3 issues, comprising: Vol.6, No.10 May 1947; Vol.7 No.10 July 1948; July-August 1949
London, Our Times Publications, 1947-49.

3 issues. 4to. Original pictorial wrappers.

Three issues of this left-wing periodical, designed to bring art and culture to the common man. These were the only issues to feature cover artwork by the illustrator & artist John Minton, including an illustration from his work based on the quays and wharves around Southwark and Bankside and another entitled 'Jam Session', reflecting Minton's own interest in Jazz music. Uncommon.

A thrilling romance of the East and the Antipodes
London, Arthur H. Stockwell, 1935.

First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

An uncommon romantic thriller, by an obscure imprint often associated with vanity publications (i.e. self-funded by the author and similar).

Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir
London, Martin Secker, 1930.

First edition in English. 8vo.. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.

This stands as the first English translation of any of Kafka's works, appearing some seven years before English editions of either The Trial or The Metamorphosis, which makes it considerably the rarer book.

The Castle was first published in German in 1926. It is the longest and last of Franz Kafka's novels (1883-1924), begun in the final two years of his life and left unfinished at his death. The novel works a quiet transformation on the medieval grail narrative, substituting the quest for the grail with its protagonist's dreamlike struggle against a remote and impenetrable bureaucracy - the kind Kafka had encountered at first hand in the unsettled years following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy. What Kafka intended the novel to mean has never been satisfactorily resolved; this first English edition inclines toward the text's religious symbolism, with the repeated and frustrated attempts to reach the castle read by some critics as an allegory of the search for salvation, rather than emphasising the partially autobiographical strand that led Kafka to begin the book in the first person.

The translation is made from the first German edition, incorporating the posthumous revisions of Kafka's friend and literary executor Max Brod, who prepared the manuscript for publication.

The book was banned in Germany between 1933 and 1945 under the National Socialist regime.

London, Heinemann, 1964.

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

Set during the Mau Mau Uprising of the 1950s, the novel centres on the interactions between British colonists in Kenya and the Kikuyu people, following a young boy's coming of age against the backdrop of the struggle for independence. James Ngugi (born 1938) later adopted the name Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and became the pre-eminent East African novelist of his generation; Weep Not, Child was the first major English novel published by an East African, and the first to deal with the Mau Mau guerrilla war from an African point of view. It was published in the Heinemann African Writers Series, which was launched with Chinua Achebe as its first advisory editor.

London, Wright & Brown, 1961.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.

Hubin-listed spy thriller.

and The Extraction of Confession
London, Hurst & Blackett, 1951.

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

A descriptive study of the Russian purges of 1936–39 drawn from numerous personal experiences by a Soviet historian and a German scientist writing under pseudonyms, outlining the anatomy of the purge process including methods of selecting victims, securing denunciations, fabricating charges, and extracting confessions. The authors were Fritz Houtermans, a German physicist who had fled to the USSR and been imprisoned by the NKVD, and Konstantin Shteppa, a Kiev University historian who had been Houtermans's cellmate; they used pseudonyms to protect their friends and colleagues still in the USSR.

"Horne worked as a foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph from 1952 to 1955, stationed in Berlin. In 1953, he was recruited by MI6 and used his job as a journalist as a cover for his spying. He left the world of espionage for history when he was sacked from the Telegraph in 1955, allegedly for offending the wife of the chairman of the newspaper". (Wikipedia)

New York, George H. Doran, 1927.

First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced $2.

Concordia Merrel (1885–1962) was a British stage and silent film actress, photographer's model, and prolific author of romantic fiction.

London, John Hamilton, [1938].

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, rather clumsily price-clipped to front inside flap.

Serial character Inspector Jackson of Scotland Yard ranges from London to Liverpool in this complicated crime caper.

London, Hutchinson, [1942].

First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author, inscribed on title-page. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.

An attractive example of this collection of Wheatley's short stories, uncommon in the dust-jacket. This copy has been inscribed by the author to prolific autograph collector and hotelier Eileen Cond (1911-84).

London, Ward, Lock, 1936.

First edition, first impression. Signed & dated by the author on title-page. 8vo. Original cloth.

An early work by the Poldark author, signed and dated 1939.

Stepdaughters of War
London, Albert E. Marriott, 1930.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-.

Originally commissioned to parody Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1928), this spirited and somewhat brutalising account of the First World War instead became a serious, harrowing novel, in part based on the (now lost) diaries of Winifred Young, who served in France during the war as an ambulance driver. Uncommon.

London, Lutterworth Press, 1959.First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.An account of Attenborough's animal-collecting expedition to Paraguay as part of the BBC's Zoo Quest television series (1954–1964), the fourth volume in the Zoo Quest sequence.