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Click here to subscribeNewby (P. H.) Something to Answer For, uncorrected proof, light marginal toning, original wrappers, Proof Copy ink stamp to upper cover, light creasing and toning to spine, faint crease to upper cover, 1968; Something to Answer For, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, light creasing to spine tips, near-fine otherwise, 1968, housed together in custom slipcase, 8vo (2)⁂ The winner of the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969.
Wodehouse (P.G.) The Pothunters, first edition, hinge neatly repaired, second state cloth, rubbed and discoloured, spine faded, 1902; The Gold Bat, gift inscription on front free endpaper, 7 plates, light spotting, spine faded, corners and spine ends creased and bumped, 1911; Mike, second edition, plates, ink ownership name to front free endpaper, cloth spine ends bumped and frayed, light soiling, 1910, original cloth; and 2 others by Wodehouse, early 20th century titles, 8vo (5)
[Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB." Original watercolour dust-jacket design by Watkins-Pitchford for Fred Kitchen's novel "The Ploughman Homeward Plods", upper cover and spine design laid down on card with pencil dimensions, upper cover design loose, some surface wear with slight loss, overall 315 x 254mm., [c.1960]; and a copy of the novel, The Ploughman Homeward Plods, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, 8vo, 1960 (2 pieces)
NO RESERVE Thatcher (Margaret) The Path to Power, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author and Dennis Thatcher on title, additional signed presentation inscription from Dennis Thatcher on half-title, plates, some abrasion to fore-edge, original boards, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, light creasing to head, 8vo, 1995.
NO RESERVE Merwin (W.S.) A Mask for Janus, first edition, some light scattered spotting, original boards, very light sunning to spine and top edge, dust-jacket, spine browned, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, light surface soiling to panels and light toning to panel margins, an excellent example overall, 8vo, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1952.⁂ An excellent copy of Merwin's scarce first collection, an important debut by one of the major American poets of the 20th century.
NO RESERVE Bentley (E. C.) Trent's Last Case, first edition, 1913 § Le Queux (William) If Sinners Entice Thee, 1898 § Chesterton (G. K) Irish Impressions, 1919 § Oppenheim (E. P) The Governors, reprint, endpapers browned, 1911, original cloth, light bumping and fraying to spine ends, extremities a little scuffed; and c.55 others, late Victorian writers, 8vo (c.60)
James (P.D.) Unnatural Causes, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Gwen with love from Phi, 8th June 1967" to endpaper, tape-staining and some shadowing to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, very slight sunning spine, light tape staining to flaps but a near-fine example overall, 8vo, 1967.⁂ The third Adam Dagliesh mystery, rare with such a personal inscription in the year of publication.
Hamilton (Bruce) To Be Hanged, second impression, 1930 § Derr Biggers (Earl) The Black Camel, first edition, Indianapolis, 1939 § Leroux (Gaston) Lady Helena, or The Mysterious Lady, first edition, 1931, light toning to endpapers, original decorative or pictorial cloth, spines a little faded, spine ends and corners a little bumped; and 7 others, crime and mystery fiction, 8vo (10)⁂ The first a scarce title by the brother of Patrick Hamilton, and godson of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Marquez (Gabriel Garcia) One Hundred Years of Solitude, first American edition, translated by Gregory Rabassa, water-staining, mostly to fore-edges, cockling, original cloth, water-staining and cockling to boards, dust-jacket, water-staining and cockling, heavier to verso, chipping and small loss to edges, New York, 1970 § Lewis (Wyndham) Filibusters in Barbary: Record of a Visit to the Sous, first edition, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, light bumping to corners and spine extremities, dust-jacket, small tears and chipping to top edge, 1932; 8vo (2)⁂ The second mentioned was withdrawn shortly after publication due to a libel suit.
Thorndike (Russell) The Slype, "author's edition", signed presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper, New York, [1930] § Tilton (Alice) Cold Steal, first edition, New York, 1939 § [Murdock van DeVenter (Emma), "Lynch Lawrence". The Last Stroke: A Detective Story, [1896] § Crossley (Maud) and Charles King. The Forbidden Hour, second printing, signed presentation inscription from the authors on front free endpaper, [1925], original pictorial or decorative cloth, light bumping to spine ends; and 6 others, crime and mystery fiction, 8vo (10)
Highsmith (Patricia) The Blunderer, first English edition, endpapers stained and toned affecting final page of text, original boards, spine ends very slightly bumped, dust-jacket, price-clipped, stained on flaps, light surface discolouring to lower panel, light bumps and creasing to spine ends, otherwise a remarkably bright copy overall, 8vo, 1956.⁂ Highsmith's scarce first novel, a psychological thriller, rare in this condition.
NO RESERVE Wesker (Arnold) Fears of Fragmentation, signed presentation inscription from the author to Tom Maschler, bookplate of Tom Maschler to front pastedown, 1970; Said the Old Man to the Young Man, signed presentation inscription from the author to Tom Maschler, 1978 § Arden (John) Left-Handed Liberty, limited edition signed by the author, jacket with light toning to spine, 1965, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, some light creasing to head, near-fine otherwise; and 2 others including a copy of Declaration with signed letters from John Wain, Colin Wilson and Tom Maschler, 8vo (6)⁂ An excellent group of works relating to the Angry Young Men. The first two are excellent association copies, double-signed with lengthy inscriptions from the author to his publisher.
Wodehouse (P.G.) Mike and Psmith, first Herbert Jenkins edition, light surface soiling to lower panel of jacket, corners lightly scuffed, otherwise fine, 1953; Louder & Funnier, first edition, later issue peacock-blue cloth, light soiling to spine, later issue jacket, price-clipped, spine rubbed, 1932; The Swoop! and Other Stories, first edition, signed presentation inscription from David Jasen on front endpapers, light creasing to jacket, New York, 1979, original cloth, dust-jackets, [McIlvaine A12c3; A45; B20a]; and 10 others, by or relating to Wodehouse, mixed editions, v.s. (13)
Marquez (Gabriel Garcia) One Hundred Years of Solitude, first American edition, jacket with light faded and marking to spine, otherwise fine, 1970; Love in the Time of Cholera, first English edition, jacket price-clipped, spine faded, 1988; Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, first American edition, 1978, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent copies, 4to & 8vo (3)
[Vickers (William Edward)], "David Durham". The Exploits of Fidelity Dove, first edition, initialed inscription from the author on front free endpaper, endpapers lightly browned with light foxing, original cloth, rather sunned, 8vo, [1924].⁂ Very scarce collection of stories featuring a female criminal (it was later printed under the author's other pseudonym of Roy Vickers. Ellery Queen, in his bibliography, The Detective Story, was unaware of this title, only listing the 1935 edition. Exceedingly scarce with any inscription from the author - we can trace no other like copy at auction. The inscription seems to urge the unknown recipient not to use this book as a form of moral guidance.
NO RESERVE Innes (Hammond) Atlantic Fury, jacket price-clipped, light nicks to extremities and chipping to spine tail, 1962 § Bagley (Desmond) The Golden Keel, 1963 § Ludlum (Robert) The Rhinemann Exchange, jacket price-clipped, 1975; The Bourne Identity, first American edition, New York, 1980, all but the last first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 12 others, thrillers, 8vo (16)
[Sassoon (Siegfried)], "Lyre (Pinchbeck)". Poems, first edition, lightly foxed, original glacine jacket, lightly torn with chips to edges, 1931; Collected Poems, first edition, jacket with very light nicks to edges, 1947; Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, first illustrated edition, illustrations by William Nicholson, 1929; Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, first edition, surface soiling to jacket, spine browned, 1930, original boards, all but the first with jackets, light creasing and chipping to edges, spines lightly browned or toned, 8vo (4)⁂ The first is a pseudonymously published book of poems, a parody of Humbert Wolfe.
Greene (Graham) The Confidential Agent, first American edition, ink ownership name to endpapers, title and pastedowns lightly toned, original pictorial cloth, lightly marked, dust-jacket, extremities and edges creased, chips to spine ends and corners, light toning to spine, rubbing along joints and the odd scuff to panels, [Wobbe A15b], 8vo, New York, 1939.
