WHITE, Patrick

London: Cape, 1974

8vo, pp. 307. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Top edge blue.

First edition.

A collection of six novellas and short... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

JAMES, P.D

London: Faber and Faber, 1992

8vo, pp.239. Original black boards, lettered in white on spine A near fine, unread copy with just the lightest of edgewear... [more]

TREVOR, William

London: Bodley Head, 1976

8vo., pp. 222. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition. Booker shortlisted, and winner of the Whitbread Prize.

BINYON, Laurence

London: Macmillan, 1944

8vo, pp. 18. Original paper wrappers.

First edition.

NORTON, Mary

London: J.M. Dent, 1951

8vo, pp. 154. Original blue boards, lettered in red to spine. Line drawing in red to front panel. Illustrated endpapers and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

London: Picador, 2001

8vo, pp. 124. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First UK edition.
Review copy: London Review of Books slip laid in.

[Olympia Press] DURRELL, Lawrence

Paris: Olympia Press, 1959

Small octavo, pp. 301. Original green stiff paper wrappers.

First issue of the two Olympia Press versions issued by Maurice Girodias.
First published by Girodias' father Jack Kahane... [more]

DURRELL, Lawrence

Paris: Obelisk, 1938

Octavo, pp. 260. Original stiff paper wrappers.

First edition.
No. 1 in the Villa Seurat series, established by Henry Miller and Laurence and Nancy Durrell as an imprint of the Obelisk... [more]

[Olympia Press] DURRELL, Lawrence

Paris: Olympia Press, 1959

Small octavo, pp. 301. Original green stiff paper wrappers.

First issue of the two Olympia Press versions issued by Maurice Girodias.
First published by Girodias' father Jack Kahane... [more]

MANN, Thomas

New York: Knopf, 1940

8vo, pp. 453. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition in English, trade issue, stated first and second printings... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

PLATH, Sylvia

London: Faber, 1967

Small 8vo, pp. 258. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.

First edition published under Plath's real name. ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

SMITH, Zadie

London: Hamish Hamilton, 2002

8vo, pp. 419. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on front panel and spine.

First edition of the author's second novel.

[GRAVES, Robert]

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1943

8vo, pp. 32, lacking the outer wrappers.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY GRAVES IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION TO JULIAN GLOVER.

NESS, Patrick

London: Walker Books, 2009

8vo, pp. 519. Original blue patterned boards lettered in silver and grey on front and back panels and spine.

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

AUDEN, W.H. and ISHERWOOD, Christopher

London: Faber, 1936

8vo, pp. 123. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.

First edition, one of 2000 copies.

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