Browse by Subject Category—Fiction

The Spy, A Tale of the Neutral Ground
Half-leather bound, 1831, the first single volume edition with a new introduction by J F Cooper
J Fenimore Cooper
Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, London, 1831
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus

The Water Witch, or The Skimmer of the Seas
Half-leather bound, 1834, the first single volume edition with a new introduction by J F Cooper
J Fenimore Cooper
Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, London, 1834
£70.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus

War and Peace
The Everyman's Library 3 volume edition of Tolstoy's classic (Numbers 525, 526 and 527)
Leo Tolstoy
J M Dent, London, 1958
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper

Heaven in Your Hand (Signed copy)
Signed by Norah Lofts, the first US printing, a collection of 16 short stories
Norah Lofts
Doubleday, New York, 1958
£38.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

An Episode of Sparrows
1956 first edition in dustwrapper of Rumer Godden's post-war classic
Rumer Godden
Macmillan, London, 1956
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Commitments
1988, the first UK issue in paperback
Roddy Doyle
William Heinemann, London, 1988
£12.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions

A La Recherche du Bonheur
1885, signed by Scottish educationalist Sophie Weisse
Leo Tolstoy, as Comte Leon Tolstoi, traduit et precede d'une preface par M E Halperne
Perrin et Cie, Paris, 1885
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound

Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit (1579)
and Euphues and his England (1580), two volumes bound as one, published 1868 in Arber's English Reprint series
John Lyly, carefully edited by Edward Arber
Alex Murray & Son, London, 1868
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus

The Semi-Detached House & The Semi-Detached Couple
1928, hardback copies of Emily Eden's two novels
Emily Eden, with introductions by Anthony Eden and John Gore
Elkin Mathews & Marrot Ltd, London, 1928
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover

Jane Austen in Australia (Signed copy)
First edition, signed by Barbara Ker Wilson
Barbara Ker Wilson
Secker & Warburg, London, 1984
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Kipps, The Story of a Simple Soul
1905, first edition of the novel H G Wells's considered his favourite
H G Wells
Macmillan, London, 1905
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions

Therese
1928, the first UK edition of Francois Mauriac's classic novel
Francois Mauriac, translated by Eric Sutton
Martin Secker, London, 1928
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions

H G Wells, The Argonauts of the Air (1895)
A first edition of Wells's short story, printed in Phil May's Winter Annual 1895, bound with Hood's Comic Annual for 1877
H G Wells, et al, including Violet Hunt, John Davidson etc
The Office, London, 1895
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions

People of the Black Mountains 1: The Beginning
1989, the first printing of the first volume of Raymond Williams' immense Welsh history novel
Raymond Williams
Chatto & Windus, London, 1989
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

My Friend My Father (Signed copy)
Signed by Jane Duncan, the second printing, and thirteenth of the author's "Friends" series
Jane Duncan
Macmillan, London, 1967
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Prince Otto, A Romance
1906, a fine blue leather Bumpus binding on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1885 novel
Robert Louis Stevenson
Chatto & Windus, London, 1906
£60.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound

Kidnapped
1912 edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel in a fine blue leather Bumpus binding
Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by W B Hole
Cassell, London, 1912
£120.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound

They Went
A first edition of Norman Douglas' second novel, rebound in half-leather
Norman Douglas
Chapman & Hall, London, 1920
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound

Binko's Blues, A Tale for Children of All Growths
1884, first edition. A whimsical fantasy novel in the original decorative binding
Herman Charles Merivale, illustrated by Edgar Giberne
Chapman & Hall, London, 1884
£60.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated

Action and other stories
1928, first edition. C E Montague's last book, a collection of his short stories
C E Montague
Chatto & Windus, London, 1928
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Messengers Will Come No More (Signed copy)
First edition, signed by Leslie A Fiedler to Arnold Wesker, a work of speculative fiction
Leslie A Fiedler
Stein and Day, New York, 1974
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

1st Culprit, A Crime Writers' Annual (Multi-signed copy)
Signed by Robert Barnard, Liza Cody, H R F Keating, Susan Moody and Michael Z Lewin.
Liza Cody, and Michael Z Lewin (editors)
Chatto & Windus, London, 1992
£14.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Music for the Off-Key (Signed copy)
First edition, signed by Courttia Newland, twelve macabre short stories
Courttia Newland
Peepal Tree Press, Leeds, 2006
£14.95
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

A Life Elsewhere (Signed copy)
Signed and dated by Segun Afolabi
Segun Afolabi
Jonathan Cape, London, 2006
£10.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

Buddenbrooks, Verfall einer Familie
1906; An early German hardback printing of Thomas Mann's classic novel in the original decorative cloth
Thomas Mann
S Fischer, Berlin, 1906
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover