Books and Ephemera

(Young Bond.) A collection of 13 'Young Bond' series of young adult spy novels featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond as a young teenage ...

J.R.R. Tolkien; Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull: 'The Lord of the Rings; The Lord of the Rings A Reader's Companion', London, Harper Collins,...

J.R.R. Tolkien; Christopher Tolkien (edited): 'The History of Middle-Earth', 1983-1992, volumes 1-9 (of 12), London, George Allen & Unwin; Unwin H...

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; 'The Return of the King', London, The Folio Society, 1977, 1st...

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Adventures of Tom Bombadil', London, George Allen & Unwin, 1962, 1st edition, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, internally lea...

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings', London, George Allen & Unwin, 1969, 1st India paper edition, 1st impression, 2 folding maps as called for...

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings', London, Harper Collins, 1997, deluxe limited edition, "Limited to a worldwide printing of 1,000 copies", ...

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Hobbit', London, George Allen & Unwin, 1959, 2nd edition, 6th impression (11th impression overall), colour frontispiece, full...

J.R.R. Tolkien, collection of 9 titles by or relating to him, including 'Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien', Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1979, 1st US editi...

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King', London, George Allen & Unwin, 1962, ...

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Hobbit, or There and Back Again', London, George Allen & Unwin, 1946, 1st edition, 4th impression, colour frontispiece of Hob...

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Adventures of Tom Bombadil', London, George Allen & Unwin, 1962, 1st edition, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, internally lea...

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Return of the King', London, George Allen & Unwin, 1955, 1st edition, 1st impression, sagging text and signature mark '4' on ...

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King', London, George Allen & Unwin, Februa...

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Hobbit, or There and Back Again', London, George Allen & Unwin, 1954, 2nd edition, 2nd impression (the 6th printing overall),...

J.R.R. Tolkien, collection of 15 assorted volumes, including 'The Hobbit, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1978, 4th edition, full page colour & b/w...

(Tolkieniana.) J.R.R. Tolkien, a large collection of books, booklets and other material relating to Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit,...

'The J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar', London, George Allen & Unwin, 1973, 2nd impression, [28]pp, 12 full page colour illustrations after Tolkien from va...

A collection of 13 titles Fairy tales, folklore, mythology etc, including George Webbe Dasent: 'Popular Tales from the Norse', London, Routledge, ...

Francis Galton, 3 titles, all first editions, all published London, Macmillan, comprising: 'Finger Prints', 1892, 16 plates (of which 1 double pag...

Agatha Christie: 'Hercule Poirot's Christmas', London, Collins Crime Club, 1939, 1st edition, 1st impression, original cloth (worn)

Agatha Christie: 'Five Little Pigs', London, Collins Crime Club, 1942, 1st edition, original cloth (very worn)

Agatha Christie: 'A Pocket Full of Rye', London, Collins Crime Club, 1953, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (a/f, very worn/soiled)

Agatha Christie: 'At Bertram's Hotel', London, Collins Crime Club, 1965, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, 'The Complete Miss Marple...

John Creasey, thirteen mainly crime & detective novels, as John Creasey, J.J. Marric and Gordon Ashe, of which four 1st editions, including 'Strik...

Anthony Morton [i.e. John Creasey], 3 titles: 'A Rope for the Baron', London, Sampson Low, 1948, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; t...

Alan Hunter, 23 Inspector George Gently crime fiction titles: 'Landed Gently', London, Cassell, 1957, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, '...

Manning Coles, nine Tommy Hambledon spy thrillers, including 'The Fifth Man', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1946, 1st edition, original cloth, dust ...

Sydney Horler, five thrillers, including 'The Secret Service Man', London, Hodder & Stoughton, [nd], c.1929 reprint, original cloth, dust wrapper,...

Raymond Chandler, detective fiction, 3 volumes: ‘The Raymond Chandler Omnibus [The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window; The Lady in th...

Georges Simenon, 11 detective fiction titles, of which 9 UK first editions, comprising 'Affairs of Destiny', 1942; 'The Shadow Falls', 1945; 'Lost...

(Crime Fiction.) S.S. Van Dine [i.e. Willard Huntington Wright]: 'The Scarab Murder Case', New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930, 1st edition, 1...

