Modern Literature

Adams (Douglas) The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, second state without the Capricorn One advert ...

Adams (Richard) Tales from Watership Down, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Jimmy and Colina, oldest and dearest...

NO RESERVE Aldington (Richard) Last Straws, one of 200 copies signed by the author, from an edition of 700, lightly spotted, Paris, 1930; A Dream ...

Allingham (Margery) Police at the Funeral, first edition, endpapers toned, original boards, spine faded, otherwise excellent, facsimile dust-jacke...

NO RESERVE Allingham (Margery) The Gyrth Chalice Mystery, first American edition, original cloth, lightly marked, otherwise excellent, facsimile j...

NO RESERVE Allingham (Margery) Flowers for the Judge, first edition, original cloth, light marks and soiling, light fading, slight shelf-lean, fac...

NO RESERVE Allingham (Margery) Dancers in Mourning, first edition, map endpapers toned, original boards, corners bumped, dust-jacket, portions of ...

NO RESERVE Allingham (Margery) The Fashion in Shrouds, first edition, hinge cracked, first few pages spotted and occasionally throughout, library ...

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...

NO RESERVE Amis (Martin) The Rachel Papers, first edition, light abrasions to endpapers, glue stain to title, tip-ex marking to title verso, 1973;...

Amis (Martin) The Rachel Papers, first edition, cut signature of the author laid down to title, light abrasion marks to endpapers, original boards...

Amis (Martin) Dead Babies, first edition, 1975; Night Train, fourth impression, signed by the author to title, 1997 § Ayckbourn (Alan) Three Plays...

Armour (Margaret, editor) The Eerie Book, title in red & black, illustrations by W. B. MacDougall, ink ownership name to browned endpapers, cloth ...

NO RESERVE Ball (F. N.) Metapotopia, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, short tear to lower edge, nicked along joints, light surface soil...

NO RESERVE Baron Russell (T.) A Hundred Years Hence, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper, lightl...

NO RESERVE Batten (Jean) Alone in the Sky, first edition, signed by the author on title, original cloth, dust-jacket, fine, 8vo, 1979; together wi...

NO RESERVE Baum (L. Frank) The Tin Woodman of Oz, bookplate, dust-jacket, portions of loss to upper edge and spine ends, creased and frayed at ext...

Bayly (A. Eric) The Man with the Parrots, 1901 § Jokai (Maurus) Eyes Like the Sea, gift inscription to endpaper, New York, 1901 § Blayre (Christop...

Beerbohm (Max) Zuleika Dobson, first edition, brown half morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spine gilt in compartments, a very attractive copy, 8vo, 1911.

Behan (Brendan).- Armstrong-Jones (Antony, 1st Earl of Snowdon) Portrait of Brendan Behan, bormoil silver gelatin print, photographer's credit and...

Bell (Clive) Proust, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Russian mosaicist Boris Anrep on front free endpaper, origi...

Bell (Vanessa).- Recent Paintings by Vanessa Bell with a Foreword by Virginia Woolf, first edition, one of 500 copies, 8pp., original wrappers, li...

Bell (Vanessa).- Buchan (Susan) The Funeral March of a Marionette, jacket spine faded, 1935 § Upward (Edward) Journey to the Border, review copy w...

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

NO RESERVE Benchley (Peter) Jaws, first English edition, gift inscription to endpaper, 1974; The Deep, first English edition, 1976 § Dunn (Nell) U...

Bentley (Norman S.) Armada of the Air, first edition, light marginal toning, original boards, dust-jacket, extremities chipped and nicked, spine t...

Berkeley (Anthony) Malice Aforethought, first edition, pages toned, original cloth, lightly soiled, spine faded, 1931 § Queen (Ellery) Half-Way Ho...

Bernède (Arthur) The Haunted House, [c.1920] § Elstow (T. Francis) The Human Vampire, jacket with small portion of loss to spine head, [c.1930s] §...

Berners-Lee (Tim) Weaving the Web, first edition, signed by the author on front free endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, 8vo, 1999.

Betjeman (John) Ghastly Good Taste: Or, A Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture, first edition, second state without refer...

Betjeman (John) Summoned by Bells, one of 100 copies specially bound on the occasion of the Queen's Silver Jubilee, signed by the author on title,...

Biggers (Earl Derr) The Black Camel, first edition, original decorative cloth, spine faded, ends frayed, still excellent, facsimile dust-jacket, I...

