Caribbean Fiction
London, Michael Joseph, 1954.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 15s.
Uncommon in such near fine condition. A novel tracing the experiences of Caribbean migrants arriving in Britain, exploring themes of displacement, identity, and cultural alienation in post-war London. George Lamming was a central figure in Caribbean literature, and The Emigrants is one of his most important novels. Alongside In the Castle of My Skin, it is regarded as a key work in articulating the Windrush generation's experience.
Illustrated Books
A Fantasy
London, George G. Harrap, [1923].
First UK edition. 4to. Original parchment-backed grey paper covered boards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt.
One of 2,000 copies printed in Britain, from which 250 of which were sent to America. This is Timlin's only published work, but the quality of the illustrations rivals those of Dulac, Pogany, Nielsen & Rackham.
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[London], , Spring 1972.
Large 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.
The last issue in Winkfield's well-regarded poetry journal Juillard, which ran from 1968 to 1972. Uncommon.
Detective Fiction
London, George Newnes, September - November 1914.
Parts 1-3 (only, of 9) in The Strand magazine. 8vo. Without advertisements. Original pictorial wrappers.
The first three parts of the first appearance of the fourth & final Sherlock Holmes novel.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1935.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Publisher's compliments slip loosely inserted. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Spy thriller. An American Martin Fawley in Rome is recruited by Fascist Italy's spy chief General Berati to go undercover in a mission that takes him to Nice and Monte Carlo.
Detective Fiction
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1935.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Attractive jacket artwork graces this uncommon oriental thriller.
London, Arrowsmith, [1930].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 15/-.
A first-hand travel and adventure narrative recounting the author's time among Chinese pirate groups, illustrated with photographic plates.
Detective Fiction
New York, Dodd, Mead, 1929.
First US edition, first printing. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00.
A Dr Thorndyke forensic mystery in which apparently minor physical evidence proves crucial to solving a murder.
Modern Literature
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1925.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A tale of Californian fortunes made through mining and lost through high living. Attractive jacket artwork.
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, 1937.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original buckram with leather spine label. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
'Written partly as a diary and partly in novel form Thoruna tells the amusing and piquant story of Sir Reginald H - who was ordered by his doctor to take a holiday and decided to go on a trip to Sweden. By accident he met Thoruna, a bright young thing whose trustee he was and, much to his embarrassment, she decided to accompany him.' (jacket blurb)
Modern Literature
London, Jonathan Cape, 1976.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced £3.50.
Jeffrey Archer's first novel and the book that launched his career as a bestselling author. Its commercial success established the formula, slick plotting and high-stakes finance, that would dominate his later fiction.
Thriller Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1933.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price redacted from spine and inside front flap.
A tale of jade, jungles and justice, in an attractive jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, n.d..
Popular edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-.
Popular edition of this crime thriller.
Non-Fiction
The secret history of Rasputin's betrayal of Russia
London, Cassell, 1918.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-.
A sensational account purporting to reveal Rasputin's role in the downfall of Imperial Russia, presented as exposé rather than fiction.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Complete
London, Sampson Low, Marston, and Company, [1894/5].
'Author's Edition'. 8vo. Advertisements dated 1894. Original red cloth blocked in black & gilt.
Attractive edition of this adventure classic. Rare in such near-fine condition.
American Literature
New York & London, D. Appleton, 1928.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original blue cloth with printed title labels. Dust-jacket, priced $2.50.
'There is a delightful part of Paris that most foreigners never see... lts people are the truest citizens of Paris - the workmen, roustabouts, apaches and their girls, who drop into the cafes and little bars to chatter and make love and quarrel.' (jacket blurb)
London, Lectures Universal, [1936].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
A thoughtful and quietly radical exploration of psychical research by the Anglican clergyman and early paranormal investigator Rev. C. Drayton Thomas. Drawing on years of controlled experiments the book examines the possibility of survival after death with an unusually sober, empirical tone.
New York, Doubleday Doran, 1929.
