Modern Literature, Children's and Illustrated Books

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

Angus (John) The Homecoming, first edition, endpapers browned, original boards, corners bumped, dust-jacket, fine, 8vo, 1935. *** An exceptional c...

Atwood (Margaret) The Handmaid's Tale, proof copy, original wrappers, lightly faded, variant dust-jacket, joints and edges lightly chipped and cre...

Baron (Alexander) The Lowlife, first edition, slight tape-staining to endpapers, original boards, strip of tape marking to boards, dust-jacket, ve...

Genesis Publications.- Beatles.- Starr (Ringo) Postcards from the Boys: a Selection of Postcards from George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCart...

Beckett (Samuel) Waiting for Godot, first English edition, contemporary ownership name on toned and spotted front free endpaper, original cloth, d...

Ben-Gurion (David) and Moshe Pearlman. Ben Gurion Looks Back, first edition, signed by Ben-Gurion on title, original boards, 8vo, 1965. ...[more]

Benson (E. F.) Spook Stories, ownership inscriptions on pastedown, cloth lightly faded on spine and a little rubbed at spine ends, [1928] § The Fi...

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

Betjeman (John) Summoned by Bells, first trade edition, signed by the author "Sonning on Thames Berkshire. John Betjeman made me" on title, illust...

Betjeman (John) Summoned By Bells, original boards, dust-jacket, fading marks along edges but still crisp overall, 1960; First and Last Loves, tap...

[Blakeston (Oswell) and Roger Burford], "Simon". The Cat With the Moustache, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To my...

Blixen (Karen), "Isak Dinesen". Out of Africa, first American edition, light spotting to endpaper gutter, light chipping to corners, larger chips ...

Bochořáková-Dittrichová (Helena) Childhood. A Cycle of Woodcuts, first English edition, one of 300 copies, woodcut illustrations by the author, li...

Boulestin (X.M.) The New Keepsake for the Year/ Le Nouveau Keepsake pour l'Annee 1921, number 19 of 50 copies on Japon, from an edition of 620, er...

[Bowen (Marjorie)], "Joseph Shearing". The Fetch, first edition, margins toned, original cloth, light spotting, 8vo, 1942. ***  A historical myste...

Briggs (Raymond) The Snowman, first edition, title, first and last page lightly foxed, original pictorial boards, corners bumped, 1978 § Pullman (...

Bukowski (Charles) Women, one of 300 copies signed by the author, blue corduroy cloth-backed brown boards with cover illustration by Bukowski, pap...

Bukowski (Charles) You Kissed Lilly, one of 200 copies signed by the author, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, very light toning to spine...

Bulgakov (Mikhail) The Master and Margarita, first English edition, translated by Michael Glenny, very light strip of toning along jacket top edge...

Burnett (W. R.) Captain Lightfoot, lengthy signed presentation inscription from the author to a friend on front free endpaper, New York, 1954; Mi ...

Burroughs (Edgar Rice).- Goss (Geoffrey Walter) Original dust-jacket upper panel and spine artwork for 'Tarzan the Terrible', watercolour and body...

Burroughs (Edgar Rice) Tarzan and the City of Gold, book-label on pastedown, dust-jacket, light creasing and nicks to edges, lower panel with disc...

Burton (Tim) The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories, one of 300 copies signed by the author, illustrations, original cloth with pict...

Byatt (A.S.) [The Virgin of the Garden quartet], 4 vol., all signed or with signed presentation inscription from the author, comprising The Virgin...

Chandler (Raymond) Spanish Blood, first edition, Cleveland and New York, 1946; The Lady in the Lake, film tie-in jacket, jacket extremities a litt...

Chatwin (Bruce) [Works], 6 vol., comprising The Viceroy of Ouidah; On The Black Hill; The Songlines; Utz; What Am I Doing Here; In Patagonia; orig...

Childers (Erskine) The Riddle of the Sands, first edition, 2 maps (one folding) and 2 charts, 4pp. advertisements at end, frontispiece map a littl...

Christie (Agatha) The Secret of Chimneys, reprint, ownership name on browned front free endpaper, original decorative cloth, extremities a little ...

Christie (Agatha) The Mysterious Mr. Quin, first separate edition, light marginal browning, advertisement card for Pall Mall Building Society loos...

