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£150



London, Routledge for the Fabian Society, 1942.

First edition. 8vo. Original patterned boards, rebacked preserving original backstrip.

The fifth in a series of six lectures organised by the Fabian Society. Orwell was not happy that his own lecture, 'Culture and Democracy', had been included, writing in 1942: "I see that beside toning down several phrases I used you have gone all through my manuscript and altered every phrase which revealed that I was delivering a spoken lecture … it gives a quite false impression of my written style and makes me use phrases which I should never dream of using".

£750



London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., [1929].

First edition. 8vo. Original dark red cloth. Dust-jacket.

A collection of Farnol's shorter fiction, including the tale 'Black coffee' with it is Ancient Egyptian themes. A popular author for weird & supernatural anthologies. Scarce in the jacket. Stories featured:

The Shadow.--Captain Hector.--Retribution.--The heir.--Black coffee.--Upon a day.--A boy and the man.--An episode.--Jasper Railton.--The cupboard.--Fortune's fool.--A change of mind.--Journey's end.--The great quietude.--Sir Pertolepe the Red.--The divine Phyllidia.--A woman's reason.

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Fleming (Ian) Casino Royale

£125



London, Pan Books, 1955.

First reprint of the first paperback edition. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.

The first paperback edition of Fleming's first James Bond book, the blonde Bond adorning the cover seemingly anticipating Daniel Craig's eventual adoption of the role...

£275

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.

£50



London, Pan, 1967.

First Pan edition. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, priced 3/6.

Set apart from the other books in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, The Spy Who Loved Me is told from the perspective of a femme fatale in the making, Vivienne Michel.

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Fleming (Ian) Thrilling Cities

£195



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.

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Fleming (Ian) Thunderball

£50



London, Pan Books, 1963.

First paperback edition. 8vo. Original wrappers.

The first paperback edition of Fleming's ninth James Bond book.

£145



London, Ward Lock, n.d. [c.1930].

8vo. Original red cloth lettered in black.

An early edition of this interesting yarn about two ex-jailbirds threatened by a blackmailing detective. Originally published in 1919.

£35



London, Skeffington, 1952.

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

"Here is a delightfully witty compound of frolic, fantasy and satire, which describes what happens when an African magician gets busy in an English village..." (jacket blurb)

£250



South Africa, The Automobile Association of South Africa, 1939.

First edition. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 20/-.

An attractive guide to the then blossoming road routes that were opening up South Africa to the tourist.

£195



London & Edinburgh, Chambers, 1929.

First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.

A rare book in jacket; a collection of tales and stories dealing in a popular way with haunted Scottish houses, historic ghosts of Midlothian, and similar subjects, including werewolf interest.

£125


Translated by G.F. Monkhood
London, Literary Press, n.d..

8vo. Original red cloth, spine gilt.

An attractive jacketed edition of Gautier's Le Roman de La Momie, originally published in 1858, a historical novel set in Ancient Egypt, which features the Biblical Exodus.

£675


Original stories illustrating posthumous personality and character... Sole Edition
London, Roxburghe Press, [1894].

First edition. 8vo. Title-page printed in green. Original green cloth.

Scarce edition of weird stories: "...these blood-curdling tales are published on a novel plan. The fiction has never been serialised; during the continuance of the copyright no other edition will appear; there will be no sale after the last day of March, 1895. Every reader is thus made a participator in two advantages, for all the matter is fresh, and it is quite certain that the book can be safely purchased for presentation- if a friend's hair is to be turned into quills. And now a few words with regard to Phantasms. It may be judged from this engaging title that apparitions play at hide-and-seek among these pages. Only two of the stories are free of shudders, and we think we may venture to say that there are few readers, however jaded, however distant from the habit of shivering over bogies, who will not go somewhat mincingly to bed after spending the midnight with Mr. Wirt Gerrare." (The Literary World, vol.LI, 1895)

£425



London, Ward Lock, 1935.

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

Signed by the author at the time of publication. A romantic tale with macabre elements.

£75



London, Boardman, 1939.

First edition. 8vo. Original burgundy cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

Redhead reporter Rufus Reed and editor Asaph Clume at their finest, plus excellent jacket artwork.

£125



New York, Stackpole, 1939.

First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00.

The first edition of this account of big band swing by one of the leading band leaders of all time, his concert at Carnegie Hall in 1938 described by one contemporary critic as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music." Swing began to lose favour after this time, so this book marks an interesting period in 20th century popular music.

£75



London, Herbert Jenkins, n.d..

'Popular Edition'. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-.

A lovely early reissue of this classic, "the story of a mother's vengeance".

£225


and his wife Messalina
London, Arthur Barker, 1934.

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

The continuing story of the Roman Empire as told from the perspective of the (now) Roman Emperor Claudius. Uncommon in the dust-jacket.

Detective Fiction

Green (Alan) What a Body!

£250



London, Alvin Redman, 1950.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original pale blue boards. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.

When health-and-exercise guru Merlin Broadstone is murdered on his private island in the Florida Keys, detective John Hugo is assigned to the case and promptly falls for one of Broadstone's nieces.

