Browse by Subject Category—Fiction
The Pursuer
1962, the first UK edition of Gunther Weisenborn's thriller Der Verfolger
Gunther Weisenborn, translated from the German by Paul Selver
William Heinemann, London, 1962
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Midnight on the Place Pigalle
1932, first UK edition of Maurice Dekobra's Minuit... Place Pigalle
Maurice Dekobra, translated from the French by Metcalfe Wood, with twelve woodcuts by Jean Oberle
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1932
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Long Fourth & other stories
1948, Peter Taylor's first collection of short stories
Peter Taylor, introduction by Robert Penn Warren
Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1948
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Strange Fruit
Lillian Smith's debut novel of interracial love
Lillian Smith, dustwrapper by Hans Tisdall
The Cresset Press, London, 1945
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Erotic Tales of Old Russia
1988, bilingual edition, and quite fruity...
Aleksander Afanas'ev, compiler, selected and translated by Yury Perkov, illustrated by Alek Rapoport
Scythian Books, Oakland, 1988
£20.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Illustrated
Six Volumes from Proust's Remembrance of Things Past
Cities of the Plain, The Sweet Cheat Gone, The Captive & Time Regained (1936—1970)
Marcel Proust, translated by C K Scott Moncrieff, four illustrated by Philippe Jullian
Various, London and New York, n.d.
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Seagull and Sea-Power
1937, a novel in the footsteps of Erskine Childers' Dulcibella and the Frisian Islands
Douglas and Mary Dixon
William Blackwood & Sons, London, 1937
£35.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Autobiography of a Cad
1938, a first printing of A G Macdonell's hilarious spoof memoir of a complete rotter
A G Macdonell
Macmillan, London, 1938
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Helbeck of Bannisdale
1898, a first edition of Mrs Humphrey Ward's Lake District romance
Mrs Humphrey Ward
Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1898
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Kidnapped
1912, Robert Louis Stevenson's novel in a fine blue half-leather binding by Bumpus
Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by W B Hole
Cassell, London, 1912
£120.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
In this House of Brede
1969, a hardback first edition of Rumer Godden's sensitive novel
Rumer Godden
Macmillan, London, 1969
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Mama (Uncorrected Proof Copy)
1987, a UK proof copy of Terry McMIllan's first novel
Terry McMillan
Jonathan Cape, London, 1987
£30.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions
An Unexpected Gift: Three Christmas Stories (Signed copy)
Signed by Marcel Theroux
Marcel Theroux, artwork by Alice Smith
Rough Trade, London, 2018
£20.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Je Vous Ai Desiree Un Soir...
Rene Boylesve's tale of adolescence, with woodcuts by Paul Baudier
Rene Boylesve, woodcuts by Paul Baudier
Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1928
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Marie-Claire
1928, Marguerite Audoux's tale of rural France in the early twentieth century
Marguerite Audoux, with woodcuts by Paul-Emile Colin
Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1928
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus | Illustrated
Ariane, Jeune Fille Russe
1929, Claude Anet's love story with woodcuts by Angelina Beloff
Claude Anet, pseud.Jean Schopfer, woodcuts by Angelina Beloff
Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1929
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus | Illustrated
L'Ile de Volupte
1928, Myriam Harry's novel of travel in Ceylon, illustrated by Pierre Falke
Myriam Harry, with woodcuts by Pierre Falke
Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1928
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus | Illustrated
La Petite Fille de Jerusalem
1928, with 27 woodcuts by Gerard Cochet
Myriam Harry, woodcuts by Gerard Cochet
Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1928
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus | Illustrated
Platonics
A 1995 edition with a new introduction of Ethel Arnold's 1894 novel
Ethel Arnold, with a new Introduction by Phyllis Wachter
Thoemmes Press, Bristol, 1995
£15.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First thus
No Snow in Latching
1949, first edition, one of Michael Home's Breckland novels
Michael Home, pseud. Christopher Bush
Methuen, London, 1949
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
New Daughters of Africa (Signed copy)
Signed by the editor Margaret Busby and poet Patience Agbabi, contributor
Margaret Busby, editor
Myriad, Oxford, 2019
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Funny Pieces, A Book of Random Sketches
1939, a miscellany of Stephen Leacock's humorous writings
Stephen Leacock
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1939
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Great Wall of China and Other Pieces
1946, the second edition of Kafka's later allegories
Franz Kafka, translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir
Secker & Warburg, London, 1946
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Star Maker
2004, first paperback printing of this edition of Olaf Stapledon's classic
Olaf Stapledon, foreword by Freeman J Dyson, introduced and edited by Patrick A McCarthy
Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2004
£12.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First thus
Ask for King Billy
1955, the first printing in dustwrapper of Henry Treece's adventure story
Henry Treece, drawings by Richard Kennedy
Faber & Faber, London, 1955
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
