Modern Literature

NO RESERVE [Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB." Manka, the Sky Gipsy: The Story of a Wild Goose, first edition, black and white illustrations, origin...

[Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB.".- Warren (C. Henry) England is a Village, 1940 § Benfield (Eric) Southern English, 1942 § Street (A.G.) Landmark...

[Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB." The Little Grey Men, signed by the author on title, black and white illustrations, dust-jacket, 2 small tears on...

NO RESERVE [Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB." The Little Grey Men, black and white illustrations, dust-jacket with small tear on upper cover with l...

[Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB." Wild Lone: The Story of a Pytchley Fox, 1938; Brendon Chase, jacket with tears, 1944; Brendon Chase, first Ameri...

[Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB." Brendon Chase, 1944; Mr Bumstead, 1958; The Whopper, 1967; The Pool of the Black Witch, 1974, all first editions...

[Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB." The Wayfaring Tree, jacket lower cover slightly soiled, 1945; The Autumn Road to the Isles, 1959; The White Road...

[Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB." The Fisherman's Bedside Book, 1945; Confessions of a Carp Fisher, 1950 § Drought (J.B.) A Sportsman Looks at Eir...

[Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB." BB's Fairy Book: Meeting Hill, juvenile ink signature on front free endpaper, small ink mark on upper cover of j...

[Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB." The Countryman's Bedside Book, dust-jacket chipped with loss, 1941; Shooting Man's Bedside Book, dust-jacket wit...

[Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB." The Shooting Man's Bedside Book, 1948; A Stream in Your Garden, 1950; Tide's Ending, colour plates, jacket edges...

[Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB."- "Michael Traherne." Be Quiet and Go A-Angling, first edition, black and white illustrations by D.J. Watkins-Pit...

[Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB." Confessions of a Carp Fisher, modern morocco, 1950; The Fisherman's Bedside Book, Leather edition, original limp...

[Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB." Original watercolour dust-jacket design by Watkins-Pitchford for Fred Kitchen's novel "The Ploughman Homeward Pl...

[Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB." The Badgers of Bearshanks, 1961; Lepus the Bown Hare, jacket edges slightly chipped and creased, 1962; The Wayfa...

[Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB.".- Northumberland (Alan Ian, eighth Duke of) The Shadow on the Moor, first illustrated edition, number 130 of 200...

NO RESERVE Achebe (Chinua) Arrow of God, first edition, original boards, slight bumping to spine tips, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, spine e...

NO RESERVE Ackerley (J.R.) My Dog Tulip. My Life with an Alsatian, Autograph Letter signed by the author loosely inserted, pencil ownership inscri...

Ackroyd (Peter) Ouch, one of c.200 typescript copies, stapled in original wrappers, 1971; Country Life, one of 26 numbered copies signed by the au...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Adams (Douglas) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first hardback edition, some fa...

NO RESERVE Adams (Richard) Watership Down, first illustrated edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Nigel Sustins, illustrati...

Adams (Richard) Watership Down, 1982; The Plague Dogs, first edition, 1977; The Girl in a Swing, first American edition, jacket price-clipped, top...

NO RESERVE Adams (Richard) A Nature Diary, first edition, signed by the author and illustrator, illustrations by John Lawrence, dust-jacket, price...

Adams (Richard) Tales from Watership Down, first edition, signed presentation inscription and original illustration from the illustrator of rabbit...

NO RESERVE Aiken (Joan) The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, jacket with very light toning to spine, light rubbing and slight creasing to spine tips an...

Allende (Isabel) The House of Spirits, 1985; The Infinite Plan, 1993, first editions, both with signed presentation inscription from the author on...

Amis (Kingsley) The Old Devils, first edition, one of 250 copies signed by the author, 1986; A Case of Samples Poems 1946-1956, jacket price-clipp...

Amis (Martin) The Rachel Papers, presentation inscription to front free endpapers, 1973; Dead Babies, jacket price-clipped with new £4.95 price st...

NO RESERVE Amis (Martin) Time's Arrow, 1991; Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions, 1993; Night Train, 1997; Dead Babies, 1975, proof copies, ...

NO RESERVE Armstrong (Martin) The Fiery Dive and Other Stories, one of 150 copies signed by the author, lightly spotted, original vellum-backed cl...

NO RESERVE Banks (Iain) The Wasp Factory, signed bookplate by the author loosely inserted, 1984; The Business, 1999; Whit, 1995, first editions, l...