First US edition, first printing. 8vo. Original red cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced $2.
The first US edition of this compilation; the primary title is about the discovery of a sunken city of Atlantis by a team of explorers, led by Professor Maracot.
Detective Fiction
Graeme (Bruce, pseud. Graham Montague Jeffries) Alias Blackshirt
London, Harrap, 1932.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
Blackshirt faces off against an impostor who the threatens his identity and freedom.
Children's Books
London, Heinemann, 1960.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
'Unexpected and exciting things are always happening to Rufty Tufty the Golliwog. When he and his friend Rose were taken to the seaside for the day they crept aboard one of the ships in the harbour to explore, and were carried out to sea. And so began a new adventure, on a desert island where they built a palm-leaf hut, found a treasure chest and a mysterious Enemy.' (jacket blurb)
Non-Fiction
London, Putnam, 1933.
8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
First published in the UK in 1909, this new edition was published in 1933; it added "the theme of collective defence." Angell was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933.
Modern Literature
Minton (John, artist).- Garnier (Christine) White People Smile at Me
London, Putnam, [1952].
Colour proof for the original dust-jacket, with 1 (of 4) loose sheets representing the 4-stage colour process (yellow, pink, green & black) used to create the design.
An attractive jacket design by the highly collectable British artist John Minton, for Garnier's novel about French West Africa.
Detective Fiction
New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1929.
First US edition, first printing. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, neatly clipped to corners of inside flaps (probably by publishers).
In this novel, Christie brings back the characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys: Lady Eileen (Bundle) Brent, Lord Caterham, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell and Superintendent Battle. The story of murder and criminal conspiracy was not overly well received by critics, but it remains highly collectable to Christie collectors.
Detective Fiction
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, n.d..
Grosset & Dunlap edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket.
Attractive edition of this classic Hercule Poirot mystery, set at a secluded seaside resort where the murder of a glamorous former actress exposes jealousy, deception and carefully constructed alibis.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1934.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
Widely regarded as one of Christie's masterpieces and a landmark of Golden Age crime fiction. Poirot investigates a murder aboard the famous international train stranded by snow, discovering that the crime is far more complex than it initially appears.
Detective Fiction
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, March 1933.
Grosset & Dunlap edition, second printing. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket.
A collection of short stories centred on Miss Marple, framed by meetings of the "Tuesday Night Club," where each member presents an unsolved mystery.
Detective Fiction
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, n.d..
Grosset & Dunlap edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket.
An attractive edition, published the same year as the trade first. A wartime thriller featuring Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, tasked with uncovering enemy agents operating in Britain during the Second World War.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1953.
8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6s.
A Poirot mystery centred on the murder of an American heiress aboard the luxury Blue Train travelling through France. The plot involves stolen jewels, mistaken identities, and romantic entanglements.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Robert Hale, 1959.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 12/6.
'Being four strange stories from the casebook of Dr. Miles Pennoyer, Psychic Doctor. Recorded by his friend and occasional assistant Jerome Latimer.'
Non-Fiction
London, The C.W. Daniel Company, 1936.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
Esmé Wynne-Tyson (1898-1972) was an English actress, writer and philosopher. A growing interest in religious and moral matters led her into non-fiction and journalism, sometimes in partnership with the writer J. D. Beresford. This work focuses on the World-Brotherhood Educational Movement and its belief in educating children in a culture of peace from a young age.
Biography
London, Jonathan Cape, 1931.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A survey of the historical and political changes in Russia during the first third of the 20th century.
London, Faber & Faber, 1940.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
Being a compilation of his allocutions, messages, broadcasts, addresses, and encyclicals since his accession to the Holy See, together with a biography and current precis by Charles Rankin of all his efforts for peace since 1917 when he handed to the Kaiser the peace plan of Pope Benedict XV.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1937..
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, neatly price-clipped to inside front-flap.
A cornerstone of crime fiction, in one of the great Christie jackets. Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.