£225



London, Heinemann, 1951.

First edition. 8vo. Original grey cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10s6d, stamped 'overseas edition' to foot of lower panel.

First edition of Greene's meditation on love, hate and faith.

£135



London, Methuen, 1952.

First edition. 8vo. Original burgundy cloth. Dust-jacket, neatly price-clipped.

An attractively jacketed first edition of this crime thriller featuring Gregg's recurring detective, Inspector Cuthbert Higgins.

£135



London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1936.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original pale blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

A very good first UK edition of one of Zane Grey's popular westerns.

£195


Solo Along the Arctic Air Route
London, Edinburgh & Glasgow, William Hodge, 1936.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.

An account of the first solo flight from Great Britain to Canada via Greenland.

£150



London, Collins, 1943.

First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.

One of several 'Ironsides' titles written by Brooks under the pseudonym Victor Gunn. He also famously wrote under the pen name of Berkeley Gray.

£125



London, Fisher Unwin, 1908.

First edition. 8vo. Title printed in red & black. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt.

Not a biography of the Pornocratic Italian noblewoman of that name, but rather a collection of short stories based on the author's experiences as a war correspondent in the Balkans.

£1,950



London, Constable, 1939.

First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.

Hamilton's famous satirical novel that offers a critical view of contemporary British society through the lens of a fantastical and dystopian world. Hamilton, known for his plays and novels that often explored the darker aspects of urban life and the psyche, uses this work to skewer the class system, commercialism and the dehumanising aspects of industrialisation.

The novel's significance in 20th century literature lies in its blend of social critique and fantasy, a combination that was somewhat unconventional at the time. Hamilton's use of a parallel world to mirror and exaggerate the issues of his own society makes Impromptu in Moribundia a precursor to the later works of dystopian fiction that would become more prominent in British literature. It stands as a unique and imaginative critique of the socio-political climate of the era, reflecting the anxieties and criticisms of the interwar period.

£375



London, Constable, 1953.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d.

The scarce third title in Hamilton's 'Gorse' trilogy.

£75



New York, Knopf, 1945.

7th Pocket Books edition. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. Pictorial dust-jacket.

An attractive paperback edition of this classic of this hard-boiled detective novel.

£95



Aberdeen, Impulse Books, 1971.

First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced £2.00.

Uncommon account of the early days of pirate radio.

£125


a Record of Happy Memories
London, Frederick Muller, 1939.

First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from the author, with autograph letter in original envelope tipped in. 8vo. Original blue cloth.

Inscribed and with contemporary autograph letter from the author to the prolific Welsh writer on arts, architecture and sport, Walter Shaw Sparrow, referencing the book and favourable reviews it had received.

£295



London, Hamish Hamilton, 1953.

First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 11s.

Hartley's famous novel about a young boy's summer at a friend's grand estate in Norfolk, where he becomes an unwitting messenger in a tragic love affair, encapsulated by the famous opening line: "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

£225



London, Lincoln Williams, 1934.

First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth lettered in black.

A scarce science fiction title, published under a distinctly uncommon imprint. The title is referenced in the checklists of Bleiler and Reginald.

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Heller (Joseph) Catch-22

£195



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.

£325



London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1969.

First edition. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 25s.

A consideration of the origins and methods of the Sicilian mafia, by the author of The Eagle Has Landed.

£395


Traduction Nouvelle Précèdès de Souvenirs intimes sur la Vie de l'Auteur Par P. Christian
Paris, Lavigne, 1843.

Large 8vo. Original, black ripple-grain cloth, heavily blocked in gilt to the spine, upper and lower covers, with borders to both covers blocked in blind. All edges gilt. Yellow endpapers.

Generally, a nice copy of a handsome edition rare in the original cloth boards and of especial note for the illustrations.

The contents, newly translated by P Christian (and preceded by a 13-page memoir of Hoffmann's life) comprise: (1) 'The Song of Antonia', 'Salvator Rosa', (3) The Adventures of Young Traugott', (4) 'Annunziata', (5) 'The Cooper of Nuremburg', (6) 'Olivier Brusson', (7) 'Pharaoh's Bank', (8) 'The Chain of Destinies', (9) ' Coppelius', (10) 'King Trabacchio', (11) ' Berthold the Mad', (12) 'The Mystery of the Desert House', (13) 'The Walled Door', (14) 'The Agate Heart, (15) 'Fascination', (16) 'The Lost Reflection', (17) 'Heroic Story of Minister Klein-Zacu'

Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (1804-66), who worked under the pseudonym 'Gavarni', was originally a contributor to la Mode, specialising in fashion drawings. 'His lithographs give an insight into the manners and morals of his time …' Using every technique in a brilliant way, he described the social life of the upper classes, of the stage and in particular the habits of the Parisian of the 1840s and 1850s – Man, Artists Lithographs p. 43.

£150



London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1923.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered & blocked in black. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

"A brilliant story of intriguing mystery with a most refreshing novelty of situation. I have never read a book so impregnated with fragrant odours." (The Bookman, 1923).