O'Brien (Flann) At Swim-Two-Birds, first edition, Edmund Crispin's copy with his ownership signature of his real name "Bruce Montgomery, 1944" on half-title, light foxing to margins, original black cloth, spine gilt, very light soiling marks to covers, spine ends and corners a little frayed, still overall a very sharp copy, 8vo, 1939.⁂ The exceedingly rare author's first novel. Most of the issue was destroyed in 1940 when the Germans bombed London, including Longmans' premises.
Leroux (Gaston) The Masked Man, New York, 1929 § McDonnell Bodkin (M.) The Capture of Paul Beck, ex-library copy with stamps to endpapers and title, 1909 § Creasey (John), "Michael Halliday". Murder by the Way, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to his mother on endpapers, additionally signed by the author on title, cloth a little soiled, [1941], first editions, original cloth, spine ends and extremities a little bumped and rubbed; and 7 others, crime novels, 8vo (10)
NO RESERVE Herbert (Frank) Children of Dune, first English edition, jacket spine faded, 1976; Dosadi Experiment, first English edition, 1978; The Santaroga Barrier, first English edition, 1970 § Le Guin (Ursula) Earthsea, first collected edition, 1977, original boards, dust-jackets, spines lightly faded, otherwise fine; and c.30 others, science-fiction, including some ephemera, v.s. (c.35)
Wodehouse (P.G.) The Luck of the Bodkins, first edition, very light toning to endpapers, original variant orange cloth, dust-jacket priced 7/6, edges nicked and chipped, creasing to edges, larger triangular closed tear to lower panel, spine ends a little frayed, light rubbing along joints, still overall a very good jacket over fine cloth, [McIlvaine A54a], 8vo, 1935.
De Bernieres (Louis) Captain Corelli's Mandolin, signed by the author on title, 1994 § Durrell (Lawrence) Bitter Lemons, first edition, jacket with Book Society wraparound band (lightly creased), 1942 § Seth (Vikram) A Suitable Boy, signed presentation inscription from the author "for Charles, Vikram Seth, 1993" on title, 1993 § Chevalier (Tracy) Girl With a Pearl Earring, signed by the author on title, 1999, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and c.40 others, modern literature, 8vo (c.45)
Betjeman (John) Selected Poems, second impression, signed presentation inscription from the author to his secretary "E.D. To Miss Jill Menzies with love and kisses from John Betjeman | Corpus Christie Day 1951" with doodle of hockey stick and tennis racket on front free endpaper, light spotting, jacket tail with small portion of loss, edges chipped and frayed, spine a little browned, 1950; Summoned By Bells, first edition, ink gift inscription on half-title, jacket stained on lower panel, spine browned, ends a little chipped and creased, 1960; Continual Dew, first edition, jacket spine browned, light creasing to extremities, joints tender with tear along upper joint, 1937, original boards, dust-jackets; and 10 others by Betjeman, 4to & 8vo (13)⁂ A note of provenance is included in the first mentioned volume, relaying the account of Betjeman and his close friendship to his secretary Jill Menzies, the recipient of the book.
Dahl (Roald) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, first English edition, cut signature of the author on title, illustrations by Faith Jacques, small patch of abrasion to front free endpaper and pastedown, original pictorial boards, slight shelf-lean, very light sunning to spine, slight wear to spine ends with some pealing to laminate, a very good copy overall, 4to, 1967.
Cronin (A. J.) Hatter's Castle, first American edition, signed by the author on endpapers, original cloth, one or two marks, dust-jacket, spine browned, small tape repair to spine head, extremities lightly nicked and chipped, tear along lower flap joint, 8vo, Boston, 1947.⁂ Scarce title to find signed.
NO RESERVE Rendell (Ruth) A New Lease of Death, first edition, signed by the author on title, photograph of the author signing loosely inserted, light spotting to endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, very light fading to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, light rubbing to extremities, an excellent example, 8vo, 1967.⁂ The second Inspector Wexford mystery, rare flat signed in this manner.
Lampedusa (Giuseppe di) The Leopard, first English edition, very light nicks to spine ends, 1960 § Baldwin (James) The Fire Next Time, first edition, jacket price-clipped, edges creased and nicked, New York, 1963 § Greene (Graham) The Honorary Consul, first edition, 1973 § Greenlee (Sam) The Spook Who Sat by the Door, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Vizinczey on endpapers, jacket toned and rubbed, 1969, original boards, dust-jackets; and 40 others, from the library of Stephen Vizinczey, most with signed presentation inscriptions from the authors to Vizinczey, 8vo (43)⁂ Stephen Vizinczey (1933-2021) was a Hungarian-Canadian writer, known for his works In Praise of Older Women (1965) and An Innocent Millionaire (1963).
