

Modern First Editions
MORTIMER, John
Paradise Postponed
London: Viking, 1985
8vo, pp. 374. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO ACTOR LEO... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MORTIMER, John
Felix In The Underworld
London: Viking, 1997
8vo, pp. 247. Original pale blue boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, WITH INSCRIBED CARD FROM THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
JOHNSON, B.S.
Poems
London: Constable, 1964
Small 8vo, pp. 53. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO TONY AND JUNE TILLINGHAST:... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
JOHNSON, B.S.
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
London: Collins, 1973
8vo, pp. 180. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, SIGNED AND ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
JOHNSON, B.S.
House Mother Normal
London: Trigram Press, 1971
8vo, pp. 204. Original threequarter grey boards, lettered in silver on cream spine. Yellow endpapers.
First limited edition of 126... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
NORTON, Mary
Are All The Giants Dead?
London: Dent, 1975
8vo, pp. 119. Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine.
First edition. BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TIPPED IN TO FRONT ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
NORTON, Mary
The Borrowers Aloft
London: J.M. Dent, 1951
8vo, pp. 154. Original blue boards, lettered in red to spine. Line drawing in red to front panel. Illustrated endpapers and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
NORTON, Mary
The Borrowers Afloat
London: J.M. Dent, 1959
8vo, pp. 176. Original blue boards, lettered in red to spine. Line drawing in red to front panel. Illustrated endpapers and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
O'BRIAN, Patrick
The Thirteen Gun Salute
London: Collins, 1989
8vo, pp. 319. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
Instalment no. 13 in what became O'Brian's 20-volume ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
O'BRIAN, Patrick
Desolation Island
London: Collins, 1978
8vo, pp. 276. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
The fifth instalment in O'Brian's 20-volume Jack... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
O'BRIAN, Patrick
Post Captain
London: Collins, 1972
8vo, pp. 414. Original pale blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
Only the second instalment in what would be... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
O'BRIAN, Patrick
The Mauritius Command
London: Collins, 1977
8vo, pp. 268. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
An early entry -- instalment four -- in O'Brian's... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[GRAVES, Robert]
The Augustan Poets
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1943
8vo, pp. 32, lacking the outer wrappers.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY GRAVES IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION TO JULIAN GLOVER.
GRAVES, Robert
Life Of The Poet Gnaeus Robertulus Gravesa
Deya: New Seizin Press, 1990
Small octavo, pp. 16. Original vellum boards, lettered in red on front panel. Pale green leaf of advice on preserving the vellum tipped... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GRAVES, Robert
To Juan At The Winter Solstice
N.p. Privately Printed, 1944
178 x 131mm, pp. 4. Single sheet, folded once.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY GRAVES ON THE FRONT LEAF: 'Honor with love from Robert. New ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
ISHIGURO, Kazuo
A Pale View Of Hills
London: Faber, 1982
8vo, pp. 183. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Ishiguro's first novel, now... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[ed. GREENE, Graham]
The Old School
London: Cape, 1934
8vo, pp. 256. Original black boards, lettered in pale blue to front panel and spine. Bottom edge uncut.
First edition.
A collection... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GREENE, Graham
In Search Of A Character
London: Bodley Head,
8vo, pp. 123. Original grey three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to red spine. Illustrated endpapers.
First edition.
Two... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
