London: Gollancz, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 239pp. A book which has lived in a glass-fronted bookcase. Contents fresh and unmarked. Similarly the red cloth-textured binding, spine titled gilt: all bright, corners sharp, minimal blunting of spine ends. In the protected unclipped yellow dust jacket: slightly knocked to the top edge..... More

London: Nelson, 1936. First UK edition. Hardcover. [viii], 276pp. Contents fresh and clean like new. Faint tanning to endpapers, and with a gift inscription 'In memory of the best film you ever saw'. In the original binding of pale orange cloth, spine titled black: bright, corners good, spine extremities slightly..... More

London: Heinemann, 1917. First printing of the Garnett translation. Hardcover. [vi], 323, +16 adverts. 1917 gift inscription to front endpaper -'Some thing to read during the Honeymoon'. Paper slightly toned, and with light foxing to endpapers and closed fore-edge. Bottom edge untrimmed. In the original binding of red cloth with..... More

London: Herbert Jenkins, [c.1931-32]. Thirteenth printing. Hardcover. 313, [6]ads. Contents startlingly fresh and clean, like new. In the Jenkins orange cloth titled black, very bright and fresh, corners sharp. Slight binding fault ridge towards fore-edge. In the unrestored protected pictorial dust jacket, whose large white areas show some light soiling..... More

Somerville, Mass., USA: Candlewick Press, 2017. First edition, with complete number line. Hardcover. 312pp. As new, unread copy, unmarked. In the publisher's black paper-covered boards, spine titled green. Corners sharp, spine ends slightly blunted. In the protected unclipped (unpriced) pictorial dust jacket: unmarked and crisp, with a minuscule pucker to..... More

London: Secker and Warburg, 1972. First UK edition. Hardcover. 218pp. Text pages clean with one or two small marks noted - singe mark to p.37 and small 'x' to p.13. Front free endpaper removed. Library marks to title page, and 'withdrawn from library' stamps to both half title and rear..... More

Oxford University Press, 1986. First Oxford edition. Paperback. viii, 619pp, [ii]. A mighty paperback edition of the book first published in German as Hotel Shanghai in 1939: this is the first edition to include Lethbridge's Introduction. Pages clean and unmarked, though tanned. Large format, c.19.5x12.5cms. The pictorial covers have been..... More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. [iv], 266pp. Pages clean and unmarked, with tanning from the edges. 'For style without affectation, ruthlessness without the usual mindlessness, Lyall is likely to be your man.' (The Observer). In the original black cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, firm and bright..... More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1926]. Reprint. Hardcover. 320pp. Contents very clean and unmarked, toning to pages and closed edges. In the original red binding, decorated in blind, spine titled in black, very fresh, bright, and square: top edge of spine sunned. In the protected yellow pictorial jacket, bright and..... More

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, n.d. [c.1910?]. New and cheaper edition. Hardcover. (iii)-vi, [ii], 262pp, with colour frontis and 8 plates in black and white. Contents very fresh and unmarked, with some tanning to the endpapers: 2 or 3 pages have one or two small and isolated foxing spots. In the..... More

New York: Spiral Press, for the Limited Editions Club, 1957. First thus. #792 of 1500 copies. Hardcover. xv, [ii], 333, [i] limitation page. Printing spacious, pages fresh and clean. Previous owner's bookplate to pastedown. Large format, 25x16.2cms, in the original two-tone cloth binding - buff spine, blue-green boards: upper board..... More

London: Everyman, J.M.Dent & Sons. 1919. Reprints. Hardcover. xiv, 240, xiv, 237, xiv, 230pp, each with 50 full-page illustrations. Printed on firm paper, and apparently unread, all three books are internally in very fresh and firm unmarked condition. Top edges tinted blue. In the blue cloth of the 'For Young..... More

London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, 1898. First English edition. Hardcover. xv, [i], 336pp, + the 64 plates (incl. frontis). Contents clean and bright, with the original bright decorative endpapers. Perhaps twenty-five pages have a little spotting, and there's more intrusive foxing to about twenty others, including the title and..... More