HUGHES, Ted

London: Faber, 1999

8vo, pp. 83. Original maroon boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.

First edition.

A fine copy.

CHAUDHURI, Amit

London: Heinemann, 1993

8vo, pp. 133. Original blue boards, lettered in silver on spine.

First edition.

[MILLIGAN, Spike] TOLSTOI, Alexei

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, N.d. [1955]

Small 8vo, pp. 276. Original black boards, lettered in green on front panel and spine.

Later edition, INSCRIBED TO SPIKE MILLIGAN:' To TERENCE Milligan, With best wishes and for good memory From Lala and Vladimir Dubinin. October 6, 1959.' MILLIGAN HAS ADDED BENEATH: '-- on board the Williem Ruys -- from Russian Diplomatic party who got on at Wellington. New Zealand'.

Science fiction novel, first published in 1923 -- although of course, the association is the thing. (Milligan spent four months in Australia in 1959, where a second series of his TV show Idiot Weekly had been commissioned.)

WILLIAMS, Kenneth

London: J.M. Dent, 1980

8vo, pp. 176. Original cream boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Photographic dustwrapper.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO BOB... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

AUDEN, W.H.

London: Faber, 1966

8vo, pp. 94. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper. Lacking the errata slip.

First UK edition, preceded by the... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

AUDEN, W.H.

New York: Random House, 1965

8vo, pp. 84. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to black spine.

First edition. Poet and essayist Nathaniel Tarn's copy, with his ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

AUDEN, W.H.

London: Faber, 1966

8vo, pp. 94. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Errata slip.

First UK edition, preceded by the US edition which appeared six... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

GUDAITIS, Anthony

New York: William Faro, 1932

8vo, pp. 224. Original hessian boards, spine label lettered in red. Paper on rear pastedown a little split at spine.

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BETJEMAN, John

London: Poem Of The Month Club, 1971

Broadside, single sheet, 11" X 15".

First edition, one of 1000 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, AND WITH A TWO-WORD CORRECTION IN HIS HAND. With the original Poem of the Month cover letter.

[AUDEN, W.H.]

Menston: Scolar Press, 1973

4to green stiff paper folder, printed in black, holding green pamphlet and 25 loose pp. printed on Amalfi, and bearing the pamphlets contents in... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

Toronto: Stoneworks Publishing, 1976

Square 8vo, pp. 154. Original stiff paper wrappers.

First edition.
An entertaining history of hash, its origins, uses... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

[pseud. CLEMENS, Samuel] TWAIN, Mark

London: Chatto & Windus, 1880

8vo, pp. 564, 32pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at rear. Original illustrated red boards, lettered in gilt and with line illustrations... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

New York: Random House, 1949

8vo, pp. 303. Original white boards, lettered in green on front panel and in white-on-red on spine.

First edition.
A collection of recipes submitted to the American department store ... [more]

BROOKNER, Anita

London: Cape, 1981

8vo, pp. 176. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Small bookplate to front pastedown. Illustrated dustwrapper.

First edition of the ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

DOYLE, Roddy

London: Cape, 1990

8vo, pp. 343. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine. Minimal edgewear to head of spine, otherwise a fine, unread copy. ... [more]

GREENE, Graham

London: Bodley Head, 1971

8vo, pp. 216. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.

First edition, second issue, with 'J.M. Barrie' to p. 177.

BANKS, Iain

London: Abacus, 1995

8vo, pp. 280. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Black endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper.

First edition.

BANKS, Iain

London: Abacus, 1995

8vo, pp. 280. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition.

MURDOCH, Iris

London: Chatto & Windus, 1961

8vo, pp. 251. Original tan boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition.