London: Faber and Faber, [1955]. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of the author's first book (first published mcmlv on copyright page). 8vo: 200pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine lettered in yellow, salmon-pink dust jacket illustrated by Pearl Falconer, who also contributed full-page line drawings throughout. Fine, square, and tight (apparently..... more
![Item #BB1747 [Starship] Non-Stop [First Issue]. Brian W. ALDISS](/pictures/thumb/BB1747.jpeg?v=1618088465)
London: Faber and Faber, [1958]. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression (First published in mcmlviii on copyright page) of "probably still the best treatment of the [Generation Starship] theme,” by “one of the most considerable talents in contemporary British sf." (Pringle) Issued in the U. S. the following year, with textual..... more
London: Methuen, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this thriller set in a Spanish village. Crown 8vo (200 x 132mm): 200pp. Publisher's forest green finely woven cloth, spine lettered in silver, striking dust jacket illustrated by David Watson and priced 15s. A handsome example, tightly bound and clean throughout..... more
London: Mills & Boon, Limited, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression (published August 1909 on verso of title page) of this "extremely difficult to find" collection of 25 weird, supernatural, and fantastic stories. Crown 8vo (189 x 121mm): [2],x,306,[2]pp. Publisher's forest green cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt..... more
![Item #BB2538 [Automatic Writing] [Spiritualism] [First World War] The hill of vision : a forecast...](/pictures/thumb/BB2538.jpeg?v=1618187042)
Boston: Marshall Jones Company, M D CCC XIX [1919]. First Edition. Hardcover. A superb First Printing of Bligh Bond's prophesies of the Great War, "gathered from automatic writings obtained between 1909 and 1912, and also in 1918, through the hand of John Alleyne." Crown 8vo (195 x 130mm): 134pp. Publisher's..... more
![Item #BB2121 [Photobook] Quiet Days In Clichy. BRASSAI, Henry MILLER](/pictures/thumb/BB2121.jpg?v=1568503924)
Paris: The Olympia Press, 8, Rue de Nesle, 1958. Second Edition. Printed Wrappers. Second Edition of this short novel, celebrating love, art, and the Bohemian life, with 29 full-page photogravures (recto and verso, of which one verso only and one double-page photomontage) of Paris after dark by Brassai (pseudonym of..... more
![Item #BB1551 [Red Night Trilogy, comprising] Cities of the Red Night, [together with] The Place...](/pictures/thumb/BB1551.jpg?v=1535596092)
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston / Viking [through 1987], 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes, all First Printings and all signed (but not inscribed) by Burroughs on title pages. Demy 8vo (228 x 150mm): xviii (including frontispiece and title page),332; [12],306, with double-page map; [12],258pp. Red Night: Publisher's beige..... more
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated) of Cain fifth novel. 8vo: [8],218,[2]pp. Publisher's ruby red cloth, spine and covers stamped in black, top edge stained matching red, other edges rough-trimmed; illustrated dust jacket by Bob Smith, priced $2.00. A superlative example (probably unread)..... more
London: Cassell, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of the first Father Brown book, a "cornerstone volume" (Pronzini & Muller ) and "one of the finest volumes of detective short stories ever written" (Queen), one of 5,000 copies. Crown 8vo (189 x 123mm): [8],336pp, with frontispiece and seven further plates..... more
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1929. First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition of this early Christie novel, reuniting characters first introduced in The Secret of the Chimneys. 8vo (130 x 188mm): [viii],310pp. Publisher's orange cloth, patterned end papers, spine and front cover stamped in black, top edge stained orange, fore-edge untrimmed..... more
![Item #BB2740 Sparkling Cyanide [Remembered Death]. Agatha CHRISTIE](/pictures/thumb/BB2740.jpeg?v=1650389642)
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1945. First British Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of this final Colonel Race detective novel, based on an Hercule Poirot short story. Crown 8vo (181 x 118mm): [4],5-160pp. Publisher's tangerine cloth, spine lettered in black, in the celebrated dust jacket illustrated by Leslie Leonard Stead..... more
![Item #BB2378 [Children's/Juvenile] America Begins: The Story of the Finding of the New World....](/pictures/thumb/BB2378.jpeg?v=1634400199)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. Square demy 8vo (213 x 213mm): [78]pp, with numerous color and black-and-white full- and partial-page illustrations, including double-page world map. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards, tangerine end papers, illustrated title page; matching dust jacket priced $1.60. Tips barely worn, top..... more
![Item #BB1751 A Horseman Riding By; [with] The Green Gauntlet. R. F. DELDERFIELD](/pictures/thumb/BB1751.jpg?v=1513261877)
