Essays on Petrarch.
London: John Murray, 1823. 8vo, (viii), 325, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary purple panelled calf, covers with various blind stamped decoration and gilt edges, gilt spine with some light wear. More
Literature
Undine, and other tales. Translated by F.E. Burnett.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1867. Small 8vo, (vi), 361, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers, signature to front blank. Contemporary dark blue half calf, t.e.g., a little rubbed. More
Daniel Martin.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1977). First edition, 8vo, 704 pp. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, some mild rubbing to edges, very good. More
Poems Original and Translated. By S.H.F.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863. First edition. 8vo. xii, 189, (1) pp. Contemporary blind ruled and decorated dark brown calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered green label, marbled endpapers, all edges red, slightly later pencilled ownership inscription. Frontispiece and 7 plates. Very good. The author also..... More
Flashman's Lady.
London: Barrie & Jenkins, (1977). First edition. 8vo. 328 pp. Publisher's red cloth, dust jacket, price clipped, map endpapers. An excellent copy. More
Acorned Hog.
London: Chapman & Hall, (1933). First edition, 8vo, (viii), 295, (1) pp. Sellotape stain to fly leaf. Cloth, later issue d.w. (priced 3/6 to the spine) soiled with some loss to the spine. More
Complete Poems of...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. Third impression thus. 8vo. 504 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to spine, dust jacket, inscribed and dated by the poet on the front free endpaper "For Jean Mossop from Robert Frost of the same firm. London 1957". Frontispiece portrait. Mild brown stain to the white..... More
Curtmantle. A Play.
London: Oxford University Press, 1961. First edition, 8vo, (x), 99, (1) pp. Signed by the author on the title page, former owner's signature to fly leaf. Cloth, with some mild marking, d.w., slight fading to spine and edges, very good. More
Ellen Middleton. A Tale.
London: Edward Moxon, 1844. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, (ii), 280; (ii), 288; (ii), 256 pp, bound without the half titles, and also the advertisements at the end of volume III. Some foxing. 19th century morocco-style cloth, spine ends rubbed. "'Ellen Middleton' was a product of [Fullerton's] Anglo-Catholic period and..... More
Poetical Dialogues Between Fancy and Reason; Also, Allegorical & Miscellaneous Poems, and Pieces in Blank Verse. By... Newick, Sussex.
Lewes: Geo. P. Bacon, 1860. Sole edition, 8vo, iv, 204 pp. Contemporary signature to paste down, also a resident of Newick. Original gilt titled blue pebbled cloth, light wear to spine ends, corners bumped. Scarce, Copac listing only two copies. More
The Story of Pigou, a Malay Boy, Containing All the Incidents and Anecdotes of his Real Life; Collected Together and Arranged for the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons.
London: Printed for T. Tegg and R.Griffin; Dublin: J. Cumming, 1825. Second edition. 143, (1) pp. Contemporary green quarter morocco over marbled boards, spine flat with gilt rules and worn lettering, contemporary ownership inscription to the verso of the frontispiece and initialled by the same hand on the title page..... More
Goldeneye. Based on the screenplay by Michael France and Jeffrey Caine.
London: BCA, (1995). First edition, 8vo, (vi), 218 pp. Marginal browning throughout. Cloth, d.w., a near fine copy. Preceding the Hodder & Stoughton edition. More
Licence Renewed.
(London): Jonathan Cape and Hodder & Stoughton, (1981). First edition, 8vo, 270 pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Cloth, d.w., not price-clipped, mild sunning of spine, a near fine copy. The inscription is dated "Finland, 1982", where Gardner had gone to research his third Bond novel, "Icebreaker"..... More
The Eternal Moment. Essays and a Short Story.
Orono, Maine: Puckerbrush Press, 1998. First edition. 8vo. 137, (3) pp. Printed lavender card covers. A leaf of facsimile handwriting to the front and rear of the book. Faint dark shadow and a crease to the upper corner of the upper cover, a very good copy. A collection of essays..... More
A Rabbit in the Air. Notes from a Diary kept while learning to handle an aeroplane.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. Limited edition, no. 17 of 110 copies signed by the author, 8vo, (x), 117, (1) pp. Part of the first gathering carelessly opened with an old closed tear to the final leaf of the Preface. Original yellow buckram, t.e.g., some soiling, spine faded. Garnett was..... More
A Chaplet from the Greek Anthology.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. First edition, 8vo, 82, (2) pp. Bookplate of Philip Henry Nind. Original quarter parchment, spine slightly rubbed, boards with yapp edges, corners a little worn. "Cameo series." More
Cranford. Preface by Rev. Brooke Herford.
London: Walter Scott Publishing Co., [c.1911]. 8vo, (xvi), 319, (1) pp. Frontispiece and black and white illustrations, marbled endpapers and edges, prize label of Kirkham Grammar School, dated 1911, to paste down. Contemporary dark blue half calf, gilt decorated spine, very good. More
North and South.
London: George Newnes, Limited, 1897. "New Edition". 8vo. viii, 441, (3) pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, patterned endpapers, early ownership inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper. Spine slightly dull, very good. More
The Gem, A Literary Annual.
London: W. Marshall, 1830. 12mo, (xii), 275, (1) pp. Frontispiece, engraved title and 10 plates, three stanzas copied to a front blank in a contemporary hand, marbled endpapers. Recent full red calf, a.e.g., some minor marks. A collection of prose and verse including work by John Keats, James Hogg, John..... More
Troy. Lord of the Silver Bow.
London: Bantam Press, (2005). First edition, 8vo, 474, (2) pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
Fidelis and Other Poems.
Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. First edition. 8vo. xii, 99, (1) pp. Unopened in publisher's dark green ribbed cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, what appears to be the original entirely plain dust jacket. The jacket slightly spotted to the upper panel and with some edge wear with small..... More
Lunch. A Conversation Piece by...
[N.p.]: Privately printed, April, 1933. Limited edition, one of 100 copies "printed for the author and his friends". 8vo. 19, (1) pp. Contemporary tan half calf over matching cloth boards, ink stamped lettering to the rear pastedown stating the book was bound for Ernest Callard by G. F. Banting, spine..... More
The Vanity-Bag.
London: Ernest Benn, 1927. Limited edition, one of 315 copies signed by the Author, small 8vo, 59, (1) pp. Quarter morocco, patterned linen boards, a fine copy. More