
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.
MILLIGAN, Spike
The Goon Show: Series Six Number Thirteen: The Lost Year
London: N.p. [BBC], 1955
25 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition. Series Six, Number Thirteen, first broadcast on 13 December... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MILLIGAN, Spike
The Goon Show: Series Six Number Five: The Case Of The Missing C.D. Plates
London: N.p. [BBC], 1955
20 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left. Two title pages (see below).
First edition. Series Six, Number Five, first... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MILLIGAN, Spike
The Goon Show: Series Six Number Fifteen: The Hastings Flyer
London: N.p. [BBC], 1955
24 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition. Series Six, Number Fifteen, first broadcast on 27 December... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MILLIGAN, Spike; STEPHENS, Larry
The Goon Show: Series Seven, Episode Four: The Macreekie Rising Of '74
London: N.p. [BBC], 1956
23 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition. CO-WRITER LARRY STEPHENS' COPY, WITH HIS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE TO... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
LESSING, Doris
The Good Terrorist
London: Cape, 1985
8vo, pp. 370. Original black boards lettered in gold on spine.
First edition, lacking the rare wraparound band.
SETH, Vikram
The Golden Gate
London: Faber, 1986
8vo, pp. 307. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition of the author's first book, a novel written entirely in... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
ROY, Arundhati
The God Of Small Things
London: Flamingo, 1997
8vo., pp. 340. Original purple boards, lettered in silver on spine. Dustwrapper.
First UK edition of the author's first book, and winner of the Booker Prize.
SPARK, Muriel
The Go-Away Bird
London: Macmillan, 1958
8vo, pp. 215. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
Spark's first collection of short stories, and a... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[WODEHOUSE, P.G.] CARYLL, Ivan and MONCKTON, Lionel
The Girls Of Gottenberg
London: Chapell & Co., 1908
4to, pp. 176, 4pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at rear. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front and rear... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
The Girl In Blue
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971
8vo, pp. 182. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to spine, angel device in silver to front board. Illustrated dustwrapper,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
THOMPSON, Jim
The Getaway
New York: Signet, 1958
8vo, pp. 127. Original illustrated wrappers. Spine weakened at pp. 46-7.
First edition.
Thompson's ultra-hardboiled thriller was the... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
FRAENKEL, Michael
The Genesis of the Tropic of Cancer
London: Village Press, 1973
Tall 8vo, pp. 24. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
First UK edition. First published in the US by Bern Porter in 1946.
De FORREST, Michael
The Gay Year
New York: Woodford Press, 1949
8vo, pp. 267. Original black cloth, lettered in yellow on spine.
First edition.
While use of the word 'gay' to denote homosexuality can be traced back at least to the 1920s and... [more]
DICK, Philip K.
The Game-Players Of Titan
New York: Ace, 1963
8vo, pp. 191. Original illustrated paper wrappers.
First edition. A paperback original.
The first hardback edition of this title did not... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BURNS, John Horne
The Gallery
New York: Harper & Bros., 1947
8vo, pp. 342. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
The author's first novel is barely a novel at all, more a loosely-connected series of short,... [more]
