The Blue Flower.
London: Flamingo, 1995. 8vo. First edition. Original blue hardcovers, gilt. Paper browning as usual (cheap stock) and neat ink ownership on the half-title. Near fine in fine d/w.
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Offshore.
London: Collins, 1979. 8vo. First edition. Original grey hardcovers, gilt. Top edge of text block a bit foxed. Clipped d/w (with publisher's price sticker) is slightly faded on the spine. Very good + in very good + d/w. Winner of the Booker Prize.
Innocence.
London: Collins, 1986. 8vo. First edition. Original brown hardcovers, gilt. Ink ownership on flyleaf. Clipped d/w is slightly faded on the spine. Very good + in very good + d/w.
Wide Sargasso Sea. Introduction by Francis Wyndham.
London: André Deutsch, 1966. 8vo. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt. Jacket design by Eric Thomas. Slight fading to the top edges of the cloth. Edges of the text block a little foxed. Faint offsetting to the free endpapers from the jacket flaps which are lightly foxed. Unclipped d/w is.....
Confessions of Zeno. Translated from the Italian by Beryl de Zoete. With a note on Svevo by Edouard Roditi.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1962. 8vo. Third (Uniform) edition. First UK publication in 1930. Original blue hardcovers, silvergilt. Jacket design by Ralph Mabey. Unclipped d/w slightly faded on the spine. Fine in near fine d/w. A lovely copy. Volume 1 in the Uniform Edition of Svevo's Works.
Imaginations. Five Experimental Prose Pieces. Kora in Hell; The Great American Novel; Spring and All; A Novelette and Other Prose; The Descent of Winter. Edited with introductions by Webster Schott.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1970. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Jacket design by Cherriwyn Magill. Fine in fine d/w.
The Rachel Papers.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. 8vo. First US edition. First published in the UK in 1973. Original ochre cloth, gilt. Top edge stained orange, others untrimmed. Jacket design by Ray Cruz. Inscribed in blue ink on the flyleaf, 'To Bayan with best wishes from Martin'. Unclipped d/w is faded.....
The Complete Tales of Henry James. Edited with an Introduction by Leon Edel.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962-4. 8vo. 12 volumes, set. First impressions. Original grey cloth, gilt. Top edges stained purple. Volumes 1-3 have an ink ownership on each flyleaf, otherwise the contents are clean. The unclipped d/ws are a little faded on the spines, as usual, and most have tiny nicks to.....
The Life of Jonathan Wild.
London: Oxford University Press, 1961. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1932. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket design by Mervyn Peake. Unclipped d/w just a little dust-marked. Fine in near fine d/w. #382 in The World's Classics.
Remembrance of Things Past. Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1960-1. 8vo. 12 vols, set. Uniform edition first issued in 1941. Illustrated edition published in 1957. This set contains reprints of that edition, most issued in 1960. Original blue cloth, gilt. Top edges stained a faded blue. Illustrated by Philippe Jullian. Jackets designed by Enid Marx.....
Captains Courageous. A Story of the Grand Banks.
London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1897. 8vo. Second impression one month after the first. Rebound in half navy leather, gilt, with marbled paper boards and endpapers by Hatchards of Piccadilly. All edges gilt. With illustrations by I. W. Taber. Light foxing throughout. Near fine.
Forlorn Sunset.
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.....
The Assassin.
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'!
Humdrum.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. 8vo. First edition. Original orange cloth, gilt. Top edge stained orange. Covers a bit marked. Bottom corners slightly rubbed. Contents clean. Very good +. The author's first novel.
Some World Far From Ours and 'Stay Corydon, Thou Swain'. being number Eighteen of The Woburn Books.
London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1929. 8vo. First edition. Limited edition. #108 of 530 (including 30 for presentation) copies. Signed on the limitation page. Original dove grey paper boards printed in lavender. Spine faded. Contents clean. Near fine. A nice copy, lacking the jacket, of the last of The Woburn.....
The Mortmere Stories. Introduced by Katherine Bucknell.
London: Enitharmon Press, 1994. 8vo. First edition. Limited edition. #37 of 50 signed, hardback copies. Original buff cloth, inset illustration to front board, gilt. In clear acetate jacket as issued. Images by Graham Crowley. As new. Signed on the limitation page by Edward Upward, Katherine Bucknell and Graham Crowley. 'This.....
Agnes Grey. The Clarendon Edition of the Novels of the Brontes. Edited by Hilda Marsden and Robert Inglesfield.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1988. 8vo. First edition thus. Original dark navy buckram, gilt. Unclipped d/w spine very slightly faded. Fine in fine d/w. The sixth volume to be published in the Clarendon Edition. Very uncommon.
Villette. The Clarendon Edition of the Novels of the Brontes. Edited by Herbert Rosengarten and Margaret Smith.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1987. 8vo. Second impression. First published in this edition in 1984. Original dark navy buckram, gilt. Contents clean. Unclipped d/w is a little faded on the spine and slightly rubbed at the top edge. Fine in near fine d/w. The fourth volume to be published in.....
Wuthering Heights. The Clarendon Edition of the Novels of the Brontes. Edited by Hilda Marsden and Ian Jack.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1976. 8vo. First edition thus. Original dark navy buckram, gilt. Contents clean. Price-clipped d/w has tiny loss to the spine ends and corner tips and is a little rubbed. Fine in very good + d/w. The second volume to be published in the Clarendon Edition. Very.....
The Bridge on the Drina. Translated by Lovett F. Edwards.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1959. 8vo. First UK edition. Original green hardcovers, lettered in orange on the spine. Top edge stained green. Front top corner slightly bumped. Neat ink ownership on fly. Tanned strips to free endpapers. Unclipped d/w ('18s. net') is a just a little rubbed at the.....
The History of Middle-earth. 1. The Book of Lost Tales, Part One; 2. The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two; 3. The Lays of Beleriand; 4. The Shaping of Middle-earth; 5. The Lost Road and other writings; 6. The Return of the Shadow; 7. The Treason of Isengard; 8. The War of the Ring; 9. Sauron Defeated; 10. Morgoth's Ring; 11. The War of the Jewels; 12. The Peoples of Middle-earth. Edited by Christopher Tolkien.
London: HarperCollins; George Allen & Unwin; Unwin Hyman, 1986-1996. 8vo. 12 volumes, set. Volumes 4 & 8-12 are first impressions. Volume 6 is a second impression in the year of publication (1988). The other volumes are first impressions under the HarperCollins imprint, first issued by George Allen & Unwin or.....
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