London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1970. 8vo. Second impression. First published in 1948. Original green cloth, gilt. Price-clipped d/w is a little rubbed and has two closed tears to the top edge which had been repaired with sellotape which has left a stain. Fine in very good + dust-wrapper.
Stroud: Amberley, 2015. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Colour and black and white photographic plate section. Mint in dust-wrapper.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1947. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Covers rubbed with lettering on spine becoming partially illegible. Ink presentation on half-title. Hinge cracked at title page. Top corners of some pages turned down throughout. Good +. From the library of The Right Honourable The Lord Boothby...
London: Peter Owen Ltd, 1966. 8vo. First UK edition. Original dark brown hardcovers, gilt. Ink ownership on front paste down. Price-clipped d/w toned on spine and with light rubbing to edges. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Picador, 1995. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers. Jacket illustration by Charles Burns. D/w very slightly faded on spine. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
London: Peter Owen, 1957. 8vo. First edition of this translation. Original brown cloth, gilt. D/w tanned and faded in places, with light edge wear. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1990. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Black and white photographic plate section. Blind embossed round ownership on title-page. D/w slightly faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1940. 8vo. First edition. Original printed paper boards. Toned on spine. Armourial bookplate to front pastedown. Near fine. The wood-engraver's autobiography also details the techniques of engraving and the collaborative process of making illustrations for books and jackets.
London: Harvill, 1992. 8vo. First edition. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Partly because it is told from the point of view of a soldier and not an officer this is, in my opinion, one of the best memoirs of the Second World War.
London: The Bodley Head, 1971. 8vo. First edition. Original dark green cloth, gilt. Top edge stained purple. Jacket by Michael Harvey. D/w price-clipped. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: The Bodley Head, 1980. 8vo. First edition. Original dark green cloth, gilt. Top edge stained green. Jacket by Michael Harvey. D/w price-clipped. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. A companion to A Sort of Life, these are reflections on his life of travel inspired by writing new introductions for...
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1933. 8vo. First edition. Original printed cloth. Cover design by William Nicholson. Frontispiece of Mells Manor House from a drawing by Nicholson. Other drawings and half-tone photographs throughout the book. Covers faded, rubbed and toned, with pushing to spine ends. Binding firm and contents clean. Very...
London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1962. 8vo. First UK edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Jacket design by Charles Gorham. Slightly cocked. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. First published in Italy in 1961.
London: Alan Ross Ltd, 1965. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. very slight foxing to edges of text block and prelims. D/w price-clipped and tanned on the spine, but in much better state than is often the case. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Incomplete at the time of...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. 12mo. Reprint. First published in 1920. Issued in The Travellers' Library in 1927. First thus. Original blue cloth, gilt. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. #47 in The Travellers' Library published by Jonathan Cape between 1926 and 1939.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1926. 12mo. Reprint. First published in 1924. Issued in The Travellers' Library in 1926. Second impression. Original blue cloth, gilt. Some foxing to fore edge. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. #7 in The Travellers' Library published by Jonathan Cape between 1926 and 1939.
London: Oxford University Press, 1963. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1924. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. D/w with light edge wear and two tiny closed tears. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. #262 in The World's Classics.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. 12mo. Reprint. First published in 1920. Issued in The Travellers' Library in 1927. First thus. Original blue cloth, gilt. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. #62 in The Travellers' Library published by Jonathan Cape between 1926 and 1939.
London: William Heinemann, 1976-82. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. Volume 1 is a second impression, the others are first impressions. Original dark grey hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. Volume 1 has a neat ink ownership on the fly. D/w spines uniformly very slightly faded with light shelf wear...
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. 8vo. First English edition. First published in France ('Les Mots') in 1964. Original black cloth, gilt. Ink ownership on fly. Near fine. Memoirs of youth. From the library of The Right Honourable The Lord Boothby KBE (1900-1986).
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1969. 8vo. First edition. Original burgundy cloth, gilt. Very slight dampstaining and discolouration to top edge of text block and lower panel of d/w. D/w and front endpapers stamped 'File Copy'. Very short closed tear to foot of spine and '69' (publication year) in ink at...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1945. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. 'S.34' in pencil on fly. Stamped 'Archive Copy' on title page. D/w dust-soiled, rubbed along edges and faded on spine. 'W' ringed in pencil on front panel and '45' (publication year) in ink at top of back joint...
Stratford-upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1929. 8vo. Modern maroon full morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers ruled in gilt, spine decorated in gilt with raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Fine. From The Shakespeare Head edition of the Novels of Anthony Trollope, limited to 525 sets of which...
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege for Oxford University Press, 1950. Crown 8vo. First thus. First published in two volumes in 1883. Original brown buckram, gilt. Frontispiece photograph reproducing a page from Trollope's manuscript in the British Museum. With contemporary illustrations chosen by John Johnson. Slight foxing to fore edge, end papers and...
London: Headline, 2004. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.