Literature
THE L-SHAPED ROOM
Chatto & Windus, 1960. 1st edn signed by author on dedication page. 8vo. Original gilt lettered turquoise cloth (lightly toned at edges - otherwise bright VG), dustwrapper (chipped and torn at edges - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 318 (endpapers spotted with previous owner's neat inscription on front..... More
GOD'S GIFT A Version of Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist
Oldcastle Co Meath: Gallery Press, 2000. 1852352817. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. 72 (no inscriptions). More
PAPER CAGE.
Baskerville, 2024. 9781399808118. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 31 (no inscriptions). More
SECRET HISTORY
Northwestern University Press 9780810141223. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. 109 (no inscriptions). More
BESTIARY Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library Oxford M.S. Bodley 764 with All the Original Miniatures Reproduced in Facsimile.
Folio Society, 1992. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth-backed pictorial boards (Fine), slipcase (sides faded at edges - otherwise VG). Pp. 205, with coloured illus (no inscriptions). More
BRITISH MYTHS AND LEGENDS Volume I Marvels and Magic, Volume II Heroes and Saints, Volume III History and Romance.
Folio Society, 2005. 3 vols boxed set. 8vo. Original gilt lettered quarter maroon buckram cloth on pictorial boards, slipcase (Fine in publisher's unopened shrinkwrap). Pp. 708 (pages numbered in sequence), illus with b&w plates by John Vernon Lloyd (no inscriptions). More
PATTERNS OF GLORY Studies in Charles Williams.
Hannacroix: Apocryphile Press, 2024. 9781958061909. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. vii + 154, illus with b&w map (no inscriptions). More
CONTEMPORARY GALICIAN WOMEN WRITERS (Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures).
Legenda, 2020. 9781781888230. 1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered pictorial laminated boards (Fine), no dustwrapper issued. Pp. 133 (no inscriptions). More
ALEXANDER BARCLAY THE FAMOUS CHRONYCLE OF THE WARRE WHICH THE ROMAYNS HAD AGAYNST IUGURTH USURPER OF THE KYNGDOME OF NUMIDY Alexander Barclay's Translation of Sallust's Bellum Iugurthinum (Early English Text Society O.S. 344).
Oxford University Press [&] Early English Text Society, 2014. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. lxxxix + 361, illus with b&w frontispiece (no inscriptions). More
WORLDS APART (A Dialogue of the 1960's).
Faber and Faber, 1963. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (lightly chipped along top edge - otherwise VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 211 (previous owners' neat inscriptions on front front paste-down and front free endpaper). More
POEMS 1914-1919.
Martin Secker, 1920. 1st edn. 8vo. Original cloth-backed paper-laid boards (scuffed at edges and page edges lightly spotted). Pp. 57 with tipped-in errata slip (previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down; no inscriptions). More
MAURICE BARING RESTORED
William Heinemann, 1970. 9780434347902. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth, top edge yellow (very small spot on fore edge - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (very slightly worn at corners - otherwise VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. ix + 443 (no inscriptions). More
THE VIEW FROM A BLIND I
Faber and Faber, 1962. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (faint spotting on page edges and endpapers - otherwise Fine), dustwrapper (covers lightly toned - otherwise VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 64 (no inscriptions). More
PRAPS FARM
Faber and Faber, 1946. 1st edn. 8vo. Original black decorated black cloth (corners chafed and lightly rubbed at edges), no dustwrapper. Pp. 116, illus with coloured pictorial endpapers and b&w drawings by Catherine Cummins (pp. 30-31 lightly discoloured at bottom edges; previous owner's pencil inscription on verso of half title)..... More
THE GHOST ROAD
Viking, 1995. 1st edn 7th printing signed by author on title page. 8vo. Original silver lettered black cloth (casing with slight lean and page edges a little tanned - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 277 (from Elizabeth Jane Howard's library with a gift inscription..... More
MYSTERY AT MERLING BAY
Dennis Dobson, 1968. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (Fine), no dustwrapper. Pp. 200, illus with b&w drawings by A.E. Barnard (no inscriptions). More
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
Collins, 1987. 9780002321167. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (VG), dustwrapper (light wear at edges - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 183 (no inscriptions). More
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
Collins, 1985. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (near Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped)., Pp. 183 (no inscriptions). More
ARTHUR & GEORGE
London Review Bookshop [&] Jonathan Cape, 2005. London Review Bookshop limited numbered 1st edition (25 of 125) signed by author. 8vo. Original quarter bound in brown cloth with patterned sides from a design by Enid Marx for the Curwen Press, top edge brown (Fine), slipcase (Fine). Pp. 360 (no other..... More
LEVELS OF LIFE
Jonathan Cape, 2013. 1st edn 2nd printing signed and inscribed by author to Elizabeth Jane Howard on title page. 8vo. Original silver lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (small marks on spine - otherwise VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 117 (from Elizabeth Jane Howard's library with her bookstamp..... More
THE NOISE OF TIME
London Review Bookshop [&] Jonathan Cape, 2016. Limited numbered 1st edition 1st printing (22 of 75) signed by author. 8vo (9? x 6 ins). Original quarter bound in Hamatan yellow 30 goatskin on Atlantic cloth sides with decorative endpapers (Fine), in matching patterned and red-lined slipcase (Fine). Pp. 183 printed..... More
THE NOISE OF TIME
Jonathan Cape, 2016. 1st edn 7th printing signed by author on title page. 8vo. Original red lettered black cloth (casing with slight lean - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 183 (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper). More