London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. 8vo. First edition. Special Author's Edition limited to 150 signed and numbered copies of which this is #102. Original blue buckram, gilt. Top edge gilt. Spine and edges of the front board faded. Occasional very slight foxing. Near fine. Dedicated 'To my creditors'!
Berkeley: Tangram, 1992. Tall 8vo. First edition. Limited to 180 copies. Original sewn pamphlet in wrappers with printed paper label on the front cover. Inscribed in ink on the title page, 'for dear Bayan with whom one can share so much and from whom one can learn. With admiration &.....
London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1913-1938. 8vo. 31 volumes, set. Limited edition of 1050 sets (see note below). Signed on the half-title of volume 1. Original buff quarter cloth with pale blue paper boards. Paper labels to spines (and spare label inserted at rear of each volume). Top edges gilt.....
London: Anthony Blond, 1963. 8vo. First edition. Original navy hardcovers, gilt. Jacket design by Bob Gill. Spine ends faded and top corner tips pushed. Edges a bit foxed. Signed by the author in blue ink on the half-title and inscribed, 'Oscar from Simon April, 1989' on the title page. D/w.....
Harmondsworth: King Penguin, 1985. 8vo. First edition. Paperback original. (A signed limited edition of 112 copies by André Deutsch followed in 1986.) Spine creased but firm. Pages tanning as usual. Signed and dated in black ink on the title page. Near fine. 'This King Penguin Original brings together for the.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. 8vo. First edition. Original off-white hardcovers, gilt. Jacket design reproduces Max Ernst's painting, The Eye of Silence. Signed "J. G. Ballard" in blue ink on the flyleaf. The same ink appears to have been used to score through the second "crystalline river" which has been printed.....
London: Constable, 2006. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Signed on the title page. Mint in d/w. The third novel by Michael Pearce featuring Seymour of Special Branch and set in the British embassies and consulates of Europe in the early 1900s.
London: Constable, 2009. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine d/w. The sixth novel by Michael Pearce featuring Seymour of Special Branch and set in the British embassies and consulates of Europe in the early 1900s.
London: Constable, 2004. 8vo. First edition. Original maroon hardcovers, gilt. Signed on the title page. Mint in d/w. The first novel by Michael Pearce featuring Seymour of Special Branch and set in the British embassies and consulates of Europe in the early 1900s.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1946. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Ink presentation on the flyleaf, 'To Yvonne (who asked for them) With love from Jocelyn'. Unclipped d/w with light toning to the spine and back panel, tiny loss to the spine ends and rubbing to the.....
London: Collins Crime, 1997. 8vo. First edition. Original ochre hardcovers, silvergilt. Signed on the title page. Mint in d/w. The first novel by Michael Pearce featuring Dmitri Kameron, a young lawyer of Scottish-Russian descent, in Tsarist Russia.
London: V & A Publishing, 2011. 4to. First edition. Original printed cloth. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Ink presentation by both authors on the half title. Fine in fine d/w. Loosely inserted are a postcard from Peyton Skipwith and his card with address added in ink. Both.....
London: The Two-Horse Press, 1968. Folio. Limited edition. #44 of 300 copies, signed by the artist. Original paper-covered booklet, printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge on paper made on the cylinder mould machine at Wookey Hole, Somerset. The type is Hermann Zapf's Palatino. With.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1986. 8vo. First edition. Original burgundy cloth, gilt. Top edge of text slightly foxed. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Signed by the author on the title page.
London: Constable, 1947. 8vo. First edition. Original lilac cloth, gilt. Top edge stained lilac. Colour lithograph frontispiece and jacket by John Piper. Spine slightly faded. Top edge stain a bit faded. Endpapers slightly foxed. Author's presentation, in green ink, on fly. Unclipped d/w is tanned on the spine, slightly foxed.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. 8vo. First edition. Original dark brown and cream hardcovers, gilt. Jacket design by Leigh Taylor. Poem in blue ink, signed and dated (Chichester 1965), on the flyleaf. Obituary of the author from The Independent in 2004 loosely inserted. Fine in fine d/w. The poem Ted Walker.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1940. 8vo. First edition. Original light blue cloth. Frontispiece of Cockerell and fifteen further (mostly photographic) plates of his correspondents including Tolstoy. Author's ink presentation on the flyleaf. Clipped d/w is tanned on the spine and a few nicks along the top edge. Near fine in very.....
London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1927. 8vo. Fourth impression. First published in 1922. Original maroon cloth, lettered in orange on the spine. Corner tips and spine ends slightly rubbed and pushed. Bookplate of David Isambard Sandelson to front pastedown. Ink presentation by the author to Sandelson on the flyleaf. Contents clean. Near.....
London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd, 1933. Small 8vo. First edition, first issue. Original quarter blue cloth, with printed paper label to spine and pink printed paper boards. Errata slip tipped-in at page 1. Spare paper label for the spine tipped-in at the back. Spine darkened. Covers faded, rubbed and little.....
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1961. 8vo. Limited edition. (First published in 1937.) #5 of 70 copies (only 50 for sale). Signed on the limitation page by the Author and T. S. Eliot. Original blue buckram, gilt, in acetate jacket as issued. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece and the illustration facing.....
Hayes: Bran's Head Books Ltd, 1976. 8vo. First edition. Original pale blue paper covers. Illustrations by Carol Gregory. Signed on the title page in blue ink by J. G. Ballard. Front cover lightly foxed. Slight foxing to fore edge and prelims. Near fine. Ballard contributes an Introduction to the bibliography.....
Westerham, Kent: Hurtwood Press in association with The Tate Gallery, 1983. Folio. First edition. Limited edition of 300 copies of which this is number 45. Signed by John Piper on the limitation page. Original marbled cloth binding by Smith Settle. Gilt to spine. Printed on French rag paper at Westerham.....
London & New York: Faber and Faber & Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. 8vo. Limited edition. #114 of 250 copies published by Faber and Faber (there were also 250 copies published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). Signed by Valerie Eliot on the colophon. Original quarter blue cloth, printed in black and gold.....
London: Macmillan, 1991. 8vo. First edition. Original green hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. Top edge a little spotted. Signed and dated on the title page. Near fine in near fine d/w.
London: Collins, 2003. 8vo. First UK edition, first impression. Original black hardcovers, silvergilt. Signed in black ink on the title page. Mint in d/w. The sequel to Sabriel and the middle volume of the Abhorsen trilogy. A brilliantly-realised adventure for fans of Philip Pullman or the later Harry Potter novels.....