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.....
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. 12mo. First US edition. Presentation inscription on the flyleaf: 'With all good wishes from the author, Daisy Ashford'. Original illustrated paper boards. Frontispiece of the author aged nine. Very slight pushing to the spine ends and corner tips. Author inscription in ink on.....
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.....
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.....
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1989. 4to. Limited edition. #222 of 550 copies. Signed by Samuel Beckett and Robert Ryman on the limitation page. Original black full morocco, gilt. Hand-sewn and bound at Garthegaat. Typeset in English Monotype Bodoni at Golgonooza Letterfoundry with new descending characters from punches cut.....
Dublin and London: The Dolmen Press and Calder & Boyars, June 1972. 4to. Limited edition. #100 of 250 signed, on the limitation page, by Samuel Beckett. Original black leather spine with blind-stamped ('ZONE') black cloth boards, gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Set in Perpetua type and printed and published.....
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: 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: The Bodley Head, 1949. 8vo. First edition. Original blue-grey cloth, gilt. Top edge stained maroon. Jacket by P. Vinten. Frontispiece illustration of Radnor Terrace, Sandgate, Kent. Ink presentation on the flyleaf, 'To Richard Ellmann, With admiration and all good wishes, from the Author. Jocelyn Brooke 27th April 1960 Bishopsbourne'.....
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.
Milsons Point, NSW, Australia: Knopf, 2005. 8vo. First Australian edition. Original grey cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
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: William Heinemann, 1923-36. 8vo. 30 volumes, set. Limited edition. #63 of 530 sets (of which 500 were for sale). Signed by the author on the limitation page of volume 1. Numbered in each volume. Original quarter vellum with parchment boards, gilt. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed and partly unopened.....
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.....
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.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. 8vo. First US paperback edition. First published in hardback in the UK by André Deutsch and by OUP in America. Original wraps in jacket. Presentation in black ink on the half-title, 'J. P. Griffin with the good wishes of Geoffrey Hill 7.xi.85'. Back panel.....
London: Andre Deutsch, 1979. 8vo. Second impression. First published in 1978. Original green hardcovers, gilt. Signed and dated in black ink on the title page. Unclipped d/w is faded on the spine and parts of the front panel. There is a nick to the top edge of the back panel.....
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.....
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: 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.....
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: John Murray, 1961. 4to. First edition. Original yellow cloth. Illustrated throughout by the author. Endpapers and edges very slightly foxed. D/w dust-soiled along the edges and with a very short closed tear to the top edge of the back panel. Author's compliments slip and the New Statesman's review loosely.....
London: John Murray, 1967. 8vo. Limited edition. No. 92 of 100 copies. Quarter white buckram, gilt, with marbled-paper boards in matching marbled-paper slipcase as issued. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Signed on the limitation page. Illustrated in line and colour by the author. With extra, loosely-inserted, black and white illustration.....
London: John Murray, 1967. 8vo. First edition. Original yellow cloth decorated in purple. Illustrated in line and colour by the author. With extra, loosely-inserted, black and white illustration, "'Sumer is icumen in' Uffington 1935", which includes the author as a flautist. Ink presentation, 'For John in gratitude, from Osbert', on.....
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.....