Browse by Subject Category—Fiction

Confirm or Deny, The Home Secretary Will See You Now, Lost or Found, and Jack in the Box

Various, London and New York, n.d.

Signed by Un-Su Kim, a numbered limited edition with black sprayed edges

Fourth Estate, London, 2019

Uncorrected proof copy of Robert Nye's stories, published as The Facts of Life

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1983

1930, including Harrison Dale's introduction 'The Art of the Ghost Story'

Herbert Jenkins, London, 1930

1924, the first Uniform Edition of E M Forster's favourite of his own novels

Edward Arnold, London, 1924

Signed by Mrs Stanley Wrench (Mollie Stanley-Wrench)

Duckworth & Co, London, 1917

1980, signed by Olivia Manning, the first book in her Levant Trilogy

The Book Club, London, 1980

1943, the first US edition of Welsh poet Alun Lewis's wartime short stories

Macmillan, New York, 1943

The second Charlie Mortdecai novel, a first edition book in a Book Club wrapper.

Secker & Warburg, London, 1979

A 1920s paperback copy of Edward Bellamy's Utopian novel

George Routledge & Sons, London, 1920

1952, A G Street's novel of farming loosely based on the case of farmer George Walden

Faber & Faber, London, 1952

A 1971 printing from the Collected Edition of George Orwell

Secker & Warburg, London, 1971

1916, first edition, fifteen tales from R B Cunninghame Graham

Duckworth & Co, London, 1916

Signed by Norah Lofts, the first US printing, a collection of 16 short stories

Doubleday, New York, 1958

1988, the first UK issue in paperback

William Heinemann, London, 1988

1885, signed by Scottish educationalist Sophie Weisse

Perrin et Cie, Paris, 1885

and Euphues and his England (1580), two volumes bound as one, published 1868 in Arber's English Reprint series

Alex Murray & Son, London, 1868

1928, hardback copies of Emily Eden's two novels

Elkin Mathews & Marrot Ltd, London, 1928

First edition, signed by Barbara Ker Wilson

Secker & Warburg, London, 1984

1928, the first UK edition of Francois Mauriac's classic novel

Martin Secker, London, 1928

1989, the first printing of the first volume of Raymond Williams' immense Welsh history novel

Chatto & Windus, London, 1989

1906, a fine blue leather Bumpus binding on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1885 novel

Chatto & Windus, London, 1906

A first edition of Norman Douglas' second novel, rebound in half-leather

Chapman & Hall, London, 1920

1884, first edition. A whimsical fantasy novel in the original decorative binding

Chapman & Hall, London, 1884

First edition, signed by Leslie A Fiedler to Arnold Wesker, a work of speculative fiction

Stein and Day, New York, 1974