Methuselah’s Children.
First edition, first printing, secondary binding and second state dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. (The first issue was bound in black cloth, and had the publisher's street address,...
View ArticleStrangers and Brothers.
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To my dear friend Erin Gillett who was exceptionally kind to me when I was utterly unknown, CPS, 19. ii - 45". The...
View ArticleEmergency Mouse.
First edition, second impression. With an original red and black ink drawing of a mouse by Steadman to the dedication page, signed and dated Christmas 2001 on the title page in black, red and blue ink....
View ArticleThe Wind in the Willows.
Tall octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, pictorial onlay to front board, twin rule to...
View ArticleDie organische Chemie
First edition, in contemporary boards and with no library markings, of one of the key scientific texts of the 19th century. "In 1840 [Liebig] asserted with his customary passionate conviction that only...
View ArticleThe Soldier’s Art. A Novel.
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "K. S. Genigson[?] is confirmed in possession of this book. Anthony Powell, Sept 1966", and additionally signed by...
View ArticleDown the Fairway.
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and centre tool to spine gilt, raised bands, multiple fillets to boards gilt, gilt vignette to front board, inner dentelles...
View ArticleOne Hundred Chess Problems,
Octavo (179 116 mm). Publisher’s deluxe dark green full calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, sides bordered with gilt and blind rules, titles gilt-blocked to front board, gilt-rolled...
View ArticleWestern India before and during the Mutinies: Pictures drawn from Life.
Second edition, one year after the first, fairly uncommon, just 9 locations for this, and two for the first on Copac. This copy inscribed on the half-title: "To Sir Henry Rodes Green KL.C.S.I and C.B....
View ArticleA Writer’s Diary.
Octavo. Original orange cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge orange. With the dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. Faint ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine slightly rolled and a...
View ArticleA Maggot.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. An excellent copy in a bright price-clipped jacket with light spotting to flaps and verso. The post A Maggot....
View ArticleA Weekend with Claud.
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Philip Murray, best wishes, Beryl Bainbridge, Camden Town 1989". Laid in are one autograph letter signed, one typed...
View ArticleMaigret Takes the Waters.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Small ownership signature to front free endpaper erased with correcting fluid. Edges of text block a little spotted....
View ArticleO Providence.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge red. With the pictorial dust jacket. Spotting to edges of text block. An excellent copy in a slightly spotted jacket with a few short closed...
View ArticleSchindler’s Ark.
First UK edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the title page to book collector Dr Philip Murray: "Best wishes to Dr Murray of Sligo, Tom Keneally, 1983". Originally published in...
View ArticleBoxing.
First edition. This copy inscribed on the half-title: "With the Author's Compts. to the Committee of the Oxford & Camb. Club, Jan. 10th 1890", and with their bookplate to the front pastedown, and...
View ArticleThe Island of Captain Sparrow.
Octavo. Original blue-grey cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the illustrated dust jacket. Spine and edges of boards discoloured, spine ends bumped, edges slightly tanned, endpapers lightly browned. A...
View ArticlePilgrims.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer. Bookplate to front pastedown. Boards slightly bowed, tips somewhat bumped, edges and endpapers...
View ArticleThe Second World War.
Printed Proofs Volume I, The Gathering Storm. “New Edition.” Note in C. C. Wood’s hand tipped to front wrapper: “Copy from which the New Edition was set up. 3/1/50.” Octavo, unbound proof, 640pp....
View ArticleThe Waves.
First trade edition, first impression. A superb presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the secretary and clerk at the Hogarth Press on the front free endpaper, "Peggy Belsher, with thanks for...
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