Modern Literature

Adams (Richard) The Plague Dogs, 1977; Shardik, 1974; Traveller, 1988; The Girl in a Swing, 1980; Maia, 1984; first editions, signed by the author...

Adams (Douglas) The Illustrated Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, signed by the author to title, illustrations, original boards, dust-jacket, fol...

Aldington (Richard) Death of a Hero, fore-edge spotted, jacket spine a little browned, 1929; Roads to Glory, jacket browned, spine ends chipped, 1...

NO RESERVE Allen (Robert) Captain Gardiner of the International Police, first edition, original pictorial cloth, light bumping to spine ends, [191...

Ambler (Eric) Cause for Alarm, cloth spine faded, light rubbing and bumping to extremities, facsimile dust-jacket, 1938; Epitaph for a Spy, cloth ...

NO RESERVE Ambler (Eric) A Coffin for Dimitrios, first American edition, endpapers toned, first and last few pages lightly spotted, original decor...

NO RESERVE Ambler (Eric) The Night-Comers, signed and dated by the author on title, jacket with restorations and retouches along joints and spine ...

NO RESERVE Ambler (Eric) Passage to Arms, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to title, pen number and bookseller stick...

Amis (Kingsley) Lucky Jim, first edition, small neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth, spine ends lightly faded, dust-...

Amis (Kingsley) I Like it Here, jacket with light toning to spine, otherwise a remarkably near-fine copy, 1958; The James Bond Dossier, jacket wit...

Amis (Kingsley) Take a Girl Like You, first edition, ink ownership name to front free endpaper, sticker to pastedown, jacket worn with tears alon...

NO RESERVE Anti-Apartheid Movement.- Mandela (Nelson) Nelson Mandela Speaks: speeches, statements and articles. South Africa Studies 4, illustrati...

Armenian Genocide.- Gates (H. L.) Ravished Armenia. The Story of Aurora Mardiganian, first edition, photographic frontispiece and 3 plates, map il...

NO RESERVE Ayrton (Michael) The Maze Maker, 1967; The Rudiments of Paradise, 1971 § Wentworth Day (J.) Ghosts and Witches, illustrations and jacke...

Bailey (David) David Bailey's Box of Pin-Ups, 36 halftone photographic prints, each with biographical notices to verso, loose as issued, lacking 2...

Ballard (J. G.) Empire of the Sun, first edition, signed and inscribed by author, original cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, second ...

NO RESERVE Ballard (J. G.) The Day of Creation, signed by the author to title, 1987; Empire of the Sun, 1984 § Ballard (J. G.), Mervyn Peake, and ...

Barker (Pat) [The Regeneration Trilogy], comprising Regeneration, 1991; The Eye in the Door, 1993; The Ghost Road, 1995, first editions, original ...

NO RESERVE Barnes (Julian) Metroland, 1980; Flaubert's Parrot, 1984; England, England, 1998; 2018, first editions, signed by the author to title, ...

Barnes (Julian) Flaubert's Parrot, first edition, signed by the author to title, original boards, dust-jacket, wrap-around band (lightly creased a...

Barrie (J.M.) Peter and Wendy, first edition, illustrations by F. D. Bedford, endpapers lightly browned, bookplate removed from pastedown, endpape...

NO RESERVE Beckett (Samuel) Fin de Partie Suivi de Acte Sans Paroles, first edition, almost entirely unopened in original wrappers, some light sta...

Bell (Josephine) The Seeing Eye, 1958 § Blackstock (Charity) Dewey Death, 1956 § Postage (Raymond) The Ledger is Kept, endpapers browned, 1953 § E...

NO RESERVE Bellow (Saul) Dangling Man, 1946; The Victim, 1948; The Adventures of Augie March, jacket price-clipped, 1951; Seize the Day, 1957; Hen...

NO RESERVE Bellow (Saul) The Victim, endpapers browned, jacket spine faded, chips to spine head and corners, 1947; Seize the Day, jacket spine fad...

NO RESERVE Benchley (Peter) Jaws, jacket price-clipped, 1974; The Deep, 1976; The Island, 1979, first English editions, original boards or cloth, ...

Berckman (Evelyn) Lament for Four Brides, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to title, 1959 § Newman (Bernard) Operati...

Betjeman (John) Uncollected Poems, one of 100 copies signed by the author, original buckram, slip-case, 1982; First and Last Loves, first edition,...

Blackwood (Algernon) Dudley & Gilderoy: A Nonesense, TLs from the author, on Savile Club letterhead, loosely inserted, contemporary and later ink ...