Christie (Agatha) The Hound of Death and Other Stories, light scattered spotting to first few pages, cloth spine faded, a little marked, 1933; The...

Christie (Agatha) The Body in the Library, 1942; Easy to Kill, 1939; The Moving Finger, ownership name and price in pen on pastedown, marginal ton...

Christie (Agatha) Towards Zero, first edition, original cloth, light toning to top and bottom edges, spine ends a little bumped, dust-jacket, ligh...

Christie (Agatha) They Do It With Mirrors, jacket with loss to spine tail, upper panel edge slightly nicked, lower panel lightly stained, spine ve...

Christie (Agatha) They Do It With Mirrors, first edition, gift card laid onto front free endpaper, ink date to front pastedown, original cloth, du...

Christie (Agatha) The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, light fading on spine, short closed tear to...

Christie (Agatha) A Caribbean Mystery, 1964; Passenger to Frankfurt, 1970; Postern of Fate, 1973; Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, 1975; By the Pricki...

Christie (Agatha) [Works], 6 vol., comprising The Mysterious Affair at Styles; Towards Zero; The Labours of Hercules; Crooked House; A Murder is A...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, 4 vol., first edition, vols.1 & 4 with ink gift inscription on endpaper...

Clarke (Arthur C.) Signature from the author with original doodle of rocketship in space, in an autograph book, these pages loose, original boards...

Cobb (Humphrey) [Paths of Glory] An Untitled Novel , uncorrected proof copy, very faint mark on title, original wrappers, very light surface marks...

Colum (Padraic) Wild Earth, original cloth-backed boards, spine a little browned, Dublin, 1907 § Behan (Brendan) The Quare Fellow, theatre program...

[Croskey (Julian)], "Mr. M~". The Chest of Opium, first edition, foxing, bound upside down, cloth spine faded, ends a little rubbed, 1896 § Whistl...

Dahl (Roald) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, first English edition, cut signature of the author on title, illustrations by Faith Jacques, small...

Dahl (Roald) The Magic Finger, first English edition, small number in biro to title, very faint occasional spots, board extremities lightly bumped...

Dahl (Roald) Switch Bitch, first American edition, signed by the author on front free endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket, fine, 8vo, New York, ...

Dahl (Roald) Matilda, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket without price to front flap, light fading to spine, light creasing to head and f...

Devi (Indira) Shrutanjali, few spots to first few pages, boards lightly spotted, dust-jacket corners chipped and covers a little faded, Pondicherr...

Díaz (Juno) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, 2007; Drown, 1996, first editions, signed by the author on titles, original boards, dust-jackets...

Beat Generation.- Douglas Adam (Helen) The Elfin Pedlar and Tales Told by Pixy Pool, first edition, ALs from the author written on year of publica...

Du Maurier (Daphne) Rebecca, first edition, very light foxing to first few pages, contemporary morocco-backed boards, light rubbing along joints, ...

Durrell (Lawrence) The Alexandria Quartet, one of 500 copies signed by the author, pencil gift inscription to endpaper, original orange buckram, l...

Dust-jacket designs.- A group of c.35 original dust-jacket and proof illustration designs for various works, mostly original artworks in brush and...

Eddison (E. R.) Mistress of Mistresses: A Vision of Zimiamvia, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author on front free endpap...

Eden (Anthony) Another World 1897-1917, signed by the author on front free endpaper, printed Christmas card from Clarissa & Anthony Eden loosely i...

Eliot (T.S.) Ash-Wednesday, first edition, number 1 of 600 copies signed by the poet, endpapers toned, original decorative cloth, gilt, preserved ...

Eliot (T.S.) Triumphal March, one of 300 large paper copies signed by the author, W. J. Crawley's copy, illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, orig...

Eliot (T.S.) Murder in the Cathedral, second American edition, signed by the author on title with strikethrough printed name, original cloth, dust...

Eliot (T.S.) Poetry and Drama, first English edition, signed by the author on title with strikethrough of printed name, very faint toning to endpa...

Eliot (T.S.) The Cocktail Party, 1950; The Elder Statesman, 1959, proof copies, original wrappers, title in ink on spines, very light toning and c...