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Click here to subscribeNO RESERVE McEwan (Ian) Machines Like Me, proof copy, original wrappers, 2019; Nutshell, first edition, signed by the author to title, 2016; The Children Act, first edition, signed by the author to title, 2014 § Amis (Martin) Success, first edition, 1978, all but the first original boards, dust-jackets, fine copies; and c.105 others, literature, v.s. (c.110)
Braine (John) Room at the Top, first edition, small ink ownership name to front free endpaper, light spotting to endpapers and fore-edge, occasionally straying onto margins, dust-jacket, price-clipped, creased and chipped at spine ends with light retouches, corners lightly rubbed, original wrap-around (lightly discoloured, lower panel stained), 8vo, 1957.
NO RESERVE Varga (Judy) Gremlins on the Job, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To the officers of the No.34 S.F.T.S with best wishes Judy Varga" to pastedown, illustrations, original wrappers, light scuffs and nicks to extremities, overall still excellent, tall 8vo, London and Canada, 1943.⁂ A first edition of one of the earliest books on the RAF phenomenon known as Gremlins. Inscribed to the dedicatees of the work. Thought to be the influence behind Roald Dahl's book on the same subject. The story concerns mischievous mythical creatures, the gremlins of the title, often invoked by Royal Air Force pilots as an explanation of mechanical troubles and mishaps.
NO RESERVE Greene (Graham) May We Borrow Your Husband, number 194 of 500 copies signed by the author, original cloth, 1967; The Great Jowett, number 377 of 525 copies signed by the author, original cloth, 1981; Loser Takes it All, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, portion of loss to upper corner, tears along upper edge of panels, repaired with glue (stained), 1955; The Captain and the Enemy, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, 1988; and 8 others by Greene, 8vo & oblong 8vo (12)
Dawe (Carlton) Tough Company, first edition, 1936 § Donovan (Dick) Wanted!, foxing to first few pages, 1921 § Chesterton (G. K.) Man-Alive, lending library bookplate to pastedown, endpapers browned with ink ownership name, 1912 § Wallace (Edgar) The Four Just Men, first edition, lightly spotted to first few pages, 1905, original cloth, spines lightly sunned, ends a little bumped; and 6 others, crime fiction, 8vo (10)
Dahl (Roald) Danny the Champion of the World, first edition, A.L.s from the author loosely inserted, illustrations by Jill Bennett, original cloth, dust-jacket, light spotting to flaps, spine a little faded, otherwise fine, 8vo, 1975.⁂ Letter from Dahl addressed to "Everyone who wrote to me" reads "...Several of you ask for a photograph. I am not a film-star so I don't usually send pictures of myself to others. But if you want it you shall have it. Tear it up if you think it is too ghastly. Have just finished a long new book - Danny, The Champion of the World. Will be published next autumn, I think..."
Ishiguro (Kazuo) When We Were Orphans, original boards, dust-jacket, 2000; Nocturnes, "slipcased edition", original boards, slip-case, sealed in publisher's cellophane (torn), 2009; The Unconsoled, original boards, dust-jacket, 1995, first or limited editions, all signed by the author; and a first edition of The Remains of the Day, 8vo (4)
NO RESERVE Greene (Graham) The Little Horse Bus, illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, 1974; The Little Steamroller, illustrations by Ardizzone, 1974; The Quiet American, "first Continental edition", original boards, 1957; Our Man in Havana, "first Continental edition", original wrappers, lightly rubbed and creased, 1960; and a small quantity of others relating to Greene, v.s. (sm qty)
Thomson (Christine Campbell) Not At Night, reprint, jacket with loss to spine ends, 1928 § Clouston (J. Storer) The Chemical Baby, first edition, foxing to first few pages, ownership stamp to pastedown, 1934 § Pudney (John) It Breathed Down My Neck, 1946 § Gray (Berkeley) The Lost World of Everest, reprint, 1946 § Russell (Bertrand) Nightmares of Eminent Persons, first edition, 1954 § Williams (Charles) All Hallows Eve, first edition, 1945, original boards, dust-jackets, chipping to spine ends and corners, some creasing; and 4 others, weird and horror fiction, 8vo (10)
