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The Handling of Words (1927)
An early edition of Vernon Lee's studies in literary psychology
Vernon Lee, pseud. Violet Paget
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1927
£40.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First thus
George Orwell, non-fiction and selected essays & journalism (1980, first thus)
Containing Down and Out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia, Selections from Essays and Journalism 1931 to 1949 (including Such, Such Were the Joys and The Lion and the Unicorn), and The Road to Wigan Pier. Complete and Unabridged
George Orwell
Secker & Warburg / Octopus, London, 1980
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Psycho (1989, first Tor edition)
The first printing in very good condition
Robert Bloch, cover art by Joe DeVito
Tor, New York, 1989
£20.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First thus
The Complete Works of Shakesperare
1954, with a signed Christmas card from Ursula and Ralph Vaughan Williams
William Shakespeare, edited by W J Craig
Geoffrey Cumberlege / OUP, Oxford, 1954
£50.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy | First thus
Corydon
A good hardback edition of Gide's Socratic dialogues on homosexuality
Andre Gide, translated with a preface by Richard Howard
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1983
£15.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Nausea, The Wall and other stories
Jean-Paul Sartre's 1938 novel and short fiction
Jean-Paul Sartre, introduction by Hayden Carruth, translated by Lloyd Alexander
MJF Books, New York, 1998
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Wind, Sand and Stars (1939, first BC edition)
Antoine de Saint Exupery's memoir, this being the first Book Club edition
Antoine de Saint Exupery, translated by Lewis Galatiere, decorated by John O'H Cosgrave, II
Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1939
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus | Illustrated
The Conquered (1927)
Naomi Mitchison's first book, a tale of the Roman defeat of Gaul
Naomi Mitchison
Jonathan Cape, London, 1927
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
Walter Pater, four first printings in the pocket edition
Marius the Epicurean, Imaginary Portraits, The Renaissance, and Appreciations
Walter Pater
Macmillan, London, 1924
£25.00
Collections | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
En Campagne 1914–1915, Impressions d'un Officier de Legere (1918)
Marcel Dupont WW1 memoirs, this edition for English students
Marcel Dupont, edited by G-C Bosset
George G. Harrap, London, 1918
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
Armand Rassenfosse, 30 colour plates for Les Fleurs du Mal
1930, limited edition, Trente Compositions aux Crayons de Couleur de Rassenfosse pour Les Fleurs du Mal de Charles Baudelaire
Armand Rassenfosse
Dorbon-Ainé, Paris, 1930
£180.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Limited Editions | First thus | Illustrated | Slipcase
Thais (1948, in a unique leather binding)
With 10 colour lithographs by Suzanne Ballivet, and from the library of Gordon R Smith with a signed Lynn Paula Russell bookplate
Anatole France, illustrated by Suzanne Ballivet
Aux Editions du Livre, Monte Carlo, 1948
£120.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | First thus | Illustrated | Slipcase
The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf
A 1994 facsimile of S B Miles' 1920 two volume edition
Colonel S B MIles, introduction by Robin Bidewell
Garnet Publishing, Reading, 1994
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Cesare Pavese, Selected Poems (Signed copy)
This copy signed and dedicated by translator and editor, Margaret Crosland
Cesare Pavese, edited and translated with a foreword by Margaret Crosland
Penguin Books, London, 1971
£20.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy | First thus
The Turmoil (First thus, 1915)
From Louis Conard's Standard Collection of British and American Authors series
Booth Tarkington
Louis Conard, Paris, 1915
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and other poems
1913, a pocket hardback edition of Christina Rossetti's verse
Christina G Rossetti
Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1913
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First thus
Oeuvres de Maistre François Villon
1969, full leather, with illustrations by Émile Bernard. Printed with ink mixed with gold powder.
Francois Villon, illustrated by Émile Bernard
Jean de Bonnot, Paris, 1969
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus | Illustrated
Twilight of the Pistons (Signed first edition)
Malcolm Finnis' history of Air Ferry Limited at Manston Airport
Malcolm Finnis
M J Finnis, Eastbourne, 1997
£20.00
Transport | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | First thus
A Bit of Blood (1959)
Twelve short stories by Arnold Zweig
Arnold Zweig
Seven Seas Books, Berlin, 1959
£10.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First thus
The New British Traveller; or, a Modern Panorama of England and Wales
1819, volume 1, Bedfordshire to Cumberland, with 8 maps and 10 engraved plates
James Dugdale
J Robins, London, 1819
£60.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus | Illustrated
Double Edge (Signed copy)
First paperback edition, signed by Dennis Etchison
Dennis Etchison
Dell, New York, 1997
£15.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First thus
Anno Dracula (Signed paperback edition)
Signed by Kim Newman with a small smiley vampire face!
Kim Newman
Pocket Books, London, 1993
£20.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First thus
The Cell and Other Transmorphic Tales (Multi-signed copy)
Signed by David Case, Stephen Jones, Kim Newman, and one other...
David Case, edited with an introduction by Stephen Jones, afterword by Kim Newman
Valancourt Books, Richmond, VA, 2015
£50.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First thus
The Moorstone Sickness
2015 reissue of Bernard Taylor's 1982 classic horror
Bernard Taylor, with a new introduction by Mark Morris
Valancourt Books, Richmond, VA, 2015
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
Seconds
First paperback edition of David Ely's dark, existential thriller
David Ely
Four Square, London, 1965
£20.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First thus