Lewis (C.S.) The Magician's Nephew, first edition, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, scattered spotting, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, original boards, light sunning and bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, price-clipped, foxing and browning, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1 or 2 short closed tears to head with light creasing, extremities rubbed, 8vo, 1955.⁂ The penultimate title in the Narnia series.
Massie (Chris) Penny Whipp, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to his cousin, "with the author's best wishes, who could not forget a dead fly in a dusty water-bottle, Chris, 1941" on title, jacket lightly toned and chipped at extremities, 1939 § Possendorf (Hans) Damballa Calls, first edition in English, jacket with original review wrap-around band, 1936 § Phillpotts (Eden) Pan & the Twins, first edition, 1922 § Marson (G. F.) Ghosts, Ghouls, and Gallows, first edition, 1946, original boards, dust-jackets, light creasing and nicks to extremities, lightly rubbed; and 5 others, weird fiction in jackets, 8vo (9)
NO RESERVE Maugham (William Somerset) The Gentleman in the Parlour, first edition, partly unopened, occasional scattered spotting, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, dust-jacket, spine browned, patch of soiling to upper pane, otherwise excellent [Stott A39], 8vo, 1930.⁂ Maugham's second travel book, covering his journeys through Burma and Siam in the 1920s.
NO RESERVE Fleming (Ian).- Gardner (John) License to Kill, The Armchair Detective Library, 1990 § Benson (Raymond) High Time to Kill, signed by the author on title, 1999; Doubleshot, signed by the author on title, 2000, first edition, original boards, dust-jackets, near-fine; and 11 others, James Bond novels, 8vo (14)
Le Carré (John) The Looking-Glass War, first Pan edition, signed by the author on title, marginal toning, original wrappers, 1965; Sarratt and the Draper of Watford, first edition, signed by the author, list of the people of Sarratt loosely inserted, original boards, dust-jacket, fine, 1999, 8vo (2)
Lawrence (D.H.) Love Poems and Others, first edition, ownership inscription on endpapers, endpapers lightly toned, spine lightly faded, ends a little frayed, 1913; Sea and Sardinia, first American edition, illustrations, occasional light foxing, endpapers browned, variant state boards, dust-jacket, foxed, large tear along upper panel, portion of loss to lower corner, edges chipped and frayed, New York, 1921; Touch & Go, first edition, spine label on boards slightly peeling, dust-jacket, chips and nicks to edges, 1920, original boards or cloth; and 7 others by Lawrence, 4to & 8vo (10)
Blochman (Lawrence G.) Clues for Dr. Coffee, first edition, light creasing and nicks to jacket edges, Philadelphia, 1964 § Steele (Chester K.) The Golf Course Mystery, reprint, jacket with heavy creasing and short tears to edges, chips to extremities, New York, 1919 § Goodchild (George) Jack O'Lantern, first edition, jacket with large closed tear along jacket upper panel affecting boards, spine ends frayed, New York, 1930, original boards, dust-jackets; and 20 others, crime and mystery fiction, 8vo (23)
NO RESERVE Doherty (P. C.) The Death of a King, 1985; The Prince Drakulya, jacket with small ring dent to lower panel, 1986; The Lord Count Drakulya, jacket with slight sunning to spine, 1986; The Angel of Death, publisher's printed review slip loosely inserted, jacket with light sunning to spine, 1989, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, slight creasing to head and foot, near-fine generally; and a first edition of The Silver Pigs, 8vo (5)⁂ A good group of early titles, including Doherty's scarce first novel.
Hanff (Helene) 84, Charing Cross Road, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "to an unknown book-lover", original boards, dust-jacket, light even toning, nicks to upper edge, otherwise excellent, 8vo, 1971.⁂ A charming classic documenting the twenty-year correspondence between the author and Frank Doel, chief buyer of Marks & Co antiquarian booksellers, located at the eponymous address in London.
