London, Raphael Tuck, [c.1906].

No. 6256. 4to. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards.

An attractive edition of this insight into the mind of Louis Wain, who recently enjoyed a cinematic representation courtesy of Benedict Cumberbatch, in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain.

...With a Chapter by Major B. Baden-Powell
London, "The Car Illustrated", 1907.

First edition. 8vo. Original sage pictorial cloth, priced 1/6.

Charting the evolution of aviation from the Montgolfier brothers' inaugural 1783 balloon flight through the era of airships and early powered aircraft, spotlighting pioneers like the Wright brothers and examining aviation's societal impact.

London, Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1935.

First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered & ruled in gilt. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.

A mock-heroic autobiography addressed to the author's son, recounting tales of adventure and derring-do in post-War Russia and Eastern Europe.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1940.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original grey cloth.

Macabre murder mystery by one of the great Golden Age authors, uncommon.

London, F.V. White, 1909.

First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth lettered in black.

A horror novel focussed on the ambiguous figure of Pan, by a prolific husband & wife team of authors.

London, Gollancz, 1931.

First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in orange to spine.

Sayers' sixth work featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, published in the US as Suspicious Characters. Murder among a community of artists in Galloway, Scotland.

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1932.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original grey cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.

The Count was a member of the ancient Sforza dynasty, descendant from a branch of the Dukes of Milan, and related to the Pallavicini family as well as other Italian families such as the Medici and Orsini.

London, Cassell, 1926.

First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth blocked in red. Later issue jacket, priced 3/6.

An uncommonly good jacket, albeit not first issue, on this highly collectable Father Brown first edition: Father Brown 'unravels the tangled skein of crime with entire success, and does it with convincing common-sense logic'.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1940.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 4/-.

Excellent jacket artwork, especially for dog lovers.

London, John Long, 1935.

First edition. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Advertisements dated Summer 1935 at rear. Original dark cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

Attractive first edition, inscribed by the author 'To Nelly "Kelly" Boyce from Andrew Soutar 1935'.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1965.

First edition. 8vo. Original orange boards. Dust-jacket.

Biggles has dinner with old enemy, and now friend, Erich von Stalhein, who asks him if he ever wonders what happened to Marie Janis, a young girl Biggles fell in love with during the First World War.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1981.

First edition. 8vo. Original pale brown boards. Dust-jacket, priced £6.50.

An attractive first edition of this ecological disaster/post-apocalyptic novel from Ballard.