READING HILARY MANTEL Haunted Decades
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 9781350072558. 1st edn. 8vo. Original pictorial boards (a little bumped at head of spine - otherwise Fine), no dustwrapper. Pp. ix + 230 (no inscriptions). More
Literature
CONFRONTATIONAL READINGS Literary Neo-Avant-Gardes in Dutch and German
Legenda, 2020. 9781781884010. 1st edn Lightning Source printing. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial boards (Fine), no dustwrapper. Pp. 234, with b&w illus (no inscriptions). More
SOME PAPERS OF LORD ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR 12th Baron Count of the Holy Roman Empire &c
Longmans Green & Co., 1909. 1st edn. 8vo. Original blind-ruled gilt lettered green cloth (light wear on extrems; page edges spotted - otherwise VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. xix + 291, illus with b&w frontispiece with tissue-guard (endpapers and prelims spotted; no inscriptions). More
MURDER TOO LATE
John Long, 1947. 1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered red cloth (some light wear at edges of boards and top edge a little spotted), dustwrapper (rather creased and worn - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 208 (front endpapers discoloured at gutter; no inscriptions). More
MOONRISE The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures (British Library Science Fiction Classics)
British Library Publishing, 2018. 9780712352758. 8vo. Original printed card covers (softback) (Fine in protective cover). Pp. 348, with b&w frontispiece (no inscriptions). More
OUT OF THIS WORLD Science Fiction But Not as You Know it
British Library, 2011. 9780712358354. 4to. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine in protective cover). Pp. 144, illus with coloured and b&w photos (no inscriptions). More
QUEENS OF THE ABYSS Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird.
British Library, 2020. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine in protective cover). Pp. 350, illus with b&w frontispiece (no inscriptions). More
THE BLIND MAN'S GARDEN
Faber and Faber, 2013. 9780571287918. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 409 (no inscriptions). More
CONJURE WOMEN
Fourth Estate, 2020. 9780008293918. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original silver lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. 400 (no inscriptions). More
THE BRITISH SPY NOVEL Styles in Treachery.
John Calder, 1984. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (VG). Pp. 287 (pages a little tanned at edges; no inscriptions). More
BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUM
Doubleday, 1995. 1st edn signed by author on title page with a handwritten postcard dated 22 April 1996 loosely inserted. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (casing with slight lean - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 332 (no other inscriptions). More
CASTAWAY CAMP
The Children's Book Club, 1952. Book club edn. 8vo. Original black lettered red cloth (sunned at head of spine - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (rather worn and creased with small of partial loss - in protective wrapper, not clipped). Pp. 208, illus with b&w drawings by Charlotte Hough (small perforation at..... More
GOING GANGSTER.
John Lane The Bodley Head, 1946. 1st edn 4th printing. 8vo. Original black lettered blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (spine ends chipped - otherwise VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 267, illus with b&w drawings and decoated endpapers (previous owner's ink gift inscription on half title page). More
HUNTER'S MOON.
Children's Book Club, 1953. Book club edn. 8vo. Original black lettered blue cloth (spine and extrems sunned - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (spine sunned; minor loss at spine ends - in protective wrapper). Pp. 222, illus with b&w drawings by Charlotte Hough (endpapers tanned; no inscriptions). More
UNEXPECTED ADVENTURE
Children's Book Club, c. 1955. Book club edn. 8vo. Original black lettered light brown cloth (casing with slight lean - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (extrems worn, with partial loss - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 187, with b&w illus by Sheila Rose (endpapers partly tanned; no inscriptions). More
DEARLY
Chatto & Windus, 2020. 9781784743895. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original silver lettered black cloth (small diagonal crease at top edge of rear pastedown - otherwise near Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 124 with black silk page-marker, illus with manuscript on front and rear pastedowns..... More
THE TESTAMENTS
Chatto & Windus, 2019. 9781784742324. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original white lettered black cloth with decorative endpapers and green silk page-marker (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 419 (no inscriptions). More
BRIEF LIVES
Folio Society, 1976. 2nd printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered cloth (VG), slipcase (VG). Pp. 324 with b&w plates throughout (no inscriptions). More
THE EDUCATION OF OSCAR FAIRFAX
Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1996. 9780715627037. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 225 (publisher's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper). More
THE EMBEZZLER
Victor Gollancz, 1966. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (top edge a little spotted - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (small nicks at edges - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 277 (no inscriptions). More
SECOND CHANCE Tales of Two Generations
Victor Gollancz, 1971. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (top and fore-edeg spotted - otherwise near Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 262 (endpapers lightly spotted; no inscriptions). More
ROM@ Roman
Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2011. 9782070123216. Signed by author on title page. 8vo. Original printed card covers (softback) (tiny nick on fore edge of rear free endpaper - otherwise near Fine). Pp. 234 (no other inscriptions) [French text]. More
COLLECTED LONGER POEMS
New York: Random House, c. 1965. 8vo. Original gilt lettered yellow cloth quarter-laid on green cloth (VG), dustwrapper (spine and part of upper cover sunned; minor edge wear - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 356 (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper). More
COLLECTED SHORTER POEMS 1927-1957
New York: Random Houe, 1964. Reprint. 8vo. Original gilt lettered yellow cloth quarter laid on green cloth boards (near Fine), dustwrapper (extrems rubbed and a ittle chipped, esp spine ends - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 351 (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper). More
ABOUT THE HOUSE
Faber and Faber, 1966. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (top edge dust stained, fore edge lightly spotted, pp. 31-34 have unsightly stain on fore edges - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 94, errata slip tipped-in at contents page (no inscriptions)... More