NO RESERVE Banks (Iain) The Wasp Factory, 1984; Walking on Glass, signed by the author on title, 1985; The Player of Games, 1988; Feersum Endjinn,...

NO RESERVE Banks (Iain M.) The Player of Games, jacket with slight fading to spine, short nick to head of upper panel, light creasing to head, 198...

NO RESERVE Banville (John) Nightspawn, first edition, signed by the author on title, ink numbering to head of title, spotting to top edge, origina...

NO RESERVE Barker (Pat) [The Regeneration Trilogy], 3 vol., first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, some light sunning to spines, else fine...

NO RESERVE Barnes (Julian) Talking it Over, signed by the author on title, 1991; England, England, signed by the author on title, 1998; Flaubert's...

Bates (H.E.) The Darling Buds of May, first edition, endpapers lightly toned, 1958 § Wodehouse (P.G.) Cocktail Time, first edition, first impressi...

NO RESERVE Beeding (Francis) Hell Let Loose, some very light scattered spotting, original cloth, very light sunning to spine, light rubbing to ext...

NO RESERVE Bentley (E. C.) Trent's Last Case, first edition, 1913 § Le Queux (William) If Sinners Entice Thee, 1898 § Chesterton (G. K) Irish Impr...

Berger (John) G., uncorrected proof, original wrappers, creasing to spine and corners, rubbing to extremities, 1972; G., first edition, original b...

Betjeman (John) Selected Poems, second impression, signed presentation inscription from the author to his secretary "E.D. To Miss Jill Menzies wit...

NO RESERVE Betjeman (John) Summoned by Bells, limited edition signed by the author, publisher's bookmark loosely inserted, original cloth, dust-ja...

NO RESERVE Betjeman (John) An Exhibition of Works by Sir John Betjeman, from the Collection of Ray Carter in the Art Gallery of St Paul's School.....

Blackwood (Algernon) & Wilfred Wilson. The Wolves of God and Other Fey Stories, presentation copy with blind stamp to title, 1921 § Forbes (Esther...

Blake (Quentin) Woman with a Book, one of 300 copies signed by the artist and author, illustrations by Blake, original cloth with title paper labe...

Blake (Peter) An Alphabet, signed bookplate by the author on title, original boards, 2007; Paris Escapades, signed bookplate by the author on titl...

NO RESERVE Blake (Peter).- [Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". Alice Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, one of 500 c...

NO RESERVE Blatty (William Peter) The Exorcist, gift inscription on half-title, jacket rather rubbed and chipped at edges, surface scuffing to pan...

[Blixen (Karen)], "Isak Dinesen". Out of Africa, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, very light fraying to spine ends, otherwise fine, 193...

Blochman (Lawrence G.) Clues for Dr. Coffee, first edition, light creasing and nicks to jacket edges, Philadelphia, 1964 § Steele (Chester K.) The...

Blyton (Enid).- Tyndall (Robert).- Two original illustrations from Blyton's Noddy Books, ink and watercolour, c.230 x 160mm (9 x 6½) & 240 x 200mm...

Bond (Michael) Paddington Helps Out, illustrations by Peggy Fortnum, endpapers lightly toned, jacket price-clipped, lightly spotted, 1960 § Blyton...

NO RESERVE Boulestin (X.M.) The Finer Cooking, 2 vol., illustrations by J. E. Laboureur, light foxing to endpapers, original cloth, vol.1 dust-jac...

Bowen (Marjorie) More Great Tales of Horror, first edition, spotting to first and last few pages, foxing to pp.216-244, cloth with bumping to spin...

NO RESERVE Boyd (William) A Good Man in Africa, first edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, slight sunning to top edge, spine t...

Boyd (William) Cork, letter 'a' of 26 lettered copies signed by the author and artist, from an edition of 210, this copy with additional signed pr...

NO RESERVE Braine (John) Room at the Top, first edition, some scattered edge spotting and small patch of staining, original boards, sunning to hea...

Brooke (Jocelyn) The Denton Welch Journals, ALs from the author to 'Lord David', on his letterhead, folds, loosely inserted, cloth spine faded, 19...

NO RESERVE Brooke (Rupert), John Drinkwater, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson & Lascelles Abercrombie, editors. New Numbers, Vol. 1, Nos. 1-4 (all published)...

Buchan (John) Witch Wood, cloth fine very lightly faded, jacket with creases and nicks to top edge, lower panel foxed, 1927; The Rungates Club, li...