NO RESERVE Waterhouse (Keith) Billy Liar, first English edition, endpapers toned, cloth with light marks to spine, jacket with nicks and tears to edges, larger portion of upper panel torn, surface soiling to lower panel, 1959 § Waugh (Evelyn) Unconditional Surrender, first edition, dust-jacket lightly mottled, light creasing and discolouration to edges, overall excellent, 1961 § Bowles (Paul) A Little Stone, first edition, light foxing, cloth a little faded and frayed at edges, jacket creased with nicks and tears to edges, portions of chipping and loss to extremities, 1950 § Spark (Muriel) Memento Mori, first edition, light scattered spotting to first few pages, jacket with one or two nicks to corners or spine head, otherwise excellent, 1959, original boards, dust-jackets; and 25 others, modern literature, v.s. (29)
Lee (Laurie) Cider with Rosie, first edition, very light spots to first few pages, original boards, dust-jacket, spine head lightly bumped, otherwise a remarkably crisp copy in near-fine condition, 8vo, 1959.⁂ The first of Lee's famed autobiographical trilogy, scarce in this bright condition.
Hill (Geoffrey) Mercian Hymns, first edition, 1971 § Graves (Robert) Occupation: Writer, first edition, 1951; Catacrok!, first edition, jacket with chips and nicks to extremities, 1956; New Poems, first edition, jacket with chips to spine ends, 1962 § Seth (Vikram) The Golden Gate, first English edition, 1986, original boards, dust-jackets, mostly near-fine; and a group of c.25 Ariel poems, 8vo (c.30)
Oxford Group.- Foot (Stephen) Life Begain Yesterday, first cheap edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, browning to title verso and facing page, author pamphlet "Wisdom from the Desert" loosely inserted along with 2 other related ephemeral items, original cloth, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, slight surface soiling, small internal tear to upper joint, light rubbing to extremities, 8vo, 1939.⁂ Rare signed. A key text by a member of the influential evangelical Oxford Group who's ideas would become the foundation of Alcoholic's Anonymous.
Burke (Thomas) East of Mansion House, first American edition, ink ownership name to front free endpaper, 1926 § Cole Meade (Dorothy) The Shadow of a Hair, [1939] § Wills Crofts (Freeman) Young Robin Brand, foxing to pastedown and endpapers, cloth a little faded, 1947 § Henry (Michael) Murder in the Old Jail, light soiling to boards, [1938] § Hill (Headon) The Mammoth Mansions Mystery, lightly foxed, 1927, first or first American editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, extremities lightly chipped and creased, fading to spines; and 6 others, mystery novels, 8vo (11)
Maugham (William Somerset) The Razor's Edge, first English edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine faded, light creasing to spine head, otherwise a very excellent example, 1944; Liza of Lambeth, "Jubilee edition", one of 1000 copies signed by the author, endpapers browned and spotted, original vellum-backed boards, dust-jacket, spine faded, chips to spine head, 1947; The Letters of William Somerset Maugham to Lady Juliet Duff, edited by Loren Rothschild, letter 'X' of 26 copies signed by the editor and printer, from an edition of 274 copies, original cloth, spine faded, slip-case (faded), California, 1982, 8vo (3)
Deighton (Len) and John Bratby.- Bratby (John) Brake-Pedal, first edition, signed presentation inscription "from your dear friend, Len Deighton" to front free endpapers, lightly toned, original boards, dust-jacket, lightly rubbed and frayed at top edge, otherwise excellent, 1962; Breakdown, signed presentation inscription "To Bruce Lacey - to be read inbetweentimes - if there are any" from the author to pastedown, margins toned, original wrappers, creased and lightly rubbed, 1962 § Deighton (Len) The Ipcress File, signed by Bratby to endpaper, original wrappers, rubbed and scuffed, 1962, 8vo (3)⁂ A good association group of Deighton/Bratby works, from the library of Bruce Lacey (1927-2016), British artist, performer, eccentric, and close friend of Deighton and Bratby.
