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.
Fiction
Watership Down.
London: Rex Collings, 1972. 8vo. First edition. Original light brown cloth, gilt. Folding coloured map at rear. Slight mottling to the cloth at the spine ends and along the bottom edge of both boards. Bottom corner tips gently pushed. Small tape mark to the front pastedown where the A.L.S. was.....
The Tower of London. An Historical Romance.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1925. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1910. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Silk marker ribbon. Spine a bit faded. Covers dulled and a little marked. Very slight foxing to endpapers. Very good. #162 in The.....
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 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.....
Emma. With an Introduction by E. V. Lucas.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1929. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1907. Original green pebble grain 'moroccoette', gilt. Rounded corners. All edges stained green. Ink presentation on fly. Near fine. #129 in The World's Classics. A variant binding.
The Novels of Jane Austen. The Winchester Edition.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1905. 8vo. 10 volumes, set. Half dark blue crushed morocco by Bayntun-Riviere over blue cloth, gilt. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Marbled paper endpapers. Tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece in volume 1. Fine. Most of the novels are printed as two volumes. A very smart set of this handsome.....
Sense and Sensibility. With an Introduction by Lord David Cecil.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1947. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1931. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Endpapers a bit tanned. Near fine. #389 in The World's Classics.
The Crystal World.
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.....
The Disaster Area.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. 8vo. First edition. Original hardcovers, silvergilt. Small bookseller's label (Jockel's Books) on the front pastedown. Unclipped d/w is slightly faded on the spine, rubbed along the edges, has a crease towards the bottom edge of the front panel and some faint damp-staining to the top and.....
Empire of the Sun.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1984. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Pages browned as usual (poor quality stock). D/w price-clipped and very slightly faded on the spine. Near fine in near fine d/w. First state jacket with quotations from Graham Greene and Angela Carter on the back panel...
Hello America.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. 8vo. First edition. Original tan hardcovers, lettered in black. Jacket design by Bill Botten. Tiny chip to the head of the d/w spine, otherwise fine in fine d/w.
High-Rise.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. 8vo. First edition. Original blue hardcovers, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Jacket design by Craig Dodd. Slight shelf lean. Covers a little faded. Ink ownerships on both front endpapers. Unclipped d/w a bit creased, rubbed and dust-soiled. Very good in very good d/w.
Myths of the Near Future.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. 8vo. First edition. Original navy hardcovers, gilt. Jacket design by Bill Botten. Fine in fine d/w. A collection of short stories. A lovely copy.
The Stars My Destination; Childhood's End; Neuromancer; Sea of Tranquility & Snow Crash.
London: Gollancz; Tor; Picador & Penguin Books, 2010-22. 8vo. 5 volumes. Paperbacks. As new. A bundle of classic science fiction novels from the 1950s to the present day. An opportunity to sample two masterpieces of the genre from the 1950s (Childhood's End and The Stars My Destination), Gibson's cyberpunk blast.....
Lavengro. The Scholar, The Gipsy, The Priest.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1904. Original green pebble grain 'moroccoette', gilt. Rounded corners. All edges stained green. Spine faded. Endpapers lightly foxed. Neat ink ownership on front pastedown. Very good + in slightly rubbed slipcase. #66 in The.....
Lavengro. The Scholar, The Gipsy, The Priest.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1904. Original full brown grained leather, with embossed lettering and borders to the front cover and spine, gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Spien ends and corner tips just a little rubbed. The.....
Lavengro. The Scholar, The Gipsy, The Priest.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1904. Original blue cloth imitating grained leather. Spine embossed, gilt. Front cover embossed with the title and a winged torch emblem. Top edge stained blue. Fine. #66 in The World's Classics. A variant binding.....
Lavengro. The Scholar, The Gipsy, The Priest.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1904. Original navy calf, gilt. All edges gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Just a little rubbing to the spine ends and corner tips. Endpapers slightly foxed. Near fine. #66 in The World's Classics. A superior.....
Lavengro. The Scholar, The Gipsy, The Priest.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1907. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1904. Original green cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Covers slightly dulled and rubbed. Near fine. #66 in The World's Classics.
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.
Jane Eyre. An Autobiography.
London: Oxford University Press, 1938. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1901. Original navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Silk marker ribbon. Covers a little marked. Near fine. #1 in The World's Classics.
The Professor. to which are added The Poems of Charlotte, Emily, & Anne Bronte.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1933. Pott 8vo. Reprint. Second impression. First published in the World's Classics in 1906. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Top edge stained blue. Spine faded. Near fine. #78 in The World's Classics.
Shirley. A Tale.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1938. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1902. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Spine ends slightly rubbed. Neat ink presentation, dated 1945, on fly. Near fine. #14 in The World's Classics.
Shirley. A Tale.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1910. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1902. Original green cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Covers a bit marked and rubbed. Neat ink ownership on prelim. Very good. #14 in The World's Classics.