Modern Literature, Children's and Illustrated Books

Ainslie (Kathleen) Catherine Susan's Little Holiday, chromolithographed illustrations, light browning to margins, contemporary ink inscription, or...

Amis (Martin) Success, ink ownership inscription, jacket with light creasing to head and foot, 1978; Einstein's Monsters, light toning to text mar...

Barlowe (Wayne, American science fiction and fantasy writer and painter, b. 1958) Original illustration for Tanith Lee's 'Book of the Damned', gou...

Barrie (J.M.) The Plays, 21 vol., all but 3 with signed presentation inscriptions from the author, original limp blue leather, gilt, spines rubbed...

Bateman (H.M.) Advice to a Nephew in Arms, illustrations by the author, original stitched pictorial wrappers, [1930s]; and 2 others, Beryl Cook, i...

Beardsley (Aubrey).- Hobbes (John Oliver) The Dream and the Business, first edition, title in red and black, occasional light spotting, original p...

Beerbohm (Max), Follower of. Self Portrait; Mr W. Churchill; Prime Ministers in my time 1935 and 1944, four works, graphite and black chalk on var...

Belloc (Hillaire) Sonnets and Verse, limited edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Hazel Lavery "at her request, I fear high...

Bellow (Saul) Dangling Man, light scattered spotting to endpapers, jacket with light toning to spine, else fine, 1946; The Victim, jacket with lig...

Blatty (William Peter) The Exorcist, signed by the author, jacket with light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, 1971 § Amis (Kingsley) The Gre...

Blyton (Enid) The Children at Happy House, first edition, inscribed by Enid Blyton, a little soiling to the first 2 pages (not affecting text), cr...

Bradbury (Ray) Fahrenheit 451, first English edition, card signed by the author loosely inserted, frontispiece, original boards, dust-jacket, mino...

Brando (Marlon) and Robert Lindsey. Songs My Mother Taught Me, first English edition, signed presentation inscription to Desmond Morris "I hope yo...

Brooke (Rupert), Katherine Mansfield & others.- The Blue Review, vol. I, nos. 1-3 (all published), contains 4 short stories by Katherine Mansfield...

Bulgakov (Mikhail) Master i Margarita [The Master and Margarita], first published edition, 2vol., first published edition, in Moskva magazine no. ...

Chagall (Marc).- Sorlier (Charles) Chagall Lithograph 1969-1973, Monte-Carlo, Éditions André Sauret, 1974; Die Keramiken und Skulpturen von Chagal...

Chatwin (Bruce) In Patagonia, first edition, plates, map endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, price-clipped, spine very slightly faded, minor ...

Christie (Agatha) Hickory Dickory Dock, light browning to endpapers, jacket spine a little creased and sunned, 1955; Cat Among the Pigeons, ink ow...

Clifford (Siegerson) Travelling Tinkers, number 74 of 100 copies signed by the author, from an edition limited to 500, woodcut title illustration ...

Conrad (Joseph) The Works, 20 vol., frontispieces, original blue cloth, gilt, minor rubbing to extremities but a near-fine set overall, 8vo, John ...

Conroy (Pat) The Boo, first edition, signed by the author on title, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, minor chipping to corners, light r...

Cornwell (Bernard) Sharpe's Eagle, card signed by the author loosely inserted, jacket spine slightly faded, 1981; Sharpe's Honour, usual very ligh...

Counter-culture.- A group of 30 burlesque and counter-culture magazines, original wrappers, some creasing and tears, v.s., 1960s. ⁂ Includes issu...

Craddock (Harry) The Savoy Cocktail Book, first edition, printed in black and colours with illustrations and decorations by Gilbert Rumbold, picto...

Dahl (Roald) James and the Giant Peach, first English edition, signed presentation inscription to "Charlie" to front free endpaper, illustrations ...

Eggers (Dave, editor) Timothy McSweeney's Quarterley Concern, nos. 1-6, first editions, illustrations, nos.1-3 in original wrappers, no. 4 in orig...

Erotica.- Salmon (André) L'Érotisme dans l'Art Contemporain, first edition, plates, some colour, title lightly browned, loose as issued in origina...

Farnol (Jeffery) [A collection of 43 titles], original cloth, all but 2 with dust-jackets, some chipping but mostly excellent or near-fine example...

Fermor (Patrick Leigh) The Traveller's Tree, first edition, cut signature of the author tipped in at front, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, p...

Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, first edition, original boards, fine, dust-jacket, minor rubbing to head, a near-fine example otherwise, 8vo, 1961.

Fleming (Ian) The Spy Who Loved Me, first edition, original boards, fine, dust-jacket, spine a little browned, light spotting and surface soiling ...

Fleming (Ian) You Only Live Twice, second state, slight shelf-lean, jacket spine browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1964 § Fraser (...

Fleming (Ian) The Man With the Golden Gun, first edition, original second-state boards, dust-jacket, very light toning to spine, minor creasing to...

Foreman (Michael) The Saga of Erik the Viking, 1983; Nicobobinus, 1985; War Boy, 1989; War Game, 1993; After the War Was Over, 1995; Billy the Ki...

Frame (Janet) Owls Do Cry, first edition, light browning and ink ownership inscription to endpapers, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, dust-jacke...

Gibbings (Robert) Fourteen Wood Engravings, 16 wood-engraved illustrations, prospectus for The Voyage of the Bounty's Launch loosely inserted, ori...

Gielgud (John).- Shakespeare (William) Hamlet, signed presentation inscription from John Gielgud to front free endpaper, programme for Gielgud's p...

Graves (Robert) I, Claudius, bookplate to front free endpaper, 1934; Claudius the God, spotting to endpapers, 1934, first editions, original cloth...

Greenaway (Kate, attributed to, Victorian artist and writer, 1846-1901) A young girl wearing a bonnet and holding a bouquet, her arm around a frie...

Greene (Graham) The Power and the Glory, first edition, endpapers and half-title a little browned, text block foreshortened and glued at spine, or...

Greene (Graham) The Third Man and the Fallen Idol, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, covers a little rubbed, jacket price-clipped, creased an...

Greene (Graham) The Monster of Capri, photographic illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, Helsinki, Eurographica, 1985; Reflection on Travels...

Hardy (Thomas) The Works, 26 vol., Uniform Pocket edition, 1925-30 § Shaw (George Bernard) The Plays, 13 vol., 1927, original limp leather, decora...

Heaney (Seamus) Door Into the Dark, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1969; Wintering Out, original printed wrappers, 1972; North, original cloth, dust...

Hemingway (Ernest) For Whom the Bell Tolls, first edition, first issue with 'A' to copyright page, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, l...

Hemingway (Ernest) Across the River Into the Trees, first edition, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, some minor creasing ...

Hewitt (John) No Rebel Word, original cloth, dust-jacket, minor chipping to spine ends, 1948; Those Swans Remember, original wrappers, Belfast, 19...

Hughes (Ted, poet and writer, 1930-98) Autograph Letter signed to Patrick Garland, 1p., sm. 4to, Court Green, North Tawton, Devon, 3rd October 198...

Irish Civil War broadside.- Stop Press: Poblacht na h'Eireann. War News No. 2 [Thursday June 29th, 1922], printed broadside, 500 x 310mm., folds, ...

Larkin  (Philip) The Whitsun Weddings, jacket spine slightly browned, 1964; High Windows, jacket a little creased, some light toning, 1974, first ...

Le Brocquy (Louis) Images, Single and Multiple 1957-1990, signed presentation inscription from the artist to half-title, illustrations, some colou...

Le Carré (John) The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, first edition, original variant brown boards, slight shelf-lean, dust-jacket, spine slightly fa...

Lee (Alan) The Drawings of Alan Lee, number 578 of 750 copies signed and numbered by the artist, 8 plates, loose as issued in original box, Cygnus...

Lewis (Cecil Day) 'Young Chekhov' original typescript poem, signed at foot, 1p., horizontal folds, browning to foot, n.d.

Low (Sir David Alexander Cecil, political cartoonist and caricaturist, 1891-1963) Portrait of Arnold Wesker, original cartoon, black chalk over pe...

Mansfield (Katherine) The Garden Party and other stories, first edition, one of 1,2000 copies designed by Hans Mardersteig, colour lithographed il...

Mason (A.E.W.) The Four Feathers, first edition, light scattered spotting, ink ownership inscription to half-title, original cloth, covers a littl...

Milne (A.A.).- Mee (Arthur) The Children's Encyclopaedia, 8 vol., Anne Darlington's copy with her ownership inscription in pencil to endpapers, in...

Milne (A. A.) Now We Are Six, first edition, illustrations and pictorial endpapers by E.H.Shepard, advertisement for exhibition of work by Shepard...

Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, illustrations and pictorial endpapers by E.H.Shepard, light browning to endpapers, original...