Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Jonathan Cape, 1970.
First UK edition (following the cancelled the US edition of the same year). 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced £1.05.
Ballard's experimental novel, comprising a series of interlinked stories or chapters. The book was going to be published first in the USA, but publishers Doubleday & Company had the print-run destroyed due to fear of legal action from some of the celebrities depicted therein.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Jonathan Cape, 1963.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards with black 'rubber stamp' to upper cover. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A very good first edition of the second 'Harry Palmer' spy novel (although the character is never named in the books), that began with The IPCRESS File (1962).
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original plain black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 18s. A very decent first edition of the last full-length James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, in the plain second state boards. Under the heat of the Caribbean sun, Bond faces a seemingly impossible task: win a duel against Scaramanga, the Man with the Golden Gun, and regain M's trust.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Jonathan Cape, 1963.
First edition. Small 4to. Original cloth-backed boards. Dust-jacket, priced 30s.
An attractive first edition of Bond-creator Fleming's adventure-charged visit to the world's most exciting, exotic and sinful cities. Includes snapshots of Hong Kong, Tokyo, Honolulu, Las Vegas, New York and Monte Carlo.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Jonathan Cape, 1962.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 21s.
First UK edition of Heller's famous satirical war novel, the title referring to an inherent vicious circle that ensures the story's airmen cannot escape their duty even if they are mentally unfit to fly.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Jonathan Cape, 1935.
First trade edition. Small 4to. Original brown buckram. Dust-jacket.
The first trade edition of Lawrence's famous account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War alongside general Middle Eastern and military history, politics, adventure and drama. A unique portrait of this extraordinary man and an insight into the birth of the Arab nation.
Modern Literature
London, Jonathan Cape, 1971.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original dark brown boards. Dust-jacket, priced £1.50.
Marquez's mesmerising collection of short stories depicting the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and the outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys.
African literature
London, Jonathan Cape, 1948.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 9s6d.
Paton's searing indictment of South African society, published on the eve of the South African government formally institutionalising apartheid, one of the best-known and most acclaimed works in South African literature.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
and Other Stories
London, Jonathan Cape, 1976.
First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, priced £3.50.
An attractive, albeit ex-library, copy of this important collection of Ballard stories, in the distinctive wrap-around Bill Botten jacket.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Jonathan Cape, 1965.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original plain black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 18s.
A very decent first edition of the last full-length James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, in the plain second state boards. Under the heat of the Caribbean sun, Bond faces a seemingly impossible task: win a duel against Scaramanga, the Man with the Golden Gun, and regain M's trust.
Modern Literature
A self-portrait in Ideas
London, Jonathan Cape, 1965.
First edition. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 30s.
Fowles' "self-portrait in ideas", in which he tries to represent the necessity of the individual not to conform. Published on the heels of his success with The Collector.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Jonathan Cape, 1930.
First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Lovely jacket artwork graces this intriguing tale of drastically accelerated evolution; winner of a £1000 literary prize at the time.
Modern Literature
A Romantic Novel in Honour of the Passing of a Great Race
London, Jonathan Cape, 1933.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5s.
The first UK edition of Hemingway's first long work, a satirical treatment of pretentious writers; here with an introduction by David Garnett.
Modern Literature
London, Jonathan Cape, 1934.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, price obscured by ink.
Hemingway's third collection of stories, six of which are first appearances.
Children's Books
The Story of a Boy...with an introduction by E.V. Lucas
London, Jonathan Cape, 1932.
First illustrated edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Jefferies' famous "story of a boy", illustrated for the first time by Pooh illustrator E.H. Shepard; uncommon in the original dust-jacket. Accompanied by original printed prospectus.
Detective Fiction
London, Jonathan Cape, 1956.
First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 13s.6d.
A very good first edition of this murder mystery, featuring series character Miss Hogg and her faithful chum Milly Brown, and a lost manuscript by Emily Brontë... Austin Lee was a prolific author, also writing under the pseudonyms John Austwick and Julian Callender.
Modern Literature
London, Jonathan Cape, 1970.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, priced 35s/£1.75.
A very nice first UK edition of this famous multi-generational story by Colombian writer and Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, published three years after the South American edition.
Modern Literature
London, Jonathan Cape, 1929.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
An attractive first edition of this the second work by Irish writer and prominent Republican activist O'Donnell to be set in Donegal, recounting the misfortunes of a Cork family who all died of starvation in 1927.
Modern Literature
A Novel
London, Jonathan Cape, 1963.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 25s.
A very good first UK edition of Thomas Pynchon's first novel, a macabre twentieth century classic; uncommon in such condition.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Jonathan Cape, 1929.
First edition. 8vo. Original dark pink cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Attractive art-deco style jacket artwork adorns this unusual tale about three people being brought back into British society after a life in the jungles and swamps of Borneo. Scarce.
Modern Literature
London, Jonathan Cape, 1930.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt at spine. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A tale of deprivation and adversity set near the mouth of the Thames. Scarce in jacket.
Horror & Gothic
London, Jonathan Cape, 1932.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2s.
Bringing together the ghost stories from the three earlier Philip Allan publications, but also featuring four new stories. Number 35 in Cape's Florin Books series.
Modern Literature
Wolfe (Tom) The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamlined-Baby
London, Jonathan Cape, 1966.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original pink boards. Dust-jacket, priced 30s.
The first UK edition of US journalist & author Tom Wolfe's collected essays, including articles on the counter-culture in America. This copy has a printed note from the publishers to the front free endpaper, apologising to the artist Bridget Riley for not obtaining her permission to base the jacket design on one of her artworks.