London: Hodder and Stoughton [through 1968], 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impressions of Delderfield's two-volume elegy for the traditional, pastoral society blown apart by the First World War. Thick 8vo: 1151; 475,[3]pp. Horseman: Publisher's forest green cloth, spine stamped in gold, map end papers; dust jacket with wraparound illustration by..... more
![Item #BB1583 Big As Life [Signed]. DOCTOROW, dgar, awrence](/pictures/thumb/BB1583_01.jpeg?v=1629658072)
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of Doctorow's second novel and scarcest book, never reprinted and later orphaned by the author (his web site makes no mention of this title). 8vo: (6),218pp. Publisher's crimson cloth, spine stamped in gilt, top edge stained crimson, cream-colored typographic..... more
![Item #BB2307 [Working-Class Fiction] The Good Lion. Len DOHERTY, 1930–1983](/pictures/thumb/BB2307.jpeg?v=1599696662)
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this unusually scarce working-class novel by one of the "most important practitioners of the socialist novel in Britain." (Bounds, Orwell and Marxism) Crown 8vo (195 x 127mm): 352pp. Publisher's lime-green cloth, spine lettered in black; evocative dust jacket design..... more
![Item #BB1909 [Spiritualism] The Parasite [Association Copy]. . Conan DOYLE, rthur](/pictures/thumb/BB1909.jpeg?v=1634332983)
London: A[rchibald]. Constable, 1894. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. First Impression of Doyle's vampire novel (a spirit- rather than blood-sucking entity), preceding by three years Bram Stoker's Dracula. First volume in Constable's "Acme Library" series. Foolscap 8vo (158 x 95mm): [8],125,[1]pp. Publisher's dark blue ribbed cloth (also issued in light green..... more
![Item #BB1991 [Juvenile] The Three Astronauts [I tre cosmonauti]. Umberto ECO, Eugenio Carmi](/pictures/thumb/BB1991.jpeg?v=1650566290)
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of the second installment in Eco's trilogy of children’s books, also including The Bomb and the General and The Gnomes of Gnu Bompiani, all illustrated by Eugenio Carmi. Translated by William Weaver. Tall, slim 8vo: unpaginated, with 17 stunning..... more
London: Remington & Co., 1885. First Edition. Wrappers. First Impression of this rare shilling crime novelette. Foolscap 8vo (160 x 112mm): [2],164pp, with historiated initials and head- and tail-pieces. Publisher's pictorial paper wrappers printed in red and black, priced one shilling. Bookseller's embossed stamp to rear wrapper. A collectible copy..... more
London: T. Werner Laurie, 1911. First Edition. Cloth. An exemplary example of "Pain's best general short story collection." (Wilson) 8vo: [8],320,[10, advertisements]pp. Publisher's sea green textured cloth, front and back covers stamped in black, spine lettered in gilt, title page (with vignette) printed in blue and black. Light spotting to..... more
London: Michael Joseph, 1971. First Impression. Hardcover. First Printing ("First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph 1971" on copyright page). 8vo; 194pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, the spine stamped gilt, in a pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Graham Humphreys and priced at £1.75. A just about Fine copy, probably..... more
London: Michael Joseph, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression, collecting five stories featuring Horatio Hornblower, now an admiral. 8vo: 283,[1]pp. Publisher's royal blue cloth, spine stamped in gold; price-clipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Biro. About Fine, very lightly read, with offsetting to paste-downs and slightly dusty top edge; bright..... more
London: Michael Joseph, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of the author's second novel, basis of the audio drama Breaking Point, starring Michael Kitchen. Crown 8vo (183 x 118mm): 238pp. Publisher's forest green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; illustrated dust jacket by Trevor Denning, priced 16s. A superlative copy, tightly..... more
San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (complete number line) of this Southern Gothic tale of an undertaker who hires a hitman to kill a nosy teenager. Demy 8vo (226 x 145mm): [2],234pp. Publisher's rose red cloth-effect paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gold, grey speckled end papers; photographically..... more
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (so stated) of this best-selling semi-autobiographical novel, which inspired the classic 1950 film starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy, remade in 2003 starring Steve Martin. 8vo: [12],237,[1] pp, with full-page illustrations by Donald McKay. Publisher's bright orange cloth, spine..... more
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1944. First Edition, as stated. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated). Octavo, 157pp. Publisher's grey cloth, the spine and upper board lettered in blue, the top edge stained brown. About Fine, in an about Fine pictorial dust jacket priced at $2.00. Gilpatric was an American pilot..... more