams Press, Ltd., 1957, 1st edition, f...

Anthony Powell: 'To Keep the Ball Rolling. The Memoirs of Anthony Powell. I. Infants of the Spring. II. Messengers of Day. III. Faces in My Time. ...

James Lees-Milne, 5 titles, all first editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers: 'Ancestral Voices', London, Chattow & Windus, 1975, 'Anc...

Four books on printing/the book trade and similar, including Anthony Rota, 2 titles, both signed, both published Private Libraries Association, Oa...

Helene Hanff: '84, Charing Cross Road', London, Andre Deutsch, 1971, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (£1.45 price intact)

A quantity of assorted literature, all signed by authors, including Malcolm Saville: 'Three Towers in Tuscany', London, Heinemann, 1963, 1st editi...

A collection of 41 assorted mid 20th Century novels, all original cloth, all but one in dust wrappers, some former copies of David Higham (1895-19...

J.M. Coetzee: 'Disgrace', London, Secker & Warburg, 1999, 1st edition, 2nd issue (printed by Clays), original cloth gilt, dust wrapper

Alexander Trocchi: 'Cain's Book', London, John Calder, 1963, 1st UK edition, signed and inscribed on FFEP, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (25s ...

(Erotica.) Patrick J. Kearney: 'The Private Case - An Annotated Bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British (Museum) Librar...

Six first editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, comprising Gregory David Roberts: 'Shantaram', London, Little Brown, 2004, Robert Ed...

Anthony Burgess: 'Time for a Tiger', London, William Heinemann, 1956, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper. The author's first novel, se...

Sebastian Faulks [The French Trilogy], comprising 'The Girl at the Lion d'Or', 1989, signed piece mounted to title page; 'Birdsong', 1993, signed ...

Kazuo Ishiguro: 'The Remains of the Day', 1989, 'When We Were Orphans', 2000, both first editions, both published London, Faber & Faber, both orig...

Kazuo Ishiguro: 'The Remains of the Day', London, Faber & Faber, 1989, 1st edition, signed piece mounted to title page, original cloth, dust wrapp...

Ellen Gilchrist: 'In the Land of Dreamy Dreams', London, Faber, 1982, 1st UK edition, Simone de Beauvoir: 'The Woman Destroyed', L, Collins, 199, ...

Sebastian Faulks: [The French Trilogy], 3 vol., comprising, 'Birdsong', London, Hutchinson, 1993, 1st edition, previous owner gift inscription on ...

Laurie Lee, the autobiographical trilogy: 'Cider With Rosie', London, The Hogarth Press, 1959, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (by ...

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

Patrick Leigh Fermor, 2 titles: 'Between the Woods and the Water. On Foot from Constantinople to the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iro...

Evelyn Waugh: 'When The Going Was Good', London, Duckworth, 1946, 1st edition, colour frontis + folding map of British Guiana and part of Brazil a...

Ed McBain: 'Cinderella', L, Hamish Hamilton, 1986, 1st edition, signed, original cloth, dust wrapper, Jack Trevor Story: 'Live Now, Pay Later', L,...

Modern fiction, six titles, all first editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, including Kurt Vonnegut Jr: 'Breakfast of Champions', Lo...

Tom Wolfe, 3 titles, all first editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers: 'The Bonfire of the Vanities', London, Jonathan Cape, 1988, sig...

Philip Roth, 4 titles, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers: 'The Ghost Writer', New York, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1979, 1st edition, 'The H...

Isaac Bashevis Singer: 'Gimpel the Fool', London, Peter Owen Ltd., 1958, 1st UK edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper. Twelve short stories, ...

Paul Gallico, 11 titles, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers: 'Mrs Harris Goes to Moscow', London, Heinemann, 1974, 1st edition (2 copies), '...

Paul Gallico, 5 titles, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, including 'The Day Jean-Pierre Joined the Circus', 1969, 1st UK edition, etc, pl...

(The Dutch Treat Club), 'The House Organ Supreme: Dutch Treat Year Book 1931', Privately Published by the D.T. MFG. Co. 1931, limited edition, one...

Ernest Hemingway: 'Men Without Women', New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927, 1st edition, 1st issue, Scribner's seal verso of title page, page ...

Bernard Malamud: 'The Natural', New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1952, 1st edition, (stated first edition verso of title page), original publisher'...

Mervyn Peake: 'Titus Groan', London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, in second impression dust wrapper as often (orig...

Sir Alfred Munnings: 'An Artist's Life; The Second Burst; The Finish', London, Museum Press, 1950-52, 1st edition, 3 volumes, frontispieces, numer...

Ernest J.P. Benn: 'The Confessions of a Capitalist', London, Hutchinson & Co, [1925], 4th edition, signed & inscribed by Benn to the English trade...

(Economics.) John Maynard Keynes, 2 titles: 'The End of Laissez-Faire', London, The Hogarth Press, 1926, 1st edition, 53,[1]pp, original cloth bac...

Nine mainly early 20th Century novels, including E. Phillips Oppenheim: 'Curious Happenings to the Rooke Legatees', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 19...

Hugh Walpole, five 1st editions, all signed & inscribed by Walpole to a W. Hector Thomson and dated in the year of publication, all published Lond...

Jeffery Farnol, 8 titles: 'Charmian, Lady Vibart', Boston, Little, Brown, November 1932, 1st US edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'Beltane th...

P. C. Wren [Percival Christopher Wren], 13 UK first editions, two of which with author signed presentation bookplates, being 'Beau Ideal', London,...

James Kennaway, 3 titles, all first editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers: 'Tunes of Glory', New York, Harper & Brothers, 1956, 1st U...

C.S. Lewis: 'The Problem of Pain', London, The Centenary Press, 1940, 1st edition, 1st impression, ix,148pp, original cloth, printed paper label t...

George Orwell, Reginald Reynolds & A.J.P. Taylor (editors): 'British Pamphleteers. Volume I: From the Sixteenth Century to the French Revolution. ...

H.G. Wells, four titles, all 1st editions, 1st impressions, all original cloth gilt: 'Kipps the Story of a Simple Soul', London, Macmillan, 1905, ...

P.G. Wodehouse: 'Quick Service', London, Herbert Jenkins, [1940], 2nd printing, original orange cloth, dust wrapper (priced 5/- net)

P.G. Wodehouse: 'Very Good, Jeeves!', London, Herbert Jenkins, 1930, 1st edition, original cloth (worn), in 2nd impression dust wrapper c.1931, wo...

Evelyn Waugh: 'Vile Bodies', London, Chapman & Hall, 1930, 1st edition, original cloth gilt

Evelyn Waugh: 'Black Mischief', London, Chapman & Hall, 1932, 1st edition, original cloth gilt

Kingsley Amis: 'Lucky Jim', London, Victor Gollancz, 1953, 1st edition, original green cloth gilt. Amis' first and one of his finest novels, Lucky...

Four signed crime fiction first editions, comprising P.D. James: 'A Certain Justice', L, Faber & Faber, 1997, 1st edition, signed on title page, C...

Dashiell Hammett: 'The Maltese Falcon', New York, Alfred A. Knopf, April 1930, 3rd printing, original pictorial cloth, facsimile dust wrapper. An ...