Books and Ephemera

Poetry, a collection of approx. 55 titles, including Thom Gunn, R.S. Thomas, Kathleen Raine, Peter Reading, Elizabeth Jennings, Roger McGough, Bri...

A collection of 30+ assorted poetry titles, including W.B. Yeats: 'The Hour Glass: a Morality', London, Bullen, 1907, 1st edition thus, the first ...

Ronald Duncan, 5 titles, all 1st edition, 1st impressions, all formerly the copies of David Higham (1895-1978), literary agent, 4 of which signed ...

John Osborne, 2 titles: 'Look Back in Anger', London, Faber, 1957, 1st edition, original Cambridge Arts Theatre 1957 programme for the play loosel...

W.B. Yeats: 'Stories of Red Hanrahan and The Secret Rose', London, Macmillan, 1927, 1st edition, 2 colour plates + b/w illustrations and decoratio...

Charles A. Read: 'The Cabinet of Irish Literature', London, Blackie, 1879-1880, 4 volumes, portrait plates, uniform original publisher's decorativ...

James Joyce: 'Ulysses', Paris, Shakespeare & Company, May 1930, 11th printing, 735,[1]pp, original cyan wraps (slightly chipped and worn with some...

Vladimir Nabokov: 'Lolita', Jerusalem, for the Olympia Press, 1955, 1st Israeli edition, original green printed wraps

Patrick J. Kearney: 'The Paris Olympia Press: An Annotated Bibliography', London, Black Spring Press, 1987, limited edition, number 151 of 750 cop...

Vita Sackville-West: 'Nursery Rhymes', London, Michael Joseph, 1950, 1st trade edition, signed by the author on FFEP, illustrations by Philippe Ju...

Walt Whitman: 'Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman 1855. 1888. Authenticated & Personal Book (handled by W.W.). Portraits from Life. Autograph'...

John Hersey: 'Hiroshima', New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1946, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper. Regarded as one of the earliest example...

Leslie Fry [i.e. Paquita Louise de Shishmareff, born Louise A. Chandor]: 'Waters Flowing Eastward', Chatou, France, British American Press, 1934, ...

Cecil Beaton: 'Ashcombe. The Story of a Fifteen-Year Lease', London, B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1949, 1st edition, colour frontis + numerous b/w illustra...

Stella Gibbons: 'Cold Comfort Farm', London, Longmans, 1932, 1st edition, original cloth (rubbed, worn)

John Buchan, 4 titles: 'Sir Quixote of the Moors', London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1895, 1st edition, 188pp + [4]pp adverts at end, original pictorial cl...

John Galsworthy, 2 titles: 'Two Forsyte Interludes: A Silent Wooing Passers By', London, Heinemann, 1927, limited edition, number 168 of 500, numb...

P.G. Wodehouse, 2 titles: 'The Code of the Woosters', London, Herbert Jenkins, 1938, 1st edition, original cloth (worn), 'Bill the Conqueror', NY,...

'The Daily Telegraph Crossword Puzzle Book', London, [1930], 66,[2]pp, 50 crosswords (all blank/not filled in), followed by 13 pages of solutions ...

John Hadfield: 'Love on a Branch Line', London, Hutchinson, 1959, 1st edition, signed in blue ink by author on FFEP, original cloth gilt, dust wra...

Two classic Jazz age novels, comprising Anita Loos: "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady', illustrated Ralph B...

E.M. Forster, 2 titles: 'Howards End', London, Edward Arnold, 1910, 1st edition, seemingly an intermediate issue, with both the 4pp. integral adve...

George Orwell [i.e. Eric Arthur Blair]: 'The Road to Wigan Pier', London, Victor Gollancz/Left Book Club, 1937, 1st edition, 1st impression, 33 bl...

George Orwell: 'Down and Out in Paris and London.', London, Victor Gollancz, 1933, 1st edition, 3rd impression, original black cloth (slightly bum...

George Orwell [i.e. Eric Blair]: 'The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius', London, Secker & Warburg, 1941, 1st edition, origin...

Feodor Gladkov: 'Cement', London, Martin Lawrence Ltd, 1929, 1st UK edition, original pictorial paper covered boards by E. Verney. A classic of so...

A box of mainly 1920's-30's Left-wing papers, including 'Nueva Luz', 3 issues of the Cuban Socialist weekly, comprising 10 May, 25 June & 5 Septem...

(Counter Culture, Black Power, Activism.) A collection of radical and alternative/underground periodicals and magazines from the late 1960's/early...

Nancy Mitford: 'Christmas Pudding', London, Thornton Butterworth, 1932, 1st edition, frontis + b/w line illustrations by Mark Ogilvie-Grant, origi...

Sebastian Faulks, 9 titles, of which 7 signed, all published London, Hutchinson or Penguin, including: 'Human Traces', 2005, 1st edition, limited ...

