
AMIS, Kingsley
The King's English
London: Harper Collins, 1997
Large 8vo., pp. 270. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
OTIS, Harry
The Keval, And Other Gay Adventures
Los Angeles: One Incorporated, 1959
8vo, pp. 106. Original stiff card wrappers.
First edition.
Young 2953
GOWRIE, Grey
The Italian Visitor
Manchester: Carcanet, 2013
8vo, pp. 112. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
The Intrusion Of Jimmy
New York: W.J. Watt, 1910
8vo, pp. 314. Original green illustrated boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine. Tissue guard to frontispiece.
First edition,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[pseud. ROBBE-GRILLET, Catherine] de BERG, Jean
The Image
New York: Grove Press, 1966
8vo, pp. 143. Original off-white boards, lettered in black on spine.
First US edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE: 'Pour... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
PERELMAN, S. J.
The Ill-Tempered Clavichord
London: Max Reinhardt, 1953
8vo, pp. 211. Original green boards, lettered in black on spine.
First UK edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
O'BRIAN, Patrick
The Hundred Days
London: Harper Collins, 1998
8vo, pp. 281. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition of the nineteenth book in the... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BOURJAILY, Vance
The Hound of Earth
New York: Scribner's, 1955
8vo, pp. 250. Original black boards, lettered in black and yellow on spine.
First edition.
Bourjaily's second novel, about an atomic scientist haunted by post-Hiroshima guilt. Some... [more]
GREENE, Graham
The Honorary Consul
London: Bodley Head, 1973
8vo, pp. 335. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
A very nice copy.
ELLENZWEIG, Allen
The Homoerotic Photograph
New York: Columbia University Press, 1992
4to, pp. 230. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition.
A heavily (and beautifully)... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[intro. SITWELL, Sacheverell] BEAUMONT, Cyril W.
The History Of Harlequin
London: C. W. Beaumont, 1926
Large 8vo, pp. 156. Original illustrated boards, vellum spine lettered in gilt. Pages uncut.
First edition, no. 25 of 325 copies published by the author. With a preface by Sacheverell Sitwell to whom, with his brother Osbert, the book is dedicated.,
Cyril Beaumont was one of the pre-em
[AUDEN, W.H.] ed. KERR, Gilbert
The Harvard Advocate
Cambridge: Harvard University, 1975
Small 4to, pp. 73. Original tan stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to both panels, photographic portrait of Auden to front... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SCHULBERG, Budd
The Harder They Fall
New York: Random House, 1947
8vo, pp. 343. Original black boards, lettered in red and lilac on spine. Top edge red.
First edition of the author's second novel.
Schulberg's exposé of the corrupt world of American prizefighting was filmed in 1956 with Rod Steiger and Humphrey Bogart (in his last film).
An extremely nice copy.
DUNN, Douglas
The Happier Life
London: Faber, 1972
8vo, pp. 72. Original pale blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition of Dunn's second collection of verse.
STONE, Grace Zaring
The Grotto
New York: Harper Bros., 1951
8vo, pp. 249. Original pale blue textured boards and black spine, lettered in gilt at spine.
First edition.
'Grace Zaring Stone is the first novelist who has dared to write frankly ... [more]
KING, Jessie M.
The Grey City Of The North
Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1910
Small 8vo, pp. 51. Original boards with oversized dustwrapper, colour illustrations to front and rear panel, spine lettered in grey. Publisher's ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
McGRATH, Pat
The Green Leaves Of Nottingham
London: W.H. Allen, 1970
8vo, pp. 172. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition of the author's first book, written when he was fourteen years old and published a year later. With a foreword by Alan Sillitoe, and a marvellously evocative photograph of the author on the rear panel.
LAWLISS, Chuck
The Great Resorts Drinks Book
New York: Gallery Books, N.d., stated first printing on verso of title page.
4to, pp. 155. Original white boards, lettered in pink on spine.
First edition.
MILLIGAN, Spike
The Goon Show: Series Six Number Twelve: The Terrible Revenge Of Fred Fu Manchu (announced as Fred Fu Manchu And His Bamboo Saxophone)
London: N.p. [BBC], 1955
23 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition. Series Six, Number Twelve, first broadcast on 6 December 1955.
MILLIGAN, Spike
The Goon Show: Series Six Number Three: The Lost Emperor
London: N.p. [BBC], 1955
22 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition. Series six, Number Three, first broadcast on 4 october 1955.