NO RESERVE Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, second edition, fifth impression (ninth overall), colour frontispiece, illustrations and map endpapers by the author, original boards, spine sunned, dust-jacket, spotted, rather rubbed and worn along joints and extremities, portion of spine lacking with faded tape, portions of lower panel lacking, 1957; The Silmarillion, first edition, a fine copy, 1977; Mr. Bliss, first edition, a fine copy, 1982, original boards, dust-jackets,8vo & oblong 8vo (3)
Hill (Susan) The Woman in Black, first edition, signed bookplate by the author to half-title, original boards, lightly toned at edges, dust-jacket, one or two creases to spine ends, otherwise a fine copy, 1983; The Enclosure, uncorrected proof copy, signed by the author with quote to title, original wrappers, lightly toned, spine bumped, cellophane taped to wrapper, 1961, 8vo (2)⁂ A good duo of Hill's works, including a proof of her first book.
NO RESERVE Dexter (Colin) The Secret of Annexe 3, first edition, 1986 § Harris (Thomas) The Silence of the Lambs, first American edition, New York, 1988 § Maclean (Alistair) Force 10 from Navarone, jacket sunned, 1968 § McNab (Andy) Immediate Action, 1995, first or first American editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 8 others, thrillers, 8vo (12)
Pinter (Harold) Other Places, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Peter from Harold" to title, ALs from the author "Dear Peter, what an amazing man you are. It was great to see you and very nice to meet Pamela..." on Campden Hill headed paper, loosely inserted, original boards, dust-jacket, lightly toned, otherwise fine, 8vo, 1982.
Le Carré (John) Single & Single, first edition, first issue, signed by the author on title, original boards, first issue promotional dust-jacket with juggling illustration, light creasing to spine ends, else fine, 1999; and a signed copy of the first edition, second issue of the same, 8vo (2)
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) The Mystery of the Yellow Room, "copyright edition", c.1930s § Tack (Alfred) The Test Match Murder, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, lightly browned, jacket upper corner chipped, c.1930s § Dawe (Carlton) The Sign of the Glove, [c.1930s], original boards or cloth, dust-jackets, lightly rubbed and frayed at extremities; and 4 others, crime novels, 8vo (9)
Isherwood (Christopher) Goodbye to Berlin, first edition, endpapers toned, original cloth, lightly faded to spine and edges, dust-jacket, creasing and fraying to edges, near repairs along joints and fore-edge, larger tears to lower panel repaired, portions of spine head and tail lacking and replaced with facsimile, 8vo, 1939.
NO RESERVE Ishiguro (Kazuo) An Artist of the Floating World, first edition, 1986; The Unconsoled, first edition 1995; Nocturnes, "slipcased edition" signed by the author, sealed in publisher's cellophane wrapping, 2009; When We Were Orphans, first edition, 2000; Klara and the Sun, first edition, 2021, original boards, dust-jackets, fine or mint copies, 8vo (5)
Seth (Vikram) The Golden Gate, first English edition, 1986; A Suitable Boy, 1993; An Equal Music, 1999; Arion and the Dolphin, 1994, first or first English editions, signed by the author to titles, original boards, dust-jackets, spines a little marked or toned; and 2 others by the same, 4to & 8vo (6)
Woolf (Virginia) The Years, first edition, Barbara Hiles Bagenal's copy with her ink ownership inscription to endpaper, hinges tender, original cloth, rubbed and faded, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1937.⁂ A good association copy, having belonged to the associated member of the Bloomsbury Group, Hiles. Hiles was a bohemian character and friend of Dora Carrington who likely had affairs with several members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Maynard Keynes, Saxon Sydney-Turner (whom she tried to persuade to live in a ménage a trois with her husband Nick Bagenal) and Clive Bell.
