A Season with Mammon. A novel by...
London: Putnam, (1958). First edition, 8vo, 236 pp. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, browned and a little soiled with loss to the top of the spine and one corner. More
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Samson and Delilah. From the Book of Judges according to the authorised version. (Illustrated by Robert Gibbings).
Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Limited edition, no. 190 of 325 copies, 4to, (ii), 17, (3) pp. 7 wood engraved illustrations plus the press device. Original cream buckram, d.w. browned and spotted and with slight loss to the extremities. Chanticleer 30. Kirkus 27. More
The Tale of the Golden Cockerel. (Translated by Hannah Waller with a Note... by Raïssa Lomonossova.
London: Golden Cockerel Press), [1936]. Limited edition, no. 72 of 100 copies, 16mo, 22, (2) pp. 4 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings, one printed in gold, single leaf prospectus for this work loosely inserted. Original gold and red patterned cloth, very slight darkening to the foot of the lower cover..... More
The Inheritors.
London: Faber and Faber, (1955). First edition, 8vo, 233, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, slight darkening to edges and spine, top of spine with some loss. More
The Vicar of Wakefield. A Tale by... with... coloured illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson.
London: Methuen & Co., 1903. Limited edition, one of 50 copies, 8vo, ix, (iii), 219, (1) pp. 24 coloured plates. Original buckram backed boards, slight browning of spine and a small mark to the lower cover otherwise an excellent copy. First published with these illustrations in 1817. More
The Walking Stick.
London: Collins, 1967. First edition, 8vo, 318 pp. Signed on the title page by the Author. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, otherwise a very good copy. More
The Flounder. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim.
London: Secker & Warburg, (1978). First English edition, 8vo, (xii), 548 pp. Signed by the author on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w. lightly browned, otherwise very good. More
Collected Poems.
London: Cassell and Company, (1938). First edition. 8vo. xxiv, 190 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine. Spine slightly faded, else very good. Higginson & Williams, A48a. More
Good-Bye to All That. An Autobiography.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1929). Second impression, 8vo, 448 pp. Portrait frontispiece and 7 plates, title verso and opposing page browned, errata slip tipped in at p. 396, contemporary signature to fly leaf. Original cloth, spine sunned. More
On the Brazier.
London: The Poetry Bookshop, (1920). 8vo, 32 pp. Slightly later owner's inscription of the novelist Kathleen Farrell to the paste down. Original cloth backed boards, edges browned, spine ends slightly worn. First published 1916. More
The Life of Graham Greene. Volume One: 1904-1939; Volume Two: 1939-1955; Volume Three: 1955-1991.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1989, 1994, 2004). First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo. Owner's brief inscription to fly leaves in volumes I and II, volume III signed by the author to the title page. Cloth, d.w.'s, not price clipped, some very mild rubbing to the tops of the spines, otherwise an excellent..... More
A Burnt-Out Case.
London: Heinemann, (1961). First British edition, 8vo, (viii), 256 pp. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, some faint browning to the lower wrapper otherwise a lovely copy. First published in Sweden the year before. More
The Comedians.
London: The Bodley Head, (1966). First edition, 8vo, 313, (1) pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, loss to the upper corner of the lower wrapper otherwise very good. More
(The Great Novels). Brighton Rock. The Power and the Glory. The Heart of the Matter. The End of the Affair. The Quiet American. A Burnt Out Case. Illustrated by Geoff Grandfield.
London: The Folio Society, 1997. Six volumes, 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Pictorial green cloth, slipcase, spines ever so slightly sunned otherwise a fine set. More
The Heart of the Matter.
London: William Heinemann, (1948). First edition, 8vo, (vi), 297, (1) pp. Cloth, slightly rubbed, d.w. with loss to the spine and extremities, torn and repaired to the upper wrapper, creased and with fading to the spine. More
The Man Within.
London: William Heinemann, (1929). First edition, 8vo, (x), 354 pp. Original gilt titled black cloth, spine slightly worn and subtly repaired. More
The Name of Action.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., (1930). First edition, 8vo, (viii), 344 pp. Foxing to the first and last couple of gatherings, signs of a bookplate having been removed from paste down. Original gilt titled cloth, extremities slightly rubbed, spine with a vertical crease not affecting the binding. More
Our Man in Havana. An Entertainment.
London: Heinemann, (1958). First edition, 8vo, (vi), 273, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, some light foxing to the lower flap and very slight wear to extremities, otherwise a very good bright copy. More
The Power and the Glory.
London: William Heinemann, (1959). "Library edition", 8vo, (viii), 288 pp. Contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w. with loss to the spine ends and corners. First published 1940. More
The Quiet American.
London: William Heinemann, (1955). First edition, 8vo, (viii), 247, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine and lower wrapper with some browning and foxing, some very minor loss to extremities. More
Travels with my Aunt. A Novel.
London: The Bodley Head, (1969). First edition, 8vo, 319, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, some light soiling. More
Why the Epigraph?
London: The Nonesuch Press, (1989). Limited edition, no. 852 of 950 copies signed by the Author, 8vo, (2), 48 pp. Original gilt titled cloth still with the original glassine wrapper, a fine copy. More
Mrs. Greet's Story of the Golden Owl. Illustrated by Ambrose Dudley.
London: The Leadenhall Press, 1892-3. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 371, (1) pp, 24 plates, text printed on brown paper, corner torn from one leaf without loss to text, original cloth, some marks and rubbing. Woolf 2755. Greene 217. More
Peccavi! Or Geoffrey Singleton's Mistake. A Novel.
London: T. Cautley Newby, 1870. First edition, 3 volumes bound in one, 8vo, (iv), 286, (iv), 296, (iv), 315, (1) pp. Title to volume I soiled, later signature to fly leaf. Slightly later half calf, maroon spine label, cloth sides, some light wear. Not in Sadleir or Wolff... More
Il Pastor Fido: the Faithful Shepherd. With an Addition of Divers Other Poems: Concluding with a Short Discourse of the Long Civil Wars of Rome. By the Right Honourable, Richard Fanshawe, Knight.
London: Printed for Henry Herringman, 1676. 8vo. (xxii), 321, (1) pp. Contemporary full panelled calf, neatly rebacked to style, spine with raised bands, red gilt lettered label, old engraved armorial bookplate, E.C. Fanshawe, to the front endpaper, an older ownership inscription to the head of title page. One full page..... More