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
![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
![Dust Jacket Art] The Judson Murder Case. Earl Augustus ALDRICH, A. B. Leonard, Bip Pares,...](/pictures/thumb/BB2325.jpeg?v=1588780447)
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1935. Hardcover. First Crime Circle Edition of this obscure (and scarce) detective novel by an obscure crime writer (neither title nor author mentioned in Barzun's exhaustive Catalogue of Crime), but with fabulous dust jacket art by the incomparable Bip Pares. Crown 8vo (183 x 119mm): 254,[2]pp. Publisher's..... 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: Jonathan Cape, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression. Small 8vo: 253,[1]pp. Publisher's royal blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt, top edge stained navy blue, illustrated dust jacket priced £1.50. Very slightly canted, else As New in a Fine jacket, tight, square, unmarked, and unread. Jones & Newman 65. Pringle..... more
![Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches [Presentation Copy to Constance Lytton]....](/pictures/thumb/BB2261.jpeg?v=1588791811)
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
![Automatic Writing] [Spiritualism] [First World War] The hill of vision : a forecast of the great...](/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
![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
![Red Night Trilogy, comprising] Cities of the Red Night, [together with] The Place of Dead Roads,...](/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
New York: A. A. Wyn, 1950. First Printing. Hardcover. First Printing. 8vo; 252pp. Original quarter-bound beige cloth lettered in red with black cloth boards; in a bright pictorial dust jacket priced at $2.50. Fine, tight and square, in a Near Fine or better jacket with a lightly rubbed spine. The..... more
![Juvenile] America Begins: The Story of the Finding of the New World. Alice DALGLIESH, Lois Maloy,...](/pictures/thumb/BB2378.jpeg?v=1600909040)
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
![The Blue Lagoon [Michael Sadleir's copy]. Henry DE VERE STACPOOLE](/pictures/thumb/BB2182.jpg?v=1565288556)
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908. Hardcover. First Printing of the prolific Irish author's best known work, a romance novel filmed multiple times and the first installment of The Blue Lagoon Trilogy, with The Garden of God (1923) and The Gates of Morning (1925). Crown 8vo (184 x 118mm): [12],326;[12]pp. Publisher's..... more
![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
![Big As Life [Signed]. DOCTOROW, dgar, awrence](/pictures/thumb/BB1583.jpg?v=1503516308)
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
![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
![Spiritualism] The Parasite [Association Copy]. . Conan DOYLE, rthur](/pictures/thumb/BB1909.jpeg?v=1588973220)
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
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: 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 (first published . . . 1958), collecting five stories set in the West Indies and featuring Horatio Hornblower, now an admiral. 8vo: 283,[1]pp. Publisher's royal blue cloth, the spine stamped gilt; in a price-clipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Biro. A...... more
London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of Fowles's fourth novel and "one of the masterpieces of the late twentieth century novel." (enotes) Thick 8vo: 704pp. Publisher's chestnut brown cloth, spine stamped in gold, top edge stained slate blue; typographic dust jacket, priced £4.95. Pages lightly browned (as..... more
London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of Fowles's "first historical novel since The French Lieutenant's Woman and arguably a work of equal significance." (Literary Encyclopedia) 8vo: 460pp. Publisher's black boards, spine stamped in gold; pictorial dust jacket, priced £9.95. An excellent example, firmly and squarely bound (probably..... more