Burgess (Anthony) A Clockwork Orange, first edition, ex-library copy but only with stamp to copyright page and light show-through to title, otherwise remarkably clean, original boards, tape stains to edges, second impression dust-jacket, light nicks to extremities, biro mark to lower flap, otherwise still a bright and sharp copy, 8vo, 1962.
Dahl (Roald) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to front free endpapers, light spotting to fore-edge, some straying slightly onto text margins, original board, dust-jacket, corners bumped, lightly toned, spine ends creased, slight shelf-lean, 8vo, 1977.
Owen (Wilfred) Poems, second impression, ink ownership name to front free endpaper, endpaper browned, half-title spotted, original cloth, lightly marked, spine faded, 1921 § Rosenberg (Isaac) Poems, first edition, light toning to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, lightly spotted, spine neatly laid down, browned and chipped, nicks to extremities, 1922, 4to (2)
Kafka (Franz) Zámek. [The Castle], first Czech edition, loose as issued, a few small chips to spine foot, dust-jacket, with photomontage designed by Toyen, upper panel with patch of sunning at head, small chips to extremities and minor surface soiling, still an excellent example overall, 8vo, Prague, 1935.
Greene (Graham) The Comedians, proof copy, original wrappers, dust-jacket, lightly creased, 1966; It's a Battlefield, first edition, original cloth, excellent example, 1934; The Ministry of Fear, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth, spine faded, lightly discoloured, 1943; The Third Man and The Fallen Idol, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, lightly rubbed along joints and chipped at corners, spine a little faded, otherwise an excellent copy, 1950; The End of the Affair, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, light chips to spine ends, otherwise an excellent example, 1951; and c.40 others, by or relating to Greene, v.s. (c.45)
Watkins-Pitchford (Denys) BB's Fairy Book: Meeting Hill, first edition, 1948; Brendon Chase, gift ownership inscription to front free endpaper, cloth soiled at spine ends, 1944 § Vesey-Fitzgerald (Brian) It's My Delight, ink ownership inscription to browned front free endpapers, 1947 § MacDonald (George) The Lost Princess, jacket price-clipped, 1967, illustrations by Watkins-Pitchford "BB", original cloth or boards, dust-jackets, light chipping or fraying to extremities, lightly rubbed; and 4 others, illustrated by "BB", 4to & 8vo (8)
Huxley (Aldous) Eyeless in Gaza, one of 200 copies signed by the author, light foxing to first few pages, original buckram-backed boards, corners a little bumped, 1936; Island, first edition, marking to endpapers, original cloth, spine lightly faded, dust-jacket, light chipping and rubbing to joints, large cut to upper flap, 1962; Those Barren Leaves, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine lightly faded, 1925; After Many A Summer, endpapers lightly browned, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine lightly browned, some tears along joints, 1939, 8vo (4)
NO RESERVE Heller (Joseph) Catch-22, first English edition, staple mark and light stain to first few pages, original boards, first issue dust-jacket without reviews to lower panel, lightly toned around edges, joints and extremities lightly rubbed, short tear along spine head joint, chipping to extremities, 8vo, 1962.
Betjeman (John) Uncollected Poems, one of 100 copies signed by the author, original buckram, slip-case, 1982; First and Last Loves, first edition, Derek Stanford's copy with his marginal ink notes and sheet of notes loosely inserted, original cloth, dust-jacket, chipping to extremities, small portion of loss to spine head, 1952; High and Low, one of 100 copies signed by the author, original buckram, 1966; New Bats in Old Belfries, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, spine faded and one nick to upper edge, otherwise fine, 1945; and 4 others, including an excellent first edition copy of Summoned by Bells, 8vo & 4to (8)
NO RESERVE Van Doren (Mark) Spring Birth and other Poems, first edition, review copy, typed review loosely inserted, original boards, dust-jacket, lightly rubbed at extremities, New York, 1953 § Toker Williams (Pownoll) Pictoris Otia: Poems, original parchment boards, rubbed and bumped, Bumpus, 1889 § Q. The Vigil of Venus, first edition, original buckram, spine lightly bumped, dust-jacket, spine faded, ends creased, 1912; and c.25 others, poetry, v.s. (c.30)
Greene (Graham) Travels with my Aunt, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to title, original dedicatee name crossed out and replaced with "David Posner", light marking to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, lightly spotted, light creasing and chipping to spine ends, spine lightly faded, 8vo, 1969.⁂ Greene replaced the original dedicattee of the same name on a number of copies of different books inscribed to Posner for reasons unknown.
