Modern Literature
London, John Lehmann, 1951.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, with publisher's promotional belly-band.
The second novel by the author of the novella Cheerful Weather for the Wedding.
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Modern Literature
Viewed from Three Angles
London, Heinemann, 1933.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
Comprising a prologue, three books and an epilogue. The three books have no direct connection with each other, but instead form three separate short novels with a common theme.
Modern Literature
Edinburgh & London, Blackwood, 1906.
First edition, second impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine.
Published when Forster was only 26 years old, Where Angels Fear to Tread immediately established the author as a writer of note and its central theme, of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the English middle class, one that would preoccupy him for much of his career.
Modern Literature
London, John Murray, [1960].
First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
Attractive first edition of the author' second book, inscribed 'Francis from Julian March 1960'. The Francis in question is probably Francis Wyndham, a contemporary English author.
Modern Literature
London, Anthony Blond, 1966.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original dark rust boards. Dust-jacket, priced 25/-.
The playwright's first published book, by which he thought he would make his name. However, success was limited, with low sales. The author used to refer to it as a bestseller in Venezuela...
Modern Literature
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1916.
First US edition, first printing. 8vo. Original blue cloth with printed title label to spine. Dust-jacket.
The first US edition of the first book in the author's 'Pilgrimage' series, including an introduction by J.D. Beresford. The author was an important innovator in the use of "stream-of-consciousness" and is increasingly viewed now as a key figure in literary modernism. Scarce in the jacket.
Modern Literature
London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1958.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 15s.
An excellent association copy of the debut novel by Kops, a dramatist, memoirist, poet and novelist whose work often focussed on the East End of London and its Jewish community. The author's amusing and affectionate full-page inscription is to the highly influential and well-regarded publisher, and occasional essayist, Tom Maschler, written at the end of his relatively short tenure at MacGibbon & Kee. Maschler would go on to become head of Jonathan Cape for many years, and was one of the key founders of the Booker Prize.
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, 1966.
First edition. 8vo. Original black boards lettered in orange to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 25s.
An early novel by prolific Guiana-born author Nicole, set in British Guiana between 1936 and 1950.
Modern Literature
A Dream Story
London, Longmans, Green, 1911.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original red pictorial cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket, with 2/6 price label to spine.
One of the Allan Quartermain creator's more existential works, scarce in the original jacket.
Modern Literature
A Romance of the Shallows
Garden City/New York, Doubleday, Page, 1920.
First US edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth blocked and lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced $2.
Attractive first US edition of Conrad's last volume in the unofficial Lingard Trilogy, a group of novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer Vidar.
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Modern Literature
London, Heinemann, [1937].
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket.
Australian historical romance, made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1949.
Modern Literature
London, Cassell, 1916.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth, blind-tooled to upper cover and lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket.
Well's account of the personal and societal changes experienced by a writer and his family in Essex during the First World War; uncommon in the original dust-jacket.
Modern Literature
London, Constable, 1947.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 9/6.
Very good first edition of this novel set in 1943 in the fictional town of Thames Lockdon (based on Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire).
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Modern Literature
Viewed from Three Angles
London, Heinemann, 1933.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
Comprising a prologue, three books and an epilogue. The three books have no direct connection with each other, but instead form three separate short novels with a common theme.
Modern Literature
With foreword by Lord Beaverbrook
London & Edinburgh, Chambers, 1920.
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket.
The first novel by journalist and politician Beverley Baxter (1891-1964).
Modern Literature
London, John Murray, 1959.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange boards. Dust-jacket.
Attractive first edition of this the only novel by the renowned Scottish sceenwriter Tory Martin Kennedy, famously creator of Z-Cars, and script writer for such films as The Italian Job and Kelly's Heroes.
Modern Literature
London, Heinemann, 1922.
First combined edition. 8vo. Original green cloth lettered and with device in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
The first combined edition of Galsworthy's series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921.
Modern Literature
London, Houghton Publishing Co., 1932.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth ruled and lettered in white. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
"The Author of this book, inspired by a high purpose, has chosen an allegorical form. It is not a story of goblins and fairies, as one might suppose, and the meaning of the allegory stands out revealed by the incidents." (jacket blurb)
Modern Literature
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1927.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
The first edition of Buchan's Scottish masterpiece, including a significant portion of the dialogue in Scots. Scarce in the dust-jacket.