Kazuo Ishiguro: 'Never Let Me Go', London, Faber & Faber, 2005, 1st edition, signed leaf bound in between FFEP and half title, original paper cove...

Kazuo Ishiguro: 'The Remains of the Day', London, Faber & Faber, 1989, 1st edition, signed leaf bound in between FFEP and half title, original clo...

V.S. Naipaul: 'In a Free State', London, Andre Deutsch, 1971, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (£1.75 price intact). The author's 19...

Margaret Thatcher, 4 titles, all signed first UK editions, first impressions, all published London, Harper Collins, all original cloth gilt, 'The ...

Wilfred Thesiger: 'Desert, Marsh and Mountain. The World of a Nomad', London, Collins, 1979, 1st edition, signed by Thesiger to title page, profus...

John Hunt: 'The Ascent of Everest', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1953, 1st edition, signed bookplate by the author and leader of the successful 195...

Laurie Lee, the autobiographical trilogy: 'Cider With Rosie', London, The Hogarth Press, 1959, 1st edition, signed piece mounted on title page, or...

Patrick Leigh Fermor Trilogy, all first editions, all published London, John Murray, all original cloth, all in unclipped dust wrappers, comprisin...

George R.R. Martin, 3 titles: 'A Dance with Dragons', London, Voyager (HarperCollins), 2011, 1st edition, 1st impression, original cloth, dust wra...

George R.R. Martin: 'A Feast for Crows', London, Voyager (HarperCollins), 2005, 1st edition, 1st impression, boldly signed in black ink on title p...

George R.R. Martin: 'A Storm of Swords', London, Voyager (HarperCollins), 2000, 1st edition, 1st impression, boldly signed in black ink on title p...

George R.R. Martin: 'A Clash of Kings', London, Voyager (HarperCollins), 1998, 1st edition, 2nd impression, boldly signed by the author in black i...

Steven Erikson, 4 novellas, of which 3 limited editions signed, all published by PS Publishing: 'The Healthy Dead', 2004, limited edition, No. 167...

Steven Erikson, complete set of ten 'Malazan Book of the Fallen' series novels, all 1st editions, 1st impressions, all UK editions published Banta...

A collection of various fantasy fiction novels, including Robin Hobb 'The Liveship Traders' trilogy, all published London, Voyager, all original c...

Ian Cameron Esslemont, 2 titles: 'Night of Knives', PS Publishing, 2005, limited edition, No. 57 of 300 numbered hardcover copies, signed by Essle...

Five assorted science fiction and fantasy titles, including E.C. Tubb, 2 titles: 'Death God's Doom', Cosmos Books, 1999, 1st edition, (200 copies ...

(Sax Rohmer.) A bound volume of the periodical 'John Bull', July 2-December 31 1949, volume 86, Nos 2244-2270, formerly the copy of George Locke, ...

(Edgar Wallace.) Two early 20th Century periodicals, "Our Empire" Magazine, April 1928-March 1929, volume 4, No.'s 1-12, formerly the copy of Geo...

(Science Fiction, Weird Fiction.) 'The "Grand" the All-Fiction Monthly', London, George Newnes, March to August 1911, volume 13, formerly the cop...

'Jeannie Maitland's Stories and Pansy Stories', July 6 1912-December 21 1912, volume 3 No.'s 52-77 bound in one volume, contemporary cloth gilt, o...

'Horner's Pocket Library', collection of eight assorted bound volumes 1902-1907, comprising Jan-March 1902 #82-94, April-June 1902 #95-107, April-...

Bram Stoker: 'Dracula', London, Rider & Co., 1931, 19th edition, original decorative cloth, replenished FFEP, inner joints repaired/reinforced, fr...

Bram Stoker: 'Dracula', London, William Rider & Son Ltd., 1912, 9th edition, 404pp + 2pp adverts at end, original decorative blindstamped cloth, s...

Susan Hill, 3 ghost stories: 'The Mist in the Mirror', London, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992, 1st edition, original cloth lettered in silver, dust wrap...

Charles Lloyd Birkin (ed.): 'Thrills: A Collection of Uneasy Tales', London, Philip Allan, 1935, 1st edition, original cloth. Original anthology c...

Dennis Bardens: 'Ghosts and Hauntings', London, The Zeus Press, 1965, 1st edition, 16 b/w illustrations from photographs + 2 full page b/w ills. o...

(Fantasy, Gothic Horror.) E.T.A. Hoffmann: 'Weird Tales', translated J.T. Bealby, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, [1923], 344pp, original cloth...

(Tibetan Buddhism.) W.Y. Evans-Wentz: 'The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or, The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Da...

Yogi Ramacharaka: 'Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism; Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism', Chicago...