Heller (Joseph) Catch-22, first English edition, publisher's advertising postcard loosely inserted, original boards, second issue dust-jacket, very light fading to spine, lower panel lightly marked, overall still a very crisp and tight copy, 1962; Something Happened, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to front free endpapers, jacket spine faded, New York, 1974, original boards, dust-jackets, near-fine copies, 8vo (2)
Fermor (Patrick Leigh) The Traveller's Tree, first edition, jacket rather creased and chipped along joints and edges, larger chips to upper edge and spine ends, 1950 § Bawden (Nina) George Beneath a Paper Moon, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to her literary agent on front free endpaper, jacket with light chipping and creasing to extremities, 1974; Anna Apparent, signed presentation inscription from the author to her literary agent on front free endpaper, jacket spine faded, short tear to upper edge, 1972 § Murdoch (Iris) Under the Net, first American edition, jacket with light creasing to extremities, otherwise excellent, 1954, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets; and 11 others, modern literature, 8vo (15)
Craddock (Harry) The Savoy Cocktail Book, first edition, issue with half-title and title paginated but no errata slip, colour illustrations and decorations by Gilbert Rumbold, some scattered spotting and light soiling, occasional splitting at gutter, pictorial endpapers, original cloth-backed decorative boards, worn at spine ends and corners, rubbed and scuffed, spine a little soiled and with lettering faded, upper joint split but holding, 8vo, 1930.
Lawrence (D.H.) Letters, one of 525 copies, original decorative vellum, spine lightly faded, slip-case, 1932; The Boy in the Bush, first American edition, crayon ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth, spine lightly faded, dust-jacket, expertly repaired along joints and extremities, in effect an excellent copy, New York, 1924; The Ladybird..., original cloth, dust-jacket, spine lightly browned, corners chipped, otherwise an excellent copy, 1923; and 8 others by Lawrence, 8vo (11)
NO RESERVE Gathorne-Hardy (Jonathan) The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "For Frances with much love and gratitude for her excellent contribution Jonny", original boards, dust-jacket, tear to upper panel corner, spine faded, otherwise excellent, 8vo, 1972.⁂ Inscribed to Frances Partridge who appears on p.9 "These letters were invaluable" and p.144-147 with corrections in Partridge's hand on p.144, 145, 146.
NO RESERVE Golding (William) To the Ends of the Earth, number 138 of 400 copies signed by the author, original boards, 1991; Darkness Visible, first edition, margins toned, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1979; The Hot Gates, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1965; and 3 others by the same, 8vo (6)
NO RESERVE Westerns.- Fuller (Ed) Battle for Keebo Valley, 1962; Throw a Fast Gun, 1963; The Troubleshooters, 1963; Ransom Trail, 1964, first edition, signed by author, original cloth, fractional bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, slight chipping and creasing to edges; and others by the same, each signed by author, 8vo (17)⁂ The author published under several names, including Ed Fuller, Al Fulman and H. E. Fuller. Later works are signed "Harry. Al Fulman, Ed Fuller, H.E. Fuller."
Conrad (Joseph) Typhoon, first edition, 2pp. publisher's advertisements at beginning and 32pp. advertisements at end, contemporary ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers and initials to title, fore-edge lightly spotted, original decorative cloth, gilt, spine a little faded, ends creased and frayed, 8vo, 1903.
Amis (Kingsley) Lucky Jim, first edition, small neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth, spine ends lightly faded, dust-jacket, faded, chips to spine ends, neatly reinforced with tape verso, water stain to spine and lower panel, still overall a very tight and sharp copy, 8vo, 1953.⁂ A crisp, attractive copy of Amis' first novel.
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