Books & Ephemera

Alfred Bestall/Mary Tourtel, seven various Rupert annuals, comprising 'The New Adventures of Rupert', L, Daily Express, 1936 annual, 4to, original...

Alfred Bestall, eleven Rupert annuals comprising 1943 (2), 1944, 1945, 1946 (3), 1947 (2), 1948, 1949, all except 1947 annuals with ownership name...

Rudyard Kipling: 'The Jungle Book', London, Macmillan, 1894, 1st edition, black & white frontispiece + full page and in text b/w ills. by J.L. Kip...

Seven children's & illustrated titles, including Kathleen Hale: 'Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) A Seaside Holiday', L, Country Life, 1952, 1st editio...

Charles Henry Chapman (1879-1972), an original pen & ink cartoon depicting a schoolboy receiving a caning, signed C.H. Chapman and dated 15.6.21, ...

Eight late 19th Century children's titles, including Walter Crane: 'The Baby's Bouquet', L, Routledge, [1878], colour illustrated by Crane through...

Philip Pullman: 'The Amber Spyglass', London, David Fickling Books/Scholastic, 2000, 1st edition, signed to title page, His Dark Materials III, or...

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter Novels, deluxe editions, comprising 'Philosopher's Stone; Chamber of Secrets; Prisoner of Azkaban; Goblet of Fire', Lon...

Clifton Bingham; E. Stuart Hardy (illustrated): 'The Fairy Picture Book', London, Ernest Nister, [nd], c.1902, 7 leaves of colour illustrations wi...

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson [i.e. Lewis Carroll]; Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (ed.): 'The Lewis Carroll Picture Book', London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1899, ...

Lewis Carroll [i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], 2 titles: 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Being a Facsimile of the original MS. book afterwards d...

Margaret Tempest (1892-1992), a series of 15 original charcoal illustrations on one large continuous roll of paper, illustrations various sizes (a...

Six late C19th colour illustrated books by Walter & Thomas Crane, including Walter Crane, 4 titles: 'Pan-Pipes', London, Routledge, 1883, 1st edit...

Noel Langley: 'The Land of Green Ginger', London, Arthur Barker, 1947, 2nd edition, black & white illustrations throughout by the author as called...

Enid Blyton, three Adventure Series first editions, all published London, Macmilan, all original pictorial cloth, all in dust wrappers: 'The River...

Enid Blyton, a collection of twenty Famous Five series children's novels, all published Hodder & Stoughton, all illustrated by Eileen Soper, first...

six assorted children's and illustrated books, including Sophia Rosamund Praeger: 'The Tale of The Little Twin Dragons', London, Macmillan, 1900, ...

Juvenile Science-Fiction and Fantasy, sixteen titles, including Eric Frank Russell, six 1st editions, all orig. cloth, all in dust wrappers: 'Sini...

Margaret Atwood: 'In Other Worlds. Science Fiction and the Human Imagination', London, Virago Press, 2011, 1st edition, Guardian and Observer Book...

Susan Hill: 'The Woman in Black', London, Jonathan Cape, 1983, 1st edition, signed bookplate loosely inserted, illustrations by John Lawrence thro...

(Fantasy, Esoteric, Mystical), Arthur Edward Waite: 'The Quest of the Golden Stairs. A Mystery of Kinghood in Faerie', London, The Theosophical Pu...

(Supernatural, Occult, Ghost Stories.) James Reynolds: 'Gallery of Ghosts', New York, Creative Age Press, 1949, 1st edition, colour frontis + 23 f...

Thea von Harbou: 'Metropolis', London, Reader's Library, September 1927, 1st edition, 4th printing, 250pp, small 8vo, original publisher's burgund...

Arthur C. Clarke: 'A Fall of Moondust', London, Gollancz, 1961, 1st edition, ex library, original cloth, dust wrapper, Jules Verne: 'Twenty Thousa...

William Salisbury: 'The Squareheads, The Story of a Socialized State - A Futuristic Novel', New York, The Independent Publishing Company, 1929, 1s...

Ken Follett: 'The Pillars of the Earth', London, Macmillan, 1989, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper. Historical novel, the first in the au...

Hilary Mantel: 'Wolf Hall', London, Fourth Estate, 2009, 1st edition, 1st impression, original cloth gilt, pictorial dust wrapper by Andy Bridge (...

Hilary Mantel, a complete set of her works, 1985-2020, 15 volumes, all 1st editions, all signed/with mounted signed pieces, all original cloth, al...