NO RESERVE Blackwood (Algernon) The Tales of Algernon Blackwood, first edition, endpapers browned, original cloth, lightly water-stained, dust-jac...

Blake (Peter) Peter Blake, second impression, signed presentation inscription "for Liz Evans from Peter Blake, May 24th 1983" on half-title, A.L.s...

Blayre (Christopher) The Purple Sapphire, first edition, ownership name and light spotting to endpapers, 1921 § Hunt (Violet) More Tales of the Un...

[Blixen (Karen)] "Isak Dinesen". Seven Gothic Tales, first English edition, colour frontispiece by Rex Whistler, some light scattered spotting to ...

Blyton (Enid) Five Go Adventuring Again, first edition, colour frontispiece and illustrations by Eileen Soper, pictorial endpapers, ink ownership ...

Blyton (Enid) Five Run Away Together, first edition, colour frontispiece and illustrations by Eileen Soper, pictorial endpapers, ink ownership nam...

Blyton (Enid) Five Go to Smuggler's Top, first edition, colour frontispiece and illustrations by Eileen Soper, pictorial endpapers, light faint fo...

Blyton (Enid) Five on Kirrin Island Again, first edition, colour frontispiece and illustrations by Eileen Soper, original boards, lightly scuffed ...

NO RESERVE Borden (Mary) Action for Slander, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "to C. K. Broadchurch with the complim...

Bowen (Elizabeth) The Death of the Heart, first edition, bookplate signed by the author on front pastedown, light marginal browning, original clot...

Bradbury (Ray) The Vintage Bradbury, signed presentation inscription from the author on half-title, pages toned, original wrappers, sunned, a litt...

Bramah (Ernest) The Transmutation of Ling, one of 500 copies, this copy with signed presentation inscription from the artist to front free endpape...

NO RESERVE Britton (Lionel) Hunger and Love, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Cecil Hunt "in the home of a tumult...

Buchan (John) Sir Quixote of the Moors. Being some Account of an Episode in the Life of the Sieur de Rohaine, first edition, frontispiece, 4pp. pu...

Buchan (John) Greenmantle, cloth lightly bumped and frayed at spine ends, spine lightly faded, preserved in modern morocco-backed box, 1916; Sick ...

Burroughs (Edgar Rice) Jungle Tales of Tarzan, first edition, Chicago, 1919; Tarzan of the Apes, 1917; Jungle Tales of Tarzan, 1919; The Son of Ta...

NO RESERVE Burroughs (Edgar Rice) A Princess of Mars, 1919; The Gods of Mars, 2020; The Warlord of Mars, 1920; Thuvia, Maid of Mars, 1921; The Che...

NO RESERVE Burroughs (Edgar Rice) The Land that Time Forgot, endpapers toned, cloth rather soiled, hinge broken, spine faded, jacket in facsimile,...

NO RESERVE Burroughs (Edgar Rice) Tarzan the Invincible, first edition, frontispiece, original boards, extremities bumped, dust-jacket, spine ends...

Burroughs (Edgar Rice) Carson of Venus, first edition, cloth spine ends a little bumped, otherwise fine, California, 1939; Escape on Venus, first ...

NO RESERVE Busoni (Rafaello, illustrator) Illustrations for Wozzeck by Georg Buchner, 9 hand-coloured lithographed plates, 8 signed by the artist,...

Butler (Samuel) The Way of All Flesh, 1903 § Bennett (Arnold) The Old Wives' Tale,1908, first editions, near-uniform red half morocco by Bayntun-R...

Čapek (Karel) R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots, signed by the author on half-title, fifth edition, modern russet half calf, 8vo, Prague, Vydalo Av...

Čapek (Karel) Krakatit, first edition, title in red & black, small ink ownership name to title, final errata leaf and adverts at end, contemporary...

Capote (Truman) Other Voices Other Rooms, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine very lightly faded, a few very small chips to spine en...

Capote (Truman) The Muses are Heard, first edition, signed by the author on 'Part I' page, ownership signature to front free endpaper, original de...

Carey (Peter) Four Easy Pieces, number 7 of 100 copies signed by the author and illustrator, portrait frontispiece and illustrations by Eileen Hog...

Carnival, 11 vol., illustrations, original printed wrappers, light toning, Birmingham, The Guild of Undergraduates of Birmingham University, 1929-...