First edition of Betjeman's second volume of poetry in the original dust jacket, comprising thirty-three poems with numerous illustrations through...

Presentation copy. Presentation copy of Ransome's reworked journalistic dispatches from China from the author to his friend, the poet and critic La...

Scarce in the dust jackets. A fine example of the first edition of Constance Garnett's translation of Dead Souls, with the incredibly scarce dust j...

Roger Senhouse (1899-1970) was a publisher and translator on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group, the last lover of Lytton Strachey. Senhouse too...

Illustrated by Frank Budgen. First edition of Frank Budgen's memoir James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses with a portrait of James Joyce and four d...

First edition of Osbert Sitwell's first novel. First edition of Osbert Sitwell's first novel, complete with the dustjacket. Set in an out-of-season...

Waugh's third novel, written whilst staying at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire as the guest of the Lygon sisters; this was the book that establi...

The author's first novel. One of literature's best opening lines - 'Naylor was deaf again. Nothing serious, just a ball of wax in the ear'.First e...

The author's landmark pre-war novel, not so common in the jacket.First edition, first impression; 8vo; contents a little browned as usual; publish...

A later title in the oeuvre of prolific author Florence Warden, but an early example of a crime thriller in a dust-jacket, with wonderful jacket a...

The first edition of this Allan Quatermain (of King Solomon's Mines fame) title, the second in a trilogy by Haggard focussed on the collapse of th...

A strikingly dust-jacketed thriller by master of the genre John Creasey, here writing under his pseudonym of Jeremy York. The book has been heavil...

A great first edition copy of this relatively unknown work by Compton Mackenzie, more well-known for his '...Galore' stories and Eastern Mediterran...

An very good first edition of the sequel to The First Hundred Thousand "K (1)" (1915), which was one of the most popular books of its time. Both w...

Signed presentation copy. A stunning first edition of the very scarce seventh novel by this elusive author, centred around the then topical politic...

A very good first edition copy of this cautionary tale by J.B. Priestley, recounting the adventures & misadventures of Charlie Habble whose br...

A very good copy of Mary Mitford's classic study of rural customs, characters and scenery, originally published during the 1820s & '30s. The C...

A handsomely produced gift book of the 1890s, today collected chiefly as a fine example of the pictorial cloth binding made famous by the Cranford...

First edition, first issue, with 'The long day lengthens' in the dedicatory poem and with Beau appearing to be overweight in the illustration faci...

"An amusing couple of hours can be spent in the reading of this fantastic trifle. Vivian Darsay, a young man of great physical beauty and financia...