SPARK, Muriel

London: Macmillan, 1958

8vo, pp. 215. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine.

First edition.

Spark's first collection of short stories, and a... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

WODEHOUSE, P.G.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971

8vo, pp. 182. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to spine, angel device in silver to front board. Illustrated dustwrapper,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

New York: Signet, 1958

8vo, pp. 127. Original illustrated wrappers. Spine weakened at pp. 46-7.

First edition.
Thompson's ultra-hardboiled thriller was the... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

BURNS, John Horne

New York: Harper & Bros., 1947

8vo, pp. 342. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition.
The author's first novel is barely a novel at all, more a loosely-connected series of short,... [more]

THOMAS, D. M.

London: Gollancz, 1979

8vo, pp. 192. Original dark green boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition of the author's first novel.
Initially acclaimed as ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

RENDELL, Ruth

New York: Crime Club/Doubleday, 1974

8vo, pp. 184. Original pale green boards, lettered in dark green to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.

First US edition,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

[ed. JOHNSON, B.S.]

London: Gollancz, 1968

8vo, pp. 288. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated endpapers and dustwrapper.

New York: Henry Holt, 1927

8vo, pp. 263. Original green boards, lettered in yellow to front panel and spine.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'To Dicky, for ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

DIBDIN, Michael

London: Faber and Faber 1993

8vo, pp.151. Orignal black boards, lettered in white to spine.... [more]

AUDEN, W.H.

London: Faber, 1963

8vo, pp. 527. Original blue-green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.

First UK edition, preceded by the US edition which appeared three months... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

LAZOWICK, Louis

New York: Philosophical Library, 1982


8vo, pp. 202. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.


First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO ALAN WHICKER:

SITWELL, Osbert

London: Macmillan, 1949

8vo, pp. 247. Original red boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition. A collection of nineteen short stories previously published in ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

AUDEN, W.H.

London: Faber, 1933

8vo, pp. 38. Original green boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine.

First edition. A dramatic poem.

This was Auden's... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

HADDON, Mark

Oxford: David Fickling Books, 2003

8vo, pp. 272. Original stiff paper wrappers. Publisher's wraparound band.

Proof copy, with the scarce wraparound band.

WODEHOUSE, P.G.

New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1937

8vo, pp. 330. Original blue boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Yellow endpapers, leading edge uncut. Illustrated... [please click on the image or book title for more details]