Margaret Thatcher: 'The Downing Street Years', L, Harper Collins, 1993, 4th impression, 10 Downing Street book plate signed by Margaret Thatcher i...

James Lees-Milne, 5 titles, all first editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers: 'Ancestral Voices', London, Chattow & Windus, 1975, 'Anc...

Four books on printing/the book trade and similar, including Anthony Rota, 2 titles, both signed, both published Private Libraries Association, Oa...

A quantity of assorted literature, all signed by authors, including Malcolm Saville: 'Three Towers in Tuscany', London, Heinemann, 1963, 1st editi...

A collection of 41 assorted mid 20th Century novels, all original cloth, all but one in dust wrappers, some former copies of David Higham (1895-19...

Alexander Trocchi: 'Cain's Book', London, John Calder, 1963, 1st UK edition, signed and inscribed on FFEP, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (25s ...

Six first editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, comprising Gregory David Roberts: 'Shantaram', London, Little Brown, 2004, Robert Ed...

Anthony Burgess: 'Time for a Tiger', London, William Heinemann, 1956, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper. The author's first novel, se...

Kazuo Ishiguro: 'The Remains of the Day', 1989, 'When We Were Orphans', 2000, both first editions, both published London, Faber & Faber, both orig...

Ellen Gilchrist: 'In the Land of Dreamy Dreams', London, Faber, 1982, 1st UK edition, Simone de Beauvoir: 'The Woman Destroyed', L, Collins, 199, ...

Laurie Lee, the autobiographical trilogy: 'Cider With Rosie', London, The Hogarth Press, 1959, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (by ...

Modern fiction, six titles, all first editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, including Kurt Vonnegut Jr: 'Breakfast of Champions', Lo...

Tom Wolfe, 3 titles, all first editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers: 'The Bonfire of the Vanities', London, Jonathan Cape, 1988, sig...

Paul Gallico, 5 titles, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, including 'The Day Jean-Pierre Joined the Circus', 1969, 1st UK edition, etc, pl...

(The Dutch Treat Club), 'The House Organ Supreme: Dutch Treat Year Book 1931', Privately Published by the D.T. MFG. Co. 1931, limited edition, one...

Ernest Hemingway: 'Men Without Women', New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927, 1st edition, 1st issue, Scribner's seal verso of title page, page ...

Bernard Malamud: 'The Natural', New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1952, 1st edition, (stated first edition verso of title page), original publisher'...

Mervyn Peake: 'Titus Groan', London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, in second impression dust wrapper as often (orig...

(Economics.) John Maynard Keynes, 2 titles: 'The End of Laissez-Faire', London, The Hogarth Press, 1926, 1st edition, 53,[1]pp, original cloth bac...

Nine mainly early 20th Century novels, including E. Phillips Oppenheim: 'Curious Happenings to the Rooke Legatees', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 19...

P. C. Wren [Percival Christopher Wren], 13 UK first editions, two of which with author signed presentation bookplates, being 'Beau Ideal', London,...

James Kennaway, 3 titles, all first editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers: 'Tunes of Glory', New York, Harper & Brothers, 1956, 1st U...

Kingsley Amis: 'Lucky Jim', London, Victor Gollancz, 1953, 1st edition, original green cloth gilt. Amis' first and one of his finest novels, Lucky...

Four signed crime fiction first editions, comprising P.D. James: 'A Certain Justice', L, Faber & Faber, 1997, 1st edition, signed on title page, C...

Folio Society, 10 volumes, comprising Agatha Christie: '4.50 From Paddington; The Mystery of the Blue Train', 1990, 2 vols in slipcase, Josephine ...

(Crime Fiction.) A collection of 28 crime fiction titles c.1960's-1980's, of which 20 first editions, mainly in dust wrappers, authors include Mar...

C.H.B. Kitchin,5 titles, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers: 'The Auction Sale', London, Secker & Warburg, 1949, 1st edition, ownership sign...

Joan Fleming: 'Malice Matrimonial', London, Collins Crime Club, 1959, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper by William Randell, John W. Vander...

John le Carré, 17 titles, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, of which 9 UK first editions/first impressions: 'The Looking-Glass War', L, He...

John le Carré, 11 titles, all first editions, all published London, William Heinemann or Hodder & Stoughton, all original cloth, all in dust wrapp...

John le Carre: 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold', London, Victor Gollancz, 1963, 1st edition, signed piece attached to half title, original blue...

Ian Fleming: 'The Diamond Smugglers', London, Jonathan Cape, 1957, 1st edition, original black cloth with titles to the spine in bronze, dust wrap...