London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1901.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.

A seemingly extremely rare collection of 'barrack room' short stories, some with supernatural content. Only four copies recorded in institutional holdings (all in the UK), and no records found at auction. An introductory note from the author reads:

"The following stories are chiefly based upon incidents and experiences connected with a rather lengthened professional career. It is hoped that the book may serve to enliven a dull hour, and may perhaps also enhance the widespread interest recently revived in all phases of military life. Some of the stories have already appeared in The United Service Magazine and The Church Monthly."

London, Orbit, 1998.

First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on title-page. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.

An "attempt to write a Culture novel that wasn't", from the author of Consider Phlebas and (as Iain Banks) The Wasp Factory.

London, Macmillan, 1987.

First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on title-page. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.

The first of Banks' Culture novels, Consider Phlebas launched the 'Culture' series of space operas for which he is best known today, in sci-fi circles at least, not least for the integration of sentient machines with humans and other organic lifeforms.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1969.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.

Gysin was a painter and composer who collaborated with Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs on many occasions. The Process was his first full-length novel.

London, Phoenix House, 1950.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.

A novel about a man who has returned to the coal seams of Durham after a period spent away seeking education. The novel provided the inspiration for Alan Plater and Alex Glasgow's musical Close the Coalhouse Door.

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1961.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.

The first edition of Chaplin's most famous work, considered a classic of 'working class existentialism', set in Newcastle upon Tyne at the very beginning of the 1960s.

London, Ward, Lock, 1899.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.

A collection of short detective and mystery stories by one of the most prolific crime writers of the late Victorian period.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1940.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.

A prolific playwright, drama critic and author active in English literary circles from around 1910. This ghost story is one of the author's few dalliances with the supernatural.

London, Collins Crime Club, 1945.

First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, unpriced suggesting intended for export.

An attractive edition of this later title by "the American Agatha Christie."

A story of Gallipoli
London, Jarrolds, [c.1930].

First edition, early impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Early (?third) issue dust-jacket, priced 3/6.

A first-hand fictionalised account of the Gallipoli campaign, of considerable interest to military historians and collectors of WWI literature.

with an Introductory Dialogue...
London, Bulmer for J.Bell, 1801.

First edition. 8vo. Advertisement page. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rebacked in cloth preserving contemporary leather backstrip.

A delightfully macabre work, originally assumed to be by Matthew Gregory "Monk" Lewis but now assumed to be a parody. "The book is gruesome and in its illustrations even disgusting and it seems impossible that Lewis could have had anything to do with it. Some of the ballads are too coarse and grotesque to stand comparison with any work by M.G.Lewis." Montague Summers, A Gothic Bibliography.

A Gothic Story London, for Charles Dilly, 1780.Second edition. 8vo. Contemporary calf, rebacked in modern calf.One of the foundational texts of the Gothic novel. First published in 1777 as The Champion of Virtue, retitled for this 'second edition'. Reeve noted in the 1778 preface that "This Story is the literary offspring of The Castle of Otranto, written upon the same plan, with a design to unite the most attractive and interesting circumstances of the ancient Romance and modern Novel, at the same time it assumes a character and manner of its own, that differs from both; it is distinguished by the appellation of a Gothic Story, being a picture of Gothic times and manners." Rare.