Browse by Subject Category—Fiction

1988, bilingual edition, and quite fruity...

Scythian Books, Oakland, 1988

1937, a novel in the footsteps of Erskine Childers' Dulcibella and the Frisian Islands

William Blackwood & Sons, London, 1937

1938, a first printing of A G Macdonell's hilarious spoof memoir of a complete rotter

Macmillan, London, 1938

1969, a hardback first edition of Rumer Godden's sensitive novel

Macmillan, London, 1969

1987, a UK proof copy of Terry McMIllan's first novel

Jonathan Cape, London, 1987

Rene Boylesve's tale of adolescence, with woodcuts by Paul Baudier

Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1928

1928, Marguerite Audoux's tale of rural France in the early twentieth century

Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1928

1929, Claude Anet's love story with woodcuts by Angelina Beloff

Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1929

1928, Myriam Harry's novel of travel in Ceylon, illustrated by Pierre Falke

Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1928

1949, first edition, one of Michael Home's Breckland novels

Methuen, London, 1949

Signed by the editor Margaret Busby and poet Patience Agbabi, contributor

Myriad, Oxford, 2019

1939, a miscellany of Stephen Leacock's humorous writings

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1939

2004, first paperback printing of this edition of Olaf Stapledon's classic

Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2004

1955, the first printing in dustwrapper of Henry Treece's adventure story

Faber & Faber, London, 1955

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

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

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

Duckworth & Co, London, 1916

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