London: Ward Lock, n.d. [c.1953]. Reprint. Hardcover. 192pp. Pages very fresh and clean, like new. In the original buff textured boards, spine title white. Firm, bright and square, with slight blunting to spine ends. In the protected pictorial dust jacket. This is vivid to the front panel, and slightly faded..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1948. First edition (first printing). Hardcover. 430pp. Pages clean, endpapers tanned, no inscriptions or marks. Firm, in the original binding of pale blue cloth, spine title gilt. Boards clean, corners almost sharp, spine faded and dulled, ends puckered. A good copy of the first printing. More
London: Methuen, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. xv, [3], 203, 8 (adverts). First owner's neat name to endpaper. [A nice jacketed copy, but with a printing error: the openings at pages 48/49, 54/55, 58/59, 62/63 are blank! There is quite a thorough synopsis of the matters dealt with in each chapter..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, The Hogarth Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 121pp, [4] publishers' ads. Text clean, no foxing, although the closed top edge of the text block is foxed. Upper half of front free endpaper has an irregular surface, as if a label had been removed: no other indications..... More
![Foreign Bodies [Inscribed copy]. Rhona Petrie](/pictures/thumb/19672040.jpg?v=1650467348)
London: Gollancz, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 192pp. Contents very clean. Author's August 1967 gift inscription to front free endpaper (see photo). In the original bright red textured boards, spine titled gilt: very clean, corners sharp, very slight compression to spine ends. In the protected unclipped yellow dust jacket: very bright..... More
London: Calder & Boyars, 1966. First UK edition. Hardcover. 144pp. Inscriptions to front free endpaper. Contents clean and unmarked. In the original binding of grey boards, spine titled gilt: clean, corners good, foot of spine slightly puckered, small mark to lower joint where jacket split. In the protected unclipped red..... More
UK: Black Dagger Crime series, Chivers Press, 1987. First edition thus. Hardcover. [viii], 181pp. Fresh, clean copy, appears unread: text pages slightly toned. Firm in the original black cloth-textured binding, spine titled gilt. Bright, corners all good, head of upper joint slightly compressed. In the protected crisp, bright and fresh..... More
London: Jarrolds, [1923]. First edition. Hardcover. 229pp, with a glossary on the following page, and the publishers' ads facing on rear pastedown. Faded ownership name to front pastedown. The pages adjacent to the boards have some tanning and, but for small stains at pp35-37, all the rest of the pages..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. [c.1875?]. Dalziel. Hardcover. [iv], 119pp, [5] adverts. With a colour frontis by Dalziel and monochrome illustrations in the text. At some time the book was given paper covers, and where these were folded in they have tanned the endpapers. Contemporary birthday gift inscription to..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1967. first edition. Hardcover. 191pp. Pages fresh and immaculate, no marks. In the original brown cloth-textured binding, spine titled silver on black. Firm, corners sharp, head of spine rounded, dark mark half way up spine, and three small spots to upper board. In the protected unclipped pictorial..... More
London: Herbert Jenkins, n.d. [c.1940]. Fourth printing (stated). Hardcover. 312pp + [8] advert pages. Pages firm, bright and clean: no inscriptions or marks. A wartime publication: the publishers' advertisements for other books by Plum include two which were published in 1940: so this printing must come between those and his..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1967. Reprint (first published 1965). Hardcover. 204pp. Would be a reasonable, jacketed, ex-library copy of this rare title, but that it has suffered some localised abuse. The library marks to the front pastedown and the copyright page are few and light, although the number stamp shows..... More
![The Valley Mill; or, Truth Will Out. [aka: The Mill in the Valley]. C E. M., Frank Dadd](/pictures/thumb/18852202.jpg?v=1647443198)
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge / SPCK / S.P.C.K., n.d. [1885]. hardcover. 222pp, +4 publisher's ads. With a guarded frontis and two other plates. Decorative blue endpapers: front endpaper and half title neatly removed. Sections with original rusted staples visible at some gutter openings. Pages clean and firm, with..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 222pp. Fine copy, clean, fresh and unmarked. Bookseller's miniature label to pastedown under jacket flap. In the original orange cloth, spine titled gilt: fresh, bright and sharp, without blemish. In the protected unclipped dust jacket. This has some minimal signs of handling..... More
London: Cape, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 189pp. Contents clean and unmarked - but for a small faint stain to the inner margin at p154-5. In the original binding of dark pink textured boards, corners sharp; spine slightly faded, and with a pale edge at the foot, and a pale patch..... More
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: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. 279pp. A very fresh copy which has been kept in a glass-fronted book case. Pages bright and clean, like new. No inscriptions or marks, Foyles miniature bookseller's label to pastedown. In the original binding of red cloth, spine titled in black, bright..... 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
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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, [1931]. Fourteenth printing. Hardcover. 320pp. Contents clean and unmarked, with faint toning to pages. In the Jenkins orange cloth titled black, unmarked, bright and fresh, corners sharp, rear lower corner having a tiny indentation and, the foot of spine having been snagged, it is faintly puckered and..... More
London: Herbert Jenkins, [c.1931-32]. Thirteenth printing. Hardcover. 313, [6]ads. Contents startlingly fresh and clean, like new. In the 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, grey..... 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
![Evasion. [Les Faux-Fuyants]. Francoise Sagan, Elfreda Powell](/pictures/thumb/19931040.jpg?v=1632676039)
Sutton, Surrey: Severn House Publishers, by arrangement with Alison & Busby, 1993. First English language edition. Hardcover. [vi], 201pp. Contents very clean, with some yellowing to page borders. In the original cloth-textured binding, spine titled in gilt, clean, firm and bright, corners sharp. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket..... 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
Dublin: M.H.Gill and Son, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. [iii]-xiv, 722. Fiction, set in the late 18th century, preceded by an historical Introduction to set the scene. Contents clean and firm, with faint toning to edges. No half-title, new endpapers, top edge tinted. c.19x12cms, recently rebacked, with the original firm but..... More
