Signed by Updike on each title page. A great set of this classic of modern American literature, uniformly signed by John Updike to the title-page o...

Author's corrected copy with autograph revisions. The revisions include the changing of 'Gare de l'Ouest' to 'Gare Montparnasse' on several pages; ...

Haycraft queen cornerstone. A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone, The Red Thumb Mark was the first of many Dr Thorndyke novels by R. Austin Freeman, a medi...

Signed. A stunning signed copy of this the second book in Vardis Fisher's 'Vridar Hunter' tetralogy, a series of semi-autobiographical novels set l...

Rex whistler dust jacket. A delightful copy of this first edition, in the splendid Rex Whistler dust-jacket. Rex Whistler (1905-1944) was one of t...

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 very good first edition copy of this modern children's classic by the poet & author John Masefield, rare in the dust-jacket and in such cond...

Rare three-decker. An very good three-decker first edition of this Hubin-listed Victorian novel. This work would probably be best classified as a ...

With autograph letter. An attractive early issue of this classic of Victorian detective fiction, further enhanced by a letter from the author to a ...

A very good first edition example of this translation of Seneca's Oedipus by Ted Hughes, presented at the time of publication to his friends John ...

Inscribed from the author "To Miss C Crommelin with the kindest regards of The Author Fergus Hume 28. 6. 89." Miss C. Crommelin is presumably one ...

The first railway detective stories. An extremely rare early detective fiction title, with only one previous auction record we could find, describi...

One of the very first female detectives in fiction. Though originally believed to have first been published in 1861, experts in the genre have dete...

The authors last novel, written whilst living in abject poverty. In part autobiographical, the narrative details the amorous pursuit of the beauti...

A very good example of the true first edition of The Black Book by Lawrence Durrell, published as the first volume in The Villa Seurat Series crea...

An unusually good copy of Dahlberg's first book, published first in London in both a limited and trade edition; recounting the author's childhood ...

An uncommon book in dust jacket, strikingly similar to, and coeval with, Malcolm Lowry's first book Ultramarine (1933). Waterfront was the source ...

The second collection of Bodkin's short stories to feature the understated genius of late Victorian & early Edwardian detection, Paul Beck; an...

The elusive hardback first edition of Ian Rankin's first book, preceding his Inspector Rebus stories. Rankin utilised a few different motifs in hi...

First edition of Bowles' first novel. The first edition of the author's first novel, a landmark title in modern literature, and in many ways a prog...

Rare first UK edition of Pinocchio. The rare first UK edition of Collodi's classic for children, originally published in book-form in Florence, Ita...

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

A superior example of this very rare early first edition novel by P.G. Wodehouse, bringing together two stories (Jackson Junior, subsequently know...