London: Picador, 1995. 8vo. First UK edition of this translation. Original half black cloth with black paper-covered boards. Jackets and slipcase designed by Chip Kidd and Barabara de Wilde. Mint in slipcase.
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1977. 8vo. First edition. Original blue hardcovers, gilt. Top edge lightly foxed. D/w with trivial loss to corner tips but also three very short closed tears which have been repaired on the reverse. Near fine in very good dust-wrapper. A nice copy of a......
London: Collins, 1990. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Set in Cambridge in 1912, this is as wryly amusing as any of the author's other wonderful novels. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1990.
London: Hutchinson, 1975. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, silvergilt. D/w spine very slightly faded. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. The author's second novel and one of the classics of the spy genre. 'To say that the assassination of John F. Kennedy is at the heart of The Tears of.....
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege for Oxford University Press, 1948-54. Crown 8vo. 11 volumes, set. Firsts thus. First published between 1864 and 1880. Original brown buckram, gilt. Issued in powder blue slipcases in two volumes, except for The Duke's Children. With illustrations by Lynton Lamb, T.L.B. Huskinson, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Hector Whistler and.....
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege for Oxford University Press, 1952. Crown 8vo. First thus. First published in 1855. Original brown buckram, gilt. Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Offsetting to front endpapers from a loose insert (newspaper clipping?) now lost. D/w very slightly rubbed. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
New York and London: Vincent Parke and Company, 1911. 8vo. 15 volumes, set. Number 72 of 500 numbered sets signed by the registrar R.G. Lancaster on the limitation page of volume 1. Original red cloth, gilt. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Text in English. Coloured photograph of the Prince of.....
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1957. 8vo. Third impression. First published in one volume in 1935. Original blue cloth, gilt. Top edge stained red. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Six volumes in one.
London and New York: University Press, Cambridge for Constable and Company Limited and Richard R. Smith Inc, 1929. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Limited edition of 1000 copies. First complete edition. Text in original French. Original navy buckram, gilt. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With black and white plates. Armourial bookplate.....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. First editions thus. Original navy cloth, gilt. Neat ink ownership to each fly. D/ws price-clipped with a nick to the top edge of the front panel of volume 1. Near fine in near fine d/ws. From The Wesleyan Edition of the.....
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, [1984]. 8vo. Reprint. First published in this edition in 1967. Original red cloth, gilt. D/w slightly faded on the spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. From The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1965. 8vo. Reprint. First published in 1942. Original burgundy hardcovers, silvergilt. D/w and title page designed by Duncan Grant. D/w ver slightly rubbed along the top edges. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Max Reinhardt, 1953. 8vo. First edition. Original pink cloth, gilt. Jacket design by A.J. Yates. Very slight dust marking to d/w. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. A very nice copy of an uncommon book.
London: Max Reinhardt, 1955. Small 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Jacket design by Biro. D/w very slightly faded on spine and with two tiny nicks to the bottom edge of the front panel. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: The Cresset Press, 1964. 8vo. Reprint. First published by the Cresset Press in 1947. Original navy hardcovers, gilt. Jacket design by Zelma Blakely. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. 8vo. First edition, first impression. Original red cloth, gilt. Title page headpiece and d/w by the author. Neat ink ownership on fly. D/w tanned to spine, with a short closed tear to the bottom edge of the back panel and some trivial loss to the.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1976. 8vo. First edition. Original green hardcovers, gilt. Jacket painting by Tom Adams. Mark across spine just below lettering. D/w faded to spine and with very slight rubbing to tips. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. By the author of This Sporting Life, this novel won the.....
London: The Bodley Head, 1986. 8vo. First edition. Original grey hardcovers, gilt. D/w faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Twelve stories with Irish, English or Italian settings.
London: The Bodley Head, 1983. 8vo. First edition. Original blue hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. A novel, set in Co. Cork and Dorset, "that shows love darkened by the power of ancient passions"
London: The Bodley Head, 1980. 8vo. First edition. Original maroon hardcovers, gilt. Jacket by Hilary Scott. D/w faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. "The world of Francis and the world of Julia are both worlds tragically, but very differently, flawed by illusion. The worlds collide, and the collision.....
London: The Bodley Head, 1976. 8vo. First edition. Original green hardcovers, gilt. Jacket by John Walsh. Clear acetate has been used to attach the jacket to the book. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Dynmouth is a pretty little seaside resort on the Dorset Coast but the town is host.....
London: The Bodley Head, 1969. 8vo. First edition. Original navy hardcovers, gilt. Jacket by Derrick Greaves. D/w slightly rubbed at edges. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1970. The tragedy of O'Neill's Hotel in Dublin proves elusive for the unhappy Ivy Eckdorf.
London: The Bodley Head, 1966. 8vo. First edition. Original turquoise hardcovers, gilt. Jacket by Stephen Russ. Very slight foxing to half-title. A couple of nicks and a very short closed tear to the top edge of the front panel of the d/w. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. A novel.....
London: The Bodley Head, 1978. 8vo. First edition. Original terracotta hardcovers, gilt. Jacket by David Hughes. D/w faded to spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. A collection of stories. "The human failings that lend the stories their light or sombre hues are familiar to everyone, yet the shock of recognition.....
London & New York: The Nonesuch Press & Random House, Inc, 1939. 8vo. Second impression. First edition in 1934. Original brown buckram with bevelled boards, gilt. Top edge stained brown. Damp-stain to margin of last fifty pages and rear endpaper, not affecting text. D/w slightly rubbed and nicked. Near fine.....