McKee (David) Elmer, first edition, colour illustrations by the author, original boards, spine ends faded, spine tail worn, light splatter marks on upper cover, dust-jacket, price-clipped, portions of loss to spine ends and upper edge, stained with white splatter marks, edges chipped and rubbed, 1968 § Carle (Eric) The Very Hungry Caterpillar, first English edition, light finger-soiling marks, original boards, soiled, spine ends bumped, 1970; and c. 40 others, mostly children's literature, v.s. (c.45)
NO RESERVE Goddard (Richard E.) The Whistling Ancestors, first edition, endpapers lightly spotted, original cloth, dust-jacket, extremities nicked and creased, spine a little faded, 8vo, 1936.⁂ A scarce weird fiction novel, from a curious source: Goddard was a British Sales Guru in the 1930's, known for his book "General Cargo: An Introduction to Salesmanship". Rare in the striking, if disturbing, jacket.
Fleming (Ian) The Spy Who Loved Me, first edition, original boards with dagger motif blocked to front board in silver and blind, spine lettered in silver, dust-jacket, very light creasing to upper edge and corners, one short nick to upper joint head, one or two very faint marks to lower panel, otherwise an excellent and crisp copy overall, 8vo, 1962.
NO RESERVE O'Flaherty (Liam) Return of the Brute, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to endpaper with pencil ownership inscription below, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few short nicks with light creasing to head and foot, a very good copy, 8vo, Mandrake Press, 1929.
NO RESERVE Naughton (Bill) Alfie, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to endpaper (a little smudged at foot with some ink offsetting onto pastedown), light damp-staining to rear endpaper and occasionally just visible to margins, original boards, dust-jacket, very light toning and vertical crease to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, light creasing to head, extremities a little rubbed, 8vo, 1966.
Mann (Henrich) The Blue Angel, first English edition, 1p. advertisements at end, endpapers lightly spotted, original decorative cloth, gilt, extremities a little scuffed, dust-jacket, nicks and fraying to spine ends and extremities, short closed 1cm tears along joints, light surface soiling, otherwise still a very good or excellent copy, 8vo, [1930].⁂ First English edition and first "Photoplay edition", i.e., the first edition to use the title The Blue Angel, after the German Edition of 1905, titled Professor Unrat, and preceding the 1932 Jarrolds' printing. The edition was used as a plug for the Ufa Wardour film, directed by Josef von Sternberg, which starred Emil Jannings and a young Marlene Dietrich, who was catapulted to stardom by this film. A very scarce edition.
Ackroyd (Peter) Ouch, one of c.200 typescript copies, stapled in original wrappers, 1971; Country Life, one of 26 numbered copies signed by the author with a holograph poem, from an edition of 350, original wrappers, 1973; Chatterton, signed by the author on title with strikethrough printed name, original boards, dust-jacket, 1987; The House of Doctor Dee, signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket, 1993, first editions, fine copies; and 2 others by the same, 4to & 8vo (6)⁂ Ouch is Ackroyd's first published work and one of his more scarce works.
NO RESERVE Isherwood (Christopher) Lions and Shadows, first edition, signed by the author "From Christopher Isherwood. December 1938" on endpaper, portrait frontispiece, browning to endpapers, original cloth, rubbing to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, spine browned, spine ends and corners chipped, light creasing to head, [Westby and Brown p.5; Woolmer 431], 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1938.⁂ Scarce signed. Isherwood's semi-autobiographical account of his education coupled with a veiled portrait of the gay scene in Cambridge and London in the 1920s.
NO RESERVE Banville (John) Nightspawn, first edition, signed by the author on title, ink numbering to head of title, spotting to top edge, original boards, bumping to foot of spine and to upper cover, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, dent on upper panel, otherwise excellent, 8vo, 1971.⁂ Banville's second novel, scarce signed.
Highsmith (Patricia) Slowly, Slowly in the Wind, number 8 of 250 copies signed by the author, original boards, dust-jacket, fine, slip-case, New York, 1979; Little Tales of Misogyny, number 49 of 250 copies signed by the author, original cloth, slip-case, 1986; A Game for the Living, first edition, endpapers toned with ink inscription blacked out, original boards, dust-jacket, spine and upper edge faded, edges creased and frayed, spine ends and extremities nicked and chipped, New York, 1958, 8vo (3)
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