Blair (Tony) A Journey, one of 500 copies signed by the author, original red cloth, lettered in gilt, slipcase lettered in gilt, sealed in origina...

NO RESERVE Blixen (Karen) Out of Africa, first edition, original cloth, lightly bumped at corners, spine ends creased, lightly toned, 8vo, 1937. ...

NO RESERVE Bloomsbury Group.- A Collection of 25 art catalogues, covering Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, Dora Carrington, and others, illu...

NO RESERVE Bogarde (Dirk) A Period of Adjustment, signed by the author to title, 1994; Postillion Struck by Lightning, 1977; Snakes and Ladders, 1...

Boileau (Pierre) and Thomas Narcejac. The Living and the Dead, first English edition, one or two light patches of foxing to first few pages, some ...

Bowles (Paul) A Little Stone, light toning to endpapers, jacket spine faded, 1950; The Delicate Prey, jacket spine faded, New York, 1950; Let It C...

Bradbury (Ray) Fahrenheit 451, first English edition, endpaper browned, light spotting to first few pages, original cloth, dust-jacket, price-clip...

Braine (John) Room at the Top, first edition, small ink ownership name to front free endpaper, light spotting to endpapers and fore-edge, occasion...

*** Please note, the description to this lot has changed.***Bramah (Ernest) The Transmutation of Ling, one of 500 copies, this copy with signed pr...

NO RESERVE Briggs (Raymond) The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman, reprint, signed presentation inscription from the author to title,...

Brodkey (Harold) The Runaway Soul, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Tom Maschler to endpaper, jacket with...

NO RESERVE Brophy (John) The Bitter End, first edition, original cloth, spine gilt, a little faded, dust-jacket, lightly but evenly foxed, one or ...

Burgess (Anthony) [The Malayan Trilogy], 3 vol., comprising Time for a Tiger, signed by the author to title, jacket price-clipped, spine faded, 19...

Burgess (Anthony) Beds in the East, first edition, light spotting to first few pages, very small portion of loss to jacket spine head, 1959; The R...

NO RESERVE Burgess (Anthony) Devil of a State, endpapers and first few pages foxed, jacket spine faded, some nicks to extremities, 1961; Language ...

Burgess (Anthony) A Clockwork Orange, first edition, ex-library copy but only with stamp to copyright page and light show-through to title, otherw...

Burke (Thomas) East of Mansion House, first American edition, ink ownership name to front free endpaper, 1926 § Cole Meade (Dorothy) The Shadow of...

NO RESERVE Burroughs (William S.) The Naked Lunch, first edition, later issue with 18 francs to lower wrapper, light stain to lower wrapper,a litt...

Caen (Herb) San Francisco. The Guide to the City and the Bay Area Today, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to endpape...

NO RESERVE Cameron (David) For the Record, one of 500 copies signed by the author, original cloth lettered in gilt, cellophane wrapping, 2019 § Bl...

NO RESERVE Camus (Albert) The Outsider, first English edition, translated by Stuart Gilbert, a few light spots, original cloth, light fading to sp...

Capote (Truman) Other Voices Other Rooms, first edition, contemporary ownership name to pastedown, half-title working loose, original cloth, spine...

Carnival, 11 vol., illustrations, original printed wrappers, light darkening, Birmingham, The Guild of Undergraduates of Birmingham University, 19...

Carr (John Dickson) The Man Who Could Not Shudder, 1949 § Cobb (Belton) The Poisoner's Mistake, 1949 § Blake (Nicholas) Thou Shell of Death, 1950 ...

Carr (J. L.) A Month in the Country, one of 300 copies signed by the author and collaborator, original cloth, Cornucopia Press, 1990 § Spark (Muri...

Cary (Joyce) The Horse's Mouth, A.L.s from the author discussing the book, loosely inserted, 1944; Prisoner of Grace, 1952; Except the Lord, 1953;...

Chandler (Raymond) The Long Goodbye, first edition, endpapers lightly toned, original cloth, dust-jacket, nicks and tears to extremities and along...

Charteris (Leslie) Call for the Saint, portions of loss to jacket spine ends, 1948; The Second Saint Omnibus, 1952; The Saint in Europe, 1954; Ven...

NO RESERVE Charteris (Leslie) Senor Saint, 1959 § Deighton (Len) Funeral in Berlin, jacket with nicks to spine head, 1964 § Greene (Graham) May We...

NO RESERVE Chatwin (Bruce) The Viceroy of Ouidah, first edition, jacket price-clipped, 1980; On the Black Hill, 1982; What Am I Doing Here, jacket...

Christie (Agatha) The Hollow, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, cloth spine ends faded, jacket spine faded, chips to spine ends and co...