London: Newnes, 1892 & 1893. First editions. Hardcover. A very good run in the original blue pictorial cloth over bevelled boards: bindings clean and firm, spine ends puckered, gilt spine titles a little rubbed. There is occasional light foxing to the pages of Vols IV-VI. Vol III, unusually, has no... More
London: George Newnes Ltd, 1895. Forty-first thousand. Hardcover. [vi], 343pp. Original pale green craquelure-patterned endpapers. Contents clean: foxing to prelims. Early ownership name rubber-stamped to front free endpaper, partially offset to pastedown. Stained inner hinges professionally repaired with Japanese tissue. In the original smooth blue cloth titled in gilt and... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. [vi], 206, (ii), [8]. Neat early ownership name to front pastedown. Endpapers faintly tanned. Some foxing to prelims, and to adverts at back. Text very clean though spotting to the text block edges encroaches a little (c.2mm). In the original binding of... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [1920]. First edition. Hardcover. 320pp. Contents clean, with some fore-edge foxing and a few spots in text. Original binding of bright red cloth boldly lettered in black. Clean, firm, bright copy. Scarce Secret Service novel, involving the use of currency destabilization as a weapon. More
London: The Crime Club Ltd, by Wm. Collins Sons, 1934. First edition thus. Ex-Library copy. Over a thousand pages, well-printed, on good paper - and clean, except for about 20 which have either idle ink marks (mostly in the margins), a library stamp to the corner, some minor soil mark... More
London: Gollancz, 1935. First 2/6 edition. Hardcover. 285pp. 1935 ownership name to front endpaper. Contents very clean, with slight toning, and slight nose from the ageing fibre. In original binding of red cloth, titled in black: boards bright and clean, corners good, some fading to the spine. A very nice early copy. More
London: Penguin Books, 1935. First Penguin printing. Hardcover. Lacking original green and white covers! In very basic DIY red cloth boards supplied by Penguin for self-binding, with hand-written spine title in gilt. However, the text block has benefited from the protection: it is nice and square, and the contents are... More
London: Gollancz, 1937. Second impression before publication. Hardcover. 446pp, [1]. First owner's name to front endpaper. Contents fine: fresh and clean. In the original binding of black cloth, rubbed, spine titling largely eroded. Fraying at heads of joints, small snag at foot of spine, and tips of corners slightly blunted... More
![The Brontës went to Woolworth's [The Brontes went to Woolworths]. Penguin #245. Rachel Ferguson.](/pictures/thumb/19401105.jpg?v=1542314859)
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1940. First Penguin printing. Paperback. 182pp +[10] adverts. Very good copy in dustjacket. Pages slightly toned but otherwise clean and unmarked and intact only with foxing to inner surface of covers. In smart orange-and-white penguin livery, moderate foxing apparent to white areas, otherwise bright and clean, with... More
London: The Crime Club / Collins, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. 192pp. 1945 gift inscription to front pastedown. Small stain to base of gutter throughout book. One or two small spots elsewhere, contents otherwise very good. In the original binding of red cloth, spine titled in black. Firm, slightly bumped, and rather soiled. More
London: Heinemann, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. [iv], 246pp. Contents very clean. Free endpapers tanned. In the original binding of bottle-green cloth, spine titled in gilt, clean, bright and firm, corners sharp. Very nice copy. More
![Ladies' Bane. [Inscribed copy]. Patricia Wentworth.](/pictures/thumb/19546030.jpg?v=1542314887)
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 256pp. Front free endpaper inscribed diagonally in biro: 'C. Percival. / Xmas. 1954. / Patricia Wentworth', starting at the top left and finishing at bottom right of the page. Contents clean. Endpapers tanned, prelims have a couple of faint foxing spots, and... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 189pp. Contents very fresh and clean. In the original blue cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean and bright, corners sharp, spine ends slightly blunted. In the protected unclipped dust jacket, very fresh, clean and bright to the pictorial front and the spine... More
London: Macmillan, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 222pp. Unread copy from storage. Contents pristine. Pale foxing to closed edges. In the original brown cloth-textured binding titled in black, clean and bright, corners sharp. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, very fresh, with a 1cm closed tear to head of upper... More
London: Cassell, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Mint unread copy emerging for the first time from a contemporary Cassell's box. 172pp. In the original black cloth-textured binding titled in silver, sharp and fresh, in new condition. In the unclipped pictorial dust jacket, crisp and immaculate, with faint age-related variegation to the... More
![The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection. [Whose Body?, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, The Five Red Herrings, The Nine Tailors.]. Dorothy L. Sayers.](/pictures/thumb/19908090.jpg?v=1542314976)
London: Octopus Books, 1990. Hardcover. 709pp. Appears unread. Pages very clean and unmarked, but slightly tanned. In the original light blue pictorial boards: very bright and clean, corners sharp: red spine title slightly faded. Very nice copy of an uncommon edition. More
![Amorous Leander. A Superintendent Gently suspense novel. [signed copy]. Alan Hunter.](/pictures/thumb/19839012.jpg?v=1549304883)
London: Constable Crime, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 175pp. Contents very clean. Signed by Hunter to the front endpaper. In the original black cloth-textured binding titled in silver, clean, firm and bright, corners sharp. In the unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Lovely fresh copy. More