Modern Literature
Selected Poems 1920 - 1947
London, Macmillan, 1949.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 15s.
"For my darling Evelyn with best love from Edith", possibly Evelyn Waugh with whom she was well acquainted (she asked him to be her godfather when she converted to Catholicism in 1955); it could however also be her close friend Evelyn Wiel, with whom she stayed in France prior to the Second World War.
Modern Literature
London, Chatto & Windus, 1929.
First edition. 8vo. Original marbled boards. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
The third novel by the author of Kingdoms of Elfin.
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, [1923].
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A lovely copy of this exercise in literary biography.
Modern Literature
London, Mills & Boon, 1934.
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Attractive jacket artwork on this Mills & Boon title.
Modern Literature
London, John Miles, 1934.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Attractive jacket artwork on this charming thirties title.
A Tale of London and Paris
London, T. Werner Laurie, [1909].
First edition, early printing. 8vo. Original blue pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-.
A rare jacket on this title by a prolific English actress and writer, who wrote many novels under this stage name.
Modern Literature
London, Secker & Warburg, 1945.
First edition thus. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
The first edition published by Secker & Warburg - the first UK edition was published by Gollancz in 1937.
Modern Literature
London, Alston Rivers, 1928.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
A vividly depicted account of peasant and farm life on the Isle of Man.
Modern Literature
London, Cecil Palmer, 1930.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A great jacket on this tale of a newly-wed couple who decide to take on the role of coffee planters in India's Mysore district.
Modern Literature
London, Nisbet, 1928.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
"...the story of a master at a big public school, the current of whose life is completely changed by contact with a book, a woman, and a philosopher" (jacket blurb). The author's last novel.
Modern Literature
London, Duckworth, 1950.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 15s.
A novel noted for its rich character development and thought-provoking discourse on what it means to be human, making it a significant contribution to the literary landscape of its time, albeit by a writer better known as a Nazi propagandist...
Modern Literature
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1946.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
"This novel has a strong, ingenious plot, sparkling characterisation and, above all, that irresistible sense of humour which has now made Sydney Horler famous as a comedian in print." (jacket blurb)
Modern Literature
London, Lawrence & Wishart, 1957.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original red boards lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 10s 6d.
The second novel by Doherty, following on from the success of the author's first book, A Miner's Son. A man trapped in a coal-mine reflects deeply on his own life.
Modern Literature
London, Lovat Dickson, 1935.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original green cloth with black spine label. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
Oil and the Tropics provide the backdrop for this uncommon title.
Modern Literature
A Romance from Shakespeare's Play
London, Alston Rivers, 1930.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
A respectful retelling of Shakespeare's play, drawing upon old Scandinavian accounts and sources.
Modern Literature
London, Jonathan Cape, 1926.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
The Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1927; the third installment in a series of four novels called 'Escape'.
Modern Literature
London, Andre Deutsch, 1959.
First UK edition. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, 10s6d.
First UK edition of the author's first book, winner of a Literary Fellowship Award.
Modern Literature
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1935.
First edition, 'Colonial Issue'. 8vo. Original off-white cloth stamped in black. Dust-jacket, with 'Herbert Jenkins' Colonial Library' to spine.
A very good first edition from Wodehouse's most famous non 'Jeeves & Wooster' series, a whimsical romp through the idyllic, yet frequently chaotic, life of the eccentric inhabitants of Blandings Castle. Lord Emsworth, the loveable and scatterbrained master of the castle, deals with a series of comedic mishaps, from his overwhelming obsession with his prize pig, the Empress, to the endless parade of quirky relatives, sly imposters and romantic entanglements.
Modern Literature
A Novel
London, Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, n.d. [c.1925].
8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
An attractive edition of this popular classic, which courted some controversy for its portrayal of sexual exploitation as a means to love.
Modern Literature
London, Leonard Parsons, 1925.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth ruled in pale green. Dust-jacket.
Set in the ethnically mixed Bohemian borderlands, Here Are Dragons tells the story of the inhabitants of a few small villages and their reactions to Czechoslovak independence. Scarce in the jacket.
Modern Literature
London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1957.
First edition. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 15s.
Short stories by the highly respected West Indian author Selvon, author of The Lonely Londoners. A hard book to find in the jacket.
Modern Literature
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'.
Modern Literature
London, Collins, [1927].
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A modern reworking of the Arabian Nights by popular Irish author Tynan - scarce in the jacket.