Eric Ambler: 'Cause for Alarm', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1938, 1st edition, signed & inscribed by the author in black ink on title page "To Bob...

(Detective Fiction.) 'Cassell's Magazine Illustrated', May-October 1909, 6 issues in one bound volume, includes 'The Adventures of Lady Molly of S...

Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne et al; Sidney Paget (ill.): 'The Strand Magazine, volumes I to XI. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs...

Arthur Conan Doyle: 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes', London, George Newnes, 1894, 1st edition, full page frontispiece depicting Holmes about to m...

Edgar Wallace, 23 assorted titles detective fiction, mystery novels etc, including 'Number Six', London, George Newnes, c.1928, later printing of ...

A collection of crime and detective fiction, mystery novels etc, including James Hadley Chase: 'Tell it to the birds', London, Robert Hale, 1963, ...

(Crime Fiction.) Edith Caroline Rivett, a collection of 21 crime fiction titles, seventeen under the pseudonym "E.C.R. Lorac", of which fourteen 1...

(Crime Fiction.) A collection of 30 assorted crime and mystery fiction titles, including Freeman Wills Crofts: 'Death on the Way', London, Collins...

Crime Fiction, 19 titles, all first editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, including Rex Stout: 'Three for the Chair', London, Collin...

John le Carré: 'The Tailor of Panama', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1996, 1st edition, boldly signed by Le Carre in black ink on title page, origin...

John Le Carré: '[The Karla Trilogy]: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; Smiley's People', New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1974, 1977,...

Alan Furst: 'The Paris Drop', London, Quartet Crime, 1982, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper

Frederick Forsyth, 3 titles, all signed first editions, all in dust wrappers with prices intact: 'The Day of the Jackal', London, Hutchinson, 1971...

Len Deighton: 'Funeral in Berlin', London, Cape, 1964, 1st edition, original blindstamped cloth gilt, dust wrapper,plus Victor & Margaret Pettitt:...

"Saxon Ashe" [Anon.] : 'I am Saxon Ashe', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1940, 1st edition, "Special Presentation Edition" inkstamp to verso of title...

Ian Fleming: 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', Folio Society, [nd], illustrations by Fay Dalton, original cloth, pictorial slipcase, in original ...

Nine assorted Ian Fleming James Bond paperbacks 1960s/70s, mainly Pan paperbacks, one Signet, plus a Pan paperback of Ian Fleming's 'Thrilling Cit...

Rudyard Kipling: 'Traffics and Discoveries', London, Macmillan, 1904, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (scarce), formerly the copy o...

(Sea Stories.) Three titles by Edward Rowe Snow and two by his daughter, Alice Rowe Snow, all either signed or signed & inscribed, all original cl...

H.N. Hutchinson: 'Extinct Monsters. A Popular Account of Some of the Larger Forms of Ancient Animal Life.', London, Chapman & Hall, 1893, 3rd thou...

John Astolat, 3 scarce titles, all signed and inscribed by author on FFEP, all published London, The Greenfriar Press, comprising: 'Theory of Geni...

Hilary Mantel, her complete works volumes 1-8, all signed UK first editions, first impressions of her works 1985-1998, all original cloth, all in ...

Hilary Mantel, her complete works volumes 9-17, 2003-2020, mainly signed, comprising: 'Wolf Hall', London, Fourth Estate, 2009, 1st edition, signe...

J.G. Ballard: 'Concrete Island', London, Jonathan Cape, 1974, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, together with another first edition ...

First edition fiction, a collection of 24 assorted titles, all first editions, including John Updike, 6 titles, all UK 1sts pub. Andre Deutsch or ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald: 'The Bodley Head Fitzgerald', L, Bodley Head, 1960-64, 6 volumes, volumes 1 & 2 revised editions, volumes 3-6 1st editions th...

Ted Hughes, 6 titles: 'Gaudete', London, Faber, 1977, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'Cave Birds: An Alchemical Cave Drama', L, Faber,...

A collection of assorted plays c.1960's and later, mainly Methuen and Faber & Faber, many 1st editions, including Alan Bennett, John Arden, Peter ...