T. Fisher Unwin

    Somerset Maugham, The Making of a Saint, first UK edition, 1898

    Victorian Literature

    Maugham (W. Somerset) The Making of a Saint

    £225



    London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1898.

    First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Title printed in red & black. Original cloth, recased.

    Somerset Maugham's second book, a historical romance set in late-15th-century Italy, narrating how Filippo Brandolini comes to be venerated as a saint after a conspicuously unsaintly life. One of 2,000 copies (Stott A2).

    W. Holt-White, Helen of all Time, first edition, 1910

    Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Holt-White (W.) Helen of all Time

    £200



    London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1910.

    First edition. 8vo. Title printed in red & black. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt with inset colour illustration to upper cover.

    "Helen of All Time (1910) rather remarkably compresses into one volume an advanced Airship and a Reincarnated Helen of Troy." (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction)

    Standish O'Grady, The Chain of Gold, first edition, 1895

    Victorian Literature

    O’Grady (Standish) The Chain of Gold

    £95



    London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1895.

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

    1895 juvenile novel concerning shipwrecked castaways on the wild west coast of Ireland.

    Jessica Sykes, Sidelights on the War in South Africa, first edition, 1900

    War, Invasion & Spy

    Sykes (Jessica) Sidelights on the War in South Africa

    £125



    London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1900.

    First edition. 8vo. Original tricolore cloth.

    Being sketches based on personal observation during a few weeks' residence in Cape Colony.

    E.T. Raymond, All and Sundry, first edition, 1919

    Biography

    Raymond (E.T.) All and Sundry:

    £125


    more uncensored celebrities
    London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1919.

    First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.

    A stunning, sharp example of this 1919 publication, by the editor of John Bull magazine and wrote a number of biographies of British political figures and celebrities.

    Robert W. Service, House of Fear, first edition, 1927

    Weird & Supernatural

    Service (Robert W.) House of Fear

    £350



    London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1927.

    First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket.

    A remarkably scarce and obscure weird-mystery thriller by Scottish-Canadian 'Bard of the Yukon'. Unfortunately the jacket would appear to have resided on a bookshelf in the House of Fear for a tad too long due to its traumatised condition, but rare nevertheless!

    Bruce Graeme, Blackshirt, first edition, [1925]

    Detective Fiction

    Graeme (Bruce, pseud. Graham Montague Jeffries) Blackshirt

    £750



    London, T. Fisher Unwin, [1925].

    First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in red. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 3/6.

    The notoriously difficult first edition of the first book in the Blackshirt series, by a founding member of the Crime Writer's Association. Despite the chipping, the upper panel with its wonderful artwork is intact.